Academic Staff

Faculty | Research Fellows

Faculty

Dr Michael Biggs, University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College
Interests: Collective Protest, Social Movements
Phone: 01865 286174
Email: michael.biggs@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Tak Wing Chan, Head of Department, University Lecturer in Sociology, Director of ONSIR, Fellow of New College
Interests: Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Life Course
Phone: 01865 286176
Email: tw.chan@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Nan Dirk de Graaf, Professor of Sociology, Official Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Sociology of Religion, Social Inequality, Pro-Social Behaviour, Political Sociology, Criminology
Phone: 01865 286177
Email: nan.degraaf@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Prof John Ermisch, FBA, Professor of Family Demography.
Interests: Family Sociology 
Phone: 01865 281740 (Dept Reception)
Email: john.ermisch@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Geoffrey Evans, Professor of the Sociology of Politics, Official Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Electoral behaviour
Phone: 01865 278613
Email: geoffrey.evans@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Fisher, University Lecturer in Political Sociology, Fellow of Trinity College
Interests: Electoral behaviour
Phone: 01865 286173
Email: stephen.fisher@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Diego Gambetta, FBA, Professor of Sociology, Official Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Signalling, Trust and Mimicry, Violent Extremists
Phone: 01865 278536
Email: diego.gambetta@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Prof Jonathan Gershuny, FBA, Professor of Sociology, Director of CTUR, Fellow of St Hugh's College
Interests: Economic Sociology, Time Use, Household and Labour Participation
Phone: 01865 286175
Email: jonathan.gershuny@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Heather Hamill, Taught Course Director, University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College
Interests: Signalling, Delinquency and Deviance, Organised Crime Groups
Phone: 01865 286184
Email: heather.hamill@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology, Director of OIA
Interests: Global Ageing, Globalisation, Asia
Phone: 01865 612802
Email: sarah.harper@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Anthony Heath, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Class and Educational Opportunity, Social mobility, Nationalism and Identity
Phone: 01865 286172
Email: anthony.heath@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Takehiko Kariya, University Lecturer in the Sociology of Japanese Society, Fellow of St Antony's College
Interests: Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, School-to-work Transition, Educational and Social Policies, and Social Changes in Postwar Japan
Phone: 01865 281921
Email: takehiko.kariya@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Mr Colin Mills, Reader in Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Social inequality, Social Measurement, Social Mobility
Phone: 01865 286182
Email: colin.mills@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Christiaan Monden, University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Family Sociology, Health and Well-Being
Phone:
01865 278573
Email:
christiaan.monden@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Murphy, University Lecturer in the Sociology of China, Fellow of St Antony's College
Interests: Human Development, Migration, Land Conflict, Cultural Production
Phone: 01865 432032
Email: rachel.murphy@sant.ox.ac.uk

Prof Leigh Payne, University Lecturer in the Sociology of Latin America, Fellow of St Antony's College
Interests: Latin American Studies, Transitional Justice
Phone: 01865 274443
Email: leigh.payne@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas, James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems, Co-Director of CABDyN Complexity Centre, Fellow of Green Templeton College
Interests: Complex Networks, Modelling of Collective Behaviour and Innovation
Phone: 01865 288502
Email: felix.reed-tsochas@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Prof Tom Snijders, Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences, Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Social Network Analysis, Multilevel Analysis, Mathematical Sociology
Phone: 01865 278599
Email: tom.snijders@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Dr Oriel Sullivan, Reader in Sociology, Deputy Director of CTUR, Fellow of St Hugh's College
Interests: Time Use, Gender Practices in Household, Cultural consumption
Phone: 01865 271980
Email: oriel.sullivan@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Federico Varese, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Criminology, Director of ExLegi
Interests: Organized Crime, Applying Social Network Analysis to the Study of Criminal Groups, Migration and Mafias
Phone: 01865 281150
Email: federico.varese@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

 

Research Fellows

Dr Isabella Aboderin, Senior Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Ageing, Life-Course, Sub-Saharan Africa
Phone: 01865 612817
Email: isabella.aboderin@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Emanuela Bianchera, Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Ageing and Gender, Cultural Comparisons
Phone: 01865 612800 (OIA reception)
Email: emanuela.bianchera@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Paolo Campana, Research Fellow, ExLegi
Interests: Extra-Legal Governance and Crime, Terrorism, Public Opinion, News Media, Quantitative Methods
Phone: 01865 286171
Email: paolo.campana@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Prof Bleddyn Davies, Professorial Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Community Care, Care Management, Financing Community Care, Long-term Care
Phone: 01865 612812
Email: bleddyn.davies@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Dr Neli Demireva, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuffield College
Interests: Political Sociology
Phone: 01865 286177
Email: neli.demireva@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Kimberly Fisher, Research Fellow, CTUR
Interests: Time Use
Email: kimberly.fisher@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Kate Hamblin, James Martin Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Ageing
Phone: 01865 612811
Email: kate.hamblin@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Career Development Fellow in the Sociology of Japanese Society, St Antony's College
Interests: Sociology of the Family, Human Mate Selection, Contemporary Japanese Society, Reproductive choices, Never Married Mothers, Social Norms
Phone: 01865 284510
Email: ekaterina.hertog@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Mr Jaco Hoffman, James Martin Senior Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Intergenerational Issues in Africa
Phone: 01865 212815
Email: jacobus.hoffman@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Mr Kenneth Howse, James Martin Senior Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Social Policy, Generational Fairness in Pension Reform
Phone: 01865 212809
Email: kenneth.howse@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Man Yee Kan, Research Councils UK Academic Fellow and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, CTUR, Fellow of St Hugh's College
Interests: Gender Inequality, Interactions Between Household and Labour Market
Phone: 01865 281338
Email: man-yee.kan@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Phillip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Anthropological Demography, Population Ageing
Phone: 01865 612814
Email: philip.kreager@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Dr George Leeson, Senior Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Socio-Demographic Aspects of Ageing Populations, Migration and Migrants, Health and Social Eldercare Migrant Workers, Older People and Homelessness
Phone: 01865 612808
Email: george.leeson@sociology.ox.ac.uk

 

Dr Türkay Salim Nefes, Research Fellow, St Antony's College
Interests:  Political sociology, Conspiracy theories, Anti-Semitism, Durkheimian sociology, Turkish society/sociology/politics
Phone: 01865 281740 (Dept Reception)
Email:
turkay.nefes@sant.ox.ac.uk

Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta, Research Fellow
Interests: Extra-legal Political Groups and Organized Crime
Phone: 01865 274459
Email: valeria.pizzini-gambetta@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Maria Porter, James Martin Research Fellow, OIA
Interests: Development, Population and Household Economics, Ageing
Phone: -
Email: maria.porter@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Dr Wojtek Przepiorka, John Fell Fund Research Fellow in Experimental Social Science, Fellow of Nuffield College
Interests: Evolution of Social Cooperation, Behavioural Game Theory, Experimental Methods
Phone: 01865 278656
Email: wojtek.przepiorka@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Almudena Sevilla Sanz, Research Fellow, CTUR
Interests: Household and Population Economics
Phone: 01865 286178
Email: almudena.sevilla@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Dr Daniel Stegmueller, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College
Interests:
Phone: 
Email: daniel.stegmueller@sociology.ox.ac.uk