Postgraduate applicants are required to nominate a supervisor as part of their application.
Please consult the list below to see which members of staff are available to supervise postgraduate students starting in October 2025 Availability depends on several factors, including sabbatical leave arrangements, contractual arrangements, and the number of students already being supervised by each member of staff.
Each entry includes a few words outlining research/supervision interests. When choosing your nominated supervisor, it is important that there is some overlap with your own research interests or approach. You can find more detailed information by clicking through to supervisors’ research profiles.
MPhil applicants
MPhil applicants should, where possible, name a preferred supervisor for their topic (and up to one alternative).
Please do not contact a prospective supervisor in advance of making an application. If for any reason your nominated supervisor cannot consider your application, your forms will be forwarded to an alternative supervisor within the same pathway. If you are offered a place, we will let you know if you have been allocated a different supervisor to the person you nominated.
PhD applicants
PhD applicants should, where possible, name a preferred supervisor for their topic (and up to one alternative).If you are confident that your proposed research is a good fit with your nominated supervisor, you do not need to contact them in advance – no preference will be given to applicants who have made informal contact.
If you have any questions about whether your topic is a good fit with your supervisor’s interests, you may email them, attaching both a CV with details of the degrees you have taken and the marks you have obtained, and a brief research proposal (1-2 pages max). There is no need to attach references or transcripts. Please be aware that our PhD supervisors receive large numbers of enquiries, and that they therefore cannot give detailed feedback on your proposal.
Supervisor Availability for postgraduate courses starting in October 2025
|
Supervisor Name |
Research Interests |
Available to supervise |
| Zeina Al Azmeh | Forced displacement and political subjectivities, intellectuals in exile, revolutionary movements and their narrativization | MPhil only |
| Social and political theory, cultural sociology, intellectuals & politics |
MPhil and PhD |
|
| Identities/gender and STEM/creative methodologies | MPhil and PhD | |
|
Social theory, political sociology, intellectual history |
MPhil and PhD | |
|
Social action under neoliberalism |
MPhil and PhD | |
| Ned Crowley | Economic Sociology,t with a particular interest in public finance, including the politics of government budget-making, public debt, and fiscal austerity | MPhil only |
|
Gender and sexual violence |
PhD only |
|
| Robert Dorschel | Digital sociology, digital labour, digital capitalism, class, cultural sociology, social theory | MPhil and PhD |
| Jennifer Gabrys | Digital technology, environments, social life and and practices of citizenship, action and engagement with digital technologies and environmental problems. | MPhil and PhD |
|
Science, technology, biomedical innovation, political economy of diagnostic innovation |
MPhil and PhD | |
| Isabelle Higgins | Teaching Associate in Media and Culture | MPhil only |
| Family demography, quantitative methods | MPhil and PhD | |
|
Historical and Political Sociology |
MPhil and PhD | |
| Prof David Lane | Political economy of transition from state socialism. Special interest in role of classes and elites. Contemporary Ukraine and Russia; post socialist states in the world system; alternatives to capitalism. | MPhil only |
| Prof Christel Lane | Economic and cultural sociology | MPhil and PhD |
| Technology, media, journalism, human rights | MPhil and PhD | |
|
Social inequalities, race and class |
MPhil only |
|
|
Political sociology, nationalism |
MPhil and PhD | |
| Kenny Monrose | Urban Cultures, Criminal Justice, Religion and Windrush Studies | MPhil and PhD |
| Race, Racism (anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, anti-Asian), Antiracism, Intersectionality, Mexico and Latin America, Visual Culture, Emotions and Beauty. |
PhD only |
|
|
Social and political theory |
MPhil and PhD |
|
| Dr Shannon Philip | Assistant Professor Gender and equality | MPhil and PhD |
| Marissa Quie | Migration, peace and security | MPhil only |
|
Social and spatial inequalities |
MPhil and PhD | |
| Sebastian Raza-Mejia | Empirical studies of crises, turning points and social transformations, cultural sociology, social theory, and intellectual history and the history of sociological thought | MPhil only |
| Jusmeet Sihra | Urban Sociology, Caste, Segregation | MPhil only |
|
Neoliberalism including market formation, financialisation, credit-debt, and social class(ification) |
MPhil and PhD |
|
| Gender, feminism, class, post-socialism | MPhil and PhD | |
| Addiction, Sociology of medical thought | MPhil and PhD | |
| Alex Wood | Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology | MPhil and PhD |
