Our Staff
Academic Staff
ALLEYNE, Brian PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: b.alleyne
Extension: 7721
Activism and social movements, globalisation, information technologies, ethnicity, the use of biography and other forms of narrative in social research
BACK, Les BSc PhD (Professor)
Email: l.back
Extension: 7380
Issues of racism and multiculture in urban contexts
BELL, Vikki BA PhD (Professor)
Email: v.bell
Extension: 7724
Cultural theory, feminist thought and 'continental' philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, notions of performativity and belonging
BURROWS, Roger, BSc, MSc (Professor)
Email: r.burrows
Extension: tbc
Urban sociology; social media; the social life of methods; and the public life of data
CAMPBELL, Kirsten BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) BLitt DPhil, Barrister and Solicitor (Victoria), (Senior Lecturer)
Email: k.campbell
Extension: 7720
Feminist and post-structuralist social theory, psychoanalytic theory and socio-legal studies.
DAWNEY, Leila (Lecturer)
Email: l.dawney
Extension: 7724
Spinoza and “new materialist” cultural/political theory; spatiality and materiality; immanent authority and the production of 'community'; embodiment, practice and performativity; cultures of landscape; migration, racism and postcolonial cultural forms
FRASER, Mariam Motamedi PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: m.fraser
Extension: 2204
Words; facts and fictions; storying; archives; experience; methods; sociology, science and literature
GRECO, Monica BA MA PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: m.greco
Extension: 7719
Concepts of health, illness, therapeutics and/or healing in the context of different forms of medical rationality; concepts of life and vitalism; the body and the organism; social theory in relation to the ‘psy’ disciplines, emotions, subjectivity/selfhood and mental health; historical theory
GUGGENHEIM, Michael (Project Lead for ERC Starting Grant "Organising Disaster. Civil Protection and the Population".)
Email: m.guggenheim
Extension: 7731
STS, Visual, Studies of Expertise, Architecture and the City, Disasters
GUNARATNAM, Yasmin BSc MSc PhD (Lecturer)
Email: y.gunaratnam
Extension: 2957
Corporeal vulnerability, care, and social research methodologies.
HALLIDAY, Paul MA PgDip Soc Sci AdvDip Film Dip Photojourn Dip Digital Media (Lecturer), Convenor MA Photography and Urban Cultures
Email: p.halliday
Extension: 7390
Professional photographer and film-maker with an interest in theoretical and practice-led visual ethnography
HIRSH, David BSc(Hons) MA PhD
Email: d.hirsh
Extension: 7730
Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, international law, socio-legal studies, crimes against humanity, genocide, holocaust, 'war on terror', fundamentalism, Israel/Palestine, human rights
KELLY, Aidan, BA MA (Lecturer)
Email: a.kelly
Extension: 7382
The application of quantitative methodologies in sociological and public policy research
KNOWLES, Caroline BSc PhD (Professor), Convenor, MA in Culture, Globalisation & the City
Email: c.knowles
Extension: 7393
Race and ethnicity; migration; space and urban life; madness; visual studies and biographical methods
KRAUSE, Monika MSc PhD (Lecturer)
Email: m.krause
Extension: 7563
Political sociology, sociological theory, sociology of culture, organizations, humanitarian relief
LURY, Celia BA MA DPhil (Professor)
Email: c.lury
Extension: 7718
Cultural and feminist theory
MARRES, Noortje MA PhD (Lecturer)
Email: n.marres
Extension: 7571
Social studies of technology, environment and participation; digital social methods; public controversies on science; technology and nature; theories of democracy in technological societies
MICHAEL, Mike BA PhD (Professor)
Email: m.michael
Extension: 7706
Public understanding of science; sociology of mundane technologies; sociology of biomedical innovation; sociology of everyday life; animals and society; materiality and sociality
NASH, Kate BSc PhD (Professor)
Email: k.nash
Extension: 7734
Sociology of human rights; cultural politics; political sociology; citizenship; social movements; equality and diversity
ODIH, Pamela BSoc.Sc PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: p.odih
Extension: 7732
Gender, time social theory and work; marketing and advertising discourse
OSWELL, David BA MA PhD (Reader)
Email: d.oswell
Extension: 7715
Cultural studies, sociology of science and technology, sociology of childhood and social theory
PUWAR, Nirmal BA MA PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: n.puwar
Extension: 7716
Dynamics of space and bodies in relation to 'universal' speaking positions and the weight of the somatic norm within national as well as international mainstream and alter arenas
