Head of programme
Associate Professor Marcelle Dawson
Social movements and popular protest; alternative futures; decolonial studies; social identities
Academic staff
Dr Simon Barber
Kaiāwhina
Indigenous theory; Marxism; critical theory; settler colonial studies; postcolonial theory; social theory
Associate Professor Melanie Beres
Sexual consent; sexuality; sexual violence; qualitative research methods
Dr Peyton Bond
Gendered labour; post-work imaginaries; alternative justice futures
Professor Chris Brickell
Sexuality, gay history; queer studies; masculinities
Professor Hugh Campbell
Rural sociology; agriculture; food; neoliberalism; governance
Associate Professor Marcelle Dawson
International exchange advisor
Social movements and popular protest; alternative futures; decolonial studies; social identities
Professor Anita Gibbs
Chair – Postgraduate Committee
FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder); adoption and fostering; disability; social work research
Dr Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour
Sex work governance; race, gender and class in media representations of crime; the intersections of crime, addiction and mental health
Associate Professor Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott
Family demography; sociology of health; quantitative research methods
Dr Tui Rakuita
Pacific Students’ Liaison Officer
Critical and social theory; political philosophy; Pacific epistemology; sociology of development and underdevelopment
Dr Natalie Smith
Disability Information and Support Liaison Officer
Pacific Students’ Liaison Officer
Student transitions into university; visual sociology
Associate Professor Rebecca Stringer
The social construction of victimhood; feminist theory and politics; Nietzsche – life and works
Dr Neil Vallelly
Critical and social theory, political sociology, and border and migration studies, with a specific focus on neoliberalism
Dr John Wei
Queer studies; migration and mobilities; social class and social change; media, film and communication; China, Asian and Sinophone studies; transnational and intersectional methods
Administrative staff
- Luke Biggs Administrator
- Alison Tait Administrator
PhD students
- Faiqa Ahmad
- Sonja Bohn
- Charlotte Bruce Kells
- Suddhabrata Deb Roy
- Kirsten Gibson
- Sandhiya Gounder
- Aaron Hu
- Joshua James
- Cassandra Joseph
- Georgia Knowles
- Supriya Koipurathu Rajappan
- Sean Lennon
- Priyam Maharaj
- Regina Maniam
- Bell Murphy
- Adriu Naduva
- Angella Ndaka
- Nishanthi Perera
- Avelina Rokoduru
- Tahere Siisiialafia
- Erin Silver
- Charlotte von Waldenfels
Masters' students
- Sophie Dix
- Jordan Dougherty
- Kelly Turketo
Alumni
A list of our graduates with links to their masters' and doctoral theses