PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

Archard, David Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Contemporary political philosophy

Legal philosophy

Applied ethics - especially in the areas of children and the family; sexual morality

Ashwin, Paul Educational Research

I am interested in recieving PhD proposals in most areas related to students' and academics' experiences of higher education. The research of my current and past doctoral students includes work on:

• Academics' conceptions of creativity in teaching and learning in higher education;
• The relations between art and design tutors' conceptions of their professional practice and their teaching practice;
• Threshold concepts in prosthetics and orthotics;
• Students' and tutors' experiences of learning support in higher education;
• Student identities in higher education;
• The research student experience in higher education;
• How academics experience the relations between their academic work and parenting
• Chinese students' experiences of UK higher education
• The student experience of postgraduate marketing education
• The assessment of competence
• Students' experiences of time in on-line learning environments

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Ashworth, Jenn English and Creative Writing

Fiction - the novel / short story collections. I am particularly interested in projects that engage with a 'sense of place' (including the no-place of cyberspace), first person fiction and the instability / unreliability this mode of story-telling engenders, that cross over with memoir and autobiographical writing, or use epistolary forms. LDS fiction, fiction and religion.

Aston, Elaine Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Elaine supervises PhD programmes of research in the field of feminism, theatre, theoryand performance; contemporary theatre & performance

Austen-Baker, Richard Law

Law of contracts; contract theory, especially relational contract theory; history of contracts; outsourcing/insourcing contracts; framework (umbrella) contracts.

Baker, Brian English and Creative Writing

20th century American literature

Science fiction, particularly post-World War 2

Masculinities in fiction and film

The city in fiction and film, especially London fictions

Popular and genre fiction

Baker, Charlotte European Languages and Cultures

I welcome doctoral proposals which engage with aspects of the following : Twentieth century French literature; Francophone African fictional writing; postcolonial theory; the body and identity; representations of marginalised and stigmatised groups in Africa; representations of disability, madness and monstrosity. Proposals may take a comparative or interdisciplinary approach, or may focus on the literature of particular countries.

I am currently co-supervising a PhD thesis 'Contemporary Congolese Literature as Witness' with Professor Tim Matthews (University College London).

Baker, Paul Linguistics and English Language

PhD Students

I will be on sabbatical from August 2012-August 2013 and will not be able to take any new students until I return.

Most of my PhD students are involved in corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, language and identities or a combination of these. My current PhD students are working on the following topics:

• the construction of gender identity in Iranian bloggers
• a corpus study examining how The Guardian reports on the topic of journalism.
• a corpus-based comparison of two academic books about Wahhabi Islam, focussing on the use of collocation to create ideology
• a corpus study examining construction of in and out groups in American newspapers.

Recent PhDs I supervised to completion:

• a corpus-based examination of the concept of political correctness in British broadsheet newspapers
• the language of marriage rituals in Botswana
• combining corpus approaches and CDA to examine discourses of terrorism in the British and Chinese popular press
• combining corpus approaches and CDA to examine discourses of homophobia in a right-wing political organisation
• a corpus study to compare lexical bundle use of Chinese learners of English with native speakers of English
• a corpus study of keywords to examine gender identity in British and Malaysian children's writing

Barber, Sarah History

Dr Barber is keen to hear from students interested inworking on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• The British Isles, especially England and Ireland, in the seventeenth century.
• Seventeenth-Century English Radicalism and Republicanism.
• Ethnic Minorities in Early-Modern Europe.
• The Caribbean in the seventeenth Century.

Barbera, Frederic European Languages and Cultures

20th-Century Catalan and Spanish Narrative

Cultural Identity

European Comparative Literature

Cultures in Contact

Barton, David Linguistics and English Language

Language Online. Local literacies; Vernacular literacies; Ethnographic studies of literacy practices in communities, workplaces, educational settings and online; The textually mediated social world; Adult literacy education; The language practices of Web2 sites such as Flickr.

Bartram, Graham European Languages and Cultures

The modern (1918-present) German and Austrian novel and theories of the novel

Society and culture of the Weimar Republic

European modernism and the avant-garde

German theories of modernity and modernism; Frankfurt school; WalterBenjamin

Bennett, Bruce Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I am interested in working with students in any area of cinema, film studies, screen studies or visual culture, but have particular interests in:

• Hollywood cinema
• British cinema
• Transnational cinema
• Early cinema
• Film, politics and class
• Visual culture and climate change

Beresford, Sarah Law

Sarah Beresford would be happy to receive applications from potential doctoral students in the areas of Law, Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion.

Bishop, Patrick Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Political Theory; Enlightenment Thought; Democracy; Public Administration;E democracy; Engaged Government

Black, Brian Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

• Dialogue and debate in Indian philosophy
• Encounters between Hinduism and Buddhism
• Indian Ethics
• Application of traditional ideas to modern contexts: multiculturalism, social justice, secularism
• Yoga and meditation in contemporary Asia
• Gender and South Asian religions
• Religion and Narrative in South Asia
• Asian religions and environmental issues

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Boyko, Christopher Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I am interested in proposals from potential doctoral students in the broad areas of urban public space (e.g., the process of creating public spaces, the uses of public spaces), sustainable urban environments and urban design and behaviour.

Boynton, Neil Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:

• Art and Health
• Composition
• Video, fine art and experimental
• Landscape and Environment
• Music and sound design for contemporary theatre
• Creative practice and technology

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Bradley, Arthur English and Creative Writing

I would be very happy to receive proposals from potential doctoral students with an interest in any of my areas of research specialism: contemporary literature (especially the relationship between literature, politics and terrorism); critical and cultural theory (especially the work of Derrida) and continental philosophy (especially in the areas of politics, technology and the religious).

Braun, Rebecca European Languages and Cultures

I welcome proposals in all areas of 20th and 21st century German literature and culture, and am also interested in supervising comparative projects that deal with issues of authorship and celebrity, the relationship between the media and the culture industry, and questions surrounding the transmission and reception of culture in the contemporary world.

Broadhurst, Karen Applied Social Science

PhD completions

Kellie Thompson: Child Protection (The development of integrated services to safeguard children and support families, ESRC CASE studentship) graduated 2009

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

Peter Denenberg (with Sociology): Child-centred study of foster care

Joy Spiliopoulos (with Educational Research) : Migrant identities

Marjorie Hearton: Adoption (Adoption panels and decision making)

Paula Doherty: Child Protection (Defining significant harm in safeguarding work: analysing decision-making in borderline Cases, ESRC CASE studentship).

Emily Yeend (with Statistics, ESRC sponsored student)

Brendan Gray: Fabricated and induced illness in children - exploring the possibilities for prevention

I welcome applications from PhD students in the field of child welfare (see research interests above).

Brunfaut, Tineke Linguistics and English Language

I am especially interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of language testing (in particular, for academic purposes), and reading and listening research (in particular, reading/listening in a foreign language and academic reading/listening).

I am currently supervising PhD students working on the following themes:

• Quantitative modelling of difficulty in reading test items
• Exploring anchor-based methods for judgementally estimating item difficulty in English for academic purposes reading test items
• Investigating the construct of Language in Use tasks
• Investigating the characteristics of language test specifications and item writer guidelines, and their effect on item development
• Teacher-prepared coursework assessments and curriculum reform
• Washback of the Exit-Level Examination Reform for Foreign Languages in Austria

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Bryan, Ian Law

Dr Bryan would be happy to supervise doctoral students in most areas within the broad field of Criminal Justice Studies (including Criminal Law and the Laws of Evidence). Prospective research students should go to: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/law/prospective/postgrad/admissions.htm

Büscher, Monika Sociology

• mobilities research
• creative practice
• ethnomethodological and ethnographic studies
• innovation and socio-technical change
• ubiquitous computing
• computer supported collaborative work
• digital economy

Bushell, Sally English and Creative Writing

I am interested in receiving proposals from doctoral students in two main areas. My recent research has been concerned with place, space and poetry/ poetics - largely, but not exclusively, in relation to Romantic literature and the Lakes, so I would welcome studies in this area. I am also very interested in the study of textual process and the draft materials which precede the published work. I would therefore welcome projects on textual criticism, genetic criticism and the study of manuscripts for nineteenth or twentieth century literature where relevant. I have a secondary interest in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. More traditionally I am able to supervise projects on Romantic writers, particularly Wordsworth.

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Butler, Mark Law

EU Labour Law: Free Movement of Workers, Discrimination law, the rights of employees to participate in management decisions, Health and Safety, family-friendly rights, and social policy.

UK Employment Law: any aspect of UK employment law will be considered on the strength of the application.

Bygate, Martin Linguistics and English Language

At doctoral level I welcome applications to research oral second language pedagogy, oral second language development, and the relationship between the deployment of tasks and language use and development within language pedagogy.

