Members

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Director of the Human Rights Centre - Senior Lecturer (R), Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Professor, Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Visiting Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Research interests: Virtual worlds (game worlds, social worlds) all aspects of these; Computer Game design; Computer Games design as an art form; Computer Games and society, especially governance, the law and human rights

Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability; Advanced computer architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; Application of AI for real world problems and robot control; Cybersecurity

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: International Relations; The quantitative and qualitative analysis of conflict management and resolution; International cooperation; Environmental politics

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: contemporary theories of distributive justice; the just distribution of resources between age groups; the role of the concept of dignity in normative political theory

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: Analytic political theory; Global justice; Trade justice; The ethics of the arms trade

Faculty Dean Undergraduate (Social Sciences) - Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: Authoritarian Regimes; International Development; Third World Politics

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: The politics of the human; The work of Judith Butler; The politics of the body; Agency and resistance; Human Rights

Senior Lecturer: Head of MA Acting, East 15 Acting School

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Management of diversity and difference in organisations; History, memory and temporality in and of organisations; Leadership, power and ways of leading; Organisations, the media and representation and mediatisation of organisations

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Lecturer, EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Sustainability reporting; Accounting and governance in developing countries; Disclosure practices in developing countries; Corporate governance

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)

Research interests: Critical approaches to project work, particularly project teams; Organisational ethnography; The narrative and poetic approaches in organisational analysis; Identity construction and the management of identity; Ethics, social responsibility and sustainability; Collaboration and learning; Strategy-as-practice; Organisational innovation

Professor, Department of Economics

Research interests: (Evolutionary) Game Theory; Learning and Categorization; Models of (Bounded) Rationality; Social Networks; Behavioural and Experimental Economics; Family and health economics

Reader, Department of History

Research interests: British history since 1939; impact of war and conflict on the home front; The cold war and nuclear conflict; Citizenship in Britain

Professor, Department of History

Research interests: New World slavery; The transatlantic slave trade; Africans in the Americas; Transnational mercantile networks and connections; Maritime history; Testimony, autobiography, and narrative in African and Atlantic history; Global and transnational approaches to history

Reader, Department of History

Research interests: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia; Social History of Drugs; Visual History, Southeast and East Asia; Social and Political History of Modern China; History of Public Health and Medicine in 20th century China; Food and Foodways; Global Environmental History; History of Religion in Modern East Asia; Global Public Health

Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Variation and change (with special interest in Modern Arabic Dialects); Dialect/language contact; Dialectology and dialect geography; Formation of New Dialects; Gender differentiation in language; Language maintenance/shift; Multilingualism and code-switching

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: comparative literature; psychoanalysis; womens and gender studies; the arts and transitional justice

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: notions of world cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema; film and human rights; gender and feminist theory; film theory and affect

Reader, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Media and Democratization; Arab Media; Journalistic Practices and Models; Media Systems; Media in Transitions; Media Policy

Executive Dean (Science and Health) - Professor (R), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Multi-agent systems and autonomous adaptive systems; Data exploration analysing and modelling complex data Big data analysis and modelling of structured and unstructured data; Machine learning modelling opponents learning behaviours from data; Reasoning and analytics over multiple streams of data Internet of Things (IoT) reasoning and analytics; Individual and collective user profiles profile adaptation contextualised profiles; Recommender systems collaborative filtering reputation systems; complex systems modelling dynamics of financial systems and markets; Market mechanisms negotiation protocols strategic interaction supply chain management; Semantic matching resource search cloud computing resource allocation; Trust in agent societies trust mechanisms trust in decision making; Formal theories of agents and multi-agent systems BDI agents; Cognitive agents knowledge and belief self-reference; Software engineering methodologies for agents and multi-agent systems; Social dynamics regulation of agent societies roles and power institutions; Self-organisation team formation; Serious games for education and learning collaborative learning

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Parliamentary reporting, the media and democracy

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Caribbean literatures, art and cinema; literature and place; border studies (especially concerning the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); literature and the environment; migration and literature; human rights and literature; literature and the visual arts; contemporary poetry; literary and filmic rewritings, adaptations, translation and comparative studies; contemporary Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); the work of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studies; women writing; Italian cinema and literature

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature

Dean of Partnerships (Education) and Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.

Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Theory, history and practice of autonomy; Frankfurt School (especially Adorno); Ethics (particularly critique of Kant's and Kantian ethics); Political Philosophy

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Research Interests

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: modern and contemporary art history; art and politics; activist-art; institutional critique and its futures; visual and material cultures of social movements and of social control; aesthetics and affect in social movements; curatorial studies; intersections of curating, critique and political organising

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy (focus on contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests: Involuntary dislocation (forced migration), trauma and refugees; Working with survivors of violence (torture) and disasters; Psychosocial humanitarian interventions; Psychosocial perspectives on Human Rights; The interface between Analytical Psychology and systems, family therapy, and culture; Epistemology of therapeutic endeavours; Academic and professional interface with Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Postgraduate Research Student, School of Health and Social Care

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Participatory action research and critical ethnography; Organisational case study &ndash sustainable health and social care; Third sector health and social care involvement; Social enterprises; People with learning disabilities; Occupational science; Food growing as a tool for community development and individual wellbeing; Permaculture as a working approach to promote occupational, social and environmental justice; The Occupational Experience of People with Different Abilities in a Horticultural Social Enterprise

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Governance and citizenship in context of health and healthcare; Neoliberalism, the third sector and health care provision; Discourse analysis, interpretive policy analysis

Professor, School of Life Sciences

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Crime and the Media; Cultural and Social Geography; Popular Music and Sociological Thinking; Punishment and Human Rights; Sociology of Imprisonment; Visual Sociology; Youth Culture

Head of Department - Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: modern social and cultural history; social policy, social justice and criminal justice; gender relations; youth justice, child rights, family law

Reader, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Gender and sexuality; Sex work and sex industry studies; The intersection of sexual and economic citizenship; Fiscal sociology and critical taxation studies; Comparative methods and psycho-social methodologies

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Regulation and social control of uncivil behaviour; Criminalisation of sex work; Urban policing; Environmental movements/protest; Non-science-based health practices and their social harm; urban studies; social media protest; Penalisation of dissent

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Surveillance and society; Digital Sociology; Security and the city; Terrorism and counter-terrorism; Urban sociology; Resilience and climate change; Informal and criminal economies; Human trafficking

Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples; Sustainable Development; Social Movements; Refugees

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: police and tech ethics, digital policing, surveillance, security, criminal records, domestic abuse, vulnerabilities,, and human trafficking; Domestic abuse

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Gender and Sexuality; Economic and Feminist Anthropology (and Sociology); Development; Human Rights; Medical Anthropology; South Asia

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Social Psychology; Medical Sociology; Reproductive Health; Women's Health; Marriage and Family; Social Norms; Men and Masculinity; Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: International Migration; Social Stratification

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Social theories of knowledge and ignorance; Economic sociology; Global health governance; Human rights-based approaches to health and development

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Sociology of Rights; Cosmopolitanism; Citizenship; Human Rights; Trans-national migration; Asylum; Welfare

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Gender, sexuality and citizenship, with particular reference to kinship, assisted reproduction and migration; feminist epistemology; research methodology; ESRC funded project about Sexuality, 'Citizenship and migration: the Irish Queer Diaspora in London'

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Algorithmic Power; Web Scraping; Text Mining; Digital Cultures; Software Studies; Hacker Subcultures; The Dark Web; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science

Curator (Exhibition and Public Programme), Library and Cultural Services - Arts

Digital Systems and Services Librarian, Library and Cultural Services

Ask me about: Library systems and technology; Library search and discovery tools; Digital library and e-resources; Library IT provision and software

Academic Liaison Librarian (Business & Law), Library and Cultural Services

Knowledge Exchange Manager, Research and Enterprise Office

Ask me about: Knowledge exchange - consultancy, contract research, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and collaboration with external organisations; Engaging with business, public sector and not-for-profit organisations; Internal and external funding to support the commercialisation of your research and expertise; Executive education, CPD & short courses; Accessing Essex academic expertise, knowledge and funding mechanisms to support research, innovation & development of your organisation

Research Development Manager, Research and Enterprise Office