Sociology
Get to know our Sociology students and gain an insight into their research.
Aida Amoozegar-Montero
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Associate Professor Rhonda Shaw and Dr Edgar Rodriguez
Contact: aida.amoozegarmontero@vuw.ac.nz
Max Baddeley
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr Mike Lloyd and Dr Catherine Cauldwell
Epistemological developments within the sociology of art
Contact: max.baddeley@vuw.ac.nz
Taiki Cheng
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Professor Kevin Dew and Dr Helen Rook
Being a hospice social worker: A membership categorisation anaylsis study on hospice social work in mainland China
Contact:taiki.cheng.vuw.ac.nz
Jack Foster
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr el-Ojeili and Dr Dylan Taylor
Policy Evolution at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Contact: jack.foster@vuw.ac.nz
Georgia Lockie
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili and Dr Dylan Taylor
Real Utopias immanent resistance ontology, subjectivity and emancipation
Contact: georgia.lockie@vuw.ac.nz
Supuni Liyanagunawardena
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Professor Kevin dew and Professor Antonia Lyons
Medications in everyday life: A study on a rural community in Sri Lanka
Contact: supuni.liyanagunawardena@vuw.ac.nz
Brent Neilson
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili and Professor Kevin Dew
The Ground Shifting Beneath Us: Collective memory of New Zealand's neoliberal revolution
Contact: brent.neilson@vuw.ac.nz
Dani Pickering
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr Dylan Taylor and Dr Jennifer de Saxe
Reconstructing Kāwanatanga: activating Pākehā support for constitutional transformation
Contact: danni.pickering@vuw.ac.nz
Bonnie Trotter-Simons
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors:Dr Jennifer de Saxe and Dr Dave Wilson
Critical feminist understandings of music and resistance
Contact: bonnie.trottersimons@vuw.ac.nz
Byron Williams
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Supervisors: Dr Jennifer de Saxe and Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili
This is not us?” An African experience of colour-blind racism in Aotearoa New Zealand
Contact: byron.williams@vuw.ac.nz