Patrick John Burnett

Ph.D. Sociology


Health Research
Higher Education
Time-series & Spatial Analytics
Dynamic Data Visualization
Social Networks
Understanding Social Outliers
Research Design

Research Currents

Present Ventures and Projects

Co-founded with François Lachapelle in 2012, Relational Academia is an award winning research initiative currently mapping the structure of scientific networks over time. Benchmarking tool to assess University and College placement performance is currently under development.
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This dissertation employs a mixed methods strategy consisting of layered multiple correspondence analysis and thematic analysis of open-ended content from 852 completed online surveys to investigate social factors that shape the practices of people who pay for sexual services in Canada. I describe 12 substantively unique classifications of clients whose diverse past experiences, present dispositions, and perceptions of future risks inform their safety practices and willingness to intervene when witnessing conflict.
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Street-to-Screen is a national study of technology use in the Canadian sex industry. Working alongside principle investigators Chris Atchison and Victoria Bungay, we investigate the ways in which clients and sexual service providers employ technologies to connect, communicate and navigate the transactional sex process. Data collection currently underway.
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Theory and Method in Action

Peer Reviewed Publications: Published, Forthcoming, and In-Progress

2014

Sociology of Health & Illness

A relational approach to health practices: Towards transcending the agency-structure divide.
2015

Network of Sex Work Projects

The influence of time to negotiate on control in sex worker-client interactions.
2016

Health Promotion International

Towards a relational health promotion.
2016

Sociology of Health & Illness

The social dynamics of safe sex practices among Canadian sex industry clients.
2017

Sociology of Health & Illness

Margins of freedom: A field-theoretic approach to class-based health dispositions and practices.
2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

Replacing the Canadianization Generation: An Examination of Faculty Composition from 1977 through 2017.

2018

Working Draft

The Dynamics of Time and Space in Sociological Theory.
2018

Working Draft

Considering the Relational Contours of Sociological Research Methods.

Theory-Driven Visualizations

Challenging complex problems with theory, method, and technology