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| Head of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology | ||
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| Professor Robert Lamb | Professor of Political Philosophy |
Amory |
| Academic staff | ||
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| Dr Celso Alves Neto | Lecturer (Philosophy) Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Race; Classification Systems; Social Epistemology of Science; |
Byrne House |
| Professor Suchith Anand | Professor of Practice in Science Policy |
Byrne House |
| Dr Sally Atkinson | Lecturer (Sociology) Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging |
Amory |
| Dr Alexander Badman-King | Lecturer (Philosophy) Animal ethics (the ethics of non-human life and minds – including artificial minds), the ethics of gardening and farming, metaphilosophy (particularly Philosophy as a Way of Life), ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of anthropology/participant observation, Big History, the philosophy of religion, transhumanism. |
North Cloisters |
| Professor Kate Bailey | Professor of Practice in Research Governance and Partnerships |
Byrne House |
| Professor Alexey Bessudnov | Associate Professor (Sociology) Ethnic groups and hierarchies; ethnicity; inequalities in education; National Pupil Database; social stratification; Russia; statistical methods; field experiments; survey data; R |
Clayden |
| Professor Katharine Boyd | Associate Professor (Criminology) Political and religiously motivated violence, counterterrorism policy, evidence-based policy, domestic abuse, alcohol related violence, police use of force |
Clayden |
| Dr Lewys Brace | Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science (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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| Professor Angela Cassidy | Associate Professor 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 Susannah Crockford | Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthropology; Environment; Medicine; Religion |
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 |
| Dr Julien Dugnoille | Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Human-animal interactions, Anthrozoology, South Korea, 'wetmarkets', urban anthropology, dogs, cats, meat, slaughter, animal death, commodification, resistance, intersectionality, France, Critical Animal Studies |
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 |
| Professor Abi Dymond | Associate Professor (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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| Dr Fenella Eason | Lecturer in Anthrozoology |
North Cloisters |
| Professor Jane Elliott | Professor (Sociology) Gender, ageing, narrative, longitudinal, mixed-methods, well being, gender pay gap. |
Lazenby House |
| Dr Steven Emery | Senior Lecturer Farmers, Cultural Values, Agri-environment schemes, Cooperation, Collaboration, Landscape, Governance, Political Economy, Phenomenology, Rhetoric, Experiential Knowledge, Food Systems, Rural Community |
Lazenby House |
| Dr Douglas Farrer | Lecturer in Criminology Crime scene photography, narrative criminology, visual anthropology, martial arts studies |
Amory |
| 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 |
| Dr Ashley Frayling | Lecturer (Criminology) |
Amory |
| Dr Shane Glackin | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) |
Amory |
| Professor Judith Green | Professor of Sociology sociology of medicine; 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 Jessica Groling | Lecturer in Anthrozoology |
North Cloisters |
| 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 (Philosophy and Sociology) Philosophy and Psychedelics; Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Critical Theory; Decoloniality; Feminist Philosophy; Bioethics and Biopolitics; Philosophy of Science and Technology. |
Byrne House |
| Professor Alex Hillman | Associate Professor |
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health |
| Dr Geoffrey Hughes | Senior 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 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, metadata, biology, plants, crops, epidemiology, public health, data science, data semantics and classification, knowledge infrastructures, embodied and indigenous knowledge, scientific modelling, abstraction and idealisation, organisation and governance of research, science policy, public engagement, research communication |
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 Rebecca Lynch | Lecturer anthropology of the body and biomedicine; medical anthropology; bodies; bodily boundaries; fluid bodies; bodies and environments; the body in parts; biomedicine; biomedical categories; health technology; inequalities; 'lived experience' in medicine; the lifecourse; the NHS; morality; religion; Trinidad; Christianity; place-based health inequalities |
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| Professor Charles Masquelier | Associate Professor (Sociology) environmental sociology, rural 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, state power, corporate power, counter-terrorism policy, human rights, big data, digital surveillance |
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| Dr Cecilia Meneghini | Lecturer (Criminology) Organised crime, violence diffusion, criminal networks, illicit markets, life-course criminology, peer effects, quantitative methodologies, longitudinal methodologies. |
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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 |
| Dr Silvia Milano | Senior Lecturer (Philosophy of Data/Data Ethics) |
Byrne House |
| 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 |
