CRESC - Key Persons
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- Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Office
Research specialisms: law and IT, Intellectual Property (IP) law, copyright law, law and contemporary art, law and appropriation.
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- Honorary Research Fellow / Professor Alan Warde
Research specialisms: consumption, food and eating, culture, stratification, sustainability.
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- Senior Lecturer in Medical Law
Research specialisms: end-of-life law, the legitimacy of ethically contentious medical interventions, regulation of health care professionals via the criminal law, law and ethics of cosmetic surgery.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Professor
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- Lecturer in Law / Research
Research specialisms: the legal protection of emerging health (including assisted reproductive) technologies, comparative patent law.
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- Lecturer in Competition Law / Research
Research specialisms: consumer law, internet law, commercial law, financial services law, private international law, European private law, European contract law.
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- Emeritus Professor of Law
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- Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations & Head of Law Department
Research specialisms: empirical study of law, applied legal and policy analysis, labour regulation, corporate governance, EU social policy.
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- Lecturer in Property Law / Research
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Associate
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- Senior Lecturer ( Teaching and Scholarship )
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- Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: homicide, domestic violence, serious and fatal violence towards parents, gendered violence, responses to violence, the relationship between alcohol, drugs and violence.
Research specialisms: environmental regulation, regulatory enforcement tools and practices, public participation, access to justice.
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- Lecturer in Medical Law and Bioethics
Research specialisms: healthcare and criminal law, legal and ethical issues relating to the use of genetic information within the family.
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- Senior Lecturer in Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: domestic violence, disability and abuse and the complex experiences of victimisation.
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- Professor in Legal Education
Research specialisms: miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, criminal evidence.
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- Honorary Research Associate / Professor Dame Janet Finch
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- Professor of Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: criminology, domestic violence, hate crime, modern slavery, free association narrative interview.
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- Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology / Research
Research: geographic and small area estimation application in criminology, crime mapping, measurement error in criminological research, emotions about crime, perceptions about police, new methods for data collection and open data.
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- Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
- Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: applied microeconomics, development economics
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- Senior Lecturer in International Politics / Research
Research specialisms: International political economy, feminist political economy, gender, social reproduction, debt.
Interests: applied microeconomics, behavioural economics, macroeconomics
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: microeconomic theory, collective decision-making
Interests: development economics, asymmetries in information, experimental economics
Interests: applied microeconometrics, public economics
Research specialisms: survey methodology, new forms of data, longitudinal data analysis, latent variable modelling.
Research specialisms: feminist political economy, social reproduction, neoliberalism, debt, Southern Europe.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Associate
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- Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: Critical race studies, marginalised communities, politics of resistance and mobilisation, political philosophy and psychoanalysis, subjectivity.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: secrecy, lying, lie detection, science and technology, dementia.
Andrew has been teaching in our department for 7 years, currently working on projects focusing on secrecy and lying. He enjoys using his own research to teach in the classroom and encourages students to analyse data and consider how it may challenge current views in the field. He finds it both fun, and a privilege to be able to educate the next generation of people to form their own views, and ask new questions.
Andrew receives positive student feedback which highlights his engaging and passionate approach to teaching, making it clear that he cares about his subject.
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- Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology and Film - Maker in Residence
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- Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
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- Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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- Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: International migration, identity and belonging, citizenship, subjectivity, postcolonial and decolonial studies, language, and borders - focus on inter-generation migration, ambiguity, and voice.
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- Professor of Social Statistics and Demography / Research
Research specialisms: migration and mobility, modelling and forecasting, time series, Bayesian methods, opinion polls, ageing.
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- Head of Social Statistics
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- Lecturer in Financial Econometrics
Interests: econometrics and financial econometrics, methods for high-frequency data
Interests: macroeconomics, labour economics, household finance
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Honorary Research Fellow / Professor Alan Warde
Interests: development, applied microeconomics, poverty, intra-household inequality, health, gender
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- Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Research specialisms: African politics, development studies, environmental politics, protest and resistance.
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- Lecturer in Microeconomics
Interests: industrial organization, competition policy and regulation, digital economy
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- Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology / Research Fellows and Associates
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory / Research
Research specialisms: Contemporary political theory, social justice and equality, global justice, the political theory of the welfare state, moral psychology.
