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Department of Sociology

 
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University Teaching Officers


Prof Patrick Baert

 

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

 

Professor Brendan Burchell
Professor in Sociology

Precarious employment and mental health; job quality, gender and wellbeing; digital work; the advantages of shorter working hours

Dr Manali Desai

Prof Manali Desai

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

Dr Robert Dorschel

Dr Robert Dorschel

Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology

Technology and social change, digital labour, social class, cultural sociology, social theory

Prof Jennifer Gabrys

Prof Jennifer Gabrys

Chair in Media, Culture and Environment

Science and technology studies (STS), digital media, political ecology, environmental justice, participation

Dr Stuart Hogarth

Dr Stuart Hogarth

Associate Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology

Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation


Prof Maria Iacovou

 

Professor Maria Iacovou
Professor in Quantitative Sociology

Director of Postgraduate Education 

Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods


Prof Hazem Kandil

 

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


Dr Ella McPherson

 

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


Dr Ali Meghji

 

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


Dr Jeff Miley

 

Dr Jeff Miley
Lecturer in Political Sociology

Comparative nationalisms, the politics of migration, religion and politics, and democratic theory


Prof Mónica Moreno Figueroa

 

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


Dr Shannon Phillip

 

Dr Shannon Phillip
Assistant Professor in Gender

Sociology of gender and sexuality, youth sociology, urban
sociology, decolonial and postcolonial sociology, comparative sociology

Dr Matthew Sparkes

Dr Matthew Sparkes
Unestablished Assistant Professor in Sociology

Social class, financialisation, political economy


Prof Darin Weinberg

 

Professor Darin Weinberg
Professor in Sociology

Director of MPhil

Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies


Dr Alex Wood

 

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.


Teaching Associates and Temporary Teaching Officers

Dr Zeina Al Azmeh

Dr Zeina Al Azmeh
Teaching Associate in Sociology

Contemporary social movements, sociology of intellectuals, sociology of migration, cultural sociology

Dr Ned Crowley

Dr Ned Crowley
Newton Trust Academic Career Fellow in Political and Economic Sociology

Gonville and Caius College


Dr Meredith Hall

 

Dr Meredith Hall
Teaching Associate in Media and Culture


Dr Scarlet Harris

 

Dr Scarlet Harris
Teaching Associate

State racisms; 'race' and racialisation; social movements and anti-racisms; policing and police/prison abolition.

Dr Luke Hawksbee

Dr Luke Hawksbee
Teaching Associate in the Political Economy of Biomedicine

Dr Isabelle Higgins

Dr Isabelle Higgins
Teaching Associate in Sociology

Media and cultural sociology, social theory, sociology of race and racism, digital sociology, reflexive sociology

Dr Sebastian Raza Mejia

Dr Sebastian Raza Mejia
Teaching Associate in Sociology, Supervision Co-ordination and Study Skills

Social theory, cultural, political and historical sociology, intellectual history, history of sociological thought

Dr Raquel Rojas

Dr Raquel Rojas
Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction