People in the School of Global Change

Dr. Emma Abotsi

I work on youth, education, migration and development with a geographical focus on the UK and West Africa.

Dr Mi Young Ahn

Mi Young is interested in sense of belonging, intersectional inequality, social capital, and mixed methods research.

Dr Audrey Allwood

I specialise in researching the Caribbean community in Britain focusing on inter-generation connections and belonging.

Virginie Barral

Virginie’s expertise is in international law focusing on sustainability, climate justice and culture & the environment

Vikki Bell BA PhD

Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.

Professor Jean Besson MA PhD

Jean has researched in the Caribbean, publishing on cultural history, peasantry, land, law and development.

Dr George Bodie

George is a historian of contemporary Germany and the global Cold War

Louise Boer

Svenja Bromberg

Svenja is a theorist with expertise in social and political theory, philosophy, critical thought and Marxism

Dr Bernadette Buckley

Bernadette is interested in the complex relationships between art, war and terrorism.

Professor Pat Caplan MA PhD

A founding member of the department, Pat has researched gender, social inequality and food, health and risk.

Francisco Carballo

Francisco addresses Latin American politics from below, decolonial and postcolonial theory and rough politics.

Professor Rebecca Cassidy

I am a social anthropologist working on fruit, particularly apples and orchards.

Dr Laura Cuch

Laura is a visual artist and cultural geographer interested in communities, food cultures and material performativity

Dr Jinal Dadiya

Jinal's research focuses on Health Law, the Law of Obligations, Law & Emotions, & Legal History

Dr Isabell Dahms

Isabell researches medical, philosophical and grassroots histories of sex, gender and sexuality.

Professor Will Davies

My research looks at how expert knowledge is deployed politically in neoliberal societies.

Professor Sophie Day MA PhD

I work on health - or living – as a distributed and a distributive process.

Professor Simon Dein

Simon researches religious healing in Pentecostalism, mental health and Islam, prophecy and Jewish Millennialism

Dr Aysem Diker Vanberg

Aysem’s research interests lie in EU and UK Competition Law (broadly commercial law) and Information Technology Law.

Dr Henrike Donner

I am an urban anthropologist with research interests in gender and kinship, reproduction, class and urban politics.

Sultan Doughan

I research religious difference, race, citizenship and memory within secularism in Europe & the Middle East.

Lee Douglas

A ethnographer, image-maker, and curator, my work considers memory and forgetting in post-violence contexts.

Professor Peter Doyle

Peter Doyle is a military historian with a special interest in the British experience of war

Dr Alex Dymock

Alex's research expertise lies in criminal law and criminal justice, sexuality, drugs, feminist and queer theory

Dr Hannah Elias

Specialising in histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain.

Dr Alice Elliot

I work in North Africa and Europe on Mediterranean migrations, Islam and hope, politics and intimacy

Sara R Farris

Gender and migration, care and social reproduction, racism/nationalism, feminist theory, social theory

Fay Dennis

Fay Dennis is a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow working on the sociology of drugs.

Professor Victoria Goddard BSc PhD

Victoria has worked in the fields of economic and political anthropology, with an emphasis on gender and class.

Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA

I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.

Monica Greco BA MA PhD

Monica Greco works at the intersections of social science and the history and philosophy of medicine.

Dr Simon Griffiths

Simon teaches, writes about, and comments on, contemporary British politics, the history of political thought in the UK, and public policy.

Michael Guggenheim

Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.

Dr Paul Gunn

Paul’s work looks at political complexity, error, and ignorance, and the institutional mechanisms available in contemporary political economy that can address these problems.

Dr Aurelia Guo

My research explores social and legal histories of exclusion

Dr Ariel Hessayon

Reader in early modern history

David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD

David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.

Dr Rachel Ibreck

Rachel’s work explores political struggles for human rights, justice and memory in Africa.

Dr Maria N Ivanova

Maria Ivanova’s research interests include social theory and political economy, theories of money and finance, crisis theories, international and comparative political economy, and the political economy of the United States.

