Our research students

Samanmali Alujjage Don

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Daniela Bracke

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Robin Brooker

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

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)

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Barriers to Queer Inclusion: Teachers Perspective

Christopher Cunningham

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

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

Yintan Fan

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

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

Alexandra Grolimund

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Human rights; Sexuality and gender; Sexual minorities; Sadomasochism, BDSM, erotic fetishism; LGBT rights; Queer history; Sex positivity

María José Guerrero González

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Timothy Head

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Policing, Youth Work, Criminal Justice, Political Theory, Ethnography

Daniela Peruzzo

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Kerry Preston

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

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

Nicolae Radulescu

Assistant Lecturer.., Department of Sociology

Norman Riley

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

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

Grace Tang

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Sociology of culture, practices, creative workers, cultural economy; Urban development, arts, social change

Farid Adilov

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Essra Ahmed

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Samanmali Alujjage Don

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Sanjaya Aryal

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Parvaneh Astinfeshan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Dan Bai

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Ask me about: Social Media, Internet Studies, Digital Sociology; Web Scraping, Data Mining, Computational Content Analysis; R, STATA, Python (occasionally), Matlab (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

Robin Brooker

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Research interests: Barriers to Queer Inclusion: Teachers Perspective

Christopher Cunningham

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Mary Eke

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Abdullah Eren

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Yintan Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Sarker Faroque

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Emma Frost

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Lukas Griessl

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Maureen Haaker

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Rasha Hamid

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Domestic abuse

Nawel Hamidi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Samuel Heyes

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Ask me about: Transgender health care; Sexuality

Nahida Hussain

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Kalliopi Ioannou

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Salih Kinsun

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Diana Lengua

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Dimitri Lera

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Arun Mahanand

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Fareena Mahmood

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Mollie Monopoli

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Sayna Nikeaateghad

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Ana Olea Fernandez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Victor Porto Almeida

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

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

Katie Reid

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Norman Riley

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Yuria Saavedra Alvarez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Zayu Safitri

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Taylor Skevington

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Arthur Slocum

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Engin Sonmez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

James Tague Jr

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Grace Tang

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Sociology of culture, practices, creative workers, cultural economy; Urban development, arts, social change

Nadine Thomas

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

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

Shangyu Wang

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Bethanie Watts

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Marjan Wijers

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology

Xiaomei Yu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology