Our Experts - Science Studies
![Dr Joe Deville](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/sociology/foundation-web-site/staff-photos/Deville,Joe.jpg)
Dr Joe Deville
I am looking to supervise students interested in the intersections between some of the following areas: economic sociology, science and technology studies, non-representational/affect theory, consumption/consumer behaviour, data proliferation/informational mobilities, digital methods, debt/credit/money, and open access publishing.
See more about my supervision interests here.
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Dr Allison Hui
I would be happy to work with students whose projects relate to my areas of interest, including
- Practices (practice theory, media practices, structuration, science and technology studies approaches)
- Transforming or innovating with methodologies (decolonising, creative methods, qualitative methods, engagement-focused methods)
- Consumption (everyday life, materiality, energy demand/sustainability)
- Interdisciplinary projects, especially human geography space/place, migration/mobilities
- Social/organisational leadership and transformation
![Catherine Oliver](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/sociology/foundation-web-site/staff-photos/CatherineOliverBioPicture.jpeg)
Dr Catherine Oliver
I would be excited to supervise students with prospective projects in any of my research areas, which include:
- Climate change and society
- Environmental change and society
- More-than-human/multispecies/the non-human
- Animal studies/animal sociology/animal geography
- (Urban) political ecology
- Veganism, vegan studies, animal activism
- Environmental activism
- Historical sociology
- The Anthropocene
- Avian geography/sociology
![Professor Elizabeth Shove](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/sociology/foundation-web-site/staff-photos/Shove,Elizabeth.jpg)
Professor Elizabeth Shove
Research students welcome on topics relating to social theories of practice; infrastructures and institutions of everyday consumption, climate change and issues of energy and water demand; design, materiality, technology studies and research policy.
Web Profile![Dr Vicky Singleton](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/sociology/foundation-web-site/staff-photos/Singleton,Vicky.jpg)
Professor Vicky Singleton
I welcome research students and have supervised 22 students researching in a range of substantive areas. I am especially interested in students researching how policy is done in locations of practice and also in how care is done in practice. I have worked with several care practitioners seeking research qualifications. I am interested in and have expertise in qualitative research including ethnography, participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis in the form of detailed case studies. I am keen to work with students and collaborators to articulate and to appreciate the work of practice of care interventions, programmes, policies, technologies, systems and guidelines.
Web Profile![Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa](/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/sociology/foundation-web-site/staff-photos/7576.jpg)
Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa
I would be excited to supervise PhD students (in the intersection) of the following areas:
- Climate change and society
- Environmental change and society
- (Urban) political ecology
- Socio-environmental movements and resistance
- Environmental Justice
- The Anthropocene
- Housing
- Informal settlements
- Socioenvironmental conflicts in the Global South
- Critical geographies of disaster
- Vulnerability and precarity