PhD Students in the Department of Sociology
PhD Students in the Department of Sociology
This list does not represent all of the Sociology PhD students - information is supplied at the discretion of the students. The list includes links to student webpages or their thesis titles
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A
PhD Title: SHIFTING
REPRESENTATIONS OF TURKISH NATIONALISM IN
NEWS MEDIA:
THE ISLAMIC-SECULAR DIVERGENCE IN THE TURKISH TELEVISION NEWS
DISCOURSES
Supervisor: M Madianou
B
Bachmann, Anna
PhD Title: God's Bankers:
Microfinance, Morality and the
politics of Religious Economic Development in East Africa - a
transitional organisational ethnography.
Supervisor: D Lehmann
Bhandari, Parul
PhD Title: Urban Indian
Marriage: Between Modernity and
Tradition
Supervisor: G Therborn
Bolzonaro, Fabio
PhD Title: Catholicism and the
Welfare State. The Role of
Catholic Organizations in the French and Italian Welfare State
Supervisor: G Therborn/ L King
Boston, Nicholas
PhD Title: Printed Matter:
Charismatic Authority,
Transnational Media and the Condé Nast Magazine Publishing
Empire
Supervisor: G Born
Brienza,
Casey
PhD Title: Domesticating Manga:
Japanese Comics, American
Publishing, and the Transnational Production of Culture
Supervisor: J Thompson
Research interests: sociology
of culture, media and
communication,
social theory, global/transnational sociology, ethnographic methods,
East Asia
Brooks, Gillian
PhD Title: The Blogs that Bind:
(De) Constructing The Drudge
Report and The Huffington Post.
Supervisor: J Thompson
C
CHANG, Cheng
PhD Title: THE ROLE OF CHINESE
TRADE UNIONS IN PAY
DETERMINATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Supervisor: W Brown
Chaplin, Christopher
PhD Title: The Social Dynamics
of the Salafist Movement in
Indonesia: Global Networks, religious Renewal and Expressions of Piety
in Urban Java
Supervisor: D Lehmann
Chen, Yen-Chun
PhD Title: Between Preference
and Reality: Cohort Comparison
on Intergenerational Support in Taiwan.
Supervisor: J Scott
CONROY, Rosamund
PhD Title: Ecological Modernization, Environmental Policy and Transformations in the UK's Waste System
Supervisor: P Dickens
D
E
Edelmann, Achim
PhD Title: The transition from
military to civilian life –
a
social network approach focusing on service personnel and their
partners.
Research Interests: Military
sociology; social networks;
social theory; modernisation and development.
F
Fazekas,
Mihaly
PhD Title: State capacity in
Hungary
Supervisor: Lawrence Peter
King
Fleet, Nicolas
PhD
Title: Administration and emancipation:
intellectual ideals and
professional values of bureaucratic action in the Chilean state
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research
Interests: The interface between theory of
social action and political
sociology: the state and social transformations; domination and
legitimacy; knowledge and interests; professions and the university;
rationality and modernization.
Fuller, Martin
PhD Title: Poesis and the
Polis: An analysis of the ways
artists' production processes are shaped by the urban.
Supervisor: J Thompson
G
Gittins, Magnus
PhD Title: Unpacking the
Migration-Development Nexus: A
Comparative Study of the Institutional Architecture of Two
Transnational Systems of Migration.
Supervisor: C Lane
Gonzalez Hernando, Marcos
Thesis title: Crisis economics,
knowledge production and the
public sphere: the effects, reaction and narrations of the economic
crash of 2008 as seen by British think tanks and intellectual
organisations
Supervisor: Patrick Baert
Research interests include:
Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology
of
Intellectuals, Economic and Political Sociology, Social Theory, Social
Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science, Sociology of
Time, Intellectual History and the study of the Financial Crisis of 2008
Gruen, Andrew
PhD Title: Accountability
Journalism in the Digital Age.
Supervisor: J Thompson
Gumy, Julia
PhD Title: Poverty and the
Transition into Personal Debt
Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis Comparing the United
Kingdom,
Germany and Luxembourg
Supervisor: Dr. Brendan Burchell
Research Interests: Economic
sociology; poverty, social
exclusion,
indebtedness; social policy analysis; comparative and cross-national
research methods; life course methods; quantitative research methods;
cross-sectional and longitudinal data analyses; BHPS, ECHP, GSOEP,
PSELL, SPSS, STATA.
Guo, Zhitian
Thesis Title: Accountability
Journalism in the Digital Age.
