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Tom Mills

Tom Mills

Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Tom Mills is a sociologist with an interest in media and communications, elite institutions and networks, and the use of digital methods.

Corporate PowerElitesBBC ImpartialitySociologyMedia Communications
Dr Alexis Paton

Dr Alexis Paton

Director, Centre for Health and Society

Dr Paton examines the impact that society has on health. Her research focuses on how ethics and the social sciences can improve healthcare.

Health InequalitiesHealth ImprovementSociology of HealthBioethicsMedical Ethics
Dr Katie Tonkiss

Dr Katie Tonkiss

Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy

Dr Tonkiss is concerned with critically interrogating the relationship of citizenship and national identity.

MembershipIdentityCitizenship HM SociologyImmigration
Dr Elisabeth Schimpfössl

Dr Elisabeth Schimpfössl

Senior Lecturer

Dr Schimpfössl's research interests are the sociology of elites as well as power and social inequality.

PhilanthropySocial InequalitySociologyElitesRussia
Dr Anton Popov

Dr Anton Popov

Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy

Dr Popov's research interest is in social anthropology, with a particular focus on postsocialist societies.

Social AnthropologyPostsocialist SocietiesCultural HeritageIdentity and TransnationalismYouth Culture
Dr Hayley James

Dr Hayley James

Senior Research Fellow, Accounting

Dr James's research interests concern sociological perspectives on money, finance and value, and how they intersect with the lifecourse.

LifecourseEconomic SociologyFinancial WellbeingGender and Finance
Dr Emily Christopher

Dr Emily Christopher

Lecturer, Sociology and Policy

Dr Christopher's research has explored the ways in which UK state policy is mediated through workplace policies and cultures.

Gender Divisions and the Relation Between Paid and Unpaid WorkSociologies of the Family, Relationality and KinshipMen and MasculinitiesVisual Methodologies
Dr Pam Lowe

Dr Pam Lowe

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Dr Lowe researches women’s reproductive and sexual health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, abortion and reproductive coercion.

Women's Reproductive HealthPregnancyAbortionWomen's Sexual HealthAbortion Protests
Monder Ram

Monder Ram

Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship & Professor of Small Business

Professor Ram is an authority on small business & ethnic minority entrepreneurship research & has appeared frequently in the media.

Industrial SociologyMigrant and Refugee EntrepreneurshipSMEs in the West MidlandsEthnic Minority EntrepreneurshipSMEs
Dr Joseph Downing

Dr Joseph Downing

Senior Lecturer, Politics, History and International Relations

Professor Downing teaches courses on researching politics, security and technology in politics.

Qualitative MethodsSociologyGlobal SecurityPoliticsPolicy Analysis