Our people
Our team includes talented researchers, support staff and affiliated experts from across a variety of institutions.
Find out more about them below:
Academic staff
- Claire Alexander - Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of CoDE
- Roaa Ali - Research Associate
- Neema Begum - Research Associate
- Bridget Byrne - Professor in Sociology and Director of CoDE
- Karis Campion - Research Associate
- Ken Clark - Senior Lecturer in Economics
- Nissa Finney - Reader in Human Geography
- Dharmi Kapadia - Lecturer in Sociology
- James Nazroo - Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of CoDE
- Simon Peters - Lecturer in Econometrics
- James Rhodes - Lecturer in Sociology
- William Shankley - Research Associate
- Maria Sobolewska - Lecturer in Politics
Professional support staff
- Philippa Walker - CMIST Institute Manager and CoDE Project Manager
CoDE affiliated members
- Stephen Ashe - Research Associate
- Laia Bécares - Lecturer in Social Statistics
- Mark Brown - Senior Lecturer
- Gemma Catney - Lecturer
- Stephen Drinkwater - Senior Lecturer
- Rob Ford - Professor in Politics
- Silvia Galandini - Programme Researcher
- Lindsey Garratt - Research Associate
- Suzanne Hall - Assistant Professor
- Tina Hannemann - Research Associate
- Bethan Harries - Hallsworth Research Fellow
- Anthony Heath - Professor of Sociology
- Shirin Hirsch - Affiliate Researcher
- Stephen Jivraj - Lecturer
- James Laurence - Research Associate
- Laurence Lessard-Phillips - Research Fellow
- Yaojun Li - Professor of Sociology
- Kitty Lymperopoulou- Research Associate
- Rebecca McKee - Researcher
- Gareth Mulvey - Fellow in Social Sciences
- Gwilym Price - Professor (Urban Studies)
- Alina Rzepnikowska-Phillip - Research Associate
- Ludi Simpson - Professor of Population Studies
- Andrew Smith - Reader in Sociology
- Ingrid Storm - Birmingham Fellow
- Satnam Virdee - Professor of Sociology
- Stephanie Wallace - Research Associate
PhD students
A full list of our current and past PhD students and their thesis titles
- Elisabeth Badenhoop - Transformation from "Immigrants" to "Citizens" - A Comparison of Citizenship Admission Processes in Britain and Germany Today
- Magda Borkowska - Drivers of ethnic minorities' political participation: the group consciousness approach re-examined
- Frensis Bras - An Agent-Based Model approach to understanding changes in ethnic relations: applications to neighbourhood ethnic composition and health
- Ms Karis Campion - The Making of Mixed Ethnicities, 1945-2011
- 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
- Alina Rzepnikowska-Phillip - Convivial cultures in multicultural societies: narratives of Polish migrants in Britain and Spain
- William Shankley - Changing geographies of ethnic diversity in Britain