People
Research Students
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Ji-Eun Ahn | Social movements,Protest,Political Sociology,Democracy,Civil Society and Democratization,Qualitative research ,East Asian Studies | J.Ahn@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Maryam AlHajri | Historical sociology,State formation,Memory politics,archival research,Feminist Theories and Research Practices,narrative & auto/biographical methodologies,the Arab Gulf states,Anti-colonial resistance,ethnography,Decolonisation | Maryam.Alhajri@ed.ac.uk | |
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Mario Alvarado | Multiculturalism,Political philosophy,Social theory,Critical theory,Interculturalism,Identity,Recognition,Political Plurality,Liberalism,Social cohesion | +44 (0)752 654 5549 s1567169@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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David Anderson | Marginality,Processes of marginalisation,social exclusion,boundary making,social/moral norms and values,Migration,societal structure,urban sociology,Social change,refugees and displacement,social space | +44 (0)7793 453 143 s1264015@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Amy Andrada | Ideology,Norms,Narrative Inquiry,gender,national identity,Gender hierarchies,Quantitative Research,Kinship and motherhood,Exclusion,Self,Identity | +44 (0)753 926 9587 Aandrada@ed.ac.uk |
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Thalia Thereza Assan | Girlhood,Childhood and Youth Studies,Friendship,Activism,Political Participation,Ethnography,Creative Participatory Methods,Education | t.t.assan@ed.ac.uk | |
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Selma Augestad | Feminism,Genocide,Humanitarian intervention,Norms,Agency,Post-conflict societies,Women and war,Gender & intersectionality,Social Justice,Transitional justice,Ethnicity & 'race' | s1049649@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Kath Bassett | Digital Sociology,Locative Media,Mobilities,Affect and Emotions,Qualitative Research,Space and Place,New Media Ontologies,Power and Subjectivation,Algorithmic Culture,Queer Theory,work and labour,digital labour,Geoweb,tourism | +44 (0) 749 867 3281 Kath.Bassett@ed.ac.uk |
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Katherine Baxter | Education and social change,Sociology of Knowledge,Sustainability,Sociology of Sustainability, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Education, Education for Sustainable Development,Alternative epistemologies,Knowledge production and practices,Nepal and the Himalaya,international development,the sociology of development and aid practices,Childhood and Youth Studies,refugees and displacement | +44 (0)784 509 2651 K.D.Baxter@sms.ed.ac.uk; kbaxter@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Théo Bourgeron | pharmaceutical prices,lobbying groups,financial sector,private equity,UK politics,impact investing,hegemonic masculinity in finance,Brexit,opacity in pharmaceutical markets | theo.bourgeron@ucd.ie | |
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Yuji Shimohira Calvo | Political participation,Critical sociology,Social stratification,Quantitative analysis | +44 (0)783 574 7499 y.shimohira@ed.ac.uk |
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Lorenzo Canepari | Social memory,Families,Nationalism,Ethnicity,Regionalism,Italy,Balkans,Qualitative research,Comparative constitutionalism | +44(0)7802632265 lorenzo.canepari@ed.ac.uk |
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Canglong Wang (王苍龙) | Chinese citizenship,Confucianism,National and cultural identity,Classical education in China,Schooling ethnography,Foucault,self-moralisation,Individualisation of Chinese society,governmentality in China,digital culture | +44(0)7933827151 s1460757@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Christopher Cannell | Nationalism,Democracy,South Asia,Delhi,Capital Cities,Federalism | Christopher.Cannell@ed.ac.uk | |
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Dylan Cassar | Economic Sociology,Social Studies of Finance,Science and technology studies,Global financial markets,Central Banking,Government bond markets,Sociology of Knowledge,Political economy | D.Cassar-1@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Lee Chalmers | Feminism,Political representation,Cybermisogyny,Public life,Gender,Gender theory,Trolling,Feminist Theory,Sociology | lee.chalmers@ed.ac.uk | |
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Elisabeth Cuénod | Feminism,Youth,Technology and society,Sexuality,Social media and internet technologies,Internet research,Tumblr,Asexuality,LGBT studies,Identity,Boundary work,Gender,Intersectionality,Digital Sociology,Digital Culture,Queer | +44 (0)7443 773228 elisabeth.cuenod@ed.ac.uk |
