Lecturer in Sociology, Southampton Solent University

January 2025 - Present

Modules Convened:

  • Professional Practice (L3)

  • Big Data and Technology (L5)

  • Bodies and Identities (L5)

  • Migration, Refugees and Global Crisis (L6)

  • Interprofessional Communication and Practice (L7)

Teaching Assistant, University of Southampton

February 2022 - January 2025

I assisted with the following modules (e.g. lecturing, delivering seminars, marking, field trips, and demonstrating):

  • What’s the Problem? Debating Responses to Contemporary Social Challenges (L4)

  • Exploring Other Cultures (L4)

  • Inequalities in Everyday Worlds (L4)

  • Curiosity, Creativity and Communication: Studying Geography at University (L4)

  • Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques (L5)

  • Gender and Society (L5)

  • Theorising the Social World: Questions for Social Theory (L5)

  • Researching Human Geography (L5)

  • Practicing Human Geographical Research (L5)

  • Berlin Fieldcourse: Politics and Urban Space (L6)

  • Dissertation (L6)

  • Research Design and Practice (L7)

  • Qualitative Methods 1 (L7)

Teaching

Southampton Solent University

January 2025 - Present

  • Level 5 Leader - offering pastoral support to second year students

  • Deputy Chair of the Ethics Committee for Social Sciences and Nursing

  • L6 Dissertation Supervision

BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group

July 2024 - Present

  • Communications Officer - managing the mailing list and coordinating the quarterly newsletter

University of Southampton

February 2022 - January 2025

  • Southampton University Students Union PGR Officer for Social Sciences

  • Doctoral College Professional Development Sub-Committee PGR Representative

  • SCDTP Southampton PhD Representative

  • LinkedIn Learning Champion

Admin & Leadership

  • FHEA - Advance HE - October 2025

  • ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - October 2024

  • Doctoral College Director’s Award: Special Commendation – June 2024

  • SCDTP Impact Prize 2022-2023 – October 2023

  • Doctoral Research Poster Showcase: Highly Commended – December 2022

  • Doctoral College Director’s Award: Citizenship and Community – June 2022

  • Three Minute Thesis University Finalist and Faculty Heat Winner – June 2022

  • SCDTP 1+3 Studentship Scholarship – September 2018

Awards

  • FHEA - Advance HE - October 2025

  • British Sociological Association (BSA) - Member

  • The Vegan Society Researcher Network - Member

  • The International Association for Vegan Sociologists - Affiliate

  • Green Islam - Academic Fellow

  • The Vegan Studies Network - Member

Membership

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2025) Autonomous Moral Re-Engagement with Religion: An Ethical and Sustainable Twist to Reflexive Religiosity in Contemporary Society. BSA SocRel Annual Conference 2025, ‘Charting Challenges and Change: The Past, Present and Future of the Sociology of Religion’, Durham University, 14-16 July 2025.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2025) Faith Veganism: Rearticulating Religion Through Sustainable Food Practice. Inform Seminar ‘New Religiosity and Sustainable Food Cultures’, King’s College London. 30 May 2025.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2024) Faith Vegan Stewardship: Responding to Climate Change and Caring for God’s Creation through Veganism and Ethical Consumption. BSA SocRel Annual Conference 2024, ‘Religion, Justice and Social Action’, University of Northumbria, 8 - 10 July 2024.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2023) Implicit Racism and Religious Exploitation in Vegan Activism? Feelings of alienation and exclusion among Jewish and Muslim Vegans. IAVS Annual Meeting 2023 ‘Vegan Intersectionality’, Online, 7 - 8 October 2023.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2023) Caring for Creation: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the UK Tackling Ethical Crises through Veganism. BSA Annual Conference 2023 ‘Sociological Voices in Public Discourse’, University of Manchester, 12 - 14 April 2023.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2022) Veganism in Religious Spaces and Throughout the Religious Calendar: Experiences of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Vegans in the UK. IAVS Annual Meeting 2022 ‘Vegan Sociologies of Space and Time’, Online, 8 - 9 October 2022.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2022) Ethical Crises and the Uptake of Veganism among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the UK. BSA SocRel Annual Conference 2022 'Disruption, Crisis and Continuity in Religion', Online, 4 - 6 July 2022.

Atayee-Bennett, E. (2022) Veganism as a Lifestyle Choice: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Vegans in the UK. BSA Sponsored PGR Forum, 'Veganism and Vegetarianism as Social Movement and Social Change', University of York, 11 April 2022.

Conference Papers

University of Southampton

September 2014 - June 2024

  • PhD in Sociology - Passed without corrections

  • MSc Social Research Methods

  • BSc Sociology with Anthropology

Education