Our research students

Farid Adilov

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: gender and political representation, gender and public policy, gender equality policies

Saeed Alhassani

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Samanmali Alujjage Don

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Samuel Au

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Hong Kong's New Wave of Migration; International Sports Management Research interests: Sports Migration; Hong Kong Studies

Jocelyn Bell

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Robin Brooker

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Research integrity; Meta-research; Reproducibility; Cooperative Behaviour; Survey Methods; Data analysis; R Research interests: Research Integrity; Intra- and inter-group cooperation; Quantitative Sociology

Ej-Francis Caris-Hamer (Pronoun Ze/Zir)

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: LGBTQIA, Gender, Queerness, Education, Feminism, Criminology, Deviant Behaviour, Qualitative research methods, Pedagogy. Research interests: Barriers to Queer Inclusion in the 11-19 English Education Sector: Teachers Perspective; How Criminology intersects with Education

Esin Damar

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Medical Ethics/ Deviance and Healthcare Sector; Organisational Deviance; Crime of Powerful

Rebonto Dasgupta

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Vitoria De Oliveira Monteiro

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Catherine Duck

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Southend-on-Sea, understanding urban crime, policing, policy and public opinion of undesirable populations such as street sex workers

Abdullah Eren

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yintan Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Consumption and Market Research; Migration Study, Globalisation, Global Ethnography and International Higher Education; Cultural Sociology, Popular Culture, Arts and Media; Research Methodology, Qualitative Methods; Medical Sociology, Medical Ethics and Healthcare Sector Research interests: Ethnic entrepreneurship

Sabrina Ferrier

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Emma Frost

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Rasha Hamid

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Domestic abuse

Mubassir Hussain

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Nahida Hussain

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Judith Jones

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Salih Kinsun

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Digital Culture and Media, Digital Labour, Flexibility, Precarity, Precarious Journalism, Economic Sociology, Labour Sociology, Digital Humanities, Digital Journalism, The Future of Media Works. Research interests: Journal Article/ Classified Transformation from Proletariat to Pracariat; Book Section/During Covid Pandemic; As a Public Sphere Twitter; Master Thesis/The local press in Turkey:problems future development and predictions the example of Bingöl local press

Carolyn Leader

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Diana Lengua

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dimitri Lera

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Xin Li

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Naqi Liu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Xiaowei Long

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Aruna Mahananda

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Punishment ; Discrimination ; Criminal Jutsice System; Human Rights; Caste

Fareena Mahmood

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Mollie Monopoli

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Sayna Nikeaateghad

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ana Olea Fernandez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Victor Porto Almeida

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Environmental harms in the Brazilian Amazon; Green criminology from the global South; Socio-legal studies in Brazil; Brazilian law; Conservation studies; Environmental justice Research interests: Environmental Crimes; Green Criminology; Global South; Socio-legal studies; Decolonisation; Brazilian studies; Conservation studies; Sustainability; Climate change

Kerry Preston

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: US and UK gangs; Desistance; Anti-gang enforcement and legislation; Urban disorder; Policing, punishment and society

Nicolae Radulescu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Katie Reid

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Violence against women and girls; Child Abuse; Feminism

Norman Riley

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Consumption, Veganism, Class and Masculinity; Non-human Animals and Speciesism; Football (soccer) and social class Research interests: Consumption, Nonhuman Animals, veganism and class

Gemma Roach

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Elise Roberts

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Anne Rushton

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yuria Saavedra Alvarez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Zayu Safitri

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Indonesia’s national security and defense governance; Civil-military relations and democratization in Southeast Asia; Qualitative research methods (interviews, discourse analysis, narrative analysis); Decolonial and postcolonial approaches to security studies; Political sociology of security institutions; Stakeholder engagement and strategic policy research in transitional democracies; Academic publishing and early-career researchers from the Global South; Contract Law

Maciej Serwacinski

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Kane Silver

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Subcultures ; Cultural Production and the Cultural Industries ; Sociology of Music

Taylor Skevington

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Stalking; Cyberstalking Research interests: Stalking; Domestic abuse

Arthur Slocum

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Nadine Thomas

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Class Mobility, Sex and Meritocracy, Gender Studies, Globalization and Immigration, Sociology of Education

Gemma Threlfall

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Abbie-Jane Vale

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Neurodiversity, Autism Research Research interests: AUTISM RESEARCH

Shangyu Wang

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Bethanie Watts

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Farid Adilov

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: gender and political representation, gender and public policy, gender equality policies

Samanmali Alujjage Don

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dan Bai

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Social Media, Internet Studies, Digital Sociology; Web Scraping, Data Mining, Computational Content Analysis; R, STATA, Python (occasionally), MATLAB (occasionally), SPSS (occasionally), SQL (occasionally) Research interests: What Are We Talking About When We Row About Shang-Chi on Social Media? How Networked Individualism Interprets Cultural Differences in Online Film Reviews; Media Manipulation: Common Ways and Effects; Cross-Cultural Factors in the Translation of Films and TV Shows

Daniela Bracke

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Esin Damar

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Medical Ethics/ Deviance and Healthcare Sector; Organisational Deviance; Crime of Powerful

Catherine Duck

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Southend-on-Sea, understanding urban crime, policing, policy and public opinion of undesirable populations such as street sex workers

Abdullah Eren

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yintan Fan

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Consumption and Market Research; Migration Study, Globalisation, Global Ethnography and International Higher Education; Cultural Sociology, Popular Culture, Arts and Media; Research Methodology, Qualitative Methods; Medical Sociology, Medical Ethics and Healthcare Sector Research interests: Ethnic entrepreneurship

Emma Frost

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yara Issa

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Samantha Jover

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Nature and wellbeing; Nature Based Interventions

Salih Kinsun

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Digital Culture and Media, Digital Labour, Flexibility, Precarity, Precarious Journalism, Economic Sociology, Labour Sociology, Digital Humanities, Digital Journalism, The Future of Media Works. Research interests: Journal Article/ Classified Transformation from Proletariat to Pracariat; Book Section/During Covid Pandemic; As a Public Sphere Twitter; Master Thesis/The local press in Turkey:problems future development and predictions the example of Bingöl local press

Aruna Mahananda

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Punishment ; Discrimination ; Criminal Jutsice System; Human Rights; Caste

Jasmine Mitchell

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Kerry Preston

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: US and UK gangs; Desistance; Anti-gang enforcement and legislation; Urban disorder; Policing, punishment and society

Timea Putnoki

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Intersectionality; Systems of Oppression; Quantitative Methods; Health Inequalities

Norman Riley

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Consumption, Veganism, Class and Masculinity; Non-human Animals and Speciesism; Football (soccer) and social class Research interests: Consumption, Nonhuman Animals, veganism and class

Peter Tsoukkas

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology