Research expertise
Topics and areas of research interest have been grouped with relevant sociology, social policy and criminology academics below. Members of staff are happy to hear from prospective PhD students as well as fellow researchers, and to take media enquiries relating to their respective fields of expertise.
Activism, protests, and resistance
- Professor Didier Bigo
- Dr. Laura Gutiérrez
- Dr Scarlet Harris
- Dr Matthew Kearney
- Professor Shadd Maruna
- Professor Gabe Mythen
- Dr Laura Naegler
- Dr Anna Shadrina
- Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
Ageing and the life course
Alcohol, drugs, and the night time economy
Critical military studies
Class
- Dr Charlotte Branchu
- Dr Matthew Kearney
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Dr Kirsty Morrin
- Dr Anna Shadrina
- Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
Community Participation and Public Social Science
Corporate and state harms
- Dr David Baker
- Dr Joe Greener
- Dr Laura Gutiérrez
- Dr Scarlet Harris
- Professor Michael Mair
- Dr Laura Naegler
Courts and sentencing
- Professor Barry Godfrey
- Dr Lynn Hancock
- Dr Alice Ievins
- Dr Carly Lightowlers
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Dr Ellen Reeves
- Professor Sandra Walklate
Cultural and creative industries
Cultural criminology
Death studies
Digital culture and society
- Professor Didier Bigo
- Dr Phillip Brooker
- Dr Antionette Huber
- Dr Andrew Kirton
- Dr Carly Lightowlers
- Professor Michael Mair
- Dr Laura Naegler
- Dr Ellen Reeves
- Dr Katherine Roscoe
- Dr Dipanjan Saha
Education
Family sociology
Gender-based violence
- Dr Gemma Ahearne
- Professor Barry Godfrey
- Dr Antionette Huber
- Dr Alice Ievins
- Dr Laura Naegler
- Dr Ellen Reeves
- Professor Sandra Walklate
Green criminology
Hate crime
Historical criminology
Immigration and asylum
Lived experience
Neurodiversity
Police
- Dr David Baker
- Professor Didier Bigo
- Dr Scarlet Harris
- Dr Antoinette Huber
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Dr Ellen Reeves
- Professor Sandra Walklate
Politics and Government
Prisons, probation and punishment
- Dr Ruth Armstrong
- Professor Barry Godfrey
- Dr Scarlet Harris
- Dr Alice Ievins
- Professor Shadd Maruna
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Dr Katherine Roscoe
Race, ethnicity, and post-colonialism
- Dr Elham Amini
- Dr Joseph Greener
- Dr Laura Gutiérrez
- Dr Scarlet Harris
- Dr Leon Moosavi
- Professor Susan Pickard
- Dr Katherine Roscoe
- Dr Anna Shadrina
- Dr William Shankley
Researching extremism
- Dr Ruth Armstrong
- Dr Antoinette Huber
- Dr Leon Moosavi
- Professor Gabe Mythen
- Dr Laura Naegler
- Dr Brittany Ralph
- Professor Sandra Walklate
Science and technology studies
Social policy
- Dr Peter Campbell
- Dr Lynn Hancock
- Dr Terence Heng
- Dr Alice Ievins
- Dr Carly Lightowlers
- Professor Michael Mair
- Dr Kirsty Morrin
- Dr Ellen Reeves
- Dr Anna Shadrina
- Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
- Dr Nicole Vitellone
Sociology of sporting cultures and physical activity
Social theory
- Dr Elham Amini
- Dr Charlotte Branchu
- Dr Phillip Brooker
- Dr Chao Fang
- Dr Paul Jones
- Dr Matthew Kearney
- Professor Michael Mair
- Dr Leon Moosavi
- Dr Kirsty Morrin
- Professor Gabe Mythen
- Professor Susan Pickard
- Dr Nicole Vitellone
Sociology of architecture
Sociology of health and illness
- Dr Elham Amini
- Dr Chao Fang
- Dr Matthew Kearney
- Professor Susan Pickard
- Dr Nicole Vitellone
- Dr Susan Waigwa
Sociology of gender
- Dr Elham Amini
- Dr Charlotte Branchu
- Dr Matthew Kearney
- Professor Fiona Measham
- Professor Susan Pickard
- Dr Brittany Ralph
- Dr Anna Shadrina
- Dr Nicole Vitellone