| Dr Paul O'Connor | Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Skateboarding, Sociology of Religion, Hong Kong, Pilgrimage, Rhythmanalysis, Hybridity, Lifestyle Religion, Islam, Hajj, Quantum Sociology, Digital Detox |
Amory |
| Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem | Senior 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) Care, mutual aid, everyday politics, community organising, cooperatives, austerity, social movements, food and housing insecurity, social anthropology, anthropology of Britain, anthropology of food. |
Lazenby House |
| Professor Brian Rappert | Professor (Sociology) Secrecy, disclosure, expertise, data, crime, magic, revelation |
Amory |
| Professor Tom Rice | Associate Professor in 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 |
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 | Senior 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 & Philosophy of Data) 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 | Senior 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 |
| Professor Adam Toon | Associate Professor (Philosophy) Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind, Scientific models, Fictionalism, Extended mind thesis, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge |
Byrne House |
| Professor Katharine Tyler | 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, Director of Research 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, forensic cultures, practices and occupations, policing, crime investigation, evidence, expertise, professional trajectories, organisational change, ethnography, qualitative methods, sex, gender and sexuality |
Amory |
| Research Fellows | ||
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| Dr Jenny Barke | Research & Impact Fellow |
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| Catherine Broomfield | Postgraduate Research Associate |
Lazenby House |
| 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 Paola Castaño | Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
| Dr Arely Cruz-Santiago | Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
| Miss Aditi Dutta | PDRA (TWICEASGOOD) |
Knightley |
| Dr Dreolin Fleischer | Research Fellow |
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| Dr Eleanor Hadley Kershaw | Senior Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
| Dr Rosalie Jones-McVey | Research Fellow |
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| Dr Rhiannon Lane | Research Fellow |
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| Dr Cristian Montenegro | Research Fellow |
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health |
| Dr Caroline Nye | Senior Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
| 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 Bethan Stagg | Research Fellow |
Baring Court |
| 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 Rose Trappes | Research Fellow |
Byrne House |
| Dr Rebecca Wheeler | Senior Research Fellow Agriculture; Environment; Farmer wellbeing; Rural communities |
Lazenby House |
| Dr Timothy Wilkinson | Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
| Associate Research Fellows | ||
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| Dr Jennifer Cuffe | Associate Research Fellow |
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| Dr Achim Rosemann | Honorary Research Fellow |
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| Professional Services Staff | ||
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| Ellie Carter | Administrator |
Amory |
| Melissa Hawkins | PA/Administrator to the Centre of Rural Policy Research Directors |
Lazenby House |
| Chloe Hrycyszyn | Administrator |
Amory |
| Miss Chee Wong | Senior Executive Assistant (ESE), Centre Administrator (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 Eva Schurig | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Amory |
| Ms Elena Sharratt | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
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| Associate member | ||
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| Dr Paul Brassley | Honorary University Fellow |
Lazenby House |
| 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 |
| Emeritus Professor Grace Davie | Emeritus Professor of Sociology |
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| Dr Keith Howe | Senior Research Fellow |
Lazenby House |
| Emeritus Professor Susan Kelly | Professor (Sociology) Mainstreaming genomics, consent, non invasive prenatal testing, sociology of diagnosis, 100K Genomes Project |
Byrne House |
| Mr Chris Lockyear | Former Philosophy MA graduate and General Secretary Medecins Sans Frontieres International, Geneva |
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| Dr Luis Eduardo Luna | Honorary Research Fellow |
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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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| Affiliates | ||
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| Professor Luna Dolezal | Professor (Philosophy) Applied phenomenology, philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of medicine, medical humanities |
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| Dr Alexander R. E. Taylor | Senior Lecturer in Communications |
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| PhD students | |
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| Juan Diego Bogotá | PhD Student |
| Yiyang Gao | PhD Student |
| Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo | PhD Student |
| Cathrin Fischer | PhD Student |
| Sarah Heaney | PhD Student |
| Kris Hill | PhD Student |
| Ahmet Karakaya | PhD Student |
| Boglarka Kiss | PhD Student |
| Benedict Lane | PhD Student |
| Sian Moody | PhD Student |
| Sergio Sorcia Reyes | PhD Student |
| Michelle Szydlowski | PhD Student |