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Social sciences
Prof Sarah Banks
Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41497
Fellow , Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 41497
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- Community and youth work: Community development work; community engagement/participation/empowerment
- Professional ethics, particularly in social work, youth work and community work.
Prof Douglas James Davies
Professor, Department of Theology and Religion
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Home telephone: +44 (0) 191 3757697
Specialist expertise:
- Death ritual and belief
Prof John Dumbrell
Professor of Government, School of Government and International Affairs
Mobile telephone: 07749839592
Home telephone: +4401913344712
Specialist expertise:
- American Politics
- Anglo-American relations
Dr Anna Leone
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41140
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for Roman Cultural Studies
Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Specialist expertise:
- Rome, Roman Italy, North Africa and the Near East. Late Antique, Byzantine, Early Islamic North Africa
Dr Mark McCormack
Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences, School of Applied Social Sciences
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- Bisexuality
- Gender and education
- Homophobia
- LGBT issues
- Masculinities
Professor Maggie O'Neill
Professor of Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences
Principal, Ustinov College
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- Migration, Forced Migration including asylum,refugees,undocumented migrants, unaccompanied young people, destitution and social justice. Prostitution, the commercial sex industry and sex work. Participatory action research and arts based methodologies.
Prof David S. Wall
Professor of Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46840
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46840
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Home telephone: +44 (0)1904 656716
Specialist expertise:
- Crime and Technology
Dr Nicole Westmarland
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46833
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 46833
Mobile telephone: 07932 604722
Specialist expertise:
- Violence against women, in particular rape, domestic violence, prostitution.