Staff Research Interests
The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies offers courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in a variety of subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Outdoor Studies. Consequently the staff has a plethora of research interests both within their specific disciplines as well as offering multidisciplinary insights into certain research topics.
Listed below are some of the research interests of staff and their email addresses.
- outdoor recreation and health
- risk and play
Contact Dan Jones – email d.w.jones@mmu.ac.uk
- Sociology topics including football, mental ill-health, the labour market
- Youth Culture
- Young people, their jobs, training and education.
- The escalation of Gambling, technological addictions
Contact Dr Ken Parsons – email k.parsons@mmu.ac.uk
- Ethics and moral motivation
- Political philosophy and corporate power
- The just war and humanitarian intervention
- Philosophical psychology and the nature of perception
- Mental illness – problems for the concept and its application
- The nature of evidence in medicine and in social science.
Contact Dr Michael Loughlin – email m.loughlin@mmu.ac.uk
- Spirituality
- Abuse
- Spiritual Abuse
- Self
- Group Behaviour.
Contact Dr Lisa Oakley – email l.r.oakley@mmu.ac.uk
- Contemporary British poetry and fiction
- Gothic literature
- Literary theory (particularly deconstruction and Deleuze-influenced theory).
Contact Dr John Sears – email j.sears@mmu.ac.uk
- Transnational Television and cultural flow
- East Asian Television
- Korean TV drama and film
- British cinema of the 1990s
- Contemporary television drama
Contact Dr Jeongmee Kim – email j.kim@mmu.ac.uk
- Sex work: prostitution, pornography, sex trafficking
(especially in relation to violence against sex workers)
- Male sexual violence against women
- Domestic violence
- Cultural criminology
- Displacement – forced migration
Contact Jan Bourne-Day – email j.bourne-day@mmu.ac.uk
- Environmental sustainability
- Community development
- Urban regeneration
Contact Dr Linda Reichenfeld – email l.reichenfeld@mmu.ac.uk
- Sociology of Childhood and Youth/Children and Young People’s Geographies
- Research with children and young people
- Challenging behaviour and work with young people: theory and practice
- Adult-child/youth professional relations and interactions
Contact Vicky Plows – email v.plows@mmu.ac.uk
- Psychological problems related to childbirth
- Childhood Developmental problems
- Aspects of learning and teaching
Contact Marilyn Hackney – email m.hackney@mmu.ac.uk