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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
Director of Research |
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
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 |
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology
Technology and social change, digital labour, social class, cultural sociology, social theory |
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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 |
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Professor in Quantitative Sociology
Director of Postgraduate Education Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods |
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 |
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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 Postcolonial sociology, race, historical sociology, Du Boisian sociology, social theory, anti/post/decolonial 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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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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Assistant Professor in Gender
Sociology of gender and sexuality, youth sociology, urban |
Dr Matthew Sparkes |
Unestablished Assistant Professor in Sociology
Social class, financialisation, political economy |
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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 |
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Teaching Associate in Media and Culture |
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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 |
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