Doctoral Supervisors

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Name/Profile	General Research Interests
Mette Berg	Diasporas and migrant transnationalism Urban diversity Generations and migration Social memory Cuba London Spain Ethnographic Methods
Julia Brannen	Paid work and family life Motherhood and fatherhood Intergenerational relations Children and young people in families Family food practices Methodology including research design, mixed methods, comparative research and biographical- narrative approaches Country knowledge: Scandinavia, Southern and Eastern Europe, China
Claire Cameron	Education of looked after children and young people Early childhood care and education Children's workforce Children in care Social pedagogy Foster care Residential care Qualitative methods Comparative studies
Charlotte Faircloth	Parenting culture Motherhood and fatherhood Gender, intimacy and equality Infant feeding (Assisted) Reproduction Intergenerational relationships Adult-child relationships Cross-cultural comparative work, especially Scandinavia and France Qualitative methods
Michela Franceschelli	Transitions to adulthood Social class Families and intergenerational transmission Young adulthood Migration and identity
David Frost	Intimacies and relationships Stigma, stress and health Minority stress and marginalisation Same sex relationships Social psychological research Narrative methods
Humera Iqbal	Migration and Identity Urban Diversity Space and well being Mental health in young people Children and young people Minority groups and belonging Parenting and ethnicity Psychosocial studies Qualitative and Mixed Methods (including Arts & film based methods)
Abigail Knight	Qualitative methods with children Young people and their families Childhood sociology Disabled children Looked after children Children's out-of-school lives Home and local belonging Using oral history and other archival sources
Agnieszka Kubal	Socio-legal approaches to migration and refugee issues Legality, legal consciousness, legal pluralism Migrants and refugees' everyday experiences of the law Human rights and access to justice Ethnography of the legal process, Qualitative methods Specific area studies interest: Eastern Europe and Russia
Margaret O'Brien	Fathers, work and family life Maternity, paternity and parental leave policies Gender equality policies Father involvement with children Children's spaces in cities Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Rebecca O'Connell	Food practices of children, young people and families Home Mothering Families and poverty Paid-work and family life Childminding Ethnographic, qualitative, mixed- and multi- methods approaches
Charlie Owen	Early years childcare Gender in childcare Looked after children Private fostering Mixed race issues and secondary analysis of official statistics
Ann Phoenix	Childhood Transnational families Language brokers Serial migrants Mixed parentage Parenting and families Consumption Identities and subjectivities Narrative Gender Masculinities Racialization Intersectionalities Psychosocial studies Home Environmental practices Country knowledge: Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Katie Quy	Parenting and families Child behaviour and development, in particular: Emotional well-being Coping and resilience Oppositional behaviour
Katherine Twamley	Love and intimacy Gender Motherhood and fatherhood Relationships and personal life Masculinities and femininities Feminism and feminist practice India and the Indian diaspora Family policy
Jenny Woodman	Health and social care services for children and families Child and family policy Primary health care services Administrative health and social care data for research Qualitative methods