(Hilary Term, 2012)

Ozgur Bal (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Ozgur Bal is a visiting PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, between January-December 2012. She is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at Sociology, METU, Turkey. Her research interests are theories of identity and belonging; studies of ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship; minorities of Turkey; oral history; migration; and sociology of everyday life. During her academic year at Oxford, she will be working on the methodology and analytical chapters of her dissertation which is on “Perception and Experience of Turkish National Identity by Kurd, Arab and Syrian Orthodox People of Southeast Turkey”. Currently, she is undertaking her studies under Professor Anthony Heath’s supervision.

 

Pablo Gracia (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

I'm a PhD candidate in Sociology at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). My main areas of interest include family, social stratification, and social policy. I’m currently visiting the Centre for Time Use Research (University of Oxford), where I’m analyzing time-use data to study the household division of housework and child care. In my doctoral dissertation (supervised by Prof. Gøsta Esping-Andersen and Prof. Jonathan Gershuny) I explore how parenting behaviours and children’s daily lives vary across social strata, gender, and institutional contexts. You can visit my webpage if you want to know more about my academic work:

http://www.upf.edu/dcpis/en/pdi/professorat/pgm.html


(Michaelmas Term, 2011)

  • Cristina Fabi (University of Teramo, Italy)
  • Chunmei Ji (Jiangsu Educational Institute, China)
  • Elyamine Settoul (Sciences-Po Paris, France)
  • Bertrand Venard (Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management, France)

 

 

Cristina Fabi (University of Teramo, Italy)

I am in the II year of a PhD in Social Policies and Local Development at the University of Teramo (Italy). I am here as an Academic Visitor to improve the theoretical and methodological framework of my research project. My doctoral thesis aims to study the role of social media in tourism under economic and sociological perspective. More precisely, its focus is to analyse how tourism industry is changing its on-line presence in relation to the innovation of Web 2.0 and according to the changing of post-modern travellers' behaviour.

 

Chunmei Ji (Jiangsu Educational Institute, China)

I am a director of principles' development and study in Jiangsu Educational Institute (China), and currently I am an academic visitor affiliated with the Department of Sociology, Oxford University. My academic visit is supported by Jiangsu Governmental Scholarship Council until 29 Feb 2012. My research field is in educational sociology and my research interests include China's social mobility and educational stratification. While in the Department of Sociology, my research is supervised by Professor Takehiko Kariya.

 

Elyamine Settoul (Sciences-Po, Paris, France)

My PhD thesis (title:Towards a Sociology of Enrolment among Ethnic Minorities in the French Army) stands at the cross-road of immigration sociology and military sociology. The objective is to understand the motivations and characteristics of the decision making process of French citizens of immigrant origins to enlist into the French Army. I am here to benefit from the wide range of resources dedicated to the study of these issues. Lastly, this stay will also allow me to give value to my PhD thesis and to engage with scholars interested in migration issues (ethnicity, discriminations, Islam). 

 

Bertrand Venard (Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management, France)

Bertrand Venard is Professor at Audencia Nantes School of Management (France) and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University in 2010/2011. His research interests concern deviance, fraud and corruption, especially in emerging countries. During his academic year at Oxford, he will work on two articles concerning "Innovation and Corruption" and "Gender and Corruption". He has been a Visiting Professor at Wharton Business School (Financial Institutions Center), London Business School and the University of Cambridge.

Academic visitors in previous terms