MRG Members

MRG Directors

Dr Lucy Mayblin

Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Department of Sociological Studies

The politics of asylum and borders; postcolonial historical sociology; policy analysis
Decoloniality
Policy making & power

Email: l.mayblin@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6445

Dr Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli

Lecturer in International Relations
Department of Politics and International Relations

International Relations

Email: p.nabuco.martuscelli@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Aneta Piekut

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences
School of Education

Current Teaching: BA Applied Social Sciences

Research interests:

- Migration studies
- Mixed-method research
- Attitudes to migration
- Social cohesion and ethnic diversity

Email: a.piekut@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6288

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Ms Chandima Arambepola

PhD Student
Department of Sociological Studies

PhD title: Navigating migration regimes to receive and provide care: Sri Lankan graduate students in the UK
- Migration regimes
- Transnational care
- Labour migration
- Postcoloniality

Email address: CPArambepola1@sheffield.ac.uk

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Macole Lannaman

Doctoral Researcher
School of Education

Email address: mlannaman1@sheffield.ac.uk

Beth Porter

PhD Student
Department of Sociological Studies

Email address: bporter1@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Sundari Anitha

Chair in Sociological Studies
Department of Sociological Studies

Violence against women & girls at the intersection of gender, race, border & migration
Gender-based violence
Intersection of gender, race & ethnicity in employment relations
Domestic violence

Email address: S.Anitha@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Jo Britton

Senior Lecturer in Applied Sociology
Department of Sociological Studies

Theories of race & racism
Theories of identity
Muslim minorities
Multiculturalism & citizenship
Critical whiteness & ‘mixed race’ studies
Inter-generational relations
Qualitative methods

Email address: n.j.britton@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6431

Dr Yu Chen

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies
School of East Asian Studies

Email address: yu.chen@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Gabriella Cioce

Lecturer in Work & Employment
Management School

Email address: g.cioce@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: 0114 222 3307

Dr Jamie Coates

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies
School of East Asian Studies

Email address: j.coates@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Laura Connelly

Lecturer in Criminology
Department of Sociological Studies

Sex work
Modern slavery & trafficking
Scholar-activism & social justice
Migration
Alternatives to/the abolition of the police
Feminist methodologies, including participatory research

Email address: l.connelly@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: 0114 222 6412

SJ Cooper-Knock

Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Department of Sociological Studies

Everyday policing and punishment
Being and belonging in the city
The politics of crisis
Concepts of urban justice

Email address: S.J.Cooper-Knock@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6798

Dr Jonathan Collinson

Lecturer in Law
School of Law

Law

Email address: j.collinson@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Catherine Craven

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Sociological Studies

Diaspora politics
Transnational political mobilisation and social movements
Migration governance
Global Politics
International Political Sociology
Global History
Connected Sociologies

Email address: c.r.craven@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Tom Goodfellow

Professor of Urban Studies and International Development
School of Geography and Planning

Urban development and politics in the global South.

Email address: t.goodfellow@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6913

Dr Daniel Hammett

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography and Planning

Daniel's research addresses concerns within political and development geography, primarily in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

Email address: D.Hammett@91ֱ��.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 7956

Dr Tim Herrick

Senior University Teacher
School of Education

Email address: t.herrick@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8109

Professor Majella Kilkey

Professor of Social Policy
Department of Sociological Studies

Transnational families
Transnational political economy of care
Migration and transformations

Email address: M.Kilkey@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6459

Dr Hannah Lewis

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Sociological Studies

Migration policies
‘Race’ & multicultural strategies
Immigration; community
Family
Transnational relationships
Work & leisure among migrants
Forced labour

Email address: h.j.lewis@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Sabine Little

Director of Education
School of Education

Email address: s.little@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 8089

Dr Rebecca Murray

Lecturer in Sociological Studies
Department of Sociological Studies

Migration

Email address: r.e.murray@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6443

Dr Lois Orton

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Sociological Studies

Inequalities in health
Roma health

Email address: l.orton@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Owen Parker

Senior Lecturer in European Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations

Email address: o.parker@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 1695

Lucy Potter

PhD Student
Department of Sociological Studies

Email address: Lpotter2@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Sammia Poveda

Lecturer in International Development
School of Geography and Planning

Sammia's research explores the interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions.

Email address: s.c.poveda@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 7944

Professor Ryan Powell

Professor of Urban Studies
School of Geography and Planning

Urban marginality, urban governance, housing and labour market inequalities, group stigmatisation, Gypsy-Travellers and Roma, sociology of Norbert Elias

Email address: r.s.powell@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6182

Dr Carmen Ramos Villar

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
School of Languages and Cultures

Email address: c.ramosvillar@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 0547

Professor Clare Rishbeth

Professor of Inclusive Landscapes
School of Architecture and Landscape

Email address: c.rishbeth@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 0606

Professor Sarah Salway

Professor of Public Health
Department of Sociological Studies

- Social and political determinants of health
- Racial health and wellbeing inequalities in the UK
- Gender and reproductive health in South Asia
- Participatory and anti-racist research methodologies