Academic staff

Violence against women & girls at the intersection of gender, race, border & migration
Gender-based violence
Intersection of gender, race & ethnicity in employment relations
Domestic violence

- Sociological Theory
- Sociological Methodology
- Cultural Theory
- Quality of Life Debates
- Biopolitics
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Sociology of Suffering, Dying & Death
- Regulation Studies

- Disability & mental health
- The personalisation agenda
- Mental Capacity & Human Rights
- Empowering & strengths based theories of intervention
- Learning disabilities practice

- Theories of race & racism
- Theories of identity
- Muslim minorities
- Multiculturalism & citizenship
- Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
- Inter-generational relations
- Qualitative methods

- Power relations in everyday life
- Cultural & social reproduction
- How affect & humour hold potentials for both challenging & reinforcing prevailing power structures

- Sociology of health and illness
- Digital health
- Qualitative methodologies
- Science & technology in society/STS

- Social policy debates, reforms & contexts related to childhood & family relations
- Sociology of childhood & family life
- Welfare state reform
- Promoting social equality for young people

- Sociology of evil
- Extreme deviance
- Cultural criminology
- Sociology of (lower league) football
- Sociology of football singing
- Impact of research on social work practice

- Sex work
- Modern slavery & trafficking
- Scholar-activism & social justice
- Migration
- Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
- Feminist methodologies, including participatory research.

- Everyday policing and punishment
- Being and belonging in the city
- The politics of crisis
- Concepts of urban justice

Diaspora politics
Transnational political mobilisation and social movements
Migration governance
Global Politics
International Political Sociology
Global History
Connected Sociologies

- Research Methods
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Aging Population
- Late working life
- Carers & Unpaid care
- Researchers’ spaces & engagement with their working environment

- Inequalities
- Intersectionality
- Stigma
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Research ethics
- Social constructionism
- Qualitative methods including insider research
- Trauma informed research

- Family relationships & politics
- Friendship, personal relationships & social change
- Sibling relationships
- Everyday life
- Qualitative methodologies

- Science and technology studies
- Social robotics/robots for care
- Intersectionality
- Reprogenetic technologies
- Heterodox economics & science policy
- Responsible research and innovation

- Ethnomethodology and conversation(al) analysis
- Ethnographic method and methodology
- Workplace studies
- Social interaction
- Theories of social order

- Orphan Drug Policy
- Innovation System
- Multi-agent Based Social Simulation
- 3D-Printed pharmaceuticals

- Pre-post activity of online communication

Gender-based violence
Image-based sexual abuse
Qualitative/Narrative Methods
Narrative Criminology
Consent
Aggression (including violence) during sex (AVS)
Technology-facilitated violence and abuse

Lived experiences of health and illness
Mental health and well-being
Health inequalities
Racial and gendered inequalities

- Ageing, pensions & income in later life
- Gender
- Work & care
- Remembrance & sport
- Pensions
- Reform and the impact of particular governments.

- Data (visualisation)
- Visual communication
- Digital media
- Emotions
- Mobilisations and political participation
- AI and machine learning

- Young people’s experiences of social media 
- Digital identities (particularly gender)
- Digital research methods and ethics

- Families and relationships
- Reproduction
- Donation
- Childhood and generation
- Creative methods
- Sociological fiction
- Sociology of morality

- Alternative & activist media
- Food politics
- ‘Lifestyle’ ethics
- Online dis/misinformation & hate speech
- Mediated activism
- Science & technology studies
- Social & cultural theory

- Critical data studies 
- Digital sociology/Digital geography 
- Media and communications
- Medial sociology
- Research methods
- Urban studies/Smart cities research
- Science and technology studies

-Youth, gender, race & sexuality
-Participatory culture & fandom
-Popular media cultures
-Belonging & (cultural) citizenship
-Feminist methodologies
-Feminist pedagogies & informal learning cultures

- Technology, identity and agency
- Technology, young people and families
- Digital culture
- Asset-narratives of technology in disadvantaged settings
- Creative, participatory research methods

- Digital technology and intersectional inequality
- The sociology of ‘race’ and racism, decolonial thought
- Children and young people
- Reflexive research methodologies

- Digital methods
- Visual social media
- Politics &/of digital media
- Time & digital media
- Everyday digital cultures
- Digital media platforms & their cultural & political interventions

- The biopolitics of patient activism
- Intellectual property & Global Health
- Digital technologies & health
- The politics of molecular conceptions of life
- Foucauldian methods & Critical Theory

- Transgender & gender diversity
- Gender
- Sexuality
- The body
- Intimacies
- Citizenship
- Recognition & social movements