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- Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Political theories of immigration, asylum and nationalism.
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- UKRI Future Leader Fellow
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Senior Lecturer of Microeconomic Theory
Interests: microeconomics, individual choice under risk and uncertainty
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- Lecturer in International Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Feminist international relations theory, gender, war, violence, critical methodologies.
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- Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Urban experimentation and social transformation, social change at a municipal level, transitions to post-capitalist futures, critical participatory action research, politics of knowledge production.
Research specialisms: consumption, sustainability, practices, social theory, culture.
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- Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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- Lecturer in Chinese Studies / Research
Research specialisms: Research specialisms: Chinese Politics, China's ethnic politics, Islam in China, nationalism and ethnic politics, everyday nationalism, the politics of authoritarian states, state-society relations.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: race/ethnicity, mental illness, mental health services, stigma, advanced quantitative methods.
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics
- Teaching Associate
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- Lecturer in Comparative Politics
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- Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: causal Inference, microeconometrics, retirement and old age, experimental economics/psychology.
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- Lecturer in Comparative Politics / Research
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- Lecturer in Environmental Economics
Interests: energy economics, environmental economics
Research specialisms: The politics of national reproduction, migration, citizenship, ethnicity, identity, and borders in globalising China, audio-visual methodologies.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social network analysis, mixed methods, criminal networks, scientific networks, gender and social networks.
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- Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: security and biopolitics, pandemics, Science and Technology Studies (STS), urban sociology, media and discourse.
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- Lecturer in Global Political Economy / Research
Research specialisms: queer and feminist political economy, development, labour, social reproduction, gender and sexuality, West Africa
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
- Research Associate, MOBILISE Project / Research
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- Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Comparative Politics of Latin America, party organizations and party systems, party activism, Qualitative and Mixed Methods
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- Lecturer in Law / Research
Research specialisms: political economy of development; industrialisation; labour; climate change; post-Soviet space.
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- Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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- Honorary Fellow, Morgan Centre
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social movements, protest, social networks, participation, historical sociology.
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: causal inference, computational social science, policy evaluation, social inequality.
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- Research Associate / Research
Research specialisms: social and health inequalities, ageing and well-being, missing data and advanced quantitative methods.
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- Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Senior Lecturer in International Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Contemporary global capitalism, crisis and austerity in Europe, critical theory (Marxism), theories of the production of space.
Interests: economic history, growth and development, political economy, cultural economics
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: materiality, everyday, sociology of consumption, temporality, creative methods.
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- Senior Lecturer in European Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Critical political economy, European political economy, neoliberalism, critical social theory, capitalist diversity.
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- Student Support and Development Officer for Student Support and Wellbeing
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: development economics, poverty, inequality, governance, conflict
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: forensic anthropology, human identification, evidence admissibility, data science and the criminal justice system, quantitative methodologies.
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
- Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science
- Research Associate, the British Election Study / Research
Research specialisms: Economic voting, British politics, elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods, Bayesian methods, and survey research.
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Research Associate / Research
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- Lecturer in Global Political Economy / Research
Research specialisms: Global political economy, development, critique of ideology, critical theory, NGOs, practical humanism
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- Research Associate / Research
Research specialisms: Gerontology, dementia, ageing, cognition, disability, mental health.
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- Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: sexualities, queer visual culture, social isolation and aloneness.
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Just war theory, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility, the alternatives to war, international ethics, the privatisation of war.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Associate
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- Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies / Research
Research specialisms: Peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding (particularly in the Balkans), international political economy, ethnographic research methods.
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- Research Associate, National Institute of Heath Research Older People and Frailty Project
Over her 12 year career in teaching, Jess has encouraged her students to be active participants in the learning process through activities such as debates and UN simulations. Diversity is valued in the classroom, allowing students from all backgrounds to feel comfortable and respected as they learn.
Her academic achievements were recently recognised when she was awarded ‘Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations' in 2017.
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: employment, child labour, youth labour, South Asia, gender, international development, Bayesian statistics.
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- Senior Tutor / Professor Sophie Woodward
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- Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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- Lecturer in Digital Anthropology
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
- Hallsworth Research Fellow / Research
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- Lecturer in International Relations / Research
Research specialisms: Ethics and foreign policy, cosmopolitanism, human security, protection of civilians, critical military studies.
