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 Sally Atkinson	Lecturer (Sociology) Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging	Amory
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 (Criminology) Political and religiously motivated violence, counterterrorism policy, evidence-based policy, alcohol related violence	Clayden
Dr Lewys Brace	Lecturer in Data Analysis (Criminology) Extremism, Terrorism, Online Extremism, Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare, Open-Source Intelligence, OSINT, Data Science, Social Data Science, Python, Natural Language Processing, NLP, text data
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
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
Dr Julien Dugnoille	Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Human-animal interactons, South Korea, 'wetmarkets', dogs, cats, meat, slaughter, animal death, commodification, resistance, queer animals, ecofeminism, intersectionality, activism, veganism, France	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 Abi 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.
Professor Jane Elliott	Professor (Sociology) Gender, ageing, narrative, longitudinal, mixed-methods, impact	Lazenby House
Dr Hannah Farrimond	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Social practices, symbolic meanings in relation to addiction, stigma and public health inc. alcohol, smoking, e-cigarettes, vaping, active ageing, cannabis. pharmaceuticals/medications.	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
Dr Stephan Guttinger	Lecturer (Philosophy of Data/Data Ethics)	Byrne House
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
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 Sociology of agriculture; Health and well-being in agriculture; succession and retirement; land and agri-environmental management; agricultural restructuring.	Lazenby House
Dr Kirils Makarovs	Associate Lecturer in Social Data Analysis (SMART Skills)	Clayden
Dr Charles Masquelier	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) social theory, humanity-nature relations, critical theory, intersectionality theory, social movements, neoliberalism, socialism, worker cooperatives	Amory
Dr Narzanin Massoumi	Senior Lecturer (Criminology) Social movements, political repression, racism, Islamophobia, digital methods, investigative research, counter terrorism policy
Professor Susan Molyneux-Hodgson	Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of Research science, technology and everyday practice; technoscience and society; epistemic communities; interdisciplinary research and collaboration; responsible research and innovation; 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	Lecturer (Sociology) 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	Senior 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	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Extended mind; emotion; cognition; consciousness; embodiment	Amory
Dr Ginny Russell	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Sociology of diagnosis, health. Psychiatry; epidemiology; developmental psychology, especially neuro-studies, autism, child mental health, neurodiversity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dementia, dyslexia, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Quantitative methods, longitudinal data analysis, secondary data sources. Qualitative methods especially thematic analysis.	Byrne House
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	Senior 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 Niccolò Tempini	Senior Lecturer data studies, internet studies, big data, social media, surveillance, digital economy, platform economy, crowdsourcing, information systems, electronic health records, personal health records, data-intensive science, data practices, evidence, classification systems, systems engineering, data management, data governance, data ethics, data infrastructures, information infrastructures, knowledge infrastructures, precision medicine, patient-led research ×	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	Senior 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
Dr Yen Nee Wong	Associate Lecturer (E&S)

Research Fellows
Dr Gemma Anderson	Research Fellow
Professor Gary Ansdell	Senior Research Fellow	Amory
Dr Taline Artinian	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Alexander Badman-King	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Dr Joshua Blamire	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Amory
Tyler Brunet	Research Fellow Philosophy of Biology (Molecular Biology, Evolution); Philosophy of Science (Causation, Ontology); Philosophy of Mathematics (Logic, Category Theory).	Byrne House
Dr Jose Canada	Research Fellow science and technology studies; public engagement with science and technology; knowledge production; ethnography; qualitative methodologies; social theory; more-than-human approaches; interspecies relations; intersectionality; public health; One Health; policy	Lazenby House
Dr Arely Cruz-Santiago	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Fenella Eason	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Dr Dreolin Fleischer	Research Fellow
Dr Jessica Groling	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)	North Cloisters
Dr Steve Guilbert	Research Fellow - ESRC: Food System Impacts of Covid-19
Dr Jean Harrington	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Charlotte Jones	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Cristian Montenegro	Research Fellow	Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Dr Daniel Nicholson	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Caroline Nye	Research Fellow	Lazenby House
Dr Carolyn Petersen	Research Fellow	Lazenby House
Dr Stephan Price	Research Fellow
Dr Achim Rosemann	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes	Research Fellow in the project 'Philosophy and Psychedelics' psychedelics, panpsychism, process philosophy, monism, Spinozism.	Amory
Dr Georgia Smith	Research Fellow	Amory
Dr Emily Stone	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)
Virginia Thomas	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Human-animal studies, science and technology studies, environmental policy, one-health.
Dr Rebecca Wheeler	Senior Research Fellow Agriculture; Environment; Farmer wellbeing; Rural communities	Lazenby House
Dr Timothy Wilkinson	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
Dr Jennifer Cuffe	Associate Research Fellow

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

Professional Services Staff
Tom Allen	SSIS Student Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator	Innovation Centre
Melissa Barrett	Widening Participation Coordinator	Innovation Centre
Kate Blackmore	Pathways to Law & Outreach Officer	Innovation Centre
Mr Christopher Calvert	EASE Project Administrator	North Cloisters
Eleanor Monger	Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager	Innovation Centre
Emma Reeve	Marketing, Recruitment, Communications & Global Business Partner	Knightley
Jane Tanner	Web Officer (Digital Team)	Innovation Centre
Emma Tranter	Research Administrator / PA	Lazenby House
Miss Chee Wong	Executive Assistant to SPA, Administrator for Egenis	Byrne House
Alfiya Yermukasheva	Project administrator	Byrne House

Graduate teaching assistants
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 Jaanika Puusalu	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Eva Schurig	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Elena Sharratt	Graduate Teaching Assistant

Associate member
Dr Allan Butler	Research Associate
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 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
Mr Chris Lockyear	Former Philosophy MA graduate and General Secretary Medecins Sans Frontieres International, Geneva
Dr Kate Marx	Honorary Research Fellow
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