Dr Heather Lynch
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Work
Heather Lynch is a Senior lecturer in social work at Glasgow Caledonian University.
She is interested in the theorization and lived experience of community, and in particular ideas of more-than-human community that attend to the influence of built and natural environments, animals, and plants. She draws on Italian biopolitical theory, environmental philosophy, and sensory anthropology.
She has co-edited several special editions including one for the European Journal of Social Theory on “affirmative biopolitics” and one entitled ‘Social Work Futures’ for Social Work and Society.
She has written for various journals on topics such as multi-species community (EJST), ethics in criminal justice (Ethics and Welfare), precarity (Critical Public Health) policy and desire (British Journal of Sociology of Education) and the politics of digital storytelling (International Journal of Visual Methods) as well as numerous book chapters.
She is co-editor of a new Elgar Book Series entitled Social Work Futures.