Our people

Research interests:

• Kinship, marriage, intimate relations
• Home, Homemaking, and Belonging
• Moral Personhood, Moral Emotions
• Gendered dimension of urban regeneration and social housing

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• Violence, representation and gender
• Sociology of medicine
• Political Sociology

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• Contemporary Feminism
• Gender and Migration
• Gender Based Violence
• Feminist Pedagogies
• Girls' rights

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• gender
• feminism and health
• health inequalities
• childbirth
• the professions and organisation of health
  care

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• Sociology of science and technology
• Sociology studies of outer space
• Sociology of science outreach and education

Research interests:

• Black Cultural Archives
• Crime, Control and the State
• Archiving the Inner City

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• Contemporary Witchcraft Practice
• Sociology of Religion
• Social Anthropology
• Gender Studies

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• Sociology of Veterinary Studies
• Archiving the Inner City

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• Sociology of health and illness
• Sociology of disability
• Health inequalities

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• Social Theory
• Cultural Sociology
• Sociology of Intellectual Interventions

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• Mobilities, Cities, and Tourism
• Cultural Scenes, Markets and Economies
• Mobile Devices, Social Media, and Locative Platforms
• Algorithmic Governance, Affects, and Inequalities
• Qualitative and Creative Methodologies

Research interests:

• Digital Media and Communication
• Migration, Borders and Diaspora
• Gender and Sexuality
• Ethnography
• Temporality 

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• Culture and digital culture
• Media
• Social and cultural theory
• Data, metrics and algorithms
• Social power

Research interests:

• Drug Use
• Visual Research Methods
• Cultural Criminology
• Ethnography
• Crime and Media

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• Sociology of reproduction
• Pregnant and post-pregnant embodiment
• Time and temporalities
• Feminist Science and Technology Studies
• Medical Sociology

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• Migration
• Asylum-seeking
• State
• Racism
• Violence

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• Critical mental health
• Historical sociology
• Trauma
• Suicide & suicide prevention
• Sociological perspectives to mental disorders

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

Research interests:

• Memory and memorialisation
• Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt
• Holocaust denial
• Architecture and prisons
• The history of crime and punishment, death and sequestration

Research interests:

• Embodiment
• Ageing
• Dementia
• Material culture and technology

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• Culture and cultural change
• Sociology of religion
• Action theory

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• Housework
• Gender
• Social Media
• Consumption
• Class

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• Global health
• Genetic disorders
• Reproductive technologies
• Race, ethnicity and citizenship
• Ethnographic and biographical methods

Research interests:

• AI, Algorithms & Digital Society
• Futures, Narratives & Imaginaries
• Ethics & Responsible Innovation
• Science & Technology Studies (STS)
• Science Communication & Policy

Research interests:

• Disability
• Sexuality and Gender
• Creative and Co-creation Methods
• Young Adulthood
• Qualitative Research

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• Sociology of Space
• Music Cultures
• Media Studies
• Cultural Criminology

Research interests:

• Gender, sexuality and identity
• Digital media and sociality

Research interests:

• Dementia
• Intimacy
• Secrecy
• Relational citizenship
• Creative methods

Research interests:

• British motorcycle racing
• Sociology of the motorcycle
• Visual and media sociology
• Cultural heritage and cultural production

Research interests:

• Law, human rights and social control
• Gender, sexualities and crime
• Sociology of law and human rights
• Feminist and queer jurisprudence

Research interests:

• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Sociology of Chronic Illness
• Sociology of Disability
• Feminist Methodologies

Research interests:

• Social Movement Studies
• The sociology of the climate and ecological emergency
• Transnational protest
• Anti-racism
• Contentious politics

Research interests:

• Pets sociology
• Cultural Sociology
• Cultural consumption
• Social media

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• Digital sexual violence
• Digital identities and interactions
• Gender and sexual violence
• Sexualisation of culture

Research interests:

• Black feminist theory
• Parenting and families
• Assisted reproductive technologies and their intersection with race
• Neoliberalism and coloniality
• Black feminist research methodologies

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• Gender & Sexuality
• Chinese Hanfu Culture
• Fandom

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• Child counselling and family psychotherapy
• Media talk and political communication
• Conflict talk
• Communication and technology

Research interests:

• Conversation analysis
• Healthcare interactions
• Pregnancy and birth
• Gender

Research interests:

• Feminist theory
• Theories of gender and sexuality
• Women's and family relationships
• Sociology of childhood

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• Sexuality, gender and identity
• Faith and religion
• Health and illness
• Narrative research 

Research interests:

• Ethics of AI
• Data and Algorithms
• Social Media and Platforms
• Memory
• Social Theory

Research interests:

• Health and wellbeing
• Traditional wisdoms and ancient pedagogies
• International humanitarian affairs and global governance
• Colonialism, disasters, and uneven development
• Intersectional racism

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• Feminist crafts and arts activism
• Digital cultures
• Human/non-human relationships
• Religion
• Creative methodologies

Research interests:

• Cultural Change and Reproduction
• Politics of Difference, Recognition and Tolerance
• Sociology of Religion and Nonreligion
• Morality, Ethics and Values
• Ethnographic and Archival Methods

Research interests:

• Non-heteronormative and queer sex work
• Sex work and technologies
• Researching academics
• Sex work and health
• Co-creation and participatory methods

Research interests:

• Ageing
• Dementia
• Medical sociology
• Biomedicine
• More-than-human world-making

Research interests:

• Social equalities and social identities, particularly class, gender and generation
• Theoretical work of Bourdieu and Goffman

Research interests:

• Cancer and health inequalities
• Medical sociology
• Feminist and intersectional approaches
• Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
• Community work, stakeholder engagement and creative communication

Research interests:

