Academic staff
- Dr Paul Jones (Co-Director) - Sociological theory, architecture, capaitalism, urban space, public sociology, climate emergency.
- Dr Leon Moosavi (Co-Director) - Sociology of race and religion.
- 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 - Scaredness 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 stdy 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 (espeically 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)'.
- Shiyang Chen - Shiyang's working thesis title is: 'From Residents to 'New Citizens': Aspirations, Identities and Decision-Making of Internal Migrants in China'.
- 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.
- Gemma Lough - Gemma's working thesis title is: 'Demystifying Algorithmic Dystopia, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: An Ethnomethodological Study of Elementary Practices of Reasoning with Algorithms and Code'.
- Lara MacLachlan - Lara's working thesis title is: 'Understanding Legal Capability: A case study of the Legal Aid Board'.
- Leah Molyneux - Leah's working thesis title is: '‘I need to speak to sarge’: what role do police sergeants play in shaping the way frontline police constables understand and operationalise discretion?'.
- Adele Moore - Adele's working thesis title is: 'Seizing the Means of Contraception'.
- 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'.
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