The Department of Sociology & Criminology, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork is recognised internationally for the excellence of its research which has been independently evaluated through two university wide reviews which ranked the Department in the equivalent top 10-15% in Europe. The Dept. has specialist teaching and research strengths in a number of areas.
Staff in the Department have a wide range of research interests (please see 鈥楥urrent Staff and their Research Interests鈥� for specific information on staff interests). Approximately, staff research interests cluster into these groups:
Crime and Criminal Justice, Criminology, Deviance and Violence
Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change
Gender, Sexuality and Identity, Feminism
Health/Medical Sociology and Technology
Human Rights, Borders and Migration
Sociological Theory and Methods, Historical Sociology
Current staff and their research interests
Outlined below is a list of our current staff and their main areas of research interest. More detailed information on each staff member can be found here:
Dr Myles Balfe: Medical Sociology and Sociology of Technology.
Dr Tom Boland: Sociology of Unemployment and Welfare, Governmentality, Critique, Literature and Culture.
Dr Susannah Chapman: Environmental Anthropology, Legal Anthropology, Critical Plant Studies, Feminist Science and Technology Studies
Dr James Cuffe: Technology, Criminology and Anthropology.
Dr Mastoureh Fathi: Sociology of Migration, Intersectionality, Belonging and Placemaking
Professor Kieran Keohane: Sociological Theory, Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, Forensic Sociology.
Dr Gema Kloppe-Santamar铆a: Violence, Gender, Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Culture, Religion and Politics of Secularism
Dr Orla Lynch: Terrorism and Political Violence, Trauma and Victimology
Dr Julius-Cezar Macari (MacQuarie): Migration and Labour related dynamics, Nightwork & Nighttime economy, Decent work agenda, Engaged Anthropology, Multi-modal & Nocturnal Ethnography
Dr Ger Mullally: Sociology of Community, Sustainability and the Environment.
Dr Theresa O鈥橩eefe: Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, Family, Feminism.
Professor Maggie O鈥橬eill: Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, Sociological Methods, Sociological Theory, Cultural Criminology, Gender and Crime, Forced Migration and Creative and Arts-Based Methods
Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo: Sociology, Anthropology, Politics and Law
Dr Tracey Skillington: Sociology of Human Rights, Law and Social Justice, Sociology of Climate Change.
Dr Kevin Sweeney: Corporate Crime, Terrorism, Cybercrime and Policing.
Dr Katharina Swirak: Criminology, Youth Justice/Sociology of Young People, Sociological Perspectives on Social Policy.
Emeritus Professor Arpad Szakolczai: Sociological Theory, Anthropology, Historical Sociology.
Dr James Windle: Criminology, Organized Crime, Gangs, Illicit Drugs Markets, Drug Policy.
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