Dr Christian Morgner
MA, PhD, SFHAE
Management School
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries
c.morgner@sheffield.ac.uk
Sheffield University Management School
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Dr Christian Morgner
Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Dr Christian Morgner joined the Management School in June 2021. Christian joined the Management School as Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries.
Prior to this appointment as Senior Lecturer, Christian was lecturer at the University of Leicester, held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University, Japan funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. He has also held visiting fellowships at Yale University, University of Lucerne, University of Leuven and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
His research lies within fields like complexity studies, network analysis and creative practices, with a particular focus on diversity and inclusivity. He has a particular interest in grand conceptual questions and methodological innovation in studying global cultural processes and innovation.
- Publications
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Books
- The Making of Meaning: From The ‘Individual’ to Social Order. Oxford University Press.
Edited books
- Rethinking Relations and Social Processes: J. Dewey and the notion of 'trans-action'. Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- Metamorphosis in motion: Olympic ceremonies as sites of relational creativity in Japan. Asia-Pacific Journal, 23. View this article in WRRO
- An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia. Medical Humanities, 50(3), 545-554. View this article in WRRO
- Creative industries in transition: a study of Santiago de Chile's autopoietic cultural transformation. Poetics, 104. View this article in WRRO
- Book Review: The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy. Cultural Sociology, 18(4), 558-559.
- The medium in the sociology of Niklas Luhmann: from children to human beings. Educational Theory, 73(6), 890-916. View this article in WRRO
- Symposium Introduction: A New Approach to Understanding Children: Niklas Luhmann's Social Theory. Educational Theory, 73(6), 860-866.
- Digital heritage politics from the perspective of relational sociology: the case of Nüshu culture in China. International Review of Sociology, 32(2), 265-289.
- Punk culture in contemporary China. Global Media and China, 7(1), 126-128.
- Understanding ethnicity and residential fires from the perspective of cultural values and practices: a case study of Leicester, United Kingdom. Fire Safety Journal, 125.
- The public as projection. Kybernetes, 50(4), 929-941.
- Media events and translation: the case of the Arab Spring. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 13(2), 133-153.
- Correction to: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Networks in Urban Informal Settlements: the Case of Mathare Valley, Kenya. Urban Forum, 31(4), 513-514.
- Exploring the Dynamics of Social Networks in Urban Informal Settlements: the Case of Mathare Valley, Kenya. Urban Forum, 31(4), 489-512.
- Inter-agency collaboration for natural hazard management in developed countries. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science.
- Inclusion and Exclusion in the Art World: The Case of Biennials. OnCurating, 47, 34-50.
- Conduct in Dementia: Video Analysis of Arts Interventions. Sociological Research Online, 24(4), 514-540.
- Spatial Barriers and the Formation of Global Art Cities: The Case of Tokyo. International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 28(1), 183-208.
- Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN). Arts & Health, 11(3), 272-277.
- System theory and Art: Micro-diversity and Self-organisation. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 26(1), 47-71.
- Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using video-analysis. Ageing and Society, 39(8), 1731-1751. View this article in WRRO
- Trust and Society: Suggestions for Further Development of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Trust. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 55(2), 232-256.
- Diversity and (In)equality in the Global Art World: Global Development and Structure of Field-Configuring Events. New Global Studies, 11(3).
- Book review: The re-use of urban ruins: atmospheric inquiries of the city. Cultural Sociology, 10(4), 541-543. View this article in WRRO
- Fragmentation and solidarity in the artistic milieu of contemporary Paris: A perspective from Emile Durkheim. City, Culture and Society, 7(3), 123-128.
- Sameness and diversification: A global quantitative survey on cultural innovation in the visual arts. Cultural Trends, 24(2), 122-132.
- An Interim Report Compiled by the Creative Industries Internationalization Committee. Cultural Trends, 24(2), 194-196.
- The Biennial: The Practice of Selection in a Global Art World. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 32(2), 275-282.
- The theory of love and the theory of society: Remarks on the oeuvre of Niklas Luhmann. International Sociology, 29(5), 396-404.
- The Art Fair as Network. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 44(1), 33-46.
- The evolution of the art fair. Historical Social Research, 39(3), 318-336.
- Trust and Confidence: History, Theory and Socio-Political Implications. Human Studies, 36(4), 509-532.
- Weltereignisse und Massenmedien: Zur Theorie des Weltmedienereignisses.
- Eventos mediáticos y mercados geoculturales: narración y encuadre del accidente minero chileno de 2010 en periódicos de Chile, México y España. Global Media Journal México, 15(29), 110-136.
