School of Sociology and Social Policy

Dr Paul Bagguley

• protest and social movements
• urban sociology
• economic restructuring and social change
• sociological theory
• sociology of cinema

• socio-political analysis of disability
• special education
• sociology of popular culture and the media

• Citizenship;
• social exclusion;
• social movements and protest;
• disability studies;
• education for social justice;
• social research methods - in particular, developments in qualitative research

• equality policies and practice
• gender mainstreaming
• gender and organisational theory

• social/Sociological Theory (Zygmunt Bauman
• consumerism
• international social change
• philosophy of social science 

• current debates on welfare reform in Britain and the United States
• welfare and the labour market
• political theory and welfare reform

• prisons and punishments
• criminology
• masculinities

• citizenship in theory and practice
• new technologies and urban social politics
• comparative/international social policy
• globalisation and welfare state change

• investigation through participatory, qualitative and mixed methods
• the experience of community, poverty
• inequalities in health and social exclusion

• housing and 'race', and community cohesion
• urban issues and policies
• welfare state and theories
• housing and disability
• urban disorders

• gender, sexuality and transgender
• feminist theory/queer theory  
• social movements;
• gendered and sexual citizenship
• contemporary social and cultural theory
• practices of intimacy and family life

• emotions, subjectivity, social identities (white masculinities and femininities) and agency in social policy
• critical approaches to governance and social policy analysis including feminist, postcolonial, queer, psychosocial
• equalities (and diversity) policies
• professional identities in health social care and education, in particular as these intersect with other social identities (gender, ethnicity, age, sexualities, etc.)
• the interface between research and policy making and social activism

• race and ethnicity
• gender
• 2001 riots
• higher education
• South Asian women
• disability
• community cohesion
• 7/7 London bombings

• personal life, family, intimacy
• childhood
• life course and generation
• sociology of education

• social and ethical aspects of genetics
• reproductive medicine
• sociology of medicine

• sociological theory (classical and contemporary)
• sociology ofknowledge and science
• sociological psychology
• sociology and philosophy
• Norbert Elias's sociology

• critical analysis of racism and racial inequality
• black minority ethnic social welfare movements
• 'race' and housing, health and welfare provision
• racial discourse and the media

• historical and comparative development of welfare
• labour history
• sociology of the welfare state
• pensions politics
• social divisions
• masculinities
• Australian society and welfare policies

• childhood and youth
• families
• inter-generational relationships and identities
• life course dynamics
• processes of continuity and change
• qualitative longitudinal research methods

• research methodology (as the topic of study)
• all forms of policy and evaluation research (including research synthesis and systematic review)
• relationship between theory and method
• class inequality
• selected aspects of the criminal justice system (prison programmes etc.)

• New Labour and welfare-to-work
• social, critical and political theory
• the role of ideas in social policy
• managerialism and crime management
• disability and access
• social policy and crime

• disability
• social policy and the life course
• comparative disability policy
• childhood and ageing

• the sex industry
• women and crime
• interpersonal violence
• ethnographic methodology

• postcolonial political formations;
• racism and western governmentalities
• Muslim studies;
• comparative historical sociology

• disability and development
• disability and information technology
• disability and feminise

Dr Shirley Tate

• 'race' and racism
• the body
• post-colonialism
• work

Rodanthi Tzanelli

• Comparative sociology/anthropology of nationalism, 'race' and ethnicity;
• discourses of citizenship in Europe;
• tourism, globalisation and resistance;
• cinema and tourism;
• representations of deviance

• sociological theory
• comparative sociology
• sociology of science

• sociology of knowledge
• sociology of science
• IT and computing
• social science research methods
• sociology of the environment

• social divisions, identities and social policy
• theories of welfare
• historical-comparative analysis of gender, race, ethnicity and class in welfare state development
• postmodernism and social policy
• EU social policy
• learning disability

• gender and the labour market
• work and family life
• local labour markets