Staff

Teaching staff

Staff Role Interests 

Dr Rowland Atkinson

Programme Coordinator

Reader
Department of Sociology

rowland.atkinson@york.ac.uk

  • Disorder, anti-social behaviour, social control and community life in neighbourhoods
  • Gentrification, elite residential development and its social consequences
  • Privatisation of public and residential spaces, particularly with reference to gated communities and civic space

Sharon Grace

Chair of the Board of Studies (Criminology)

Teaching Fellow
Department of Social Policy and Social Work

sharon.grace@york.ac.uk

  • Victimisation
  • Illicit drug use
  • Administration of justice

Dr Robert Gunn

Lecturer
Department of Social Policy and Social Work

robert.gunn@york.ac.uk

  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Young people
  • Participation and community development

Steve Hirschler

Teaching Fellow
Department of Sociology

steve.hirschler@york.ac.uk 

  • Urban unrest
  • Asylum seekers and immigration

Dr Carol-Ann Hooper

Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Policy and Social Work

carol-ann.hooper@york.ac.uk 

  • Child abuse and child protection
  • Gender and crime
  • Violence against women

Dr Paul Johnson

Reader
Department of Sociology

  

 

Dr Gareth Millington

Lecturer
Department of Sociology 

 

 

Dr Lisa O'Malley

Lecturer
Department of Social Policy and Social Work
  • Urban renewal
  • Crime prevention and community safety
  • Voluntary sector
                        

Other contacts

  • Admissions Tutor: Dr David Beer, Department of Sociology
  • Administrative contact for current students: Angela Chapman, Department of Social Policy and Social Work