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Our research students

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Discover the research students in the Department of Sociology

Our research students investigate a broad range of exciting topics and are supervised by our academic staff.

To visit an individual research student's profile and find their contact details, please click on the links below:

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

Farid Adilov
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: gender and political representation, gender and public policy, gender equality policies
Samanmali Alujjage Don
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dan Bai
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Social Media, Internet Studies, Digital Sociology; Web Scraping, Data Mining, Computational Content Analysis; R, STATA, Python (occasionally), MATLAB (occasionally), SPSS (occasionally), SQL (occasionally) Research interests: What Are We Talking About When We Row About Shang-Chi on Social Media? How Networked Individualism Interprets Cultural Differences in Online Film Reviews; Media Manipulation: Common Ways and Effects; Cross-Cultural Factors in the Translation of Films and TV Shows
Daniela Bracke
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Esin Damar
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Medical Ethics/ Deviance and Healthcare Sector; Organisational Deviance; Crime of Powerful
Catherine Duck
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Southend-on-Sea, understanding urban crime, policing, policy and public opinion of undesirable populations such as street sex workers
Abdullah Eren
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Yintan Fan
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests: Ethnic Entrepreneurship; Market Research
Emma Frost
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Yara Issa
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Samantha Jover
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Salih Kinsun
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Digital Culture and Media, Digital Labour, Flexibility, Precarity, Precarious Journalism, Economic Sociology, Labour Sociology, Digital Humanities, Digital Journalism, The Future of Media Works. Research interests: Journal Article/ Classified Transformation from Proletariat to Pracariat; Book Section/During Covid Pandemic; As a Public Sphere Twitter; Master Thesis/The local press in Turkey:problems future development and predictions the example of Bingöl local press
Yunlong Liang
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Aruna Mahananda
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Punishment ; Discrimination ; Criminal Jutsice System; Human Rights; Caste
Jasmine Mitchell
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Kerry Preston
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: US and UK gangs; Desistance; Anti-gang enforcement and legislation; Urban disorder; Policing, punishment and society
Timea Putnoki
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Intersectionality; Systems of Oppression; Quantitative Methods; Health Inequalities
Norman Riley
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Consumption, Veganism, Class and Masculinity; Non-human Animals and Speciesism; Football (soccer) and social class Research interests: Consumption, Nonhuman Animals, veganism and class
Peter Tsoukkas
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research students

Abdulrahman Ahmad Khoorshid Mohamed Almutawa
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Farid Adilov
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: gender and political representation, gender and public policy, gender equality policies
Essra Ahmed
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Saeed Alhassani
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Samanmali Alujjage Don
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Samuel Au
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Hong Kong's New Wave of Migration; International Sports Management Research interests: Sports Migration; Hong Kong Studies
Jocelyn Bell
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Robin Brooker
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ej-Francis Caris-Hamer (Pronoun Ze/Zir)
Postgraduate Research Student, 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
Esin Damar
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Medical Ethics/ Deviance and Healthcare Sector; Organisational Deviance; Crime of Powerful
Rebonto Dasgupta
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Vitoria De Oliveira Monteiro
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Catherine Duck
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Southend-on-Sea, understanding urban crime, policing, policy and public opinion of undesirable populations such as street sex workers
Abdullah Eren
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Yintan Fan
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests: Ethnic Entrepreneurship; Market Research
Khalid Farooq
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Psychopathy, white collar crime, fraud, criminal behavior and cultural criminology Research interests: Psychopathic behavior in fraud offenders, cultural criminology and white collar crime
Sabrina Ferrier
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Emma Frost
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Rasha Hamid
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests: Domestic abuse
Mubassir Hussain
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Nahida Hussain
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Judith Jones
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Salih Kinsun
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Digital Culture and Media, Digital Labour, Flexibility, Precarity, Precarious Journalism, Economic Sociology, Labour Sociology, Digital Humanities, Digital Journalism, The Future of Media Works. Research interests: Journal Article/ Classified Transformation from Proletariat to Pracariat; Book Section/During Covid Pandemic; As a Public Sphere Twitter; Master Thesis/The local press in Turkey:problems future development and predictions the example of Bingöl local press
Jacquelyne Ladejo
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Carolyn Leader
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Diana Lengua
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dimitri Lera
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Xin Li
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Naqi Liu
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Xiaowei Long
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Aruna Mahananda
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Punishment ; Discrimination ; Criminal Jutsice System; Human Rights; Caste
Fareena Mahmood
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Mollie Monopoli
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Sayna Nikeaateghad
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ana Olea Fernandez
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Victor Porto Almeida
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Environmental harms in the Brazilian Amazon; Green criminology from the global South; Socio-legal studies in Brazil; Brazilian law; Conservation studies; Environmental justice Research interests: Environmental Crimes; Green Criminology; Global South; Socio-legal studies; Decolonisation; Brazilian studies; Conservation studies; Sustainability; Climate change
Kerry Preston
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: US and UK gangs; Desistance; Anti-gang enforcement and legislation; Urban disorder; Policing, punishment and society
Nicolae Radulescu
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Katie Reid
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Violence against women and girls; Child Abuse; Feminism
Norman Riley
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Consumption, Veganism, Class and Masculinity; Non-human Animals and Speciesism; Football (soccer) and social class Research interests: Consumption, Nonhuman Animals, veganism and class
Gemma Roach
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Elise Roberts
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Anne Rushton
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Yuria Saavedra Alvarez
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Zayu Safitri
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Maciej Serwacinski
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Kane Silver
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Taylor Skevington
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Stalking; Cyberstalking Research interests: Stalking; Domestic abuse
Arthur Slocum
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Nadine Thomas
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests: Class Mobility, Sex and Meritocracy, Gender Studies, Globalization and Immigration, Sociology of Education
Gemma Threlfall
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Abbie-Jane Vale
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Ask me about: Neurodiversity, Autism Research Research interests: AUTISM RESEARCH
Shangyu Wang
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Bethanie Watts
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Xiaomei Yu
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology
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