Members

Water-soluble polymers, block copolymers, polymerisation-induced self-assembly, RAFT polymerisation, polymer brushes, colloidal nanocomposites, microgels, latexes, gels, foams & branched polymers.

Luca works at the interface of philosophy and cognitive science and he is particularly interested in affective, social, and moral cognition.

International Relations

Modernism, literature and science, law and literature, and Irish Studies. 

Some of Paul's research interests include epistemology, testimony, trust, second-personal attitudes and emotions.

Dominic's research interests include philosophical questions concerning modality, the imagination, fiction, plus pictures and other forms of imagistic representation.

Mark Hawley is based in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group in Health Services Research

- Youth/young adult criminal justice policy
- Childhood neurodevelopmental impairment
- Developmental science & its applications to social sciences
- Family-focused policy, practice & research methods

- New media theory, practice & creativity
- Social media data mining, big data analytics and data visualisation
- The myths of new media
- Media industries & cultural labour

Professor Lenny Koh, is a Chair Professor in Operations Management, Founders and Directors of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre at the Management School.

Some of Jimmy's research interests include moral realism, moral expressivism, moral psychology and moral epistemology.

Simon's expertise in constructing conceptual understanding and empirical evidence of the changing relations between socio-technical networks and urban and regional restructuring.

- Climate change communication & policy
- Public inclusion in research governance
- The rise of randomised trials within UK public policy

Polymer Nanotechnology (synthesis, processing, self-assembly, structure-property relations), Public engagement in science and technology.

Yonatan's research interests include the philosophy of action, the philosophy of practical reason and the contribution of these two fields to Ethics and to the theory of normativity in general.

Political Theory

'Research in practice' in which wide participation, 'co-production', and real-world outcomes are key drivers. The outputs include films, audio pieces, and exhibitions amongst others.

- Labour markets, learning, skills, underemployment & training
- Social quality, health and wellbeing
- Poverty & deprivation
- Advanced multivariate methods
- Machine learning

Law

- Ageing
- Caregiving & gender
- Older people & the social model of disability
- Ageing, caring & well-being
- Service user involvement

- Everyday health practices
- Mundane health technologies
- Lay/professional knowledge
- Genetics
- Prevention
- Qualitative methods
- Science & technology studies
- Sociology of health & illness

Aidan’s research examines how cities and urban social life are being reimagined and redesigned in response to climate change and automation.

Matt's research is in the politics of urban air pollution governance with Sheffield Air.