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Staff members

Name	School	Areas of expertise
Professor Ipek Demir, CERS Director	School of Sociology and Social Policy	diaspora, migration, transnationalism, ethnic identity, race, nationalism, Global South, indigeneity, politics of knowledge, epistemology
Professor Paul Bagguley	School of Sociology and Social Policy	protest and social movements, racism and ethnicity studies, employment and social theory
Dr Roxana Barbulescu	School of Sociology and Social Policy	migration and citizenship, migrant integration, ethnic and racial minorities, anti-discrimination, European Union studies, human rights in migration studies, mobility and freedom of movement, Roma people and Central and European mobility, investment migration, minority empowerment and community studies
Dr Fozia Bora	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	Intersections between ethnicity/religious affiliation/class/gender
Dr Nick Cartwright	School of Law	critical race theory; inclusive pedagogy; race and identity; critical race pedagogy; critical legal studies; discrimination law; human rights
Dr Alex Chelegeer	School of Sociology and Social Policy	Chinese studies, ethnic minorities in China, the sociology of ethnicity, nationalism and national identity, migration, media and cultural studies, postcolonialism
Dr Vien Cheung	School of Design	colour: association, culture, wellbeing, individuality, diversity, internationality
Dr Ines Cordeiro da Silva Dias	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	lusophone studies, transnationalism, black cinema, liberation cinema, marginalised communities
Dr Jonathan Dean	School of Politics and International Studies	left politics, critical theory, gender and race, popular culture
Dr Andrew Delatolla	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	race, racialization, standards of civilisation, global hierarchies
Dr Marketa Dolezalova	Business School	migration, mobility, Roma, ethnicity, citizenship, nationalism, anthropology of the state, care, religion, well-being
Professor Gary Dymski	Business School	race/ethnicity/racism in the US, race/ethnicity and urban development in the UK & race and redlining and discrimination in UK credit markets
Dr Eva Frojmovic	School of Fine Art, History of art and Cultural Studies	antisemitism
Professor Shahla Ghobadi	Business School	activism in relation to ethnicity, business networks in relation to ethnicity
Professor Yasmin Hussain	School of Sociology and Social Policy	ethnicity, racism, gender
Dr Simon Joyce	Business School	work, employment, labour studies, worker organisation, platform economy, gig work, labour history, social theory, Marxism
Dr Shaheen Kattiparambil	School of Sociology and Social Policy	decoloniality, critical Muslim studies, Indian Muslim, Islamism, Islamophobia, Hindutva, fascism
Dr Helen Kim	School of Media and Communication	diaspora, race/ethnicity, urban multiculture, popular culture, ethnography, postcolonial studies
Dr Yoshiharu Kobayashi	School of Politics and International Studies	foreign policy, borders, migration, public opinion, health
Dr Cindy Ma	School of Media and Communication	critical race studies, cultural studies, political discourse, sociotechnical systems, social media, White supremacy
Dr Nasir Mahmood	School of Education	race, religion, ethnicity and gender in the UK’s educational and social contexts
Professor Seán McLoughlin	School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	culture, ethnicity, religion, politics, governance, migration, diaspora, transnationalism, pilgrimage, multiculturalism, Islam, Muslims
Professor Ghazala Mir	School of Medicine	Health and social inequalities in relation to minority ethnic and religious communities, women and people with learning disability. Social inclusion; Public service development; Inclusive global health policy and practice
Dr Hizer Ali Mir	School of Sociology and Social Policy	critical Muslim studies, decolonial, orientalism, racism, Islamic sociology, Alt Right, transgression, religion, secularism
Dr Olive Nabukeera	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	positioning theory, race, ethnicity and language education, Black teacher identity, critical applied linguistics/ TESOL, English for Academic Purposes
Professor Thea Pitman	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	Indigenous studies, Latin America, new media, digital culture
Dr Claudia Radiven	School of Sociology and Social Policy	Islamophobia, decoloniality, critical Muslim studies
Professor Jose Pina Sanchez	School of Law	estimating ethnic disparities in criminal justice settings, developing new causal approaches to estimate the origin of ethnic disparities.
Dr Megan Robertson	School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science (PRHS)	religion, sexuality, race, performance art, cultural production, Africa
Dr Dibyadyuti Roy	School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies People	digital racism; algorithmic bias; race, ethnicity in/and critical cultural studies; media representations of caste; postcolonial masculinities; decolonial pedagogies
Dr Maria Rovisco	School of Sociology and Social Policy	citizenship, arts, cosmopolitanism, performance, social movements, conviviality, migrant arts, asylum, visual culture, globalisation
Professor Anamik Saha	School of Media and Communication	race, media and culture, the politics of diversity, urban multiculture, race and cultural production
Professor S. Sayyid	Sociology and Social Policy	decolonial thought, rhetoric, poststructuralist political theory, critical Muslim studies, Islamophobia studies, comparative historical sociology
Dr Katharina Schmoll	School of Media and Communicaton	citizenship and belonging, critical Muslim studies, Muslims and Islamophobia in Europe, gender, media, Middle East and North Africa
Dr Mustapha Sheikh	School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	inter alia Islamophobia, Muslim consumer behaviour, critical Muslim studies, Orientalism, decoloniality
Dr Jasjit Singh	School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science (PRHS)	religion and race, religion and media, religious transmission, transnational religion, religion in diaspora, religion and representation, religion and racialization
Dr Dhanveer Singh Brar	School of History	race and cultural studies, race and critical theory, Black studies, postcolonial studies
Dr Lone Sorensen	School of Media and Communicaton	communication strategies of populists and rightwing extremists, post-truth and mis/disinformation as it relates to race/ethnicity, conspiracy theory
Dr Li Sun	School of Sociology and Social Policy	rural-urban migration, urbanisation, social protection, informal housing, China
Dr Richard Tavernier	School of Sociology and Social Policy	critical mixed race studies, critical whiteness studies, critical race theory, Black political activism & racial justice, widening participation, decolonising the curriculum, asylum & refugee studies and social welfare
Dr Lisa Thorley	School of Politics and International Studies	decolonial thought, Global South, gender-intersectionality, dual heritage
Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli	School of Sociology and Social Policy	decoloniality as an epistemological frame, decolonisation as an ontological condition
Dr Abel Ugba	School of Sociology and Social Policy	transnational religion, migrant religiosity, media and migration, media and religion
Dr Lorna Waddington	School of History	Holocaust and genocide studies
Professor Aylwyn Walsh	School of Performance and Cultural Industries	protest and social movements, activism, performance, antiracism, co-produced methodologies, racism and ethnicity studies, intersectionality, Global South
Professor Annie (Yingqi) Wei	Business School	diaspora investment in country-of-origin, Returnee Entrepreneurship, the role of returnee in international knowledge transfer