Prof Patrick Baert |
Professor in Social Theory Social and political theory; culture and politics; intellectuals; public intellectuals; intellectual history |
Prof Brendan Burchell |
Professor in Sociology Social psychological effects of precarious employment and unemployment; Gender segregation; men’s and women’s life cycle and career |
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Fellow of Selwyn College
Social and political theory; citizenship studies; intellectual history |
Dr Manali Desai |
Reader in Sociology
Head of Department 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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Lecturer in Sociology
Questions of power, identity and religion in contexts of political transitions, focusing specifically on Tunisia, Syria and Turkey (Please note that Dr Donker is not currently accepting new PhD or MPhil students) |
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Professor of Sociology
'New kinship studies': the social study of new reproductive technologies; the cultural analysis of bioscience, biomedicine and biotechnology |
Prof Jennifer Gabrys |
Chair in Media, Culture and Environment
Digital technology, citizen data, environmental media, and emergent forms of political engagement |
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Lecturer in Sociology of Science and Technology
Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation |
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Dr Maria Iacovou |
Reader in Quantitative Sociology
Director of Postgraduate Education Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods |
Dr Hazem Kandil |
Reader in Political Sociology
Director of MPhil Programme 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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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology
Director of Undergraduate Education Symbolic struggles surrounding the media; methodological and reputational implications of using social media and related networks as data sources and dissemination tools |
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Lecturer in Social Inequalities
Critical race theory, race and class, cultural sociology, decolonial social theory |
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Lecturer in Political Sociology
Comparative nationalisms, the politics of migration, religion and politics, and democratic theory |
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology
The lived experience of ‘race’ and racism; institutional racism; antiracism; critical race theory, feminist theory, beauty and emotions; photography and visual culture (Please note that Dr Moreno Figueroa is not currently accepting new PhD students) |
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Dr Véronique Mottier |
Fellow of Jesus College
Social and political theory; historical and political sociology; gender, sexuality and 'race'; feminist theory; welfare states and social exclusion; |
Dr Darin Weinberg |
Reader in Sociology
(on research leave until 2021) Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies |
Teaching Associates
Dr Rikke Amundsen
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Teaching Associate in Sociology
Social and technological risk, trust, mediated intimacy, neoliberalism, postfeminism, sociological approaches to power and ideology, the impact of modern technology on gender and sexuality, representation and speech act theory. |
Dr Matthew Sparkes |
Teaching Associate in Sociology
Social class and classification; consumption; debt-based finance and political economy |
