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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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Dr Laura Harris

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Methods
  • Work & Economy
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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
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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
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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
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Heather Blenkinsop

Alumni/Emerita
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Ross Bond

Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Head of Subject

  • Nationalism and political action
Michaelagh Broadbent

Michaelagh Broadbent

Editorial Officer (Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power)
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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
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Justin Chun-ting Ho

PhD Student
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Kerrin Clapton

Alumni/Emeritus
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Dr Roxanne Connelly

Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Quantitative Methods

  • 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
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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
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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
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Johan Gordillo-García

PhD Title: “You have to do everything in your power so that this does not happen to anyone else”. Contention dynamics against the Mexican war on drugs and crime: a case study 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
  • Politics and political violence
  • South Asian studies
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Dr Radhika Govinda

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Acting Director, genderED

  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • International development
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • South Asian studies
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Karen Gregory

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

  • Digital sociology
Claire Haggett

Dr Claire Haggett

Senior Lecturer

  • Environment and energy
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Marie-Eve Hamel

Honorary Fellow

Jillian Hart

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

Morteza Hashemi

Honorary Fellow
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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
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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