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 Precarious employment and mental health; job quality, gender and wellbeing; digital work; the advantages of shorter working hours |
Dr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago |
Lecturer in Sociology Fertility studies; decolonial feminisms; reproductive justice; Latin American studies |
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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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 (Please note that Prof Gabrys is not currently accepting new MPhil students) |
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Lecturer in Sociology of Science and Technology
Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation |
Dr Maria Iacovou |
Reader in Quantitative Sociology
Director of Postgraduate Education Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods |
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Dr Sazana Jayadeva |
Lecturer in Sociology
Education and inequalities; class and language; student mobilities and social media, with a regional focus on India and Europe. |
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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Lecturer in Political Sociology
Nationalism; state and regime theory; ideology; democratization; power |
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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
(on leave until 2022) 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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Reader in Sociology
(on research leave until 2021) Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies |
Teaching Associates
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Teaching Associate in Sociology
Mediations of non-mainstream politics, media systems and cultures of participation, and Latin American cultural politics. (Please note that Dr Saavedra Utman is not available to supervise Postgraduate students) |
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Teaching Associate in Sociology Sociology of gender, the body, health and illness, sexuality; Turkey and the Middle East (Please note that Dr Güzel is not available to supervise Postgraduate students) |