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- Research Associate / Research
Research specialisation: computational social science, text-mining, synthetic data and agent-based modelling.
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- Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social movements, activism, historical sociology, oral history, social change.
Interests: time series analysis, theoretical econometrics, statistical inference, robust regression
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Honorary Fellow, Morgan Centre
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: family demography, social policy, inequality, labour market outcomes.
Interests: nutrition and health in Asia, microeconometrics, panel data
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Fellow ( Sociology )
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social movements, protest, neoliberalism, globalisation, corporations.
Kevin has been teaching in the department of sociology for 10 years, and has had a positive influence on the learning experience of our students. Kevin recognised a gap in the teaching curriculum and helped develop the new first year course ‘Global Social Challenges' which focuses on more contemporary topics. He wanted students to discover new perspectives about the current issues taking place in the world and to become more aware as sociological thinkers.
His role in implementing this course contributed towards winning ‘The University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Award' in 2018.
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- Research Associate / Professor Andrew Miles
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- Interests: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Financial Economics / PhD University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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- Lecturer in International Relations
Research specialisms: Global Political Economy; Middle East Political Economy; global development policy, aid and finance; debt; capitalism; neoliberalism; North-South inequalities and relations; multi-scalar IPE.
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Gender and post-conflict peacebuilding, feminist security studies, feminist organising, Former Yugoslavia and United Nations.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Fellow ( Sociology ) Professor Jennifer Mason
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Fellow / Research
Research specialisms: family and personal life, reproductive technologies, sociology of donation.
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- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory / Research
Research specialisms: Distributive justice, sufficientarianism, equality of opportunity and education, fairness in university admissions, the ethics of parenting and procreation.
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- Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
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- Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science / Research
Research specialisms: Gender and politics, political behaviour, legislative politics, public opinion, British politics, quantitative methods, and survey research.
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: UK parliament, legislation, representation, political parties, political engagement/participation.
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- Research Associate / Professor Yaojun Li
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- Lecturer in International Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Social movements and culture, human rights, 21st-century authoritarianism, Middle Eastern politics, international political sociology.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social movements, protest, consumption, practices, sharing.
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- Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics
Interests: macroeconomics, economic development, growth
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- Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: human-animal relations, animal subjectivity, "anthropomorphism", posthumanism, sensory methodologies and multi-species ethnography.
Interests: macroeconomics, monetary economics, inflation dynamics, expectations, learning
A main feature of Mark's teaching is the use of real data in the classroom. He teaches data skills in the context of real issues to help answer the questions student's care about the most. He is currently co-directing The Manchester Q-Step Centre, a project aiming to expand the use of quantitative data and methods in undergraduate students.
Mark recognises the early fears that some students have in studying statistics, he believes if taught in the context of real and relevant questions and problems then students can more readily understand and enjoy their application. Mark's commitment to teaching over the past 22 years here at Manchester was recognised in 2013, when he was awarded ‘The University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award'.
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- Reader in International Politics / Research
Interests: growth, stability, development, agent-based computer simulation models
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Senior Lecturer / Research
Research specialisms: race/ethnicity, nationalism, postcolonial theory, collective memory, cultural production.
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- Lecturer in Global Politics
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- Director of Postgraduate Research
- Reader in Economics
Interests: expectations, learning, information, macroeconomics
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Research specialisms: authoritarianism, sociology of education, political sociology, state-civil society relations, social movements and alternative resistance.
Interests: financial development, income inequality, development economics
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- Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology and Social Gerontology / Research
Research specialisms: ageing, health inequality, intergenerational relationships, life course theory, China and Chinese diasporas.
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: measurement modelling; psychometrics; latent factor analysis; latent class analysis; structural equation modelling; growth modelling.
An important aspect of Nick's teaching is to demonstrate to his students the fun which can be had when studying statistics. He aims to educate them on the necessary skills to question numerical data in today's era of ‘fake news'.
His outstanding contribution to teaching and learning in the School was highlighted when he won ‘The University of Manchester Teacher of the Year' award in 2017.
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Public policy, governance, slavery and trafficking policy, political rhetoric, political questioning.
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- Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Elections and comparative politics, immigration, race and ethnicity, public opinion, candidates and representation.
