University of Sussex
School of Law, Politics & Sociology
Research Directory
The Research Directory of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology
The purpose of this Research Directory is to provide a snapshot of the
research activities of the School's staff across its three Departments: Law,
Politics and Sociology. Listed alphabetically, each researcher has provided
a thumbnail sketch of his/her particular research interests. The School's
mission is to generate and disseminate new knowledge and critical
understanding about the societies in which we live, including explaining
how those societies are and should be constructed, ordered and regulated.
In so doing, it seeks to have a positive impact on society regionally,
nationally, and internationally. An interdisciplinary ethos is central to the
School's strategy. We are committed to capitalising on the synergies that
arise from having three closely-related disciplines in the same School and
to strengthening further our links with the disciplines elsewhere in the
University and beyond.
Professor Stephen Shute
Head of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology
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Politics
Sociology
Dr Sabina Avdagic
Prof. Jo Bridgeman
S.Avdagic@sussex.ac.uk
J.C.Bridgeman@sussex.ac.uk
Sabina Avdagic's main areas of research interest
are comparative labour markets and welfare
states. Sabina’s current research is focused on
employment performance, the politics of labour
market reforms and the political causes of
income inequality.
Prof. Craig Barker
J.C.Barker@sussex.ac.uk
Craig Barker is a public international lawyer with
specific research interests in immunities from
jurisdiction, international criminal law and the use
of force. Craig’s current research is examining
responsibility discourses in international law and
interdisciplinary dialogues of responsibility.
Jo Bridgeman’s primary research interest is in
healthcare law, with a focus upon the care of
children and engaging with issues of family, tort
and criminal law. Jo’s approach is theoretical,
drawing upon and developing the feminist ethic of
care, and empirical, emphasising the importance
of recognising, within the legal framework, the
experiences of those providing care.
Dr Qingxiu Bu
Q.Bu@sussex.ac.uk
Qingxiu Bu's research interests lie in the fields of
transnational business law, corporate finance
law, corporate liability, global antitrust law,
international business and human rights.
Ms Stephanie Berry
Dr John Child
S.E.Berry@sussex.ac.uk
J.J.Child@sussex.ac.uk
Stephanie Berry's research interests lie in the
fields of human rights and minority rights. In
particular, freedom of religion, intercultural
tolerance and dialogue, the rights of religious and
'new' minorities, multiculturalism and international
law, racial and religious discrimination.
John Child's research interests centre on criminal
law theory and doctrine, and particularly the
internal structuring of offences and defences
within the general part.
Dr Susan Collard
Miss Kimberley Brayson
K.D.Brayson@sussex.ac.uk
Kimberley Brayson’s research interests lie in the
area of human rights in theory and practice;
legal theory; political theory; feminist theory;
autonomy; legal and political subjectivity; the
European Convention on Human Rights;
Muslim women and secularism.
S.P.Collard@sussex.ac.uk
Susan Collard’s research interests relate to
contemporary French politics, and more
specifically to the politics of culture and heritage
during the Mitterrand presidencies. Susan has
also more recently developed an interest in the
exercise of voting rights by European citizens
resident in other EU Member-States.
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Sociology
Dr Elizabeth Craig
Mr Paul Eden
emc22@sussex.ac.uk
P.A.Eden@sussex.ac.uk
Elizabeth Craig's research interests lie primarily
within international human rights and comparative
law, with a particular emphasis on the
development and application of European
minority rights law.
Paul Eden's principal research interests lie in
the areas of international law and commercial
law. At present, Paul is focussing on the (war)
crime of apartheid and the interpretation of
plurilingual treaties.
Dr Mark Davies
Dr June Edmunds
M.R.Davies@sussex.ac.uk
J.A.Edmunds@sussex.ac.uk
Mark Davies research interests are primarily in
the fields of professional negligence & conduct,
education and the law and science and law.
June Edmund's research has generated a
specific interest in human rights and Islam, in
particular, the politics of the hijab in Europe
and the rise of claims-making among
European Muslims to the ECtHR.