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Camino, Mercedes History

Memory Studies, Film Studies, Early Modern Exploration,Colonialism, History of Cartography, Contemporary Cultural Studies.

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Carruthers, Jo English and Creative Writing

I am keen to supervise in the area of the Bible and literature, Englishness, and religion and literature. I have supervised PhDs on 'Byron's Religious Influences' and 'Herbert's Distant God'.

Caspersen, Nina Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Nina is particularly interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas: Elite behaviour in ethnic conflicts; conflict dynamics; democratisation and conflict; unrecognised/ de facto states; ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus.

Current PhD supervision:

Emma Plant: "Nationalism after War: The Bosnian Experience" (funded by the Carnegie Trust)

Evan Wilson: "Peace organisations and their effect on terrorism"

Mona Abdel Rahman: "Public Support for Islamic Terrorism: A Case Study of Egypt"

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Chatterjee, Bela Bonita Law

Dr Chatterjee welcome expressions of interest from potential doctoral students in the following areas:

Socio-Legal studies, in particular:

Gender, Sexuality and Law

Film/Media and the Law

Clark, Sam Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Moral philosophy, especially value theory, human nature, human flourishing, the self.

Political philosophy, especially anarchism, socialism, utopianism.

History of moral and political thought, especially Hobbes, Hume, Godwin, Mill, Kropotkin.

Autobiography.

Cochrane, Feargal Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Feargal would particularly welcome applications for PhD research linked to his areas of research specialisation. These include any of the following areas:

-The impact of Diaspora communities on emerging peace processes -including specific case studies of Diaspora populations as agents of peace/violence in the 21st Century.

- The connections between migration and security across a range of conceptual and empirical contexts.

-The impact of globalisation and digital technology on cultural, economic and political practices surrounding migration, security and belonging.

-The political conflict/peace process in Northern Ireland especially in the context of political devolutiuon since 1998.

Cooper, Rachel Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

• Design
• Design Management
• Design Policy
• Urban Sustainability
• Design and Wellbeing
• Design and Health
• Design Against Crime
• Socially Responsible Design
• Design & Manufacture

Cooper, Rachel Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Philosophy of science and medicine.

Especially philosophy of psychiatry; the nature of disease; metaphysics and epistemology of medicine; classification in science.

Crawshaw, Robert European Languages and Cultures

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas

Intercultural Narratives: literature, writing, history, identity, migration and social change

for additional information on my research profile, please refer to the following Research Projects and Centres with which I am directly involved - currently or in the recent past: as initiator, director and/or member of the research team.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/

http://www.transculturalwriting.com/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/pic/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/index.htm

Cruickshank, Leon Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

• Open Innovation and Mass Creativity
• User Centred and User-Led Design
• Interactive TV
• Technology and Society
• Design Methodology
• Design Theory and Philosophy

Cuban, Sondra Educational Research

Adult literacy, new literacies, ICT, education and basic skills, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies.

Culpeper, Jonathan Linguistics and English Language

• Pragmatics (particularly involving sociopragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, corpus-based pragmatics)
• History of English (specifically Early Modern English) (particularly involving historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, historical corpus linguistics)
• Stylistics (particularly involving the stylistics of drama, corpus stylistics)

Dant, Tim Sociology

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in all aspects of the sociology of material life but in particular: material interaction, material civilization, consumption, everyday technology andembodied practices with objects including cars and bicycles. I also have a continuing interest in critical social theory and modern French social theory including the work of Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard and Pierre Bourdieu. More recently I have been researching the theme of the morality of ordinary life in relation to television and the broadcast media. I would welcome applications from potential doctoral students in all of these areas.

Davies, Gerry Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Gerry currently supervises three practice based PhD students specialising in drawing: Sarah Casey developing a practice based methodology integrating procedures from medicine and conservation sciences into a drawing practice investigating notions of delicacy and preservation. Neil Hodgson using drawing to document and transcribe improvised and ad-hoc structures (sheds, lock-ups, pigeon coops) found in marginal environments at, or beyond, the 'pale' of cities. Osman Ahmed who, using drawing, interviews and fieldwork, seeks to catalogue and communicate experiences of fear, flight and displacement among Iraqi Kurds. These research students, along with others in the faculty and beyond, form the basis of a research group, provisionally titled Drawing's Mobility. All are working at drawing's cutting edge asking questions of 'where can drawing go?' and, to quote Sarah Casey, 'what can drawing do?'

PhD enquires and proposal are welcome, particularly those on drawing and the environment, socially engaged practice, notebook practices and drawing applied in interdisciplinary environments.

Dawson, Andrew Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I'm open to supervising research students in the following areas: Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion, New Religions, and Contemporary Christianity (especially radical and Pentecostal/Charismatic forms).

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Devereaux, Emile Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Digital Media -- Cultures, Histories and Theories, Art and Social Change, Site-specific and Performance Art Practices

Dillon, Michael Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century; Foucault, Politics, Security and War; International Political Theory, The intersection of the political and the religious in modern politics; Political Theology; The Political Theory of Continental Philosophy.

Elliott, Kamilla English and Creative Writing

late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century literature and culture, especially interdisciplinary projects involving verbal and visual representations

literature and film; adaptations and adaptation theory

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Evans, Martyn Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I welcome the opportunity to discuss and develop potential doctoral proposals that explore the strategic role of design. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Design; design-led futures; design management; design strategy; design thinking; product design and development; product visioning; creative design practice; brand strategy and design; new product development; design and innovation; scenario planning in design; trend forecasting; and practice-based design research.

Current Doctoral Supervision:

• Acklin, Claudia - Design management absorption processes of SMEs with little or no prior design experience
• Chou, Ivy - How Packaging Design Effects Brand Equity
• Chudasri, Disaya - Opportunities for Design to Contribute to the Handicraft Industry: A Case Study in Upper Northern Thailand
• Gancho, Sara - The Role of the Designer as a Custodian of Brands within the Social Media Space
• Gumas, Hazal - Sustainable Design for Grassroots Production in Eastern Turkey through the Revival of Traditional Handicrafts
• Hernandez, Gabriel - Design-based Learning: Improving education through design
• Jung, Jeyon - Investigation into the Identity of Design through Defining the Disciplinary Core Properties of Design
• Lee, Hyun Joo - Designing Creative Activities within Culture-led Regeneration Strategies
• Lee, Yoon Joon - An Investigation into Design-Driven Approaches within Fast Moving Consumer Goods Brand Development
• Pau, Agnes - Packaging Design, Online Retailing, Sustainable Design
• Seo Young Kim - Local Museum's Strategic Design Management to Create Synergy for City Brand
• Shin, Ji Young - A Study of the Influencing Factors of Team Creativity on New Product Development

Completed Doctoral Supervision:

• Choi, Youngok (2009) A Comparative Study of National DesignPolicy in the UK and South Korea

Farish, Helen English and Creative Writing

Dr Farish would particularly welcome proposals on:

• Poetry and gender
• Poetry and autobiography
• Twentieth century American poetry

Fiddler, Allyson European Languages and Cultures

Contemporary German Cultural and Literary Studies, including film studies, single-author/playwright/film-maker studies, women's studies, and especially interested in Austrian Studies

Fijalkowski, Agata Law

I am interested in research proposals from students writing dissertations or theses under the following headings:

Comparative criminal justice

Legal transition

Post-totalitarian law

Terrorism

Findlay, Alison English and Creative Writing

Alison would welcome proposals from potential doctoral students wishing to work on any aspect ofRenaissance drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth century

These could include a wide range of projects, from

(i) single-author studies

e.g. Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Webster, Ford, Brome

(ii) comparativestudies focussing on the work of two or more writers in a genre or topic

(e..g. pastoral drama by Shakespeare, Fletcher and Lady Mary Worth, ideas of the soul in Shakespeare and Donne, domestic tragedy by Heywood, Ford, Midlleton and Elizabeth Cary)

(iii) scholarly editions of plays from the periodby male or female dramatists(with the potential to developa proposal to the Revels Plays)

(iv) aspects of theatre history from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries up to the present

In connection with her co-direction of the Quaker Project, she would also welcome doctoral proposals from those wishing to study aspects of early quaker writing (either scholarly editing or broader discursive analysis, especially with relation to location).

Firth, Georgina Law

Criminal law - particularly feminist perspectives, penology and sexual offences

Immigration law - particularly feminist perspectives, issues relating to childrenand asylum issues

Follis, Luca Applied Social Science

I welcome potential doctoral students in the areas of: legal sociology, transnational crime, human rights, prisons, and capital punishment. My interests are quite broad so it is best just to send me an email or drop by my office.

