I completed my bachelor’s degree in Social Studies at the University of Warwick.  I have a master’s degree with Distinction, obtained from the University of Birmingham.  My PhD in Sociology was also obtained from the University of Warwick.  I am currently Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wolverhampton, where I am based in the Department of Social Sciences.  

Dr Dennis Hamilton

Dennis has over twenty-four years’ teaching experience in further and higher education; he began teaching in higher education in 2010.  During his further education career, Dennis designed and supervised one of the first offender management learning programmes in the country, which was a partnership between Sandwell College and the National Probation Service West Midlands.  He is also an advocate for community education.  Dennis has developed accredited community educational programmes, which have enabled disadvantaged social groups – who are politically defined as hard-to-reach – to acquire qualifications in Maths, English and IT, and transition from long-term unemployment to employment

Dennis is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wolverhampton.  His primary research interest is the impact of racism on African Caribbean social mobility in neoliberal Britain, with a specific focus on the factors constraining and enabling Black agency in market situations.  Dennis is interested in the ways that increasing privatisation, alongside the laissez-faire stance of government, obscures the perpetuity of racism in ethnic competition for life-changing resources, such as education, employment and housing.  His work highlights the insidious nature of racial discrimination in Britain’s private and public sectors, and its significance in reducing Black Caribbean life-chances and socio-economic opportunities. 

The qualitative aspect of Dennis’s research reveals the ways in which African Caribbeans, who are unable to effectively compete in market situations, experience ethnic penalties, such as social exclusion, generational poverty, health inequalities and incarceration.  His research aims to influence the development of policy interventions and initiatives, designed to raise public awareness of the debilitating social effects of racial inequality. 

PhD Sociology

Masters Sociology

Bachelor of Arts: Social Studies

Too hot to handle: African Caribbean pupils and students as toxic consumers and commodities in the educational market