School of Social and Political Science

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

İdil Akıncı-Pérez

Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez

Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow

Identities & Inequalities
Middle East Research Group
Migration and experiences of displacement
Nationalism and political action
Race and decolonial thought

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Amy Andrada

PhD student

Gender Politics Research Group
Identities & Inequalities
Kinship, bodies and relatedness

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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

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Angus Bancroft

Senior Lecturer

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

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Dr Katucha Bento

Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies

Migration and experiences of displacement
Race and decolonial thought

Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi

Post-Doctoral Fellow at Centre for South Asian Studies

Identities & Inequalities
Methods
Migration and experiences of displacement
Race and decolonial thought
South Asian studies
Work & Economy

Heather Blenkinsop

Alumni/Emerita

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Ross Bond

Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Head of Subject

Nationalism and political action

Michaelagh Broadbent

Editorial Officer (Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power); Research Support Officer (GLIMER)

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Julie Brownlie

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Intimacy

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Frances Burgess

Senior Research Secretary

Christopher Cannell

PhD title: Nationalism in Delhi

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Dylan Cassar

PhD

Finance and economic sociology
Science, knowledge and policy

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Lee Chalmers

PhD student

Gender Politics Research Group
Identities & Inequalities

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Dr Shruti Chaudhry

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Health inequalities, disability and older people
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Migration and experiences of displacement
South Asian studies
Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Justin Chun-ting Ho

Justin Chun-ting Ho

PhD Student

Kerrin Clapton

Alumni/Emeritus

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Dr Roxanne Connelly

Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Quantitative Methods

Childhood & Youth
Methods

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Dr Nathan Coombs

Lecturer in Economic Sociology, Sociology Senior Personal Tutor, School Academic Misconduct Officer

Finance and economic sociology

Graham Crow

Graham Crow

Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Methodology

Intimacy
Methods

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Sean Damer

Honorary Fellow

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Karen Dargo

Student Support Officer - Sociology and Social Work

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Dr Isabelle Darmon

Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Development

Culture

Lang Dong

PhD Student

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Elif Buse Doyuran

PhD Student

Data & Digital
Digital sociology
Finance and economic sociology
Technology and material culture

Eva Duncanson

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

Jennifer Fleetwood

Alumni/Emeritus

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Joséphine Foucher

PhD student

Culture

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Sam Friedman

Alumni/Emeritus

Idil Galip

Ms Idil Galip

PhD Candidate: "Art Worlds Online: Memes, Labour and Politics"

Data & Digital
Digital sociology
Methods
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Studies of information and communication technology
Technology and material culture
Work & Economy

Vernon Gayle

Chair of Sociology and Social Statistics

Methods

Poppy Gerrard-Abbott

PhD student

Johan Gordillo-García

PhD title: Social movements led by victims of violence in Mexico. The case of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity.

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Hugo Gorringe

Senior Lecturer, Sociology; Co-director - Centre of South Asian Studies

Nationalism and political action

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Radhika Govinda

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Nationalism and political action

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Karen Gregory

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Digital sociology

Claire Haggett

Dr Claire Haggett

Senior Lecturer

Environment and energy

Marie-Eve Hamel

Honorary Fellow

Jillian Hart

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

Morteza Hashemi

Morteza Hashemi

Honorary Fellow

Professor Jonathan Hearn

Professor of Political and Historical Sociology

Nationalism and political action
Political Theory Research Group

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Dr Rebecca Hewer

Chancellor's Fellow

Gender Politics Research Group
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Methods

Emma Hill

Research Fellow

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Professor Mary Holmes

Professor of Emotions and Society

Digital sociology
Gender Politics Research Group
Intimacy

Lisa Howard

Lisa Howard

PhD student

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Dr Rachel Howell

Lecturer in Sociology/Sustainable Development

Energy, environment and sustainability

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Kanykey Jailobaeva

Honorary Fellow