Sociology

Get to know our Sociology students and gain an insight into their research.

Mitch Davies

MA Student in Sociology

Supervisors: Mike Lloyd and Grant Otsuki

Tracing Sociotechnical Networks in Organisations: An Actor-Network Approach

Contact: mitch.davies@vuw.ac.nz


Dani Pickering

Dani Pickering sitting on sofa

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


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


Josh Cheesman

PhD Student in Sociology

Supervisors: Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili and Dr Eli Elinoff

Hypermodernity, Sociotemporality, and Progress

Contact: josh.cheesman@vuw.ac.nz


Bonnie-Estelle Trotter-Simons

A profile image of 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


Hafsa Tameez

PhD Candidate in Sociology

Supervisors: Dr Chamsy El-Ojeili and Dr Kevin Dew

The Wise Ones are all Mad: Cultural Dimensions of Mental Health over Time in India

Contact: hafsa.tameez@vuw.ac.nz


Recent Graduates

Georgia Lockie

PhD in Sociology

Supervisors: Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili and Dr Dylan Taylor

Real Utopias immanent resistance ontology, subjectivity and emancipation


Taiki Cheng

PhD 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


Aida Amoozegar-Montero

Aida

MA 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