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.
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Research interests:
- Sociology of health
- Regulation of bioscience
- Classical/contemporary social theory
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Research interests:
- Death Studies
- Popular Culture and Celebrity
- Cultural Criminology
- Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)
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Research interests:
- Migration
- Residential segregation
- Race/ethnicity and discrimination using quantitative methods
Research interests:
- Contemporary Feminism
- Gender and Migration
- Gender Based Violence
- Feminist Pedagogies
- Girls' rights
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Research interests:
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of disability
- Health inequalities
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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
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Research interests:
- Social and cultural history of consumption
- Gambling
- Sociological studies of domestic life and experiences
Research interests:
- Language and social interaction
- The relationship between language and anomalous experience
- Reports of mental states in social interaction