Academic Staff | Department of Sociology

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Prof Patrick Baert	Professor in Social Theory Sociology of intellectuals; sociology of culture; social theory; intellectual history	Dr Brendan Burchell	Reader in Sociology The effects of labour market experiences of psychological well-being; employment and unemployment
Dr Filipe Carreira Da Silva	Fellow of Selwyn College Social and political theory; citizenship studies; intellectual history	Dr Manali Desai	Reader in Sociology Director of MPhil Programme 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 (Please note that Dr Desai is not currently accepting new PhD students)
Dr Teije Donker	Lecturer in Sociology Questions of power, identity and religion in contexts of political transitions, focusing specifically on Tunisia, Syria and Turkey	Prof Sarah Franklin	Professor of Sociology Head of Department '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	Dr Stuart Hogarth	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 Graduate Education Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods	Dr Hazem Kandil	Reader in Political Sociology (on research leave until 2020) Power relations in revolution, war, and regimes; realism and social theory; military sociology; ideology and the sociology of intellectuals; comparative history
Dr Ella McPherson	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	Dr Ali Meghji	Lecturer in Social Inequalities Critical race theory, race and class, cultural sociology, decolonial social theory
Dr Jeff Miley	Lecturer in Political Sociology Comparative nationalisms, the politics of migration, religion and politics, and democratic theory	Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa	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)
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; coerced sterilisation policies and child removal programs in the Western world; interpretative research methods	Dr Tiffany Page	Lecturer in Sociology Positive social change; intersections of vulnerability, gender inequalities and institutional violence
Dr Mark Ramsden	Lecturer in Sociology Social and spatial inequalities and how they are shaped by global, social and economic forces	Dr Darin Weinberg	Reader in Sociology Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies (Please note that Dr Weinberg is not currently accepting new MPhil students)

Teaching Associates

Dr Rikke Amundsen 128x128_rikke_amundsen.jpg	Teaching Associate in Sociology Social and technological risk, speech act theory, representation, mediated intimacy, neoliberalism, postfeminism, sociological approaches to power and ideology, and the impact of modern technology on gender and sexuality	Dr Matthew Sparkes matthew-sparkes128.jpg	Teaching Associate in Sociology Social class and classification; consumption; debt-based finance and political economy