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
Sociology PhD Candidate
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought
Professor Angus Bancroft
Professor of Sociology
- Criminal justice
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Health & Well-being
- Methods
- Science, technology and innovation
Dr Katucha Bento
Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi
Recently conferred with the title of 'Honorary Fellow' by UoE and has successfully completed his Post-Doctorate in Sociology at the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Social and Political Science, UoE, UK
- Culture
- Global health policy
- Governance of welfare states
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy
Dr Shawn Bodden
Research Fellow
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Health & Well-being
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
Ross Bond
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Nationalism and political action
Dr Martin Booker
Teaching Fellow
Dr Théo Bourgeron
Chancellor's 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
Dr Jess Britton
Research Fellow
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
Julie Brownlie
Professor
- Intimacy
Frances Burgess
Research Administrator (Online Advertising & High-Frequency Trading Projects)
Dr Shruti Chaudhry
Chancellor's Fellow
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- South Asian studies
Dr Roxanne Connelly
Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Quantitative Methods
- Methods
Dr Nathan Coombs
SPS Director of Undergraduate Programmes, Senior Lecturer in Economic Sociology
- Finance and economic sociology
- Governance & Democracy
- International Political Economy Research Group
- 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
- Culture
Dr Alexandra Dmitrieva
Research Staff
- Criminal justice
- Global health policy
- Politics and political violence
Elif Buse Doyuran
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Finance and economic sociology
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
Isadora Dullaert
PhD student
- 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
Bern DySart
PhD Student
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- Race and decolonial thought
Ginevra Floridi
Lecturer (Sociology and Quantitative Methods)
- Data & Digital
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
Ewan Forrest
PhD Student
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
Joséphine Foucher
PhD student
- Culture
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
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
Hugo Gorringe
Head of Sociology
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- South Asian studies
Dr Radhika Govinda
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of GENDER.ED
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- Race and decolonial thought
- South Asian studies
Eva Gray
PhD Student
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Science, technology and innovation
- Technology and material culture
Karen Gregory
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Methods
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Work & Economy
Dr Claire Haggett
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Development
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
Dr Andi Haxhiu
Tutor
- UK and Comparative Politics
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
Professor Jonathan Hearn
Professor of Political and Historical Sociology
- Nationalism and political action
- Political Theory Research Group
Dr Rebecca Hewer
Senior Lecturer (Chancellor's Fellow)
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Governance of welfare states
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Politics and political violence
Richard Hoggett
Research Fellow (Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society)
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
Professor Mary Holmes
Professor of Emotions and Society
- Digital sociology
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Intimacy
Dr Lisa Howard
Visiting postdoctoral researcher
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Environment and energy
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Onur Isci
PhD Student
- Nationalism and political action
Lynn Jamieson
Sociology of Families and Relationships
- Intimacy
- Methods
- Environment and energy
Patricia Jeffery
Professor (Emerita)
Professor Roger Jeffery
Professor (Emeritus)
- Cities
- Cultural Heritage
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- South Asian studies
Yoshinori Kasai
Visiting Scholar
Dr Stephen Kemp
Senior Lecturer
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy
Dr James Kennedy
Director, Centre of Canadian Studies; Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
- Territorial Politics Research Group
Marta Kowalewska
PhD student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence
Dr P M Krafft
Lecturer in Computational Sociology; Co-Director, MSc Digital Sociology
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Work & Economy
Dr Gëzim Krasniqi
Lecturer in Nationalism and Political Sociology; Programme Co-Director, MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective
- Nationalism and political action