The School of Social Sciences has three broad areas of research:
- Politics and International Relations
- Psychology
- Sociology and Criminology
Research interests of colleagues can be found on their individual institutional pages – links below. Please reach out to relevant staff members to discuss proposals.
Politics and International Relations
Contemporary democratic theory and practice
Critical International Theory
Gender and sexuality
(see also Sociology below)
- Dibyesh Anand
- Olimpia Burchiellaro
- Catherine Charrett
- Daniel Conway
- Adrija Dey
- Maria Holt
- Nitasha Kaul
- Jess Wild
Post-colonial politics, development and emerging powers
- Dibyesh Anand
- Greg Aasen
- Ipshita Basu
- Hannah Cross
- Roland Dannreuther
- Nitasha Kaul
- Farhang Morady
- Wojciech Ostrowski
- Sahar Tagdisi Rad
Governance, complexity and resilience
Security and violence
For more details of research activities in Politics and International Relations, see the Centre for the Study of Democracy.
Psychology
Stress, health and well-being
- Jo Birkett
- Tina Cartwright
- Anna Cheshire
- Cassie Hazell
- Robin Law
- Jay-Marie Mackenzie
- Tom Nadarzynski
- Damien Ridge
- Nina Smyth
Learning and development
Brain, cognition and perception
- Karen Bunday
- Laura Boubert
- Alison Eardley
- Samuel Evans
- Mark Gardner
- John Golding
- Catherine Loveday
- Christina Moutsiana
- Beth Parkin
Identity, self and society
- Tom Buchanan
- Deborah Husbands
- Orkun Yetkili
- Thalia Magioglou
- Nikos Souvlakis
- Nicholas Smith
- Kathryn Waddington
Forensic and investigative psychology
Sociology and Criminology
Crime, Policing, Prisons
Children, families, education
Gender and sexuality
(see also Politics and IR above)
Identity, ethnicity, migration, race
Political sociology
Tourism, leisure, media
For more details of research activities in Sociology and Criminology, see the Centre for the Study of Democracy.
View all current studentships on our Studentships page.