Thomas Thurnell-Read

Thomas joined Loughborough University in May 2016 having previously held positions at Coventry University and the University of Warwick. He is a sociologist of consumption and leisure whose research uses drinking culture as a means to examine social and cultural issues relating to identity, belonging and sociability and is internationally recognised as a leading scholar of sociological approaches to the study of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness.

Thomas is currently leading a Leverhulme Trust funded project called ‘After Last Orders?: A biographical exploration of the impact of UK pub closures’, which explores the causes of pub closures and analyses the impact of closures at a personal, social and cultural level.

He is the author or editor of numerous articles and books and his research has featured in The Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Morning Advertiser and on BBC Radio 4.