Social Sciences
To contact any of the Social Sciences experts please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / press.office@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Dr Anthony Amatrudo |
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| Job title | Programme Leader for Criminology |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Criminal Justice system, theories about crime and criminalisation, race and crime, punishment and sentencing of prisoners, crime and politics, group v personal guilt/responsibility for criminal activity |
| Name | Paul Alan Armstrong |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Organisation Studies |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Sociology of work, organisation studies, organisational behaviour, organisation theory, equality, organisational development, professional learning and reflective practice, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, pedagogical epistemologies |
| Name | Chris Ashford |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer in Law |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Law and sexuality, public sex, male for male (gay) sex work (prostitution), HIV and the criminal law, legal education/training sexuality & the law/sex & the law, human rights, pedagogy, politics, social justice campaigns, sex `rights¿ activism |
| Name | Dr Nicola Ballantyne |
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| Job title | Senior lecturer |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Domestic violence, National Probation Service, pedagogical research in higher education, student retention of this on policy and practices |
| Name | Seema Bhate |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Consumer behaviour, cognitive style, style/involvement model, consumer behaviour analysis, advertising, gambling behaviour |
| Name | Dr Felicity Breet |
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| Job title | Head of Culture Department |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | International student learning, cultural awareness |
| Name | Dr Paul Davis |
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| Job title | Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport & Exercise |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Philosophical and sociological questions around gender in sport, counter-cultural football fan group; the Ladies of Besiktas, philosophy of mind, with the hope of their application to sport, research ethics, and the role of the aesthetic in sport |
| Name | Dr Catherine Donovan |
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| Job title | Reader in Sociology |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Lesbian and gay parenting and families, reproductive technologies (from a social perspective), domestic violence in heterosexual and same sex relationships |
| Name | Kate Duffy |
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| Job title | Advanced Practitioner |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Initial Teacher Training in Post Compulsory Education and Training Sector, professional development of teachers, enquiry based learning, philosophical enquiry within FE/HE, critical thinking, moral education and character development in HE/FE, social science methods of research, policy and reality of practice within education, management in post compulsory education, practice of mentoring and coaching within education |
| Name | Angelique Du Toit |
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| Job title | Lead Academic in Coaching |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | The philosophy and practice of coaching, sensemaking and coaching, postmodernism and critical theory as applied to coaching, storytelling and coaching, coaching and society, coaching and the release of potential, especially among senior female managers, social constructionism and coaching |
| Name | Ian Ground |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Team Leader North East Centre for Lifelong Learning |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, philosophy of the mind, lifelong learning |
| Name | Dr Lynne Hall |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | User Experience: design, development and evaluation of innovative interactive technology, knowledge transfer, research and development collaborations with industry and community / public sector |
| Name | Teresa Leopold |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Social identity, events and festivals, event experience, migration, social constructivism, community empowerment, disaster recovery, dark and heritage tourism, pedagogic development of an event and tourism curricula, destination management, community empowerment, event and the social sciences, political economy of tourist migration |
| Name | Dr Stephen Macdonald |
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| Job title | Programme Leader Health & Social Care |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Dyslexia, sociological (social model) approach to dyslexia |
| Name | Angela Smith |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Language and Culture |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Kate Adie Collection, confrontation and argument in unscripted TV, masculinity in politics |
| Name | Peter Smith |
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| Job title | Professor |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Computing, equality and diversity |
| Name | Amanda West |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Sociology of sport |
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