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research Interests: Political
sociology and anthropology;
Chinese ethnic minority; regional autonomy and nation state;
ethnographic methods.
H
Hammond, Kathleen
Thesis Title: Egg donation in
Canada: The practice and
regulation of unknown and anonymous egg donation
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Franklin
Research Interests: I
am interested in the regulation
of
assistive reproductive technologies. My research looks at the state of
egg donation in Canada. Specifically, I look at the Canadian
legislation surrounding egg donation and how effectively the
legislation incorporates the interests of egg donors.
Harnam, Neesha
PhD Title: The Impact of
Financial Crises on Health Outcomes
Supervisor: L King
Haeusermann, Tobias
Thesis Title: Without a Mind:
Dementia in Holland and Spain
Supervisor: Darin Weinberg
Research Interests: The study
of individual and group
behaviours with respect to health and illness. Sociology of Ageing and
the Life Course and their implications for public policy and
professional practice.
Comparative ethnographic research.
Hsiao, Ling-Yu
PhD Title: Fear Terror and
Political Stigma: The Making of
Political Victims and "White Society" in Taiwan
Supervisor: Peggy Watson
Hu, Yang
PhD Title: Working Title:
Chinese-British Intermarriage in the
UK
Supervisor: Professor
Jacqueline Scott
Research Interests: Family,
gender and marriage, migration and
ethnicity, intergenerational relations, social and cultural
reproduction, familial and gender attitudes/values
I
Ivkovic, Marjan
PhD Title: Axel
Honneth’s Theory of the Struggle for
Recognition: Towards a Post-Metaphysical Critique of Domination
Supervisor: J Thompson
J
Jurn, Katrina
PhD Title: The Real
Consequences of the Virtual Economy:
Global Finance’s Environmental Impact on Offshore Financial
Centres
Supervisor: L King
K
Kennedy, Jonathan
PhD Title: The Political
Economy of Conflict between the State
and Indigenous People in India
Kentikelenis,
Alexander
PhD Title: The Political
Economy of Economic Adjustment
Supervisor: L King
Korn, David
PhD Title: Environmental and
Ecological Factors in the
Political Economy of China’s Transition to Capitalism
Supervisor: L King
Krapels, Joachim
PhD Title: Institutional
Upheaval: social mechanisms of
institutional change
Research Interests: The
development of institutions in modern
society. The processes and dynamics of institutional change. Various
theoretical strands: sociological theory, philosophical anthropology
and social philosophy.
L
Lampert, Matthew
PhD Title: Path Dependence: A
Critical Appraisal of System
Change and Persistence Models
Supervisor: J Miley
Lee, Huang A<
PhD Title: Colonial Modernity
in Three Colonial Capitals in
East Asia
Supervisor: G Therborn
Li, XinLing
Thesis Title: Who Stole the
Beat? Discourses of Masculinity in
Male Gay Hip-Hop
Research Interests: Include
gender, sexuality, sports, popular
music, world culture (especially African and Asian), and queer studies
(i.e. NOT your usual ‘drag stuff’).
Lybeck, Eric
Royal
Thesis title: The Academization
Process: Universities, Legal
Science, and Social Science in Germany and the United States since 1800
Supervisor: T J Miley
Research Interests: Historical
sociology; social theory;
political economy; history of sociology
M
Nikita Malik
PhD Title: Labour Pains:
Measuring freedom in the Indian
labour market
Supervisor: J Miley
Research Interests: The
recognition and utilisation of freedom
as a
structure, theoretical paradigms of freedom, pre-capitalist and
capitalist social formations, feudal systems of patronage,
‘deproletarianisation’, decent work pilot programs,
class and caste
interactions, and the valuation of freedom in South Asia.
Mei, Xiao
PhD Title: Contending Memories
of China's Cultural Revolution
Supervisor: P Baert
Moscoso, Carla
Thesis Title: Media
Concentration and Political
Democratisation: The
Role of the Press in Shaping Political Debate in Chile and Argentina
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research Interests: Media and
Communication, Economic and
Political Sociology, Modernisation and Development in Latin America.
