Academic staff

- Sociological Theory
- Sociological Methodology
- Cultural Theory
- Quality of Life Debates
- Biopolitics
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Sociology of Suffering, Dying & Death
- Regulation Studies

- Disability & mental health
- The personalisation agenda
- Mental Capacity & Human Rights
- Empowering & strengths based theories of intervention
- Learning disabilities practice

- Theories of race & racism
- Theories of identity
- Muslim minorities
- Multiculturalism & citizenship
- Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
- Inter-generational relations
- Qualitative methods

- Power relations in everyday life
- Cultural & social reproduction
- How affect & humour hold potentials for both challenging & reinforcing prevailing power structures

- Social policy debates, reforms & contexts related to childhood & family relations
- Sociology of childhood & family life
- Welfare state reform
- Promoting social equality for young people

- Sociology of evil
- Extreme deviance
- Cultural criminology
- Sociology of (lower league) football
- Sociology of football singing
- Impact of research on social work practice

- Sex work
- Modern slavery & trafficking
- Scholar-activism & social justice
- Migration
- Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
- Feminist methodologies, including participatory research.

- Everyday policing and punishment
- Being and belonging in the city
- The politics of crisis
- Concepts of urban justice

- Research Methods
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Aging Population
- Late working life
- Carers & Unpaid care
- Researchers’ spaces & engagement with their working environment

- Inequalities
- Intersectionality
- Stigma
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Research ethics
- Social constructionism
- Qualitative methods including insider research
- Trauma informed research

- Family relationships & politics
- Friendship, personal relationships & social change
- Sibling relationships
- Everyday life
- Qualitative methodologies

- Science and technology studies
- Social robotics/robots for care
- Intersectionality
- Reprogenetic technologies
- Heterodox economics & science policy
- Responsible research and innovation

- Ethnomethodology and conversation(al) analysis
- Ethnographic method and methodology
- Workplace studies
- Social interaction
- Theories of social order

- Orphan Drug Policy
- Innovation System
- Multi-agent Based Social Simulation
- 3D-Printed pharmaceuticals

- Pre-post activity of online communication

Lived experiences of health and illness
Mental health and well-being
Health inequalities
Racial and gendered inequalities

- Ageing, pensions & income in later life
- Gender
- Work & care
- Remembrance & sport
- Pensions
- Reform and the impact of particular governments.

- Data (visualisation)
- Visual communication
- Digital media
- Emotions
- Mobilisations and political participation
- AI and machine learning

- Young people’s experiences of social media 
- Digital identities (particularly gender)
- Digital research methods and ethics

- Families and relationships
- Reproduction
- Donation
- Childhood and generation
- Creative methods
- Sociological fiction
- Sociology of morality

- Alternative & activist media
- Food politics
- ‘Lifestyle’ ethics
- Online dis/misinformation & hate speech
- Mediated activism
- Science & technology studies
- Social & cultural theory

- Critical data studies 
- Digital sociology / Digital geography 
- Media and communications
- Medial sociology
- Research methods
- Science and technology studies

-Youth, gender, race & sexuality
-Participatory culture & fandom
-Popular media cultures
-Belonging & (cultural) citizenship
-Feminist methodologies
-Feminist pedagogies & informal learning cultures

- Digital technology and intersectional inequality
- The sociology of ‘race’ and racism, decolonial thought
- Children and young people
- Reflexive research methodologies

- Digital methods
- Visual social media
- Politics &/of digital media
- Time & digital media
- Everyday digital cultures
- Digital media platforms & their cultural & political interventions

- The biopolitics of patient activism
- Intellectual property & Global Health
- Digital technologies & health
- The politics of molecular conceptions of life
- Foucauldian methods & Critical Theory

- Transgender & gender diversity
- Gender
- Sexuality
- The body
- Intimacies
- Citizenship
- Recognition & social movements

-Concussion and neurodegenerative disease
-Autism spectrum conditions
-Sociology of the psy- and neuro-sciences
-Medical Sociology
-Science and Technology Studies
-More than human social theory

