People
Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.
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Ms Ji-Eun Ahn
PhD Student

Amy Andrada
PhD student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness

Ms Thalia Thereza Assan
PhD title: Activist Friendships: Exploring Intersections of the Political and the Personal in Girls’ Political Involvement
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought

Professor Angus Bancroft
Professor of Sociology
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology

Christopher Barrie
Lecturer in Computational Sociology

Kath Bassett
PhD Title: Digitally-Entangled Touristic Placemaking: Socio-Spatial Platforms, Affective Labour, and Algorithmic Navigation by Cultural Practitioners of Edinburgh’s Harry Potter Tourism Scene

Dr Katucha Bento
Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought

Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Centre for South Asian Studies
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy
Ross Bond
Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Head of Subject
- Nationalism and political action

Dr Théo Bourgeron
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- European Union Studies
- Finance and economic sociology
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
- Health & Well-being
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Michaelagh Broadbent
Editorial Officer (Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power)

Julie Brownlie
Professor
- Intimacy

Frances Burgess
Research Administrator (Online Advertising & High-Frequency Trading Projects)

Christopher Cannell
PhD Student: Scottish People in London
- British politics research

Dylan Cassar
PhD
- Finance and economic sociology
- Science, knowledge and policy

Lee Chalmers
PhD student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities

Dr Shruti Chaudhry
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
- Children, families and relationships
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- South Asian studies
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Justin Chun-ting Ho
PhD Student

Dr Roxanne Connelly
Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Quantitative Methods
- Methods

Dr Nathan Coombs
Lecturer in Economic Sociology, School Academic Misconduct Officer
- Finance and economic sociology
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Work & Economy

Graham Crow
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Methodology
- Intimacy
- Methods

Sean Damer
Honorary Fellow

Dr Isabelle Darmon
Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Development

Lang Dong
PhD Student
- Culture
- Digital sociology

Elif Buse Doyuran
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Finance and economic sociology
- Technology and material culture

Isadora Dullaert
PhD Candidate
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Identities & Inequalities

Eva Duncanson
PhD title: Women and Non-Binary Twitch Streamers and their Viewers
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Technology and material culture

Ginevra Floridi
Lecturer (Sociology and Quantitative Methods)
- Data & Digital
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Joséphine Foucher
PhD student
- Culture
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
Vassilis Galanos
Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture

Idil Galip
PhD Candidate: "Art Worlds Online: Memes, Labour and Politics"
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy

Vernon Gayle
Chair of Sociology and Social Statistics
- Methods

Poppy Gerrard-Abbott
PhD student

Johan Gordillo-Garcia
PhD (2019-2022)

Hugo Gorringe
Senior Lecturer, Sociology; Co-director - Centre of South Asian Studies
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- South Asian studies

Dr Radhika Govinda
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Interim Director, genderED
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Race and decolonial thought
- South Asian studies

Eva Gray
PhD Student
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Technology and material culture

Karen Gregory
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- Digital sociology

Dr Claire Haggett
Senior Lecturer
- Environment and energy

Feng Han
PhD Student
- Digital sociology
- Methods

Dr Laura Harris
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
- Cities
- Culture
- Methods
- Work & Economy

Jillian Hart
PhD title: Is methodological innovation superficially attractive but challenging in practice?

Dr Morteza Hashemi
Honorary Fellow

Professor Jonathan Hearn
Professor of Political and Historical Sociology
- Nationalism and political action
- Political Theory Research Group

Dr Rebecca Hewer
Chancellor's Fellow
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Methods

Professor Mary Holmes
Professor of Emotions and Society
- Digital sociology
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Intimacy

Lisa Howard
PhD student, environmental sociology
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Environment and energy
- Intimacy

Onur Isci
PhD Student
- Nationalism and political action

Lynn Jamieson
Sociology of Families and Relationships
- Intimacy
- Methods
- Environment and energy

Patricia Jeffery
Professor (Emerita)