Jayne Raisborough is Professor of Media, within the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University.

Her work broadly focuses on two questions: who can we be and how can we live in prevailing socio-economic contexts?

She has explored, published and taught on media/ cultural representations of social class, gender, ethical consumption, litter and more recently anti-ageing.

Publications include Fat Bodies, Health and the Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Risks, Identities and the Everyday (Routledge, 2008, co-edited with Julie Scott Jones).