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
E mma 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
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
D ylan 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 Jin g	Social media politics Democracy Populism culture Sense of political disenchantment among citizens	yj1436@york.ac.uk
Lyndsey Kramer	Class and Immigration studies Social Theory Qualitative analysis with NVivo Quantitative analysis with SPSS	lyndsey.kramer@york.ac.uk
Peggy Lockwood-Lord	Cultural Criminology / Counterculture Transgression studies 'Queer Carnivalesque' / 'Folk' culture Groteskology	pll506@york.ac.uk
Andrew Macdonald	Political Sociology Social movements Climate crisis and other existential threats Agnotology [The sociology of ignorance] Sociology of media Future Studies	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
H aylie-Davina Maso n	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
Kelly Richards D'Arcy-Reed	The gendered presentation of death and dying in contemporary comic books	kdar500@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
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
Yinan Zhang	Family relationships Gender Identity	yz2752@york.ac.uk
Manli Zhu	Visual Culture Food, Food Photography, Photography on Social Media Digital Culture, Popular Culture, Consumer Culture	mz812@york.ac.uk