Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology Staff
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Head of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology | ||
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Professor Mike Michael | Professor (Anthropology and Sociology) science and technology studies; sociologies of everyday life; technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation; the public understanding of science; public engagement with science and technology; process and qualitative methodology; big data; social theory; environmental sociology; animals and society. |
Amory |
Academic staff | ||
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Dr Alexey Bessudnov | Senior Lecturer (Sociology), Director of Education Ethnic groups and hierarchies; inequalities in education; National Pupil Database; social stratification; Russia; statistical methods; field experiments; survey data; longitudinal analysis; R |
Clayden |
Dr Katharine Boyd | Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Political and religiously motivated violence, counterterrorism policy, evidence-based policy, alcohol related violence |
Clayden |
Dr Lewys Brace | Lecturer in Data Analysis |
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Dr Angela Cassidy | Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies Science and policy; public engagement; science communication; environment; agriculture; animal health; animal studies; bovine TB; history of science, technology and medicine; conservation; knowledge controversies; interdisciplinarity; infectious diseases. |
Lazenby House |
Professor Giovanna Colombetti | Professor (Philosophy) Embodied mind; enactivism; extended mind; situated cognition; emotion; affect; feelings; phenomenology; body; material culture |
Amory |
Dr Adrian Currie | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) General Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Historical Science; Social Epistemology |
Byrne House |
Dr Jonathan Davies | Lecturer (Philosophy) |
Amory |
Dr Chloe Deambrogio | Lecturer (Criminology) Capital punishment, mental health law, critical legal theory, race and gender discrimination, history of forensic psychiatry, cultural studies. |
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Professor Tia DeNora | Professor (Sociology of Music) Music, wellbeing, mental health, palliative care, emotion, aesthetic ecology |
Amory |
Professor Luna Dolezal | Associate Professor (Philosophy) Applied phenomenology, philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of medicine, medical humanities |
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Dr Julien Dugnoille | Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthrozoology, human-animal interactons, South Korea, meat, dog meat, cat meat, horsemeat, whalemeat, anthropology, posthumanism, multispecies ethnography, visual anthropology, drama, performance, sexuality, desire, queer animals, gender, heteronormativity, knowledge production, power, civil disobedience, social justice, intersectionality, animal welfare, discrimination, commodification, materiality, activism, advocacy, popular culture, Zola, naturalism, Japan, Belgium, France, UK, commoditization, environmental politics, food politics, politics of space, visibility, slaughter, resistance, critical animal studies, veganism |
Byrne House |
Professor John Dupré | Director of Egenis, Professor (Philosophy of Science) Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Process philosophy, Metaphysics, Human Nature, Taxonomy, Evolution, Microbiology, Art and Science |
Byrne House |
Dr Abigail Dymond | Senior Lecturer (Sociology and Criminology) Use of force, police, places of detention, less lethal weapons, Taser, electric-shock weapons, detention monitoring, torture prevention, human rights, evidence-based policing, science and technology studies. |
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Professor Jane Elliott | Professor (Sociology) Gender, ageing, narrative, longitudinal, mixed-methods, impact |
Lazenby House |
Dr Hannah Farrimond | Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Addiction, public health, alcohol, smoking, e-cigarettes, vaping, stigma. active ageing, cannabis. |
Byrne House |
Professor Des Fitzgerald | Associate Professor of Sociology science and technology studies, sociology of psychology, sociology of neuroscience, mental health, cities and health, architcture, green space and nature, why trees are bad |
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health |
Dr Ashley Frayling | Lecturer (Criminology) |
Amory |
Dr Shane Glackin | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) |
Amory |
Professor Judith Green | Professor of Sociology sociology of health; public understanding of health; critical public health; risk; mobility; sociology of transport; health professions; accidents; qualitative methodology; evaluation methodology; urban health; environments; evidence |
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health |
Professor Christine Hauskeller | Professor, Director of Global Engagement Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine; Critical Theory; Empirical Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Bioethicsand Biopolitics; Genetics in Society; Philosophy of Science and Technology; Public Understanding of Science |
Byrne House |
