Dr Sharon Leahy
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
• Associate Dean Students (Science) 2022 to 2025
Research areas
Sharon’s research is concerned with the often hidden social geographies of difference and marginalisation, and the constitution of belonging. Sharon seeks to critically assess the discursive formation and consequent actualisation of difference politically and socially, and its impact on the most forgotten in society. She has acquired a specific interest in the ways in which elites produce and regulate knowledge in nuanced ways, allowing for the legitimisation of particular understandings and practices in relation to migrants and ethnic minority groups. Sharon is researching the bordering practices being normalised through immigration legislation. She is currently interested in revealing the workings of the everywhere border in relation to the UK’s Immigration Acts (2014 & 2016). Sharon would welcome enquiries about research degrees in the following areas; borderwork, state practices in relation to immigration, and the ‘everywhere border’. Please contact her directly to discuss.
PhD supervision
- Erli Kang
- Rowan Milligan
Selected publications
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Open access
Redrawing the border through the ‘Right to Rent’: exclusion, discrimination and hostility in the English housing market
McKee, K., Leahy, S., Tokarczyk, T. & Crawford, J., 1 Feb 2021, In: Critical Social Policy. 41, 1, p. 91-110Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Right to Rent: active resistance to evolving geographies of state regulation
Crawford, J., McKee, K. & Leahy, S., May 2020, In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around ‘the border’ in plant biosecurity for tree health
White, R. M., Marzano, M., Leahy, S. & Jones, G., 21 Aug 2019, In: Forests. 10, 9, 20 p., 716.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
More than a hostile environment: exploring the impact of the Right to Rent part of the Immigration Act 2016
Crawford, J., McKee, K. & Leahy, S., 23 Aug 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Sociological Research Online. Online First, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CHR Briefing 6: Creating a “Compliant Environment”: The Immigration Acts’ impact on service provision in the UK
Wooninck, J. & Leahy, S., 10 Sept 2018, 5 p. University of St Andrews.Research output: Other contribution
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Open access
Generating confusion, concern, and precarity through the Right to Rent scheme in Scotland
Leahy, S., McKee, K. & Crawford, J., Jun 2018, In: Antipode. 50, 3, p. 604-620 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prioritising stakeholder engagement for forest health, across spatial, temporal and governance scales, in an era of austerity
White, R. M., Young, J., Marzano, M. & Leahy, S., 15 May 2018, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 417, p. 313-322 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around 'the border' in plant biosecurity
White, R., Marzano, M., Leahy, S. & Jones, G., 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Open access
CHR Briefing 5: Immigration Act 2016 -more harm than good?
Simeonova, M., Leahy, S. & McKee, K., 13 Sept 2016, University of St Andrews. 4 p. (CHR Briefings; no. 5)Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Open access
The Immigration Act and the ‘Right to Rent’: exploring governing tensions within and beyond the state
Crawford, J., Leahy, S. & McKee, K., 29 Jul 2016, In: People, Place and Policy. 10, 2, p. 114-125 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review