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Notice: For postgraduate applicants considering their potential supervisors, please consult the list of supervisors' availability. |
University Teaching Officers
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 |
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Prof Manali Desai |
Professor of 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
Science and technology studies (STS), digital media, political ecology, environmental justice, participation |
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Assistant Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology
Director of MPhil Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation |
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Professor in Quantitative Sociology
Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods |
Prof Hazem Kandil |
Professor of Historical and Political Sociology
Director of Postgraduate Education 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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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 |
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Associate Professor in Social Inequalities Director of Undergraduate Education Critical race theory, race and class, cultural sociology, decolonial social theory |
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Lecturer in Political Sociology
(On leave until January 2023) Comparative nationalisms, the politics of migration, religion and politics, and democratic theory |
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Associate 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 |
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Professor in Sociology
Social theory; the sociology of science; sociology of health and illness; qualitative research methodologies |
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Temporary Teaching Officers
Dr Scarlet Harris |
Teaching Associate
State racisms; 'race' and racialisation; social movements and anti-racisms; policing and police/prison abolition. |
Dr Sazana Jayadeva |
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Education and inequalities; class and language; student mobilities and social media, with a regional focus on India and Europe. |
Dr Diana Kudaibergenova |
Unestablished Assistant Professor in Political Sociology
Nationalism; state and regime theory; ideology; democratization; power |
Dr Matthew Sparkes |
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Social class, financialisation, political economy |
