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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 Lesley Procter

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

PhD students

Masters' students

  • Sophie Dix
  • Jordan Dougherty
  • Kelly Turketo

Alumni

A list of our graduates with links to their masters' and doctoral theses

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