Our academic staff

Dr James Allen-Robertson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Digital Cultures; Tech Culture; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science; Far-right radicalisation; Tech culture elites; Fascism

Dr Michael Bailey

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Critical theory; Historical sociology; Working-class heritage; Sociology of the media and modern culture; Intellectual history of ethical socialism and cultural criticism; Governmentality studies; Sociology of religion; Cultural policy studies

Dr Shaul Bar Haim

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: History of psychoanalysis; Twentieth-century 'psy' disciplines; Cultural history of the British welfare state; History and theory of childhood; Trauma studies; Feminism and psychoanalysis

Dr Zsofia Boda

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Magda Borkowska

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Professor Andrew Canessa

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Indigenous studies; Latin America, especially the Andes; Gender and sexualities; Ethnic and racial identities; Bolivia, especially indigenous peoples; Gibraltar

Professor Eamonn Carrabine

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Crime and the Media; Cultural and Social Geography; Popular Music and Sociological Thinking; Punishment and Human Rights; Sociology of Imprisonment; Visual Sociology; Youth Culture

Dr Grant Coates

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Isabel Crowhurst

Reader, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Gender and sexuality; Sex work and sex industry studies; Fiscal sociology and critical taxation studies; Comparative methods and psycho-social methodologies; Crime and marginalisation; Criminology and Social Exclusion; Intimacy and Personal Life

Dr Nicky Dalbir

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Maitrayee Deka

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Economic Sociology; Consumer Culture; New Media; Social Theory; Technology

Professor Neli Demireva

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: social cohesion; multiculturalism and civic integration; crime and neighbourhood effects; job search and labour market inclusion

Dr Alejandra Diaz De Leon

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Migration, solidarity and trust; Migration and the climate crisis; Human Rights; Latin America; Migration and Health

Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples; Sustainable Development; Social Movements; Refugees

Professor Chris Greer

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Designate - Professor (R), Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Trial by Media; Scandal; Serious Youth Violence; Victimology; Celebrity

Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: police and tech ethics, digital policing, surveillance, security, criminal records, domestic abuse, vulnerabilities,, and human trafficking; Domestic abuse

Professor Michael Halewood

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Sociology as a Moral Science; Relativism and Relativity

Professor Sandya Hewamanne

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Gender and Sexuality; Economic and Feminist Anthropology (and Sociology); Development; Human Rights; Medical Anthropology; South Asia

Dr Xintong Jia

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: media and gender; advertising and consumer culture; reality dating television; audience reception; postfeminism and popular feminism; family in contemporary China; feminism in China

Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Private Security, Gated Communities, Policing, Urban Criminology, Divided Cities, Urban Inequalities, Insecurity and Uncertainty

Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Sarah Kunz

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Sergio Lo Iacono

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Experimental Sociology; Quantitative Methods; Trust; Sustainable Development and Climate Change; Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

Professor Renee Luthra

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: International Migration; Social Stratification

Dr Tara Mahfoud

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Science and Technology Studies; Neuroscience and Society; Dual Use; Responsible Research and Innovation; Medical Anthropology

Professor Linsey McGoey

Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Social theories of knowledge and ignorance; Economic sociology; Global health governance; Human rights-based approaches to health and development; Sociology of religion

Professor Sean Nixon

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Consumption and Commercial Cultures; Advertising and Market Devices; Cultural Studies; Television and the Natural World; Cultures of nature and human-animal relations

Professor John Preston

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Disasters; Class; Race / Ethnicity; Existential Threats; Post-compulsory education and training (PCET); Artificial Intelligence

Dr Johanna Romer

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Gender, sexuality and citizenship, with particular reference to kinship, assisted reproduction and migration; feminist epistemology; research methodology; ESRC funded project about Sexuality, 'Citizenship and migration: the Irish Queer Diaspora in London'

Professor Colin Samson

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature

Dr Samuel Singler

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Carlos Solar

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Armed Forces and Society; Criminal Policy; Cybersecurity and cyber defence; Policing; Security Governance; States and Organized Crime; Corruption

