Department of Sociology

Academic Staff

Notice: For postgraduate applicants considering potential supervisors, please consult the list of supervisors' availability.

University Teaching Officers

Dr Lorenza Antonucci	Dr Lorenza Antonucci Associate Professor in Sociology Precarity, financial insecurity, work insecurity, job quality, platform work, political sociology, populism, voting and non-voting, welfare state changes, labour market policies, comparative research, digital methods, mixed methods, social status, sociology of risk	Prof Patrick Baert	Professor Patrick Baert Professor in Social Theory Director of Research Social and political theory; artificial intelligence; media, culture and politics; intellectuals; public intellectuals; intellectual history
Prof Brendan Burchell	Professor Brendan Burchell Professor in Sociology Precarious employment and mental health; job quality, gender and wellbeing; digital work; the advantages of shorter working hours	Prof Manali Desai	Professor 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	Dr Robert Dorschel Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology Technology and social change, digital labour, social class, cultural sociology, social theory	Prof Jennifer Gabrys	Prof Jennifer Gabrys Chair in Media, Culture and Environment Science and technology studies (STS), digital media, political ecology, environmental justice, participation
Dr Stuart Hogarth	Dr Stuart Hogarth Associate Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology Science; technology; biomedical innovation; political economy of diagnostic innovation	Prof Maria Iacovou	Professor Maria Iacovou Professor in Quantitative Sociology Director of Postgraduate Education Family relationships; intra-household relationships; parenting and child development; quantitative research methods
Prof Hazem Kandil	Professor 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 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	Dr Shannon Phillip Assistant Professor in Gender Sociology of gender and sexuality, youth sociology, urban sociology, decolonial and postcolonial sociology, comparative sociology
Prof Darin Weinberg	Professor 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	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	Dr Zeina Al Azmeh Teaching Associate in Political Sociology Contemporary social movements, sociology of intellectuals, sociology of migration, cultural sociology	Dr Ned Crowley	Dr Ned Crowley Newton Trust Academic Career Fellow in Political and Economic Sociology Gonville and Caius College
Dr Scarlet Harris	Dr Scarlet Harris Teaching Associate State racisms; 'race' and racialisation; social movements and anti-racisms; policing and police/prison abolition.	Dr Luke Hawksbee	Dr Luke Hawksbee Teaching Associate in the Political Economy of Biomedicine
Dr Isabelle Higgins	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	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
Dr Raquel Rojas	Dr Raquel Rojas Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction Sociology of Gender, Social Reproduction, Feminisms, Social Policy, Decolonial and Postcolonial Sociology, Global Entangled Inequalities, Latin America	Dr Xin Zhan	Dr Xin Zhan Teaching Associate in Media and Culture Digital sociology, AI, techno-capitalism, labour, subjectivity, social mobility, science and technology studies, critical code studies, ethnographic research