Current PhD students

Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.

• Jonathan Leif Basilio - 'Resisting the Evil Eye: US Technopolitics of Exclusion and Moral Economies of Public Resistance'
• 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'
• Kelly Bogue - 'Precarious Social Housing: Reforming Policy, Changing Culture. An Ethnographic Case Study of the Impact of the 'Bedroom Tax''
• 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"
• Chiara Broccatelli - 'Going Beyond Secrecy: Methodological Advances for Two-mode Temporal Criminal Networks with Social Network Analysis'
• Karis Campion - 'Caught in the Hype: An Insight in to the Narratives and Identifications of Mixed Heritage People in Periods of Social Unrest'
• Barbora 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'
• Ulrike Ehgartner - 'Environmentally and socially responsible consumption? A study on the discursive construction of values towards sustainability'
• Rachel Emms - 'Heavy Metal Live; Exploring an Industry in Crisis'
• 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."
• Laura Fenton - 'Women and alcohol in postwar and contemporary Britain: A multi-generational study of women's drinking biographies'
• Emma Fraser - 'Self and Ruin: Imagining the end of the city'
• 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 conceptualizing 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'
• Aimee Harragan - 'Political Engagement among Young People in Manchester'
• 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'
• Sebastian Juhnke - 'Locating the Creative Class: Diversity and Urban Change in London and Berlin'
• 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'
• Matko Krce-Ivancic - 'The aesthetics of subject: women and neoliberal governmentality in Croatia'
• Pete Lampard - 'Social Movements, Popular Culture and the Guy Fawkes Mask'
• Wai Lau - 'The Japanese Civilising Process'
• Andrea Lizama Loyola - 'Aspirations and practices of consumption as social mobility trajectories. A comparative perspective of the Latin American middle classes'
• Alejandro Marambio-Tapia - 'The retail-banking expansion in Chile and the "democratisation" of credit: juggling with cards, aspirations, and moralities'
• James Matthews - 'Organising Radical Spaces: Occupy the London Stock Exchange and the new Global Politics of Occupation'
• Kirsty Morrin -  ''Business as Usual?': Aspirations, social mobility and entrepreneurship in a North West academy'
• Chinelo Njaka - 'Mixed race experience in the United States and Britain: a Comparative Study'
• Susan Oman - 'All being well: cultures of participation and the cult of measurement'
• Samantha Outhwaite - 'The Social Life of British Organic Biodynamic Wheat: Biopolitics, Biopower & Governance'
• Rohini Rai - Cultures and Appearances: A Study of Racism and Discrimination against the University Students from North-East India in Delhi
• Tom Redshaw - 'Radical Technologies'
• Samuele Remillard-Boilard - 'Developing Age-Friendly Cities: A cross-national perspective'
• Denisse Sepulveda Sanchez - 'The social mobility experiences of Mapuche indigenous people'
• William Shankley - 'Changing Geographies of Ethnic Diversity in Britain'
• Isaac Ali Siles Barcenas - 'Mormon men masculinity: qualitative analysis of religious normativity, secular representations of masculinity and their influence in males subjectivity'
• Bernadette Snell - 'Neoliberal Logics within Protest Movements: Individualism, Subjectivity and Friendship'
• 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 Spatial Understanding of Political Culture: Analysis of the Impacts of Emotion Management on Pro-democracy Movement of Hong Kong, 2003 – 2016'
• Matteo Tiratelli - 'Four Days in August: The Situational Dynamics of Rioting in London in 2011'
• 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'
• Angharad Williams - 'Dementia and friendship'
• Kunnaya Wimooktanon - 'An Examination of the Socio-Cultural reintegration of foreign-educated high SES Bangkokians'
• 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' 
• Feng Zhu - 'Computer Games: The Implied Player and the Simulational Construction of Subjectivity'