Chloe Young

Thesis title: The “Night-Time Self”: Understanding Risk, Danger, and Excitement in the Night-Time Economy

Qualifications

MSc, with distinction, University of Edinburgh

BA, with first class honours, University of Durham

Responsibilities & affiliations

Vice President, Postgraduate Research Student Board (2025/26)

Lead Convenor, Criminal Justice Reading Group

Research summary

Night-Time Economy; Affect; Atmosphere; Effervescence; Altered states; Lived experience,; Ethnography; Assemblage; Risk; Subjectivity; Identity; The Self.

Affiliated research centres

Papers delivered

"The Night-Time Self: Rethinking the attraction of the Night Time Economy." Cambridge IoC Conference, April 2025.

"Reframing Narratives of the Night." Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference "Viewing Law in a Different Light", June 2025.

"Tales of the Night: Autoethnography and Affectivity." International Conference of Autoethnography, July 2025.