Inequality, diversity and social justice
Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya BA (Oxon) PhD (London)
Specialisms: Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism, sexuality, globalisation and global culture, war on terror.
g.s.bhattacharyya@aston.ac.uk
Dr Chris Bolsmann BA, MA (Pretoria, South Africa), PhD (Warwick)
Specialisms: Sociology of Sport (particularly within the Southern African context), Social History and sport, and comparative analysis of sports mega-events.
c.h.bolsmann@aston.ac.uk
Dr Steve Garner BA (Warwick). MA (Warwick) PhD (Paris)
Specialisms: Racism; Ideas of ‘race’; the intersections between racialised, gendered and classed identities; Whiteness; Immigration; Irish Studies; Caribbean Studies.
s.j.garner@aston.ac.uk
Sociology of Health and Illness (particularly women's reproductive health), Domestic Violence, Feminist theory, Sociology of Sleep.
p.k.lowe@aston.ac.uk
Public discourse
Dr Sarah Amsler PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Specialisms: Sociology and Politics of Culture, Critical Theory and Social Change, Education and Social Justice, Sociology of Knowledge and Science, Post-Soviet (Central Asian) Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogies.
s.s.amsler@aston.ac.uk
Dr Reiner Grundmann Dipl.Soz. (Berlin), PhD (EUI)
Specialisms: Social and Political Theory; Risk and Environment; Science and Society; Knowledge Society.
r.grundmann@aston.ac.uk
Henry Miller MSc Econ (LSE), PCEA Ac Dip Ed (London)
Specialisms: Comparative and ethnographic analysis of education, particularly culture, management and professionalisation of higher education in the UK, Australia and Canada.
h.d.miller@aston.ac.uk
Public policy and governance
Dr Crispian Fuller BA (Hons) (London); MSC (Econ) (London); PhD (Cardiff)
Specialisms: sociospatial political economy of governance, neoliberalism, urban regeneration and economic development.
fullerc1@aston.ac.uk
Specialisms: Local governance and public service delivery networks, public private partnerships, public values, policy on ageing, French local government.
k.west@aston.ac.uk