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 David Boothroyd	Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies	Cultural theory, cultural metaphysics, European thought, drug cultures
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	Reader in Social Risk Research	The sociology and politics of risk
Dr Chrissy Buse	Research Associate

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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.
Dr Valentina Cuzzocrea	Research Associate (part time)	Addictions Work Youth
Dr Daniel DeHanas	Research Fellow

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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
Dr David Garbin	Lecturer in Sociology	ethnicity, diaspora, globalisation, religion, Africa, South Asia, anthropology and sociology of migration and transnationalism, urban sociology, youth cultures
Professor Chris Hale	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	Senior Lecturer in Sociology	Sociology of work, migration, visual sociology, gender relations, comparative cultural sociology (especially France and Italy)
Dr Shepard Masocha	Lecturer in Social Work	Social work, asylum seekers, refugees, discourse analysis, language use, migration, racism, social exclusion
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
David Nettleingham	Lecturer in Cultural Studies	Political cultures; deindustrialisation and memorialisation; generations; labour movement history; oral history
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 Larry Ray	Professor of Sociology	Social theory, Globalization, Postcommunism, Ethnicity and violence, Memory and Jewish identities
Dr Jane Reeves	Director of Studies MA Child Protection; Co-Director of the University of Kent Centre for Child Protection	Child protection, child exploitation, serious games, young fathers, teenage pregnancy, children in care
Dr Steven Roberts	Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology	Youth transitions; youth employment; social change; social class; masculinity; sociology of education; labour market/skills policy
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	The Body; Embodiment; Body Pedagogics; Religion; Social/Sociological/Cultural Theory.
Professor Miri Song	Professor of Sociology	‘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
Professor Tim Strangleman	Professor of Sociology; Director of Research Enhancement & Development (Spring/Summer 10)	Work & employment; Nostalgia; Deindustrialisation; Visual methods and approaches; Identity
Trude Sundberg	Lecturer in Social Policy	Attitudes, welfare legitimacy, comparative research, quantitative research, welfare state, systematic review, social policy, welfare pressures, new social risks

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T-V

Name	Job Title	Key words
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby	Research Professor of Social Policy; Director of Studies for MA International social policy	Welfare Reform in the UK; The Politics of Austerity; Comparative Social Policy: Europe, China and East Asia; Attitudes to Welfare; Risk, Uncertainty and Welfare.
Professor Julia Twigg	Professor of Social Policy and Sociology	Body and embodiment; age and ageing; cultural gerontology; health and social care; clothing, fashion and dress
Professor Sarah A. Vickerstaff	Head of School; 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
Ruth Webb	Lecturer in Therapeutic Interventions in Substance Misuse Services
Dr Iain Wilkinson	Senior Lecturer in Sociology	Social suffering, risk, emotions, health, history of sociology, sociological theory
Dr Joy Zhang	Lecturer in Sociology	International research governance; China; Ethical protocols; Scientific competitiveness in developing countries; Stem cell research; Synthetic biology; Bio-art; Climate change; Social movements; Cosmopolitanism; Cosmopolitanization

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Emeritus and Honorary 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
Liz Lipscomb	Honorary 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 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

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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
Camilla Kennedy-Harper	Recruitment and Postgraduate Support Officer	Canterbury
Sarah Marsh	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
Rejané Gwynne	Employability Support Officer	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
Emma Furderer	SSPSSR Librarian	Templeman Library, Canterbury

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