Dr Geoffrey Hughes | Lecturer (Anthropology) Jordan and the Middle East; Kinship; Personhood; Marriage; Gender; Emotions and Affect; The Anthropology of Islam; Political Economy; The State; Institutions; Infrastructure; Science and Technology Studies |
Amory |
Professor Samantha Hurn | Associate Professor (Anthropology) anthrozoology, human-animal interactions, morethanhuman anthropology, veterinary anthropology, veterinary care, palliative care, euthanasia, animal death, feeding animals, animal welfare, quality of life, dogs, companion animals, pigs, elephants, zoos, soundscapes, bioacoustics, rodents, mice, horses, primates, baboons, Chacma baboons, rhinos, rhino poaching, human-wildlife conflict, fox hunting, sheep, farming, ritual, veganism, meat, monasticism, Hinduism, eco-tourism, dog rescue, animal rights activism, South Africa, Romania, Swaziland, Wales |
North Cloisters |
Dr Iza Kavedžija | Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Wellbeing; life course and aging; meaning in life; hope; happiness; narrative; personhood; imagination; creativity; temporality; anthropology of art; visual anthropology; sensory ethnography; medical anthropology; Japan; East Asia; Eastern Europe; Croatia |
Amory |
Professor Susan Kelly | Professor (Sociology) Mainstreaming genomics, consent, non invasive prenatal testing, sociology of diagnosis, 100K Genomes Project |
Byrne House |
Dr Joel Krueger | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Phenomenology; philosophy of cognitive science; embodied cognition; extended cognition; social cognition; emotions; self; philosophy of psychiatry; phenomenological psychopathology; comparative philosophy; philosophy of music; pragmatism |
Amory |
Professor Sabina Leonelli | Professor of Philosophy and History of Science Open Science, Data science and data-intensive research, Big and Open Data, Experimental organisms, Epistemic injustice, Plant science, Data ethics and fairness, Bio-ontologies, data semantics and classification, Knowledge infrastructures, Embodied and indigenous knowledge, Scientific modelling, abstraction and idealisation, Organisation of research, Science policy |
Byrne House |
Professor Matt Lobley | Professor of Rural Resource Management, Director of the CRPR |
Lazenby House |
Dr Charles Masquelier | Senior Lecturer (Sociology) social theory, critical theory, political theory, political sociology, social movements, neoliberalism, socialism, worker cooperatives |
Amory |
Dr Narzanin Massoumi | Lecturer (Sociology and Criminology) Social movements, political repression, racism, Islamophobia, digital methods, investigative research, counter terrorism policy |
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Professor Susan Molyneux-Hodgson | Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of Research science, technology and everyday practices; technosciences (waste, synthetic biology; industrial biotech; radioecology; radiation protection); epistemic communities; interdisciplinary research; collaboration; academic-industry relations; responsible research and innovation; science policy; qualitative research. |
Byrne House |
Dr Kawa Morad | Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthropology of the Middle East, specific focus on cultural politics, history and memory, mobility and movement, refugees, and forced migration. |
Amory |
Professor Lenny Moss | Associate Professor Philosophical Anthropology, Nature and Geist, The Nature of Normativity and the Normativity of Nature, The 'Meaning' of Life, Theoretical Biology, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Helmuth Plessner, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor. |
Amory |
Dr Paul O'Connor | Academic staff Skateboarding, Sociology of Religion, Hong Kong, Pilgrimage, Rhythmanalysis, Hybridity, Lifestyle Religion, Islam, Hajj, Quantum Sociology, Digital Detox |
Amory |
Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem | Lecturer (Sociology and Q Step) Fertility; Family Sociology and Demography; Reproductive Health; Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Gender; Religion and Ethnicity; Quantitative Research Methods; Life Course Analysis |
Clayden |
Dr Chris Playford | Lecturer (Sociology) Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Family Background, Quantitative Methods, Survey Data, Administrative Data, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Latent Class Analysis |
Clayden |
Dr Nigel Pleasants | Senior Lecturer Social and moral philosophy: Moral psychology (moral perception, moral responsibility, moral ignorance, institutional wrongdoing); Moral change, moral progress; Moral agency and social/historical context; Philosophy of the social sciences; The Holocaust, genocide and slavery; Animal ethics; The badness of death and wrongness of killing; Wittgenstein |
Amory |
Dr Celia Plender | Lecturer (Anthropology) Co-operatives, political-economic change, austerity, social movements, care, mutual aid, community, social anthropology, anthropology of Britain, anthropology of food. |
Lazenby House |
Professor Brian Rappert | Professor (Sociology), Director of Research Secrecy, disclosure, expertise, data, crime, magic, revelation |
Amory |
Dr Tom Rice | Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthropology, sound, auditory culture, acoustemology, human-animal interactions, anthrozoology, bioacoustics, sound recording, sound editing, sound art, sound composition, sound studies, institutions, surveillance, medicine, medical anthropology, visual anthropology |
