People

Research Students

Name	Research Interests	Contact Information
Ji-Eun Ahn	Social movements,Protest,Political Sociology,Democracy,Civil Society and Democratization,Qualitative research ,East Asian Studies	J.Ahn@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
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
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
Thalia Thereza Assan	Girlhood,Childhood and Youth Studies,Friendship,Activism,Political Participation,Ethnography,Creative Participatory Methods,Education	t.t.assan@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
Kath Bassett	Digital Sociology,Locative Media,Mobilities,Affect and Emotions,Qualitative Research,Space and Place,New Media Ontologies,Power and Subjectivation,Resistance,Algorithmic Culture,Queer Theory,Media Tourism,work and labour,digital labour,popular culture,Digital Cultures,Geoweb	+44 (0) 749 867 3281 Kath.Bassett@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	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
Yuji Shimohira Calvo	Political participation,Critical sociology,Social stratification,Quantitative analysis	+44 (0)783 574 7499 y.shimohira@ed.ac.uk
Lorenzo Canepari	Social memory,Families,Nationalism,Ethnicity,Regionalism,Italy,Balkans,Qualitative research,Comparative constitutionalism	+44(0)7802632265 lorenzo.canepari@ed.ac.uk
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
Christopher Cannell	Nationalism,Democracy,South Asia,Delhi,Capital Cities,Federalism	Christopher.Cannell@ed.ac.uk
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
Lee Chalmers	Feminism,Political representation,Cybermisogyny,Public life,Gender,Gender theory,Trolling,Feminist Theory,Sociology	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,Queer	+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,Material Culture,Materiality,colonialism and imperialism	+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
Eva Duncanson	Feminism,Sex Work,Digital Sociology,Sex & Gender,Intimate Relationships,Intimacy,Online Relationships	eva.duncanson@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
Joséphine Foucher	artivism,Cuba,subjectivity,Aesthetic experiences,Political Sociology,Power (domination,authority,legitimacy),ethnography,Digital ethnography	J.Foucher@sms.ed.ac.uk
Kay Fretwell		K.Fretwell@sms.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
İdil Galip	digital culture,Digital Sociology,digital research,new media,Algorithmic Culture,Everyday Life,Social media and internet technologies,Comedy and Humour,Reddit,Social Networks,Instagram,memes,niche-memes,content creation	+44 (0) 7732 425 410 I.Galip@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Poppy Gerrard-Abbott	Sexual and Gender-Based Violence,Criminal Justice,Feminist Research,Gender and Sexuality,Gender Policy	pgerrard@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	Jillian.hart@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,Big data,Big Data Analytics,Big data applied to social sciences,Social network analysis	Justin.Ho@ed.ac.uk
Lisa Howard	Environment,Environmental Sociology,Sustainability,families,Social capital,Sociology of emotion,Gender and parenting,Activism	lisa.howard@ed.ac.uk
Rhys Howell	Sustainability,Social Impact Assessment,Marine planning,Community Development,Community energy,Marine energy,Social responses,Renewable energy,Participation	rhys.howell@ed.ac.uk
Zhexi Hu	ethnography,IR and Middle East,gender,Globalization,Rebellion and civil war,Queer Theory,queerphobia,China	Z.Hu-14@sms.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,cultural studies,textual research methods	LKalayji@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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
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	+49 (0) 172 96 33433 J.J.Kob@ed.ac.uk
Marta Kowalewska	feminisms and feminist theory,Roma activism,Post-socialist transformation,Intersectionality,Social movements,Critical methodologies,Nationalism	Marta.Kowalewska@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
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
Aerin Lai	Feminism,Decolonisation,Embodiment,Sociology of Gender,Gender and Sexuality,Masculinities	aerin.lai@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
Johannes Langer	nationalism,Cultural Racism,Ethnicity & 'race',Populism,Immigration,Forced displacement	J.Langer@sms.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
Lillan Lommel	gender,women and leadership,feminist identity,discrimination,reflexivity	L.S.Lommel@sms.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
Stergios Magkriotis	displacement,Refugee Livelihoods,everyday practices,Materiality,Visual Sociology,Human Geography,Ethnography	stergios.magkriotis[at]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
Jingyu Mao	Intimacy,Personal life,Emotions,Contemporary China,Migration,Work,Ethnicity,Gender,Ethnography	07928989344 jingyumao1028@gmail.com
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
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
Maureen Neckelmann	Social capital,Civic engagement,Sociology of Religion,Secularisation,Religious Identity,Latin American Culture and Society	S1255730@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Jasmiina Olifirenko	Social Media,Digital Sociology,Digital Cultures,Selfie Culture,Self,Netnography,Digital Research Methods,Digital Ethnography,Social Networks,Online Communities,Instagram	A.J.Olifirenko@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
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,Contesting childhood	n.salamanca@sms.ed.ac.uk - nathalia.salamanca@gmail.com
Matea Senkić	Cultural Sociology,Performance Theory,Urban Sociology,Tourism,Alternative Tourism,Cities,Artivism	Matea.Senkic@ed.ac.uk
Shubhi Sharma	Marx,Foucault,Governmentality,Adivasis,India,REDD+,gender,Environmental Sociology	+447365460640 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, AFHEA	Ageing,Gender,Sexuality,Qualitative Research Methods,imagined futures,Queer Theory,successful ageing,lifecourse,time and temporality	+447521207427 dora.jandric@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 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
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
Jaye Ware	Youth,Queer Theory,Transgender,school bullying,queerphobia,gender,Sexuality	j.c.ware@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
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
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
Emily Wilkinson	Veganism,Meat Eating,Happy Meat,Feminism,Intersectionality,Critical Animal Studies,Food Studies,Food	s0801998@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Mengyao Yuan	Social media,Political identities and citizenship	M.Yuan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk
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
Luca Zazzi	Sociology,Social Theory,Theoretical Methods,Philosophy,Ontology,Metaphysics,Aesthetics,Philosophy of the Social Sciences,Philosophy of Society,Philosophy of Language,Negative Thought,Pataphysics,Sociology of the City,Urban Theory	Luca.Zazzi@ed.ac.uk
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	N.A.Zehner@sms.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