Gaynor Bagnall is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture. Herresearch and teaching focus primarily onculture, consumption, social class and identity, and in particular social and cultural capital, culture-led regeneration, social and culturallifein cities, and audiences, museums, memoryand heritage.She has researched and published widely on these topics, with work ranging from an investigation into the performativity of museum audiences, to an exploration of what it means to belong locally in a global world. Currently, she is working on two research projects, Writing Lives: Engaging Com...