Amory |
Dr Tom Roberts | Lecturer (Philosophy) Extended mind; emotion; cognition; consciousness; embodiment |
Amory |
Professor Michael Schillmeier | Professor (Sociology) Bodies, Senses, Things; Health, Illness and Dis/ability; Art and Intervention; Speculative Research; Cosmopolitics; Empirical Philosophy |
Amory |
Dr Astrid Schrader | Lecturer (Sociology and Philosophy) Feminist science studies, environmental STS, STS theory, new materialisms, human-animal relations, technology-human-animal relations, nonhuman temporalities, biopolitics, environment & society, anthropocentrism, marine microbes, care, responsibility, environmental justice, feminist continental philosophy (especially Derrida), biodeconstruction. |
Byrne House |
Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin | Lecturer (Sociology) Citizen-Led Science Biomedicine, Genomics Forensics, Race and Nation Data Justice Participatory Science and Technology Studies |
Byrne House |
Dr Stuart Scrase | Lecturer (Sociology) |
Amory |
Dr Edward Skidelsky | Lecturer Ernst Cassirer, Twentieth-century German philosophy and social thought, Art as a social practice, Virtue ethics. Ethics and Economics |
Amory |
Dr Georgia Smith | Assosciate Lecturer (E&S) |
Amory |
Dr Niccolò Tempini | Senior Lecturer data studies, internet studies, big data, social media, digital economy, platform economy, crowdsourcing, participatory medicine, organisation studies, information systems, electronic health records, personal health records, data-based production, data-intensive science, information security, geographical information systems, location information, environmental and weather data, classification systems, ontologies, object-oriented programming, categories and organisation, project management, systems engineering, systems development, distributed systems, data management, government information, data collection, information infrastructures, knowledge infrastructures, value theory, information theory, social studies of information technology, social studies of biomedicine, precision medicine, clinical trials, observational studies, patient-led research, misinformation, sociology of science and technology, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology |
Byrne House |
Dr Christopher Thorpe | Lecturer (Sociology) Social theory, cultural theory, cultural other, Bourdieu, Elias, cultural sociology, Italy, sociology of culture, social work, Field Theory, Deviance, historical cultural sociology, Italian culture, British, representations, discursive representations, social work, sociology, social theory and social work, Yale School, Jeffrey ALexander |
Amory |
Dr Adam Toon | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind, Scientific models, Fictionalism, Extended mind thesis, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge |
Byrne House |
Professor Katharine Tyler | Associate Professor (Anthropology) Race, ethnicity, whiteness, Britishness, social class, legacies of empire, race and genomics |
Amory |
Dr Kirsten Walsh | Lecturer (Philosophy) Early Modern Philosophy, Isaac Newton, HPS, Philosophy of Science, Methodology |
Amory |
Professor Harry G West | Professor of Anthropology Socio-cultural anthropology: political anthropology; agrarian social history; the anthropology of food. Food Studies: food, farming, and cultural heritage; artisan foodmaking, especially cheesemaking; food, memory and inter-generational sociality. |
Lazenby House |
Dr Sam Wilkinson | Lecturer (Philosophy) Psychiatry; mental illness; psychosis; delusions; voice hearing; inner speech; predictive processing |
Byrne House |
Dr Dana Wilson-Kovacs | Senior Lecturer Digital forensics, policing, crime investigation, evidence, expertise, professional trajectories, organisational change, occupational cultures, ethnography, qualitative methods, clinical practice, gender and sexuality |
Amory |
Professor Michael Winter | Professor of Land Economy and Society sociology of agriculture and food, sustainable agriculture, 20th century agrarian history, land use and nature conservation. |
Lazenby House |
Yen Nee Wong | Associate Lecturer (E&S) |
Research Fellows | ||
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Dr Gemma Anderson | Research Fellow |
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Professor Gary Ansdell | Senior Research Fellow |
Amory |
Dr Alexander Badman-King | EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology) |
North Cloisters |
Dr Nicole-Kerstin Baur | BAMI Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
Dr Joshua Blamire | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
Amory |
Dr Arely Cruz-Santiago | Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
Dr Fenella Eason | EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology) |
North Cloisters |
Dr Dreolin Fleischer | Research Fellow |
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Dr Jessica Groling | EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology) |
North Cloisters |
Dr Steve Guilbert | Research Fellow - ESRC: Food System Impacts of Covid-19 |
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Dr Jean Harrington | Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
Dr Charlotte Jones | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr Daniel Nicholson | Honorary Research Fellow |
