Research programmes involve writing a thesis on a particular topic with specialist supervision. You are given research training, which is tailored to the particular needs of your research and takes into account any training you have previously received. You also have opportunities to attend modules on relevant subjects on a non-assessed basis to fill any gaps in your background.

We offer research supervision across a broad range of topics. We are especially interested in applications that include proposals to investigate the social dimensions of environmental issues in the countries in which we have area expertise, and topics in environmental politics and environmental movements.

Dr Adam Burgess: Reader in Sociology

Communications; mass media; risk. Recent publications include: Study of the Origins and Diffusion of Mobile Phone Fears and Anti-EMF Campaigns (2010).

Professor Roy Ellen: Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology

Ethnobiology, environmental anthropology; the human ecology of rainforest populations, deforestation, inter-island trade; Indonesia, South-East Asia. www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles

Professor Frank Furedi: Professor of Sociology

Sociology of risk consciousness; disasters and catastrophes. Recent publications include: Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating (2010); From Two Cultures to No Culture: CP Snow's Two Lectures Lecture Fifty Years On (co-author, 2011); On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: a Defence of Moral Independence (2011); On Tolerance: Continuum (2011); Sex Unsexed (forthcoming).

Professor Stuart Harrop: Professor of Wildlife Management Law

Law and policy relating to conservation, biodiversity and genetic resources; rights of indigenous peoples; intellectual property.

Professor William Howarth: Professor of Environmental Law

Environmental law; conservation of aquatic environment and ecosystems. Recent publications include: Substance and Procedure under the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and the Water Framework Directive (2007); Halsbury's Laws of England, Water and Waterways (ed, 2009); Halsbury's Laws of England, Environmental Quality and Public Health (ed, 2010); Wisdoms Law of Watercourses (co-author, 2011); Walden and Civil Disobedience (co-author, forthcoming). www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/staff

Dr Jeremy Kendall: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

NGOs, charities, voluntary organisations and civil society. Recent publications include: Third Sector Policy at the Crossroads: An International Policy Analyses (2007); Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe: Multi-level Processes and Organised Civil Society (2009); Constituting the Third Sector: processes of decontestation and contention under the New Labour governments in England (co-author, 2011); The Voluntary and Community Sector Social Policy (2012); Voluntary Welfare The Student's Companion to Social Policy (2012). www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff

Donald McGillivray: Senior Lecturer in Law

Environmental law; climate change, EC and water law. Recent publications include: Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment Law, Policy and Practice (co-author, 2007); Substance and Procedure under the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and the Water Framework Directive (co-ed, 2007); Environmental Legislation 2008-2009 (2008); Environmental Law (co-author, 2008); NEPA Law and Litigation (ed, 2011).

Dr Helen Newing: Lecturer in Conservation Social Science

Communities, conservation and development in tropical forest regions; indigenous peoples and biodiversity. Recent publications include: Conducting Research in Conservation: Social Science Methods and Practice (2010).

Dr Rajindra Puri: Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology

Historical ecology; knowledge transmission; adaptation to climate change; wildlife trade; protected areas; South-east Asia; Borneo. Recent publications include: Ethnobotany in the New Europe: people, health and minor plant resource pools (co-ed 2010).

Professor Chris Rootes: Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology

Environmental politics; protest, social and political movements; environmental citizenship; politics of climate change. Recent publications include: Environmental Protest in Western Europe (2007); Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns (2008); Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure (co-author, 2010).

Professor Julia Twigg: Professor of Social Policy and Sociology

Social policy and the body; sociology of food and eating. Recent publications include: Body Work in Health and Social Care (co-author 2011); Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life (2012); Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (co-author, forthcoming).

Dr Joy Yueyue Zhang: Lecturer in Sociology

Sociology of science, medicine, the environment and globalisation, especially in China. Recent publications include The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China (2012); Climate Politics in China (forthcoming).

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