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Sociology
Parent category: Social sciences
Prof Gary Craig
Professor of Community Development and Social Justice, School of Applied Social Sciences
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Home telephone: 44 (0) 1347 848376
Specialist expertise:
- 'Race' and ethnicity
- Community development and empowerment
- Local governance
- Poverty and social exclusion
- Social Policy
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
Dr Julia Downes
Research Associate (Elvet Riverside), School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41480
Specialist expertise:
- all-girl bands
- feminist activism
- riot grrrl
Dr Mathew Guest
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion
Chaplain, Chaplains
Specialist expertise:
- Evangelical Christianity
- Religion among university students
- Sociology of Religion
- Transmission of values in clergy families
Dr Christopher Lawless
Lecturer, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: 0191 334 1506
Specialist expertise:
- Forensic science
- Scientific evidence and law
- Technological risk regulation
Dr Emma Poulton
Lecturer, School of Applied Social Sciences
Specialist expertise:
- contemporary issues
- football-related violence
- sociology of sport
- sport and national identity
- sport and the media
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.