| Name | Research Interests |
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| Dr Nick Allum |
- public understanding of science
- social psychology of risk
- social and political trust
- survey methodology
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| Dr Ben Anderson | |
| Dr Michael Bailey |
- Critical theory
- Historical sociology
- Working-class heritage
- Sociology of the media and modern culture
- Intellectual history of ethical socialism and cultural criticism
- Governmentality studies
- Sociology of religion
- Cultural policy studies
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| Professor Ted Benton | My research interests are wide-ranging, including issues in the philosophy of the social sciences, modern social theories, especially marxian and neo-marxian, environmental sociology, rural/urban divide, and some aspects of the history of the life-sciences (especially Darwin and Wallace). I was a founder memeber and continue to be active in the Red-Green Study Group (an association devoted to making connections between socialist and green political thought and practice). Also a well-known photographer and natural history writer, with many publications on insects, notably butterflies, bumblebees, grasshoppers and crickets, and dragonflies.
A detailed account of my contributions, and the areas of debate that I've been involved in is given in Moog, S. & Stones, R. (eds) Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs: essays in honour of Ted Benton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) |
| Professor Robin Blackburn |
- Race and Slavery
- Development of Capitalism
- Historical Sociology
- Globalisation
- Political Economy of pension funds
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| Professor Joan Busfield |
- Mental Disorder
- Psychiatry Gender and Mental Disorder
- History of Psychiatry
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Pharmaceutical Industry
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| Dr Andrew Canessa |
- Indigenous studies
- Latin America, especially the Andes
- Gender and sexualities
- Ethnic and racial identities
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| Professor Eamonn Carrabine | I am particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research in the following areas:
- Crime and the Media
- Cultural and Social Geography
- Popular Music and Sociological Thinking
- Punishment and Human Rights
- Sociology of Imprisonment
- Visual Sociology
- Youth Culture
This is only intended to be an indicative list and I am happy to discuss ideas with potential research students. |
| Dr Pam Cox |
- national and global crime history
- youth justice and child rights
- gender
- mixed economies of justice
- public, private and voluntary networks in criminal justice
- criminal careers and the lifecourse
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| Professor Leonore Davidoff | Research includes domestic service and household management in nineteenth and twentieth-century England, and gender relationships in industrial capitalist society. Collected essays were published as Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995). |
| Dr Pete Fussey |
- Mega-events, security and the city
- Terrorism and counter-terrorism
- Surveillance and society
- Urban sociology
- Resilience and climate change
- Informal and criminal economies
- Human trafficking
Dr Fussey is interested in supervising PhDs in any of these areas. |
| Professor Miriam Glucksmann |
- transformations of work and employment
- global changes in the division of labour
- the gendering of work and women's work and employment
- shifting boundaries between the work of production, distribution and consumption
- the work of consumption
- food preparation work
- remotely located work
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| Dr Ayse Güveli | International migration, ethnicity, Turks in Europe, new immigrants, religion with a special interest in Islam and Muslims, life course, stratification, intra- and intergenerational social mobility, social class with a special interest in new social classes, voting behaviour with a special interest in far-right and far-left voting behaviour, lifestyles and quantitative research methods.
Ayse would like to supervise students in these areas. |
| Dr Michael Halewood | My main research interests are the work of A.N. Whitehead and the interrelation of philosophy and social theory, including questions surrounding subjectivity, materiality, the body, abstraction, and capitalism. I have recently published a book titled: A.N. Whitehead and Social Theory. Tracing a Culture of Thought (Anthem Press, 2011). |
| Professor Mark Harvey | My research interests aim to develop the ‘new economic sociology’ using a neo-Polanyian framework of ‘instituted economic processes’ (IEP). An historical and comparative research agenda has been key here to an understanding of ‘varieties of capitalism’. My main fields of empirical research are:
- the emergent bio-economy
- food provisioning, supermarkets, and the sociology of food consumption
- biotechnology and genomics
- economics of knowledge
- 'rights over resources' within 'welfare states'
CRESI
The Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation is the first UK centre for research in economic sociology. It draws together the considerable strengths of the Department in the areas of markets; corporate institutions and business networks; rights; corporate social responsibility; cultural economy; welfare regimes and pensions; food and consumption; work and employment; gender budgeting and fiscal sociology; biotechnology and bioeconomy; and economies of knowledge. The Centre provides a focus for a research agenda that is interdisciplinary, global and comparative in scope, addressing ‘big’ issues facing the world today. |
| Professor Richard Hobbs |
urban ethnography.
working class entrepreneurship.
professional and organised crime.
violence.
the political economy of crime.
the night-time economy.
the sociology of East London.
