海角黑料

School of Sociology and Social Policy

Staff Supervision Areas

Below are some of the areas of research in which our staff currently specialise and areas where they can offer expert supervision.

 

Staff supervision areas

NameKey expertise and research areas

Benoit, Céline

Sociology; incl. creative methods; Children and Young People; Education; Religion; Emotional health/wellbeing in education; Health inequalities; Relationships and sex education; Religious education

Bott, Esther

Sociology; Tourism (im)mobilities and inequalities; International development and NGOisation; Gender, class and caste marginalisation and resistance; Critical anti-traffiking and 'modern slavery; Political economies of Global South; Voluntourism; Decolonial/Participatory methodologies

Bradford-Clarke, Lauren

Victims of Crime; Victimology; Policing and Criminal Justice Processes

Briscoe-Palmer, Shardia

Gender & Sexualities; Politics & Political Sociologies; Health Ineqaulities / Social Determiners; Race & Ethnicity; Marginalised Masculinities; Postcolonial Theory (Fanon); Sexual and Reproductive Health; Intersectionality, Positionality, Community Co-Design, Participatory Action Research

Brookfield, Kathryn

Criminology; Domestic Abuse; Sexual Violence; Gender; Women in the Criminal and Family Court Systems; Feminist Research; Qualitative Methods; Mixed Methods

Chau, CM Ruby

Social Policy; Public Policy and Administration; Social Work; Women's care, work and welfare; Work-family reconciliation policies; Comparative welfare studies; Gender and health issues in South Asia; Social Policy and Social Policy Education; Culturally sensitive policy and practice; co-production/participatory research

Chen, Qi

Sentencing; Probation; Populist feminism and digital feminism; Criminal records and sex offences; Governance and social control in China; Comparative penology and criminology

 

Clamp, Kerry

Restorative justice/practice; Restorative pedagogy; Victimology; Transitional justice; Comparative criminal justice; Criminal justice reform; Progressive policing methods

Clawson, Rachael

Adult safeguarding; Forced marriage; Social work practice

Cluley, Victoria

Health and illness; Disability; Visual methods; Posthumanism/new materialism; Health inequalities; Body/embodiment; Feminism; Healthcare practice/professionals

Dauncey, Sarah

Sociology; Social Policy; China/East Asia; Disability & Impairment; Identity (including gender, sexuality); Citizenship; Culture; Emotion

Dixon, Bill

Criminology; Southern/decolonial criminology; South Africa; Policing; Police Governance

Farrall, Stephen

Desistance; Offenders (careers/in general); Politics and Crime; Surverys; White Collar Crime; Fear of Crime

Fyson, Rachel

Social work/Social Policy; Safeguarding; Adult Social Care; Intellectual Disability; Qualitative Methods; Disability; Social Work Practice; Policy Implementation and Evaluation

Gardner, Alison

Public/Social Policy; Modern Slavery/Exploitation; Local Governance; New Institutionalism; Action Research and Participatory Methods; Multi-Method Research

Genova, Elena

Migration/ Transnationalism; Identity; Belonging; Settlement; Emotion; Social Media; Qualitative Methods; Racialisation/Othering

Goulden, Murray

Digital technology; Home; Family; Work; Energy systems; Everyday life; Social practices; Qualitative methods

Gregory, Lee

Social/Public Policy; Welfare Theory; LGBTQ+, Poverty/Inequality; Time; Young People/Youth Policy; Asset-based Welfare/Savings; Financial Inclusion

Guiney, Thomas

Parole and Prison Release; Sociology of Punishment; Politics of Law and Order; Historical Criminology; Prison Building; Political Parties; Populism; Comparative Approaches

Hall, Lauren

Criminology; Desistance; Recovery; Prison; Gender, Crime and Affected Others; Qualitative Methods; Military Veterans Offending; Sexual offending

Hashemi, Morteza

Sociology; Sociological Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Decoloniality; Science and Technology (startup environment); Medical Sociology (Blood and Organ Donation); Grassroots Activism; European Muslims

Heneghan, Martin

Public Policy and Social Policy; Global Governance; Pensions; Brexit and related issues; Industrial Policy; Political Economy; Politics of Public Policy; Populism

Hobson-West, Pru

Sociology; Health; Medicine; Science; Animals; Qualitative Methods; Social Movements; Professions

Iafrati, Steve

 Social Policy; Housing; Poverty; Welfare; Inequality; Political Economy; Community

Jas, Pauline

Patterns of hunger and satiety, the development of taste preferences in teenagers, motivations and patterns of charitable giving behaviour, and the effects of introducing the national minimum wage on voluntary sector organisations: improvement of performance in public sector organisations that have gone through a period of poor performance.

