Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Lewis Bassett-Yerrell | 'Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party: The political economy of populism and the return of state-centred strategies' |
| Rashida Bibi | 'Balancing the books: Life experiences of mature British Muslim South Asian women in education: negotiating cultural and religious spheres to access education' |
| Tiba Bonyad | 'Gendering biopolitical subjects: Lived experiences of Iranian women with assisted reproductive technologies' |
| Jo Bratley | 'Grow your own gardening practices and sustainable consumption in the UK' |
| Charlotte Branchu | 'Bruised and battered: The lived bodily experience of women rugby players and the rugby world' |
| Joshua Bunting | 'Identity and the 2010-11 student movement: Formation, abeyance and evolution' |
| Barbara Cernusakova | 'Collective action of Roma in Czech Republic: Revival of class consciousness' |
| Dominic Deane | 'DIY scenes in West Yorkshire: Independent music in post-industrial Leeds and Bradford' |
| David Dobson | 'Professionalism and sexuality: The wide-reaching implications of a gay-friendly white-collar workplace on the lesbian and gay community' |
| Ulrike Ehgartner | 'Environmentally and socially responsible consumption? A study on the discursive construction of values towards sustainability' |
| Julia Enneoka | 'Mixed heritage, ethnic/'racial' and cultural identity and placement matching in fostering and adoption policy, practice and service delivery' |
| Alejandro Espinosa-Rada | 'Unifying the frame of the Matthew Effect: A multilevel longitudinal social network analysis' |
| Christopher Fardan | 'Examining shifts in political talk from the margins to the mainstream' |
| Jaime Garcia-Iglesias | 'Real pleasure, real risk: A philosophical and sociological perspective on men who have unsafe sex with men with the intent of contracting HIV' |
| Deborah Giustini | 'Towards a sociology of interpreting. Bourdieu's influence in conceptualising a sociology of interpreting' |
| Patrick Gould | 'How do supermarkets mediate attitudes towards environmental considerations in food purchases? The case of fresh produce waste' |
| Natalie-Anne Hall | 'Understanding social media use of non-digital natives on political topics' |
| Hannah Haycox | 'Integration experiences of Syrian refugee families resettled in the UK' |
| Georgia Hibbert | 'The relational and moral aspects involved in social egg freezing' |
| Steffen Hirth | 'Relational geographies of food as areas of conflict between private affairs and political issues: spatial and social localisations of responsibility in "sustainable" food discourses and practices' |
| Dorottya Hoór | 'Reconceptualising return migration: A study of the personal networks of Hungarian return migrants' |
| Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg | 'Young feminism and activist agency in São Paulo: An intersectional approach to phenomenological action research' |
| Hayley James | 'Connecting policy with the personal: UK pension reforms and individual financial decision making' |
| Ema Johnson | 'Alternative models of food provisioning systems and their capacity to transition a more sustainable food system' |
| Chung Yan Priscilla Kam | 'The dynamics of national identity construction in postcolonial Hong Kong' |
| Justine Karpusheff | 'Creative approaches to mental health care: Exploring the value' |
| Rachel Katz | 'Grinding their gears? Effects of 'Grindr tourism' on local LGBT+ communities in Israel' |
| Niamh Kavanagh | 'Exploring Salford's working-class experiences of gentrification-induced displacement' |
| Wai Lau | 'The Japanese Civilising Process' |
| Jessica Mancuso | 'Sapphic space scarcity: How space and place affect subculture visibility' |
| Susanne Martikke | 'From impact to relationships: Voluntary sector organisations in a changing environment' |
| Francisca Ortiz | 'The trajectory of surviving being old with Chilean pensions: A sociology of personal life approach combining SNA and QCA mixed methods' |
| Anh-Susann Pham Thi | 'Vietnam between activism and oppression: Analysing and developing (new) forms of protest in a post-Socialist context' |
| Rohini Rai | 'Cultures and appearances: A study of racism and discrimination against the university students from North-East India in Delhi' |
| Mahwish Rana | 'Friendship and dementia: A critical approach' |
| Samuele Remillard-Boilard | 'Developing age-friendly cities: A cross-national perspective' |
| Craig Robinson | Coping with uncertainty: Socio-material performances of HIV and ageing |
| Caitlin Schmid | 'Gender stratification in European welfare states - A comparative study of the effects of intergenerational care policy, labour market policy and cultural norms on gender equality' |
| Isaac Ali Siles Barcenas | 'Mormon men masculinity: qualitative analysis of religious normativity, secular representations of masculinity and their influence in males subjectivity' |
| Daryl Sweet | 'An ego network framework for personal recovery from severe mental illness; a mixed methods social network analysis' |
| Yun Tong Tang | 'An affective and spacial understanding of political culture: Analysis of the impacts of emotion management on pro-democracy movement of Hong Kong, 2003-2016' |
| Maisie Tomlinson | ''Critical anthropomorphism' and multi-species ethnography: an investigation into animal behaviour expertise' |
| Alexandrina Vanke | 'Working-class life and struggle in Post-Soviet Russia' |
| Cedomir Vuckovic | 'The colonisation of higher education: Power, reproduction and resistance' |
| Neta Yodovich | '"Does that make me a bad feminist?" - Feminist fans of science fiction and fantasy' |
| Jingran Yu | 'Transnational media, new strategy? Rethinking Chinese students widening participation in UK higher education' |
| Kaidong Yu | Working class students' experiences across generations |