Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| 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'. |
| Joshua Bunting | 'Identity and the 2010-11 student movement: Formation, abeyance and evolution'. |
| Barbara Cernusakova | 'Collective action of Roma in the Czech Republic: Revival of class consciousness'. |
| Thomas Chadwick | Privilege in pain: Male vulnerability in gender politics. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| Vanessa Fernandes | 'Social inequality in access to university education in England'. |
| 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'. |
| Hannah Haycox | 'Integration experiences of Syrian refugee families resettled in the UK'. |
| 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'. |
| Ema Johnson | 'Alternative models of food provisioning systems and their capacity to transition a more sustainable food system'. |
| Niamh Kavanagh | 'Exploring Salford's working-class experiences of gentrification-induced displacement'. |
| Madiha Khan | Education and identity dynamics in a conflict zone. |
| Manuela Latchoumaya | Ethnic and religious minorities' identity formation process: Guadeloupeans of Indian descent and Muslim Mahorais in colour-blind France. |
| Liu Xiyuan | Education subsidy, urban-rural division and migrant students in China. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| Manish Sen | 'Queer and Desi: Postcolonial perspectives on Desi youth experiences in the UK'. |
| 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? |
| 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?' |
| Menglu Zhang | The consequences of using social media and internet upon the academic performance of left-behind children in China. |