Human Rights and the Environment

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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; Criminalisation of activism

Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Professor (R), Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Trial by Media; Scandal; Serious Youth Violence; Victimology; Celebrity

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

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

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: DrReinhardts work examines how decision-making under uncertainty affects the distribution of wealth in society.; She focuses her work on the political economy of foreign aid, economic and social development, and the political and policy implications of disasters. This pursuit has drawn her inquiry in fascinating directions.; She has studied race, trust, and migration; the construction of trust by the media across levels of government; and how the allocation of foreign aid conditions its performance effectiveness.; DrReinhardt also researches political methodology, and applies established models to new problems and topics.; Her work on survey measures, experimental design, and signalling games has been seen inPolitical Analysis,theJournal of Risk Research, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Professor, School of Life Sciences

Research interests: Microalgae (diatom) biofilm ecology and physiology; Estuarine ecology and functioning (fish, shellfish and invertebrates); sea ice microbiology and organic carbon cycling; The ecology of microphytobenthos (benthic microalgae) in coastal ecosystems,

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Sociology of consumption and consumer culture; Consumption Work; Ethical consumption and Fairtrade; Recycling and waste management; Moral economy and political economy; Food provisioning; Sustainability and climate change; Theories of practice; Qualitative interviewing and analysis

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

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).

Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Strategy in emerging economies and emerging-market MNCs; Management and economics of innovation in developed and developing countries; Economic development and sustainability; M&As - Leadership and performance

Faculty Dean Research (Social Sciences) - Professor (R), EBS - Accounting

Research interests: Global Development and Development Finance.; Emerging economies; Financial Inclusion, Technology based financial delivery/services, Microfinance and Microinsurance; Issues in Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Social responsibility; Hybrid Organisations and Social Enterprises; Issues in Sustainable Development