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Research students

Theses awarded since 2000

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Ahadi, Ali	New Religious and Spiritual Movements in the West: Reflexive Modernity, Alienation and Embodied Charisma	Professor Chetan Bhatt	31.01.06
Ahmed, Jamilah	Quitting and Substance for a Shadow	Professor Helen Thomas	31.07.01
Aldred, Rachel	Governing ‘Local Health Economies’: Neo-Liberalism and NHS LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust).	Dr Fran Tonkiss/Dr Pamela Odih	31.12.06
Allistone, Simon Mark Peter	A Conversational Analytic Study of Parent’s Evening	Professor David Silverman	31.01.03
Arber, Anne Marie	Building Reputation: The Significance of Pain Talk in Hospice and Palliative Care Team Meetings	Professor Clive Seale	31.07.04
Arena, Vanessa	Ethics Inc. A Sociological Account of the Contemporary Market for Corporate Social Responsibility	Dr Monica Greco / Dr Mariam Fraser	30.06.11
Arimoto, Takeshi	Body Culture and Nationalism in modernising Japan from 1868 to 1920s	Professor Les Back	28.02.11
Arnoldi, Jakob	Uncertain Knowledge	Professor Scott Lash	31.08.02

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Barn, Jatinder Singh	In Service to India: The Ethics of Rule and Conduct of British Administrators and Army Officers in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentiety Century India	Professor Nikolas Rose	30.04.04
Bates, Charlotte	'Vital Bodies: A Visual Sociology of Health and Illness in Everyday Life'	Professor Les Back / Professor Caroline Knowles	31.10.11
Bishop, Nick	Cultures of Asylum	Dr Françoise Verges	28.02.06
Blunt, Caroline	A Multi-sited Ethnography of the Making of 'Home'	Professor Michael Keith	30.11.09
Brauer, Chris	'Netmodern: Emergent Social Agency and Forms in Digital Media'	Dr Brian Alleyne / Professor Robert Zimmer
Brown, Neil Mackenzie	A Cultural Analysis of Ageing: Baby Boomers and the Lived Experience of Extended Youthfulness	Professor Celia Lury/Dr Mariam Fraser	30.04.05

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Chang, Il	Image-Machine: Time and invention in East Asian cinema	Professor Scott Lash	31.01.05
Checinska, C	Colonizin' in Reverse! The Creolised Aesthetic of the Empire Windrush Generation	Centre for Cultural Studies / Sociology	30.06.09
Chiang, Fei-Chi	Numbers Do Not Matter: Gender Politics and How Women Remain Marginalised in the Newspaper Industry in Taiwan	Professor Bev Skeggs	28.02.10
Coleman, Rebecca	Becoming a Body: Girls, Images, Experience	Professor Celia Lury/Dr Mariam Fraser	31.01.06

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Davies, Will	Competition and Competitiveness: A Cultural Political Economy	Professor Scott Lash / Michael Keith
Day, Allan	An Ethnographic Study of Floss: Towards an STS analysis of free.open source software production	Dr Brian Alleyne / Professor Mike Michael
Denes, Nick	The Science of Existence: Zionism and the Making of Jewish Nationhood	C Bhatt	31.07.11
Deville, Joe	The Landscape of Consumer Debt: Tracing Technologies of Market Attachment	Professor Celia Lury / Dr Alberto Toscano
Doherty , Antonia Claire	“A Day at a Time”: Informal Institutional Interaction in Counselor/Client Substance Abuse Interviews	Professor David Silverman	30.11.02
Dolan, Patrick	The development of consumer culture, subjectivity and national identity in Ireland, 1900-1980	Dr Don Slater	31.10.04
Donovan, Grant	The Human Insulin Debate: A Case Study of Contested Innovation in Medical Technology	Professor Mike Michael	31.10.00

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Ebrey, Jill Elizabeth	The Weekend: Time, Space & Everyday Life in Manchester and Salford	Professor Celia Lury	30.03.06
Ewenstein, Boris	Youth Culture and Reflexivity: Learning Through the Culture in London and Berlin	Dr Fran Tonkiss/Professor Angela McRobbie	31.10.04

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Fallon, Debbie	Accessing Emergency Contraception: A Feminist Analysis of the Adolescent Experience	Professor Lisa Adkins	31.10.07
Fensom, Kay	Crime, Locality and Morality: Membership Categories and Newsworthiness in Local Newspapers	Professor David Silverman	01.04.04
Fiaccadori, Elisa	Between the Exception and Biopolitical Security: A Critical Discourse Analysis of US and EU Securitization Strategies Post 9-11	Professor Kate Nash / Dr Alberto Toscano	31.07.11

