Staff Profile

I am an ethnographer whose research focuses on work, with a particular emphasis on cities, technology, sustainability and work-life boundaries. I am particularly interested in the relationship between urban space, wage labour and critical consciousness, with a growing focus on the connection between humans and nature.

I have worked on a diverse range of projects, including the ESRC-funded project, Working in the Public Interest, the first major investigation in the UK into the increasing involvement of private companies in carrying out professional spatial planning work for local government.

Ph.D.: Hiding out: Creative resistance among anonymous workbloggers, Sociology, City University of New York (2008)

M.Eng. (combined B.A. and Master's) Engineering and Economics, Oxford University (1993)

Information about some of my other research projects can be found on my website.

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I have worked on a diverse range of projects, including the ESRC-funded project, Working in the Public Interest, the first major investigation in the UK into the increasing involvement of private companies in carrying out professional spatial planning work for local government.

Information about some of my other research projects can be found on my website.

• Schoneboom A. It makes you make the time: ‘Obligatory’ leisure, work intensification and allotment gardening. Ethnography 2018, 19(3), 360-378.
• Schoneboom A. Making Maker Space: An exploration of lively things, urban placemaking and organisation. Ephemera 2018, 18(4), 709-739.
• Schoneboom A. The romance of the lowly clerk: recognizing the tradition of office intellectualism. Organization 2015, 22(6), 832-846.
• Schoneboom A. Working through the allotment. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 2013, 13(1), 137-150.
• Schoneboom A. Sleeping giants? Fired workbloggers and labour organisation. New Technology, Work and Employment 2011, 26(1), 7-28.
• Schoneboom A. Workblogging in a Facebook age. Work, Employment & Society 2011, 25(1), 132-140.
• Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A, Vigar G. From non-place to place in post-suburbia: city-edge office parks as loci for nature-based micro-interventions. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2020, 63(13), 2446-2463.
• Schoneboom A. Making Space in Urban Interstices. In: Evans G, ed. New Ethnographies of Post-Industrial Precarity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020.
• Schoneboom A, Gunn S, Slade D. Planning professionalism and the public interest. Planning Theory and Practice 2020, 21(3). In Press.
• Schoneboom A, Slade J. Question your teaspoons: tea-drinking, coping and commercialisation across three planning organisations. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2020, 9(3), 311-326.
• Slade D, Gunn S, Schoneboom A. Serving the Public Interest? The reorganisation of UK planning services in an era of reluctant outsourcing. London: Royal Town Planning Institute, 2019.
• Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A. Sensory Exploration: A Future Facility at Scotswood Natural Community Garden. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University, 2018.
• Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A. Slow tech low tech: revealing senses and imagination through a pinhole. In: 13th Annual Ethnography Symposium - Copenhagen. 2018, Copenhagen. Submitted.