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Arek Dakessian | Cultural Production,Creative Industries,Cities,Beirut,Ethnography,Social Network Analysis,Networks of Cultural Production,Distinction,Taste,Material Culture,Materiality,colonialism and imperialism | +44 (0)7447 509 109 A.A.Dakessian@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Alexandria Davenport | Gender and Sexuality,Feminist Theory,Queer Theory,LGBT studies,Media,Transgender,MOGAI | 44 (0)7463 486464 s1252173@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Kali Dedominicis | media fandom,Qualitative Research Methods,Discourse Theory,internet research methods,community,Documents of Life,Sociology of technology,Technology and society,Discourse, practice and sociological theories and methods,Media and society,new media,Media anthropology,popular culture,digital culture | k.l.dedominicis@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Ellen Frank Delgado | Social Inclusion,Inequality & diversity,Organisation Studies,Social network analysis,natural language processing,Computational Social Science | s2111690@ed.ac.uk | |
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Eva Duncanson | Feminism,Sex Work,Digital Sociology,Sex & Gender,Intimate Relationships,Intimacy,Online Relationships,Affordances,Co-presence,Violence Against Women | eva.duncanson@ed.ac.uk | |
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Nikki Dunne | care chains,gender,Migrant work,transnational families,Transnational caregiving,Globalization,Qualitative Research Methods,Intersectionality,Inequality in the labour market | m.n.dunne@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Friedrich Eierdanz | Sociology of Sport,Cognitive Anthropology,Grounded Theory,Sociology of Knowledge,economic sociology,organizations and institutions | F.Eierdanz(at)sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Nichole Fernandez | National Identity,Visual Sociology,European Union,Postnationalism,Return / transnational migration,tourism,nation branding,Nation Branding,postmodernity,Digital Cultures,Environmental Sociology | s1369596@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Natalie Forster | s1053508@exseed.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Joséphine Foucher | artivism,Cuba,subjectivity,Aesthetic experiences,Political Sociology,ethnography,Digital ethnography | J.Foucher@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Kay Fretwell | K.Fretwell@sms.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Gilberto Galeazzi | ethnography,organizations and institutions,Ritual,authority,culture,Qualitative Research Methods,Sociology of Sport,Identity,Power (domination,legitimacy),time,subculture | g.galeazzi@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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İdil Galip | Digital Sociology,Digital Social Research,Instagram,Entrepreneurship,Subcultures,Online Communities,New Media,Memes,Niche-Memes,Algorithmic Culture,Art Worlds,Content Creation,Reflexivity,Digital Folklore | +44 (0) 7732 425 410 igalip@ed.ac.uk |
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Johan Gordillo-García | Social movements,Power and resistance,Political participation,Protest,Human rights,Political Sociology,Social Violence,Theories of social power,Mexico,Victims of violence | johan.gordillo@ed.ac.uk | |
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Poppy Gerrard-Abbott | Sexual and Gender-Based Violence,Criminal Justice,Feminist Research,Gender and Sexuality,Gender Policy | pgerrard@ed.ac.uk | |
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Mary Hanlon | Work & Labour,Sociology of Fashion,Global Value Chains,Consumption,Fashion Theory,Consumer-based Activism,Education,Online Learning,Sustainability,Global Apparel Production,Creative Commons & Open Source,Food,Digital Narratives,Bangladesh | M.F.Hanlon@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Jillian Hart | methodological innovations,Research methods,Qualitative Research Methods,Research Ethics,reflexivity in research,Network Mapping,virtual/online methods,narrative and autobiographical methodologies,Interdisciplinary Research,Research methodology,Research methods and methodological innovations,participatory design,Social network analysis,Participatory Mapping,reflexive sociology | Jillian.hart@ed.ac.uk | |
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Andi Haxhiu | Nationalism,Museum Studies,National Narratives,Historiography,Transitional justice,Cultural Sociology,Museums and Performativity,History and Memory,Collective memory,Social Memory and Remembrance | +447765136199 A.Haxhiu@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Arjen van der Heide | Social Studies of Finance,Economic Sociology,Insurance markets,Science and technology studies,Financial regulation,Sociology of Quantification,Political Economy,Life Insurance,Sociology of Knowledge | a.vanderheide@ed.ac.uk | |