• Youth Climate Activism
• Social Movements
• Consumptive practices
• Collapsology and Imagined Futures
• Political Sociology

Research interests:

• Religion and non-religion
• Ageing and the life-course
• Inter-generational research
• End of Life
• Citizenship and belonging

Research interests:

• Research Methods and Research Design
• Modern and Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
• Ageing and the Lifecourse

Research interests:

• Urban Studies
• Urban Cultures
• Race, Racism and Migration
• Memory and the City

Research interests:

• Archiving the Inner City Leverhulme Funded Project
• Role of history in cultural memory
• Anthropology of education
• Islam, blackness, and ethnic identity
• Muslim American youth

Research interests:

• Race, heritage and feminism in African diasporic communities
• Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora
• African Francophone Literature

Research interests:

• Digital technologies, gender and sexuality
• Social media and LGBTQ+
• Queer theory, and post-phenomenology

Research interests:

• Transgender Rights and Issues
• LGBTQ+ Rights and Issues
• Queer and Feminist Theory

Research interests:

• Gender
• Consumption
• The Wellness Industry
• Digital Media

Research interests:

• Sociology of health and illness
• Sociology of embodiment

Research interests:

• Disability and health
• Mental and physical multi-morbidity
• Involvement of people with lived experience in research

Research interests:

• Gender, identity and femininities
• Consumption and non-consumption
• Alcohol, sobriety and the Night Time Economy
• Veganism and plant-based consumption

Research interests:

• Culture
• Music consumption
• Digital technologies
• Materiality
• Popular music heritage

Research interests:

• Environmental Sociology
• Democratisation
• Social Movements
• Political Leadership

Research interests:

• Algorithmic technologies
• Miscarriage and pregnancy loss
• Biopolitical theory
• The 'social imaginary'

Research interests:

• Death Studies
• Popular Culture and Celebrity
• Cultural Criminology
• Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)

Research interests:

• Feminist and intersectional theory
• Racial capitalism
• Sexual violence

Research interests:

• Migration
• Asylum
• Human and Refugee Rights
• (De)coloniality
• Lived Religion

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• Space policy
• Space based technological systems

Research interests:

• History of science and religion
• British Imperialism in the long nineteenth century
• Science and colonialism
• South Asian studies
• Relationship of science and Islam

Research interests:

• Black American Literature
• Narrative Temporality
• Urban Studies (specifically relating to Harlem, New York)
• The Sociology of Race
• Contemporary Literature

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

• History of science/Sociology of Science
• Human/Animal relationships
• Science and faith
• Science Fiction/History of the Future
• History of prehistory/field sciences

Research interests:

• Science and Technology Studies
• Death
• Health and Illness
• Environment
• Social and Criminological Theory

Research interests:

• Prisons and penology
• Identity in Teaching and Learning
• Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Research interests:

• Ocean Science and Surveillance
• Science and Technology Studies
• History of Science and Technology
• Science Diplomacy
• Science and Faith

Research interests:

• Lived experience of gambling harms

Research interests:

• Fashion and footwear cultures
• Men and masculinities
• Heterosexualities
• Risk sports
• Feminist sociology of the everyday

Research interests:

• Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
• Scientific Dissemination
• Science Policy and Governance
• Organisational Theory
• Science and Technology Studies

Research interests:

• Interdisciplinarity in course development
• Educational inequalities
• Quality assessment within the HE sector
• Teacher education and training
• (Online) course design

Research interests:

• Sociological theory
• Sociology of philosophy
• Postmodern social thought
• Contemporary European philosophy and social theory
• Reflexive social science

Research interests:

• Political causes of, and responses to, climate and other environmental changes
• International Relations theory
• Conflict, peacebuilding and development
• Middle East politics

Research interests:

• The history and memory of the Second World War in...
• National identity and belonging in France
• Oral history theory and practice

Research interests:

• Gender, sexuality and identity
• Health inequality
• Assisted reproductive technologies
• Family formation
• Intersectionality 

Research interests:

• Religion and Childhood
• Morality, ethics and values
• Religion and media
• Nonreligion and secularity

Research interests:

• Racism and ethnicity studies
• De/post-coloniality
• Migration and disporia
• Sikh studies
• Islamophobia and the war on terror

Research interests:

• Quantitative research methods
• Longitudinal data analysis
• Social stratification
• Sociology of education

Research interests:

• Morality, ethics, and values in everyday social life
• Religious and cultural change
• Meaning-making in contemporary western societies
• Nonreligion, atheism, humanism, and non-traditional worldviews

Research interests:

• Gender and Sexuality 
• Feminism(s)
• Digital Worlds and Communities
• Ethnography 

Research interests:

• Sociology of Futures
• Science and Technology Studies
• Social Studies of Outer Space

Research interests:

• Gender diversity;
• Policy development in the UK voluntary sector;
• Feminist and queer methodologies;
• Lived experiences of inclusion and exclusion.

Research interests:

• Body image, body dissatisfaction and body weight perception
• Social media use (upward social comparison and self-presentation on social media)
• Health behaviours in adolescence and childhood
• Social inequality in mental health
• Eating and dieting in adolescence
• Physical activity
• Self-efficacy 

Research interests:

• Language and social interaction
• The relationship between language and anomalous experience
• Reports of mental states in social interaction

Research interests:

• Gender, sexuality and identity
• Familism and confucianism
• Sociology of bodies, migration, ethnography

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• Gender, sexuality and identity
• Social media
• LGBTQ+ Rights and Queer Theory

Research interests:

• Chinese feminism
• Online gaming
• Identity
• Gender performance
• Gender interaction

Research interests:

• Conversation Analysis
• Medical interaction
• Interactional linguistics

Research interests:

• Feminism, consumerism, and media
• Digital Captilism