Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor BSc, MA, PhD, PGCert

2017: Rhys-Taylor, Alex, Food and Multiculture: A Sensory Ethnography of East London. London: Routledge.
In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explore

2017: Bates, Charlotte, and Alex Rhys-Taylor. Walking Through Social Research. Taylor & Francis.
As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience,

2024: Rhys-Taylor, Alex. ‘Representing Sensory Culture, Enacting Community’. In Handbook of Sensory Ethnography, edited by Phillip Vannini. London, New York
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography

2024: Rhys-Taylor, Alex. ‘How to Do Sociology with a Chilli’. In How to Do Social Research With... London: Goldsmiths Press, 2023.
This catalogue of methods draws on the wealth of cutting-edge critical and creative social research from the Goldsmiths Sociology Department to offer an engaged guide to doing research with a range of

2013: Rhys-Taylor, Alex. ‘The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an Inner-City Street Market’. Identities 20, no. 4 (11 August 2013): 393–40
This article applies methods and concepts derived from a ‘sensory turn’ within the social sciences to a street market, popular with migrants to East London, to explore the socio-sensory processes thro