N
O
O'Neill, Christopher
PhD Title: The economic and
social impact of Poland’s program
of mass privatization
Supervisor: D Lane
P
Pearce, Karen
PhD Title: Women and Sport at
Cambridge University: Gender
Identities, Institutional Cultures and the Student Experience
Supervisor: Deborah Thom
Piasna, A
Investigating cross-national
comparisons in couple's work-life
balance: flexible work and changing gender roles
Supervisor: Brendan Burchell
Pralat, Robert
Thesis title: Attitudes about
Parenthood among Lesbians and
Gay
Men in the UK
Supervisor: Sarah Franklin
Research Interests: sexuality;
gender; family; assisted
reproductive technologies; adoption and fostering; mixed methods
Q
R
Ramm, Alejandra
Thesis Title: Cohabiting
Parents from Disadvantaged Groups in
Chile
Supervisor: J Scott
Research Interests: The process
of becoming a family, family
transistions between generations, family & power, sexuality
& gender roles (identity issues), life course & life
stories.
S
Sefat, Kusha
Thesis Title: Mediated Social
Movements: Media Spaces and
Power-Making in Iran
Research Interests:
Contemporary social and political theory,
sociology and anthropology of media, political sociology and
anthropology, U.S. and Iranian foreign policies, Mid East politics,
ethnographic methods.
Shahrokni, Shirin
Thesis Title: The experience of
upward social mobility of
descendants of post-colonial immigrants in France
Research Interests: Race and
ethnicity, sociology of culture,
inequality in education, social movements, sociological theory
(intersectionality, Bourdieu, Black feminism)
Stubbs, Thomas
Thesis Title: The Determinants of Slums
Supervisor: L King
Research Interests: Political economy, urban sociology, development studies, economic sociology, political sociology, quantitative methods
T
Trujillo, Melisa Trujillo
Thesis Title: To follow
Supervisor: P Watson
Research Interests: to follow
Tu, Jiong
PhD Title: Primary Health Care
Transformation in a Chinese
County Town: Practices,
Interpretations and Moral Frameworks
U
V
W
Walsh, Peter
William
Thesis Title: Understanding UK
Immigration Policy: Politics,
Public Opinion and the Media
Research Interests: The
sociology of recent immigration to the
UK,
with a focus on the relations between immigration policy, public
attitudes towards immigration, and immigration discourse in politics
and mainstream news media.
Wardrop, Robert
Thesis Title: Bank Financing to Self-Financing: The Comparative
Advantage of Trust in Shaping Institutional Change
Supervisor: Christel Lane
Research Interests: Comparative capitalism, debt relations,
organizational trust, social network analysis
X
Xie, Sujuan
PhD Title: A state-historical
perspective and China's economic
transition
Supervisor: L King
Y
Yildiz, Yesim Yaprak
Supervisor: Patrick Baert
Research Interests: Politics of
memory, philosophy of history,
sociology of
intellectuals, critical theory
Z
PhD Title: SHIFTING REPRESENTATIONS OF TURKISH NATIONALISM IN NEWS MEDIA: THE ISLAMIC-SECULAR DIVERGENCE IN THE TURKISH TELEVISION NEWS DISCOURSES
Supervisor: M Madianou
B
Bachmann, Anna
PhD Title: God's Bankers: Microfinance, Morality and the politics of Religious Economic Development in East Africa - a transitional organisational ethnography.
Supervisor: D Lehmann
Bhandari, Parul
PhD Title: Urban Indian Marriage: Between Modernity and Tradition
Supervisor: G Therborn
Bolzonaro, Fabio
PhD Title: Catholicism and the Welfare State. The Role of Catholic Organizations in the French and Italian Welfare State
Supervisor: G Therborn/ L King
Boston, Nicholas
PhD Title: Printed Matter: Charismatic Authority, Transnational Media and the Condé Nast Magazine Publishing Empire
Supervisor: G Born
Brienza, Casey
PhD Title: Domesticating Manga: Japanese Comics, American Publishing, and the Transnational Production of Culture
Supervisor: J Thompson
Research interests: sociology of culture, media and communication, social theory, global/transnational sociology, ethnographic methods, East Asia
Brooks, Gillian
PhD Title: The Blogs that Bind: (De) Constructing The Drudge Report and The Huffington Post.
Supervisor: J Thompson
C
CHANG, Cheng
PhD Title: THE ROLE OF CHINESE TRADE UNIONS IN PAY DETERMINATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Supervisor: W Brown
Chaplin, Christopher
PhD Title: The Social Dynamics of the Salafist Movement in Indonesia: Global Networks, religious Renewal and Expressions of Piety in Urban Java
Supervisor: D Lehmann
Chen, Yen-Chun
PhD Title: Between Preference and Reality: Cohort Comparison on Intergenerational Support in Taiwan.