Fortier, Anne-Marie Sociology

I would be interested in supervising research students within the areas related to my research interests, for example: Multiculturalisms; 'race', racisms; Migration and related aspects, including but not restricted to: migrant/diasporic/transnational lives; migration and national politics (policies, border controls, etc.). Sexuality and migration including but not restricted to: queer migrants and migrations; sexuality and migration (e.g. sexuality and border control); migrant sex workers; intimacy and migration. Citizenship and related including but not restricted to: cultural aspects of citizenship, sexual citizenship, intimate citizenship, citizenship and affect, or transnational citizenship; citizenship training or the like (e.g. citizenship curriculum in England; citizenship classes and ceremonies for immigrants), and so on.

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Fovargue, Sara Law

Health care law and ethics generally. I am particularly interested in clinical research involving human and non-human animals, developing biotechnologies such as xenotransplantation (especially issues of risk and regulation), reproductive technologies, and decision making for the 'vulnerable'

Family law - especially issues around parents, parenthood and reproductive technologies, children and childhood - particularly children and health.

Successful PhD candidates

Suliman M.K. Ibrahim - The Moral and Legal Status of the Human Foetus: A Critical Analysis from an Islamic Perspective (degree awarded 2008)

Haniwarda Yaakob - Individual Reproductive Autonomy in Malaysia: Why Couples Should be Allowed to Use Pre-implantationGenetic Diagnosis to Select the Sex of their Child (degree awarded 2010).

I am currently supervising two PhD candidates; one considering systems theory, and one exploring health care law in Ghana.

Fritz, Catherine Educational Research

• Learning and remembering, especially with respect to the roles of practice and repetition,learning from text, multimedia learningand/or interest and motivation;
• Issues related to effective learning of statistics, maths and/or science;
• Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning, including investigation of biases;
• Memory improvement strategies;
• Remembering names.

Garnett, Mark Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

UK Politics, in the following categories:

Political parties

Political ideology, particularly conservatism

Political culture

Garvey, Brian Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, Ryle, Austin, Dennett

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Gebhardt, Nicholas Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

American popular music

Cultural theory of popular music

Jazz studies

Gere, Charlie Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I am interested in proposals from potential PhD students on the following topics: art and technology; new media art; computer art; digital culture; continental philosophy and technology; the effects of new media

Germond, Basil Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

European Security

Maritime security

Geopolitical discourses

Borders and frontiers

Geyer, Robert Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

He is interested in supervising PhD students in the following broad areas:

- European Union politics and policy

-Social and health policy

-International Political Economy

-Complexity, politics and public policy

-Scandinavian politics and policy

Gillen, Julia Linguistics and English Language

I welcome potential doctoral students studying children's and teenagers' digital literacies; literacies in early childhood; multimodality in various contexts; historical and contemporary studies of communication technologies where language is the particular focus. I am open to a broad range of topics and methodologies.

A recent PhD I have supervised to completion: S-Y Ruby Chen: Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) in Taiwan.

Recent doctoral dissertations I have examined include:

Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, PhD. Lancaster University. The construction of gender and sexuality in Iranian love blogs: a discursive approach to couples' love. 2011

Lynde Tan, PhD. Lancaster University.Adolescent literacies, multimodal textual repertoires, and digital media: exploring sites of digital literacy practices and learning inside and outside school. 2011

Mark Childs, PhD. University of Warwick. Learners' experience of presence in virtual worlds. 2010

Patrick Camilleri, EdD., University of Sheffield. A structurational interpretation of issues underlying the implementation of internet based systems in Malta. 2009

Michael Dunne, EdD., Manchester Metropolitan University. Out-of-classroom visits: Unravelling the experience of a short residential trip of primary school children. 2009

Jing Sheng, PhD., Lancaster University. Chinese migrant children's multiliteracy practices in Britain. 2009

Gilloch, Graeme Sociology

My main areas of research and supervisory interest are:

Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School (especially, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer)

Contemporary social and cultural theory (especially continental theory)

Visual culture (especially film and photography)

Metrropolitan and urban culture and theory

Sociology and literature

Autobiography, biography, history and memory

Holocaust studies

Graebner, Cornelia European Languages and Cultures

• performance poetry
• the relationship between literature, social movements and the public sphere
• comparative literary studies
• contemporary Latin American literature

Proposals may take a comparative approach or may focus on the literature of particular countries.

Greaney, Michael English and Creative Writing

Joseph Conrad

Modern and Contemporary British Fiction

Green, George English and Creative Writing

I am interested in the West and the Western, fantasy and science fiction including the graphic novel, anything Irish, and longer fiction in general.

Gregory, Ian History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Any area associated with Digital Humanities (or Humanities Computing) but in particular the use of GIS in history or another humanities discipline.

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Grover, Chris Applied Social Science

Social security policy, particularly in the areas of in-work benefits and loaning benefits; relationships between crime and inequality; relationships between crime and social policy.

Hagopian, Patrick History

Critical Studies of Museums, Cultural and Social Memory; Twentieth-Century Cultural Politics;Cold War and Post-Cold War Military Discourses; Representations of the History of Race and Slavery

Hamilton, Mary Educational Research

• Adult language, literacy and numeracy education (ALLN) and the new literacy studies;
• Informal adult learning and everyday practices across the lifespan;
• Use of Literacies and Technologies among older people
• Policy issues in ALLN, global and comparative perspectives;
• Media representations of educational issues;
• Participatory research methodologies;
• Institutional ethnography
• Use of visual data in research and computer assisted qualitative analysis.

Hanley, Keith English and Creative Writing

I am interested particularly in interdisciplinary approaches, especially in literature, religion, politics and the visual arts. My present research concerns sacred geographies of the nineteenth century and Romantic anti-capitalism, cultural tourism and travel writing.

Hardie, Andrew Linguistics and English Language

I would be especially interested in supervising PhD candidates working in the following areas:

• corpora of languages other than English - and in alphabets other than Latin;
• development and applications of corpus annotation ("tagging" at various levels);
• corpus-based grammatical analysis, especially cross-linguistic and/or quantitative approaches to grammar;
• investigating languageusing statistical collocation;
• the exploitation of corpus methods and resources in the other fields of the humanities and social sciences (e.g. history);
• or, more generally, in any area coherent with my research interests.

Harding, Luke Linguistics and English Language

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in any of the following areas:

• Language testing (particularly listening assessment, pronunciation assessment, specific purposes language testing, assessor decision-making and topics concerning the challenges of English as an International Language for language testing)
• Second language listening comprehension
• Attitudes towards accents and their impact on comprehension

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Harris, Geraldine (Gerry) Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Gerry would be happy to supervise postgraduate students interested in any issues related to her research areas. She has in the past supervised to successful completion PhD Students on the following topics: Millennial anxiety in the work of Rose English, English, Forced Entertainment and Insomniac, heritage and site specific performance, narrative in contemporary experimental performance (Imitating the dog, Desperate Optimists, Insomniac, the Wooster Group), multi media in contemporary performance (Uninvited Guests, Station House Opera, the Wooster Group, Fura del Baus) as well as on topics relating to feminism and gender politics in theatre and performance. These include PhD's with practice as research elements.

She is currently supervising postgraduates working on representations of masculinity in crises in theatre and performance,the erotics of circus, issues of participtation and democracry in contemporary performance, issues of teaching citizenship in schools in the UK and Uganda.

Hearn, Julie Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

In the broad areas of migration, social movements, civil society, NGOs, foreign aid, trade unions.

Specific areas might include:

Working conditions and/or trade union mobilization among low paid migrant workers in the UK

Social movements in Argentina/Latin America or migration to and from Argentina/Latin America

Foreign aid and civil society and/or NGOs in Kenya, Uganda or South Africa

Julie has supervised Michael Dzeamesi 'Chronic Refugee Crises and the Implications for Inter-state and International Relations: The Case of the Liberian Refugee Situation in Ghana' (2007).

Hemment, Drew Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Art & Technology

The City and Technology

Social Technologies

Collaborative Art

Technology and Society

Sustainability in Urban Environments

Open Source Culture

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Hickman, Tim History

• United States Cultural and Intellectual History, particularly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Modernity and modernism.
• Postmodernity.
• Drug and alcohol use, policy and culture.
• Cultural History of American medicine.

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Hodgin, Nick European Languages and Cultures

I welcome PhD proposals on any topic which falls into the broad research areas outlined below.

Hollmann, Willem Linguistics and English Language

I would be happy to receive applications in any of these areas: cognitive-typological linguistic theory (especially construction grammar and the usage-based model), language change and the history of English, dialect grammar, as well as the arsenal of research methods used in all these areas of linguistics.

Horsley, Lee English and Creative Writing

satire, political literature, film noir , thrillers, crime and detective stories, science fiction and other popular genres

Houghton, Ann-Marie Educational Research

On areas associated with my research interests but in particular in the next few years on widening participation and the academic and learning experiences of disabled learners, or Black and Minority Ethnic students, from a multi-agency perspective the policy agenda of Schools that will encompass family and intergenerational learning from the perspective of the Extended Schools or Faith Schools agenda and finally the transitions issues into education and the workplace, especially for disabled graduates.

