Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

Staff list

Academic Staff

A-B | C-D | E-I | J-K | L-M | N-R | S | T-V | W-Z

A-B

Name Job Title Key words
Professor John Baldock Professor of Social Policy Ageing, demography, dependence
Dr Ben Baumberg Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy the workplace, inequality, the benefits system, addictions policy & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), evidence and policy
Dr Clare Birchall Lecturer in Cultural Studies Transparency; secrecy; conspiracy theory; popular knowledges; cultural studies; poststructuralism
Dr David Boothroyd Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies

Cultural theory, cultural metaphysics, European thought, drug cultures
Dr Adrian Bonner Reader of the Addictions Behaviour Group  
Dr Kate Bradley Lecturer in Social History and Social Policy History of social policy; charities; youth crime, justice and welfare
Dr Beth Breeze Researcher, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice

Charitable giving, philanthropy and the voluntary sector
Dr Adam Burgess Senior Lecturer in Sociology The sociology and politics of risk


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C-D

Name Job Title Key words
Professor Mike Calnan Professor of Medical Sociology Sociology of health, illness and health policy, trust and uncertainty; ageing and dignity ; mental health
Dr Caroline Chatwin Director of Study for undergraduate Criminology, Lecturer in Criminology European drug policy, young people and victimisation and drug use and subcultural studies
Dr Heejung Chung Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy

labour market, welfare state, comparative sociology/social policy, European comparative data, flexibility, job autonomy, working time, work-life balance, employment insecurity, gender
Paul Cambridge Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability Learning disabilities, sexualities, HIV, physical abuse
Dr Phil Carney Lecturer in Criminology Photographic theory, spectacle, radical criminology, cultural criminology, mass media, critical visual culture, post-structuralist critical theory, desire and power, the nexus of war, punishment and terror, the micropolitics of fascism.


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E-I

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Charlotte Faircloth Mildred Blaxter post-doctoral fellow Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness

Maternal identities, breast feeding, the politics of motherhood
Dr Jennifer Fleetwood Lecturer in Criminology Women in the international drug trade
Brian Flinders Practice Learning Coordinator  
Professor Chris Hale Head of School; Professor of Criminology; Director of Kent Criminal Justice Centre; Director of Studies for MA Methods of social research Punishment and the economy, Crime and the business cycle
Professor Keith Hayward Professor of Criminology; Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching Cultural criminology, Theoretical criminology, Crime and consumer culture, Urban crime and the Night Time Economy, Terrorism and fanaticism
Prof Phil Hubbard Professor of Urban Studies Sexuality, space, leisure and nightlife, antisociality, urban theory
Dr Jonathan Ilan Lecturer in Criminology Ethnography, youth culture, street cultures. justice and policing


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J-K

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Jeremy Kendall Senior Lecturer; Director of Studies for MA Civil society, NGOs and noprofit studies Third sector, civil society, social policy in general, the EU and social policy, social care
Dr Derek Kirton Reader in Social Policy and Social Work Child welfare, identity, adoption, foster care, looked after children, youth justice
Dr Axel Klein Lecturer in the Study of Addictive Behaviour Drugs, drug policy, the sociology and social policy of intoxication


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L-M

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Ellie Lee Reader in Social Policy Sociology of social problems, reproduction, family, health, illness and medicine.
Dr Anne F H Logan Senior Tutor, Senior Lecturer, Social History (Medway Campus) History of feminism; history of criminal justice; gender, voluntary work and professionalism
Dr Dawn Lyon Lecturer in Sociology Sociology of work, migration, visual sociology, gender relations, comparative cultural sociology (especially France and Italy)
Professor Roger Matthews Professor of Criminology; Director of Studies for MA Criminology Prison, prostitution, sex trafficking, crime prevention, community safety
Dr Vince Miller Senior Lecturer in Sociology Space, Urban Studies, New Media, High Technology, Community, Theory
Dr Alisoun Milne Reader in Social Gerontology and Social Work Mental health and later life, family caring, life in a care home.
Dr Lavinia Mitton Lecturer in Social Policy Poverty, social security, household incomes, financial exclusion, Black Africans in the UK


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N-R

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Kate O'Brien Lecturer in Criminology Gender, youth and crime, drug markets, night time economies, ethnography, participatory appraisal
Ela O'Farrell Lecturer in Social Work Social work theories and methods,   counselling, service users and carers partnership
Professor Chris Pickvance Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies Urban/planning/environment/housing policy, protest and individual behaviour. Sustainable housing. Eastern Europe/Third world.
Professor Larry Ray Professor of Sociology
 Social theory, Globalization, Postcommunism, Ethnicity and violence, Memory and Jewish identities
Dr Jane Reeves    
Dr Kim Robinson Lecturer in Social Care Forced Migration, refugee health, mental health, community health, gender, qualitative research
Professor Christopher Rootes Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology & Director, Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements; Director of Studies for MA Environmental social science and MA Political sociology Environmental politics, protest and social movements, environmental NGOs, global justice movement