Supervisor: J Scott
CONROY, Rosamund
PhD Title: Ecological Modernization, Environmental Policy and Transformations in the UK's Waste System
Supervisor: P Dickens
D
E
Edelmann, Achim
PhD Title: The transition from military to civilian life – a social network approach focusing on service personnel and their partners.
Research Interests: Military sociology; social networks; social theory; modernisation and development.
F
Fazekas, Mihaly
PhD Title: State capacity in Hungary
Supervisor: Lawrence Peter King
Fleet, Nicolas
PhD Title: Administration and emancipation: intellectual ideals and professional values of bureaucratic action in the Chilean state
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research Interests: The interface between theory of social action and political sociology: the state and social transformations; domination and legitimacy; knowledge and interests; professions and the university; rationality and modernization.
Fuller, Martin
PhD Title: Poesis and the Polis: An analysis of the ways artists' production processes are shaped by the urban.
Supervisor: J Thompson
G
Gittins, Magnus
PhD Title: Unpacking the Migration-Development Nexus: A Comparative Study of the Institutional Architecture of Two Transnational Systems of Migration.
Supervisor: C Lane
Gonzalez Hernando, Marcos
Thesis title: Crisis economics, knowledge production and the public sphere: the effects, reaction and narrations of the economic crash of 2008 as seen by British think tanks and intellectual organisations
Supervisor: Patrick Baert
Research interests include: Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Intellectuals, Economic and Political Sociology, Social Theory, Social Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Time, Intellectual History and the study of the Financial Crisis of 2008
Gruen, Andrew
PhD Title: Accountability Journalism in the Digital Age.
Supervisor: J Thompson
Gumy, Julia
PhD Title: Poverty and the Transition into Personal Debt Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis Comparing the United Kingdom, Germany and Luxembourg
Supervisor: Dr. Brendan Burchell
Research Interests: Economic sociology; poverty, social exclusion, indebtedness; social policy analysis; comparative and cross-national research methods; life course methods; quantitative research methods; cross-sectional and longitudinal data analyses; BHPS, ECHP, GSOEP, PSELL, SPSS, STATA.
Guo, Zhitian
Thesis Title: Accountability Journalism in the Digital Age.
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research Interests: Political sociology and anthropology; Chinese ethnic minority; regional autonomy and nation state; ethnographic methods.
H
Hammond, Kathleen
Thesis Title: Egg donation in Canada: The practice and regulation of unknown and anonymous egg donation
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Franklin
Research Interests: I am interested in the regulation of assistive reproductive technologies. My research looks at the state of egg donation in Canada. Specifically, I look at the Canadian legislation surrounding egg donation and how effectively the legislation incorporates the interests of egg donors.
Harnam, Neesha
PhD Title: The Impact of Financial Crises on Health Outcomes
Supervisor: L King
Haeusermann, Tobias
Thesis Title: Without a Mind: Dementia in Holland and Spain
Supervisor: Darin Weinberg
Research Interests: The study of individual and group behaviours with respect to health and illness. Sociology of Ageing and the Life Course and their implications for public policy and professional practice. Comparative ethnographic research.
Hsiao, Ling-Yu
PhD Title: Fear Terror and Political Stigma: The Making of Political Victims and "White Society" in Taiwan
Supervisor: Peggy Watson
Hu, Yang
PhD Title: Working Title: Chinese-British Intermarriage in the UK
Supervisor: Professor Jacqueline Scott
Research Interests: Family, gender and marriage, migration and ethnicity, intergenerational relations, social and cultural reproduction, familial and gender attitudes/values
I
Ivkovic, Marjan
PhD Title: Axel Honneth’s Theory of the Struggle for Recognition: Towards a Post-Metaphysical Critique of Domination
Supervisor: J Thompson
J
Jurn, Katrina
PhD Title: The Real Consequences of the Virtual Economy: Global Finance’s Environmental Impact on Offshore Financial Centres
Supervisor: L King
K
Kennedy, Jonathan
PhD Title: The Political Economy of Conflict between the State and Indigenous People in India
Kentikelenis, Alexander
PhD Title: The Political Economy of Economic Adjustment
Supervisor: L King
Korn, David
PhD Title: Environmental and Ecological Factors in the Political Economy of China’s Transition to Capitalism
Supervisor: L King
Krapels, Joachim
PhD Title: Institutional Upheaval: social mechanisms of institutional change
Research Interests: The development of institutions in modern society. The processes and dynamics of institutional change. Various theoretical strands: sociological theory, philosophical anthropology and social philosophy.