Prof. Gerard Delanty
G.Delanty@sussex.ac.uk
Gerard Delanty’s research is in the general area
of historical and political sociology, with
particular reference to modernity in global
perspective. He is also specialized in social and
political theory and the history and philosophy of
the social sciences.
Dr Rekha Diwakar
R.Diwakar@sussex.ac.uk
Rekha Diwakar's research interests include
Indian politics and public policy, comparative
politics, especially electoral competition and
voting behaviour, size of the party systems,
civil service reforms in developing countries,
and research methods in political science.
Dr Benjamin Fincham
B.M.Fincham@sussex.ac.uk
Ben Fincham’s research interests span a fairly
wide range of areas including studying work in
unstable employment environments and the
relationship between work and mental health.
In addition he is developing projects on gender,
sex and sexuality in the Centre for Gender
Studies.
Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock
L.Finchett-Maddock@sussex.ac.uk
Lucy Finchett-Maddock's areas of research
interest include theory, property, civil liberties
and human rights and environmental law.
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Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni
Dr James Hardie-Bick
M.M.Frabboni@sussex.ac.uk
J.P.Hardie-Bick@sussex.ac.uk
Maria Mercedes Frabboni's research interests
include copyright law and the creative industries;
collective licensing of copyright; law & fashion; art
law; law and economics of intellectual property;
competition law and economics; economic
analysis of the creative industries.
James Hardie-Bick's research interests include
social theory, self-identity, crime and deviance
and ethnographic research.
Prof. Stuart Harrop
S.Harrop@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Frost
T.M.Frost@sussex.ac.uk
Thomas Frost's research interests centre upon
the following main areas - continental philosophy,
transitional justice and post-colonialism, the
intertwined history of the law and theology.
Stuarts Harrop's research interests are
particularly in the areas of international
regulation and policy relating to biodiversity
management and climate change.
Dr Olli Hellmann
O.Hellmann@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Andres Guadamuz
A.Guadamuz@sussex.ac.uk
Andres Gaudamuz's research areas are in the
fields of copyright, open licensing, creative
commons, intermediary liability, open source
software, cloud computing, virtual worlds,
networks and internet regulation.
Olli Hellmann's main research interests include
political corruption, political party organisation,
and party systems. Olli studies these issues in
the social and political context of the
developing world.
Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith
J.T.Hinton-Smith@sussex.ac.uk
Dr James Hampshire
J.A.Hampshire@sussex.ac.uk
James Hampshire's research interests include politics of immigration in liberal democracies,
migration policy and policymaking in the UK
and Europe, border controls and digital
technologies, racial politics and anti-racism,
citizenship and naturalization policies
Tamsin Hinton-Smith's main research areas
include gender, social inequalities,
qualitative methods, and participation in
adult learning and employment; particularly
lone and teenage parents, and widening
participation in higher education.
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Sociology
Prof. Dan Hough
Dr Tarik Kochi
D.T.Hough@sussex.ac.uk
T.Kochi@sussex.ac.uk
Dan Hough analyses issues of corruption and
anti-corruption, both within the UK and also the
wider world. Dan also works on issues of
devolution and constitutional change, as well as
left wing politics in particular and German
politics more generally.
Tarik Kochi's main areas of research are legal
and political theory, critical theory, international
law, contemporary problems of war and global
violence and the relationship between law and
capitalism.
Mr Laurence Koffman
Dr Helena Howe
H.R.Howe@sussex.ac.uk
Helena Howe's research interests lie in
intellectual property law, land law
and environmental law and, in particular in the
areas where these intersect. Helena is
particularly interested in notions of obligation,
duty and responsibility as they relate to these
areas of law.
L.Koffman@sussex.ac.uk
Laurence Koffman's research interests include
sentencing and penal policy, youth justice and
diversion, anti-social behaviour orders, the
politics of criminal justice, crime surveys and
rural crime and the law of contract.
Dr Phoebe Li
Phoebe.Li@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Michael Kearney
M.G.Kearney@sussex.ac.uk
Michael Kearney's research interests are
broadly in the area of public international law,
particularly international humanitarian law,
international criminal law, and human rights.
