Staff
Staff & Researchers (Sociology & Communications)
Prof Clare Williams (Professor of Medical Sociology, Deputy Director CBAS)
Medical sociology; sociology of bioethics; innovative reproductive / medical technologies; gender.
Prof Steven Wainwright (Professor of Sociology, Director of CBAS)
Medical sociology; science and technology studies; history and philosophy of social science; sociology of the arts; ethnographic and biographical research.
Prof Ian Robinson (Emeritus Professor of Sociology)
Sociology of health and illness, particularly social and cultural of chronic illness; sociology of new medical technologies; ethical issues in social and medical research; health policy.
Dr Peter Wilkin (Reader)
Issues in World Systems analysis; political economy: communication; furniture and health; pornography and the internet, security / development; Tory or Conservative anarchism and political satire.
Dr Lesley Henderson (Senior Lecturer)
Sociology of the mass media; public issues and media representations, particularly concerning science, medicine and health; television fiction; media audiences; public engagement.
Dr Jason Hughes (Senior Lecturer)
Sociology of emotions, the body and health; risk and leisure commodities (particularly tobacco); addiction; sociological theory and organisational sociology, emotional labour and aesthetic labour; new managerial discourses; history of sociology.
Dr John Roberts (Senior Lecturer)
New media technologies; public sphere in historical and contemporary settings; different forms of free speech in the global world; history of social theory, particularly Marxism and critical realism; complexity; changing nature of the welfare state; affectual labour, changing work and management practices.
Dr Sanjay Sharma (Senior Lecturer)
Critical multiculturalism and technologies of race; new media; subjectivity and alterity; radical pedagogy.
Prof Clive Seale (Professor of Sociology)
Sociology of health and illness; communication in health care; health and mass media; end-of-life care.
Dr Simon Weaver (Lecturer)
Representations of disability & ‘deformity’ in media; rhetoric in discourses of health; sociology of race, ethnicity & racism.
Dr Sharon Lockyer (Lecturer)
Sociology of mediated culture; critical comedy studies; media controversies; gender, class and disability.
Staff & Researchers (elsewhere at Brunel)
Prof Julie Barnett (Professor, Healthcare Research)
Risk perception, risk communication; expert models of the public/users; incorporating public/user perspectives in the development of policy, practice and technology; social influence and behaviour change.
Dr Gareth Dale (Senior Lecturer, Politics & History)
History of social science, particularly Karl Polanyi; political economy of climate change; international political economy; international migration.
Dr Wendy Martin (Lecturer, Sociology of Ageing)
Sociology of Health and Illness, particularly ageing, the body and emotions; cultural gerontology.
Prof Ruth Simpson (Professor of Management)
Sociology of gender, Sociology of work; gender and organizations; management education; gender and emotions; gender and identity in organizations.
Dr Amir Takian (Lecturer, Health Policy)
Health policy; public policy and modern health systems, especially adoption of information and communication technology; qualitative research.
Dr Emma Wainwright (Lecturer, Social Geography & Social Policy)
Social cultural and historical geography; gender; body work, embodiment, care, emotional labour, training for work.
Visiting Professors & Fellows
Professor Alex Broom (Sociology, Brisbane, Australia)
Sociology of health; cancer, masculinities; traditional and complementary medicine, particularly in Australia, India and Brazil.
Dr Alison Harvey (Visiting Research Fellow)
Sociologies of science and health (particularly genomics); regulation of animal experimentation; Foucault.
Professor Ilana Lowy (History of Medicine, Paris, France)
History of medicine; science and technology studies, particularly of cancer, tropical diseases and genetics.
Professor Alan Petersen (Sociology, Melbourne, Australia)
Sociology of health; science and technology studies; the body; bioethics; media representations.
Professor Catherine Waldby (Sociology, Sydney, Australia)
Science and technology studies; the body; bioethics; feminist theory; new reproductive technologies; global biopolitics.
Dr Claire Donovan (Reader, Sociology of Policy, Health & Science)
Assessing the impact of publicly funded research; research evaluation and research policy; bibliometric analysis; evaluating public services; evaluation and metrics as technologies of governance; technocracy and democracy; social and political aspects of ‘positivism’ and post-positivism; history of social science.
