People

Research Students

Name	Research Interests	Contact Information
Mario Alvarado	Multiculturalism,National Identity,Political philosophy,Social theory,Critical theory,Interculturalism	+44 (0)131 651 1726 malvarad@ed.ac.uk
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
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
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
Théo Bourgeron	Anthropology of Money,Sociology of finance,Welfare reform politics,Corporate finance,Private equity,Impact investing,Dynamics of capitalism	tbourger@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Yuji Shimohira Calvo	Political participation,Critical sociology,Social stratification,Quantitative analysis	+44 (0)783 574 7499 y.shimohira@ed.ac.uk
Canglong Wang (王苍龙)	Chinese citizenship,Confucianism,National and cultural identity,Classical education in China,Schooling ethnography,Foucault,self-moralisation	+44(0)7933827151 s1460757@sms.ed.ac.uk
Lee Chalmers	Feminism,Political representation,Cybermisogyny,Public life,Gender,Gender theory,Trolling,Feminist Theory,Sociology,Feminist ethics	lee.chalmers@ed.ac.uk
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	+44 (0)7443 773228 elisabeth.cuenod@ed.ac.uk
Arek Dakessian	Cultural Production,Creative Industries,Cities,Beirut,Ethnography,Social Network Analysis,Networks of Cultural Production,Distinction,Taste	+44 (0)7447 509 109 A.A.Dakessian@sms.ed.ac.uk
Alexandria Davenport	Gender and Sexuality,Feminist Theory,Queer Theory,LGBT studies,Media,Transgender,MOGAI	44 (0)7463 486464 s1252173@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
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
Friedrich Eierdanz	Sociology of Sport,Cognitive Anthropology,Grounded Theory,Sociology of Knowledge,economic sociology,organizations and institutions	F.Eierdanz(at)sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Natalie Forster		s1053508@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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
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
Jillian Hart	methodological innovations,virtual/online methods,Networking and Mapping,Biographical narrative,Research methods,Qualitative Research Methods,Research Ethics,reflexivity in research	s1157145@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Justin Chun-ting Ho	Nationalism and National Identity,Hong Kong,China,Social media,text and data analytics,Computational Social Science,Discourse Analysis	Justin.Ho@ed.ac.uk
Yifei Hou	Quantitative Methods in Social Research,Family Demography,Health policy,Kinship	Y.Hou-12@sms.ed.ac.uk
Rhys Howell	Renewable Energy Systems,Sustainability,marine energy,Public perceptions,place,community,Social Impact Assessment	rhys.howell@ed.ac.uk
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
Lisa Kalayji	sociology of emotions,social movements,feminisms and feminist theory,Social theory,documentary research methods,death	L.Kalayji@sms.ed.ac.uk
Martina Karels	Public Memory and Remembrance,Performance,Space,Visual Sociology,Politics of Memory,Qualitative Research Methods,Collaborative Methods,Participatory Methods,Trauma	M.H.Karels@sms.ed.ac.uk
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	+49 (0) 172 96 33433 J.J.Kob@ed.ac.uk
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
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
Ana Victoria Gaxiola Lazcano	Historical sociology,Social movements,State building,Social network analysis,Political Sociology,Latin America,Corporatism,labour movements	s1673765@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Cristian Luguzan	Political Sociology,social movements,civil society,political ideology,communication technologies,social media	s1666115@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
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
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
Taylor McConnell	Memory abuse,Collective memory,Memory politics,Yugoslavia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Serbia,Croatia,National identity,Identity construction,Transitional justice,Political reform,State building,Othering,Violence,Reconciliation,Education,Socialisation processes	tmcconne@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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
Órla Meadhbh Murray	Institutional Ethnography,Sociology of Knowledge,Feminist Research,Activism,Text,Identity,Theatre & Performance,Intersectionality,Work,Higher education,Qualitative Research Methods	s0807012@sms.ed.ac.uk
Maureen Neckelmann	Social capital,Civic engagement,Sociology of Religion,Secularisation,Religious Identity,Latin American Culture and Society	S1255730@sms.ed.ac.uk
Plamena Panayotova	History of science,history of social science,history of statistics,methodology in the social sciences,Quantitative Methods in Social Research,Education	s1007946@sms.ed.ac.uk
Anna Ross	Social Policy,Criminal Justice,Sociology of Drugs,Participatory Methods,Drug Policy	anna.ross@ed.ac.uk
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
Nathalia Salamanca-Sarmiento	Memory,identity,Narrative Inquiry,Human rights,Childhood and Youth Studies,reconciliation and dealing with the past,Contesting childhood	n.salamanca@sms.ed.ac.uk
Shubhi Sharma	Protected Areas,Relocation,Neoliberalism,Gender,Identity,India,Accumulation by dispossession,Indigenous Peoples,Scheduled tribes	Shubhi.Sharma@ed.ac.uk
Haitao Shi	Criminal Justice Policy,Drug Policy in China,Police Culture,Drugs and Crime,Qualitative Research Methods,Discourse Analysis	Haitao.Shi@ed.ac.uk
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
Sarah Stopforth	Sociology of Education,Social Stratification,Cultural Capital,Quantitative Analysis	sarah.stopforth@ed.ac.uk
Dora Jandric	Ageing,Gender,Sexuality,Qualitative Research Methods,imagined futures	+447521207427 s1564114@sms.ed.ac.uk
Alva Katharina Traebert	Gender and Sexuality,Intersectionality,Feminism,Queer Theory,Narrative Inquiry,Human rights	a.k.traebert@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Amanda Vettini	Research methodology,Higher Education,Innovative Research Methods,Children and Families,Relationship breakdown and divorce,Research Methods Training	s1144892@sms.ed.ac.uk
Llibert Mendez de Vigo	sociology of food,Memory,identity,Immigration,Food and Identity,Diaspora and transnationalism	Llibert.Mendez.De.Vigo@ed.ac.uk
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
Emily Wilkinson	Veganism,Meat Eating,Happy Meat,Feminism,Intersectionality,Critical Animal Studies,Food Studies,Food	s0801998@sms.ed.ac.uk
Lauren Wilks	domestic labour,care,gender,class,social inequality,migration,mobility,commuting,work and labour,changing/emerging cultures of work,ethnography,qualitative methods,family and personal relationships,South Asia	L.Wilks @ sms.ed.ac.uk
Mengyao Yuan	Social media,Political identities and citizenship	M.Yuan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk
Andreas Zaunseder	Historical sociology,political theory,Social theory,public engagement,Economic Sociology,Political Sociology,Critical Theory	andreas.zaunseder@ed.ac.uk; r02az16@abdn.ac.uk
Luca Zazzi	Social Theory,Philosophy of the Social Sciences,Ontology,Modernity,Media and Communications,Theoretical Methods,Non-Representational Politics,Non-Relational Ontology,Mass,Analogy, Paradigm, Singularity	Luca.Zazzi@ed.ac.uk
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@ed.ac.uk