• Science and Technology Studies
• Medical Sociology
• Sociology of the psy- and neuro-sciences
• Concussion and neurodegenerative disease
• Autism spectrum conditions

Intersectionality
Health inequalities
Healthy ageing
Chronic disease and multimorbidity
MAIHDA (Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy)
Mixed methods
Social class

- Professional resilience - surviving & thriving as a social worker
- Integrating research & theory with practice experience
- Online teaching methods for social work
- Adoption & permanence planning

- Youth/young adult criminal justice policy
- Childhood neurodevelopmental impairment
- Developmental science & its applications to social sciences
- Family-focused policy, practice & research methods

- Political economy of media
- Platform studies
- App studies
- Media and financialization
- Media industries
- Media policy and regulation

- New media theory, practice & creativity
- Social media data mining, big data analytics and data visualisation
- The myths of new media
- Media industries & cultural labour

- Transnational families
- Transnational political economy of care
- Migration and transformations

- Serious & organised crime
- Human Trafficking
- Illicit enterprise & entrepreneurship
- Policing
- Surveillance studies

Identity
Public Health
Mental Health
Health care
Gender
Wellbeing
Reproductive Health
Social Care
Diversity
Migration
Technology- AI and Robotics.

Role of organisations in the coordination of social workers activities and the subversion of professional values and ethics. 

- Migration policies
- ‘Race’ & multicultural strategies
- Immigration; community
- Family
- Transnational relationships
- Work & leisure among migrants
- Forced labour

- Mindfulness & self-regulation
- Child & adolescent mental health & wellbeing
- Health/mental health in the perinatal period
- Loneliness & social isolation
-Social determinants of health & wellbeing

- Inequities in health and healthcare
- Using an intersectionality approach to social and health outcomes
- Mapping intersectional life course of inclusion/exclusion and wellbeing

- The development of epigenetics & the role of science in policy
- Novel biosocial concepts & methods in the social sciences
- What it means to be human in the 21st Century
- Responsible research

- Social stratification & inequality
- Labour markets
- Education
- Family & gender
- Migration
-Electoral behaviour
- Advanced multivariate methods

- Asylum
- Refugees
- Human rights
- Historical & political sociology
- Postcolonialism
- Decoloniality
- Policy making & power

- Family experiences of child welfare service
- The impact of inequality
- New approaches to supporting families

- Migration

- Ethnicity
- Race & multiculture
- Community
- Belonging & place
- Rurality & the countryside
- Social policymaking
- Social inequalities & inclusion

- Human Rights and their significance to social work practice
- Social Work in Courtroom settings
- Law and Ethics
- Enquiries and Serious Case Reviews

Gaming
Gaming culture and society
Gender
Popular culture
Participatory fan culture, including cosplay
Identity and digital media

- Inequalities in health
- Roma health

- Media activism
- Digital politics
- Contentious digital publics
- Visual cultures
- Online conspiracy theories
- Online racism

Digital methodologies
Expertise on digital platforms
Social life of climate change
Environmental imagery
Computer vision
Governance of climate knowledge
Science communication
Science and technology studies (STS)

Global Media Policy
Global Data Economy

- Interpersonal violence & abuse
- Gender-based violence & abuse
- Gender, trans & gender diversity
- Hidden & marginalised communities
- Multiple social exclusion
- Qualitative & narrative methods

. Sociology of health and illness
· Sociology of reproduction
· Science and technology studies
· Qualitative methodologies

- Domestic abuse, family violence, gender-based violence
- Children and families social work practice and inequality
- Restorative practice
- Everyday family life and state intervention

- Surveillance
- Data analytics industries
- The geoweb
- Mobile digital culture
- Digital marketing

Surveillance and new technology
Policing of activists and activism
Human rights, technology, and law enforcement
Opposition and resistance to surveillance
Citizen-led policing

Digital methods
Digital publics
Health and illness
Platform studies
Networks

- Ageing
- Intellectual disability and ageing
- Social empowerment in theory and practice
- Political economy of social policy
- Comparative social policy in Europe, China and East Asia

- Family
- Everyday sociology
- Migration, race & ethnicity
- Community
- Childhood

- Everyday health practices
- Mundane health technologies
- Lay/professional knowledge
- Genetics
- Prevention
- Qualitative methods
- Science & technology studies
- Sociology of health & illness

- Health & social media
- Digital health
- Sociology of health & illness
- Genetics
- Race & ancestry
- Science & technology in society/STS
- Digital methods
- Tissue donation & biobanking

- Climate change communication
- Environmental humanities
- Science communication
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- East Asian studies

- Sustainable care
- Ageing