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Current postgraduate research students

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

Student Area of research Contact
Alankrita Anand
  • Sociology of health
  • Reproductive justice
  • Feminism and agency
  • Participatory feminist research
aa2408@york.ac.uk 
Emma Collins
  • Disability studies
  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Sociology of diagnosis
  • Long-term impairment and disability in adults
  • Narrative methodology
ec1193@york.ac.uk 
Matt Coward-Gibbs
  • Gamers and gaming
  • Leisure and recreation
  • Rituals interaction with popular culture
  • Death and the undead, particularly monstrosity
  • Contemporary religions (Theravāda Buddhism, Haitian Vodou, East Asian Shamanism)
mc1473@york.ac.uk

Charlotte Dimond

  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Identity and inequalities
  • Disability studies
  • Children and young people
charlotte.dimond@york.ac.uk 

Adam Dinsmore

  • Elite Theory
  • Discourse Theory
  • Hegemony Theory
adam.dinsmore@york.ac.uk 

Morgane Donse

  • LGBT equality
  • International relations
  • Decriminalisation of homosexuality
  • Decision-making process in government
md1175@york.ac.uk

Yumeng Dou

  • Video games
  • Mobile games
  • Game culture
yd1216@york.ac.uk

Nicola Drew

  • British motorcycle racing
  • Motorcycle cultures
  • Elite theory
  • Visual sociology and anthropology
  • Cultural heritage

nld510@york.ac.uk

Madelaine French

  • Embodiment
  • Chronic illness
  • Gender identity
  • Endometriosis
  • Involuntary childlessness
mcff501@york.ac.uk 

Jade Gilbourne

  • Non-consensual sexual image sharing
  • Gender and sexual violence
  • Digital communications and identities

jcg531@york.ac.uk 

Dylan Goodacre-Hall

  • Online communities
  • Death and dying
  • Virtual spaces
  • Digital archiving 

dgh512@york.ac.uk 

Amy Louise Holmes

  • Community and belonging
  • Ephemeral/ temporary urban spaces
  • Marginalization
  • Lefebvre
  • Feminist urban research
amy.holmes@york.ac.uk

Xinzhe Hu

  • Reproduction
  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Technology
  • Family
xh1670@york.ac.uk 

Yumeng Jing

  • Social media politics 
  • Democracy
  • Populism culture 
  • Sense of political disenchantment among citizens
yj1436@york.ac.uk 

Peggy Lockwood-Lord

  • Cultural Criminology / Counterculture
  • Transgression studies
  • 'Queer Carnivalesque' / 'Folk' culture
  • Groteskology
pll506@york.ac.uk

Andrew Macdonald

  • Social movements
  • Climate crisis and other existential threats
  • Polycrises
  • Collapsology
  • Future Studies
  • Political Sociology
am1756@york.ac.uk  

Carlos Manzano

  • Post-Conflict Societies
  • Ethnic and Racial Identities
  • Language Negotiation
  • Intergroup Conflicts
  • Language Attitudes
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Neuroimaging Research Analysis
jeme500@york.ac.uk 

Haylie-Davina Mason

  • Urban Sociology
  • 'Moral Geography'
  • Spaces of female street-based sex work
  • Socio-cultural histories of 'red-light' districts
  • Productions and Reproductions of 'moral space'
  • Archival Research
  • Qualitative and Arts Based Methods
 
hm1351@york.ac.uk 

Pablo Molina Rossolino

  • Technology-society relationship
  • Queer theory
  • Sexual minorities
  • Digital intimacies

pm1029@york.ac.uk 

Sheila Pryce-Brooks
  • Sleep Paralysis
  • Mystical Experiences
  • Metaphysical and Paranormal Phenomena
  • Extraordinary Spiritual Experiences including Near Death Experiences and Dreams and Visitations from deceased loved ones 
  • Sociology of the paranormal
sapb502@york.ac.uk 
Rose Rickford
  • Grassroots community organisations
  • Conversation analysis
  • Ontology and research methodology
  • Feminism for women's liberation
remr500@york.ac.uk
Asma Saïdani
  • Ethnic, Religious and National identities
  • Post-colonial societies
  • Immigration 
afs534@york.ac.uk 

Anastasia Shaw

  • School architecture
  • Educational spaces
  • Educational pedagogy
akma500@york.ac.uk 

Catherine Stinton

  • Far-right extremism
  • Radicalisation of women
  • Racism and whiteness studies
  • Digital ethnographic methods 
catherine.stinton@york.ac.uk

Abril Rodriguez Vasquez

  • Scientific knowledge production
  • Knowledge dissemination
  • Transformation of academic work
  • Research and academic practices 
arv508@york.ac.uk 

Ruth Vassilas

  • Sociology of spirituality
  • Mystical or transcendental experiences
  • Navigating paradigm shifts
  • Spiritual awakenings
  • Transformative potential of psychedelics
  • Biofield energy experiences
  • Human flourishing & eudaimonia
ruth.vassilas@york.ac.uk
Mia Westrap
  • Sociology of the body
  • Neoliberalism and postfeminism
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Social movements
  • Qualitative research methods

 

mrw553@york.ac.uk

Alice Wilson
  • Urban Sociology
  • Self-build
  • Tiny Houses
aew579@york.ac.uk