Sociology and Social Policy staff

Find contact details and information about Sociology and Social Policy staff.

Programme director

Dr Jennifer de Saxe

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

MY 1006, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology0
School of Social and Cultural Studies

MY 1006, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Postgraduate coordinator

Dr Mike Lloyd

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

mike.lloyd@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 5678
MY 1015, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Programme staff

Dr Jennifer de Saxe

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

MY 1006, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology0
School of Social and Cultural Studies

MY 1006, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: White Supremacy, hegemonic whiteness, knowledge production, inequality, philosophies of education... read more

Prof Kevin Dew

Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

kevin.dew@vuw.ac.nz
04 463 5291
MY 1001, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Sociology of Health and Illness, Health professional/patient interaction, Public health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine... read more

Sociology Sociology not elsewhere classified

Dr Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul

Lecturer in Social Policy
School of Social and Cultural Studies

janepicha.cheva-isarakul@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 5371
MY 1008, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Statelessness; immigration and citizenship policies; second generation youth migrants; regimes of citizenship and belonging; regimes of documents and... read more

Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Policy Political Science Sociology Migrant Cultural Studies

Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

chamsy.el-ojeili@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6740
MY 1016, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Social theory; history of ideas; political sociology; extremism; utopianism... read more

Sociology Social Theory Cultural Studies

Dr Carol Harrington

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

carol.harrington@vuw.ac.nz
04 463 7451
64 4 463 7451
MY 1020, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Politics and policy on violence, sexual violence and sex work; Feminisms; Governmentality and gender; Gender and digital media. I am available for MA and PhD... read more

Sociology Gender Specific Studies

Dr Mike Lloyd

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

mike.lloyd@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 5678
MY 1015, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Ethnomethodology, sociology of everyday life, mobile interaction, tree legacies... read more

Sociology

Dr Liana MacDonald

Senior Lecturer in Sociology
School of Social and Cultural Studies

liana.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 886 5323
MY MY1012, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Boulcott Memorial Research Project HUTT CITY COUNCIL | VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON 15 August 2022 – 27 April 2023 Teaching Iwi and Kiwi histories in the... read more

History and Philosophy of Education Maori History Race and Ethnic Relations Sociology Maori Education (excl. Early Childhood and Primary Education) Cultural Studies

Joe Potter

Assistant Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

joe.potter@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Māori social issues, settler-colonialism, settler-state power, violence, incarceration, critical & decolonizing methodologies... read more

Dr Rhonda Shaw

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

rhonda.shaw@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6134
MY 1007, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Sociology of morality and ethics; bioethics; embodiment; tissue and organ exchange, assisted human reproduction; human milk sharing; families and... read more

Sociology Culture, Gender, Sexuality Bioethics (human and animal)