Professor Martin Bauer
|Resistance in social processes; public understanding of science; social representations, attitudes & public opinion; cultural indicators of science; psychology of action/activity; continuous measurement of moods, happiness and stress; computer-assisted content analysis; Eurobarometer surveys.
Dr Jonathan Jackson|
Fear of crime; trust and confidence in the police; public attitudes towards punishment; the psychology of fairness, legitimacy and punishment; researching everyday emotions; cognitive aspects of survey research; quantitative methods
Dr Jouni Kuha
|Statistical model selection; Models with measurement error; misclassification and missing data; Latent variable models; Social statistics
Dr Paul Mitchell
|Building Democracies from Conflict; Institutional designs to resolve ethnic and national conflicts Party competition, electoral systems and government formation.
Dr Ilina Singh|
Empirical ethics; families and children; pediatric psychiatry and psychology; culture and history of psychotropic drugs; neuroethics; enhancement; consent and capacity; pharmacogenomics; qualitative methodologies.
Dr Sally Stares
|The theme of social measurement, in particular how to capture complex social constructs using quantitative techniques, and how to understand the extent to which such measures can be validly compared across different contexts. These methodological theme are in two areas of substantive application: public perceptions of science and technology, and civil society.
Dr Jen Tarr
|The areas of qualitative method, cultural sociology, the body, health, and dance.