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.

Directors

Bridget Byrne - Professor of Sociology and Director of CoDE, University of Manchester
Creative and cultural industries, class, citizenship, gender, nation.


Claire Alexander - Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of CoDE, University of Manchester
Decolonising the curriculum, youth/gangs, migration/diaspora, south Asians/Muslims in Britain.


James Nazroo - Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of CoDE
Health, mental health, life course, racism.


Academic and research staff 

Laia Bécares - Professor, Kings College London
Discrimination, health, lifecourse, mental health.


Barbora Cernusakova - Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Racialisation of labour, indebtedness, workers' digital rights and the rule of law.


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


Tim Head - Research Associate, Policing the crisis


Remi Joseph-Salisbury - Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester
Education, policing, mixed-race, anti-racism.


Dharmi Kapadia - Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
Mental illness, mental health services, stigma, older people.


Vittal Katikireddi - Professor of Public Health & Health Inequalities, University of Glasgow
Public health, Social epidemiology, Health inequalities, Natural experiment methods.


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.


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.


Meghan Tinsley - Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester 
Nationalism, postcolonial theory, collective memory, cultural production.


Lisa White - Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University
Policing the crisis


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.


Jingwen Zhang - Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
Ageing, inequalities in health and care, gender, and life course with a focus on quantitative methods.


Professional support staff 

Hazel Burke (hazel.burke@manchester.ac.uk) - Impact Officer, University of Manchester