During her time in the department, Nicole has influenced positive change to the teaching and learning community by redesigning one of the core politics modules (with Dr Rosalind Shorrocks). The key idea behind this change was to offer students a chance to study a modern view of comparative politics as well as providing real insight into non-democratic countries across the world.
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- Senior Lecturer in Network Analysis
Research specialisms: social networks, semantic networks, material networks; meaning; knowledge structures; mixed methods; social and cultural mechanisms.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Comparative politics of protest, elections, migration and identity, Eastern Europe and Latin America (Ukraine, Poland, Argentina, Brazil), surveys and language-based ethnographic fieldwork.
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- Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: learning and AI in macroeconomics, learning and evolution, markets with indivisible goods
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
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- Research Associate / Research
Research specialisms: ageing and urbanisation, social exclusion and inequality, health, lifecourse, age-friendly communities.
Interests: quantitative macroeconomics, firm dynamics, inequality, heterogeneity
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics
Interests: macroeconomics, monetary policy, DSGE Models, bayesian estimation, pedagogy
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: European politics, environmental politics, public policy, multi-level governance, comparative methods.
Paul enjoys transferring his passion for supporting students from his past work with the NUS to his role as an educator. He aims to create an open atmosphere in the classroom where students can confidently focus on the most important topics in debates and discussions.
Paul's outstanding contribution to teaching and dedication to his students' experience has received recognition over the years. In 2017, he was awarded The University of Manchester Students' Union ‘Best Humanities Lecturer Prize' and ‘Most Inspiring Lecturer Prize', voted by his students. Previous awards include a national ‘PGWT Tutor of the Year' prize, and a University-wide ‘PGWT Award for Excellence in Teaching' during his time at The University of York.
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- Lecturer in Global Political Economy / Research
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- Economics
- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: applied microeconomics, public economics, charitable giving
Peter's approach to teaching focuses on providing his undergraduate students with a broader based education focusing on contemporary issues. He helps students to relate their studies to what is happening in the world and consider how modern problems might be solved.
Peter was awarded the ‘Economics Network's Best New Lecturer Award' in 2015 and the ‘University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Award for Teacher of the Year' in 2016. These achievements demonstrate Peter's outstanding contribution to our teaching community in our School.
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- Hallsworth Research Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer / Research
Research specialisms: social theory, morality, ethics, sociology of intellectuals, marxism, sociology of religion, political religions, cultural identity, historical/comparative/civilizational sociology, economic sociology.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: gender, sexuality, kinship, family relationalities, reproductive donation.
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Director of Social Responsibility
- Senior Lecturer / Research
Research specialisms: clinical law, legal ethics and social responsibility, accessory liability in equity for assistance in a breach of trust.
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- Research Fellow and NIHR Clinical Lecturer
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- Lecturer in Environmental Economics
Interests: environmental economics, behavioural and experimental economics, development
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Reader in Sociology / Research
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- Lecturer in Political Theory / Research
Research specialisms: Nations and nationalism, global justice and social justice, punishment theory, theories of legitimate authority, rights.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: animals and human-animal relations, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), posthumanism and biopolitics, environmental sociology, historical and archive methods.
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- Fellow
- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisation: Science and society, emerging technologies, responsible innovation, interdisciplinarity, qualitative and creative methodologies.
Robert has been teaching here at Manchester for nearly 2 years and is working towards teaching qualifications to be a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He values the training programmes offered by the university as well as feedback offered by students which he uses to improve his teaching approach each year.
Robert believes his role as an educator is to introduce students to the big picture and engage them in conversations about relevant and important topics. He aims to inspire a hope for the future of politics in his students, equipping them with the skills to interpret the world.
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- Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics
Interests: environmental and energy economics, empirical industrial organization, international trade
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Gender and politics, voting behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods.
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- Senior Lecturer and Director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies / Research
Research specialisms: the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), revolutions, Arab uprisings, state formation, peace and conflict studies.
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- Research Fellow / Research
Sean offers an interactive approach to teaching philosophy in the classroom, ensuring that he does not simply give students information in lectures but, presents ideas, theories and arguments in a way they can follow and engage with on the spot. Questions, comments and criticisms from students are encouraged during lectures, so that the group activity of doing philosophy is an integral part of the learning process.