Jerath, Kritika

Criminology; Stalking; Evidence-Based Policing; Evaluation

Jordan, Melanie

(ill) health and (in) justice; Criminology and healthcare; Avoidable Harm (e.g. prison health); "Closed" Institutions; Criminal Justice, Mental/Physical Health & Illness (including medical sociology); clinical microbiology into justice and health settings; Domination/Deviance/Subjugation; Epistemology/Methodology/Method

Karademir, Irmak

Sociology/Social Policy; Social Class; Consumption; Gender; Body/Embodiment (food, fashion, sports); Parenting cultures; Arts and Media; Politics of Taste

Liu, Cangheng

Public/Social Policy; Political economy; Industrial Policy; Computer-assisted quanti/quali data analysis; Business; Philanthropy/Philanthrocapitalism; IGOs; China

Lucas, Ruth

Public/Social Policy; Local Government/Governance; Housing Policy; Public Sector Management; Qualitative Methods

Madziva, Roda

Migration, race, and inequalities, with a particular focus on economic migrants, refugees/asylum seekers, victims/survivors of human trafficking. My theoretical interests include decolonial and postcolonial approaches, as well as Southern theory. Methodologically, I specialise in qualitative research methods

Pacey, Scott

Sociology; China; Taiwan; Religion; Historical sociology; Material culture; Media; Identity

Page Sarah-Jane

Sociology; Religion; Gender; Sexuality; Intersectionality; Abortion and Reproductive Health; Violence Against Women and Girls; Child Sexual Abuse

Purser, Aimie

Body/Embodiment; Feminist/queer/decolonial theory; French/Continental Thought; Subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Health and illness; arts-based/participatory/feminist methods; Epistemology

Roberts, Simon

Public and Social Policy; Social rights; Social security; Disability and discrimination; EU and international social policy; Migration; Brexit, citizenship and social rights; Policy learning and policy transfer

Sandy, Larissa

Criminology/Anthropology; Sex work; Modern slavery/human trafficking; Criminalisation; Feminist, queer and decolonial theory; Participatory action research; global justice and security/international criminology; Social movements & activism

Saunders, Gary

Higher Education; Co-creation; Co-operatives; Marxist Social Theory; Criminological Theory; Sociology; Education; Prisons; Gender; Social Class; Research Methods

Stevenson, Nick

Sociology; Citizenship; Socialism; Class, Cultural Materialism; History

Tangen, James

Public/Social Policy; Digital Criminology; Probation; Community Justice; Desistance; Digital Technologies; Social Media

Tomczak, Philippa

Criminology/ health; Death Investigations; Inquests; Prison; Voluntary Sector; Prisons and Probation Ombudsman; Detention monitoring/oversight/regulation; Prisoner/ detainee health inequalities

Warr, Jason

Criminological Theory; Prisons; Narrative Criminology; Sensory Criminology; Racism/Racialisation; Film/Music/Media; Punishment/Penality; Criminological Philosophy

Warwick, Lisa

Child and family social work (children in care, entering care and leaving care), children and childhood, motherhood and professional relationships.

Wigzell, Ali

Youth justice, community supervision, desistance, and the emotional and moral dimensions of criminal justice and criminology.

Wikoff, Nora

Asset-based Welfare/Savings; Financial capability/inclusion/wellbeing; Quantitative Methods; programme design/evaluation; research design

Wilkinson, Hannah

War; State violence; Social harm (zemiology); Ex-military personnel / veterans; Embodiment & post-conflict healing; Qualitative, visual & trauma-informed methods; Protest, resistance and activism; Critical theory - e.g. abolition feminism, Bourdieu, philosophies of atrocity

Wright, Edward

Criminological Theory, Social theory, Sport (particularly combat sports), Decolonial Theory, Social Harm/Zemiology, Qualitative Methods; Identity; Epistemology

  

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