Our staff
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| Contemporary developments in feminist theory; issues of body image (particularly in relation to aesthetic surgery); gender based violence and refugee and migrant women; and girls’ rights. | |
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Dr Boriana Alexandrova |
Medical humanities; disability theory; modern and contemporary global literatures; contemporary women’s writing and performance; trauma theory and survivors’ narratives; embodiment; feminist and queer art-activism; ethics; literary multilingualism and translation; postcoloniality. |
| Marriage and kinship; the everyday practices of intimacy and care; and the gendered impacts of global capitalism on women’s homemaking in contemporary South Asia. The gendered dimensions of urban poverty and precarity; the materiality and emotional dimensions of intimate relations and domestic violence; and the creative strategies women use to survive, resist, and flourish even as they claim ethical lives. | |
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Dr Clare Bielby |
Violence, representation and gender; violence, subjectivity and affect/emotion; terrorism and gender; the field of perpetrator studies. |
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Student enquiries |
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Professor Ellen Annandale |
Sociology of health and illness; sociology of gender; gender, occupations and professions |
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Miranda Armstrong |
Single motherhood at intersections of 'race', class and geography; Intersectional inequalities; Black women's experiences of family
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| Science and technology studies; reproductive technologies; gender; time; feminist theory | |
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Dr Emma Casey |
Social and cultural history of gender and consumption; Women and gambling; Feminist studies of domestic life and experiences |
| British and South Asian literature; religion; Muslims; migration | |
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women's NGOs; gender and development; postcolonial and critical race theory; migration; feminist politics, complicity and co-optation |
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| Gender and sexual minority workers; sexualised and organisational spaces | |
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Dr Naomi Finch |
Comparative social policy, Gender and the welfare state, Family policy, The Gender division of labour, Work and family balance over the life course, Child and female poverty |
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Dr Mark Jenner |
The social and cultural history of Britain c.1550-c.1780; social history of medicine; history of the body; gender, medicine, religious and political culture in 17th and 18th century England. Currently on the Editorial Board of Urban History |
| Labour economics, and the interface between public policy and labour economics; wage bargaining; industrial disputation; employment dynamics; the relative employment opportunities of men and women; job turnover, tenure and security; training; wage equality; the effectiveness of family friendly work practices | |
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Gender and identity; Femininities; Consumption and the Night Time Economy; Alcohol and sobriety |
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Political theory; historical injustices and gender; migration and gender; multiculturalism and gender; feminist activism (especially issues of intergenerational solidarity); memory; |
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Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce |
Death Studies; popular Culture and Celebrity, cultural Criminology; pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching) |
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Dr Amanda Rees |
Sociology of science; social theory; feminism and science; post-colonialism; science and popular culture |
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Dr Katy Sian |
Critical race theory; semantics of tolerance and anti-racism |
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Professor Vanita Sundaram |
Gender and sexuality; gender-based violence; equity issues in education; inclusive/feminist methodology |
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Conversation analysis; institutional discourse; health professional-patient interaction; intervening with conversation analysis, qualitative methodology |
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| Honorary Staff | |
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Research interests centre around the intersections of gender, culture and colonialism with other forms of difference and inequality and include, specifically, 19th and 20th-century women's history; the history of socialist and feminist ideas and movements and Iranian and Middle Eastern Indian history in the 19th and 20th centuries |
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Professor Stevi Jackson |
Feminist theory; theories of gender and sexuality; women's and family relationships; sociology of childhood |
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Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor |
Feminist crafts and arts activism; digital cultures; human/non-human relationships; religion; creative methodologies. |
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Professor Victoria Robinson |
Feminist theory; gender and sexualities (especially heterosexualities); men and masculinities; fashion and footwear cultures; risk sports; debates in women’s, gender and masculinity studies in the academy (especially in Europe); feminist sociology of everyday life |