International Women's Day is one opportunity to make our great women researchers and female support staff more visible. The School's women researchers and professional staff engage in excellent research and provide outstanding research support. To make YOU more visible, this space is dedicated YOUR latest research and achievements.
Tanya Argounova-Low (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
ArgounovaβLow, T. (2021). Heterotopia of the road: driving and drifting in Siberia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13423
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Lynn Bennie (Reader in Politics)
Latest Publication:
Bennie, L., Mitchell, J., & Johns, R. (2021). Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges. Party Politics, 27(6), 1184-1197. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820939799
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Maggie Bolton (Lecturer in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
Bolton, M. (2020). We Need to Talk ΊΪΑΟΝψ the Dog! Explorations of Human–Canine Relations and Community Hybridity in Bolivia. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 25(1), 28-47.
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Christina Bosbach (PhD Candidate in Anthropology)
PhD Topic:
On dis/connection: Islandness during the pandemic
(Supervisors: Jo Vergunst, Tanya Argounova-Low)
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Sarah Burton (Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Burton, S. (2021). Solidarity, now! Care, Collegiality, and Comprehending the Power Relations of" Academic Kindness" in the Neoliberal Academy. Performance Paradigm, 16, 20-39.
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Alison Brown (Professor in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
Brown, A. (2021) Editorial. Museum Worlds, 10, vii-ix.
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Wei See Chan (PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations)
PhD Topic:
Environmental decision-making and ecological modernization in Malaysia
(Supervisors: David Toke, Lynn Bennie)
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Leann Lindsay Cooper (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
Veganism in state institutions
(Supervisors: Andrew McKinnon, Rhoda Wilkie)
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Alice Cusan (PhD Candidate in Anthropology)
PhD Topic:
Ethnographic research focusing on how Italian museums curate human remains, while investigating the concepts of authenticity, modification, death, and violence
(Supervisors: Alison Brown, Arnar Arnason, Rebecca Crozier)
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Natasha Danilova (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Dolan, E., & Danilova, N. (2022). “To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in) visible through feminist “her-story” theater. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2022.2097936
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Rebecca Ebenezer-Abiola (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
Land, Identity and Climate change: Understanding the peacebuilding efforts to address complex farmerβherder conflict in Nigeria.
(Supervisors: Gearoid Millar, Manu Lekunze)
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Bareeha Seyda Fatima (PhD Candidate in Politics in International Relations
PhD Topic:
Aesthetic Battlefields: Mapping the inter-linkages between the Military, Media, Art & Culture in Pakistan’s Experience of the Global War on Terror (2001-2018)
(Supervisors: Natasha Danilova, Joanne McEvoy)
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Luisa Gandolfo (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Gandolfo, L. (2023) A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918), Sociology Lens, https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12407
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Duygu Hardman (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
Media Tourism and the National Trust for Scotland: Towards a model for sustainable tourism development
(Supervisors: Claire Wallace, Xiaoqing Chen, Michael Terwey)
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Sarah Hiepler (PhD Candidate in Anthropology)
PhD Topic:
How is death exhibited in museums in the UK
(Supervisors: Arnar Arnason, Jen Walklate, Rebecca Crozier)
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Katherine Hoomlong (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
Humanitarian Assistance and its implications on women’s agency: A study of the Northeast of Nigeria
(Supervisors: John Nagle, Andrew McKinnon, Bernie Hayes)
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Isabella Kasselstrand (Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Kasselstrand, I. (2022). Secularization or Alternative Faith? Trends and Conceptions of Spirituality in Northern Europe. Journal of Religion in Europe, 15(1-4), 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10049
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Chengen Li (PhD Candidate in Anthropology)
PhD Topic:
Aesthetic education of Art Museums in Guangdong, China
(Supervisors: Jennifer Walklate, Michael Beaney)
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Janice Longhurst (Support Staff)
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Karen Lumsden (Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Lumsden, K. (2023). Reflexivity and Feminism in Social Research: Its Legacy and its Current Role in the Context of Fast Academia and the Managerial University. In Nyhagen, L. & Cooke, J. (ed.) Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Routledge.
