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 2024. 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
MPhil applicants should, where possible, name a preferred supervisor for their topic (and up to one alternative).The Department is currently in the process of recruiting Assistant Professors in Digital Sociology, Economic and Political Sociology and Gender and Sexuality; if these are likely to be a good fit with your research area, please include their role title rather than a named individual.
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 2024
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 |
tbc |
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Employment and Wellbeing | MPhil only | |
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 | Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology | MPhil only |
Meredith Hall | the political economy of intellectual property rights and its relationship to inequality, social justicee, and the public good. | MPhil onlly |
Scarlet Harris | Race' and racialisation; state racism, social movements and anti-racisms; policing and police/prison abolition. | MPhil only |
Luke Hawksbee | Financialisation, assetisation, and the political economy of health (particularly pharmaceuticals). | MPhil only |
Science, technology, biomedical innovation, political economy of diagnostic innovation |
MPhil and PhD | |
Family demography, quantitative methods | MPhil and PhD | |
Historical and Political Sociology |
MPhil and PhD | |
Dr Nomisha Kurian | Digital Sociology | MPhil only |
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 | |
Matthew Mahmoudi | technological marginalisation amongst refugee and asylum-seekers | MPhil only |
Social inequalities, race and class |
MPhil only |
|
Political sociology, nationalism |
PhD only | |
Kenny Monrose | Urban Cultures, Criminal Justice, Religion, Anti Blackness, 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 |
PhD only |
|
Marissa Quie | Migration, peace and security | MPhil only |
Social and spatial inequalities |
MPhil and PhD | |
Jusmeet Sihra | Urban Sociology, Caste, Segregation | MPhil only |
Neoliberalism including market formation, financialisation, credit-debt, and social class(ification) |
MPhil and PhD |
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Gender, feminism, class, post-socialism | MPhil and PhD | |
Addiction, Sociology of medical thought | MPhil and PhD | |
Alex Wood | Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology | MPhil |