Phoebe Li is interested in exploring the interface
between world trade, intellectual property, and
technology regulation, and the extent to which
this can be used to embody human rights
claims under globalisation.
Mr Craig Lind
C.Lind@sussex.ac.uk
Prof. Heather Keating
H.M.Keating@sussex.ac.uk
Heather Keating's main areas of research are
the criminal law and family (especially child) law
and the role played in each by the concept(s) of
responsibility.
Craig Lind's research focus is concerned with the
relationship between culture, sexuality and legal
regulation (particularly in the realms of family
law). Craig has been researching the way in
which sexual identity is understood in other
cultures and the ways in which western
regulatory regimes impact upon those identities.
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Sociology
Dr Emily Lydgate
Mr Donald McGillivray
E.Lydgate@sussex.ac.uk
D.McGillivray@sussex.ac.uk
Emily Lydgate is interested in the relationship
between trade liberalization and domestic
regulatory autonomy, particularly with regards to
fundamental non-market values such as
environmental preservation and social justice.
Prof. Chris Marsden
C.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk
Chris Marsden's current research focuses on
intermediary liability, cloud computing, virtual
worlds, network neutrality, internet regulation,
self- and co-regulation and telecoms law.
Prof. Luke Martell
Donald McGillivray's research interests fall
generally within the areas of land use and
environmental regulation, including the
intersection of these fields (especially access to
land for recreational and environmental reasons).
Mr Francis McGowan
F.McGowan@sussex.ac.uk
Francis McGowan’s research interests are
broadly within the areas of European Political
Economy and European Union Policy Making.
Of particular interest are issues surrounding
energy and climate policy at the national and
EU levels.
L.Martell@sussex.ac.uk
Luke Martell's research interests are in socialism,
social movements, alternative societies and
global politics.
Dr Hannah Mason-Bish
H.Mason-Bish@sussex.ac.uk
Hannah Mason-Bish's research interests are
in hate crime policy, gender/disability and
victimisation and social constructionism.
Prof. Susan Millns
S.Millns@sussex.ac.uk
Sue Millns' main research interests lie in the
areas of European and comparative public law,
constitutional law, human rights and feminist
legal studies.
Dr Laura Morosanu
Prof. Alan Mayhew
A.Mayhew@sussex.ac.uk
Alan Mayhew is an economist specialising in
problems of economic transition and integration in
central and eastern Europe as well as economic
policy and budgetary issues in the European Union.
L.Morosanu@sussex.ac.uk
Laura Morosanu's research interests are in
the areas of migration and ethnicity, with a
particular focus on social relations and
socialisation practices.
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Sociology
Ms Verona Ni Dhrisceoil
Dr Amir Paz-Fuchs
V.Ni-Dhrisceoil@sussex.ac.uk
A.Paz-Fuchs@sussex.ac.uk
Verona Ni-Dhrisceoil's principal areas of research
lie in language rights in international human rights
law, implementation of the ECRML, comparative
language legislative regimes, the relationship
between law and language in post- conflict
societies and finally, conceptual and practical
difficulties with language rights.
Amir Paz-Fuchs primary research interests are
privatisation and outsourcing, human rights,
social rights and social justice. and legal and
political philosophy.
Dr Alison Phipps
A.E.Phipps@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Kai Oppermann
K.Oppermann@sussex.ac.uk
Kai Opperman's primary research interests lie in
the areas of foreign policy analysis, the
domestic politics of European integration,
referendums in European integration, British and
German foreign and European policy.
Dr Emanuela Orlando
E.Orlando@sussex.ac.uk
Emanuela Orlando's primary research interests
lie in the areas of EU and international
environmental law and environmental
governance.
Alison Phipps is primarily interested in the
politics of the body, in particular as they play
out around issues to do with gender, violence,
sexuality and health.
Dr Emily Robinson
E.A.Robinson@sussex.ac.uk
Emily Robinson specialises in modern British
politics and history. Emily writes about political
identities and the politics of time, including
tradition, nostalgia, progress and modernity.
