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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 2023. 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.

Three new University Teaching Officers are being recruited who will be available to supervise MPhil students from October 2024, their details, including their areas of research interest, will be added to this site as soon as their appointments are confirmed:

  • Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology
  • Assistant Professor in Economic and Political Sociology
  • Assistant Professor in Gender and Sexuality

MPhil applicants

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

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 students starting their course in October 2024


Supervisor Name

Research Interests

MPhil

PhD

Patrick Baert

Social and political theory, cultural sociology, intellectuals & politics

Yes

Yes

Anna Bagnoli

Identities/gender and STEM/creative methodologies

tbc

tbc

Brendan Burchell

Employment and wellbeing

Yes

No

Filipe Carreira da Silva

Social theory, political sociology, intellectual history

Yes

Yes

Shana Cohen

Social action under neoliberalism

Yes

Yes

Manali Desai

Gender and sexual violence

No

Yes

Robbie Duschinsky Child & family mental health, child maltreatment & neglect Yes tbc

Jennifer Gabrys

Digital media, science and technology studies, environmental justice

Yes

Yes
Scarlet Harris Race' and racialisation; state racism, social movements and anti-racisms; policing and police/prison abolition. Yes No

Stuart Hogarth

Science, technology, biomedical innovation, political economy of diagnostic innovation

Yes

Yes

Maria Iacovou

Family demography, quantitative methods

Yes

Yes

Hazem Kandil

Historical and Political Sociology

Yes

Yes

Dr Diana Kudaibergenova

Nationalism, State and Regime Theory, Ideology, Democratization, Power Yes No
Dr Nomisha Kurian Digital Sociology Yes No
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. Yes No
Prof Christel Lane Economic and cultural sociology Yes Yes

Ella McPherson

Technology, media, journalism, human rights

Yes

Yes

Matthew Mahmoudi technological marginalisation amongst refugee and asylum-seekers Yes No

Ali Meghji

Social inequalities, race and class

Yes

No

Jeff Miley

Political sociology, nationalism

Yes

Yes

Mónica Moreno Figueroa

(Anti-)Racism, Beauty, Intersectionality, Emotions

No

Yes

Veronique Mottier

Social and political theory

No

Yes

Charlotte Proudman

Female genital mutilation (“FGM”) jurisprudence

Yes

No

Marissa Quie Migration, peace and security Yes No

Mark Ramsden

Social and spatial inequalities

Yes

Yes

R Sánchez Rivera

Eugenics, Racism, Reproductive Justice

Yes

No

Matthew Sparkes

Social class, financialisation, political economy

Yes

No

Peggy Watson

Gender, feminism, class, post-socialism

Yes

Yes

Darin Weinberg

Addiction, Sociology of medical thought

Yes

Yes


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