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 Andy Alaszewski Professor of Health Studies;
Director, Centre for Health Services Studies;
Director, NHS Research and Development Support Unit for Kent and Surrey		  
Dr Andrew Ashenhurst Lecturer in the Psychology of Dependence  
Professor John Baldock Professor of Social Policy  
Dr Clare Birchall Lecturer in Cultural Studies  
Dr. Matthew Bond Lecturer in Sociology  
Dr. Dave Boothroyd Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies  
Dr Adrian Bonner Reader in Addictive Behaviours  
Dr Kate Bradley Lecturer in Social History and Social Policy;
Admissions Tutor (Social Sciences)		 History of social policy; charities; youth crime, justice and welfare
Beth Breeze Researcher, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice  
Dr Patrick Brown Lecturer/Research Associate trust; risk; competing rationalities; health policy; mental health
Dr. Adam Burgess Senior Lecturer in Sociology The sociology and politics of risk

 

C-D

Name Job Title Key words
Sian Calnan Research Associate, Dignity in Practice  
Professor Mike Calnan Professor of Medical Sociology  
Dr Caroline Chatwin Lecturer in Criminology European drug policy, young people and victimisation and drug use and subcultural studies
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. Lynn Prince Cooke Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy Sociology of gender and family; comparative policy (Europe, US); lifecourse

 

E-I

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Jennifer Fleetwood Lecturer in Criminology  
Brian Flinders Practice Learning Coordinator  
Professor Frank Furedi Professor of Sociology;
Chief Examiner		 Culture of fear, risk, terrorism, sociology of disaster
Professor Chris Hale Head of School; Professor of Criminology;
Director of Kent Criminal Justice Centre		  
Dr. Keith Hayward Director of Studies for Criminology;
Senior Lecturer in Criminology		 Cultural criminology, Theoretical criminology, Crime and consumer culture, Urban crime and the Night Time Economy, Terrorism and fanaticism
Dr Jonathan Ilan Lecturer in Criminology  

 

J-K

Name Job Title Key words
Dr Rana Jawad Lecturer in Social Policy  
Dr. Jeremy Kendall Senior Lecturer 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  
Dr. Amanda Klekowski Von Koppenfels Lecturer in Migration Studies Aussiedler, transnationalism, Germany, United States, Belgium, Americans abroad, migration, ethnically privileged migration, citizenship, political participation, trafficking.
Dr Monika Krause Lecturer in Sociology Humanitarian relief, NGOs, globalization, citizenship, field theory, sociology of culture, critical theory
Josephine Kwhali Senior Lecturer in Social Work;
Admissions Tutor		  

L-M

Name Job Title Key words
Dr. Ellie Lee Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Sociology of social problems, reproduction, family, health, illness and medicine.
Dr. Margarita Leon Lecturer in European Social Policy  
Dr. Anne F H Logan Director of Studies, Criminal Justice Studies (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)
Ruben Martin Senior Lecturer in Social Work Social work, practice learning, people who use services and carers, communication skills, human growth and development
Dr. Vince Miller Lecturer in Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies (Taught) Space, Urban Studies, New Media, High Technology, Community, Theory
Karen Milne-Skillman Research Assistant (Connections Project)  
Dr. Lavinia Mitton Lecturer in Social Policy Poverty, social security, household incomes, financial exclusion, Black Africans in the UK

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 Professor of Urban Studies;
Director of Learning and Teaching		 Urban/planning/environment/housing policy, protest and individual behaviour. Sustainable housing. Eastern Europe/Third world.
Dr Polly Radcliffe Research Associate  
Professor Larry Ray Professor of Sociology
 Social theory, Globalization, Postcommunism, Ethnicity and violence, Memory and Jewish identities
Professor Christopher Rootes Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology;
Director, Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements		 Environmental politics, protest and social movements, environmental NGOs, global justice movement

 

S

Name Job Title Key words
Dr. Balihar Sanghera Director of Studies for Social Sciences; Lecturer in Sociology Ethics, moral economy and sentiments, political economy, philanthropy and 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  
Professor David Shemmings Chair of Social Work;
Deputy Head of School (Medway)		 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.
Dr. Miri Song Reader in Sociology ‘Integration’ of the second generation,‘Mixed race’ identities, Immigrant adaptation, Racisms and social exclusion
Dr Alex Stevens Senior Lecturer in Criminology 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
Dr. Tim Strangleman Reader in Sociology;
Director of Research Enhancement & Development (Spring/Summer 10)		 Work & employment; Nostalgia; Deindustrialisation; Visual methods and approaches; Identity

T-V

Name Job Title Key words
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby Professor of 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  
Professor Sarah A. Vickerstaff Professor of Work and Employment Older workers; retirement; work and the lifecourse; apprenticeship

 

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
Hayley Watson Research Assistant Terrorism, Media, Citizen Journalism, Public Perception of Security/Threat
Dr. Charles Watters Director of the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care;
Reader in Mental Health		  
Dr Ruth Webb Lecturer in Addictions Counselling  
Dr. Iain Wilkinson Senior Lecturer in Sociology Social suffering, risk, emotions, health, history of sociology, sociological theory
Dr. Lucy Williams Lecturer in Migration Studies Migration, cross-border marriage, refugees, narrative methods

Emeritus, Honary and Visiting Staff

Name Title
Dr. Gulfem Cakir Visiting Training Fellow
Chris Endersby Honorary Lecturer in Social Care
Dr. Sebnem Eroglu Honorary Research Fellow in Urban Studies
Professor Mary Evans Emeritus Professor
Dr. Suman Fernando Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
Professor Marion Fitzgerald Honorary Professor
Professor Vic George Honorary Professor
John Jervis Research Fellow in Cultural Studies
Professor Krishan Kumar Honorary Professor
Professor John Lea Honorary Professor
Professor John O'Neill Honorary Visiting Professor
Professor Jan Pahl Professor Emeritus of Social Policy
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 Clare Ungerson Honorary Professor
Professor Jock Young Honorary Professor
Dr Jens Zinn Honorary Senior Research Fellow

 

Administrative & Library Staff

Name Job Title Location
Jane Alderson-Rice SSPSSR Librarian Templeman Library, Canterbury
Nicky Allen Postgraduate Officer Canterbury
Alin Augustin Adminstrative Assistant (Connections Project) Canterbury
Meher Basit Postgraduate Officer Canterbury
Jeremy Bede-Cox School Administration & Business Manager Canterbury
Lisa Bell ABG Administrative Assistant Canterbury
Carolyn Brown Administrative Assistant Canterbury
Claire Carter Postgraduate Officer Canterbury
Kalli Glezakou Postgraduate Officer Canterbury
Paul Glover Finance & Administration Manager Canterbury
Marilyn Morley Secretarial Assistant Medway
Marilyn Newman PA to Head of Department, School Administration & Business Manager Canterbury
Samantha Osborne IT Manager Canterbury
Claire Smith Administrative Assistant Canterbury
Louise Tollervey  Social Work Support Officer Medway
Sarah Tong Student Support Manager

Darwin College, Canterbury (Mon, Wed-Fri)
Medway (Tues)
Lisa Towers Postgraduate Officer Canteerury
Gill Warr Postgraduate Administration Manager Canterbury
Shane Watters Quality Assurance and Undergraduate Officer Canterbury
Jenifer Wilkinson Administrative Assistant Canterbury