Postgraduate Prospectus

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Staff and their research interests
Nick Allum, BA East London, MA PhD
LSE (Senior Lecturer)
Public understanding of science; the
social psychology of risk; social and
political trust; survey measurement
of social and political attitudes;
quantitative sociology
Ben Anderson, BSc Southampton,
PhD Loughborough (Lecturer)
Spatial microsimulation; social capital;
longitudinal analysis; consumption; digital
inclusion; ICT
Michael Bailey, BA PhD Sheffield
Hallam, MA Nottingham (Lecturer)
Critical theory; historical sociology;
industrial heritage; sociology of culture;
history of ethical socialism and cultural
criticism; sociology of religion; cultural
policy studies
Ted Benton, Cert Ed BA Leicester,
BPhil Oxford, PhD Essex (Professor)
Environmental issues and modern social
theory; links between socialist and green
perspectives; philosophy of social science
Robin Blackburn, BSc (Econ) London
(Professor)
Historical sociology; globalisation; slavery
and abolition; revolutions and modernity;
pension regimes; Marxism
Joan Busfield, MA St Andrews, MA PhD
Essex (Professor)
Health and the health services; medical
sociology; mental health and gender
Andrew Canessa, BSc PhD London
(Senior Lecturer)
Social anthropology; development; Latin
America; gender; nation and identity
Eamonn Carrabine, BA Hull, MSc PhD
Salford (Professor)
Criminology and cultural studies;
imprisonment; theoretical criminology;
urban youth cultures
Pamela Cox, BA PhD Cambridge (Senior
Lecturer and Dean of the Graduate School)
Criminology; histories of crime; juvenile
justice; public policy; governance; gender;
cultural and social history
Diane Elson, BA Oxford, PhD Manchester
(Professor)
Sociology of economic development;
gender; human rights; structural
adjustment; cultural change; globalisation
Pete Fussey, BA Northumbria, MA
Leicester, PhD Brunel (Senior Lecturer)
Security and major sporting events;
terrorism and public spaces; surveillance
and society; migration
Miriam Glucksmann, BA PhD London
(Research Professor)
Gender, work and employment; social
divisions and stratification; feminist theory;
ethnicity and racism; migration
Ayse Guveli, BA Istanbul, MA PhD
Nijmegen (Fellow)
Post-industrial class structures; inter- and
intra-generational class mobility; migration
and work-life mobility
Michael Halewood, BA Birmingham,
MA PhD London (Senior Lecturer)
Philosophy of social science; social theory;
subjectivity, materiality and the body; the
work of AN Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze
Mark Harvey, BA Oxford, PhD LSE
(Professor and Director of Centre for
Research in Economic Sociology and
Innovation)
New economic sociology; food
consumption and provisioning;
bio-economy, biotechnology and
genomics; ‘rights over resources’
within welfare states
Dick Hobbs, MEd Preston, MSc LSE,
PhD Surrey (Professor)
Deviance; ethnography; professional
and organised crime; working class
entrepreneurship; the sociology of
east London
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acquire a critical appreciation of empirical
research methodology.
Graduates will understand the connection
between theory and empirical methodology,
and be able to produce, evaluate and
effectively communicate research findings.
You gain a broad-based research training
which will be indispensable if you wish to
proceed to a PhD, and is invaluable training
if you seek future employment in a wide
range of social research occupations.
MA Sociology and Management•
This innovative course provides you
with a unique opportunity to gain a critical
appreciation of the social dynamics of
work in the twenty-first century. As the
occupation of management grows and
changes, to demand a more specialised
understanding of the modern organisation
and the world it operates in, potential
managers need an up-to-date and
in-depth understanding of their occupation
and its context.
Combining theoretical perspectives
from the disciplines of sociology and
management, you explore the importance
of debates surrounding power, culture,
class, gender, sexuality and new forms of
labour as a means of understanding the
complexities of today's contemporary
workplace. MA Sociology and Management
will particularly interest you if you wish to
advance your knowledge of the social
sciences in general, and will provide a
platform if you wish to work in management
roles or carry out further social research.
MSc Survey Methods for Social Research•
This course gives you advanced training in
survey research methodology. If you would
like to develop a career as social or market
researcher, or are already working in this
field and wish to undertake further
professional development or a research
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