Campus in the autumn looking towards biology

Sociology Staff

*** indicates staff who are looking to supervise PhD students

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dr Rowland Atkinson  ***
Reader in Sociology
01904 324742
  • 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

Dr David Beer *** 
Senior Lecturer
01904 323049

  • Popular culture, particularly popular music culture
  • Digital technologies, new media and web cultures
  • Noise and sound, particularly in the urban context
  • Social and cultural theory

Dr Kelly Benneworth ***
Lecturer
01904 323040

  • Language interaction in forensic settings, particularly police interviews
  • The investigation of sex offences against children
  • Discourse analysis and conversation analysis
  • Critical social psychology and social constructionism

Dr Siân Beynon-Jones
Research Fellow
01904 323064

  • Politics of expertise concerning reproductive and other new life science technologies
  • The construction of human/non-human boundaries
  • The sociological study of the healthcare profession
  • Feminist theory

Dr Nik Brown ***
Reader in Sociology
01904 324741

  • Sociology of health
  • Regulation of bioscience
  • Classical/contemporary social theory

Prof Paul Drew ***
Professor
01904 323056

  • Conversation analysis
  • Language
  • Institutional (eg. medical, legal) interactions
  • Qualitative methodology
Sam Friedman
Research Fellow
sam.friedman@york.ac.uk
  • Popular Culture
  • Cultural Consumption
  • Social Mobility
  • Comedy and humour

Dr Nicholas Gane ***
Reader
01904 322636

  • Social and cultural theory
  • Sociology of the Internet
  • Media theory

Dr Laurie Hanquinet
Lecturer
01904324743
laurie.hanquinet@york.ac.uk

  • Cultural sociology
  • Attitudes towards art
  • Sociology of immigration
  • Methodology, quantitative analysis and mixed methods

David Hill
Teaching Fellow
01904 32XXXX
dwh501@york.ac.uk
  • Ethics, New Media and Social Theory: Towards a Posthumanism of the Other
Steve Hirschler
Teaching Fellow
steven.hirschler@york.ac.uk
  • Asylum and Immigration Policy

Dr Clare Jackson 
Teaching Fellow
01904 323579

  • How gender and sexuality are produced and resisted in talk-in-interaction

Prof Stevi Jackson ***
Professor, Centre for Women's Studies
01904 323672

  • Feminist theory
  • Theories of gender and sexuality
  • Women's and family relationships
  • Sociology of childhood
Lynn Kilgallon 
Tel: 01904 323041
lynn.kilgallon@york.ac.uk
  • Departmental administrator

Prof Celia Kitzinger ***
Professor
01904 322635

  • Genders, sexualities
  • Conversation analysis: childbirth
  • Ethical debatesabout emerging technologies especially end of life issues

Mr Brian Loader ***
Senior lecturer
01904 322639

  • Social/community informatics
  • Information age politics
  • Political sociology

Daryl Martin
Teaching Fellow
01904 322633

  • Architectural theory
  • Cultural Geography
  • Social and cultural theory
  • Urban Studies

Dr Sarah Nettleton ***
Reader in Social Policy
01904 323062

  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Sociology of the body
Josine Opmeer 
01904 324738
josine.opmeer@york.ac.uk
  • Research Administrator

Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce ***
Lecturer
01904 323045

  • Sociology of Celebrity
  • Sociology of Crime and Deviance
  • Seduction, fascination and spectacle

Dr Darren Reed

01904 323047

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Health, urban transport and intelligent communication systems
  • Social informatics

Dr Amanda Rees ***
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department
01904 323054

  • Social theory
  • Sociology of science
  • Popular understanding of science
  • History of primatology

Prof Mike Savage ***
Professor, Head of Department
01904 324561

  • Cultural class analysis
  • Space and urban studies
  • History of social science methods
Sarah Shrive-Morrison
01904 323050
sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk

  • SATSU administrator
  • SPS administrator

Dr Oliver Smith
Teaching Fellow
01904 323045
ojs500@york.ac.uk

  • Late License: Contemporary Adulthood and the Night Time Leisure Economy
Alison Taylor 
Tel: 01904 323044
alison.taylor@york.ac.uk or
sociology-pg@york.ac.uk
  • Graduate administrator
Mark Taylor
Tel: 01904 32XXXX
mark.taylor@york.ac.uk
  • sociology of culture

Dr Merran Toerien ***
Research Fellow RCUK
01904 323061

  • Conversation analysis
  • Institutional discourse
  • Health professional-patient interaction
  • Feminism
  • Genders
  • Qualitative methodology
Amanda Waggett 
01904 323042
amanda.waggett@york.ac.uk
  • Undergraduate Administrator

Prof Andrew Webster ***
Professor, Director of SATSU
01904 324740

  • Sociology of science and technology
  • Science policy studies
  • Sociology of health innovations
  • Social dynamics of intellectual property

Dr Simon Winlow ***
Senior Lecturer
01904 323058

  • Critical criminology
  • Consumer culture
  • Identity
  • Working-class culture
  • Social change

Prof Robin Wooffitt ***
Professor
01904 323063

  • Conversation analysis
  • Discourse
  • Anomalous/exceptional experiences
  • Parapsychology