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Garbett, Claire	War and its witnesses: International criminal justice and the legal recognition of civilian victims	Dr Kirsten Campbell	30.06.09
Garnett, Marion	Sociology Out of This World: An Exploration into the Use of Complementary Therapies by Those who Nurse the Dying	Professor Clive Seale	31.03.01
Gidley, Ben Peter	Citizenship & Belonging: East London Jewish radicals.	Professor Vic Seidler, Professor Michael Keith	31.03.04
Gosende, Eduardo Enrique	Masculine Emotional Performances in PorteñMen Encounters	Professor Mike Michael/Dr Mariam Fraser	31.10.06

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Hadley, Jonathan Alan	Police Reform and Cultural Legitimacy: The Auratic Status of Nationhood Among Finnish and English Recruiting in 2002	Professor Michael Keith	28.02.05
Halewood, Michael	Subjectivity and Matter in the Work of A.N. Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze: Developing a Non-Essentialist Ontology for Social Theory	Dr Andrew Barry	30.09.03
Harris, Keith Daniel	Transgression and Mundanity: The Global Extreme Music Scene	Professor Chris Jenks	31.03.01
Harris, Roxy Wynford	“New Ethnicities” and Language Use: “Cultures of Hybridity” in a Group of Adolescents of Mainly South Asian Descent in a London School in the late 1990s	Professor Les Back	30.06.04
Haste, Polly	Tackling the ‘Difficult Subject’: An Ethnographic Exploration of Sexual Learning in Secondary School	Professor Les Back	30.10.08
Hausmann, Elke	Media Representation of Euthanasia	Professor Mike Michael, Professor Clive Seale	30.04.03
Heng, Terence	Making Chineseness in Transdiasporic Space: It's a Matter of Ethnic Taste	Professor Caroline Knowles / Professor Bev Skeggs
Henry, William Anthony	Reggae/Dancehall Music: The ‘Hidden Voice of Black British Urban Expression	Professor Les Back	31.07.02
Hiller, David Benjamin	Constructing Internet Access: The Emergence and Use of ICTs in New Social Spaces	Professor Mike Michael	31.08.06
Hingwan, Kathianne Carol	Carnival and Identity in Trinidad	Professor Chetan Bhatt/Professor Nikolas Rose	31.05.03
Hohenlohe, Alice	In the presence of the Past: Young Germans and the Cultural Memory of National socialism and the Holocaust	Professor Vic Seidler	28.2.12
Hunt, Sally Grace	Producing Single Homelessness: Descriptive Practice in Community Mental Health Casework	Professor David Silverman	30.09.02

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Jackson, Emma	Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Displacements, mobilities and fixity	Professor Bev Skeggs / Professor Les Back	31.12.10
Jones, Hannah	Uncomfortable Positions: How Policy Practioners Negotiate Difficult Subjects	Michael Keith / Marj Mayo	31.11.11
Jones, Rachel	Interrupting Time: a Photographic Examination of the Perception of Urban Temporality	Michael Keith	xx.5.12
Jones, Stephen	Negotiating Islam: Dialogues between Liberalism and Islamic Theologies in 21st Century Britain	Professor Vic Seidler	31.03.11
Jha, Meeta Rani	The emotional politics of Bombay Cinema and the British Asian Imaginary.	Professor Celia Lury / Professor Chetan Bhatt	30.09.06
Jimenez Ramirez, Jose Luis	Entendidos: A Study of Emotional Communication Among Gay Men of Barcelona	Professor Vic Seidler	28.02.02
Jungnickel, Katrina	Making Wifi: A Sociological Study of Backyard Technologists in Suburban Australia	Dr Nina Wakeford	05.05.09

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Keith, Kimberley	From Civilisation to Participation: The Convergence of Policy, Practice and Difference in the Art Museum	Professor Bev Skeggs / Marj Mayo	31.07.11
Kelly, Daniel Martin	In the Company of Men: Embodiment and Prostate Cancer	Professor Vic Seidler	30.11.02
Kelly, Moira Josephine	Telling the Story: the Status of Accounts Describing the Death of a Spouse	Professor David Silverman	28.02.03
Kennedy-Macfoy, Madeleine Veronique Natalya	The 'Citizen Thingy': Negotiating Identities and Learning Citizenship at School in Paris and London	Professor Kate Nash/Dr Brian Alleyne	30.06.08
King, Colin	‘Play the White Man’: The theatre of racialised performances in soccer coaching, management and administration	Professor Les Back	31.01.02
Koffman, Ofra	Towards a Genealogy of Teenage Pregnancy in Britain 1955-1968	Dr David Oswell	31.08.08