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S

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Balihar Sanghera Director of Graduate Studies (Taught); Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Director of Studies for MA Sociology Political economy, ethics, philanthropy, moral economy, post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Professor Janet Sayers Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology Gender & mental health, and specifically on Freud, Picasso, and the British art critic, Adrian Stokes
Dr Simon Shaw Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies; Director of Studies Youth crime; youth justice; politics of crime; criminal justice policy-making
Professor David Shemmings Professor of Social Work
 Adult Attachment Theory; Safeguarding Children and Child Protection; Contemporary Quantitative Research Methods; UK's Social Work Researcher Development Initiative (RDI)
Professor Chris Shilling Professor of Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies (Research) The Body; Embodiment; Body Pedagogics; Religion; Social/Sociological/Cultural Theory.
Professor Miri Song Professor of Sociology; Director of Studies for MA International migration, health capital and social care ‘Integration’ of the second generation,‘Mixed race’ identities, Immigrant adaptation, Racisms and social exclusion
Professor Alex Stevens Professor of Criminal Justice; Deputy Head of School (Medway) Drugs, crime, public health, inequalities, youth offending
Dr Alisa Stevens Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies Prisons, therapeutic communities, sociology of imprisonment, serious offenders, rehabilitation, desistance from crime
Professor Tim Strangleman Professor of Sociology;
Director of Research Enhancement & Development (Spring/Summer 10)		 Work & employment; Nostalgia; Deindustrialisation; Visual methods and approaches; Identity


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T-V

Name Job Title Key words
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby Professor of Social Policy; Director of Studies for MA International social policy Risk, Uncertainty and Welfare; NHS reform; Comparative Social Policy: Europe, China and East Asia; Politics of Welfare and Citizenship; Attitudes to Welfare.
Professor Julia Twigg Professor of Social Policy and Sociology; Director of Learning and Teaching Body and embodiment; age and ageing; cultural gerontology; health and social care; clothing, fashion and dress
Professor Sarah A. Vickerstaff Professor of Work and Employment Older workers; retirement; work and the lifecourse; apprenticeship


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W-Z

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Jo Warner Senior Lecturer in Social Work; Director of Research Enhancement & Development (Autumn 09) Risk, mental health, social work, documentary analysis, gender
Dr Charles Watters Director of the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care;
Reader in Mental Health		 Mental health and social care of refugees
Dr Iain Wilkinson Senior Lecturer in Sociology Social suffering, risk, emotions, health, history of sociology, sociological theory


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Emeritus and Honary Staff

Dr Adrian Adams Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Andy Alaszewski Emeritus Professor
Dr A Borbiro Honorary Research Fellow
Bill Durodie Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Sebnem Eroglu Honorary Research Fellow in Urban Studies
Professor Mary Evans Emeritus Professor
Professor Marion Fitzgerald Honorary Professor
Professor Frank Furedi Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Neil Hunt Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Kerstin Jacobsson
 Senior Research Fellow
John Jervis Research Fellow in Cultural Studies
Dr K Kerezsi Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Ruben Martin Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Brian Munday Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Prof Jan Pahl Professor Emeritus of Social Policy
Dr B Paul Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Prof Chris Pickvance Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies
Dr Polly Radcliffe Honorary Research Fellow
Prof Janet Sayers Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology
Professor Richard Scase Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Organisational Behaviour
Professor Kevin Stenson Honorary Professor
Gabriel Swain Honorary Research Associate - Centre for the Study of Social & Political Movements
Professor Jock Young Honorary Professor
Dr D Zaitch Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jens Zinn Honorary Senior Research Fellow
   
   
   
   

Visiting Staff

Professor Pat Carlen Visiting Professor
Professor Lynn Prince Cooke Visiting Professor
Professor Stuart Henry Visiting Professor of Criminology
Ms C Kemelova Visiting Fellow
Dr Kerstin Jacobsson Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Dr E Pascuzzi Visiting Research Fellow
Besime Sen Visiting Lecturer
Chris Stanley Visiting Professor of Youth Justice
Prof Steve Stiehler Visiting Scholar
Dr Joanne Wolf Visiting Associate Professor
Dr Lucy Williams Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jie Zhang Visiting Research Fellow
   


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Research Assistants

Name Email Research area
Emily Robinson e.a.robinson@kent.ac.uk Shifting political and cultural meanings of the term “progressive”, during the long twentieth century (1888-2010).
     
     
     
     



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Administrative Support Staff

The support within SSPSSR is based on teams:

General Support, Student Support, Postgraduate Support, Quality Assurance, Medway Support Team and Library Staff.

General Support
Name Job Title Location
Jeremy Bede-Cox School Business & Administration Manager Canterbury
Marilyn Newman PA to Head of School & School Business & Administration Manager Canterbury
Paul Glover Finance & Administration Manager Canterbury
Mandy Twyman Business Support Officer Canterbury


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Student Support
Name Job Title Location
Gill Warr Student Support Manager Canterbury
Trish Barton Student Support Officer (Tizard) Canterbury
Jahanara Ahmed Student Support Co-ordinator Canterbury
Lisa Towers Student Support Co-ordinator (ABG) Canterbury
Claire Smith Student Support Assistant Canterbury


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Postgraduate Support
Name Job Title Location
Kalli Glezakou Postgraduate Senior Support Officer Canterbury
Nicky Allen Postgraduate Support Officer Canterbury
Meher Basit Recruitment and Postgraduate Support Officer Canterbury


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Quality Assurance
Name Job Title Location
Shane Watters Quality Development Officer Canterbury
Jeni Wilkinson Student Support Co-ordinator (Quality Assurance) Canterbury
Medway Support Team
Name Job Title Location
Debby Darby Social Work Support Officer Medway
Marilyn Morley Secretarial Assistant Medway
Pauline Rogers Student Support Officer Medway
Louise Tollervey  Student Support Officer Medway

Library Staff

Name Job Title Location
Jason Harper SSPSSR Librarian Templeman Library, Canterbury


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Last Updated: 24/05/2012