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.

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
Digital sociology
Finance and economic sociology
Methods
Nationalism and political action
Work & Economy

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.