Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
Name | Thesis Title |
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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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Tetyana Solovey | |
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 |
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 |