Our research students

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

Robin Brooker

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Christopher Cunningham

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Universities, social mobility, British class system; University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library, Lakeside Theatre, Information & Technology Solutions, Department of Sociology

Esin Damar

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Abdullah Eren

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yintan Fan

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Ethnic Entrepreneurship; Market Research

Emma Frost

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Alexandra Grolimund

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: R v Brown; Consensual harm and the law; Criminal law; Sadomasochism; BDSM; Queer theory & methods; LGBTQ rights; Human rights; Sex positivity

Yara Issa

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

Yunlong Liang

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Daniela Peruzzo

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

Nicolae Radulescu

Assistant Lecturer SOC, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

Dr Yemisi Laura Sloane

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Gender-based violence against Sub-Saharan African women in a variety of social and political contexts; Gender and Migration; Gender and Human Rights; Social Inequalities; Intersectional Feminism; Feminist Jurisprudence

Grace Tang

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Cultural sociology and sociology of culture, practices, creative workers, cultural economy; Urban development, arts, social change, social and cultural policy; Global sociology, post-colonial conditions, cultural politics, race and ethnicity; Sociology of lifestyles, well-being

Abdulrahman Ahmad Khoorshid Mohamed Almutawa

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Farid Adilov

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

Essra Ahmed

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Samanmali Alujjage Don

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Sanjaya Aryal

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Robin Brooker

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

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

Abdullah Eren

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Yintan Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Ethnic Entrepreneurship; Market Research

Sarker Faroque

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Emma Frost

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Lukas Griessl

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Maureen Haaker

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

Kalliopi Ioannou

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

Jacquelyne Ladejo

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

Xiaowei Long

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Arun Mahanand

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: Student Politics; Social Movement; Caste and Criminal Justice; Social Work in Criminal Justice System

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

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

Yuria Saavedra Alvarez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Zayu Safitri

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Kane Silver

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

Engin Sonmez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology

James Tague Jr

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

Marjan Wijers

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology