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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
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Martyna Napierska

PhD Student

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
  • Race and decolonial thought
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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
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Larissa Nenning

PhD student, Social Policy

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Destiny Noble

PhD Student in Social Policy

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Criminal justice
  • Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
  • Health & Well-being
  • Intimacy
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Paul Norris

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

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Professor Jenny Ozga

Honorary Professorial Fellow

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Dr Helen Packwood

Lecturer in Social Research Methods

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Migration and experiences of displacement
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Richard Parry

Honorary Fellow

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Lindsay Paterson

Professor Emeritus of Education Policy

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Dr Kaveri Qureshi

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Rob Ralston

Lecturer in Public Policy

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Global health policy
  • Governance & Democracy
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Dr Philip Rathgeb

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

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Alex Robertson

Honorary Fellow

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Laurence Rowley-Abel

Research Fellow

  • Health & Well-being
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
  • Methods
  • Race and decolonial thought
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Dr Carin Runciman

Senior Lecturer

  • Elections, public opinion and parties
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
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Viona Sari

PhD student, Global Health Policy

  • Global health policy
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Professor Emeritus Adrian Sinfield

Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and University Fellow

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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
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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
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Daryl Tayar

Daryl Tayar

PhD Student

  • UK and Comparative Politics
  • Cities
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Governance & Democracy
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Amrit Virk

Lecturer in Health Policy

  • Data & Digital
  • Global health policy
  • Health & Well-being
  • Methods
  • Science, technology and innovation
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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
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Sabastine Wakdok

PhD student, Global Health Policy

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Professor Emeritus Fran Wasoff

Emeritus Professor of Family Policies

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Jay Wiggan

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

  • UK and Comparative Politics
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Welfare, policy and Covid-19
  • Work & Economy
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Charlotte Zealley

PhD student, Social Policy

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Governance of welfare states
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Work & Economy