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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 Marion Lieutaud

Lecturer in social data science

  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Work & Economy
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Nuria Lopez Vazquez

PhD student - Title: Care and Choices in Sustainable Agricultural Development: Learning from Women’s Home Gardens in Myanmar

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Cristian Luguzan

PhD student

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Jingbo Ma

PhD Student

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Trevor Ma

PhD Student

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Donald MacKenzie

Donald MacKenzie

Professor

  • Digital sociology
  • Finance and economic sociology
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Studies of information and communication technology
  • Technology and material culture
  • Work & Economy
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Stergios Magkriotis

PhD title: “When you are eating food, you are alive, but for life in your mind you have to have something more” Everyday informal support among refugees at a social kitchen in Athens

  • Cities
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Dr Zoe Malcolm

Lecturer in Sociology (Sustainable Development)

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Culture
  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Governance & Democracy
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Emily Mann

PhD title: Negotiating Gender Identity in the Context of Cultural Reform: a Study of Women in Police Scotland

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Dr Jingyu Mao

Lecturer in Sociology

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Pooja Marwaha

PhD Student

  • Culture
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Intimacy
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Methods
  • South Asian studies
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Taylor McConnell

Taylor McConnell

Još Research summary: Hrvatska ni propala: Exploring the Public Face of Memory in Croatia

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Dr Lisa McCormick

Senior Lecturer

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Culture
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Religion and public action
  • Technology and material culture
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Professor David McCrone

Emeritus Professor of Sociology

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Professor Liz McFall

Personal Chair in the Sociology of Markets and Director of EFI Data Civics Observatory

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Finance and economic sociology
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Technology and material culture
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Ms Addie McGowan

Research Fellow

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Technology and material culture
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Llibert Mendez de Vigo Arnau

PhD candidate

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Niamh Moore

Senior Lecturer

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Derek Morris

PhD title: Narratives and Memory: The Molding of American Soldier Imaginings

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Atufah Nishat

PhD Student

  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Nationalism and political action
  • South Asian studies
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Joe Noteboom

PhD student

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Dr Kate Orton-Johnson

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Methods
  • Studies of information and communication technology
  • Technology and material culture
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Dr Plamena Panayotova

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Dr Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Honorary Fellow

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Dr Sarah Parry

Dr Sarah Parry

Senior Lecturer

  • Children, families and relationships
  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Not just energy futures
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Professor Nick Prior

Professor of Cultural Sociology

  • Culture
  • Digital sociology
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Carla Quiroz Carvajal

PhD Student

  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Politics and political violence
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Emily Qvist-Baudry

PhD title: Prison Violence in Scotland - The role of Bystander Behaviour in Prison Settings

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Irene Rafanell

Honorary Fellow

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Kevin Ralston

Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods

  • Methods
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Liliana Riga

Senior Lecturer

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Michael Rosie

Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Programme Co-Director, Nationalism Studies

  • Nationalism and political action
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Paul Schuler

PhD

  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Methods
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Matea Senkić

Matea Senkić

PhD Student

  • Cities
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Culture
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Shubhi Sharma

PhD title: Forest Conservation, Forest Dwelling People and Construction of Environmental Subjects: Case of REDD+ and Adivasis in India

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Albert Sharra

Dr Albert Sharra

Research Fellow

  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Elections, public opinion and parties
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
  • International development
  • International Development Cluster
  • Methods
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Politics and political violence
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Dr Haitao Shi

Research Assistant

  • Criminal justice
  • Culture
  • Methods
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Mr Upendra Sonpimple

PhD Student

  • Culture
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • South Asian studies
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Liz Stanley

Professor Liz Stanley

Professor of Sociology

  • Culture
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Race and decolonial thought
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Ari Stillman

PhD Student

  • Digital sociology
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Technology and material culture
  • Work & Economy
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Harry Yufan Sun

PhD Student

  • Methods
  • Political Theory Research Group
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Ningxiang Sun

PhD Student

  • Culture
  • Digital sociology
  • Science, technology and innovation
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Technology and material culture
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Can Tao

PhD Student

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Nationalism and political action
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Daryl Tayar

Daryl Tayar

PhD Student

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Politics and political violence
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María Angélica Thumala Olave

Senior Lecturer

  • Culture
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Oyku Hazal Tural

PhD Student, Sociology

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Politics and political violence
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Zafar Ullah

PhD Candidate

  • Governance & Democracy
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Intimacy
  • Methods
  • Politics and political violence
  • Public anthropology
  • South Asian studies
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Shaira Vadasaria

Shaira Vadasaria

Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies

  • Race and decolonial thought
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Dr Tod Van Gunten

Senior Lecturer

  • Data & Digital
  • Finance and economic sociology
  • Methods
  • Nationalism and political action
  • Work & Economy
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Amanda Vettini

PhD title: Should we be creating Jacks and Jills of all trades in social research?: Assessing responses to breadth and depth in postgraduate social science research methods training.