Romy Oomens

Romy Oomens is a Lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology within the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University. Her work focuses on how culture shapes individuals and society, with a particular emphasis on cultural capital, religion/spirituality, and their societal implications. She holds an MSc and is currently researching the role of religion in the public domain.

Her research interests include cultural omnivorism, homology thesis, and the interplay between education and cultural taste. She has published work analyzing cultural consumption patterns in the UK, addressing debates between exclusive highbrow tastes and omnivorous consumption.

• Awards: Received the Mens&Maatschappij Masterscriptieprijs (2022) for her master's thesis on cultural omnivorism.
• Courses: Teaches Sociological Themes and Academic Skills Sociology series, supporting international students across three academic years.

Her 2023 article employs latent class analysis to explore taste clusters in the UK, revealing persistent highbrow snobs alongside weak omnivores, challenging simplistic omnivorous hypotheses.