Current postgraduate students
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) has a number of affiliated PhD students who work covers a diverse and exciting range of topics. For a description of these students' projects please click on the links below.
Claire Bullen
(RICC)
Everyday cosmopolitanism in Liverpool and Marseilles?: Developing a comparative framework of inter-ethnic relations at the city-level
Daniele Viktor Leggio
(RICC and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures)
Language and identity of a diasporic Romani community on the Internet
Gwyneth Lonegran
(RICC and the School of Social Sciences)
Migrant women's activism in Sheffield and Manchester
Patrick O’Shea
(RICC and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures)
Internal Exile in Contemporary Cuba
Aliaa Remtilla
(RICC and the School of Social Sciences)
Relying on Relationships: Adapting to Change in Tajik Ishkoshim
Lisa Riedner
(RICC and the School of Social Sciences)
The role of (un)documented migrant workers’ representational politics in the negotiation of regimes of migration and labour in Berlin and Munich
Sivamohan Valluvan
(RICC and the School of Social Sciences)
Race and nationhood among second-generation minority immigrants in London and Stockholm
Rachel Wilde
(RICC and the School of Social Sciences)
‘A Community of Active Global Citizens’: an ethnographic study of a charity
Affiliated Pathways to Cosmopolitanism Student
Elisa Pieri
(Manchester Architecture Research Centre & the School of Social Sciences
Urban Futures: How Issues of Security and Aspirations of Cosmopolitanism Reconfigure the City Centre
Visiting Students
Adela Fofiu
Sociology PhD candidate at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. Adela will be working with Adi Kuntsman, Nina Glick Schiller and Bridget Byrne while at RICC (January - July 2011).
The Romanian cyberhate: extreme threat and
the majority-minority relationship on the Internet