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Justin Chun-ting Ho | Nationalism and National Identity,Hong Kong,China,Social media,text and data analytics,Computational Social Science,Discourse Analysis,Big data,Big Data Analytics,Big data applied to social sciences,Social network analysis | Justin.Ho@ed.ac.uk | |
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Lisa Howard | Environment,Environmental Sociology,Sustainability,families,Social capital,Gender and parenting,Activism,Queer Theory,Feminist Theory | lisa.howard@ed.ac.uk | |
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Rhys Howell | Sustainability,Social Impact Assessment,Marine planning,Community Development,Community energy,Marine energy,Social responses,Renewable energy,Participation | rhys.howell@ed.ac.uk | |
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Zhexi Hu | ethnography,IR and Middle East,gender,Globalization,Rebellion and civil war,Queer Theory,queerphobia,China | Z.Hu-14@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Katie Ion | Qualitative Research Methods,Protest,Protest policing,Surveillance,ethnography,Social movements,Political Sociology,drug policy,intoxication,social change | k.m.ion@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Lisa Kalayji | sociology of emotions,social movements,feminisms and feminist theory,Social theory,cultural studies,textual research methods | LKalayji@exseed.ed.ac.uk | |
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Martina Karels | Public Memory and Remembrance,Performance,Space,Visual Sociology,Politics of Memory,Qualitative Research Methods,Collaborative Methods,Participatory Methods,Arts-Based Research Methods,Archives | M.H.Karels@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Jaehyun Kim | Emotional Sociology,Sociology of Emotions,Intimacy,Love,Marriage and Intimate Relationships,Commercialisation,Emotions as commodities,Qualitative Research Methods,Ethnography | J.Kim-48@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Julius Kob | Social Studies of Finance,Science and technology studies,Historical sociology,Economic Sociology,ethnography,Reinsurance markets,Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) markets,Catastrophe Modelling,Risk Studies,Financial Markets,Sociology of Knowledge,infrastructure,epistemologies,Uncertainty,Climate change,Experimentation,Non-knowledge,Simulations,Organisation Studies,Anthropocene,sociomaterial disaster | +49 (0) 172 96 33433 J.J.Kob@ed.ac.uk |
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Marta Kowalewska | feminisms and feminist theory,Roma activism,Intersectionality,Social movements,Critical methodologies,Nationalism,Critical Romani Studies,Knowledge production,Epistemic justice,Central Eastern Europe,Anti-Roma racism | Marta.Kowalewska@ed.ac.uk | |
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Alexandra Scott | Drug Policy,Security Cooperation,The war on drugs,Politics of drugs and trafficking,Transnational Governance,Central Asia,Globalisation,Regionalism,Balance of power | s1468651@ed.ac.uk | |
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José Tomás Labarca | Historical sociology,Economic Sociology,Political Sociology,Global political economy,Public Debt,Historical Institutionalism,Latin America,Comparative/Historical Sociology | jtlabarca@ed.ac.uk | |
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Aerin Lai | Feminism,Decolonisation,Embodiment,Sociology of Gender,Gender and Sexuality,Masculinities | aerin.lai@ed.ac.uk | |
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Maggie Laidlaw | Feminism,Participation,creative research methods,poetry,Innovative Research Methods,work and labour,Bodies,participatory research,co-production,volunteering,Women's livelihoods,Community Belonging,Community Development,co-production and collaboration,time and temporality,Social Inequalities in Leisure and Time-Use,Family relationship | +44(0)7480715571 Maggie.Laidlaw@ed.ac.uk |
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Johannes Langer | nationalism,Cultural Racism,Ethnicity & 'race',Populism,Immigration,Forced displacement | J.Langer@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Ana Victoria Gaxiola Lazcano | Historical sociology,State building,Political Sociology,Latin America,Civil Society and Democratization,Democracy,Political parties | s1673765@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Sara Stewart - Lindores | Sectarianism,Intersectionality,Sociology of the family and kinship,Equalities,Community Education,Inter-generational Research,feminist sociology,narrative & biographical methodologies,gender and religion,Whiteness | +447901940247 sara.d.stewart@ed.ac.uk |