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| Dr Linsey McGoey |
- The sociology of knowledge, ignorance and "antiepistemology" (the usefulness of ignorance and non-knowledge in negotiating expertise, avoiding liability and commanding resources in political and organisational life)
- Biopolitics, theories of power, social theory
- Pharmaceutical regulation and controversies over drug safety and efficacy
- Critical analyses of "philanthrocapitalism" and the rise of market-based solutions to economic inequality and global poverty
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| Professor Ewa Morawska |
- (Im)Migration/Ethnicity (Policies, Settlement, Adaptation) in the Context of Globalization and in a Historical-Comparative Perspective (Europe and North America, 19th-21st C); Social Change and Multiple Modernities; American Society (Historical and Contemporary); East European Societies in Transition
- Comparative-Historical Sociology; Classical and Contemporary Social Theory; Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods
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| Professor Lydia Morris |
- Sociology of Rights
- Cosmopolitanism
- Citizenship
- Human Rights
- Trans-national migration
- Asylum
- Judgment
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| Dr Sean Nixon | Consumption and Commercial Cultures
Advertising and Market Devices
Masculinity, sexuality and Cultural Change
Cultural Studies
Television and the Natural World
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| Dr Lynne Pettinger | Lynne researches the relationship between work and consumption, exploring how paid and unpaid work is directed at facilitating consumption, and also relies on consumption. She has explored this theme through studying retail sales assistants, musicians and men who pay for sex, exploring how workers in these rather different fields engage with consumer society. She edited (with Jane Parry, Rebecca Taylor and Miriam Glucksman) 'A New Sociology of Work' (Blackwells, 2005). She has published her ethnographic work in journals such as The Sociological Review, Gender Work and Organisation, Consumption, Markets and Culture and Qualitative research.
She is currently writing about routine, craft and creativity, photography and absence, and moral economies of men who pay for sex. With Ewen Speed, she is writing about interconnections of markets and moral discourses in the wire. With Becky Ellis, she is writing about ebay as a process of qualification, using the work of Michel Callon. |
| Professor Ken Plummer | My main current interests are:
- Humanism – its links to sociology, and its theories and tools for examining social life. I am concerned with the ways in which humans create little social worlds and how these change.
- Intimacies and sexualities- my old interests remain and centre mainly around editing the journal Sexualities. I am concerned with the ways in which the personal dwells in the social.
- The sociologies of 'suffering' and 'well being' – a very wide ranging interest in then 'bad news' and the 'good news'. I am concerned with the terrible things we do to each other, and yet also the ways we can develop astonishingly rich social life worlds.
- Medicine, narratives and transplants – after transplant surgery in 2007, I am thinking about the nature of illness. I am concerned with the ways in which illness must partially be seen as narrative and, sometimes, as an opportunity.
- Sociology - still crazy after all these years. Shorn of a lot of parochialisms, sociology is a fine way to see lives and for creating thinking people. I am concerned to keep the buzz going that I got from it forty years ago, and to do this via my textbook!
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| Dr Róisín Ryan-Flood | Róisín's research interests include gender, sexuality and citizenship, with particular reference to kinship and migration. She has also worked extensively with feminist epistemology and research methodology. Her area studies interests include Ireland and Sweden. A more recent interest concerns sexual dissidence and visual culture. |
| Professor Colin Samson | Human Rights/Culture/Hisory of Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Studies, Colonialism, Health, Mental Health, Arts and Literature |
| Professor Nigel South |
- g ggreen criminologggreen criminology and crimes against the environment
- drug use and markets
- theoretical and comparative criminology
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| Dr Yasemin Soysal |
- Citizenship
- Nation-state and Globalization
- International Migrations
- Human Rights
- Education
- Regional Integration (Europe and East Asia)
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| Professor Rob Stones |
- Current affairs and social theory
- Strong structuration theory and its empirical application to case studies in all areas
- Critical analysis of documentary and fiction film
- Sociological and social theory
- Moral/political thought in social analysis
- Experience in late modernity
- Politics and sociology of Thailand
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| Dr Hiroko Tanaka | Research interests: conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and cross-cultural & cross-lingustic comparisons of various aspects of Japanese and Anglo-American societies. |
| Dr Darren Thiel |
- Social class and stratification;
- youth unemployment;
- economic sociology;
- migration, globalisation and governance;
- globalisation and policing;
- policing terrorism.
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| Dr Jackie Turton | ■Child Protection
■Youth Crime
■Asylum and Refugee Issues
■Professional Responses to Crime
■Sociology of Health
■Drug Use
■Women as Offenders/Victims
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| Dr Carlos Gigoux | Indigenous Peoples; Development; Human Rights; Religion |
| Dr Elisabeth Carter | Police interviews and institutional talk, truth and
deception, language as evidence,designing police
interview training techniques, negotiation, power and
interaction, forensic linguistics, conversation analysis,
discourse analysis, policing and the media. Crime
reduction through the use of geographic crime mapping
and inferential statistics, and creating research that
applies to, and impacts policy and practice in the Criminal
Justice System.
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| Dr Andreas Pollmann | National and supranational identities, formal education and the formation of intercultural capital; citizenship debates; sociological perspectives on European integration; survey research; comparative research designs; quantitative methods of data collection and analysis; mixed methods research designs. |