Current research students

Here you can find out about the current activities of research graduates in the Department of Sociology.

Profile & Contact
Area of research
Geraldine Bengsch

gb675@york.ac.uk
Communication Studies
  • Intercultural politeness and the perception of service quality
Naile Berberoglu

nb521@york.ac.uk
  • Commodification of childhood through media institutions and content
Alexandra Black

acb528@york.ac.uk
  • Insecurity, Marginality and Control in the Post-Industrial City
Jerry Booth

jb1013@york.ac.uk
  • Outcomes influencing the training of tomorrows doctors
Kate Burdis

kb722@york.ac.uk

  • Fraudulent Investment Schemes: Criminal Motivations and Cultural Contexts
Paul Chappell

pjc502@york.ac.uk
  • Modelling food and eating over the life course and across space: A longitudinal and spatial analysis of the 1970 British birth Cohort Study
Hoi Lun Chu

hc728@york.ac.uk

Communication Studies
  • Conversation Analysis in Social Interaction

Ryan Davison

rd592@york.ac.uk
  • Consuming the Football Dream: an ethnographic account of local football and its interaction with the spectacle of the Premier League

Richard Dixon 

rpfd500@york.ac.uk
  • An ethnological study exploting factors that influence the criminal careers and identities of heroin addicts
Triona Fitton

tf516@york.ac.uk
  • Prosuming Charity: Benevolence and capitalism in the contemporary charity shop
Madeleine Frost

mgbf100@york.ac.uk
  • The manifestation of the relationship between man and machine in popular cinema
Graham Geddes

geg503@york.ac.uk
  • Security, diversity and locality: Community perceptions of crime, disorder and terrow within everyday urbanism
Beverley Geesin

bg515@york.ac.uk
  • Resistance to surveillance in the workplace
Rachael Hayward

rjh539@york.ac.uk
  • Social interaction in paranormal research groups
Zeyi He

zh509@york.ac.uk
  • 'Cyber Society'
David Hill

dwh501@york.ac.uk
  • Ethics, New Media and Social Theory: Towards a Posthumanism of the Other
Abbi Hobbs

adh501@york.ac.uk
  • Reconstructing drug addiction: the development of vaccines for drug addiction
Mark Horsley

mah505@york.ac.uk
  • The Debt Crisis: What Next?
Isaac Hughes

ijh500@york.ac.uk
  • Sociological Analysis of Communications from (purported) Non-Human Entities
Clare Jackson (formerly Stockill)

cts500@york.ac.uk
  • How gender and sexuality are produced and resisted in talk-in-interaction
Kimberly Jamie

kj518@york.ac.uk
  • Pharmacogenetic technology (PGx) and its relationship with, and potential impacts upon, the pharmacy profession in England
Danielle Jones

dkj101@york.ac.uk
  • Family Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient: A Conversation Analytic Study
Mark Johnson

mrj503@york.ac.uk
  • development, maintenance and organisation of global space programs from a sociological perspective
Daryl Martin

dm24@york.ac.uk
  • The practice of everyday life along the M62: in-between the space of flows and the space of places
Kenneth Leach

kcl505@york.ac.uk
  • Towards a Sociology of Subjective Well Being
Daniel Merriman

drm500@york.ac.uk
  • Silver Cities: the ageing population of the urban north
Sarah Metcalfe

sm546@york.ac.uk
  • Emotional Labour, Therapeutic and Ethical Complexities of Mediumship and Psychic Consultations
Jennifer Reynolds

jmr522@york.ac.uk
  • Sex Trafficking and its implications of masculinity
Catherine Robson

cmc18@york.ac.uk
Communication Studies
  • Conversation Analysis in epilepsy encounters: third party references and accompanying others. The PhD is a joint collaboration between The University of York, the University of Sheffield and is funded by Epilepsy Action
Tom Rodgers

tar500@york.ac.uk
  • Towards a Political Economy of ‘Digital Cultural Production’: Labour-value, Commodification, and Monetised Markets in Online Games and Virtual Worlds
Tamlyn Ryan

tr519@york.ac.uk
  • Cyber Psychics: Individual experience of psychic readings on the internet
John Saddington

js230@york.ac.uk
  • On screen suicide of male film characters
Melahat Sahin-Dikmen

msd507@york.ac.uk
  • the nature of professional work and dynamics of professional employment
Nermeen Sayed

nsh503@york.ac.uk
  • Communication Studies. The social Impact of Using Internet Forums:Online Self Presentation Among Egyptian Youth
Matthew Sparkes

ms923@york.ac.uk
  • The structures of mobility: a study on the contemporary nature of social mobility, revealed through a dynamic interaction of social, economic, cultural and spatial class factors

Matt Spokes

ms583@york.ac.uk
  • The Contemporary Avant-Garde: Identity, Cartography, Technology and Resistance
Sara Stephenson

sas503@york.ac.uk
  • Ethnography of a Working Kitchen
Jenny Underhill

jau500@york.ac.uk
  • The relationship between class and achievement in education
Semire Yekta

sy657@york.ac.uk
  • Corporate Crime: Perception and effects of offences against consumers in contemporary societies