Laura Way is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Roehampton (UK). A sociologist with particular interest in ageing and gender, marginalised identities/communities, subcultures and punk pedagogies, Laura specialises in creative and participatory methodologies. Laura’s PhD utilised qualitative methods to explore ageing and the construction of gender amongst ‘older’ punk women, leading to her monograph Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls? (Emerald, 2020). She has spent the last four years as a research fellow on the ‘Following Young Fathers Further’ study and is currently the holder of a BA Innovation Fellowship for her collaborative study with a local Travellers’ organisation. Laura is co-editor of Sociological Research Online and sits on the editorial board of Punk & Post-Punk. Forthcoming publications include a co-edited collection with Dr Matt Grimes titled Punk, Ageing and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Keynote Lecture

Double Dare Ya: punk, resistance, and gendered ageing.

Publications

Way, L. (2020). Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls?. Emerald.

Way, L. (2020). Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women. The Sociological Review, 69, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120946666

Way, L. (2021). Rebelling in different ways: Older punk women, employment and ‘being/doing’ punk. Punk & Post-Punk, 10, 3,  p. 463 – 476.