Hyman, Gavin Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Gavin Hyman welcomes research proposals in the following areas, broadly conceived: Christian studies: theological, philosophical and historical approaches; Philosophy and religious thought; Postmodernism, theology and ethics; Continental philosophy; Religion and Psychoanalytic Thought.

Iganski, Paul Applied Social Science

I am very interested to hear from potential applicants for PhD projects on 'hate crime'; antisemitism; 'race', racism, crime and justice; crime and human rights; equality of opportunity and workplace diversity. I am happy to talk through informally ideas for projects and support applicants through the application process at Lancaster University. I served on the Board of Examiners for Sociology for the Economic and Social Research Council's annual studentship competitions in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Jackson, Carolyn Educational Research

All aspects of gender and education. For example, single-sex and co-educational learning environments (see videos on this page), girls' in- and out-of-school lives, concerns about boys' 'underachievement', constructions of gendered learner identities, gender and teacher identities, gender and the curriculum, gendered identities in Higher Education.

Social psychology and sociology of teaching and learning, especially motives for learning or not learning, fear of failure, how classroom environments and peers shape approaches to learning and learner identities. Intergroup relations.

Fear in education - the effects of fear on all aspectsof school and university life.

Jessop, Bob Sociology

I am particularly interested in receiving applications to work in the following fields:

• state theory,
• governance and governance failure,
• cultural political economy,
• contemporary capitalism (including varieties of capitalism and variegated capitalism)

Applicants should be aware that I will be retiring from a full-time academic position in 2013 and, while I will be able to supervise existing students to completion after that date, applicants for 2010-2011 onwards will need a co-supervisor from within the Faculty to ensure continuity of supervision. I am willing to assist applicants in the search for suitable co-supervisors.

Jotischky, Andrew History

Medieval religious history

Monasticism and religious orders

Crusades and Crusader States

Religious/cultural interactions in medieval Mediterranean

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Juers-Munby, Karen Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I welcome applications for postgraduate study in any of the following broad areas:

• Contemporary European/British/American drama, theatre and performance
• Theories, histories and contemporarypractices of acting and performing,
• New writing and new dramaturgies
• Intermedial practices in theatre
• Text and Performance
• Feminist theatre and performance
• The work of Elfriede Jelinek
• Theatre translation theory and practice

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Junginger, Sabine Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

• Proposals that explore general questions of design research and design problems
• Proposals that inquire into the forms, roles, practices and processes of design in the organization
• Proposals that look into the links between designing and changing
• I encourage students interested in any of these areas to talk to me about their idea

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Kallis, Aristotle History

I would be very interested in supervising students with interests in the following broad fields:

• extremist ideologies (20th-century and contemporary)
• anti-Semitism
• Islamophobia
• fascism and the contemporary extreme-right
• modern propaganda
• violence, genocide, terrorism
• modernism and urban studies
• German and Italian history/politics
• Greek interwar history

Katamba, Francis Linguistics and English Language

I welcome applications in the areas of phonological theory and analysis, morphological theory and analysis, the description of the phonology and morphology of understudied languages (especially the languages of Africa) and English phonology and morphology.

Kawanami, Hiroko Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Buddhistpractices and ritual in Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka

Buddhist nuns and female monasticism

Monastic education and dissemination of knowledge

Spiritual well-being and the application of mindfulness in Asian societies

Kerr, Greg European Languages and Cultures

Nineteenth-century French poetry

Utopian thought

Literature and urban modernity

Relations between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Kibble, Neil Law

I would be happy to receive applications from potential Doctoral students in the areas of: criminal evidence (especially in sex offence cases,evidence proof and facts, and evidence of bad character; criminal law (especially rape and other sex offences); comparative criminal law & procedure; judges, juries & lay participation in criminal trials; judicial independence & accountability; affirmative action.

Knott, Kim Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I have supervised over thirty research students on a wide variety of subjects, including sociology of religion, religion, place and space, modern Hindu movements, religion and public life, gender and religion, religion and violence, and religious identities. I continue to co-supervise students working on the transmission of religion to young British Sikhs, ordination among British Buddhist women, and leadership issues in the Hare Krishna Movement.

I welcome applications from potential doctoral candidates researching religious and secular relationships; religion, diasporas and migration; Hindu and Sikh diaspora communities; media and religion; ethnographies of either secular culture and belief or gender and destiny; and from those wishing to apply spatial approaches to studying religion.

Koller, Veronika Linguistics and English Language

I am happy to take students working in the areas of corporate communication, language and sexuality, and metaphor.

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Kopela, Sophia Law

International law of the sea, International environmental law, International dispute settlement.

Kormos, Judit Linguistics and English Language

I am interested in receiving PhD students in the following areas: psychological aspects of second language (L2) acquisition including L2 speech production and comprehension, cognitive processes of L2 learning, the role of cognitive and affectivevariables in L2 learning, language learning motivation, special educational needs in language learning and teaching.

Kräetke, Michael R. Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

I have supervised 32 doctoral thesis on various topics, mainly in political economy - international and comparative political economy - but also in political and historical sociology. I am interested in the historical and comparative study of patterns of social inequality (including the allegedly old-fashioned class inequalities) - both on the local, national and international or transnational level. I have done a lot of work on the history and the recent developments of welfare states in Europe and in other parts of the world and I am still very much interested in comparative social policy, including transnational (as in EU-Europe) and international social policy.During the last years, my main focus has been on the world economy, on world trade and world finance, including the development and the crises of international financial markets and the international monetary system (or chaos) of the present dollar-standard.

As an economist by training, I have a strong interest in public finance, the development of the modern fiscal state and actual economic and fiscal policies on the national and international level. Fiscal sociology, at the interface of the sociology and the political economy of the modern state, is one of my special fields (an old tradition of mainly German and Italian origin). In my view, and regarding our recent experience, this approach is to be extended to a sociological study of the world of high finance, that is the international financial markets and their main actors.

I am also interested in area or area-related topics like continental Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Scandinavia) or Asia (China, Japan, South-Korea) or Latin-America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico). Incidentally, I have supervised theses with a regional focus on Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Such area topics are, of course, very closely linked to actual issues of world economy and world politics.In this respect, I am strongly interested inthe environmental crises ofour times and in ecological policies ( I have done a lot of work on the forms and instruments of ecological policies in the past).

Last but not least, I have done a lot of work on some of the classics and the main theoretical traditions in the social sciences. So you could propose to me any topic related to Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu and the lines of thinking or the specialisations that begin with them (as, for instance, economic sociology). I am also very much interested in Marx, in Marxism and its history and in Marxology proper (I am a collaborator and co-editor of the MEGA, the Complete Works of Marx and Engels, the largest scientific edition project in the social sciences at this moment). The history and theory of social movements, old an new, has also been one of my major topics - including the history and the long term development of socialism in its various guises ( I am at the moment working on editions of hitherto unpublished work by socialist economists like Rosa Luxemburg, Natalia Moszkowska, Helene Bauer).Accordingly, I have supervised theses on projects of social reform (like basic income, or, more ambitious, economic democracy).

Lawton, Philip Law

I have experience of supervising several successful Phd candidates and I welcome for consideration MPhil/Phd proposals on corporate law, corporate governance and also trusts law including legal transplantation and law in a post colonial context in these areas. I particuarly enjoy comparative studies but in addition to theoretical emphasis I am also prepared to consider a wide range of socio-legal and/or empirical approaches.

Levitt, Mairi Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Bioethics (especially in the field of genetics)

Empirical ethics

Public understanding of science

Religion and education

Lewis, Bob Educational Research

I am happy to work on-line with doctoral students in the general area of knowledge sharing and in particular e-learning. My focus is on learning in groups.

MacCulloch, Angus Law

Competition Law, EU Law, and Regulation

Mackenzie, Adrian Sociology

Technological and scientific cultures, social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, especially in relation to new media, network cultures, critical design and post-genomic sciences.

Current and past PhD supervision:

Kingsley Dennis, 'New complexities: converging spaces of connectivity, communication, and collaboration' PhD, 2007 (co-supervised with J. Urry, Sociology)

Soren Mork Petersen, 'Common Banality: The Affective Character of Photo Sharing, Everyday Life and Produsage Cultures' PhD 2008 (co-supervised with T. L. Taylor, ITU Copenhagen)

Daniel Ashton, ' The industry of creativity: Economic frames, creative subjects and innovative technologies in process' PhD, 2009 (co-supervised with G. Gere, Institute for Cultural Research)

Kuo Wen-Ping, 'The production and consumption practices of online journalism in digital Taiwan' PhD 2009 (co-supervised with A. Cronin, Sociology)

Deidre Leahy, ' The epileptic as experimental subject'(co-supervised with P. Palladino, History)

Lara Houston, ' Inventive infrastructures - an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Uganda' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

Charalampia Kerasidou, 'Ambient computing' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

Manson, Neil Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Ethics of communication and information.