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Lapenta, Francesco	The Image as a Form of Sociological Data: A Methodological Approach to the Analysis to the Analysis of Photo Elicited Interviews	Professor Celia Lury/Dr Don Slater	18.01.05
Leary, Mike	The Production of Urban Public Space: A Lefebvrian analysis of Castlefield, Manchester	Professor Bev Skeggs / Michael Keith	31.03.11
Lempp, Heidi Katharina	Undergraduate and Medical Education: A Transition from Medical Student to Pre-Registration	Professor Kate Nash/Professor Clive Seale	30.06.04
Li, Sarah Shiu-Wai	Symbiotic Niceness: A Study of Psychosocial Care in Palliative Care Settings	Professor Clive Seale	30.11.02
Liokaftos, Dimitrios	'Classical' to 'Freaky': An Exploration of the development of the dominant, organised male bodybuilding culture'	Professor Vic Seidler
Loveday, Victoria	Affect, Ambivalence and Nostalgia: Experiencing working class identities in higher education	Professor Bev Skeggs / Dr Kirsten Campbell	30.11.11

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Mahler, Julia	Lived temporalities in Guatemala. An Empirical and theoretical exploration of duration and vitalism	Professor Scott Lash/Dr Françoise Verges	30.11.06
Mavrommatis, George	Gentrification and difference: the case of Brixton and Brick Lane	Professor Michael Keith	31.10.03
Michailidou, Martha	Feminity Confessed: The Transformation of Feminine Experience From Postwar Women’s Magazines to the Modern Talk Show	Professor Nikolas Rose/Dr Lisa Blackman	30.09.00
Miller, Nicola	The Price of Pragmatism: The State-Funding of Dance in Late Capitalist Society	Dr Paul Filmer/Professor Helen Thomas	31.08.01
Mohammed, Ilyas	Jihad In The West: The process involved in becoming an Islamically oriented social and elementary practitioner	Dr Alberto Toscano / Chetan Bhatt
Moor, Liz	Branded Spaces: The Mediation of Commercial Form	Professor Celia Lury/Professor Scott Lash	02.09.04
Moreno Figueroa, Monica Gabriela	The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity	Professor Celia Lury	31.12.06
Morris, Gay	Post-War American Dance: A Sociology of the Avant-Garde	Professor Helen Thomas	31.10.01
Mueller-Hirth, Natascha	Freedom betrayed: NGOs and the challenges of neoliberal development in the Post-Apartheid era	Dr Brian Alleyne	31.05.10
Mullings, Sireita	Post Colonial legacies of marginalisation as represented in the visual works of young people in Lambeth	Professor Les Back
Munday, Jennifer Mary	Identifications and Oppositions: Rural Identities and the Political Mobilisation of the Countryside Alliance	Professor Kate Nash / Dr Fran Tonkiss	30.06.08

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Narayan, Yasmeen	Becoming Caribbean in Contemporary London: Identity, Gender, Sexuality	Professor Les Back	31.01.05
Noble, Denise Elizabeth Pottinger	Governing Races/Feminising Freedom: A Genealogy of the Black Caribbean Woman from Postcolonial Britain to the Post Emancipation Caribbean	Professor Celia Lury/Professor Vikki Bell	31.08.06
Novas, Carlos	Governing ‘risky’ genes: predictive genetics, counselling expertise and the care of the self	Professor Nikolas Rose	31.10.03
Nugent, Emma Lucy Elizabeth	Building a Creative Persona	Professor Les Back/Dr Fran Tonkiss	11.04.05

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Ogasawara, Hiroki	Negotiating the Sectarian Imagery: Race and Nationalisms in Glasgow Celtic Fandom	Professor Les Back	31.07.03
Olma, Sebastian	Vital Organising: Capitalism’s Ontological Turn and the Role of Management Consulting	Professor Scott Lash/Professor Nikolas Rose	31.03.07
Ordorika, Teresa	Madness and Heresy in the Spanish Inquisition	Professor Vic Seidler	30.09.03
Osho, Iyabo	'Race', Capital and Enterprise: A Qualitative Study of Black Businesses and Organisations in London	Dr David Oswell / Fran Tonkiss	31.07.07

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Patel, Sejal	Conflicting Relationships: an Ethnographic Study of Second Generation Hindu Gujarati Men in Britain	Professor Vic Seidler	30.09.02
Panapakidis, Konstantinos	Drag Narratives: Staged Gender, Embodiment, and Competition	Caroline Knowles / Nina Wakeford	xx.05.12
Panteli, Maria	Mimesis and construction: Rethinking sociology of art	Helen Thomas	30.04.11
Pawley, Laurence	Culture and Citizenship: a Case Study of Practice in the BBC	Des Freedman / Professor Kate Nash	30.06.10
Pearce, Jennifer Joy	Being Young and Keeping Safe: Urban Youth, Space and Safety	Dr Fran Tonkiss	31.08.03
Peters, Fiona	Who Cares About Mixed Race? Care experiences of young people in an inner city borough	Professor Caroline Knowles / Dr David Oswell	31.12.10
Pietila, Minna	The Moral Order of Suicide: Family Talk About Bereavement	Professor Clive Seale	31.08.01
Pilgrim, Anita	Feeling for Politics: The Translation of Suffering and Desire in Black and Queer Performativity	Professor Paul Gilroy	30.04.01

