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Lecturer

Discipline: Centre for Women's Studies

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

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Violence, representation and gender
  • Sociology of medicine
  • Political Sociology

Director of Centre for Women's Studies

Discipline: Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Contemporary Feminism
  • Gender and Migration
  • Gender Based Violence
  • Feminist Pedagogies
  • Girls' rights

Professor Emeritus

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • gender
  • feminism and health
  • health inequalities
  • childbirth
  • the professions and organisation of health
    care

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of science and technology
  • Sociology studies of outer space
  • Sociology of science outreach and education

Dr Miranda Armstrong

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Black Cultural Archives
  • Crime, Control and the State
  • Archiving the Inner City

Dr Vanessa Armstrong

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of Veterinary Studies
  • Archiving the Inner City

Postgraduate researcher

Graduate teaching assistant (GTA)

Research interests:

  • Contemporary Witchcraft Practice
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Social Anthropology
  • Gender Studies

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

Susan Baker

Postgraduate researcher

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Social Theory
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Sociology of Intellectual Interventions

Lecturer

Programme Lead for MA/MSc Social Media Programmes

Discipline: Sociology

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

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Digital Media and Communication
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Migration, Diaspora and Borders
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Sociology of Time and Temporalities

Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Culture
  • Media and New Media
  • Social and Cultural theory
  • Digital methods

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Sociology

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

Programme Lead Sociology with Criminology

Staff Race Equality Forum Steering Group Committee Member (SREF)

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Migration
  • Asylum-seeking
  • State
  • Racism
  • Violence

Sarah Blakeman

Staff Administrator

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

Senior Lecturer

Examinations Officer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of mental health
  • Qualitative methods
  • Microsociology
  • Historical sociology

Professor

Head of Department

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Natalie Browne

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Jennifer Brunner

Postgraduate researcher

Valerie Burfield

Student Services Administrator (UG)

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

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Memory and memorialisation
  • Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt
  • Holocaust denial
  • Architecture and prisons
  • The history of crime and punishment, death and sequestration

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Embodiment
  • Ageing
  • Dementia
  • Material culture and technology

Matthew Butler

Postgraduate researcher

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Culture and cultural change
  • Sociology of religion
  • Action theory

Reader

Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning

Deputy Head of Department

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Domestic
  • Gender
  • Class
  • Gambling
  • Consumption

Ange Chapman

Student Services Coordinator (Engagement)

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

Senior Research Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Global health
  • Genetic disorders
  • Reproductive technologies
  • Race, ethnicity and citizenship
  • Ethnographic and biographical methods

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • AI, Algorithms & Digital Society
  • Futures, Narratives & Imaginaries
  • Ethics & Responsible Innovation
  • Science & Technology Studies (STS)
  • Science Communication & Policy

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Gender, sexuality and identity
  • Disability
  • Youth Transitions
  • Narrative
  • Creative methods

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research Associate

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of Space
  • Music Cultures
  • Media Studies
  • Cultural Criminology

Austin Cooper

Postgraduate researcher

Sarah Couttie-Cunningham

Staff Administration Manager

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

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Helen Cozens

Student Services Administrator (PGR)

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

Matthew Crossland

Staff Administration Coordinator

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

Honorary Visiting Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Multispecies medicine
  • End of life care
  • Ethical considerations
  • Science, health and animal welfare

Lecturer

Admissions Lead

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Gender, sexuality and identity
  • Digital media and sociality

Sheila Davitt

Research Facilitator

Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE)

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Dementia
  • Intimacy
  • Secrecy
  • Relational citizenship
  • Creative methods

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • British motorcycle racing
  • Sociology of the motorcycle
  • Visual and media sociology
  • Cultural heritage and cultural production

Jelena Erstic

Staff Administrator

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

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Law, human rights and social control
  • Gender, sexualities and crime
  • Sociology of law and human rights
  • Feminist and queer jurisprudence

Levi Farrington

Postgraduate researcher

Emi Frane

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Sociology of Chronic Illness
  • Sociology of Disability
  • Feminist Methodologies

Madelaine French

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Social Movement Studies
  • The sociology of the climate and ecological emergency
  • Transnational protest
  • Anti-racism
  • Contentious politics

Honorary Visiting Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Freelance artist
  • Producer
  • Trained funeral celebrant

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Digital sexual violence
  • Digital identities and interactions
  • Gender and sexual violence
  • Sexualisation of culture

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Black feminist theory
  • Parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, families
  • Assisted reproductive technologies and their intersection with race
  • Neoliberalism and coloniality
  • Black feminist research methodologies

Victoria Hill

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

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

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Honorary Visiting Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Conversation analysis
  • Broadcast talk
  • Humour and laughter interaction

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Honorary Professor

Research interests:

  • Child counselling and family psychotherapy
  • Media talk and political communication
  • Conflict talk
  • Communication and technology

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Conversation analysis
  • Healthcare interactions
  • Pregnancy and birth
  • Gender

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Feminist theory
  • Theories of gender and sexuality
  • Women's and family relationships
  • Sociology of childhood

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Memory
  • Social media
  • Data and machine learning
  • Social Theory

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Health and wellbeing
  • Traditional wisdoms and ancient pedagogies
  • International humanitarian affairs and global governance
  • Colonialism, disasters, and uneven development
  • Intersectional racism

