Head of programme
Associate Professor Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott
Family demography; sociology of health; quantitative research methods
Academic staff
Dr Simon Barber
Kaiāwhina
Indigenous theory; Marxism; critical theory; settler colonial studies; postcolonial theory; social theory
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
Professor Marcelle Dawson
International Exchange Adviser
Social movements and popular protest; alternative futures; decolonial studies; social identities
Professor Anita Gibbs
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 Jazz Robson
Policy, sociological and legal research relating to children’s participation rights, childhood and youth studies, and youth justice
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
Chair – Postgraduate Committee
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
PhD students
- Sonja Bohn
- Charlotte Bruce Kells
- Georgia Knowles
- Sean Lennon
- Bell Murphy
- Paula Herrera Barrientos
- Tahere Siisiialafia
- Erin Silver
- Charlotte von Waldenfels
- Maryam Tarighat Bin
Masters' students
- Nieve Collin
- Will Biss
- Beth Foster
- Akari Yagishita
Alumni
A list of our graduates with links to their masters' and doctoral theses