Prof. Malcolm Ross
M.G.Ross@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah
A.Owusu-Bempah@sussex.ac.uk
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah is primarily interested
in the relationship between the law of evidence,
criminal procedure, and the right to a fair trial.
Malcolm Ross' research interests include
European Union Law, with special reference to
the interface of market and social objectives, a
vital question now that treaty goals include a
'highly competitive social market economy'.
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Sociology
Dr Susie Scott
Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak
S.Scott@sussex.ac.uk
A.A.Szczerbiak@sussex.ac.uk
Susie Scott has research interests in self-identity
and interaction, Goffman’s dramaturgical theory
and Symbolic Interactionism.
Dr Lizzie Seal
E.C.Seal@sussex.ac.uk
Lizzie Seal's research interests include women
who kill, gender and crime, capital punishment,
cultural criminology, and historical criminology.
Prof. Stephen Shute
Aleks Szczerbiak's research interests include
central and east European politics, political
parties and electoral politics, contemporary Polish
politics and society, the impact of European
integration on domestic politics and the politics of
lustration and de-communisation.
Prof. Erika Szyszczak
E.Szyszczak@sussex.ac.uk
Erika Szyszczak's research interests are EU
competition law, state aid, liberalisation, services
of general economic interest.
S.C.Shute@sussex.ac.uk
Stephen Shute's research focuses on criminal
law and criminal justice and explores these
areas from a theoretical, empirical, critical,
historical, and comparative perspective.
Dr Charlotte Skeet
C.H.Skeet@sussex.ac.uk
Charlotte Skeet's research is in the areas of
gender, constitutional law and governance
(particularly human rights and devolution);
feminist legal theory; comparative law; law and
society; law and development, post-colonial legal
theory and legal "Orientalism."
Prof. Paul Taggart
P.A.Taggart@sussex.ac.uk
Paul Taggart's research interest include
European political parties; Euroscepticism; the
domestic politics of European integration and
populism.
Dr Adrian Treacher
A.H.Treacher@sussex.ac.uk
Adrian Treacher's research interests lie in the
fields of French foreign policy and of the
foreign and security policy of the European
Union, as well as European security.
Mrs Teresa Sutton
T.J.Sutton@sussex.ac.uk
Teresa Sutton's research interests span land
law, ecclesiastical law and legal history.
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Dr Kenneth Veitch
Dr Catherine Will
K.J.Veitch@sussex.ac.uk
C.Will@sussex.ac.uk
Kenny Veitch's areas of research interest include
sociology of law; legal and social theory and the
welfare state.
Prof. Richard Vogler
R.K.Vogler@sussex.ac.uk
Richard Vogler's main research interest is in
comparative criminal law and justice, particularly
in the fields of policing, due process, lay
participation and imprisonment.
Catherine Will’s research interests lie in the
sociology of science and technology,
specifically on the idea of evidence and the
appeal of prevention. Empirically, Catherine has
mostly worked on healthcare and medical work,
but is also interested in questions about
science, statistics and public involvement in a
wide range of professional and policy areas
Mrs Joanna Wilson
J.L.Wilson@sussex.ac.uk
Miss Lara Walker
lw264@sussex.ac.uk
Lara Walker's research focuses on cross border
family law at both the regional and international
level.
Dr Mark Walters
Mark.Walters@sussex.ac.uk
Mark Walters' principal research interests lie in
the field of criminal law, criminology and criminal
justice. More specifically, Mark specialises in the
study of hate crime and restorative justice
Prof. Paul Webb
Jo Wilson's research interests fall in the area of
commercial law generally but with particular
reference to domestic and international bank
regulation and the rights of the insured under
an insurance contract.
Dr Jingchen Zhao
Jingchen.Zhao@sussex.ac.uk
Jingchen Zhao's research specialism is within
corporate law, corporate social responsibility
and corporate governance, and I also
contribute to research in the areas of
insolvency law, international trade law, contract
law and commercial law.
P.Webb@sussex.ac.uk
Paul Webb's research interests lie in the field
of representative democracy, with a particular
focus on British and comparative party
politics, and electoral processes.
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