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
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Supervisor Name |
Research Interests |
MPhil |
PhD |
| Social and political theory, cultural sociology, intellectuals & politics |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Identities/gender and STEM/creative methodologies |
tbc |
tbc |
|
|
Employment and wellbeing |
Yes |
No |
|
|
Social theory, political sociology, intellectual history |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Social action under neoliberalism |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Gender and sexual violence |
No |
Yes |
|
| Robbie Duschinsky | Child & family mental health, child maltreatment & neglect | Yes | tbc |
| 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 |
|
Science, technology, biomedical innovation, political economy of diagnostic innovation |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Family demography, quantitative methods |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Historical and Political Sociology |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| 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 |
| Technology, media, journalism, human rights |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Matthew Mahmoudi | technological marginalisation amongst refugee and asylum-seekers | Yes | No |
|
Social inequalities, race and class |
Yes |
No |
|
|
Political sociology, nationalism |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| (Anti-)Racism, Beauty, Intersectionality, Emotions |
No |
Yes |
|
|
Social and political theory |
No |
Yes |
|
|
Female genital mutilation (“FGM”) jurisprudence |
Yes |
No |
|
| Marissa Quie | Migration, peace and security | Yes | No |
|
Social and spatial inequalities |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Eugenics, Racism, Reproductive Justice |
Yes |
No |
|
| Social class, financialisation, political economy |
Yes |
No |
|
| Gender, feminism, class, post-socialism |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Addiction, Sociology of medical thought |
Yes |
Yes |