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Radcliffe, Polly	The Conceptual Practices of Children and Family Social Work: Protection, Risk and Partnership	Professor Nikolas Rose/Professor Vikki Bell	31.05.01
Rapley, Timothy John	Accounting for Recreational Drug Use: The Lived Practice of Qualitative Interviews	Professor David Silverman	31.03.02
Rhoades, Lucy	Commune Girls – Growing up in utopia? Women Reflecting Back on Childhoods in British intentional Communities 1970-1985	Professor Vic Seidler	31.07.09
Rhys-Taylor, Alex	Coming to Our Senses: A Multisensory Exploration of Class and Multiculture in East London	Professor Les Back	31.03.11
Rief, Silvia Maria	Clubbing: Otherness and the Politics of Experience	Professor Helen Thomas	30.04.03
Roaf, Mutmahim		Professor Michael Keith
Rocamora, Agnes	The Symbolic Production of Culture in Discourses on Fashion in Le Monde and The Guardian: A Critical Application of the Work of Bourdieu	Dr Don Slater	31.05.02
Rooke, Alison	Lesbian landscapes and portraits: the sexual geographies of everyday life	Professor Les Back	30.06.05

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Sadler, Joanna Elizabeth	Implementing the Youth ‘Anti-Social Behaviour’ Agenda: Policing the Ashton Estate	Professor Michael Keith	30.06.04
Saha, Anamik	The Postcolonial Cultural Economy: The politics of British Asian cultural production	Michael Keith / Ben Gidley	xx.06.09
Sanders, Ben	'What to do? Twentysomethings': negotiations of unmapped futures, work and anxiety in post-traditional Britain	Professor Vic Seidler	31.03.11
Sanders, William Spencer	Our Manor: Youth Crime and youth culture in the inner city	Professor Nikolas Rose/Dr Tim Newburn	31.01.04
Schweizler, Brunhilde	The Medicalisation of the Female Middle Aged Body	Professor Nikolas Rose	31.03.01
Seetzen, Heidi Angela	Culture and the Production of Place: Negotiating Regeneration in Deptford, SE London	Professor Michael Keith	30.09.07
Singhakowinta, Jaray	'Unimaginable Desires: Gay relationships in Thailand'	Professor Vic Seidler	30.06.10
Skiftou, Vicky	Being Greek: Using photographs as a means of exploring cultural identity	Professor Celia Lury	02.02.10
Stephansen, Hilde C.	Making global publics? Communication and knowledge production in the World Social Forum process	Professor Kate Nash / Dr Brian Allyene	29.9.11
Stillwell, Natasha	The Sense and Sensation of Body Modification	Dr Mariam Fraser/Dr Nirmal Puwar	29.05.09
Stronge, Paul Robert	Open to suggestion: Ordering, risk and invention in community mental health work	Dr Monica Greco / Professor Mike Michael	31.09.10

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Tarr, Jennifer	Wise Bodies: Movement Re-Education, Subjectivity, and Embodiment Discourse	Professor Helen Thomas	31.08.04
Toffell, Gilad	The Cinema as a Communal Institution in Jewish London 1925-1950	Celia Lury / Fran Tonkiss	31.03.07
Tsurumoto, Koari	The Social Constitution of Japanese Subjectivity 1868-1906	Professor Nikolas Rose	31.08.01
Turner, Patrick	Hip Hop versus Rap: An Ethnography of the Cultural Politics of New Hop Hop Practices	Professor Les Back / Michael Keith	31.07.11

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Valyi, Gabor	Digging in the Crates: Practices of Identity and Belonging in a Translocal Record Collecting Scene	Michael Keith / Ben Gidley	31.01.11

Name	Title	Supervisor	Date
Wardell, Claire	Facts, Fictions and Futures: Towards a Cultural Understanding of the Public Understanding of Science	Professor Mike Michael	30.09.01
White, Rachel Frances	British indie music in the 1990s: Public spheres, media and exclusion.	Professor Celia Lury/ Professor Kate Nash	31.08.06
Whittington, Dean	Men, Violence and Substance Misuse (A Study of White Masculinities in Deptford)	Professor Vic Seidler	22.04.05
Wilkie, Alex	User Assemblages in Design: An Ethnographic study	Professor Mike Michael / Professor Bill Gaver	31.10.10
Wong, Karen Wai Yin	The ambivalence of the mobile telephone: A textual analysis of user and non-user accounts of meaning	Dr David Oswell/Professor Helen Thomas	31.05.07

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