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Department of Sociology

 
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University Teaching Officers


Prof 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 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 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

Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology

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

Prof Jennifer Gabrys

Chair in Media, Culture and Environment

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

Dr Stuart Hogarth

Associate Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology

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

Dr Maria Iacovou

Prof Maria Iacovou

Professor in Quantitative Sociology

Director of Postgraduate Education 

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

Dr Hazem Kandil

Prof 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 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

Assistant Professor in Gender

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

Dr Matthew Sparkes

Unestablished Assistant Professor in Sociology

Social class, financialisation, political economy

Dr Darin Weinberg

Prof 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

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

Teaching Associate in Sociology

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

Dr Ned Crowley

Newton Trust Academic Career Fellow in Political and Economic Sociology

with Gonville and Caius College


Dr Meredith Hall


Teaching Associate in Media and Culture


Dr Scarlet Harris

Teaching Associate

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

Dr Luke Hawksbee

Teaching Associate in the Political Economy of Biomedicine

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

Teaching Associate in Sociology, Supervision Co-ordination and Study Skills

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