Culture, Values and Practices

• Dr Owen Abbott
Sociology of morality, moral practice, personal life, and forgiveness.

• Dr Rikke Amundsen

Trust and technology; mediated intimacy; the sexual politics of digital cultures.

• Professor David Beer
Popular culture, new media cultures, cultural theory, digital methods.

• Dr Peter Gardner
Contentious politics (protest, revolt, revolution, civil war), postconflict societies, ethnic and racial studies, symbolic objects, environmental movements.

• Dr Steph Lawler
Social equalities and social identities (particularly class, gender and generation), theoretical work of Bourdieu and Goffman.

• Dr Daryl Martin
Architectural theory, cultural geography, social and cultural theory, urban sociology.

• Dr Haley Elizabeth McAvay
Citizenship, national identity, social/political attitudes.

• Dr Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt

Midlife to later-life transitions, digital ageing, knowledge & power, social imaginaries of ageing, lifecourse inequalities.

• Dr Gareth Millington
Urban sociology, race and racism and urban culture.

• Dr Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot

African and Francophone Studies, Christianity, literature and cultures.

• Dr Raphaël Nowak

Culture, Music consumption, Digital technologies, Materiality, Popular culture heritage

• Dr Tom O'Brien
Environmental sociology, democratisation, social movements and political leadership.

• Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Celebrity, media, death, crime.

• Dr Katy Sian
De/Postcolonialism, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Identity and Diaspora.

• Dr Anna Strhan
Sociology of religion, non-religion, morality ethics and values, evangelicalism, religion and parenting.

• Dr Frances Thirlway
Popular culture, cultural value, cultural participation, working-class street parade traditions, marching bands and majorettes in UK and Northern Europe.

• Victor Avila Torres
Digital media, culture, music consumption.

• Oznur Yardimci
Cities, gentrification, authoritarian urbanisation, and substantive citizenship.

• Matt Coward-Gibbs 

Gaming, rituals interaction with popular culture, religion, death and the undead.

• Graham Gill

Urban sustainability and Local Wealth Retention. 

Recent research projects of Graham's include:

Sustainability Executive Summary (MS Word , 48kb)

Managing the Entrepreneurial City (MS Word , 42kb)

• Dylan Goodacre-Hall

Online communities, death and dying, virtual spaces, digital archiving.

• Kasturi Hazarika

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

• Amy Holmes

Community and belonging, feminist urban research, marginalisation.

• Yumeng Jing

Social media politics, democracy, populism culture.

• Lyndsey Kramer 

Class and immigration studies, social theory.

See Lyndsey's paper of digital technology and virtual spaces below:

Digital Technology and Virtual Spaces (MS Word , 43kb)

• Peggy Lockwood-Lord

Cultural Criminology, trangression studies, Queer Carnivalesque' / 'Folk' culture, Groteskology.

• Andrew MacDonald

Political Sociology, social movements, climate crisis, future studies.

• Zainab Maqbool

Sociology of Religion, intersectional identities.

• Alice Masterson

Music sociology, Music and gender, Music and nostalgia, Music and mortality, Reception theory.

• Haylie-Davina Mason

Urban sociology, spaces of female street-based sex work.

• Ozge Onay

Migration and Diaspora, Islamophobia and War on Terror, Politics of Transnationalism, Multiculturalism.

• Kelly Richards D'Arcy Reed

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

• Abril Rodriguez Vasquez

Scientific knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Transformation of academic work.

• Anastasia Shaw

School architecture, Educational spaces, Educational pedagogy.

• Camila Toledo Orbeta

Emotional culture, Emotion work, Emotional methodologies, Latin American studies.

• Yehan Wang

Subcultural and music sociology study.

• Alice Wilson

Urban Sociology, Self-build, Tiny Houses.

• Jing Wu

Sociology of translation, Circulation of culture, Language and power relations, Cultural world-system.

• Manli Zhu

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