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Oscar Johnston

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

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

Amy Kandola

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Non-heteronormative and queer sex work
  • Sex work and technologies
  • Researching academics
  • Sex work and health
  • Co-creation and participatory methods

Research Associate

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Conversation Analysis
  • Healthcare Interactions, with a Focus on Decision-Making
  • Labour and Childbirth
  • Palliative Care
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Feminism

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • New genetics
  • Reproduction
  • Development and ageing

Emeritus Reader

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Social equalities and social identities, particularly class, gender and generation
  • Theoretical work of Bourdieu and Goffman

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Youth Climate Activism
  • Social Movements
  • Consumptive practices
  • Collapsology and Imagined Futures
  • Political Sociology

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Religion and non-religion
  • Ageing and the life-course
  • Inter-generational research
  • End of Life
  • Citizenship and belonging

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Danielle Maxwell

Student Services Administrator (PGR)

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

Sarah Maynard

Head of Faculty Operations

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

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

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

Reader

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Race, heritage and feminism in African diasporic communities
  • Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora
  • African Francophone Literature

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Digital technologies, gender and sexuality
  • Social media and LGBTQ+
  • Queer theory, and post-phenomenology

Phoebe Murphy

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Transgender Rights and Issues
  • LGBTQ+ Rights and Issues
  • Queer and Feminist Theory

Research Associate

Professor Emeritus

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Sociology of embodiment

Research Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Disability and health
  • Mental and physical multi-morbidity
  • Involvement of people with lived experience in research

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Lecturer

Director of Postgraduate Learning and Teaching

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Environmental Sociology
  • Democratisation
  • Social Movements
  • Political Leadership

Theano Pavlidou

Staff Administrator

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

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)

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Feminist and intersectional theory
  • Racial capitalism
  • Sexual violence

Rose Pickford

Postgraduate researcher

Links Pollen

Student Services Administrator, Engagement & Wellbeing

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

Sophie Powell

Student Services Administrator (UG)

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

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Space policy
  • Space based technological systems

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Science and Technology Studies (STS) Scholar

Discipline: Sociology

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

Sophie Rainbow

Postgraduate researcher

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Health, urban transport and intelligent communication systems
  • Social informatics

Professor

Discipline: Sociology

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

Genevieve Reeves

Postgraduate researcher

Michael Regan

Teaching Allocation and Workload Administrator

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

Paria Rezayi

Postgraduate researcher

Stephanie Richards

Postgraduate researcher

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • The Body
  • Death
  • Health and Illness

Senior Lecturer

Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Group Chair

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)
  • Prisons and penology

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Voting behaviour
  • Political socialization
  • Emotions
  • Social identities 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Ocean Science and Surveillance
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • History of Science and Technology
  • Science Diplomacy
  • Science and Faith

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • Fashion and footwear cultures
  • Men and masculinities
  • Heterosexualities
  • Risk sports
  • Feminist sociology of the everyday

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
  • Scientific Dissemination
  • Science Policy and Governance
  • Organisational Theory
  • Science and Technology Studies

Lead Academic and Communication Skills Advisor for PG Sociology

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Interdisciplinarity in course development
  • Educational inequalities
  • Quality assessment within the HE sector
  • Teacher education and training
  • (Online) course design

Asma Saidani

Postgraduate researcher

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociological theory
  • Sociology of philosophy
  • Postmodern social thought
  • Contemporary European philosophy and social theory
  • Reflexive social science

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research Associate

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • The history and memory of the Second World War in...
  • National identity and belonging in France
  • Oral history theory and practice

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Religion and Childhood
  • Morality, ethics and values
  • Religion and media
  • Nonreligion and secularity

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Racism and ethnicity studies
  • De/post-coloniality
  • Migration and disporia
  • Sikh studies
  • Islamophobia and the war on terror

Steven Spencer

Associate Lecturer

DACS Academic Skills Advisor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Supporting PGTs in the Department

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Louise Stokes

Student Administration Manager

UG Disability & Welfare Officer

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

Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Quantitative research methods
  • Longitudinal data analysis
  • Social stratification
  • Sociology of education

Reader

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of religion
  • Sociology of morality, ethics, and cultural values
  • Education, religion, and citizenship
  • Non-religion, secularity, and secularism
  • Sociology of childhood

Yuqi Sun

Postgraduate researcher

Heather Taylor

Student Services Coordinator (PGT)

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

Mike Turner

Student Services Coordinator (UG)

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

Professor

Learning and Teaching Committee Chair

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Sociology of the Future
  • Sociology of Health and Illness

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Katie Walton

Student Services Manager

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

Luping Wang

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Alice Wilson

Postgraduate researcher

Honorary Visiting Fellow

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 

Laura Wood

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

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

Professor Emeritus

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Language and social interaction
  • The relationship between language and anomalous experience
  • Reports of mental states in social interaction

Xiaohang Chen

Postgraduate Reserach Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Gender, sexuality and identity
  • Familism and confucianism
  • Sociology of bodies, migration, ethnography

Yujie Xu

Postgraduate Reserach Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Gender, sexuality and identity
  • Social media
  • LGBTQ+ Rights and Queer Theory

Qian Zhang

Postgraduate researcher

Xiaoyu Zhang

Postgraduate Research Student

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Feminism, consumerism, and media
  • Digital Captilism