Academic staff
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Dr Matthias Benzer
Lecturer in SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Sociological Theory
- Sociological Methodology
- Cultural Theory
- Quality of Life Debates
- Biopolitics
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Sociology of Suffering, Dying & Death
- Regulation Studies
+44 114 222 6406
David Bosworth
Director of Social Work EducationDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Disability & mental health
- The personalisation agenda
- Mental Capacity & Human Rights
- Empowering & strengths based theories of intervention
- Learning disabilities practice
+44 114 222 6409

Dr Jo Britton
Senior Lecturer in Applied SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Theories of race & racism
- Theories of identity
- Muslim minorities
- Multiculturalism & citizenship
- Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
- Inter-generational relations
- Qualitative methods
+44 114 222 6431
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Dr Harriet Churchill
Lecturer in Social WorkDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Social policy debates, reforms & contexts related to childhood & family relations
- Sociology of childhood & family life
- Welfare state reform
- Promoting social equality for young people
+44 114 222 6440
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Dr Eva Haifa Giraud
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & SocietyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Alternative & activist media
- Food politics
- ‘Lifestyle’ ethics
- Online dis/misinformation & hate speech
- Mediated activism
- Science & technology studies
- Social & cultural theory
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Dr Briony Hannell
University Teacher in SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Feminist theory
- Feminist cultural studies and feminist media studies
- Digital feminisms
- Digital cultures and identities
- Qualitative research methods
- Girls’ studies
- Fan studies communities
+44 114 222 6477

Dr Tim Highfield
Lecturer in Digital Media and SocietyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Digital methods
- Visual social media
- Politics &/of digital media
- Time & digital media
- Everyday digital cultures
- Digital media platforms & their cultural & political interventions
+44 114 222 6447

Greg Hollin
Wellcome Trust Research FellowDepartment of Sociological Studies
-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
+44 114 2XX XXXX
Lynda Hughes
University Teacher in Social WorkDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Professional resilience - surviving & thriving as a social worker
- Integrating research & theory with practice experience
- Online teaching methods for social work
- Adoption & permanence planning
+44 114 222 6492

Professor Nathan Hughes
Head of DepartmentDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Youth/young adult criminal justice policy
- Childhood neurodevelopmental impairment
- Developmental science & its applications to social sciences
- Family-focused policy, practice & research methods
+44 114 222 6439
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Professor Helen Kennedy
Professor of Digital SocietyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- New media theory, practice & creativity
- Social media data mining, big data analytics and data visualisation
- The myths of new media
- Media industries & cultural labour
+44 114 222 6488
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Dr Anna Leyland
ADR-UK Research FellowDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Mindfulness & self-regulation
- Child & adolescent mental health & wellbeing
- Health/mental health in the perinatal period
- Loneliness & social isolation
-Social determinants of health & wellbeing

Professor Paul Martin
Professor of SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- 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
+44 114 222 6414

Dr Alvaro Martinez-Perez
Lecturer in International and Comparative Social Research MethodsDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Social stratification & inequality
- Labour markets
- Education
- Family & gender
- Migration
-Electoral behaviour
- Advanced multivariate methods
+44 114 222 6489
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Dr Michaela Rogers
Senior Lecturer in Social WorkDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Interpersonal violence & abuse
- Gender-based violence & abuse
- Gender, trans & gender diversity
- Hidden & marginalised communities
- Multiple social exclusion
- Qualitative & narrative methods
+44 114 222 6461
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Dr Mark Tomlinson
Senior Lecturer in SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Labour markets, learning, skills, underemployment & training
- Social quality, health and wellbeing
- Poverty & deprivation
- Advanced multivariate methods
- Machine learning
+44 114 222 6426
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Professor Alan Walker
Professor of Social Policy and Social GerontologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- 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
+44 114 222 6466

Dr Kate Weiner
Senior Lecturer in SociologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Everyday health practices
- Mundane health technologies
- Lay/professional knowledge
- Genetics
- Prevention
- Qualitative methods
- Science & technology studies
- Sociology of health & illness
+44 114 222 6491

Dr Ros Williams
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and SocietyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Health & social media
- Digital health
- Sociology of health & illness
- Genetics
- Race & ancestry
- Science & technology in society/STS
- Digital methods
- Tissue donation & biobanking
+44 114 222 6423