Sociology and Social Policy staff

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Programme Director

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

Postgraduate Coordinator

Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

chamsy.el-ojeili@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1016, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Programme staff

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

Dr Jennifer de Saxe

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

jennifer.desaxe@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1006, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

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

Sociology Social theory Sociology of education Sociology not elsewhere classified

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, Cancer survivorship, health professional/patient interaction, Public health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Sociology Sociology not elsewhere classified

Dr Chamsy el-Ojeili

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

chamsy.el-ojeili@vuw.ac.nz
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

Ben Laksana

Teaching Fellow

Tutor SOSC

School of Social and Cultural Studies|School of Social and Cultural Studies

ben.laksana@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Mike Lloyd

Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

mike.lloyd@vuw.ac.nz
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
MY MY1012, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Māori and Indigenous education, Māori history, Indigenous sociology, settler colonial whiteness, ethnography and race, theories of racism and whiteness. read more

Te mātauranga Māori kāore anō kia whakarōpūtia i wāhi kē (Māori education not elsewhere classified) Sociology Cultural studies Te hītori Māori (Māori history) History and philosophy of education

Joe Potter

Assistant Lecturer
School of Social and Cultural Studies

joe.potter@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Abuses of Power & Complaint, Higher Education & Inequalities, Māori social issues, Critical & Decolonizing Methodologies, Crime & Incarceration... read more

Dr Rhonda Shaw

Associate Professor
School of Social and Cultural Studies

rhonda.shaw@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1007, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Bioethics; families and relationships; assisted human reproduction; embodiment; tissue and organ exchange, human milk sharing; gender, sexuality and identity;... read more

Sociology Bioethics