Sociology, Politics and International Studies

Dr Christopher Brooke, Stoicism; Rousseau; distributive justice; the Enlightenment; history of political thought.

Professor Terrell Carver, Marx, Engels and Marxism; political philosophy; philosophy of the social sciences; gender theory; masculinity and international relations; politics of sex and sexuality.

Dr Katharine Charsley, Gender, the family and migration; cross-border marriages.

Professor Sarah Childs, Women's political participation and representation; attitudes and behaviour of women representatives; British politics and political parties; feminist and democratic theory; ceremony and ritual in Parliament.

Dr Ryerson Christie, Critical security studies; human security; peacebuilding; state-civil society interaction; Cambodian politics.

Professor Michelle Cini, Institutions and policies of the European Union; the European Commission; administrative culture; public service ethics; organisational and institutional reform in the EU; European competition and state aid policy; European environment policy.

Dr Esther Dermott, Fatherhood; intimacy; personal relationships; family life; gender (especially masculinity); work.

Dr John Downer, Sociology of knowledge; epistemology; technology assessment; ultrahigh reliability; disaster studies.

Dr Tim Edmunds, Security sector governance reform; post-conflict transitions; democratisation; politics and security in the western Balkans and in central Asia.

Dr Elizabeth Evans, Global problems of insecurity, power and political violence.

Dr Magnus Feldmann, Comparative and international political economy (especially varieties of capitalism and international tade); comparative politics (especially Central and East European politics and institutional theory).

Dr Adrian Flint, International political economy; the European Union and the ACP Countries; sustainable development; North- South relations; HIV/AIDS.

Dr Gaston Fornes, Management in developing countries; foreign direct investments and their impact in the development process; economic and political integration; institutions in developing countries.

Dr Jon Fox, Ethnicity; nationalism; migration.

Dr Martin Gainsborough, South East Asian politics and international politics, especially Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma; political economy of development; globalisation and the state; comparative communist transition; politics of corruption.

Dr Jo Haynes, Race/ethnicity; sociology of music/media; education; qualitative research methodologies

Professor Jeffrey Henderson, Implications for the global political economy of China's international trade, finance, globalisation, foreign aid programme, human rights and energy security; its impact on global governance; the geo-political implications.

Dr Eric Herring, World politics; international security; the world politics scholarship of Noam Chomsky; activism and the politics of scholarship; preventing military abuses of human rights.

Dr Vernon Hewitt, Post-colonial politics in South Asia and Africa; the politics of ethnicity and nationalism, with particular reference to South Asia and Kashmir; development theories; comparative politics.

Dr Paul Higate, Gendered culture of the military; social relations of militarism and militarisation; peacekeeping and security; theories of social space.

Dr Ana E Juncos Garcia, European foreign and security policy.

Dr Winnie King, Political and economic development in East Asia (Taiwan and China); Taiwan politics; civil society and social mobilisation; economic co-operation and integration; transnational relations and networks; policy-making processes and East Asia-EU relations.

Dr Lee Marshall, Sociology of art and culture; specialising in intellectual property and popular music.

Professor Gregor McLennan, Social/sociological theory; Marxism; philosophy of social sciences; politics and ideology.

Dr Torsten Michel, International relations theory; international political theory; twentieth century continental philosophy and international relations; security studies; methodology of the social sciences.

Professor Tariq Modood, Racial equality; anti-racism; multiculturalism and public policy; interfaithism; British Asian Muslims.

Dr Michael Naughton, Miscarriages of justice; human rights; penal policy; social harm; social justice, Foucauldian theory.

Dr Therese O'Toole, Political sociology; ethnicity; political action and social movements.

Professor Thomas Osborne, Social theories; historical sociology; history of social sciences and sociology of knowledge

Dr Benoit Pelopidas, Intellectuals, experts and knowledge providers in international security; international relations theory; sociology of knowledge; international nuclear history; nuclear disarmament, proliferation, deterrence; nuclear weapons and nuclear threats in popular culture; French international policies.

Dr Columba Peoples, Critical security studies; critical theory; technology and international relations; missile defence and space security.

Dr Nieves Perez-Solorzano, EU enlargement; civil society, interest group and citizen participation; Europeanisation; energy markets in the Balkans.

Dr Maud Perrier, Feminism; sociology of families; motherhood; parenting; social class.

Professor Judith Squires, Feminist political theory and politics of gender; democratic theory and citizenship.

Ms Paula Surridge, Social stratification; social and political attitudes; education; sociological methodology.

Dr Jutta Weldes, International relations theory; US foreign policy; globalisation; the state, gender and international relations; popular culture and international relations; social theory.

Dr Brad West, National identity; cultural theory; collective memory and commemoration; crisis and catastrophe; dark tourism; terrorism; criminal (anti)heroes; media and the public sphere.

Professor Mark Wickham-Jones, Labour politics; social democracy; comparative and theoretical political economy and rational choice.

Dr Andrew Wyatt, Indian politics; international political economy of development; globalisation and economic reform in India.

Dr Junko Yamashita, East Asian social policy; gender and social policy; non-profit organisations and local governance; social inequality in contemporary Japan; family change and social policy; care policy; qualitative research methods.

Professor Yongjin Zhang, Theories of international relations, particularly the English School; international relations of Asia-Pacific; regionalism and regional security in East Asia; Chinese foreign policy and international relations; political economy of Chinese global businesses; international relations in ancient China.