Dr Jason Sumich

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Darren Thiel

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Social class and stratification; economic sociology; migration, globalisation and governance; globalisation and policing; policing terrorism; the criminal justice system; social policy

Dr Giacomo Vagni

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Katy Wheeler

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Recycling and waste management; Moral economy and political economy; Sustainability and climate change; Qualitative interviewing; Sociology of consumption and consumer culture; Qualitative analysis; Education for Sustainable Development

Eireann Attridge

Senior Research Officer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Victoria Donnaloja

Early Career Fellow, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr Timothy Head

Senior Research Officer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ej-Francis Caris-Hamer

Fixed term Teacher, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Ask me about: LGBTQIA, Gender, Queerness, Education, Feminism, Criminology, Deviant Behaviour, Qualitative research methods, Pedagogy. Research interests: Barriers to Queer Inclusion in the 11-19 English Education Sector: Teachers Perspective; How Criminology intersects with Education

Prof Nick Allum

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: risk perception; social and political trust; survey methodology; public understanding of science; research integrity and questionable research practices

Prof Ted Benton

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Philosophy of the social sciences; Philosophy of the social sciences; Modern social theories, especially marxian and neo-marxian; Modern social theories, especially marxian and neo-marxian; Environmental sociology; Environmental sociology; Rural/urban divide; Rural/urban divide; Some aspects of the history of the life-sciences (especially Darwin and Wallace).Some aspects of the history of the life-sciences (especially Darwin and Wallace).

Professor Robin Blackburn

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Race and Slavery; Development of Capitalism; Historical Sociology; Globalisation; Political Economy of pension funds

Professor Joan Busfield

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Mental Disorder; Psychiatry, Gender and Mental Disorder; History of Psychiatry; Medicines and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Professor Diane Elson

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Professor Miriam Glucksmann

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Transformations of work and employment; Global changes in the division of labour; The gendering of work and women's work and employment; Shifting boundaries between the work of production, distribution and consumption; The work of consumption; Food preparation work; Remotely located work

Professor Mark Harvey

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: aim to develop the ‘new economic sociology’ using a neo-Polanyian framework of ‘instituted economic processes’ (IEP). An historical and comparative research agenda has been key here to an understanding of ‘varieties of capitalism’; aim to develop the ‘new economic sociology’ using a neo-Polanyian framework of ‘instituted economic processes’ (IEP). An historical and comparative research agenda has been key here to an understanding of ‘varieties of capitalism’; the emergent bio-economy; the emergent bio-economy; food provisioning, supermarkets, and the sociology of food consumption; food provisioning, supermarkets, and the sociology of food consumption; biotechnology and genomics; biotechnology and genomics; economics of knowledge; economics of knowledge; 'rights over resources' within 'welfare states''rights over resources' within 'welfare states'

Professor Richard Hobbs

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: urban ethnography; urban ethnography; the sociology of London; the sociology of London; organised and professional crime; organised and professional crime; the night-time economy; the night-time economy; violence; violence; drug markets; drug markets; research methodologyresearch methodology

Professor Ewa Morawska

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: (Im)Migration/Ethnicity (Policies, Settlement, Adaptation) in the Context of Globalization and in a Historical-Comparative Perspective (Europe and North America, 19th-21st C) Ground-level Multiculturalism Across Time and Space East European Societies in Transition; Comparative-Historical Sociology Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Qualitative Research Methods

Prof Lydia Morris

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Sociology of Rights; Cosmopolitanism; Citizenship; Human Rights; Trans-national migration; Asylum; Welfare

Prof Michael Roper

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Subjectivity, testimony and memory; History of psychonalysis in Britain; Trauma and inter-generational transmission; Families and inter-generational relationships; Interviews, personal sources and research methods; War, memory and commemoration

Professor Nigel South

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: environmental crime; green criminology and human rights; illegal and legal drug use and markets; crime, inequalities and citizenship; theoretical and comparative criminology; public health and community services

Professor Paul Thompson

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Professor Jackie Turton

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Child Protection; Childrens Rights; Children and Young People as Victims and Offenders; Professional Responses to Crime; Women as Offenders/Victims