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LMB/157B
Research interests:
- Marriage and kinship
- Everyday practices of intimacy and care
- Gendered dimensions of urban poverty and precarity
- Materiality and emotional dimensions of intimate relations and domestic violence
Research interests:
- Violence, representation and gender
- Sociology of medicine
- Political Sociology
Research interests:
- Contemporary women’s writing and performance
- 20th to 21st century literary multilingualism and translation, including Irish...
- Global and postcolonial studies
- Cross-disciplinary theories of embodiment
Research interests:
- Contemporary Feminism
- Gender and Migration
- Gender Based Violence
- Feminist Pedagogies
- Girls' rights
Research interests:
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of gender, feminist theories
- Sociology of professions and occupations
- sociological theory
- sociological of childbirth
Research interests:
- Sociology of science and technology
- Sociology studies of outer space
- Sociology of science outreach and education
Dr Miranda Armstrong
Research interests:
- Black Cultural Archives
- Crime, Control and the State
- Archiving the Inner City
Dr Vanessa Armstrong
Research interests:
- Sociology of Veterinary Studies
- Archiving the Inner City
Research interests:
- Contemporary Witchcraft Practice
- Sociology of Religion
- Social Anthropology
- Gender Studies
Research interests:
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of disability
- Health inequalities
LMB/235
Research interests:
- Social Theory
- Cultural Sociology
- Sociology of Intellectual Interventions
Research interests:
- Mobile Digital Technologies and Locative Media Platforms
- Mobilities, Urban Economies and Touristic Development
- Algorithmic Governance, Affects and Inequalities
- ANT, Foucauldian and New Materialist Feminist Theories
- Qualitative, Ethnographic, Walking and Digital Methods
Research interests:
- Digital Media and Communication
- Gender and Sexuality
- Migration, Diaspora and Borders
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Sociology of Time and Temporalities
Research interests:
- Culture
- Media and New Media
- Social and Cultural theory
- Digital methods
Research interests:
- Politics of expertise concerning reproductive and other new life science technologies
- The construction of human/non-human boundaries
- The sociological study of the healthcare profession
- Feminist theory
Research interests:
- Migration
- Asylum-seeking
- State
- Racism
- Violence
Research interests:
- Terrorism and gender
- Violence, representation and gender
- Violence, subjectivity and affect/emotion
- The field of perpetrator studies.
- History of feminisms, particularly German feminisms
Research interests:
- Sociology of mental health
- Qualitative methods
- Microsociology
- Historical sociology
Research interests:
- 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
Research interests:
- Culture and cultural change
- Sociology of religion
- Action theory
Research interests:
- Social and cultural history of consumption
- Gambling
- Sociological studies of domestic life and experiences
Research interests:
- 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:
- Gender, sexuality and identity
- Disability
- Youth Transitions
- Narrative
- Creative methods
Research interests:
- Multispecies medicine
- End of life care
- Ethical considerations
- Science, health and animal welfare
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
LMB/205
Research interests:
- Law, human rights and social control
- Gender, sexualities and crime
- Sociology of law and human rights
- Feminist and queer jurisprudence
Emi Frane
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:
- Freelance artist
- Producer
- Trained funeral celebrant
Research interests:
- Digital sexual violence
- Digital identities and interactions
- Gender and sexual violence
- Sexualisation of culture
Research interests:
- Black feminist theory
- Parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, families
- Assisted reproductive technologies and their intersection with race
- Neoliberalism and coloniality
- Black feminist research methodologies
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Research interests:
- Conversation analysis
- Broadcast talk
- Humour and laughter interaction
Research interests:
- 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
Research interests:
- Memory
- Social media
- Data and machine learning
- 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
LMB/239
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:
- New genetics
- Reproduction
- Development and ageing
Research interests:
- Social equalities and social identities, particularly class, gender and generation
- Theoretical work of Bourdieu and Goffman
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:
- Architectural theory
- Cultural Geography
- Social and cultural theory
- Urban Studies
Research interests:
- Migration
- Residential segregation
- Race/ethnicity and discrimination using quantitative methods
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:
- 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
Phoebe Murphy
Research interests:
- Transgender Rights and Issues
- LGBTQ+ Rights and Issues
- Queer and Feminist Theory
Research interests:
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of the body
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 culture heritage
Research interests:
- Environmental Sociology
- Democratisation
- Social Movements
- Political Leadership
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:
- 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:
- 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
- The Body
- Death
- Health and Illness
Research interests:
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)
- Prisons and penology
Research interests:
- Ocean Science and Surveillance
- Science and Technology Studies
- History of Science and Technology
- Science Diplomacy
- Science and Faith
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:
- The history and memory of the Second World War in...
- National identity and belonging in France
- Oral history theory and practice
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
Steven Spencer
Research interests:
- Supporting PGTs in the Department
Research interests:
- Quantitative research methods
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Social stratification
- Sociology of education
Research interests:
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of morality, ethics, and cultural values
- Education, religion, and citizenship
- Non-religion, secularity, and secularism
- Sociology of childhood
Research interests:
- Science and Technology Studies
- Sociology of the Future
- Sociology of Health and Illness
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
Xiaohang Chen
Research interests:
- Gender, sexuality and identity
- Familism and confucianism
- Sociology of bodies, migration, ethnography
Yujie Xu
Research interests:
- Gender, sexuality and identity
- Social media
- LGBTQ+ Rights and Queer Theory
Xiaoyu Zhang
Research interests:
- Feminism, consumerism, and media
- Digital Captilism