School of Sociology and Social Policy

Staff Supervision Areas

Below are some of the areas of research in which our staff currently specialise and areas where they can offer expert supervision.

 


Staff supervision areas

NameKey expertise and research areas

Benoit, Céline

Children and young people in education (compulsory education and Higher Education); children and young people and health and wellbeing; religious education; collective worship; relationships and sex education; other work that seeks to capture and foreground the voices and of children and young people in contexts where they often face marginalisation and exclusion.

Bott, Esther

Tourism in the Global South, niche tourism markets such as orphanage tourism, 'tribal' tourism and adventure tourism in remote regions; tourist interactions, impacts and negotiations of important new tourism markets and employment relations.

Bradford-Clarke, Lauren

Victims of crime, victimology, policing, and criminal justice processes.

Briscoe-Palmer, Shardia

Political Sociology at the Intersections of Race and Genders; Sexualities and the Body; (Black) Masculinities, Colonial Legacies and Performances. Health Sociology including Sex and Reproductive Health. Media Representations and Social Stigmas.

Clamp, Kerry

Restorative justice/practice; Restorative pedagogy; Victimology; Transitional justice; Comparative criminal justice; Criminal justice reform; Progressive policing methods

Chau, CM Ruby

Social Policy; Public Policy and Administration; Social Work; Women's care, work and welfare; Work-family reconciliation policies; Comparative welfare studies; Gender and health issues in South Asia; Social Policy and Social Policy Education; Culturally sensitive policy and practice; co-production/participatory research

Chen, Qi

Criminal sentencing; Probation; Populist feminism and digital feminism; Criminal records and sex offences; Governance and social control in China; Comparative penology and criminology

 

Cluley, Victoria

Health and illness; Disability; Visual methods; Posthumanism/new materialism; Health inequalities; Body/embodiment; Feminism; Healthcare practice/professionals

Dauncey, Sarah

Sociology; Social Policy; China/East Asia; Disability & Impairment; Identity (including gender, sexuality); Citizenship; Culture; Emotion

Dixon, Bill

Criminology; Southern/decolonial criminology; South Africa; Policing; Police Governance

Farrall, Stephen

Desistance; Offenders (careers/in general); politics and crime; surverys; white collar crime; the fear of crime

Fyson, Rachel

Social work/Social Policy; Safeguarding; Adult social care; Intellectual disability; Qualitative methods; Disability; Social Work Practice; Policy implementation and evaluation

Gardner, Alison

Public/Social Policy; Modern Slavery/Exploitation; Local governance; New institutionalism; Action Research and participatory methods; Multi-method research

Genova, Elena

Migration/ Transnationalism; Identity; Belonging; Settlement; Emotion; Social Media; Qualitative Methods; Racialisation/Othering

Goulden, Murray

Digital technology; Home; Family; Work; Energy systems; Everyday life; Social practices; Qualitative methods

Gregory, Lee

Social/Public Policy; Welfare Theory; LGBTQ+, Poverty/Inequality; Time; Young People/Youth Policy; Asset-based Welfare/Savings; Financisl Inclusion

Guiney, Thomas

Parole and prison release; prisons and imprisonment; the sociology of punishment; penal policymaking; the politics of law and order; historical criminology 

Hall, Lauren

Criminology; Desistance; Recovery; Prison; Gender, crime and affected others; Qualitative methods; Military veterans offending; Sexual offending

Hashemi, Morteza

Sociology; Sociological Theory; Race and ethnicity; Decoloniality; Science and Technology (startup environment); Medical Sociology (Blood and organ donation); Grassroots Activism; European Muslims

Hobson-West, Pru

Sociology; Health; Medicine; Science; Animals; Qualitative Methods; Social Movements; Professions

Iafrati, Steve

 Social Policy; Housing; Poverty; Welfare; Inequality; Political Economy; Community

Jas, Pauline

Patterns of hunger and satiety, the development of taste preferences in teenagers, motivations and patterns of charitable giving behaviour, and the effects of introducing the national minimum wage on voluntary sector organisations: improvement of performance in public sector organisations that have gone through a period of poor performance.

Jordan, Melanie

(ill) health and (in) justice; Criminology and healthcare; Avoidable Harm (e.g. prison health); "Closed" Institutions; Criminal Justice, Mental/Physical Health & Illness (including medical sociology); clinical microbiology into justice and health settings; Domination/Deviance/Subjugation; Epistemology/Methodology/Method

Madziva, Roda

Migration, race and inequalities, with a focus on (highly-skilled) migrants, refugees/asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and victims of human trafficking.

Pacey, Scott

Sociology; China; Taiwan; Religion; Historical sociology; Material culture; Media; Identity

Page Sarah-Jane

Sociology; Religion; Gender; Sexuality; Intersectionality; Abortion and reproductive; Violence against women and girls health; Child sexual abuse

Purser, Aimie

Body/Embodiment; Feminist/queer/decolonial theory; French/Continental Thought; Subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Health and illness; arts-based/participatory/feminist methods; Epistemology

Roberts, Simon

Public and Social Policy; Social rights; Social security; Disability and discrimination; EU and international social policy; Migration; Brexit, citizenship and social rights; Policy learning and policy transfer

Sandy, Larissa

Criminology/Anthropology; Sex work; Modern slavery/human trafficking; Criminalisation; Feminist, queer and decolonial theory; Participatory action research; global justice and security/international criminology; Social movements & activism

Saunders, Gary

Higher Education; Co-creation; Co-operatives; Marxist Social Theory; Criminological Theory; Sociology; Education; Prisons; Gender; Social Class; Research Methods

Stevenson, Nick

Sociology; Citizenship; Socialism; Class, Cultural Materialism; History

Tangen, James

Criminal Justice Policy and Practice; Digital Criminology, with a focus on the use of technologies in criminal justice practice; Probation & Community Justice;

Tomczak, Philippa

Sociology of punishment, penal voluntary sector, prison suicide, deaths in state custody, prison regulation.

Warr, Jason

Criminological and Sociological Theory; Race, Racism, and Criminal Justice; Cultural Studies/Criminology; Penal Theory and Penology; Sociology of Prison; Sociology of Risk and Power; Philosophy of Criminology; Ethnography; Qualitative Research (Methodology and Methods), Sensory studies in Criminology; and Narrative Criminology.

Warwick, Lisa

Child and family social work (children in care, entering care and leaving care), children and childhood, motherhood and professional relationships.

Wigzell, Ali

Youth justice, community supervision, desistance, and the emotional and moral dimensions of criminal justice and criminology.

Wikoff, Nora

Labour markets, crime, financial wellbeing, and inclusive asset-building policy, with a shared focus on how interventions can improve individuals' financial wellbeing and promote beneficial outcomes.

Wilkinson, Hannah

War, state violence and social harm (zemiology); narrative and visual methods; critical social theory 

Wright, Edward

Criminological theory, social theory, sport (particularly fighting sports and martial arts), decolonization, zemiology/sociology of harm, prison, time, qualitative methods (particularly ethnography)

 

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