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

Dressing the Post-Surgical Body: An examination of New Zealand women’s experience, perceptions and body image with reconstructive surgery and bra fit

Contact: aida.amoozegarmontero@vuw.ac.nz

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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

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Dani Pickering

PhD Candidate in Sociology

Supervisors: Dr Jennifer de Saxe and Dr Anita Brady

Restoring relationality: tracing the evolving cognitive praxis of the Tiriti education movement

Contact: dani.pickering@vuw.ac.nz

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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

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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

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Nabilah Husna

PhD Candidate in Sociology

Supervisors: Dr Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul and  Associate Professor Maria Bargh

Everyday solidarity and resistance: Southeast Asian tauiwi for decolonial futures in Aotearoa

Contact: nabilahhusna.binteabdulrahman@vuw.ac.nz

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