Dr David Skinner

Specialisms: race and racism, the social and political aspects of scientific and technological innovation; the relationship between the natural and social sciences; forensics, databases and surveillance; the changing management of public services

Selected publications: Identity After DNA: Re/creating Categories of Difference and Belonging; Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change (Routledge, 1999)

Dr Liz Bradbury

Specialisms: classical and contemporary social theory, gender studies, psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies

Selected publications: Introductory Sociology; Introducing Social Theory

Dr Shaun Le Boutillier

Specialisms: social theory and the structure versus agency debate, social emergence theory and the relationship between social wholes and individuals; social causation and the philosophy of the social sciences; agency and moral theory; the sociology of work and organisational life

Selected publications: Introducing Social Theory; 'Moral Incontinence and Act Rationalization: A Sociological Contribution to Moral Theory'

Emeritus Professor Bronwen Walter

Specialisms: Irish diaspora studies; Irish migration to Britain

Selected publications: 'Including the Irish: taken-for-granted characters in English films' in Irish Studies Review; 'Irish/Jewish diasporic intersections in the East End of London: paradoxes and shared locations' in La place de l'autre

Dr James Rosbrook-Thompson

Specialisms: race and race-thinking; urban sociology; delinquency and disorder; the sociology of sport; cosmopolitanism and notions of belonging

Dr Anna Markovska

Specialisms: transitional countries; serious crime; corruption; drug abuse

Selected publications: 'Vzaemosvjazok spozhivannya narkotukiv I zlkochunnosti''.('Drugs and crime'), (with Serduk, O. 2008); 'Stilettos and steel toe-caps: legislation of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, and its enforcement in the UK and the Ukraine' in van Duyne, Harvey, et al ed. European Crime-Markets at cross-roads: extended and extending criminal Europe (with Moore, C. 2008)

Dr Samantha Lundrigan

Specialisms: criminological geographic profiling systems; the spatial behaviour of serial rapists; the behavioural consistency of serial offenders

Selected publications: Offender stereotypes, penalty and interpretations of reasonable doubt; Jurors' interpretation of Beyond Reasonable Doubt; Juror attitudes and verdict prediction

Dr Natalie Mann

Specialisms: imprisonment; ageing and crime; child sex offenders

Selected publications: Killing Time: Ageing and the Prison Environment (with Clark, E); 'Ageing Child Sex Offenders in Prison: Denial, Manipulation and Community' in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice; 'Ageing Prisoners' in B. Crewe and J. Bennett, The Prisoner.

Colleen Moore

Specialisms: the treatment of victims in the Criminal Justice System; violence, sexual violence and exploitation; 'justice'; identities and judgement; conflict resolution.

Selected publications: 'Stilettos and steel toe-caps: legislation of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, and its enforcement in the UK and the Ukraine' in van Duyne, Harvey, et al ed. European Crime-Markets at cross-roads: extended and extending criminal Europe (with Markovska, A. 2008)

Bill Tupman

Specialisms: the appropriateness of cross-border responses to organised crime and terrorism; the political economy of terrorism; police use of databases; organised crime and civil society.

Selected publications: 'Keeping Under the Radar: watch out for Smurfs' Journal of Financial Crime (2010); 'Ten Myths about Terrorist Financing' Journal of Money Laundering Control (2009)

Emma Brett

Specialisms: public service; learning and education; equality and cultural diversity; barriers to learning

Selected publications: 'Internationalisation of the Curriculum and Employability' in World Views, UKCOSA, no. 11 2003 (with Freckelton, L., Wisker, G., Wicks, K.); Recognising and Overcoming Dissonance in Postgraduate Student Research in Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 28, no. 1, 2003 (with Wisker, G., Robinson, G., Trafford, V., Creighton, E., Warnes, M).

Julian Constable

Specialisms: learning and teaching in post-compulsory education sector; police training methods