L
Lampert, Matthew
PhD Title: Path Dependence: A Critical Appraisal of System Change and Persistence Models
Supervisor: J Miley
Lee, Huang A<
PhD Title: Colonial Modernity in Three Colonial Capitals in East Asia
Supervisor: G Therborn
Li, XinLing
Thesis Title: Who Stole the Beat? Discourses of Masculinity in Male Gay Hip-Hop
Research Interests: Include gender, sexuality, sports, popular music, world culture (especially African and Asian), and queer studies (i.e. NOT your usual ‘drag stuff’).
Lybeck, Eric Royal
Thesis title: The Academization Process: Universities, Legal Science, and Social Science in Germany and the United States since 1800
Supervisor: T J Miley
Research Interests: Historical sociology; social theory; political economy; history of sociology
M
Nikita Malik
PhD Title: Labour Pains: Measuring freedom in the Indian labour market
Supervisor: J Miley
Research Interests: The recognition and utilisation of freedom as a structure, theoretical paradigms of freedom, pre-capitalist and capitalist social formations, feudal systems of patronage, ‘deproletarianisation’, decent work pilot programs, class and caste interactions, and the valuation of freedom in South Asia.
Mei, Xiao
PhD Title: Contending Memories of China's Cultural Revolution
Supervisor: P Baert
Moscoso, Carla
Thesis Title: Media Concentration and Political Democratisation: The Role of the Press in Shaping Political Debate in Chile and Argentina
Supervisor: David Lehmann
Research Interests: Media and Communication, Economic and Political Sociology, Modernisation and Development in Latin America.
N
O
O'Neill, Christopher
PhD Title: The economic and social impact of Poland’s program of mass privatization
Supervisor: D Lane
P
Pearce, Karen
PhD Title: Women and Sport at Cambridge University: Gender Identities, Institutional Cultures and the Student Experience
Supervisor: Deborah Thom
Piasna, A
Investigating cross-national comparisons in couple's work-life balance: flexible work and changing gender roles
Supervisor: Brendan Burchell
Pralat, Robert
Thesis title: Attitudes about Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men in the UK
Supervisor: Sarah Franklin
Research Interests: sexuality; gender; family; assisted reproductive technologies; adoption and fostering; mixed methods
Q
R
Ramm, Alejandra
Thesis Title: Cohabiting Parents from Disadvantaged Groups in Chile
Supervisor: J Scott
Research Interests: The process of becoming a family, family transistions between generations, family & power, sexuality & gender roles (identity issues), life course & life stories.
S
Sefat, Kusha
Thesis Title: Mediated Social Movements: Media Spaces and Power-Making in Iran
Research Interests: Contemporary social and political theory, sociology and anthropology of media, political sociology and anthropology, U.S. and Iranian foreign policies, Mid East politics, ethnographic methods.
Shahrokni, Shirin
Thesis Title: The experience of upward social mobility of descendants of post-colonial immigrants in France
Research Interests: Race and ethnicity, sociology of culture, inequality in education, social movements, sociological theory (intersectionality, Bourdieu, Black feminism)
Stubbs, Thomas
Thesis Title: The Determinants of Slums
Supervisor: L King
Research Interests: Political economy, urban sociology, development studies, economic sociology, political sociology, quantitative methods
T
Trujillo, Melisa Trujillo
Thesis Title: To follow
Supervisor: P Watson
Research Interests: to follow
Tu, Jiong
PhD Title: Primary Health Care Transformation in a Chinese County Town: Practices, Interpretations and Moral Frameworks
U
V
W
Walsh, Peter William
Thesis Title: Understanding UK Immigration Policy: Politics, Public Opinion and the Media
Research Interests: The sociology of recent immigration to the UK, with a focus on the relations between immigration policy, public attitudes towards immigration, and immigration discourse in politics and mainstream news media.
Wardrop, Robert
Thesis Title: Bank Financing to Self-Financing: The Comparative Advantage of Trust in Shaping Institutional Change
Supervisor: Christel Lane
Research Interests: Comparative capitalism, debt relations, organizational trust, social network analysis
X
Xie, Sujuan
PhD Title: A state-historical perspective and China's economic transition
Supervisor: L King
Y
Yildiz, Yesim Yaprak
Supervisor: Patrick Baert
Research Interests: Politics of memory, philosophy of history, sociology of intellectuals, critical theory