Dr Kesewa John

Kesewa is a bilingual (French/English) Black feminist historian curious about stories which defy borders

Dr Mark Johnson

Mark’s interests are on the issues of gender/sexuality, landscape and material culture, migration and transnationalism.

Kat Jungnickel

Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY tech communities of practice

Dr Kuldip Kaur

Kuldip's research looks at the politics of race and racisms and the politics of food justice.

Dr Dimitrios Kivotidis

My work focuses on issues of Public Law, Human Rights, Law and Political Economy, and Critical Legal Theory.

Dr Sheri Labenski

Sheri's research focuses on gender and feminist theory, and international law.

Dr Jeremy Larkins

Jeremy’s primary research area is in the cultural and intellectual history of international political theory.

Dr Alexandra Lee

Alexandra is a medieval historian who focuses on the intersection between epidemic disease and popular religion.

Dr Ricardo Leizaola PhD

Ricardo is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist specialising in visual anthropology and ethnobotany.

Dr Máire MacNeill

Dr David L Martin

David’s expertise is in the fields of postcolonial theory, cultural geography, medical humanities and the history of religion.

Professor James Martin

James Martin is a political theorist interested in culture and conflict in modern politics

Dr Manal Massalha

Urban ethnography, social documentary photography, conviviality, displacement, social inclusion/exclusion, urban health.

Marta Minetti

Marta's research focuses on Immigration Law, EU Criminal Law and Global Human Mobility and Populism studies.

Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD

Brian has published on the anthropology of religion, conceptions of the self and on herbalism in Malawi.

Dr Andrea Mura

Andrea has research interests in Political Philosophy, Geopolitics, and Postcolonial Theory.

Professor Saul Newman

Political theory, democratic governance and history of political thought.

Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc PhD

Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.

David Oswell, BA (Hons), MA , PhD

David’s research is concerned with the social life of children, children’s rights and, more broadly, social theory.

Dr Nicole A. Pierce

Nicole's research interests cover areas of Commonwealth studies, Commercial Law reform, SIDS, and financial stability.

Dr Frances Pine BA, MPhil Phd

Frances’ research in eastern Europe has led to work on kinship and gender, place, history and memory, and work.

Dr John Rees

John is researching his second book on the English Revolution of the 1640s, following The Leveller Revolution (Verso, 20

Dr Peter Rees

Peter Rees is a political theorist and postdoctoral researcher focusing on migration, citizenship and rights.

Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor BSc, MA, PhD, PGCert

Alex's research looks at processes of social change in cities, with a focus on embodied experiences.

Dr Katherine Robinson

Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.

Dr Ekaterina Rozanova

Ekaterina teaches international relations and researches soft power, culture, and security.

Andres Saenz de Sicilia

Philosophy, critical social theory, violence, technology, ecology

Julia Sauma

Julia's work investigates how joyful collective life is maintained within and against extractive relations/structures.

Professor Cris Shore

Political anthropology; Europe; Corruption; Organisations; Higher Education; Anthropology of Policy; Audit culture.

Dr Tarangini Sriraman

Tarangini's research interests lie at the intersection of social and medical history across the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dr Anastasia Stouraiti

Anastasia is a cultural historian, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire

Professor Emma Tarlo

Emma specialises in the anthropology of material culture with reference to dress, fashion, textiles, the body and hair.

Dr Aristi Volou

Dr Volou's research lies in the field of international human rights law

Dr Erica Wald

Erica's research intersects the fields of social, colonial, medical and military history, with a focus on South Asia.

Prof Alexander Watson

Alexander is a prize-winning historian of 19th- and 20th-century East-Central Europe, focusing on war and extremism

Dr Martin Webb

Active citizenship, ethical politics, transparency and accountability, urban governance, citizen-state interfaces.

Dr Martyn Wemyss

Martyn is interested in the relationship between law and time, aesthetics of justice and the material lives of norms.

Dr Justin Woodman

Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.

Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

Yesim’s research focuses on political violence and human rights. She is currently working on confessional forms of truth-telling in the aftermath of state-led atrocities.