Informed consent

Decision making in a medical context

Consent as a communicative act.

Medical communication.

The ethics of spin, PR and media.

The ethics of secrecy and concealment.

The nature and ethical significance of genetic information.

Information privacy and epistemic virtue.

The vice of curiosity.

Applied ethics and social epistemology.

Marsden, Alan Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Computational musicology, music information retrieval, intelligent music software systems, formal music theory, Schenkerian analysis

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Mauthe, Barbara Law

Public Law

Mawer, Deborah Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Twentieth-century French music (Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger, Jolivet); Ballet; French interactions with jazz/popular music; Jack Hylton and the dance band; Music analysis; Music education.

Recent/current doctoral students:

Helen Julia Minors - Music-Dance Relations in Dukas, La Péri (PhD 2007)

Philip Purvis - Word-Music Relations in Poulenc, Les Mamelles de Tirésias (PhD 2011)

Adam Greig - Performance/Analysis of the Interwar Piano Music of Tailleferre

May, Christopher Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

International Political Economy; Rule of Law

May-Chahal, Corinne Applied Social Science

Any of the above

Gambling, Social Responsibility, Co-Morbidity and Gambling Addiction, Health and Social Impact Assessment, any aspect of Child Welfare.

McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Tony Linguistics and English Language

Corpus linguistics

Corpus-based approaches to any area of linguistics and applied linguistics

McNeil, Maureen Sociology

• politics, theories, representations and popular narratives of reproduction
• feminist technoscience studies
• genomics and the media
• bioart and genomics
• popular biographies of scientists
• science and technology in popular culture
• cultural studies of technoscience
• power, theory and knowledge (particularly with reference to gender)
• feminist theory, practice and pedagogy
• class politics and relations, gender and class, inequalities and social justice

Measham, Fiona Applied Social Science

Fiona welcomes PhD applications within her specialist field including changing patterns of alcohol and drug use, gender, leisure and transgression.

Mills, Thomas Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I am interested in doctoral proposals in the following broad areas:

• Twentieth century US foreign policy / diplomacy.
• Twentieth century inter-American relations.
• Anglo-American relations / diplomacy.
• Diplomatic / ambassadorial relations.

Milman, David Law

Company Law

Partnership Law

Securities Law

Bankruptcy Law

Insolvency Law

European Commercial Law

International Business Law

Education Law

Fiscal Law

Legal History

Interface between Islamic law and western commercial law

MISRA, Amalendu Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I welcome promising committed research students with original and innovative ideas in any of these broad areas:

- Radical Nationalism

- Religious Extremism

- Political Violence

- Conflict Management in Divided Societies

Current PhD Supervision:

Jonathan Ajere : 'Regional Actors as Peacemakers: Exploring the role of Nigeria in intra-state conflicts in Africa'.

Azrul Anaz : 'Politics of Multiculturalism and Nation Building in Malaysia'.

Mohammad, Dala: 'Peacekeeping as Foreign Policy'

Jey Murugiah:'Human Rights Violation and Post-Conflict Peace in Sri Lanka'.

David Suntha: 'Rescuing Failed States'.

Completed Doctoral Project:

Yinka Olomojobi : 'Muslims, Minorities, and Conflict '.

Moore, Karenza Applied Social Science

Drug and alcohol use (risks, harms, pleasures); clubbing/raving; electronic dance music (EDM) cultures; crime, deviance and transgressionin the night-time economy; national and international drug policy; youth crime; cybercrime; crime and new technologies; crime and the media; sociology of 'the future'.

Through my links with Lancaster University's Centre for Gender and Women's Studies (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/index.php), I'm also interested in potential doctoral students in the areas of: female illicit drug use; gender and illicit drug use;gender and EDM club cultures.

Moore, Lindsey English and Creative Writing

I would be particularly interested in supervising PG research in Arab women's writing in English, French or translation from Arabic; South Asian fiction; African (North and Sub-Saharan) fiction; migrant/diaspora literatures. I will also consider twentieth-century colonial fiction; expatriate fiction; and travel writing.

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Morgan, Hannah Applied Social Science

Hannah is interesting in supervising projects in the inter-disciplinary field of disability studies.

Mort, Graham English and Creative Writing

Composition in fiction and poetry, especially with transcultural emphasis

Mort, Maggie Sociology

Topics I would be interested in supervising include:

• science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence
• telecare and domestic space - in particular governance and ethics of new care technologies
• evidence in action studies - in particular lay ethnographies of technoscience
• disaster and recovery studies

Munby, Jonathan Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

American Film (especially in the history and theory of Hollywood cinema)

African American Culture and History (especially the relationship between popular culture and race)

Censorship and Mass Media

European Exiles and Hollywood

American Popular Culture/ Theories of Popular Culture

Myers, Greg Linguistics and English Language

I have supervised more than 25 PhD theses to completion, and I welcome applications in the areas of academic discourse, media discourse, environmental discourse, and qualitative research methods.

Naguib, Shuruq Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Qur'anic commentary (Tafsir)

Modern Interpretation of the Qur'an

Islamic Ritual Jurisprudence

Muslims in Britain

Gender and Islam

Oakley-Brown, Liz English and Creative Writing

Liz would especially welcome research students interested in the following areas of early modern writing and culture: embodiment; outlaws on land and/or sea; queenship; the cultural politics of translation; adaptation studies.

Supervised Postgraduate Research: Charlotte McCool, 'The Politics and Poetics of Thomas Wyatt's "endless maze"' (2009-10, AHRC funded MRes); MA dissertations topics include 'Framing Pyramus and Thisbe in Middle English Literature'; 'Violent Death in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama'; 'Shakespeare and Ruskin' (with Andy Tate); 'Thomas Nashe and The Terrors of the Night'

Ost, Suzanne Law

I am happy to supervise undergraduate and MA dissertations/MPhils/PhDs upon the subjects of euthanasia, assisted dying and end of life and other aspects of medical law and ethics, legal and social issues surrounding child pornography/sexual grooming and other areas related to my research interests.

Successful PhD candidates

Dr Alexandra Mullock, 'End-Of-Life Law and Assisted Dying in the 21st Century: Time for Cautious Revolution?' (degree awarded 2012, University of Manchester, School of Law).

Dr Judith Robertson - PhD: 'An Exploration of the Effects of Litigation on the Midwife and Her Practice' (degree awarded 2010, University of Manchester, School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Otondo, Felipe Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

- Electronic music

- Sound art

- Spatial sound

- Interdisciplinary projects involving sound

- Sound installations and site-specific work

Palladino, Paolo History

History of the medical and human sciences; history of the environmental sciences, agriculture and the environment; the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze.

Current supervision:

Dee Leahy (Sociology), 'The Invention of Epilepsy'. (Co-supervised with Adrian Mackenzie). Drawing on Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter, Dee explores the scientific understanding of epilepsy which emerged at the end of the 19th c. and how it continues to shape the development of the neurosciences.

Former students:

Piers Hale (University of Oklahoma), 'William Morris, Edward Carpenter and Robert Blatchford on labour, nature and the body' (2003).

Papen, Uta Linguistics and English Language

Linguistic landscapes

Ethnographic studies of literacy practices in various settings (e.g. institutions, workplaces, communities, etc.)

Cross-cultural studies of literacy

Electronic literacies

Health and literacy

Literacy in schools

Adult literacy education in the so-called developing countries

Parchoma, Gale Educational Research

I am especially interested in proposals from potential doctoral students in the areas of networked learning, technological affordances, social negotiation and social capital in online learning environments, identities in online learning environments, formal and informal online learning communities.

Partridge, Christopher Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I would be happy to supervise doctoral students in the following areas:

- Religion and popular culture

- Religion and popular music

- New religions and alternative spiritualities

- Radical Christian thought

- Quakerism

Passey, Don Educational Research

Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources in formal educational environments

Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources across informal and formal learning environments

Specific aspects of learning and how these are impacted by technologies

How technologies are used by and impact young people who find it hard to learn or who are vulnerable

Uses of data management and data handling in school-based and lifelong learning contexts

Paylor, Ian Applied Social Science

I would be happy to supervise doctoral students in most of the areas that ASSURE covers.

Peniston-Bird, Corinna History

Dr Peniston-Bird would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• The combat taboo and gendered experience of war and commemoration.
• Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
• Austria in the inter-war period.
• Cultural Representations of and Personal Testimonies in the above fields.

Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for Modern British History.