- Conflict management in adult sibling relationships: Differences in interpersonal power, sibling influence, and conflict tactic use among sibling types. Studies in Communication Sciences, 17(1).
- Global media and time: A conceptual and historical perspective. Studies in Communication Sciences, 17(1).
- The morphogenesis of art districts: Case studies of Williamsburg, NYC and 798, Beijing. Belgeo(3).
Book chapters
- Biennials as “Events without Walls” In Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Ed.), Built on Water: The German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (pp. 261-264). Munich: Schirmer/Mosel.
- Multiculturalism and Fire-Incidents: Possible Applications to the Polish Context In Kaźmierczak D (Ed.), VUCA WORLD – Competencies for Emergency Services Krakow: Libron Press.
- The Emergence of Artistic Practice: From Self-Action to Trans-Action, John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action (pp. 143-194). Springer International Publishing
- Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-Actions, John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action (pp. 1-30). Springer International Publishing
- The Relational Meaning-Making of Riots: Narrative Logic and Network Performance of the London “Riots”, The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology (pp. 579-600). Springer International Publishing
- Anti-social Behaviour and the London ‘Riots’: Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social In Pickard S (Ed.), Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives (pp. 92-101).
- Bibliographie, Sozialtheorie (pp. 321-361). transcript Verlag
- Kapitel II: Die Welttragödie der Massenmedien, Sozialtheorie (pp. 73-148). transcript Verlag
- Kapitel IV: Jedermann oder das Weltpublikum, Sozialtheorie (pp. 209-276). transcript Verlag
- Frontmatter, Sozialtheorie (pp. 1-4). transcript Verlag
- Vorwort, Sozialtheorie (pp. 9-14). transcript Verlag
- Inhaltsverzeichnis, Sozialtheorie (pp. 5-8). transcript Verlag
- Kapitel I: Weltgesellschaft, Massenmedien und die Rolle von Weltereignissen, Sozialtheorie (pp. 15-72). transcript Verlag
- Kapitel V: Zur Theorie des Weltmedienereignisses, Sozialtheorie (pp. 277-320). transcript Verlag
- Kapitel III: Zeitlichkeiten globaler Medienereignisse, Sozialtheorie (pp. 149-208). transcript Verlag
- Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia In Lim L & Lee H-K (Ed.) Routledge
Conference proceedings
- Immaterialities of Jewish Heritage in Modern Society: A Study of the Cultural Conservation Movement in the former Eastern Inner-City Districts of Berlin. Heritage 2020 – Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Barcelos
- Cultural Policies and Night-time Economies in Germany/Berlin and Japan/Tokyo. International Conference on Night Studies Proceedings (pp 103-120). Lisbon
- The Making of Meaning: From The ‘Individual’ to Social Order. Oxford University Press.
- Grants
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- CI, International Research and Development Fund: ‘COVI19 Disinformation and Response in India, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand: A Comparative Social Network Analysis Study on Twitter’, 2020-2021.
- CI, Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS: ‘Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformations in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ 2019-2021.
- CI, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science international collaborator grant B: ‘Exploratory research on Restructuring of "Urban Night" in Europe’, 2019-2023.
- PI, Alzheimer Research UK Workshop Grant, ‘Arts Interventions in People with Dementia’, 2020/2021.
- PI, Fire Research and Training Trust research grant: ‘Multiculturalism and Fire Incidents’, 2019-2020.
- PI, Rutherford Fellowship: ‘Urban artistic networks in informal settlements in Nairobi, 2018/2019. CI, AHRC grant: ‘Dementia, Arts and Wellbeing’, Network Grant, 2016-2017.
- PI, ARUK grant bid: ‘Dementia, Creativity and Video-analysis’, 2016.
- PI, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science grant, 2013-2014. PI, Research Grant, City of Paris, 2012.
- PI, Research Grant from the Swiss Research Foundation, 2010.
- CI, Research Grant from the German Academic Exchange, 2008/2009.
- Teaching activities
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I am the module convener for MGT61074 Critical Theories in CCI and contribute to modules on marketing and branding.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I am member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cultural Sociology and convener of the Theory Group of the British Sociological Association.
- PhD Supervision
Dr Morgner would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students, particularly in the following areas:
- Cultural and Creative Industries Social Theory (in particular on Niklas Luhmann’s system theory)
- Race and Inequality Interaction and Health Disaster and Risk Communication
- Urban development
He has previously supervised:
Name Thesis title Year of completion Kaixi Xu The Role of Arts Consumption in Acculturation and Identity Negotiation among Chinese Migrants in the UK 2024 Are you interested in applying for a PhD?