Our people
Our team includes researchers from a variety of universities and other institutions. All are based at the University of Manchester unless stated otherwise.
For general enquiries, please email code@manchester.ac.uk.
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Directors
Bridget Byrne - Professor of Sociology and Director of CoDE, University of Manchester
Creative and cultural industries, class, citizenship, gender, nation.
Dharmi Kapadia - Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and Co-Director of CoDE, University of Manchester
Mental illness, mental health services, stigma, older people.
CoDE members
Claire Alexander - Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
Decolonising the curriculum, youth/gangs, migration/diaspora, south Asians/Muslims in Britain.
Roaa Ali - Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Manchester
Race and creative industries, diversity and CCIs, arts service organisations and minoritised communities, Arab American Theatre
Laia Bécares - Professor, Kings College London
Discrimination, health, lifecourse, mental health.
Barbora Černušáková - Hallsworth Fellow 'Predatory debt and disciplining of racialised labour'
Race and class, racial capitalism, post-socialism, labour and technology
Nigel de Noronha - Research Associate, EVENSinAction, University of Manchester
Housing, race, migration, quantitative methods.
Nissa Finney - Professor of Human Geography, University of St Andrews
Sadia Habib - Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester
Remi Joseph-Salisbury - Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester
Education, policing, mixed-race, anti-racism.
Vittal Katikireddi - Professor of Public Health & Health Inequalities, University of Glasgow
Public health, Social epidemiology, Health inequalities, Natural experiment methods.
Manuela Latchoumaya - Research Associate, University of Manchester
Racisms and forms of anti-racism and resistance, diasporic identities, whiteness.
Nasar Meer - Professor in Social and Political Sciences (Sociology), University of Glasgow
Racialisation, Islamophobia, Cities, Public Policy, Migration, Race Equality in Scotland, Local and National Citizenship.
Siobhan O'Neill - Lecturer in Sociology
Education, policing, 'race' and racism, Critical Race Theory (CRT)’, resistance & anti-racism
Kerry Pimblott - Lecturer in International History
Urban history, labor and working-class history, theology and religious history, and African diaspora studies.
Eithne Quinn - Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Manchester
Anamik Saha - Professor of Race and Media, University of Leeds
Creative and cultural industries, media representation, cultural production.
Natalie Shlomo - Professor of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Statistician, survey statistics and methodology.
Amit Singh - Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 'Race, class and mobility: learning to labour in London, Morecambe and Manchester', University of Manchester
Race and class inequalities, habitus, conviviality, sports, pubs, education and culture.
Brett St Louis - Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Race and ethnicity, post-race, racism, social justice, anti-racism.
Meghan Tinsley - Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
Nationalism, postcolonial theory, collective memory, cultural production.
Patrick Williams - Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Gary Younge - Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
Social movements (especially the civil rights movement), immigration, identity and politics.
Professional support staff
Hazel Burke (hazel.burke@manchester.ac.uk) - Communications Officer, University of Manchester
- Rob Berkeley - Managing Editor at BLKOUTUK
- Magda Borkowska - Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex
- Seán Carey - Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester
- Joya Chatterji - Professor of South Asian History, University of Cambridge
- Ken Clark, Deputy Agent, North West Agency, Bank of England
- Dawn Edge - Professor of Mental Health and Inclusivity, University of Manchester
- Peter Gries - Lee Kai Hung Chair and Director of the Manchester China Institute, and Professor of Chinese Politics
- Bethan Harries - Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
- Scarlet Harris - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sociology, University of Manchester
- Jenny Hewitt - Postdoctoral Research, Queen Mary University
- Shirin Hirsch - Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Marcus Hunter - Professor in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ajmal Hussain - Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
- Patsy Irizar - Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University
- Omar Khan - Director, TASO
- Shamus Khan - Chair and Professor of Sociology, Columbia University (USA)
- Sundeep Lidher - Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800), King's College London
- Angelo Moretti - Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
- Nico Ochmann - Lecturer in Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Latoya Reisner - Research Associate, University of Manchester
- Kamila Rymajdo - Research Associate, University of Manchester
- Alina Rzepnikowska-Phillips - Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
- Andrew Smith - Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow
- John Solomos - Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
- Gilane Tawadros - Chief Executive, The Design and Artists Copyright Society
- Harry Taylor - Research Fellow, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
- Satnam Virdee - Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow
- Pete Wade - Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
- Derron Wallace - Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, Brandeis University (USA)
A full list of our current and past PhD students and their thesis titles
- Anna Pearce - Researching the relationship between the asylum support system and grey economies
- Michaela Kyclova - Family Complexity and Children's Outcomes in the UK: A Longitudinal Approach
- Elisabeth Badenhoop - Transformation from "Immigrants" to "Citizens" - A Comparison of Citizenship Admission Processes in Britain and Germany Today
- Frensis Bras - An Agent-Based Model approach to understanding changes in ethnic relations: applications to neighbourhood ethnic composition and health
- Patrick English - The Dynamics of Descriptive Representation and Public Opinion – The Missing Determinant of Opportunity for Immigrant Communities in the United Kingdom
- Paul Goldie - The Irish Catholic question in Scotland
- Eleanor Hill - It's not what you know, it's who you know: What are the implications of social networks in UK politics for electoral choice?
- Sylwia Jurkowska - UK Poles and interethnic relationships: attitudes and experiences
- Anouk Kootstra - Conditions of solidarity: how perceived deservingness of welfare support is affected by economic austerity and social diversity
- Minna Liinpaa - Nationalism, devolution and ethnic identity in Scotland
- Maureen McBride - Towards a better Understanding of Sectarianism in Scotland: a case study of football supporters and the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act (2012)
- Mengxi Pang - Investigating identity formation of mixed-race children in Scotland