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

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

- The intersection of science & technology studies
- Social movement theory
- Economics & science policy

- Criticisms of contemporary social theory
- Empirical studies of deviance in historical & cultural perspective
- Studies of ‘protest’ & dissent

- Participation
- Children’s rights
- Child protection proceedings
- Research with children using qualitative & creative research methods

- Pre-post activity of online communication

- Mental health policies & international differences in practices and mental health systems

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

- Social media policies
- Digital identities (particularly gender)
- Feminist media theory
- Digital research methods & ethics

- Children, childhood & youth
- Gender & sexualities (including intersections with other social identities)
- Education & schooling
- Equalities & inclusion
- Qualitative & mixed methods

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

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

- Extending working lives
- Social science, social determinants & public health

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

- Child care law
- Safeguarding children

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

- Family social policy
- Families & the reconciliation of work & family life
- Transnational families
- Gendered perspectives
- Disabled men & fathering
- Europeanisation
- Globalisation

- Serious & organised crime
- Illicit enterprise & entrepreneurship
- The illicit economy
- Policing
- Surveillance studies

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

- 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

- Methodology & the relationship between knowledge, evidence, policy, practice & context

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

- Crime and policy
- Engagement in the probation service
- The familial relationships of prisoners
- Drug & alcohol services & recovery
- Illicit & deviant entrepreneurship

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

- Developing placement opportunities
- Community care law
- Disability services
- Older people
- Mental health

- Migration

- Timebanking
- Co-production
- Carers, isolation & loneliness
- Mental health

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

- Gender, sexuality, & identity
- Sport, humour, language, emotion & age
- Research methodology & developing innovative qualitative methods

- The sociology of policing
- The police use of informers
- The impact & effectiveness of CCTV surveillance
- The sociology of the new surveillance
- Decision making in the criminal justice system

- Inequalities in health
- Roma health

- Digital activism
- Environmental movements & climate change discourses
- Digital disruption
- Technology & human rights
- Humanitarian social movements
- Social media monitoring

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

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

- The performance & qualification of work as an economic activity
- Cultural production
- Office technologies
- Consumption work
- Cultural studies

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

- Public health
- Race/ethnicity
- Gender
- Poverty
- Reproductive health
- Chronic health conditions

- Evidence-based interventions with vulnerable children & families
- Organisational issues & their impact on children & families practice
- Safeguarding
- Looked after children

- The use of mobile media
- The practice of photo sharing across social media
- Online research methods

- Youth migration
- Identities & belonging
- Gender & social inequalities
- Violence & exclusion
- Participatory & arts based methodologies
- The ethics and politics of knowledge production

- Making sense of social work practice & decision-making
- Adoption
- Out of home care
- The experience of social work from parent & practitioner perspectives

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

- The sociology of culture
- Visual methodologies

- Cultural & critical media studies
- Digital media
- Identity
- Queer theory & LGBTQ studies
- Nations & nationalism
- Migration & globalisation

- Child poverty & well-being
- The transmission of disadvantage from childhood to adulthood
- The measurement of well-being
- The relationship between social, innovation & industrial policy
- Poverty

- Sibling relationships
- Identity
- Kinship & relatedness
- Life course
- Death, dying & bereavement
- Creative research methods
- Ethics of sensitive research

- Dynamics of civic engagement on digital platforms of communication
- Digital activism
- Digital health

- Immigrant and Refugee Health and Healthcare
- Ethnic Health Inequalities
- Social Epidemiology
- Indigenous / Aboriginal Health Inequalities
- Global Health and Gender Inequalities

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

- Poverty & deprivation
- Social metrics, policy & welfare
- Quantitative research methods, applied statistics & data science

- Consumer health technologies
- Lay & professional knowledge
- User-technology relations
- Health identities & responsibilities
- Genetics
- Heart disease
- Patient organisations

- The sociology of health & illness
- The sociology of everyday life
- Innovative qualitative research methods

- Professional judgement & decision-making
- How science, formal knowledge, rhetoric, moral judgement, emotion & subjectivity interact in professional practice

- Evidence-based policy & practice
- Social exclusion & marginalised communities
- Contemporary challenges facing women, carers & older people
- Good relations

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

- Children’s rights
- Children’s geographies & childhood studies
- Children’s representation and political participation
- Perceptions & intersections of global childhoods in the global North/South

- Sustainable care
- Ageing