Penna, Sue Applied Social Science

the political economy of welfare; the commodification of welfare; the political economy of crime; the relationships between welfare and crime, social and criminal justice policy; a social harm approach to organised crime.

Potts, Diane Linguistics and English Language

I am excited by the prospect of working with international students and others in all areas pertaining to digital language learning, digital literacies, and computer-mediated communication.This may include ethnographic studies of highly diverse student populations in digitally mediated environments, case studies of digital/multimodal pedagogies in English as an additional language (EAL) or foreign language (EFL) classrooms, or studies of digitally-mediated task-based learning. Alternatively, prospective postgraduate students may be interested in exploring language learners' out-of-school digital literacies practices, particularly their dis/connections to formal educational contexts. These studies might be conducted in richly resourced contexts (ex. where bandwidth and/or electricity are not issues, and where a range of digital devices are available), or they might be conducted in contexts where necessity is driving innovations in the use of mobile technologies. The same topics could be explored from the perspective of teacher education and development. There are an ever-shifting range of ethical issues, conceptual issues, and practical issues that need addressing, ideally by researchers who reflect the diversity of the English language learning and teaching community, and I will be delighted to receive applications from students who bring a range of experiences to their doctoral studies.

Equally, I invite proposals from students with interests in multimodality, particularly those working within a social semiotic frame. Again, these proposals may address the needs of language learners,and might connect to any of the following: the the reweighting of meaning across semiotic systems and the increasing need for EAL/ESL/EFL pedagogies to address students' visual literacies; the potential of multimodal practices and/or tasks in language development; and curricular challenges and demands related to such pedagogies. Alternatively, students may design studies which focus on texts (in the broadest sense) rather than learners and/or educators, and explore the place of these texts within situated practice(s).

A third area of possible study is research in highly diverse classrooms, and explorations of pedagogies which draw on students' multilingual resources to further their academic success. Such research might attempt to deepen our understanding of the ways in which students' multilingualism could contribute to perspective-taking, abstract reasoning, and/or creativity. Research in this area might also be designed to help us to understand how multilingual learners come to understand themselves as resourced and/or disadvantaged by the relationship between their home language(s), English and (potentially) their additional languages.

Finally, I will always welcome proposals froms students who wish to research content-based language teaching in any of its multiple forms (ex. CBLT, CLIL). This may include work with immigrant and/or refugee populations in English dominant countries; studies in EFL contexts where core subjects in primary and/or secondary school are taught in English; research in contexts where English is an official language but where significant numbers speak other home languages; investigations of EAP pedagogies in post-secondary and/or professional contexts; or explorations of content-based designs outside mainstream educational contexts. Research in this area might focus on a specfic group of learners, a disciplinary context, teacher training and development, or policies and practices. Again, I am particularly interested in those adopting a social semiotic/SFL frame as well as those whose specific research questions might address issues of register, or who wish to delve into grammatics.

Pumfrey, Stephen History

1. Science, Medicine and Philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
2. Early English Books and the application of corpus linguistic analysis.
3. Patronage in Tudor and Stuart England
4. The intellectual history of magic and witchcraft.
5. Science, technology, private enterprise and the state in England, 1500-1800.

Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Indian Philosophy - classical and modern, especially in: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness studies

Comparative Philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness studies,and political thought

Hinduism

Indian Buddhism

Jainism

Religion and politics: South Asia, and comparative studies

Indian diaspora

Multiculturalism and British society

Roberts, Celia Sociology

Supervision

I am interested in a number of research areas, mostly focusing on issues relating to health, embodiment, sexuality, reproduction and biology.

I have co-supervised 5 PhD students to completion to date and all have passed with no or minor amendments:

• Lin Wen-Yuan (2005) who worked on kidney dialysis in Taiwan;
• Kaori Sasaki (2006) who worked on brain death and organ transplantation in Japan;
• Ranjini C.R. (2006) who worked on health information systems in southern India;
• Anne Rudolph (2009) whose thesis focussed on young lesbian, bi-sexual and queer women's understandings of sexually transmitted infections; and
• Clare Hollowell (2010) who studied young women's experiences of fun.

I have seven current phD students:

• Li-Wen Shih, who is studying reproductive technologies and genetic testing in Taiwan (Taiwanese funding)
• Brigit Morris-Coulton, who is working on mental health recovery and arts practices (ESRC-funded)
• Rebecca Fox, who is working on women with learning disabilities living in secure accomodation (ESRC-funded)
• Kate McNicolas-Smith, who is working on young people and sex education (ESRC-funded)
• Joann Wilkinon, who is researching reproductive biosensors (funded by Intel)
• Oscar Maldonado, researching the HPV vaccine in Colombia, the US and the UK (Colombian government funding)
• Ali Hanbury, also researching the HPV vaccine in the UK (ERC funded).

All of these are empirical research projects, using methods such as participant observation, interviewing, online methods and textual analysis. I am deeply interested in feminist and social theory and am an editor of a leading feminist journal, Feminist Theory. I am very keen to work with postgraduate students on these themes relating to feminist theory, embodiment and sexuality, either in Sociology or Women's Studies. Prospective students should feel free to contact me by email to discuss the possibility of studying at Lancaster.

Rogers, Colin Educational Research

• Motivational processes in education
• Aspects of group based learning
• Problem based learning
• Teacher expectations

Rohkrämer, Thomas History

• German history in the 19th and 20th century, in particular political culture since 1871.
• Critical discourses on modernity in comparative perspective.
• Conservatism and the political Right in comparative perspective.

Rose, Emma Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I supervise doctoral students in the following areas:

Contemporary fine art practice with a discipline or interdisciplinary focus in: film, installation, painting, drawing.

Contemporary theoretical and critical debates in art

Landscape and environment.

Psychotherapeutic landscapes, psychological interventions in art with respect to constructs of the self.

Rowe, Peter Law

International Humanitarian Law (Law of Armed Conflict or Laws of War)

Human Rights relating to Armed Forces

Comparative Military law

Rushton, Richard Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Film theory

Film and philosophy

Hollywood cinema

Romantic comedy

French film

Politics and film

Révész, Andrea Linguistics and English Language

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the area of second language acquisition, in particular, the roles of tasks, input, interaction, and individual differences in SLA.

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Sangiorgi, Daniela Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

_ Service Design methods _ Design for public services _ Design for Service innovation _ Service Design and emergent technologies _ Social innovation and transformative services

Sapey, Bob Applied Social Science

Disability studies

Saunders, Murray Educational Research

• Educational policy implementation and change;
• Work and the curriculum;
• National and international policy evaluation, evaluation theory and method, evaluation of complex change processes e.g. e-learning.
• Informal learning in communities,

Sayer, Andrew Sociology

Political economy, moral economy, normativity and ethics in everyday life, inequality, employment and organisational life, climate change, social theory and the philosophy of social science. Postdisciplinary proposals particularly welcome!

I am keen to supervise empirical and theoretical research relating to any of the above topics, preferably pursued in a post-disciplinary manner, and having some concern for the implications for human well-being! There may be possibilities for co-supervision not only with colleagues in Sociology, but also colleagues in other departments with complementary interests. For example, I could co-supervise someone interested in political and economic discourses with Prof. Ruth Wodak in Linguistics, or I could co-supervise someone interested in social policy working with Karen Broadhurst or others in the Department of Applied Social Science, and I have also had links with human geography in the past. I also welcome visiting research students who are doing PhDs elsewhere but want to spend a term or two in Lancaster with some supervision from me. Please email me if you'd like to discuss research possibilities.

Sayer, Derek History

• Czech history, especially in nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Twentieth-century art, architecture, and photography
• Historical memory and social identity
• Social, cultural and aesthetic theories of modernity

Schad, John English and Creative Writing

Victorian literature; Modernism; life-writing; place-writing; literary theory; critical-creative writing; religion and literature; experimental criticism.

Sebba, Mark Linguistics and English Language

I would be interested in supervising research on the following topics especially:

Bilingualism, code-switching (particularly written code-switching, multilingual literacies and multilingual texts and signs), pidgins and creoles, sociolinguistics of orthography

Semino, Elena Linguistics and English Language

I currently supervise eight PhD students, working on a variety of projects in stylistics, metaphor studies, and discourse analysis. I am interested in supervising students in the following areas:

• Cognitive stylistics: integration of linguistic analysis with theories of cognition (e.g. Schema theory, Blending theory) in order to study literary texts; the linguistic construction of fictional text worlds and fictional minds.
• Corpus stylistics: application of corpus methods to the study of literary texts.
• Metaphor studies: metaphor in literature, politics, science, health communication; integration of Cognitive metaphor theory with stylistics and discourse analysis; use of corpus-based methods in the study of metaphorical patterns in texts.

Seymour, David M. Law

I look forward to receiving proposals in the areas of Jurisprudence, Social-Legal Studies and Critical Theory.

