Prof Patrick Baert
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Professor Patrick Baert
Professor in Social Theory
Director of Research
Social and political theory; culture and politics; intellectuals; public intellectuals; intellectual history |
Prof Brendan Burchell
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Professor Brendan Burchell
Professor in Sociology
Precarious employment and mental health; job quality, gender and wellbeing; digital work; the advantages of shorter working hours
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Prof Manali Desai
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Professor Manali Desai
Professor of Sociology
Gender and sexual violence in urban and peri-urban India and South Africa; colonial rule and long-term development in India; class formation in India
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Dr Robert Dorschel
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Dr Robert Dorschel
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology
Technology and social change, digital labour, social class, cultural sociology, social theory
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Prof Jennifer Gabrys
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Prof Jennifer Gabrys
Chair in Media, Culture and Environment
Science and technology studies (STS), digital media, political ecology, environmental justice, participation
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Dr Stuart Hogarth
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Dr Stuart Hogarth
Associate Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology
Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation
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Prof Maria Iacovou
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Professor Maria Iacovou
Professor in Quantitative Sociology
Director of Postgraduate Education
Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods
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Prof Hazem Kandil
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Professor Hazem Kandil
Professor of Historical and Political Sociology
Head of Department
Power relations in revolution, war, and regimes; realism and social theory; military sociology; ideology and the sociology of intellectuals; comparative history
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Dr Ella McPherson
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Dr Ella McPherson
Associate Professor in the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology
Technology and human rights; media and culture; digital sociology; the construction, evaluation and contestation of truth-claims
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Dr Ali Meghji
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Dr Ali Meghji
Associate Professor in Social Inequalities
Director of Undergraduate Education
Postcolonial sociology, race, historical sociology, Du Boisian sociology, social theory, anti/post/decolonial theory
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Dr Jeff Miley
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Dr Jeff Miley
Lecturer in Political Sociology
Comparative nationalisms, the politics of migration, religion and politics, and democratic theory
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Prof Mónica Moreno Figueroa
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Professor Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Professor in Sociology
The lived experience of ‘race’ and racism; institutional racism; antiracism; critical race theory, feminist theory, beauty and emotions; photography and visual culture
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Dr Shannon Phillip
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Dr Shannon Phillip
Assistant Professor in Gender
Sociology of gender and sexuality, youth sociology, urban
sociology, decolonial and postcolonial sociology, comparative sociology
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Dr Matthew Sparkes
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Dr Matthew Sparkes
Unestablished Assistant Professor in Sociology
Social class, financialisation, political economy
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Prof Darin Weinberg
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Professor Darin Weinberg
Professor in Sociology
Director of MPhil
Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies
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Dr Alex Wood
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Dr Alex Wood
Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology
Neo-Marxist and Polanyian theory, platform work, AI and digital technologies in the workplace, job quality, worker resistance and labour movements, transformations in employment, class and capitalism.
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