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Lillan Lommel | gender,women and leadership,feminist identity,discrimination,reflexivity | L.S.Lommel@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Cristian Luguzan | Political Sociology,social movements,civil society,political ideology,communication technologies,social media | s1666115@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Alexandra Macht | Qualitative Research Methods,Adult-child relations/interactions,Sociology of emotion,Gender and parenting,Power,Masculinities,fathers and fatherhood,Identity and class culture | +44 (0)7570159672 amacht@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Chloe MacLean | gender equality,Sociology of Sport,Senses,Martial arts/ Combat Sports,Sensory Ethnography,Qualitative Research Methods,embodiment,gender,relationships | S0822532@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Stergios Magkriotis | displacement,Refugee Livelihoods,everyday practices,Materiality,Visual Sociology,Human Geography,Ethnography | stergios.magkriotis[at]ed.ac.uk | |
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Emily Mann | Gender & policing;,Gender & Policing,Police Culture,Criminology,Criminal Justice,Scottish Criminal Justice System,Police,Police Scotland,Ethnography,Feminist Research,Sociology of Gender,Intersectionality,Gender and Development,Feminist Criminology | +44(0)7742629158 Emily.Mann@ed.ac.uk |
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Jingyu Mao | Intimacy,Personal life,Emotions,Contemporary China,Migration,Work,Ethnicity,Gender,Ethnography | 07928989344 jingyumao1028@gmail.com |
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Taylor McConnell | Memory abuse,Collective memory,Memory politics,Yugoslavia,Serbia,Croatia,National identity,Identity construction,State building,Othering,Violence,Education,Socialisation processes | T.A.McConnell@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Derek Morris | Memory,identity,Ideology,Narrative Inquiry,Storytelling and ethnography,discourse analysis,life-writing,Auto/Biography,Documents of Life,Iraq and the Middle East,Masculinities,Identity construction,Identity and Alterity,Collective memory,Storytelling and narrative,Myth and storytelling,militaries,Critical ethnography | derekwesleymorris@ed.ac.uk | |
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Maureen Neckelmann | Social capital,Civic engagement,Sociology of Religion,Secularisation,Religious Identity,Latin American Culture and Society | S1255730@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Meng Hin Ng | Macau and Hong Kong,Colonialism,Comparative/Historical Sociology,Historical Institutionalism,Peripheral east asia,China Factor,discourse analysis,narrative & auto/biographical methodologies,Metropole-Colony Relations | M.H.Ng@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Joe Noteboom | Higher Education,Higher Education Policy,Data & AI Ethics,Critical Data Studies,Digital Sociology,Digital Education | j.noteboom@ed.ac.uk | |
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Jasmiina | Social Media,Digital Sociology,Digital Cultures,Selfie Culture,Self,Netnography,Digital Research Methods,Digital Ethnography,Social Networks,Online Communities,Instagram | ||
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Emily Qvist-Baudry | Criminology,Deviance,Crime prevention,Micro sociology,Prison and prison based intervention,Norm diffusion,Social psychology,Research methodology,Visual Data Analysis,Video based data | emily.qvistbaudry@ed.ac.uk | |
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Dr. Anna Ross | Social Policy,Criminal Justice,Sociology of Drugs,Participatory Methods,Drug Policy | aross33@ed.ac.uk | |
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Sarah M. E. Ruggins | Financial Innovation,financial regulation,exchange traded funds,econometrics and econometric theory,performativity,derivative instruments,Financial Markets,Social Studies of Finance | +44 (0)7541 543776 s.ruggins@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Nathalia Salamanca Sarmiento | Memory,identity,Narrative Inquiry,Human rights,Childhood and Youth Studies,Contesting childhood | n.salamanca@sms.ed.ac.uk - nathalia.salamanca@gmail.com | |
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Matea Senkić | Cultural Sociology,Performance Theory,Urban Sociology,Tourism,Alternative Tourism,Anti-tourism,Cities,Artivism | Matea.Senkic@ed.ac.uk | |
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Shubhi Sharma | Marx,Foucault,Governmentality,Adivasis,India,REDD+,gender,Environmental Sociology | +447365460640 Shubhi.Sharma@ed.ac.uk |
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Haitao Shi | Criminal Justice Policy,Drug Policy in China,Police Culture,Drugs and Crime,Qualitative Research Methods,Discourse Analysis | Haitao.Shi@ed.ac.uk | |
