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18<br />
Sociology<br />
ACADEMIC STAFF<br />
Staff in the School are<br />
leaders in their fields<br />
and have specialist<br />
interests that are<br />
constantly changing and<br />
developing. This research<br />
keeps us at the forefront<br />
<strong>of</strong> new developments and<br />
has been consistently<br />
rated as excellent in the<br />
Research Assessment<br />
Exercise.<br />
Dr Ben Baumberg<br />
Lecturer in Sociology and Social<br />
Policy<br />
Disability; the workplace; inequality;<br />
the benefits system; addictions<br />
policy; corporate social<br />
responsibility; the relationship<br />
between evidence and policy.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/baumberg.html<br />
Dr Clare Birchall<br />
Lecturer in Cultural Studies<br />
Cultural studies; poststructuralist<br />
theory; popular knowledges,<br />
especially conspiracy theory and<br />
gossip; cultures <strong>of</strong> secrecy and<br />
revelation; youth media.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/birchall.html<br />
Dr Beth Breeze<br />
Researcher<br />
Philanthropy; giving; charity.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/breeze.html<br />
Dr David Boothroyd<br />
Senior Lecturer in Cultural<br />
Studies<br />
Cultural theory; cultural<br />
metaphysics and European thought<br />
(psychoanalysis; phenomenology;<br />
libidinal materialism; deconstruction)<br />
applied to drugs and drug cultures,<br />
everyday life, TV, film and new media<br />
and new technologies; ethics and<br />
hospitality; cultures <strong>of</strong> the extreme.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/dave-boothroyd.html<br />
Dr Heejung Chung<br />
Lecturer in Sociology and Social<br />
Policy<br />
The labour market; issues<br />
surrounding work-life balance<br />
and gender; the impact <strong>of</strong> national<br />
policies and gender norms on the<br />
level <strong>of</strong> work-family conflict <strong>of</strong><br />
individuals and the gender gap<br />
in the conflict levels; labour market<br />
flexibility; employment insecurity.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/heejung_chung.html<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Mike Calnan<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Medical Sociology<br />
Diffusion and innovation in health<br />
care and technology; trust and<br />
health care; dignity and the<br />
provision <strong>of</strong> health and social<br />
care for older people.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/calnan.html<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Phil Hubbard<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor or Urban Studies<br />
Phil Hubbard is Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Urban<br />
Studies and author <strong>of</strong> books<br />
including The Entrepreneurial City<br />
(1998); Key Ideas in Geography –<br />
The City (2006); The Sage<br />
Companion to the City (2008);<br />
and Cities and Sexualities (2011).<br />
He has written widely on the social<br />
conditions <strong>of</strong> cities and the impact<br />
<strong>of</strong> neoliberal urban policy on public<br />
life.<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/<br />
academic/hubbard.html
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