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

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Amy Andrada

PhD student

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Ms Thalia Thereza Assan

PhD title: Activist Friendships: Exploring Intersections of the Political and the Personal in Girls’ Political Involvement

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Angus Bancroft

Senior Lecturer

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

Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi

Post-Doctoral Fellow at Centre for South Asian Studies

Heather Blenkinsop

Alumni/Emerita

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Ross Bond

Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Head of Subject

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

Frances Burgess

Senior Research Secretary

Christopher Cannell

PhD title: Nationalism in Delhi

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Dylan Cassar

PhD

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Lee Chalmers

PhD student

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Shruti Chaudhry

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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Dr Nathan Coombs

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

Graham Crow

Professor of Sociology and Methodology (since 2013)

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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

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Alice Dias Lopes

Career Development Fellow in Quantitative Methods

Lang Dong

PhD Student

Elif Buse Doyuran

PhD Student

Eva Duncanson

Eva Duncanson

PhD title: Women and Non-Binary Twitch Streamers and their Viewers

Jennifer Fleetwood

Alumni/Emeritus

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Joséphine Foucher

PhD student

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Sam Friedman

Alumni/Emeritus

Idil Galip

Ms Idil Galip

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

Vernon Gayle

Chair of Sociology and Social Statistics

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

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Radhika Govinda

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

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Karen Gregory

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Claire Haggett

Dr Claire Haggett

Senior Lecturer

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

Emma Hill

Research Fellow

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Professor Mary Holmes

Professor of Emotions and Society

Lisa Howard

PhD student

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Dr Rachel Howell

Lecturer in Sociology/Sustainable Development

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Kanykey Jailobaeva

Honorary Fellow