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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- Senior Research Fellow, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity / Research
Research specialisms: Ethnicity and identity, food and hospitality, East London, and ethnography.
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- Senior Lecturer / Research
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: International political economy, international trade, development, social movements, gender and IPE.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology / Research
Research specialisms: social movements and activism, environmentalism and environmental politics, global south, inequality.
Interests: applied microeconometrics, specification testing, labour economics
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- Senior Lecturer in Data Science / Research
Research specialisms: data science, topological data analysis, welfare, policy evaluation.
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: applied microeconomics, industry studies, cultural economics
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- Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Interests: education, labour economics, development economics
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics
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- Head of Department / Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Head of Social Anthropology
Research specialisms: The problem of 'dirty hands', political morality and the means/ends problem in politics, Anglo-American theories of justice, secular theories of evil, democracy and representation.
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- Lecturer in Political Theory / Research
Research specialisms: Contemporary political theory, social justice, the political theory of socioeconomic institutions, the ethics of markets and competition.
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- Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy / Research
Research specialisms: International political economy, Eastern Europe, regional development banks, Gramsci, populism.
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
- Hallsworth Research Fellow
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics
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- Member of the Research Fellows and Associates Team
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- Lecturer in British Politics and Public Policy / Research
Research specialisms: British politics, international relations, British foreign policy, British political history, qualitative research methods.
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: mortality, morbidity and health, fertility and family formation processes, survey design and survival analysis.
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Honorary Research Fellow / Research
Research specialisms: sociology of music, media, culture and technology, social networks and social capital, semiology, gender, music and art policy.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Research Associate / Professor Dame Janet Finch
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- Senior Research Fellow / Research
Research specialisation: data literacy, data services, survey research, obesity, health inequalities.
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- Lecturer in Politics / Research
In times of huge uncertainty, Véronique wants her students to be able to ask themselves what they think of the world and how they would like to live in it. She wants her teaching to be relevant for students once they graduate, which she achieves through focusing on contemporary issues.
Over her 21 year career here at Manchester, Véronique has been passionate about conveying how important, complex, and exciting, global politics is. She believes that teaching requires effective communication, and that this is achieved by respecting and caring for who and what you teach.
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- Senior Lecturer in Economics
Interests: growth and development, economics of China, labour economics
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- Lecturer in Social Statistics / Research
Research specialisms: political communication, public opinion, social welfare, causal inference, data science.
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- Senior Lecturer in Employment Law
Research specialisms: employment law, European law, human rights law, immigration law.
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- Senior Lecturer in Law / Research
Research specialisms: EU public procurement law, utilities procurement, inclusion of social and environmental policies in procurement.
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- UG Student Experience Administrator ( Final Year )
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- Teaching and Scholarship Senior Lecturer / Research
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- Professor of Psychology, Security and Trust / Research
Research specialisms: betrayal, deception, credibility assessment, cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes and criminals, sense-making and decision-making, threats to democracy.
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- Senior Lecturer in Socio - Legal Studies
Research specialisms: socio-legal studies, feminist legal theory, intersex rights and law, family law and gender studies.
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- Lecturer in Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: drug policy, state violence, inequalities, qualitative methods, ethnography.
Research specialisms: transnational organised crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation, tobacco smuggling (and their financial management), digital technologies in facilitating (organised) crime, cybercrime, urban security, qualitative methodologies.
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- Lecturer in Clinical Legal Education
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- Emeritus Professor of Regulation
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- Lecturer in International Law / Research
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- Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance / Research
Research specialisms: rule-following and the impact on regulatory compliance and culture, age discrimination, corporate social responsibility.
Research specialisms: policing, human rights, sports law, crowd behaviour and management, football ‘hooliganism', ethnography.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Lecturer ( Teaching & Research )
Research specialisms: equity and trusts, land law, property law, legal skills, legal education.
Research specialisms: police misconduct and legal remedies, police accountability, combating impunity for human rights abuse.
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- Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights
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- Senior Lecturer ( T & S ) in Property Law / Research
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Reader
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- Chairman in International Law
Research specialisms: public international law, law, human rights, and peace building in the Middle East.
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- Professor of Law / Research
Research specialisms: law and religion/constitutional law, devolution, tribunals.
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- Chairman in Public International Law
Research specialisms: statehood, sources of international law, state responsibility, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law of armed conflicts.
