Reserch at Department of Sociology

Our research covers key social phenomena such as inequality, social justice, stratification, social order, structure, power, culture, identity, subjectivity, emotion, interaction, sustainability, addressing questions of ontology and epistemology.

We cover a wide range of sociologies, including:

• Work, organisation, health, education, welfare, ageing, migration, social movements, environment, food, waste, housing and urban settings, the state, law, networks, social psychology, class, gender, ethnicity, racism, violence, theory, elites, trust, intimacy;
• With connections to social policy, computational social science as well as historical, economic and political sociology.

Research is undertaken as part of one of the research groups at the Department or in the form of research projects.