Tracey Reynolds is a British sociologist and professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the

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. She began working in academia in 1998 at

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in their Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Science. She is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Applied Sociology Research at the University of Greenwich.

Biography

Reynolds was born in

Tooting Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre-Anglo-Saxons, Saxon times. The name is of Anglo-Saxon ori ...

in South London in the early 1970s and earned her PhD at University of Greenwich. Throughout Reynolds' career, she has focused on researching families and social issues in the United Kingdom. Her research includes studies on the effects that living in low socioeconomic communities has on black and minority families. According to the University of Greenwich:

Her most recent collaborative projects provide training to community practitioners in participatory methodologies, co-produce creative tools and resources with local organisations to explore community resilience during COVID-19 pandemic, and utilise story-telling as an approach to consider the impact of hostile environment policies for migrant communities including those with long-established patterns of settlement in the UK (e.g Windrush Generation).

She is a co-investigator on the PASAR (Participation Arts and Social Action in Research) project of the

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. Reynolds has authored more than 80 publications in the form of books, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, policy reports and working papers. Notably, she is author of ''Caribbean Mothers: Identity and Experience in the UK'' (published by Tufnell Press, 2005) and ''Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital'' with Harry Goulbourne, John Solomos and Elisabetta Zontini (published by Routledge, 2010). She was one of several Black professors portrayed for ''

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'' by photographer

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in March 2020, and in a national exhibition called Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors and Talk, October-November 2020.

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