School of Social and Political Science

People

Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.

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Aaron Kappeler

Lecturer in Anthropology of Development

Culture
Elections, public opinion and parties
Energy, environment and sustainability
Environment and energy
Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
International development
International Development Cluster
Nationalism and political action
Politics and political violence
Work & Economy

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Professor Tobias Kelly

Director of IASH, Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology

Criminal justice
Data & Digital
Governance & Democracy
International development
International Development Cluster
Intimacy
Politics and political violence
Public anthropology
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies

Giorgia Kerr

PhD Student

Health & Well-being
Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
Public anthropology
Science, technology and innovation
Social studies of biology and medicine

Ismail Khan

PhD Student and Tutor

Children, families and relationships
Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Middle East Research Group
Migration and experiences of displacement
Public anthropology
South Asian studies
Work & Economy

Amer Khushman, PhD Student

Amer Khushman

PhD Student

Identities & Inequalities
International development
Middle East Research Group
Migration and experiences of displacement
Work & Economy

Dr Abby King

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DARE Home)

Data & Digital
Health & Well-being
Mental health and wellbeing
Science, technology and innovation
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Technology and material culture

Marte Knudsen

Marte Knudsen

PhD Student

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Katie Lawrence

PhD Student

Culture
Religion and social movements
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies

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Giulia Liberatore

Lecturer

Lucy Lowe breastfeeding her baby.

Lucy Lowe

Head of Social Anthropology

Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Health & Well-being
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Migration and experiences of displacement
Social studies of biology and medicine

Siobhan Magee

Dr Siobhan Magee

Lecturer in Social Anthropology; Programme Director: MSc Social Anthropology

Children, families and relationships
Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Religion and social movements
Work & Economy

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Mx Mano Mandal

PhD Student

Energy, environment and sustainability
Migration and experiences of displacement
South Asian studies
Technology and material culture

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Dr Rebecca Marsland

Senior Lecturer

Health & Well-being

Maya Mayblin

Senior Lecturer

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Mr Lee McNeish

PhD Student

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Patricia Mundelius

PhD Student

Culture
Health & Well-being
Identities & Inequalities
Social studies of biology and medicine
South Asian studies

Pia Noel

Pia Noel

PhD student

Culture
Global health policy
Health & Well-being
International development
Science, knowledge and policy
South Asian studies

Dr Zeynep Oguz

Lecturer in Anthropology of Development

Cultural Heritage
Energy, environment and sustainability
Environment and energy
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Middle East Research Group
Nationalism and political action
Not just energy futures
Politics and political violence
Science, knowledge and policy

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Neerja Pathak

PhD Student

Gender Politics Research Group
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Methods
South Asian studies

Dr Silvia Pergetti

Research Associate

Data & Digital
Energy, environment and sustainability
Identities & Inequalities
International development
Not just energy futures
Science, technology and innovation
Technology and material culture
Work & Economy

Dr Janet E. Perkins

Research Fellow (NIHR RIGHT4)

Global health policy
Health & Well-being
International development
Science, technology and innovation
South Asian studies

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Tara Pollak

PhD Student

Ayaz Qureshi

Senior Lecturer

Culture
Global health policy
Health & Well-being
Identities & Inequalities
International development
Migration and experiences of displacement
Public anthropology
Religion and public action
South Asian studies

Nabanita Samanta

PhD Student

Energy, environment and sustainability
Governance & Democracy
Methods
Not just energy futures
South Asian studies

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Dr Lotte Segal

Senior Lecturer; SPS Co-Director of Research

Children, families and relationships
Culture
Health inequalities, disability and older people
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Mental health and wellbeing
Middle East Research Group
Migration and experiences of displacement

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Professor Jeevan R. Sharma

Chair of South Asia and International Development

Childhood & Youth
Gender Politics Research Group
Global health policy
International development
Migration and experiences of displacement
Politics and political violence
Public anthropology
South Asian studies
Work & Economy

Jonathan Spencer

Emeritus Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society

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Alice Street

Professor of Anthropology and Health

Energy, environment and sustainability
Global health policy
Health & Well-being
Health inequalities, disability and older people
Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
Science, technology and innovation
Social studies of biology and medicine
Studies of the life sciences

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Nathaniel Sydenham

PhD Candidate

Cultural Heritage
Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
Identities & Inequalities
Nationalism and political action
Race and decolonial thought
Technology and material culture

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Robyn Thomas

PhD Student

Culture
Health & Well-being
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Mental health and wellbeing
Public anthropology
Social studies of biology and medicine

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Dr Marlee Tichenor

Chancellor's Fellow

Data & Digital
Global health policy
Health & Well-being
International development
International Development Cluster
Race and decolonial thought
Science, knowledge and policy
Social studies of biology and medicine
Studies of information and communication technology

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Stephanie Shakay Tierney

PhD Candidate

Cultural Heritage
Identities & Inequalities
Kinship, bodies and relatedness

Dimitri Tsintjilonis

Dimitri Tsintjilonis

Honorary Lecturer

Miranda Tuckett

Dr Miranda Tuckett

Teaching Fellow

Health & Well-being
Health inequalities, disability and older people
Intimacy
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Methods
Public anthropology
Science, knowledge and policy

Zafar Ullah

PhD Candidate

Governance & Democracy
Identities & Inequalities
Intimacy
Methods
Politics and political violence
Public anthropology
South Asian studies

Dr Yaojing Wāng

PhD

Data & Digital
Mental health and wellbeing
Science, technology and innovation
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Work & Economy

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Kath Weston

Honorary Professorial Fellow

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Dr Joel White

Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow

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Wren Wilson

PhD Student

Health & Well-being
Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
Kinship, bodies and relatedness
Methods
Social studies of biology and medicine

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Marie-Louise Wohrle

PhD Student

Energy, environment and sustainability
Health & Well-being
Science, knowledge and policy
Social studies of biology and medicine

Jingxuan Xu

PhD

Social studies of biology and medicine

Dr Grace H. Zhou

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Cultural Heritage
Energy, environment and sustainability
Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
Identities & Inequalities
International development
International Development Cluster
Middle East Research Group
Work & Economy