RHYS-TAYLOR, Alex BSc, MA, PhD, PGCert (Lecturer)
Email: a.rhystaylor
Extension: 7710
Cities, Globalization, Urban Regeneration, Multiculture, Class, Race, Racism, Food, Smell, Sensory Methods, Ethnography and Historical Sociology
ROOKE, Alison BA PhD (Researcher)
Email: a.rooke
Extension: 5073
Issues of class, gender and sexualities in urban contexts
ROSENGARTEN, Marsha BA, Grad Dip Communications, MA, PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: m.rosengarten
Extension: 7733
Sociological studies of biomedicine and biotechnology inclusive of feminist poststructural critiques of matter; HIV/AIDS, blood, organ and xenotransplantation, sexuality and theories of the body
SASSATELLI, Monica PhD (Lecturer)
Email: m.sassatelli
Extension: 2202
Cultural identity, European cultural policies (and cultural politics), the city (in Europe and globally), leisure, landscape and place, experience, aesthetics, art worlds, festivals, culture industries, museums and other ‘memory institutions’
SEIDLER, Victor Jeleniewski BA MPhil (Emeritus Professor)
Email: v.seidler
Extension: 7723
Social theory and philosophy; Marxism and critical theory, moral theory, masculinity and sexual politics; the body and emotional life; ecology and social theory; holocaust and modernity; psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; identity and ethnicity; men and feminism; the sociology of knowledge; morality and social theory; equality and liberal theory
SIMONE, AbdouMaliq PhD (Professor)
Email: a.simone
Extension: 7710
Various territories, powers, cultural expressions, potentialities, governance and planning discourses, spaces and times in cities across the world
SKEGGS, Bev BA PhD PGCE (Professor and Head of Department)
Email: b.skeggs
Extension: 2957
class, cultural formations, feminist and poststructuralist theory, Pierre Bourdieu and Marx, sexuality, space and violence
Email: b.stlouis
Extension: 5061
Conceptual and practical status of race, especially in relation to politics and ethics; black/postcolonial radical intellectualism; sociology of sport; sport, culture and aesthetics
TOSCANO, Alberto BA MA PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: a.toscano
Extension: 7717
Contemporary social theory and philosophy; Marx and Marxism; recent French thought, in particular the writings of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and issues around political ontology; biopolitics; anti-capitalism; theories of political subjectivity; collective and technological individuation (Gilbert Simondon); vitalism and neo-monadology (Tarde, Whitehead); Italian Marxism and operaismo (Panzieri, Tronti, Negri); debates on post-Fordism, immaterial labour and cognitive capitalism; the historical materialist geography of David Harvey; the link between religion and politics (fanaticism, messianism, and political theology)
UPRICHARD, Emma BA MA PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Email: e.uprichard
Extension: 7722
Complexity theory, methodology, causality, realism, space, time, cities, childhood, food
WAKEFORD, Nina BA Dphil (Reader)
Email: n.wakeford
Extension: 7081
Sociology of technology, Feminist and Queer theory, methodology for studying new media and technologies
Professional Staff
Department Manager Lauren Sibley
FEARON, Violet BSc
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator
Email: v.fearon
Extension: 7709
KEEGAN, Carole BA
Centre Administrator, CSISP and CUCR (part-time)
Email: c.keegan
Extension: 7381 (Tu, Th) 7016 (M, F)
NAST, Chloe BA
Department Coordinator
Email: c.nast
Extension: 7707
OFFERMAN, Jane BA MA
Research Administrator (part-time)
Email: j.offerman
Extension: 7179
SIBLEY, Lauren BA
Department Manager
Email: l.sibley
Extension: 7735
CAMFIELD, Sheila
Postgraduate (MA) Programmes Officer (part-time)
Email: s.robinson
Extension: 7712
WARD, Bridget
Postgraduate (MPhil/PhD) Research Officer (part-time)
Email: b.ward
Extension: 2981
Research Assistants
DEVILLE, Joe (Researcher)
Email: j.deville
Extension: 5054
EVANS, Luke (Researcher)
Email: l.evans
Extension: 7731
HRDLICKOVA, Zuzanna (Researcher)
Email: z.hrdlickova
Extension: 5054
OVALLE, Liliana (Researcher)
Email: l.ovalle
Extension: TBC
Visiting Professors
MCDONALD, Kevin (Professor)
Email: k.mcdonald
Extension: 7381
Visiting Fellows
BARRETO, Jose-Manuel
CASTILLO SEPULVEDA, Jorge
CONWAY, Daniel
GARBETT, Claire
PELL, Susan
PFINGST, Annie
RODRIGUEZ GIRALT, Israel
SAARENMAA, Laura
SANTIAGO FARIA, Alice
SINHA, Shamser (Researcher)
Visiting Researchers
COLES, Peter
KENDALL, David
LEVETT, John
LEE, Lois
ROWE, Simon
VELIZ ARGUETA, Beatriz
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows
JONES, Hannah
Email: hannah.jones
LOVEDAY, Vik
Email: v.loveday
MUNDAY, Jennie
Email: j.munday
COLES, Peter
Email: p.coles
STEPHANSEN, Hilde
Email: h.stephansen