This page is under development, It will contain a list of contributors with brief descriptions and links to their staff pages or personal web sites where appropriate.
Madeline-Sophie Abbas [blog posts]
Madeline-Sophie is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. Her research explores Muslim identity in the context of the War on Terror. The research looks at how political and social contexts construct identities and how this affects how identity is performed. Her interests include ethnicity and identity, political violence, war, global geopolitics and issues of power.
Dr Paul Bagguley [blog posts]
Paul is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. His main interests concern the sociology of protest, social movements, economic sociology, urban sociology, sociological theory, racism and ethnicity. In the fields of economic sociology and urban studies, he has worked on post-Fordism, post-industrialism, economic restructuring, trade unions, local labour markets, and gender segregation in employment.
Patrick MacArtney [blog posts]
Patrick’s teaching interests are within the social sciences, covering aspects of both Sociology and Psychology. He teach undergraduate courses in Research Methods, Sociology of Health and Illness, Individual, Mind Society and Information Technology and adminstrates the third year UG dissertations. He is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
David Mellor [blog posts]
David is a Research Fellow working on the ESRC funded Timescapes project Young Lives and Times. The project explores how an age cohort of young people craft and negotiate their personal lives and relationships over time. Other current projects focus on children’s relationship cultures during the primary/secondary transfer, young children’s relationships in the nursery, and media for children and young people. David co-convenes the British Sociological Association Education Study Group. (David has now moved to Bristol University – http://bristol.academia.edu/DavidMellor)
Helen Morris [blog posts]
Helne is undertaking a PhD in the School of Education. Her research looks at how girls are responding to the teaching of socioscientific issues. This research takes place in the context of a recent science curriculum reform that, amongst other things, gives a heightened presence to the teaching of socioscientific issues. Her interests include equality in education, gender and disability.
Leon Sealey-Huggins [blog posts]
Leon is studying for a PhD in Sociology. The title of his research thesis is “Adapted Knowledge”: the roles of different forms of knowledge in public engagement in climate change adaptation. A relatively narrow set of concerns are incorporated into governments’ responses to climate change; those which do not suggest significant changes to problematic social structures. A consequence of this is that the potential to move beyond the kinds of unsustainable social practices which contribute to causing climate change is restricted. It is in this context that the current research is situated. The research asks: how are publics understood by those seeking substantial social change through adaptation to climate change? And what are the implications of such understandings for social change?
Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli [blog posts]
Rodnathi is a Lecturer in Sociology. Her research is mainly in the areas of globalization and the knowledge economies, with particular reference to film and tourism and the Olympic Games. This includes an investigation of local/national resistances to global culture industries, and their contribution to the production of public spheres. She also has a long-standing interest in the history of human sciences with reference to the relationship between ontology and epistemology: the context is global, but the main focus is the (political and cultural/artistic) examination of the idea of ‘Europe’ and its nationalist variations.
Dr. Terry Wassall [blog posts]
Terry is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the School. His main areas of interest and research are social science research methods and sociological theory. In addition to teaching research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students he also teaches a Sociology of the Environment module.
Jane Watkinson [blog posts]
Jane is a third year undergraduate, studying Sociology. Her 
dissertation is utilising Norbert Elias’ work into figurational structures and their relation to shame, with a specific consideration of whether sexualised public nudity is an expression of shame, an ‘ideal, or both. Furthermore, Venezuela is being used as a case study, to consider different political, economic and social figurational effects in regards the question of shame re sexualised public nudity. Jane is actively involved in the Green Party, and maintains a regular blog covering political affairs from a left-wing, feminist and sociological angle at http://janespoliticalramblings.wordpress.com/.
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