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- Honorary Research Fellow ( Sociology ) Professor Jennifer Mason
Research specialisms: ethnographic research, community, local cultural policy, participatory research methods, inequalities, social practices, ageing societies and policy.
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- Senior Lecturer in Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: control, 'management', inclusion/exclusion and reintegration of young people.
Research specialisms: sociology of expertise and idea production of governance across a number of regulatory/industry regimes.
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- Teaching and Learning Director and Scholarship Lecturer in Criminology
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- Reader in Corporate and Financial Law / Research
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Lecturer ( Teaching & Research )
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- UG Student Experience Administrator ( Second Year )
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- Lecturer in Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: prisoner health, violence in prison, drug use, offender management, AI methodology and rehabilitation technology.
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- Lecturer in Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: psychological criminology, young people, violence prevention, social narratives on crime and criminality, low crime in Japan.
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- Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Senior Lecturer
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- Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: drug use, life course perspectives, theories of risk and visual ethnography.
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- Reader in Bioethics / Research
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- Lecturer in Law / Research
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Senior Lecturer in Criminology
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Professor
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- Lecturer in Digital Criminology
Research specialisms: illicit drug markets, digital technologies, cryptomarkets, digital criminology, critical theory, empirical research methods.
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- Senior Lecturer in Company Law
Research specialisms: company law, corporate governance, securities regulation, law and economics.
Interests: applied development economics, political economy
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- Head of School Operations
Research specialisms: mental health and incapacity law, Court of Protection, advocacy.
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- Research Support Officers
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- Emeritus Professor of Law
Research specialisms: corporate bribery and corruption, corporate and white-collar crimes, financial and economic crimes, food frauds and crimes, regulation theory, comparative criminology.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Lecturer
Research specialisms: medical law, mental health law, private law, pharmaceuticals and law.
Research specialisms: international economic law, international commercial arbitration, trade and investment policy, investment and human rights.
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- Programme and Student Experience Officer ( UG )
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Professor in Commercial Law / Research
Research specialisms: secured transactions, corporate finance, arbitration and mediation, law reform and global lawmaking, sale of goods.
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- Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience
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- Lecturer in Commercial Law / Research
Research specialisms: intellectual property law, especially copyright, and its intersection with technology, cultural property law, art law and Indigenous rights.
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- Professor of Environmental Economics
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- Professor of Macroeconomics
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- Professor of Econometrics
Interests: theoretical econometrics, statistical inference, moment-based estimation methods
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- Professor of Anthropology
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- Research Associate / Professor Andrew Miles
- School Research Director
Research specialisms: social class, cultural participation and policy, social mobility, inequalities, mixed methods research.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Professor of Government Practice
Prof Andy Westwood
Professor of Government Practice; Vice Dean for Social Responsibility and a Director of the ESRC Productivity Institute
Research specialisms: British politics, government and public policy, devolution and cities, further and higher education policy, science and innovation.
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: American politics, religion and politics, gender and sexuality studies.
Interests: social choice, mechanism design, political economy, matching theory
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- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Interests: applied microeconomics, food, agriculture, environment, health
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Public policy, governance, globalisation, state theory, political biography.
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: EU politics and public policy, EU enlargement, EU external relations, varieties of capitalism, Greek politics.
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- Professor of Social and Political Science / Research
Research specialisms: Elections and electoral behaviour, voter turnout and registration, local campaigning, electoral geography.
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Public policy, policy agendas, gender and politics, British politics, devolution and local government.
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- WJM Mackenzie Chair in Government / Research
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- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- Head of Philosophy
- Professor of Philosophy
Interests: individual choice under risk and ambiguity, experimental and behavioural economics
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- Professor of Mathematical Economics
Interests: mathematical finance, random dynamical systems, stochastic optimisation and games
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- Professor of Statistical Literacy, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Research specialisms: data literacy, statistical literacy, experiential learning.
Interests: applied microeconometrics, consumer behaviour, the economics of ageing
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Hallsworth Visiting Professor
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- Hallsworth Chair in Political Economy
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- Professor of Social Anthropology
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Political ideas and ideologies, 20th-century British politics, European communism, labour movements and the radical left, political biography, interviewing and life-histories.
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- Professor of Financial Economics
Interests: computational economics, dynamic economic theory, random dynamical systems
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Participatory research methods, public policy and co-production, urban governance, social justice and accountability, civic participation.
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- Professor of Social Anthropology
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- Professor of Political Science / Research
Research specialisms: Elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, immigrant integration, race, ethnicity and religion.
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- Director of Teaching and Learning
- Professor of Economics
Interests: applied microeconomic theory, industrial economics
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- Professor of Data Science / Research
Research specialisms: privacy, anonymisation, synthetic data, environmental attitudes and behaviours, fathering, data science methodology.
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- Honorary Hallsworth Visiting Professor
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- Professor of Econometrics
Interests: applied microeconometrics, labour economics
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- Professor of International Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Climate change politics, environmental political economy, cultural
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- Professor of Political Theory / Research
Research specialisms: Global justice, global institutional design, methodological issues in political theory.
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- Professor of Social Statistics, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences / Research
Interests: economic history, growth and development, macroeconomics, monetary economics
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- Research Professor / Research
Research specialisms: Peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, statebuilding, critical IR theory.
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- Professor of Social Anthropology
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- Professor of Chinese Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Chinese politics and foreign policy, American foreign policy, US-China relations, the political psychology of international affairs, nationalism.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Emeritus Professor
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- Professor of Social Anthropology
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Emeritus Professor
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- Professor of Political Science / Research
Research specialisms: Digital technology and political parties, new media communication and campaigning.
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- Professor of Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Radical right politics, politics of immigration, elections and electoral behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods and survey research.
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- Professor of Environmental Politics / Research
Research specialisms: Environmental politics, feminist/gender politics, urban sustainability, social movements, citizenship and participation.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Professor
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- Professor of Econometrics
Interests: econometric theory, applied econometrics
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- Professor of Quantitative Social Science / Research
Research specialisms: computational social science; survey and experimental design, political psychology (attitudes and belief systems; authoritarianism).
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- Professor and Chair in Global Politics / Research
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- Professor of Socio - Economics, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences / Research
Research specialisms: socio-economics, employment, social institutions, gender, South Asia, time-use research.
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- Head of Politics
- Professor
Research specialisms: Russian, Soviet and Eurasian politics, theories of dictatorship.
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- Lecturer in International Law / Research
Research specialisms: counterterrorism, public international law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and (international and European) criminal law.
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- Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods / Research
Research specialisms: fear of crime, new forms of data, environmental and spatial criminology.
Research specialisms: administrative justice and rule-making, law and public policy implementation, administrative accountability, asylum and immigration law.
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- Professor of Criminology / Research
Research specialisms: human trafficking, modern slavery, responses to violence, organised crime, the management of offenders.
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- Senior Lecturer in Law & Deputy Head of Law Department / Research
Research specialisms: employers' liability and vicarious liability, legal education and pedagogy.
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- Reader in Family and Child Law
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- Student Welfare, Disability Support and Placement Officer
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- Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Law and Regulation
Research specialisms: regulation of emerging biotechnologies, regulation of professionals, regulation in the food supply chain.
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- Honorary Research Fellow
- Honorary Staff Member
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- Professor of Bioethics / Research
Research specialisms: psychiatric ethics, bioethics eating disorders, gender identity.
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- Senior Tutor / Professor Sophie Woodward
Research specialisms: materiality, gender, consumption, fashion, creative methods.
Research specialisms: health care ethics, bioethics, philosophy of medicine, intersection between bioethics and law.
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Reader in Criminology
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- UG Student Experience Administrator ( First Year )
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- Honorary Staff Member
- Honorary Lecturer ( Teaching and Research )
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- UG Student Experience Administrator ( Final Year )
- UG Student Experience Administrator ( First Year )
- UG Student Experience Administrator ( Second Year )
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- Lecturer in Healthcare Law / Research
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- Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law / Research
Research specialisms: corporate law, corporate governance, structured finance, financial regulation.
Research specialisms: inequalities, subjectivity, social identities, social practices, pragmatism and social inquiry.
Research specialisms: choice, rules, analytic sociology, experimental philosophy, computerised visualisations in astrophysics research.
Professor Carol Smart
Professor Emerita, Morgan Centre, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
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- Research Associate, Centre for Digital Trust and Security