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Departmental Management Team

The Departmental Management Team (DMT) supports the Head of Department (HoD) in the development and implementation of the overall strategic, academic and financial plans of the department. 

DMT maintains an overview of the department’s key areas of activity and makes decisions to ensure that the department operates effectively and succeeds in its strategic goals, securing the ongoing financial sustainability of the department.

Head of Department

Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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

Deputy Head of Department for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Death Studies
  • Popular Culture and Celebrity
  • Cultural Criminology
  • Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)

Deputy Head of Department for Staffing and Workload

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Migration
  • Residential segregation
  • Race/ethnicity and discrimination using quantitative methods

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

Director of REF

Professor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Sociology of disability
  • Health inequalities

Chair of Board of Studies

Senior Lecturer

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

Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

  • Social and cultural history of consumption
  • Gambling
  • Sociological studies of domestic life and experiences

Sarah Couttie-Cunningham

Administration Manager

Discipline: Sociology

Sheila Davitt

Research Facilitator

Discipline: Sociology

Nicola Lowe

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Discipline: Sociology

Debs Stephens

Student Services Manager

Discipline: Sociology

Director of Research

Discipline: Sociology

Recruitment and Admissions Tutor

Discipline: Sociology

Research interests:

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