ABOUT
Meet the Photographer
I am a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield in England. I am also a serious photographer who uses photographs as data for research as well as taking photographs as a serious hobby. You can check out my University webpage here.
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I take photographs using various digital and analogue technologies. In the darkroom I mainly print using lith techniques which produce unique images. Digitally I use Fuji X series cameras and lenses. For digital processing I use Capture One, Lightroom, Silver Efex Pro and On1, and print with an Epson 3880 and Canon Pro 1000 printer.
Academic life
My main current areas of research are: Labour markets, learning, skills, underemployment and training; Social quality, health and psychological wellbeing; Visual methods and photography as a research tool; Advanced multivariate methods (such as Structural Equation Models, panel regression); Machine Learning (Text Analytics, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines etc.)
The majority of my photographic work is in black and white. Street photography has been a serious interest and I also teach postgraduate students Visual Research Methods as part of the Master’s degree programmes in Sociology at the University of Sheffield in England.
Recent publications
Heyes J & Tomlinson M (2020) Underemployment and well-being in Europe. Human Relations.
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Heyes J, Moore S, Newsome K & Tomlinson M (2018) Living with uncertain work. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(5-6), 430-437.
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Foster L, Tomlinson M & Walker A (2018) Older people and Social Quality – what difference does income make?. Ageing & Society.
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Ferragina E, Tomlinson M & Walker R (2017) Poverty and Participation in Twenty-First Century Multicultural Britain. Social Policy and Society, 16, 535-559.
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Heyes J, Tomlinson M & Whitworth A (2017) Underemployment and Well-being in the UK Before and After the Great Recession. Work, Employment and Society, 31(1), 71-89.
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Tomlinson M, Walker AC & Foster L (2016) Social Quality and Work: What Impact Does Low Pay Have on Social Quality?. Journal of Social Policy, 45(2), 345-371.