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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Yubai Li
PhD Student
- Culture
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
Nuria Lopez Vazquez
PhD student - Title: Care and Choices in Sustainable Agricultural Development: Learning from Women’s Home Gardens in Myanmar
Dr Gabriela Loureiro
Lecturer in Sociology of Emotions
- Digital sociology
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
Cristian Luguzan
PhD student
Jingbo Ma
PhD Student
Trevor Ma
PhD Student
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
Stergios Magkriotis
PhD title: Livelihoods at the Margins of Humanitarian Aid - The everyday life strategies of refugees in Athens
- Cities
- Migration and experiences of displacement
Dr Zoe Malcolm
Lecturer in Sociology (Sustainable Development)
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Governance & Democracy
Emily Mann
PhD title: Negotiating Gender Identity in the Context of Cultural Reform: a Study of Women in Police Scotland
Dr Jingyu Mao
Lecturer in Sociology
Pooja Marwaha
PhD Student
- Culture
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Intimacy
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- South Asian studies
Taylor McConnell
Još Research summary: Hrvatska ni propala: Exploring the Public Face of Memory in Croatia
Dr Lisa McCormick
Senior Lecturer
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Religion and public action
- Technology and material culture
Professor David McCrone
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
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
Ms Addie McGowan
Research Fellow
- Cities
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Science, technology and innovation
- Technology and material culture
Llibert Mendez de Vigo Arnau
PhD candidate
- Identities & Inequalities
- Migration and experiences of displacement
Niamh Moore
Senior Lecturer
Derek Morris
PhD title: Narratives and Memory: The Molding of American Soldier Imaginings
Joe Noteboom
PhD student
Dr Kate Orton-Johnson
Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Director of Education Edinburgh Futures Institute
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Methods
- Studies of information and communication technology
- Technology and material culture
Dr Plamena Panayotova
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Honorary Fellow
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
Professor Nick Prior
Professor of Cultural Sociology
- Culture
- Digital sociology
Carla Quiroz Carvajal
PhD Student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- Politics and political violence
Emily Qvist-Baudry
PhD title: Prison Violence in Scotland - The role of Bystander Behaviour in Prison Settings
Irene Rafanell
Honorary Fellow
Kevin Ralston
Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods
- Methods
Liliana Riga
Senior Lecturer
Michael Rosie
Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Programme Co-Director, Nationalism Studies
- Nationalism and political action
Paul Schuler
PhD
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
Matea Senkić
PhD Student
- Cities
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
Emilia Sereva
Honorary Fellow
Shubhi Sharma
PhD title: Forest Conservation, Forest Dwelling People and Construction of Environmental Subjects: Case of REDD+ and Adivasis in India
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
Dr Haitao Shi
Research Assistant
- Criminal justice
- Culture
- Methods
Miriam Snellgrove
PhD title: The House Camphill Built: Identity, Self and Other
Mr Upendra Sonpimple
PhD Student
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- South Asian studies
Professor Liz Stanley
Professor of Sociology
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Race and decolonial thought
Ari Stillman
PhD Student
- Digital sociology
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Technology and material culture
- Work & Economy
Mr Yufan Sun
PhD Student
- Methods
- Political Theory Research Group
Can Tao
PhD Student
- Childhood & Youth
- Identities & Inequalities
- Nationalism and political action
Daryl Tayar
PhD Student
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Politics and political violence
María Angélica Thumala Olave
Senior Lecturer
- Culture
Oyku Hazal Tural
PhD Student, Sociology
- Identities & Inequalities
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Politics and political violence
Zafar Ullah
PhD Candidate
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Intimacy
- Methods
- Politics and political violence
- Public anthropology
- South Asian studies
Shaira Vadasaria
Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies
- Race and decolonial thought
Dr Tod Van Gunten
Senior Lecturer
- Data & Digital
- Finance and economic sociology
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Work & Economy