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Esje Stapleton | Philosophy of Mind,Cyborgs,the structure/agency problem,Zombies,Queer Theory,Socially Extended Mind Hypothesis | http://edinburgh.academia.edu/SJStapleton s.j.stapleton-2@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Sarah Stopforth | Sociology of Education,Social Stratification,Cultural Capital,Quantitative Analysis | sarah.stopforth@ed.ac.uk | |
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Dora Jandric, AFHEA | Ageing,Gender,Sexuality,Qualitative Research Methods,imagined futures,Queer Theory,successful ageing,lifecourse,time and temporality | +447521207427 dora.jandric@ed.ac.uk |
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Can Tao | everyday nationalism,banal nationalism,National Identity,China,Patriotic education,Ethnography | can.tao@ed.ac.uk | |
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Alva Katharina Traebert | Gender and Sexuality,Intersectionality,Feminism,Queer Theory,Narrative Inquiry,Human rights | a.k.traebert@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Ben Twist | Climate change,Cultural Sociology,Sustainability,Environment,Environmental Sociology,Environmental and Social Change,complexity theory,social practice theory | +44 (0)131 529 7909 ben.twist@creativecarbonscotland.com |
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Amanda Vettini | Research methodology,Higher Education,Innovative Research Methods,Children and Families,Relationship breakdown and divorce,Research Methods Training | s1144892@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Llibert Mendez de Vigo Arnau | Food Studies,Migration studies,identity,Sociology of Food,Scotland and the EU,Spain,Cultural Capital,Social capital,Pierre Bourdieu,ethnography,Sustainability,Social Justice | Llibert.Mendez.De.Vigo@ed.ac.uk | |
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Xiaoqing Wang | Semiology,Visual Sociology,Ideology,Critical Theory,Social Theory,Cultural Theory,Sociology of Fashion,Sociology of Art,Visual Methods,Visual Culture,Urban Ethnography,Identities | Xiaoqing.Wang@ed.ac.uk | |
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Jaye Ware | Youth,Queer Theory,Transgender,school bullying,queerphobia,gender,Sexuality | j.c.ware@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Katey Warran | Cultural Sociology,Arts and Health,Qualitative Research Methods,Sociology of the Arts,Cultural Policy,Performance Science,Ethnography,Community Belonging,Social cohesion | Katey.Warran@ed.ac.uk | |
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Zhen Wei | Political sociology,Historical sociology,Social theory,Sociology of the body,China,Labour and labour movements | +44 (0)7421233421 s1515888@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Jean Welstead | Participation,Social movements,Impact Assessment,renewable energy,community engagement,Knowledge production,Cultures of expertise | +44 (0) 7963 395416 Jean.Welstead@ed.ac.uk |
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Emily Wilkinson | Veganism,Meat Eating,Happy Meat,Feminism,Intersectionality,Critical Animal Studies,Food Studies,Food | s0801998@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Lauren Wilks | domestic work,care,gender,class,social inequality,migration,mobility,commuting,work and labour,precarity,family and personal relationships,gender-based violence,ethnography,qualitative research,social history | L.Wilks @ sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Mengyao Yuan | Social media,Political identities and citizenship | M.Yuan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Andreas Zaunseder | Historical sociology,political theory,Social theory,Economic Sociology,Political Sociology,alternative festivals and collective joy,workers co-operatives,alternatives to capitalism,Sociology of Sustainability, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Education, Education for Sustainable Development | andreas.zaunseder@ed.ac.uk; r02az16@abdn.ac.uk | |
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Luca Zazzi | Sociology,Social Theory,Philosophy,Metaphysics,Aesthetics,Philosophy of Society,Pataphysics | Luca.Zazzi@ed.ac.uk | |
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Nicolas Zehner | cities,urban sociology,Economic Sociology,Imagination,expectations,Sociology of expectations and futures,Dynamics of capitalism,Urban Ethnography,political economy of urban design,economic sociology of imagination,data-driven innovation,sociology of scientific knowledge,Science and technology studies,sociotechnical imaginaries | N.A.Zehner@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Dominik Zelinsky | Social theory,Cultural Sociology,Communism,Central Eastern Europe,Dissent,Semiotics,Literary Theory,Comparative/Historical Sociology,Hermeneutics,Historical sociology,Sociology of Knowledge,Sociology of Religion,Sociology of Art | Dominik.Zelinsky@savba.sk |