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Meet our members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

Academic staff

  • Dr Paul Jones (Co-Director) - Sociological theory, architecture, capitalism, urban space, public sociology, climate emergency
  • Dr Leon Moosavi (Co-Director) - Sociology of race and religion
  • Dr Elham Amini - Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Ageing, Women’s Health
  • Dr Charlotte Branchu - Sociology of the body, culture, and gender.
  • Dr Phil Brooker - Philosophy and sociology of science/knowledge, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, science and technology studies, digital/creative social research methods
  • Dr Peter Campbell - Social, political, and economic implications of prevailing attitudes to 'creativity'
  • Dr Diane Frost - Issues of race and discrimination in the context of the UK and colonial Sierra Leone
  • Dr Terence Heng - Sacredness and sacred space in Chinese religion; visual methods; Chinese diasporic ethnicities
  • Dr Matthew Kearney - Sociological theory, climate change and society
  • Dr Andrew Kirton - Digital culture and society
  • Professor Michael Mair - Politics; the state and governmental practice, particularly their changing contemporary forms and attendant problems of accountability
  • Dr Ross McGarry - Critical military studies
  • Dr Kirsty Morrin - Global and public social policy, international educations, youth and youth activisms, critical social theory, qualitative methodologies
  • Professor Gabe Mythen - Environmental activism and the climate emergency; examining the effectiveness of counter radicalisation strategies; studying the consequences and corollaries of counter terrorism regulation; understanding resilience building amongst survivors of terrorist attacks; expanding and modernising risk theory; developing critical approaches to 'fear of crime'
  • Dr Gina Potarca - Society, sociology of gender
  • Dr Brittany Ralph - Sociological study of men and masculinities, with a particular focus on the prospects for and mechanics of socio-positive change
  • Dr William Shankley - The intersections between asylum and modern slavery frameworks on migrant communities; processes of racialisation among migrants; participatory/trauma-informed methods with migrants; asylum and statelessness
  • Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage - Gender, questions of social reproduction and care, poverty, debt, UK social policy, critical theory, international political economy
  • Dr Liz Turner - Policing and criminal justice; relationship between criminal justice agencies (especially the Police); criminological knowledge production and democratic values
  • Dr Nicole Vitellone - Sociology of harm reduction policies and practices

Postgraduate researchers

  • Tatsuya Akutsu - Tatsuya's working thesis title is: 'The practical management of information: An ethnomethodological hybrid study of health information services at a patient library in a university hospital in Japan'.
  • Stella Alexandrova - Stella's working thesis title is: 'The analysis of the dynamics between the media presentation, the public perception and marginalised groups, (with extreme views)'.
  • Jack Clark - Jack's working thesis title is: 'Stop the Boats’: Understanding the practices and discourse of UK Border strategy within transfigured notions of nation, belonging, and race.
  • Dina Kolliakou Ginzburg - Dina's working thesis title is: 'Understanding the experience(s) of release from prison of people who served long sentences from early life'.
  • Lara MacLachlan - Lara's working thesis title is: 'Understanding Legal Capability: A case study of the Legal Aid Board'. 
  • Adele Moore - Adele's working thesis title is: 'Seizing the Means of Contraception'. 
  • Kiera Nash - Kiera's working thesis title is: 'Educating Feminism: How all-girls' schools shape girls’ attitudes towards misogyny and feminist identities'.
  • Dipanjan Saha - Dipanjan's working thesis title is: 'AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research'. 
  • Nadine Shanahan - Nadine's working thesis title is: 'Ideal femininity: A digital ethnographic analysis of the construction, negotiation, and performativity of femininity on Instagram'.
  • Laura Smith - Laura's working thesis title is: 'Gendered Experiences of Mixed Marriages in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Everyday Peace'.
  • Freddy Sperring - Freddy's  working thesis title is: 'Labyrinths of Care: Trans* Narratives of Transition'.
  • Sabreen Syeed - Sabreen's working thesis title is: 'Islamic Scholars, Algorithms and the Making of the Contemporary World: A Decolonial Study of Mathematical, Scientific and Technological Practice in the Islamic Golden Age'.