People in the School of Global Change
In this section
Staff list
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.
Dr George Bodie
George is a historian of contemporary Germany and the global Cold War
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.
Francisco Carballo
Francisco addresses Latin American politics from below, decolonial and postcolonial theory and rough politics.
Dr Alice Cazenave
Alice works with photography to trace the material, ecological, and colonial legacies of media infrastructures.
Dr Laura Cuch
Laura is a visual artist and cultural geographer interested in communities, food cultures and material performativity
Professor Will Davies
My research looks at how expert knowledge is deployed politically in neoliberal societies.
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.
.jpg)
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.
Dr Alex Dymock
Alex's research expertise lies in criminal law and criminal justice, sexuality, drugs, feminist and queer theory
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.
Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock
Lucy’s research is broadly concerned with critical legal and contemporary philosophical understandings of law in relation to practice, aesthetics and materiality.
Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA
I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.
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.
-(1).jpg)
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 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 Ricardo Leizaola PhD
Ricardo is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist specialising in visual anthropology and ethnobotany.
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 cultures of disagreement in modern politics
Marta Minetti
Marta's research focuses on Immigration Law, EU Criminal Law and Global Human Mobility and Populism studies.
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
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 uses ethnography to research places and organisations.
Dr Ekaterina Rozanova
Ekaterina teaches international relations and researches soft power, culture, and security.
Dr Julia Sauma
Julia's work investigates how collective life is maintained within and against extractive relations/structures.
Dr Anastasia Stouraiti
Anastasia is a cultural historian, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire
Dr Erica Wald
Erica's research intersects the fields of social, colonial, medical and military history, with a focus on South Asia.
Dr Derek Wall
Green political economy, commons, Elinor Ostrom, the politics of climate change and social movements
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.
.jpg)
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.