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Departmental Management Team

The Departmental Management Team (DMT) supports the Head of Department (HoD) in the development and implementation of the overall strategic, academic and financial plans of the department. 

DMT maintains an overview of the Department’s key areas of activity and makes decisions to ensure that the department operates effectively and succeeds in its strategic goals, securing the ongoing financial sustainability of the department.

Professor Nik Brown

Professor

Head of Department

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Dr Emma Casey

Reader

Deputy Head of Department for Workload and Staffing

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Housework
  • Gender
  • Social Media
  • Consumption
  • Class

Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Professor

Deputy Head of Department for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Professor Karl Atkin

Professor

Director of REF

Chair of Research Committee

Director of Research

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Dr Sian Beynon-Jones

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Sarah Couttie-Cunningham

Staff Administration Manager

York Law School and Department of Sociology

Dr James Cummings

Lecturer

Admissions Lead

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Gender, sexuality and identity
  • Digital media and sociality

Sarah Maynard

Head of Faculty Operations

Dr Gareth Millington

Reader

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Dr Emily Nicholls

Senior Lecturer

Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Dr Raphaël Nowak

Lecturer

Director of Postgraduate Learning and Teaching

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Katie Walton

Student Services Manager

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies