Sociology
Citizenship, Migration and Identity
- International Migration
- Wellbeing and Happiness Studies
- Political Sociology
- Social Movements
- Immigration
- Use of Qualitative Methods and Comparative Approaches
- Sociology of Sport and Leisure
- Developments in Professional Football and Football Culture
- Race and Gender, Crowd Behaviour and Management, Globalisation, Commercialisation, Identity Formation
- Sporting Consumption, Place and Locality
- Television’s Impact on the production and Consumption of Sport and Leisure
Culture, Consumption and Production
- Decision Making
- Agent-Based Modelling and its Methodology
- Rational Choice and Game Theory Applied to Sociology
- Mixed Methods Research
- Drug Use
- Social Networks
- Innovation Diffusion
- Religion
- Family Finance
- Evolutionary Models of Social Change
- Social Structure of Labour and Product Markets
- Social Movement Studies with a particular focus on artistic activism and the political engagement of creative and cultural workers
- Economic Sociology, with a particular focus on alternative modes of social organisation and economic production (e.g. crypto-finance, decentralised modes of production, peer-to-peer models and commoning practices)
- Digital and collaborative forms of work (e.g. startups, coworking spaces digital nomads) with a focus on south-east Asia and China
- Democracy and the Public Sphere, with a particular focus on its changing nature in the digital age.
- Figurational Sociology
- Intoxicants and Society - especially Tobacco
- Work, Organisations, and Managerial Discourses
- Emotion Management (e.g. Emotional Labour; Emotional Intelligence)
- Methodological Innovations - such as Visual Methods, Internet Research Methods, and Qualitative Longitudinal Research
- Sociology of Sport and Leisure
- Developments in Professional Football and Football Culture
- Race and Gender, Crowd Behaviour and Management, Globalisation, Commercialisation, Identity Formation
- Sporting Consumption, Place and Locality
- Television's Impact on the Production and Consumption of Sport and Leisure
Developments in Theory and Methods
- Quantitative modelling for research questions asking about causal effects/relationships
- Well-being & happiness studies
- Decision Making
- Agent-Based Modelling and its Methodology
- Rational Choice and Game Theory Applied to Sociology
- Mixed Methods Research
- Drug Use
- Social Networks
- Innovation Diffusion
- Religion
- Family Finance
- Evolutionary Models of Social Change
- Social Structure of Labour and Product Markets
- Youth - education to work transitions, employment, underemployment and precarity
- The History of Sociology
- Everyday life and researching the 'ordinary'
- Work and community - especially restudies and data reuse
- The sociology of Norbert Elias, C Wright Mills and Pearl Jephcott
- Research methods and methodology
- Auto/biography
- Figurational Sociology
- Intoxicants and Society - especially Tobacco
- Work, Organisations, and Managerial Discourses
- Emotion Management (e.g. Emotional Labour; Emotional Intelligence)
- Methodological Innovations - such as Visual Methods, Internet Research Methods, and Qualitative Longitudinal Research
- Educational Participation and Inequality
- Education and Career Choice, Educational Participation,
- Class and Social Mobility
- Labour Markets
Youth, Childhood and Generation
- Youth - education to work transitions, employment, underemployment and precarity
- The History of Sociology
- Everyday life and researching the 'ordinary'
- Work and community - especially restudies and data reuse
- The sociology of Norbert Elias, C Wright Mills and Pearl Jephcott
- Auto/biography
- Figurational Sociology
- Intoxicants and Society - especially Tobacco
- Work, Organisations, and Managerial Discourses
- Emotion Management (e.g. Emotional Labour; Emotional Intelligence)Methodological Innovations - such as Visual Methods, Internet Research Methods, and Qualitative Longitudinal Research
- Youth transitions from school to work
- Gender, work and employment
- Older workers and retirement
- Motherhood, employment and childcare
Dr Michelle O'Reilly
- Sociology of health and illness
- Child mental health and childhood disorders
- Therapeutic interventions
- Social media, media and mental health
- Children and social interaction
- Educational Participation and Inequality
- Education and Career Choice, Educational Participation,
- Class and Social Mobility
- Labour Markets