Intersectionality
Health inequalities
Healthy ageing
Chronic disease and multimorbidity
MAIHDA (Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy)
Mixed methods
Social class

- Professional resilience - surviving & thriving as a social worker
- Integrating research & theory with practice experience
- Online teaching methods for social work
- Adoption & permanence planning

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

- Political economy of media
- Platform studies
- App studies
- Media and financialization
- Media industries
- Media policy and regulation

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

- Transnational families
- Transnational political economy of care
- Migration and transformations

- Serious & organised crime
- Human Trafficking
- Illicit enterprise & entrepreneurship
- Policing
- Surveillance studies

Role of organisations in the coordination of social workers activities and the subversion of professional values and ethics. 

- Migration policies
- ‘Race’ & multicultural strategies
- Immigration; community
- Family
- Transnational relationships
- Work & leisure among migrants
- Forced labour

- Mindfulness & self-regulation
- Child & adolescent mental health & wellbeing
- Health/mental health in the perinatal period
- Loneliness & social isolation
-Social determinants of health & wellbeing

- Inequities in health and healthcare
- Using an intersectionality approach to social and health outcomes
- Mapping intersectional life course of inclusion/exclusion and wellbeing

- The development of epigenetics & the role of science in policy
- Novel biosocial concepts & methods in the social sciences
- What it means to be human in the 21st Century
- Responsible research

- Social stratification & inequality
- Labour markets
- Education
- Family & gender
- Migration
-Electoral behaviour
- Advanced multivariate methods

- Asylum
- Refugees
- Human rights
- Historical & political sociology
- Postcolonialism
- Decoloniality
- Policy making & power

- Family experiences of child welfare service
- The impact of inequality
- New approaches to supporting families

- Migration

- Ethnicity
- Race & multiculture
- Community
- Belonging & place
- Rurality & the countryside
- Social policymaking
- Social inequalities & inclusion

- Human Rights and their significance to social work practice
- Social Work in Courtroom settings
- Law and Ethics
- Enquiries and Serious Case Reviews

Gaming
Gaming culture and society
Gender
Popular culture
Participatory fan culture, including cosplay
Identity and digital media

- Inequalities in health
- Roma health

Digital activism
Digital identities and politics
Far-right digital publics
Visual cultures
Online conspiracy theories
Online racism

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

Global Data Economy
Histories of Datafication
Data Industries
Health Data Governance

- Theorising gender
- Gender inequality & health
- Ethnicity & health
- Gender & genetics

- Interpersonal violence & abuse
- Gender-based violence & abuse
- Gender, trans & gender diversity
- Hidden & marginalised communities
- Multiple social exclusion
- Qualitative & narrative methods

. Sociology of health and illness
· Sociology of reproduction
· Science and technology studies
· Qualitative methodologies

- Social and political determinants of health
- Racial health and wellbeing inequalities in the UK
- Gender and reproductive health in South Asia
- Participatory and anti-racist research methodologies

- Domestic abuse, family violence, gender-based violence
- Children and families social work practice and inequality
- Restorative practice
- Everyday family life and state intervention

World Heritage Site Management
Rural Communities
Rural Mental Health Support
Landscape Management
National Parks
Agriculture
Farmer Decision-Making
Ethnography
Qualitative Research Methods

- Surveillance
- Data analytics industries
- The geoweb
- Mobile digital culture
- Digital marketing

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

Digital methods
Digital publics
Health and illness
Platform studies
Networks

- Ageing
- Intellectual disability and ageing
- Social empowerment in theory and practice
- Political economy of social policy
- Comparative social policy in Europe, China and East Asia

- Family
- Everyday sociology
- Migration, race & ethnicity
- Community
- Childhood

- 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

- Health & social media
- Digital health
- Sociology of health & illness
- Genetics
- Race & ancestry
- Science & technology in society/STS
- Digital methods
- Tissue donation & biobanking

- Health and illness
- Loneliness
- Diagnosis
- Historical and Contemporary Methodologies

- Sustainable care
- Ageing