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Dr Caroline Nye | Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
Dr Carolyn Petersen | Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
Dr Branwyn Poleykett | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr Stephan Price | Research Fellow |
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Dr Achim Rosemann | Honorary Research Fellow |
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Dr Ginny Russell | Senior Research Fellow (Sociology and Egenis) autism, social science, psychology, health, child mental health, neurodiversity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, dyslexia, neurodevelopmental disorder |
Byrne House |
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes | Research Fellow in the project 'Philosophy and Psychedelics' psychedelics, panpsychism, process philosophy, monism, Spinozism. |
Amory |
Virginia Thomas | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr Rebecca Wheeler | Research Fellow Agriculture; Environment; Farmer wellbeing; Rural communities |
Lazenby House |
Dr Timothy Wilkinson | Associate Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
Dr Kath Wilkinson | Research Fellow |
Amory |
Professor Huw Williams | ||
Dr Hugh Williamson | Research Fellow Anthropology of science; STS; data studies; agriculture and rural development; plant science; biotechnology; quantitative genetics; Romania; anthropology of Europe |
Byrne House |
Dr Ozlem Yilmaz | Research Fellow Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Plant Biology; Plant Physiology; Ecology; Philosophy of Science; Plant Science; Bioethics; Biology-Films/Cinema. |
Byrne House |
Associate Research Fellows | ||
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Dr Sally Atkinson | Associate Lecturer Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging |
Amory |
Dr Jennifer Cuffe | Associate Research Fellow |
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Dr Kate Marx | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
North Cloisters |
Department administrator | ||
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Mr Dave Morning | Departmental Administrator |
Amory |
Ms Charlotte Nicolls | Administrator |
Amory |
Professional Services Staff | ||
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Tom Allen | SSIS Student Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator |
Innovation Centre |
Melissa Barrett | Widening Participation Coordinator |
Innovation Centre |
Gemma Bartlett ACIM | Strategic Marketing Campaign Manager |
Innovation Centre |
Kate Blackmore | Pathways to Law & Outreach Officer |
Innovation Centre |
Mr Christopher Calvert | EASE Project Administrator |
North Cloisters |
Clare Crick | Global Development Advisor |
Innovation Centre |
Nina Farr | Executive Assistant |
Amory |
Sarah Lucas | Communications and Marketing Officer |
Innovation Centre |
Eleanor Monger | Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager |
Innovation Centre |
Emma Reeve | Marketing, Recruitment, Communications & Global Business Partner |
Knightley |
James Smith | Business Partner, International Partnerships |
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Jane Tanner | Web Officer (Digital Team) |
Innovation Centre |
Emma Tranter | Research Administrator / PA |
Lazenby House |
Chee Wong | Administrator for SSIS Research Conferences and Events, Administrator for Egenis |
Byrne House |
Graduate teaching assistants | ||
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Mr Jacob Lucas | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Amory |
Eimear McLoughlin | Graduate Teaching Assistant Nonhuman Animal Personhood Commodification of Nonhuman Animal Bodies Animal Slaughter Sociology of Emotion Queer Theory Queer Animals Visual Anthropology Sound Anthropology |
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Ms Rosanna Mead | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
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Ms Aimee Middlemiss | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Amory |
Ms Jaanika Puusalu | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Amory |
Ms Eva Schurig | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Amory |
Ms Elena Sharratt | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
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Mr Javier Suarez Diaz | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Associate member | ||
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Dr Paul Cleave | Honorary Research Fellow |
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Professor Malcolm Cowburn | Honorary Professor of Criminology Sex offenders, prison, diversity, research ethics |
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Dr Lewis Coyne | Honorary Research Fellow Existential phenomenology (esp. Heidegger and Jonas); bioethics; environmental philosophy; philosophical anthropology |
Amory |
Professor Grace Davie | Professor of Sociology |
Amory |
Dr Keith Howe | Senior Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
Professor Andrew Pickering | Professor |
Amory |
Dr Hilary Wheaton | Associate Member |
Graduate Research Assistants | ||
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Daisy Elliott | Graduate Research Assistant Anthropology Sociology Medicine |
Byrne House |
Mary Tamplin | Graduate Research Assistant |
Byrne House |