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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Saqif Mustafa
PhD student & global health consultant
- Global health policy
Martyna Napierska
PhD Student
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
Professor Ingela Naumann
Honorary Professorial Fellow
- Children and families
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Governance of welfare states
- Religion and social movements
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy
Larissa Nenning
PhD student, Social Policy
Destiny Noble
PhD Student in Social Policy
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Criminal justice
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Intimacy
Paul Norris
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
Professor Jenny Ozga
Honorary Professorial Fellow
Dr Helen Packwood
Lecturer in Social Research Methods
- Childhood & Youth
- Children, families and relationships
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
Richard Parry
Honorary Fellow
Lindsay Paterson
Professor Emeritus of Education Policy
Dr Kaveri Qureshi
Senior Lecturer
Dr Rob Ralston
Lecturer in Public Policy
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
Dr Philip Rathgeb
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
Alex Robertson
Honorary Fellow
Laurence Rowley-Abel
Research Fellow
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Methods
- Race and decolonial thought
Dr Carin Runciman
Senior Lecturer
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
Viona Sari
PhD student, Global Health Policy
- Global health policy
Professor Emeritus Adrian Sinfield
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and University Fellow
Dr Valeria Skafida
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Data & Digital
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
Dr Laura Sochas
Chancellor's Fellow and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
- Children and families
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Methods
- Work & Economy
Daryl Tayar
PhD Student
- UK and Comparative Politics
- Cities
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Governance & Democracy
Amrit Virk
Lecturer in Health Policy
- Data & Digital
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Methods
- Science, technology and innovation
Ms Miriam Vishniac
PhD student, Social Policy
- Criminal justice
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Mental health and wellbeing
Sabastine Wakdok
PhD student, Global Health Policy
Professor Emeritus Fran Wasoff
Emeritus Professor of Family Policies
Jay Wiggan
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
- UK and Comparative Politics
- Governance of welfare states
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy
Charlotte Zealley
PhD student, Social Policy
- Childhood & Youth
- Governance of welfare states
- Identities & Inequalities
- Work & Economy