Department of Sociology

Members of the Department engaged in political sociology:

• Prof Geoff Evans: electoral behaviour
• Prof Anthony Heath FBA, Director of the Centre for Research on Electoral and Social Trends: nationalism and identity
• Prof Leigh Payne: transitional justice
• Dr Michael Biggs: collective proTest and social movements
• Dr Gabriella Elgenius: identity and nationality
• Dr Stephen Fisher: electoral behaviour
• Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta: extra-legal political groups
• Dr Maria Sobolewska: Electoral behaviour, political attitudes and values, racial, ethnic and religious cleavages

Research students: [listing not yet complete]

• Christina Fuhr, 'Jewish Identity Creation in Contemporary Britain'
• Samina Luthfa, 'Confronting the Juggernaut of Extraction: Local, National, and Transnational Mobilization against the Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh'

Current research projects:

• Comparative study of electoral systems
• EMBES
• Identities and social action: are traditional identities in decline?
• British identity
• Politics and society in contemporary India: change and diversity
• Hunger Strikes by suffragettes and Irish Republicans 1909-1923
• To what extent does the notion of homeland matter for diaspora communities in Britain?