Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology Staff

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Head of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
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
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)	Clayden
Professor Giovanna Colombetti	Associate Professor Embodied mind; enactivism; extended mind; situated cognition; emotion; affect; feelings; phenomenology; body; material culture	Amory
Dr Adrian Currie	Lecturer (Philosophy) General Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Historical Science; Social Epistemology	Byrne House
Dr Jonathan Davies	Lecturer (Philosophy)	Amory
Professor Tia DeNora	Professor (Sociology of Music) Music, wellbeing, mental health, palliative care, emotion, aesthetic ecology	Amory
Dr Luna Dolezal	Lecturer (Philosophy)
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	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	Lecturer (Sociology and Criminology) Use of force, police, places of detention, less lethal weapons, restraints, Taser, electric-shock weapons, detention monitoring, torture prevention, human rights, evidence-based policing, science and technology studies, mixed methods research.
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
Dr Ashley Frayling	Lecturer (Criminology)	Amory
Dr Shane Glackin	Lecturer (Philosophy)	Amory
Professor Christine Hauskeller	Associate Professor Philosophy of Science and Technology; Critical Theory; Empirical Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Bioethics; Genetics in Society; Biopolitics	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	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	Director of Research 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 Data science and data-intensive research, Big and Open Data, Experimental organisms, Open Science, Plant science, Data ethics and inequality, Bio-ontologies, data semantics and classification, Knowledge infrastructures, Embodied and indigenous knowledge, Scientific modelling, abstraction and idealisation, Organisation of research, Science policy	Byrne House
Dr Charles Masquelier	Lecturer (Sociology) social theory, critical theory, political theory, political sociology, social movements, neoliberalism, socialism, worker cooperatives	Amory
Dr Narzanin Massoumi	Lecturer (Sociology and Criminology)
Professor Staffan Müller-Wille	Associate Professor cultural history of heredity, history and philosophy of systematics, history of race, gene concept, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, Wilhelm Johannsen, Franz Boas	Byrne House
Professor Susan Molyneux-Hodgson	Professor of Sociology	Byrne House
Dr Kawa Morad	Lecturer (Anthropology)	Amory
Professor Lenny Moss	Associate Professor	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
Professor Brian Rappert	Professor (Sociology) 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 Edward Skidelsky	Lecturer	Amory
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	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 Careers, professional trajectories, qualitative methods, forensics, clinical practice, intimacy, sexuality, gender.	Amory

Research Fellows
Dr Gemma Anderson	Research Fellow
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 Louise Bezuidenhout	Research Fellow
Dr Joshua Blamire	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Amory
Mr Mark Brenchley	Associate Lecturer
Dr Fenella Eason	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Dr Jessica Groling	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Dr Jean Harrington	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Charlotte Jones	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Steven Kapp	Research Fellow in Autism and Neurodiversity	Byrne House
Dr Daniel Nicholson	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Steve North	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)
Dr Branwyn Poleykett	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Achim Rosemann	Research Fellow	Byrne House
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 Ivan Tacey	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Niccolò Tempini	Research Fellow
Dr Hannah Wheat	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Kath Wilkinson	Research Fellow	Amory
Dr Hugh Williamson	Research Fellow Anthropology of science; Data studies; Development; Liberal politics	Byrne House

Associate Research Fellows
Dr Sally Atkinson	Postdoctoral Research Associate Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging
Dr Jennifer Cuffe	Associate Research Fellow
Dr Kate Marx	Postdoctoral Research Associate	North Cloisters

Department administrator
Mr Dave Morning	Departmental Administrator	Amory
Ms Charlotte Nicolls	Administrator	Amory

Professional Services Staff
Tom Allen	SSIS Student Recruitment Administrator	Innovation Centre
Melissa Barrett	Widening Participation and Student Recruitment Assistant	Innovation Centre
Gemma Bartlett ACIM	Strategic Marketing Campaign Manager	Innovation Centre
Kate Blackmore	Outreach Officer- Communications & Corporate Affairs	Innovation Centre
Mr Christopher Calvert	EASE Project Administrator	North Cloisters
Sarah Lucas	Communications and Marketing Officer	Innovation Centre
Eleanor Monger	Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager	Innovation Centre
Miss Julia Paci	Employability and Outreach Manager	Amory
Dr Gabi Recknagel	Research Development Adviser (Social Science Cluster)	Amory
Emma Reeve	Head of Communications and Marketing	Knightley
James Smith	Business Partner, International Partnerships
Jane Tanner	Web Marketing Officer (Web Team)	Innovation Centre
Emma Tranter	Executive Assistant	Lazenby House
Chee Wong	Administrator for SSIS Research Conferences and Events, Administrator for Egenis	Byrne House

Graduate teaching assistants
Jack Griffiths	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Mr Peter Hughes	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
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
Ms Rosanna Mead	Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ms Aimee Middlemiss	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Celia Plender	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Jaanika Puusalu	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Eva Schurig	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Elena Sharratt	Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ms Georgia Smith	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Mr Javier Suarez Diaz	Graduate Teaching Assistant

Associate member
Dr Paul Cleave	Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Malcolm Cowburn	Honorary Professor of Criminology Sex offenders, prison, diversity, research ethics
Dr Lewis Coyne	Honorary Research Fellow	Amory
Professor Grace Davie	Professor of Sociology	Amory
Professor Andrew Pickering	Professor	Amory
Dr Hilary Wheaton	Associate Member

Graduate Research Assistants
Daisy Elliott	Graduate Research Assistant Anthropology Sociology Medicine	Byrne House
Mary Tamplin	Graduate Research Assistant	Byrne House