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Staff list
Fauzia Ahmad BSc, MSc, PhD
f.ahmad (@gold.ac.uk)
Fauzia is a qualitative feminist researcher with research interests in gendered ethnic and faith identities.
Brian Alleyne BSc MSc PhD
b.alleyne (@gold.ac.uk)
Brian is focussed on globalisation, social movements and the social life of information technology.
Margarita Aragon
margarita.aragon (@gold.ac.uk)
Margarita lectures Sociology and Criminology. Her research examines historical intersections of racism and gender.
Les Back BSc PhD
l.back (@gold.ac.uk)
Les specialises in the sociology of racism and ethnicity, popular culture and music, and urban life and community.
Vikki Bell BA PhD
v.bell (@gold.ac.uk)
Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.
Michaela Benson BA PhD
michaela.benson (@gold.ac.uk)
Michaela is renowned for her contributions to the sociology of migration, and research on home and belonging.
Svenja Bromberg
s.bromberg (@gold.ac.uk)
Svenja is a theorist with expertise in Marxism and French and German social theory from the 19th to 21st century.
Kirsten Campbell BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), BLitt, DPhil, PhD, Barrister and Solicitor
k.campbell (@gold.ac.uk)
With a theoretical focus upon gender and law, Kirsten explores international criminal law and transitional justice.
Rebecca Coleman
rebecca.coleman (@gold.ac.uk)
Rebecca works across sociology, cultural studies and feminist theory on topics including temporality, images, bodies, affect, and inventive methodologies.
Sara R Farris
s.farris (@gold.ac.uk)
Sara has explored the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory as well as feminism, racism and nationalism.
Jennifer Fleetwood
j.fleetwood (@gold.ac.uk)
Jennifer is a criminologist and sociologist whose research and writing centres on women, gender, and crime/law-breaking.
Jennifer Gabrys
j.gabrys (@gold.ac.uk)
Jennifer’s research investigates environments, digital technologies and citizen participation.
Monica Greco BA MA PhD
m.greco (@gold.ac.uk)
Monica’s work addresses forms of knowledge in medicine and psychiatry as objects of research.
Kiran Grewal
k.grewal (@gold.ac.uk)
Kiran researches the interactions between legal frameworks and social justice struggles of marginalised groups.
Michael Guggenheim
m.guggenheim (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.
Yasmin Gunaratnam BSc MSc PhD
y.gunaratnam (@gold.ac.uk)
Yasmin’s work encompasses areas of disability, gender and sexuality, health and illness, migration and race.
Paul Halliday
p.halliday (@gold.ac.uk)
Paul’s focus is on urban and fine-art photography, documentary and film, urban ethnography, and narratives of city life.
David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD
d.hirsh (@gold.ac.uk)
David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.
Emma Jackson
e.jackson (@gold.ac.uk)
An urban sociologist and ethnographer, Emma explores the relationship between belonging, place and urban change.
Kat Jungnickel
k.jungnickel (@gold.ac.uk)
Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY/DIT communities of practice
Sobia Ahmad Kaker
s.kaker (@gold.ac.uk)
Sobia’s work reveals the ‘lived’ aspects of urbanisation, securitisation and socio-political life in the global south.
Caroline Knowles BSc PhD
c.knowles (@gold.ac.uk)
Caroline writes about migration and circulations of material objects and the social forces constituting globalisation in cities.
Dr Vik Loveday
v.loveday (@gold.ac.uk)
Currently researching higher education, Vik has also worked on gender, identity, luck, nostalgia and social class.
Jamie Matthews
j.matthews (@gold.ac.uk)
Jamie is a political sociologist whose research explores contemporary social movements and forms of popular protest.
Mariam Motamedi-Fraser BA (Hons), PhD
m.motamedi-fraser (@gold.ac.uk)
Mariam’s work explores 'sense-making', how different kinds of theoretical, political and ethical sense is/can be made.
Kate Nash BSc PhD
k.nash (@gold.ac.uk)
Kate works on cultural politics - how does meaning-making establish and challenge (more or less unequal, violent) social orders.
Daniel Neyland BA(Hons) PhD
d.neyland (@gold.ac.uk)
Daniel’s research covers issues of governance, accountability and ethics in science, technology and organisation.
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
s.nolas (@gold.ac.uk)
Melissa is an ethnographer with an interdisciplinary background in the social sciences.
Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc PhD
p.odih (@gold.ac.uk)
Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.
David Oswell, BA (Hons), MA , PhD
d.oswell (@gold.ac.uk)
David’s research is concerned with the social life of children, children’s rights and, more broadly, social theory.
Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD
n.puwar (@gold.ac.uk)
Nirmal's research is in space and politics, with respect to bodies, race and gender. She has been leading the field in creative methods, especially through curating spaces.
Reed, Elizabeth
e.reed (@gold.ac.uk)
Lizzie’s research focusses on LGBTQ relationships and families, childhood, and the role of media in identity-making.
Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor BSc, MA, PhD, PGCert
a.rhystaylor (@gold.ac.uk)
Alex is an urban sociologist, focussed on the relationship between multi-sensory experiences of cities and histories of change.
Katherine Robinson
k.robinson (@gold.ac.uk)
Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.
Alison Rooke BA, MA, PhD
a.rooke (@gold.ac.uk)
Alison is a sociologist with a specialism in urban theory and creative research methods.
Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD
m.rosengarten (@gold.ac.uk)
Marsha’s interests are process thinking, science and technology studies, feminist theory and sexuality.
Evelyn Ruppert, PhD
e.ruppert (@gold.ac.uk)
Evelyn is a data sociologist, focussing on how different socio-technical devices organise and constitute populations.
Dr Monica Sassatelli
m.sassatelli (@gold.ac.uk)
Monica works in the fields of cultural identity, European cultural policies and cultural politics in city settings.
Martin Savransky
m.savransky (@gold.ac.uk)
Martin’s research explores speculative philosophy, pragmatism, pluralism, decolonial thought, and the politics of difference.
Brett St Louis BA MSc PhD
b.stlouis (@gold.ac.uk)
Brett's interests crystallise into three areas: race and ethnicity, post-colonial intellectualism and racism in sport.
Paul Stoneman
p.stoneman (@gold.ac.uk)
Paul’s research activities focus on political ideologies and the new right and access to safe and affordable housing.
Alberto Toscano BA MA PhD
a.toscano (@gold.ac.uk)
Alberto’s expertise is in social and political theory, philosophy, Marxism and critical theory.
Nina Wakeford
n.wakeford (@gold.ac.uk)
Nina’s focus is on art and visual sociology, including methodologies and practice based research.