Within these areas, I welcome particularly proposals concerning law's engagement with antisemitism and Holocaust, and/or law's engagement with contemporary political theory.

Short, Mick Linguistics and English Language

I am happy to supervise students in most areas of stylistics (poetry, fictional prose and drama), film dialogue (and its interaction with non-linguistic factors in film) and theories in relation to interpretation and/or evaluation. Many (but not all) of my current students are working on a combination of traditional stylistic analysis and corpus-based work on texts. I have strong current interests in the study of (a) viewpoint, (b) speech, writing and thought presentation, (c) the analysis of drama and film dialogue (and how it is connected with performance and production/filmic factors) and (d) how stylistics can inform literature teaching and the integration of language and literature teaching in mother-tongue or second/foreign language situations .

Shove, Elizabeth Sociology

Research students welcome on topics relating to innovations in practice - for instance in digital photography, and other changing and emerging hobbies and habits including DIY (home improvement); or outdoor pursuits; any applications of theories of practice to the study of markets (e.g. services) and/or organisations; or studies of failed technologies (in collaboration with Luis Araujo, Management School). Projects on changing infrastructures and institutions of everyday consumption - e.g. electricity, waste, water (with Will Medd or Gordon Walker in Geography).

Allison Hui: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/pgrprofiles/259/

Shireen Chilcott: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/pgrprofiles/202/

Julien McHardy: Electric bikes - design, testing and use

YiPing Cheng: storage and display in Taiwanese homes

Maarten van der Kamp: making and implementing organic food standards

Martin Green: Everyday climate change,seasonality, adaptability and demand

Stan Webster: The routines and rhythms sustainability

Janine Morley: Energy consuming practices

Sime, Julie-Ann Educational Research

• The development of competence and expertise in professional learning
• Cognitive approaches to the design of learning technology;
• Games and simulations in teaching and learning;
• The use of multiple representations in thinking, teaching and learning with technology;
• Use of qualitative simulations in learning environments
• Adoption of new technologies in teaching and learning, e.g. Second Life and other virtual environments.

Singleton, Vicky Sociology

I welcome research students and have supervised 15 students researching in a range of substantive areas including; Caesarean section and women's right to choose, Surgical construction and treatment of obesity, Schizophrenia and psychiatric care, Young women, sexuality and Christian traditions, The co-evolution of children's bodies and prosthetic limbs. I am interested in and have expertise in qualitative research including participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis in the form of detailed case studies. In particular I am interested in research that seeks to articulate and to appreciate the work of practice of programmes, policies, interventions, systems and guidelines.

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Skogly, Sigrun Law

• Public international law
• International Human Rights Law
• Economic, social and cultural rights
• International human rights obligations
• Extraterritorial human rights obligations
• International institutional law

Current or recent topics covered in PhD supervision:

• The Right to Water as a Human Right
• The Implementability of the Right to Water
• Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights
• WTO, Human Rights and the Right to Health in Thailand
• The Right to Participation in Human Rights
• Indigenous Peoples and International Law
• Language rights of immigrant minorities
• International law, internal conflict and the duty to protect
• The right to development and poverty
• Trafficing in women in international law and the United Arab Emerets
• Economic variables and the right to social security
• Rights of Women in Pakistan
• Discrimination in the right to education - experience from a European settting

Smith, David Applied Social Science

In view of my impending retirement, it would not be sensible for me to take on any new PhD students.

Smith, Graham M. Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Anglo-American Political Theory

European/Continental Political Theory

Interdisciplinary work connecting political theory to Philosophy, Religion, and allied subjects

Political Modernity

Friendship

Order and value

Political ontology

A variety of thinkers including: Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schmitt.

Spooner, Catherine English and Creative Writing

Catherine has previously supervised two Ph.Ds to completion and currently has seven Ph.D students: Eleanor Beal is working on religion, femininity and the Gothic; Malgorzata Drewniok on the language of vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Alan Gregory on masculinity and violence in contemporary Gothic; Xavier Aldana Reyes on pain and affectivity in contemporary Gothic; David McWilliam on monstrosity and crime in contemporary American Gothic; Cara Patrick on masculinity and TV vampires; and Neal Kirk on new media technologies and hauntings. She also runs the Contemporary Gothic Reading Group, which meets once a fortnight to discuss texts chosen by the participants and is open to all postgraduates and staff across the university. She welcomes Ph.D applications related to any aspect of Gothic literature and culture, or to literature and fashion, and is happy to consider interdisciplinary proposals.

Steven, Martin Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

• Comparative / British politics and government
• Quality of democracy and social capital
• Political parties and elections
• Interest groups

Stone, Alison Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Feminist philosophy

German Idealism and Romanticism

nineteenth-century German philosophy

twentieth-century Continental philosophy

French feminism

Hegel

Strachan, John History

Social, cultural and intellectual histories of modern France andthe French overseas empire

Imperialism and colonialism

Historiography (especially French) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Suchman, Lucy Sociology

I'm interested in supervising postgraduate research in science and technology studies, particularly projects involving ethnographic research on any aspects of practices of technology design/production and consumption/use, and in the area of feminist technoscience, particularly with respect to information and communications technologies; robotics, artificial intelligence and the cyborg; human-computer interaction and new media.

Sugarman, David Law

I welcome postgraduate and doctoral applications from students in the areas of:

· Responses to massive violations of human rights.

· Universal jurisdiction, especially with respect to senior state officials.

· The domestic and transnational struggle to bring General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, to justice, its impact and larger significance.

· Human rights struggles in Latin America, notably, Chile and Argentina.

· Transitional justice.

· Law and globalization.

· Law and society in England since 1780.

· Lawyers and Society.

· Visual images of law and lawyers.

· Law and politics.

· Legal education.

· Law and literature.

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Research Supervision

Current and recently completed PhD and Post-Doctoral Students include:

• Dr Christos Boukalas, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, is extending his research on the counterterrorism measures introduced in the United States post-9/11 and their socio-political implications. He recently was awarded a contract by Routledge to publish his researchas a book during 2013.
• R. Gwynedd Parry completed his PhD dissertation on David Hughes Parry - A Jurist in Society in 2009 - which has subsequentlybeen revised and published as a book.
• Ben Mayfield is completing his dissertation on the emergence of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
• Alex Murray, a Faculty Research Scholar, is completing a comparative analysis of the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals and the European Court of Human Rights.
• Craig Newbery-Jones,completed his LLM thesis A Study of the Portrayal of the Legal Profession in Punch Magazine and other Works of Victorian Satire in 2009.

Sum, Ngai-Ling Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Cultural Political Economy, International Political Economy, Regulation Approach, East Asian political economy, BRIC, Cross-border Regions, Pearl River Delta, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness, Wal-Martization, and Globalization and Transnationl Politics

Summers, James Law

Any field of international law

Sunderland, Jane Linguistics and English Language

I am interested in supervising doctoral work on most aspects of gender and language/discourse, including language/discourse as they pertain to language education, to children's fiction and to African contexts. In particular, I would be interested in supervising a doctoral project on the relationship between the Harry Potter series and boys' literacies. I am currently supervisingfour full-time students PhD and three part-time PhD students.

The topics I am currently supervising include:

- gender and swearing in Kuwaiti Arabic

- gendered discourses around domestic responsibilities in a UK African disapora

- changing gender representation in EFL textbooks in Hong Kong

- EFL students' use of digital media in classroom learning

- celebrity masculinity in Japanese newspapers

- the reception of children's picturebooks featuring two-Mum and two-Dad families

- 'voice' in Mexican undergraduate's dissertations written in English

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Sutton, Deborah History

Dr Sutton is interested in hearing from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Modern Indian history
• South Asian Agrarian History
• The Indian diaspora

Tadmor, Naomi History

I have broad research interests and will be delighted to discuss possible doctoral work with students interested in British social and cultural history c. 1500-1800, with particular reference to -

• Religious culture and the English Bible
• History and literature and print culture
• Political culture and community life
• The history of the family
• Gender and women's history

Tate, Andrew Ruskin Research Centre, English and Creative Writing

I welcome proposals on contemporary fiction (British and American); literature and theology; Douglas Coupland; nineteenth-century religion.

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Taylor, Carolyn Applied Social Science

• Discourse and textual analyses of professional practice in health and welfare
• Child and family social work (past & present) especially in relation to assesment & decision-making and looked after children
• The history of social work and social welfare

Taylor, James History

I am keen to hear from students interested in researching the following areas:

• Topics connecting economic, business, and cultural history in Britain since 1800;
• History of financial fraud and crime;
• History of joint-stock companies and corporate governance;
• History of advertising and consumerism;

Don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss your research plans.

