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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 Sally Atkinson | Lecturer (Sociology) Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging |
Amory |
| Professor Alexey Bessudnov | Associate Professor (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 |
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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 |
| 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) 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. |
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| 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) Philosophy of Data; Philosophy of Experimentation; Replication Crisis; Philosophy of Biology; Biomedical ethics; Genome editing |
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 |
| Professor Joel Krueger | Associate Professor (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 |
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| 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 in Philosophy and Sociology 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 |
| Professor Ginny Russell | Associate Professor (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 (Philosophy) 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 (Sociology) 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 |
| Professor Dana Wilson-Kovacs | Associate Professor (Sociology) 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) |
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| Research Fellows | ||
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| Dr Gemma Anderson | Research Fellow |
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| Professor Gary Ansdell | Senior Research Fellow |
Amory |
| Dr Taline Artinian | Honorary Research Fellow |
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| 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 |
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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 Cristian Montenegro | Research Fellow |
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health |
| 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 Stephan Price | Research Fellow |
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| Dr Achim Rosemann | Honorary Research Fellow |
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| 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) |
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| Virginia Thomas | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Human-animal studies, science and technology studies, environmental policy, one-health. |
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| 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 | ||
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| Dr Jennifer Cuffe | Associate Research Fellow |
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| 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 |
| 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 | ||
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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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| Associate member | ||
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| Dr Allan Butler | Research Associate |
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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 |
| Mr Chris Lockyear | Former Philosophy MA graduate and General Secretary Medecins Sans Frontieres International, Geneva |
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| Dr Kate Marx | Honorary Research Fellow |
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| Professor Andrew Pickering | Professor |
Amory |
| Dr Hilary Wheaton | Associate Member |
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| Graduate Research Assistants | ||
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| Mary Tamplin | Graduate Research Assistant |
Byrne House |
| PhD students | |
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| Juan Diego Bogotá | PhD Student |
| Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo | PhD Student |
| Sarah Heaney | PhD Student |
| Kris Hill | PhD Student |
| Benedict Lane | PhD Student |
| Sergio Sorcia Reyes | PhD Student |