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Sam May (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
May, S. (2023). Muslim charity in the United Kingdom: Between counter-terror and social integration. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481221148.
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Joanne McEvoy (Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication: McEvoy, J., & Todd, J. (2023). Obstacles to Constitutional Participation: Lessons from Diverse Voices in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
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Kirsty Delisle Milton (PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations)
PhD Topic:
How is the SDG on gender equality translated into public policy? A comparative study of the implementation in the UK and Sweden
(Supervisor: Lynn Bennie)
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Maren Mitchell (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
How does the impact of economic transitions affect social cohesion, stability and political preferences? A case-study of Aberdeen and the sociological impact of the declining oil industry
(Supervisor: John Bone)
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Susan Mitchell (Support Staff)
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Judith Sijstermans (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Sijstermans, J. (2021). The Vlaams Belang: A mass party of the 21st century. Politics and Governance, 9(4), 275-285. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i4.4554
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Rachel Smith (Lecturer in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
Weisman, K., Legare, C. H., Smith, R. E., Dzokoto, V. A., Aulino, F., Ng, E., ... & Luhrmann, T. M. (2021). Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(10), 1358-1368. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01184-8
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Digdem Soyaltin-Colella (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Soyaltin-Collela, D., & Demiryol, T. (2022). Unusual middle power activism and regime survival: Turkey’s drone warfare and its regime-boosting effects. Third World Quarterly, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2158080
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Moon Moon Sultana (PhD Candidate in Sociology)
PhD Topic:
Is Digitalization Augmenting Empowerment for Bangladeshi Women? Perspectives from the Female Bloggers and Vloggers’ Experiences
(Supervisors: Claire Wallace, John Bone)
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Ezel Tabur (Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Tabur, C. E. (2021). The External Dimension of EU Migration and Refugee Policies: Gender-Specific Challenges. In SüleymanoΔlu-Kürüm, R., Cin, F. M. (eds.) Feminist Framing of Europeanisation: Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU, 251-269.
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Kathrin Thomas (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Thomas, K., & Kasselstrand, I. (2022). A long way to liberalization, or is it? Public perceptions of women empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa. Frontiers in Political Science, 115. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.984310
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Pamela Thomson (Support Staff)
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Marta Trzebiatowska (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Trzebiatowska, M. (2021). Presuming religious congruence? The nonreligious and Catholicism in Poland. Social Compass, 68(4), 653-670. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768621994746
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Ritu Vij (Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Vij, R. (2021). The global subject of precarity. In Vij, R., Kazi, T., & Wynne-Hughes, E. (eds.). Precarity and international relations. Palgrave Macmillan. 63-92.
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Nancy Wachowich (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
Wachowich, N. (2020). With or without the camera running: the work of Inuit filmβmaking. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26(1), 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13181
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Jen Walklate (Lecturer in Anthropology)
Latest Publication:
Walklate, J. A. (2022). Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248446
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Claire Wallace (Professor in Sociology)
Philip, L. J., Maclaren, A. S., Wallace, C., & Adamczyk, K. (2023). Participation and Civic Engagement in Scotland: The Importance of Contributions from Older Adults. In Institutions and Organizations as Learning Environments for Participation and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, Obstacles (pp. 255-276). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17949-5_12
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Rhoda Wilkie (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)
Latest Publication:
Wilkie, R. M., Moore, L. J., & Molloy, C. (2019). How prevalent are invertebrates in human-animal scholarship? Scoping study of Anthrozoös and Society & Animals. society & animals, 27(7), 656-677. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-00001902
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Ilia Xypolia (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations)
Latest Publication:
Xypolia, I. (2022). Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. In Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy (pp. 47-106). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99815-8_4
*List in alphabetical order
** List of PhD Candidates not exclusive.