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'. |
| Lewis Bassett-Yerrell | 'Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party: The political economy of populism and the return of state-centred strategies'. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| Jaime Garcia-Iglesias | 'Viral fantasies: exploring bugchasing, the eroticisation of HIV, through PrEP and the internet'. |
| Patrick Gould | 'How do supermarkets mediate attitudes towards environmental considerations in food purchases? The case of fresh produce waste'. |
| Martin Greenwood | 'Postcapitalism and the Post Office: The role of public services in radical futures'. |
| 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'. |
| Hannah Gregson | 'A qualitative investigation into the long term impacts of trans-vaginal mesh complications'. |
| Dorottya Hoór | 'Reconceptualising return migration: A study of the personal networks of Hungarian return migrants'. |
| Dieuwertje Huijg | 'Intersectional agency: A theoretical exploration of agency at the junction of social categories and power, based on conversations with racially privileged feminist activists from São Paulo, Brazil'. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| 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'. |
| Yun Tong Tang | 'An effective and spacial understanding of political culture: Analysis of the impacts of emotion management on the 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'. |
| 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?' |