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Thakkar, Amit European Languages and Cultures

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film (masculinities, violence, non-violence, irony, postcolonial theory, revolution)

Thompson, Leanne Educational Research

Perception and information processing in "normal" or SEN / disabled groups. This could involve a focus on information presentation in a variety of modalities (vision, touch, audition etc.) or a focus on perceptual processes themselves(e.g. during reading). Alternatively the focus could be on perceptual processes resulting from various types of impairment (e.g. blindness, autism etc.). I'm particularly keen on exploring the educational implications (i.e. impact on learning & memory) of different types of information (visual, tactual, auditory etc.), whether this is due to a particular SEN or just preference.

Tight, Malcolm Educational Research

• Changing patterns of academic work;
• The nature of the academic experience;
• The history and meaning of higher education;
• Alternative modes of study;
• The postgraduate and research student experience;
• Mature and 'non-traditional' students;
• Comparative studies;
• Patterns of participation;
• The role of learning in adult life

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Todd, Cain Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Aesthetics: in particular, issues in the philosophy of fiction and literature; the nature of aesthetic judgement; imagination; the emotions.

Trowler, Paul Educational Research

• Higher education policy-making and policy implementation;
• The analysis of organisational and professional cultures in universitities, particularly as they relate to change-management processes;
• The reception and impact in differing social contexts of learning, teaching and assessment policies and practices;
• Discourse and identities in higher education; ethnographic research methodologies.

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Tusting, Karin Linguistics and English Language

I am interested in supervising doctoral students working in the following areas:

- literacy studies, including workplace literacies, audit cultures and accountability, digital literacy practices, literacy practices in religious communities, and adult literacy.

- linguistic ethnography

- communities of practiceand situated learning.

- institutional ethnography

- discourse analysis

Tutton, Richard Sociology

I have supervised doctoral research in areas ranging from health and citizenship, biobanking and human tissue collections, enhancement and biomedicalization, and identity-formation in the context of genetic knowledge.

I currently supervise four students:

Lee Wan-Ju who is researching the Taiwanese biobank with reference to the political economy of the life sciences (with Brian Wynne)

Anna Portman who is investigating the scientific and social dynamics of the bicentennial celebrations of Charles Darwin's birth in 2009 (with Bronislaw Szerszynski)

Karolina Papros who, as part of the Polish Academy of Sciences-Lancaster University Dual PhD Programme, is working on the biopolitics and biosociality of breast cancer (with Vicky Singleton)

Tania Pastrana who is conducting an ethnography of a palliative care unit (with Dawn Goodwin).

I would welcome opportunities to supervise future doctoral students interested in working from a science studies or sociological perspective on biomedical or genetic technologies and services in medical, forensic and cultural arenas; questions of identity,citizenship and 'biosociality' in relation to genetic science and knowledge, or on the role of expectations or imaginaries in scientific and commercial innovation.

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Twine, Richard Sociology

I welcome docotoral research students in the following areas:

• Animal Studies - especially Animals and Biotechnology
• Post-dualistic ontology in Sociology
• Intersectionality - especially including the nonhuman
• The Political Economy of Animal Agriculture
• Gender Studies - Masculinities / Feminist Theory / Ecofeminism
• Posthumanism (critical)
• Food and Sustainability

Tyfield, David Sociology

I am currently supervising:

LI Jianmin: Corporate governance in China(with Prof Michael Kraetke)

Stephen Jackson: Rhetorics and scandal regarding climate change (with Dr Tim Dant)

I would be interested in proposals for doctoral students in the following areas:

- Political economy of science, technology and innovation, particularly regarding the life sciences and/or climate change

- Mobilities innovation

- Low-carbon transitions

- Science, technology and innovation in China

- Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan sociology

- Philosophy of social science, especially regarding issues of critical realism

Tyler, Imogen Sociology

I welcome PhD applications in any of my areas of research. Please feel free to contact me to discuss preliminary ideas for PhD proposals or postdoctoral applications.

Postdoctoral Student

Dr Maja Sager, COFAS postdoctoral fellow based between Lund University, Sweden, and Lancaster University. Project: `Contested Boundaries. An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and UK'. Majabegins her fellowship in the Autumn of 2012and at Lancaster will bebased in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, and the Centre for Mobilities research in the Sociology Department. Shewill also be joining the research network www.asylum-network.org.

PhD students

Clay Garland Governmentality and citizenship at the UK's internal borders (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Kate McNicholas Smith Empowering Sexual Citizens: Designing and Delivering Sex Education for Contemporary Adolescents (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Brigit Colson Arts in Mental Health Provision (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Dr Maja Sager `Clandestine asylum seekers in the Swedish welfare state' (visiting PhD student,The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden 2008-2009, Graduated 2011).

Dr Clare Woolhouse`Women's Magazines' (Graduated 2010, AHRC)

Dr Katherine Harrison: 'Terror-Democracy: An Iconography' (Graduated 2008, AHRC)

Dr. Fiona Summers: `Unanticipated Space: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Visual Culture` (Graduated 2006, AHRB)

Unger, Johann Linguistics and English Language

I am particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Policy, also more broadly in the areas related to my other research interests (see 'Research Interests' on my staff profile). I am currently co-supervising students working on parliamentary debates in Kenya, Arabic media constructions of Iraq, and Maasai identity.

Unwin, Nick Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Philosophy of mind, especially perception; ethical theory, especially expressivism; metaphysics, especially the nature of events and causation; theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, especially underdetermination, scepticism and the nature of belief; philosophy of language, especially the nature of truth; early modern philosophy, especially Locke and Kant.

Urry, John Sociology

mobilities, complexity theory, tourism, transportation, contemporary capitalism, climate change and social science

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Venn, Edward Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

I would be delighted to hear from potential doctoral students with interests in one or more of the following areas: twentieth-century and/or contemporary music, analysis, and musical meaning.

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Walker, Stuart Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

• Product Design for Sustainability
• Product Meaning, Aesthetics and Design
• Design-Centred Research (Discursive Design) for Sustainability
• Functional Objects, Localization and Sustainability
• Product Design, Ethics and the Spiritual Dimension

Warin, Jo Educational Research

I would be interested in receiving proposals on:

• The development of identity through the school years
• Parenting (especially with a focus on gender)
• The home-school relationship
• Gender issues in education (particularly those concerned with issues about male staff in early years education)
• Early childhood

Waters, Alan Linguistics and English Language

Due to my imminent retirement, I regret that I am no longer able to accept any further PhD students.

Waterton, Claire Sociology

The making of environmental knowledge.

The politics of environmental knowledge.

STS and the making and politics of databases.

Social studies of classifications.

Knowledge, practices and biodiversity.

The idea of the case study in STS.

A place for critique within STS.

Welshman, John History

He supervises several doctoral students, and would welcome enquiries from students interested in any of his areas of research interest:

· the history of the debate over transmitted deprivation in the period 1972-82, and its links with current policy on child poverty and social exclusion

· the history of the concepts of unemployability and worklessness

· the history of tuberculosis, medical examination, and migration, in both the UK and Australia

· the history of care in the community since 1948, especially for people with learning disabilities

Williams, Garrath Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I have research interests across normative ethics, political theory and applied ethics, and would be especially interested to hear from potential doctoral students considering research on Kant's practical philosophy, Hannah Arendt, and the philosophy of responsibility.

Wilson, Andrew Linguistics and English Language

I am especially interested in receiving proposals in the following areas:

• Language and religion/spirituality
• Language and psychoanalysis
• Language and personality
• The linguistics of altered states of consciousness
• The discourse of fashion (including non-verbal aspects)

Winchester, Angus History

I welcome enquiries from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Landscape and Agrarian History
• Common Land
• History of Cumbria

Wise, Sue Applied Social Science

I have supervised to completion a number of PhD students on various topics, including: child protection in Australia; adoption and fostering by lesbian and gay people; accounts of child sexual abuse; lesbian well-being; listening to looked after children. I am keen to hear from prospective PhD students who are working in the areas that I am currently actively engaged with: equality and social justice; feminist theory; LGBT issues in social policy and social work; new social movements; death & dying.

I am also a very experienced PhD examiner, having examined, either internally or externally, around 20 theses in the fields of: feminist & women's studies, applied sociology; social work, and; research methodology.

Wodak, Ruth Linguistics and English Language

(Critical) Discourse Studies (theories, methodologies)

Identity Politics (individual, collective; national, transnational)

Language and/in Politics

Discrimination, Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Sexism in/via Discourse

Analysis of (social) Media

Commemoration; collective memories; politics of the past

Oganisational Discourses and Practices

Wong, Yoke-Sum History

Theory, Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Design, Art and Architecture, Mobilities

Woodhead, Linda Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

I am happy to consider proposals in the areas of: religion and society in modern societies, contemporary Christianity, religion and gender, everyday religion, religious change.