Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Sugandha Agarwal | Resilience among women Rohingya refugees in India. |
| Sophie Atherton | A sex (and gender) education: an enquiry into transgender individuals' experiences of secondary education in the UK and provisions for the future. |
| Abbey Atkinson | Women's progression to senior management in the UK insurance market |
| Tiba Bonyad | Gendering biopolitical subjects: Lived experiences of Iranian women with assisted reproductive technologies. |
| Thomas Bosak | Potent connections with celestial bodies: Belonging to humanity and the meanings of astral objects in everyday life. |
| Lauren Bramley | Graduate Outcomes for Widening Participation Students |
| Joshua Bunting | Identity and the 2010-11 student movement: Formation, abeyance and evolution. |
| Thomas Chadwick | Privilege in pain: Male vulnerability in gender politics. |
| Chi-ting Chuang |
Negotiating filial responsibilities and relationships with ageing parents: the case of married gay and lesbian couples |
| Ashley Collar | Temporary communities: The role of culture following social disaster. |
| Natalie Cotterell | 'Growing old in the city: Developing policies and practices to tackle social isolation amongst people aged 50 years and older. |
| Alexus Davis | Mapping violence in maternal care: An examination of the intersections of systematic violence and birth violence on obstetric care outcomes. |
| Dominic Deane | DIY scenes in West Yorkshire: Independent music in post-industrial Leeds and Bradford. |
| Mariana Dias | "Feeling at home" in migratory contexts: The experiences of Portuguese women in the UK. |
| Lin Ding | Gender and class differences in the family investment in creative behaviour: a study of social reproduction of creativity in rural China. |
| David Dobson | Professionalism and sexuality: The wide-reaching implications of a gay-friendly white-collar workplace on the lesbian and gay community. |
| Sijia Du | Social ties, type of resources and status attainment. |
| Julia Enneoka | Mixed heritage, ethnic/'racial' and cultural identity and placement matching in fostering and adoption policy, practice and service delivery. |
| Christopher Fardan | Examining shifts in political talk from the margins to the mainstream. |
| Yu Feng | Insecurity and Anxiety of the new Chinese Middle Class |
| Daniela Fazio Vargas | Experiencing a Song: the Political and Aesthetic Possibilities of Art |
| Yongxuan Fu | Space and sociological theory of modernity. |
| Kristian Fuzi | Precarious employment and pension planning. |
| Martin Greenwood | Postcapitalism and the Post Office: The role of public services in radical futures. |
| Binit Gurung | Belonging among Nepali Youths in the UK |
| Tess Hartland | Urbanisation and population ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ageing in place in cities |
| Yannan He | Parental Networks in Schools in China |
| Georgia Hibbert | The relational and moral aspects involved in social egg freezing. |
| Hannah Gregson | A qualitative investigation into the long term impacts of trans-vaginal mesh complications. |
| Niamh Kavanagh | Exploring Salford's working-class experiences of gentrification-induced displacement. |
| Madiha Khan | Education and identity dynamics in a conflict zone. |
| Aleksandr Lange | Dating, love, and subjectivity in the age of digital capitalism |
| Manuela Latchoumaya | Ethnic and religious minorities' identity formation process: Guadeloupeans of Indian descent and Muslim Mahorais in colour-blind France. |
| Jianyu Li |
A qualitative study of sibling relations in Chinese urban families after the change of population policy |
| Xin Li | The Digital Pathways and Transformation of Chinese Cities in the Short-video Era: A TikTok Case Study |
| Liu Xiyuan | Education subsidy, urban-rural division and migrant students in China. |
| Hala Marshood |
Race, Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism: The Case of the May 2021 Palestinian Uprising |
| Susanne Martikke | From impact to relationships: Voluntary sector organisations in a changing environment. |
| Thabiso Mokokwane | The Nexus of Culture and Ecology in Sustainability |
| Morgan Powell | Within and against precarisation: Forms of mobilisation and resistance amongst workers in the UK's gig economy. |
| Mauricio Renteria Gonzales | The Colour of Social Mobility: The cultural and racial imprints of ascending trajectories within the Peruvian upper class |
| Joana Salles | Urbanisation and population ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ageing in place in cities |
| 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. |
| Manish Sen | Queer and Desi: Postcolonial perspectives on Desi youth experiences in the UK. |
| Shan Shi | |
| Lucie Slamova | Radical Left in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Steven Speed | Going against the grain: An ethnographic study of European alternative farming communities in the context of neo-liberal crisis. |
| Jamie Stevenson | In the shadow of Grenfell: Residents, representations and social housing in London. |
| Alice Swift | What is the role of infrastructure and social reproduction within the British and German direct action protest camp environmental movements? |
| Wenxi Tang | Interrogating social inequalities: family conditions, educational attainment and career outcomes in China |
| Miriam Tenquist | The Age friendly movement policy in Manchester:Sustainable changes to Active Ageing: A longitudinal study |
| Cedomir Vuckovic | The colonisation of higher education: Power, reproduction and resistance. |
| Kaidong Yu | Working-class students' experiences across generations. |
| Ryan Wattam | Working-class subculture and aspiration. |
| Chris Waugh | Making revolutionary men: Masculinity, misogyny and activist culture. |
| Peter White | How has the withdrawal of the NHS bursary impacted the rate of enrolment of students with widening participation characteristics into nursing education in the UK? |
| Yongyi Wu |
Digital divide between urban youths and rural youths in china |
| Lidia Yanez Lagos |
Nested collective and individual identities and the articulation of material and identity claims in the case of the Chile woke movement: theoretical contributions from Latin America |
| Menglu Zhang | The consequences of using social media and internet upon the academic performance of left-behind children in China. |
| Xinyi Zhu | Non-fungible Tokens and Digital Identity in Virtual and Reality Interaction |