Current

2025  Zahra, Tauheed. 'Negotiating Age, Identity, and Body Image: The lived experiences of mastectomy patients across the life course in Pakistan'. First supervisor: Dr. Anna Wanka. 

2025  Akdeniz, Hilal. 'Biographische Diskontinuitäten und Identitätsbrüche: Lebensverläufe von Betroffenen des türkischen Putschversuchs 2016 in und außerhalb der Türkei'. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. em. Lena Inowlocki (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt). 

2021  Merle Bode: 'White Feminism in the context of migration: a historical study of Cologne 1970-1990'. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner, Neuere Geschichte, Universität zu Köln. 

2021  Lara Saadi: 'Mediatisierte Verhandlungen von (Anti-)Rassismus und marginalisierten Leben. Eine medienethnographische postmigrantischer Podcasts als Widerständige Archive'. First supervisor: Prof Dr. Tanja Thomas, Medienwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Completed

2025  Ruben Mascarenhas Neto (2025). ‘The Voyaging Venuses: Life stories of trasveti, transformista and drag queen artis between Brazil and Germany (1950s-today), first supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze (Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin). 

2020  Eliane Kurz: ‘Zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Konzeptualisierung von Differenz: Intersektionalität in feministischer politischer Praxis’, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz (Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main). 

2018  David Scheller ‘Für ein Recht auf Stadt! Urbaner Raum und Assoziationsweisen in städtischen sozialen Bewegungen. Eine hegemonietheoretische Fallstudie zu Berlin und New York City.’ (The Right to the City. A hegemony theoretical case study on Berlin and New York), GCSC-JLU, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl (Sociology, Justus-Liebig University). 

2016  Lara Jüssen (Research Network for Latin America: Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging, University of Cologne, second supervisor [viva June ‘16]) ‘Latin Americans doing household and construction work in Madrid - Practicing citizenship within translocalized labour markets’. 

2015 Pinar Tuczu (Institute of Sociology, University of Kassel, second supervisor) [viva June ‘15]) ‘Performing Female Kanackness. A Transcultural Feminist Reading of Lady Bitch Ray’.

2024 External Examiner and Viva Eva van Gemert ‘Rescuing Europe. Articulation European Humanity through “Migration Crisis”’. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. William Schinkel, Dr. Rogier van Reekum; School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, ERASMUS Universiteit Rotterdam, October 25th. 

2018 External Examiner and Viva Rosario Fernandez Ossando ‘The Performance of Domestic Labour: Negotiating the Reproduction of Difference in Chile’. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Vikki Bell; internal examiner Rosie Cox. Sociology, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, UCL, February 12th. 

2017 External Examiner and Viva by Huey Shy Chau ‘Brokering Labour Migration. The Role of Home Care Agencies in the Migration of Live-in Care Workers in Switzerland’. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karin Schwiter. University of Zürich, Department of Geography, Zürich, Switzerland, November 27th. 

2017 Viva by Vanessa-Eileen Thompson ‘Solidarities in Black. Anti-Black Racism and the Struggle beyond Recognition in Paris’. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick (Goethe University) and second supervisor: Ramon Grossfoguel (UCBerkeley), Department of Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, November 3rd.  

2015 Viva by Emilia Roig. ‘Gender equality for some at the cost of others: deciphering the intersectional discrimination of racialized care workers in France and Germany’, supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Eder and Prof. Dr. Lilian Mathieu, Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, 17th March. 

2014 Viva by Gisela Marisa Bianchi Pernasilici. ‘Migraciones y trabajo doméstico – de cuidados. El caso de la población andina en el Gran Bilbao’ (Migration and domestic and care work. The case of the Andean population in Great Bilbao), supervised by professors Maria Cristina Blanco Fernández and Marta Luxán Serrano. Departamento de Sociología 2, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 19.12.2014. 

2014 Viva by Tajša Kancler ‘Arte, política y Resistencia en la era posmedia’ (Art, Politics and Restistance in the Age of Postmedia), supervised by professors Carles Aller Ferretjans and Maria Luz Lopez Ruido, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universitat de Barcelona, 14.02.2014. 

2012 External Examiner PhD by Sayak Valencia “Necropolitica y Capitalismo Gore” (Necropolitics and Capitalism Gore) Philosophy Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. 

2007 Viva by Sandra Gil Araújo ‘Las argucias de la integración. ... políticas de integración de inmigrantes: los casos de Cataluña y Madrid’ (The interstices of integration. … politics of intregation of migrants: the cases of Catalonia and Madrid), supervised by Günther Dietz, Department of Sociology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 15.06.2007. 

2006 External Reader PhD by Carmen Romero Bachiller ‘Articulaciones Identitarias: Practicas y representaciones de género y “raza”/etnicidad en “mujeres inmigrantes” en el barrio de Embajadores’ (Identitarian articulations: Practices and representation of gender and ‘race’), supervised by Fernando Garcia Selgas, Department of Sociology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

Completed PhDs and MPhils at University of Manchester

2011 Lorraine Pannett (AHRC Funded, main supervisor, 2006 [viva April]) “Making a livable life in diaspora: 'Doing Justice to Refugee Life History and Identity'  

2011 Susanne Hofmann (LLC Funded, main supervisor, part-time 2005 [viva May]) 'The transgressive woman. An investigation of sexworkers on the Mexican Border' 

2012 Daniel Bendix (ESRC Funded, Co-Supervisor with Professor Uma Khotari, Environmental and Development Studies, 2008 [viva November]) 'Tracing the Discussion on Population and Health' 

2013 Jhon Velez Rodriguez (MPhil, main supervisor, 2010 [viva November]): 'Colombian exiles in Spain 1990-2009: Historical memory as a contribution to the peace and reconciliation process in Colombia' 

2013 Patrick O'Shea (ORS, 2nd supervisor, [viva November '13]) 'Cultural Practices of the Cuban Diaspora in the USA and Europe'

Other PhD Supervisions in the University of Manchester

Alina Rzepniskowska (AHRC Funded, main supervisor, 2011) “Convivial Culture and Migration: Polish Migration in Spain and the UK” (completed 2016) 

Miquel Pomar (co-supervisor, 2011) “Construction of the Muslim Subject in the Moroccan and Pakistani Diaspora in Spain and the UK” (completed 2015) 

Marta F. Suarez (main supervisor, 2011) “Chicano/Chicana Identity Performance in On-Line Communities” 

Jiaqui Hou (co-supervisor with Dr. Elena Barabantseva, 2010): ‘British-Chinese identities in motion in the context of the rise of China’ 

Rebecca Ogden (advisor, AHRC Funded 2010): British Tourism to Cuba: Imaginaries and Emotions.