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Dr Richard Bruce
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Miss Elizabeth Burns
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Miss Julie Dent
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Ms Emma Haggie
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Mrs Melanie Lyons
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Mrs Esther Neal
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Ms Anne Park
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Miss Joanne Spark
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Academic Staff: Department of Sociology
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Title
Dr Michelle Addison
Assistant Professor
Dr Stephen Ashe
Assistant Professor
Dr Jana Bacevic
Assistant Professor
Dr Jennifer Badham
Assistant Professor
Professor Sarah Banks
Professor
Dr Carl Barton
Seminar Leader
Professor Vikki Boliver
Professor
Dr Donna Marie Brown
Associate Professor
Dr Samantha Burns
Lecturer in Sociology
Prof Brian Castellani
Professor of Sociology
Prof Charlotte Clarke
Professor
Dr William Coyles
Assistant Professor (Teaching) Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr William Craige
Director of Undergraduate Studies- Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Dr Stephen Crossley
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Dr Matthew David
Associate Professor
Alishya Dhir
Teaching Fellow
Dr Nadena Doharty
Associate Professor
Prof Catherine Donovan
Head of Department, Professor of Sociology
Professor Carlene Firmin
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Professor Simon Forrest
Principal of College of St Hild and St Bede
Dr Sol Gamsu
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Professor Geetanjali Gangoli
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Dr Alina Geampana
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Professor Simon Hackett
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Dr Kimberly Jamie
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Dr Alison Jobe
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Dr Emma Katz
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Dr Hannah King
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Dr Sui-Ting Kong
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Dr Christopher Lawless
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Professor Stephen J Macdonald
Professor of Social Work
Dr Angela Marques-filipe
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Professor Tiago Moreira
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Dr Jordan Mullard
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Dr Órla Meadhbh Murray
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Dr Alice Nah
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Dr Kate O'Brien
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Dr Andrew Orton
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Dr Josie Phillips
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Dr Jesse Proudfoot
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Dr Nicole Renehan
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Dr Nikki Rutter
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Prof Roger Smith
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Dr Dana Therova
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Dr Kate Tudor
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Professor Nicole Westmarland
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Dr Jonathan Wistow
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Mrs Jane Wistow
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Dr Keming Yang
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Title
Miss Vanessa Bradbury
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Dr Rebecca Brown
Project Coordinator
Dr Stephen Burrell
Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Kate Butterby
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Dr Victoria Butterby
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Cristina Chueca Del Cerro
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Kirsten Ellen Hall
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Veronica Heney
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Eileen Lauster
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Dr Jenny Lloyd
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Miss Molly Manister
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Dr Rachael Owens
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Mrs Delphine Peace
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Ms Christina Straub
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Ms Joanne Walker
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Dr Lauren Wroe
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Dr Mohaddeseh Ziyachi
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Postgraduate Research Students: 32 Old Elvet
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Carly Adams-Elias
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Majed Alharbi
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Eman Alhjaji
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Hilal Baci
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Melody Bishop
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Anton Botha
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Lynne Cairns
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Fernanda Chacon-Onetto
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Samuel Colclough
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Stephanie Daw
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Natalie Drapper
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Ayurshi Dutt
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James Farley
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Mary Freer
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Wendy Gill
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Paul Gratrick
Postgraduate Research Student
Mark Gurney
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Julia Guy
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Tasnim Hassan
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Laura Hepworth
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David Hicks
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Sarah Hume
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Judith Ibukunlayo
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Karen Ingala-smith
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Vani Jain
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Cait Jobson
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Christopher Jones
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Salman Khan
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Elaine Kruse
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Cynthia Lawson
Postgraduate Research Student
Sijin Li
Postgraduate Research Student
Shang Li
Postgraduate Research Student
Ben Lindsay
Postgraduate Research Student
Yujing Liu
Postgraduate Research Student
Carol Long
Postgraduate Research Student
Cheng Lu
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Ben Main
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Shabana Marshall
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Lihan Miao
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Paul Michaels
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Joseph Nagle
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Charles Ng
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Catrin Noone
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Seunghoon Oh
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Esther Outram
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Luany Promenzio
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Janelle Rabe
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Rachel Reay
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David Reeves
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Gary Reynolds
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Amy Richards
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Amy Rogers
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Fouzia Sadaf
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Jack Simmonds
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Katie Smith
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Ros Walling-Wefelmeyer
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Shuman Xie
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Yang Yu
Postgraduate Research Student
Tengpeng Zhang
Postgraduate Research Student
Trayten Zhang
Postgraduate Research Student
Zhuo Zhang
Postgraduate Research Student
Zuzana Zilkova
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Ms Helen Charnley
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Dr Elham Amini
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Professor Jason Arday
Honorary Professor
Dr Lucy Baldwin
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Professor David S. Byrne
Emeritus Professor
Prof John Carpenter
Emeritus Professor
Professor Tony Chapman
Honorary Professor
Dr Andrea Darling
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Prof Andrew Gray
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Marai Larasi
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Dr Sue Regan
Honorary Research Fellow
Sandy Ruxton
Honorary Fellow
Professor Richard Scothon
Professor in Practice (Health)
Professor Robin Williams
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