Nurul Abd Rehman

• Life on the grid: social media

Hanan M. Alsuraihi

• Family Problems, Women's issues, Youth Problems and Social Media

hmsa502@york.ac.uk

Victor Avila Torres

• Technologies of Music Consumption, Musical Experience in the Everyday Life, Sociology of Technology, Cultural Sociology, Media Studies

Christy Beem

•  Care Leavers and Retention and Achievement in Higher Education

Raven Bowen

•  Examining concurrent participation in off-street sex work and square work

Pin-Yao Chiu

• Tourism studies, Social class, Social media and Neoliberalism 

Hyangmi Choi

• Communication studies
• Cultural differences in the relationships between audience responses and the use of verbal and nonverbal devices in political speeches

• UK based analog gaming communities
• Communitas and play as methods of fostering community
• Ritual studies, secular ritual praxis and ritual’s interaction with popular culture
• Contemporary religions and spiritualities and the theoretical frameworks through which they are studied

Morgane Donse

• LGBT equality
• International relations
• Decriminalisation of homosexuality
• Decision-making process in government

Longwen (Jason) Fu (Visiting)

• Making Residents: Professional Socialization and the Challenges of Standardized Residency Training in China

lf956@york.ac.uk

Anna Gkiouleka

• Integrating intersectionality theory in health inequalities research

• Public Art Projects: For Addressing Critical Concerns of Urban Space and Ecology

Ruchi Higham

• Clinical trials and the challenge of regenerative medicine

Amy Louise Holmes

• Heritage, identity and ‘authentic’ cultural formations in the city

Christine Jackson-Taylor

• Personal narratives of religious LGBTQ women

cat536@york.ac.uk

Benjamin N. Jacobsen

• The intersection between memory and algorithms

Kenneth Leach

• Governmentality of wellbeing and happiness studies in the United Kingdom

Kun Li

• Cultural gerontology, ageing and intimacy, gender study and social identity

Alex Lewington

• Researching the communication and interpretation of transcultural themes of identity, otherness and race in English-language translations of shonen manga in the United Kingdom.

Peggy Lockwood-Lord

• Cultural Criminology / Counterculture
• Transgression studies
• 'Queer Carnivalesque' / 'Folk' culture
• Groteskology

• Sexual and gender-based violence against refugee women: A salient characteristic in the Mediterranean refugee crisis

• The gendered presentation of death and dying in contemporary comic books

• The use and produciton of capital (social, cultural and symbolic) by professional photoraphers in the documentary genre

• Gender identities (in farming and rural life) and human-animal relations (livestock, pet-keeping and identity work)

My research interests are broadly:

• Death
• Crime
• Health
• Technology

Carol Robinson

• Criminology, especially prisons and issues around deaths of prisoners from natural causes

Rachele Salvatelli

• Analysing the birth and development of resistance between sociology of the body and theory of recognition. An exploration of the body positive movement

Sanaullah

• Sociological Analysis of the War on Terror

• Critical data studies, data visualisation, public engagement through creative practice

mjs584@york.ac.uk

Rosie Smith

• Classical and contemporary social theory and its applications to crime, culture, and media 

• Interpretation of Contemporary Islam from Queer Theological Perspective

ddug500@york.ac.uk

• Gender studies, women's experience and identity

wq557@york.ac.uk

• Uneven flow of cultural circulation: A sociological study of book translation from Chinese to English (since the 1980s)
• Sociology of translation
• Circulation of culture
• Language and power relations
• Cultural world-system

jw2680@york.ac.uk

Manli Zhu

• Visual Culture
• Food, Food Photography, Photography on Social Media
• Digital Culture, Popular Culture, Consumer Culture