| Name | Key expertise and research areas |
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| Bott, Esther |
Tourism in the Global South, niche tourism markets such as orphanage tourism, 'tribal' tourism and adventure tourism in remote regions; tourist interactions, impacts and negotiations of important new tourism markets and employment relations. |
| Bradford-Clarke, Lauren |
Victims of crime, victimology, policing, and criminal justice processes. |
| Briscoe-Palmer, Shardia |
Political Sociology at the Intersections of Race and Genders; Sexualities and the Body; (Black) Masculinities, Colonial Legacies and Performances. Health Sociology including Sex and Reproductive Health. Media Representations and Social Stigmas. |
| Clamp, Kerry |
Any area of restorative justice/practice; justice in post-conflict settings/transitional justice; community-based justice initiatives. Victimology, victims of crime, policing, criminal justice processes and criminal justice reform. |
| Chau, CM Ruby |
Comparative welfare study, East Asian welfare systems, women in labour market and family, health and social care for older migrants and global responses to ageing. |
| Chen, Qi |
Criminal sentencing, probation and community supervision, feminism and populism in criminal policy and public policy, crime and social control in China, and comparative studies in criminal justice and criminology.
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| Dauncey, Sarah |
Sociology of disability, gender, identity, citizenship, para-citizenship and personal life in China and other global South contexts; as well as welfare and policy-making (including education and family planning), language, culture, life writing and memory. |
| Dixon, Bill |
Policing and the police; decolonial and southern criminology; criminology, crime and crime control in South Africa. |
| Farrall, Stephen |
Criminal careers; desistance from crime; politics and crime; white collar crime; the fear of crime; crime surveys, qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
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| Fyson, Rachel |
Adult social care and social work; adult safeguarding; all aspects of policy and practice in relation to people with learning disabilities; policy implementation and evaluation. |
| Gardner, Alison |
Local governance and community co-production, particularly in relation to addressing modern slavery and human trafficking. Alison’s research focusses on identifying determinants for slavery-free communities. |
| Genova, Elena |
Intra-EU mobility, highly skilled migration, identities, belonging, policies and provision in relation to asylum seekers and refugees, EU citizenship, theories on late/liquid/post modernity and digital sociology. |
| Gregory, Lee |
Poverty, inequality, LGBTQ+, sexuality, social security, asset-based welfare, young people and social policy, class and social mobility, policy making processes, financial wellbeing, social theory of time |
| Guiney, Thomas |
Parole and prison release; prisons and imprisonment; the sociology of punishment; penal policymaking; the politics of law and order; historical criminology |
| Hashemi, Morteza |
Sociological theory, global social theory, Ibn Khaldun, colonialism and decoloniality, 'race', ethnicity, identity and migration, sociology of religion, social movements and activism, sociology of science and technology, sociology of startups, medical sociology, blood and organ donation. |
| Hobson-West, Pru |
Animals and society, veterinary ethics, science and technology studies, medical sociology, vaccination. |
| Jas, Pauline |
Patterns of hunger and satiety, the development of taste preferences in teenagers, motivations and patterns of charitable giving behaviour, and the effects of introducing the national minimum wage on voluntary sector organisations: improvement of performance in public sector organisations that have gone through a period of poor performance. |
| Jordan, Melanie |
Criminology, Criminal Justice, State Harm & Abuse, Medical Sociology; Forensic Psychology & Psychiatry; Healthcare Harm; Theoretical Criminology; Deviance Theory; Prisons; Victimology; Sex Crime; Offenders and Health. |
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Karademir, Irmak
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Sociology of Taste, Sociology of Art, Media and Cultural Intermediaries, Sociology of Fashion, Sociology of Food, Eating and Feeding, (Classed and Gendered) Parenting Practices , Sustainable Consumption Cultures, Political consumption, Field theory, Cultural capital theory, Practice theory, the Cultural politics of Turkey and neighbouring regions. |
| Kramer, Anne-Marie |
Broadly located in the sociology of personal life and the family; gender; identity and memory; religion; and sexuality and faith |
| Madziva, Roda |
Migration, race and inequalities, with a focus on (highly-skilled) migrants, refugees/asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and victims of human trafficking.
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| Pacey, Scott |
Buddhist-Christian engagement and interfaith dialogue, Buddhism in the West, Taiwanese Buddhism and religion in Taiwan, new religious movements (NRMs), religious innovation. |
| Paterson, William |
Most recent research drew on Bourdieu’s field theory to explore class, whiteness, rural/urban belonging and boundaries in northern England. |
| Purser, Aimie |
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity: Embodiment: Relationships between Theory, Art, Practice and Method: Continental Philosophy/Theory, including Existentialist Phenomenology, Post-Structuralism and Psychoanalysis: Love and the Erotic: Environmentalism: (Mental) Illness: Contemporary Dance and Performance Art. |
| Roberts, Simon |
UK, EU and International social security; EU free movement, social security and cross-border healthcare law and policy; UK and international disability policies; research and evaluation methodologies. |
| Saunders, Gary |
Higher Education, Learning and Teaching; Critical Pedagogy; Student Engagement; Co-operatives; Marxist Social Theory and Criminological Theory. |
| Stevenson, Nick |
Cultural citizenship, class, the labour movement, socialism and human rights. |
| Tangen, James |
Criminal Justice Policy and Practice; Digital Criminology, with a focus on the use of technologies in criminal justice practice; Probation & Community Justice; |
| Tomczak, Philippa |
Sociology of punishment, penal voluntary sector, prison suicide, deaths in state custody, prison regulation. |
| Warr, Jason |
Criminological and Sociological Theory; Race, Racism, and Criminal Justice; Cultural Studies/Criminology; Penal Theory and Penology; Sociology of Prison; Sociology of Risk and Power; Philosophy of Criminology; Ethnography; Qualitative Research (Methodology and Methods), Sensory studies in Criminology; and Narrative Criminology. |
| Warwick, Lisa |
Child and family social work (children in care, entering care and leaving care), children and childhood, motherhood and professional relationships. |
| Wikoff, Nora |
Labour markets, crime, financial wellbeing, and inclusive asset-building policy, with a shared focus on how interventions can improve individuals' financial wellbeing and promote beneficial outcomes. |
| Wilkinson, Hannah |
War, state violence and social harm (zemiology); narrative and visual methods; critical social theory |
| Wright, Edward |
Criminological theory, social theory, sport (particularly fighting sports and martial arts), decolonization, zemiology/sociology of harm, prison, time, qualitative methods (particularly ethnography) |