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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


Dr Laura Connelly
Lecturer in CriminologyDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Sex work
- Modern slavery & trafficking
- Scholar-activism & social justice
- Migration
- Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
- Feminist methodologies, including participatory research.
0114 222 6412
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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
-Youth, gender, race & sexuality
-Participatory culture & fandom
-Popular media cultures
-Belonging & (cultural) citizenship
-Feminist methodologies
-Feminist pedagogies & informal learning cultures
+44 114 222 6477


Isabelle Higgins
Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Wellness and DisinformationDepartment of Sociological Studies
- Digital technology and intersectional inequality
- The sociology of ‘race’ and racism, decolonial thought
- Children and young people
- Reflexive research methodologies


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


Dr Daniel Holman
Lecturer in Sociology and Public HealthDepartment of Sociological Studies
Intersectionality
Health inequalities
Healthy ageing
Chronic disease and multimorbidity
MAIHDA (Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy)
Mixed methods
Social class
+44 114 222 6417
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
Professor of Adolescent Health and JusticeDepartment 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
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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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Professor Sarah Salway
Professor of Public HealthDepartment of Sociological Studies
- 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
+44 114 222 6438
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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