School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Social Network Analysis, Computational Social Science, Globalization, Economic Development, Sociological Theory

Founding member of the the Social Data Science Hub.

In the 2025/26 academic year, I am available to supervise MSc students on the MSc Digital Sociology with Social Data Science pathway.

Topics interested in supervising

I am interested in supervising PhDs in economic, political and comparative/historical sociology that take a broad range of methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. In addition, I am interested in working with students using social network analysis, computational text analysis, and other computational social science/social data science methods, on a wide array of topics. For PhD supervision inquiries, please contact me at latest by October 1st of the year before you hope to begin your PhD (e.g. by 1st October 2024 for a PhD beginning in September 2025). Earlier than this is better. After this date I may not be able to offer supervision in a timely manner for PhD funding applications. I expect to work with applicants for at least two months in developing their research proposals to improve applicants' chances of a funding award. Please bear in mind that PhD funding is extremely competitive.

If you are interested in being supervised by Tod Van Gunten, please see the links below (opening in new windows) for more information:

• PhD in Sociology
• MSc (R) Sociology