Staff Interests
Victoria Alexander (Senior Lecturer)
Sociology of the arts, sociology of organisations, cultural sociology, economic sociology, museums, visual methods, mixed methods.
Sara Arber (Professor)
Gender and class inequalities in health. Sociology of Sleep. Ageing: gender, caring and class inequalities among older people. Secondary analysis.
Ian Brunton-Smith (Lecturer)
Fear of crime, criminal statistics, secondary analysis of large and complex datasets. Multi-level modelling.
Karen Bullock (Lecturer)
Crime and criminal justice. Use of analysis, evidence and problem-oriented approaches in the police service and the implementation of new programmes and projects in the crime reduction arena.
Martin Bulmer (Emeritus Professor)
Race and ethnicity. Quantitative methods and survey design. History of sociology and social policy. The application of knowledge to policy-making.
Kate Burningham (Senior Lecturer) (joint appointment with Centre for Environmental Strategy)
The contribution of sociological research to the study of environmental problems and environmental change
Rachel Condry (Lecturer)
Crime and the family, parenting and the state regulation of family life, stigma and shame, youth justice, victims of crime. Qualitative research methods.
Lynn Prince Cooke (Professor)
Institutional effects on gender and other group differences in paid and unpaid work; inequalities across the life course; social demography; comparative methods and longitudinal analysis
Geoff Cooper (Reader)
Sociology of scientific knowledge; sociology of technology; social theory
Ann Cronin (Lecturer)
The social construction of sexual identities. The interaction between gender, sexuality and ageing. Narrative Analysis.
Sarah Earthy (Lecturer)
Sociology of health and illness. Social capital and local community studies.
Jane Fielding (Senior Lecturer)
Social inequality and environmental risk . Methodological developments in computer analysis. Women in science and technology. Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods.
Nigel Fielding (Professor)
Criminal justice, especially policing. New technologies for social research, especially qualitative software and grid technologies. Qualitative methods. Methodological integration.
Nigel Gilbert (Professor)
Simulation methodologies. Agent-based modelling. Computational social science. Science and Technology Studies. The internet. Privacy and surveillance.
Colin Grant (Professor)
Communication and Social Theory. Interdisciplinary approaches to logic, epistemology and sociology. Critiques of Habermas and Luhmann. Realism/Constructivism/Contextualism debates. Mass media representations and receptions.
Nicky Green (Senior Lecturer)
Science and Technology. Media and identity. Media and culture. Gender and everyday life.
Christine Hine (Senior Lecturer)
Use of information in contemporary settings. The development of ethnography in technical settings. The use of the Internet for social research.
Paul Hodkinson (Senior Lecturer)
The relationship between media technologies and cultural identities. The role of consumption in youth cultures. Debates on the future of subcultural theory.
Mike Hornsby-Smith (Emeritus Professor)
Religion and social values in Europe . Religion, politics and welfare state regimes.
Paul Johnson (Lecturer)
Aspects of identity, sociology of sexuality (particularly heterosexuality); research on love and emotions; legal regulation of sexuality; morality and law; social class.
Keith Macdonald (Visiting Professor)
Sociology of work and occupations. The professions
Rob Meadows (Lecturer)
Medicine, science and society; sociology of sleep; sociology of the body; masculinities and men’s health
Jo Moran-Ellis (Senior Lecturer and Head of Department)
Sociology of childhood; research methodology - integrating methods; violence against women and children.
Cornel Sandvoss (Senior Lecturer)
Social and cultural theory in contemporary media research. Fandom, popular culture, spectator sport, cultural globalization and citizenship.
Roger Tarling (Professor)
Criminology and criminal justice. Voluntary sector. Advanced quantitative methods.
Katharine Tyler (Lecturer)
Race and ethnicity. Nationalism. Inter-racial identities and genealogy; race, ethnicity and the 'new' genetic technologies; the State, ethnicity and representation.
