CUCR Researchers

Emma Jackson

Emma Jackson is an urban sociologist, ethnographer and an editor of the Sociological Review. Her research and writing explore the relationship between everyday practices of belonging, the production of spaces and places in cities, and relations of class, multiculture and urban change.

Emma previously worked at King’s College London and the University of Glasgow and also held an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellowship (2012-2014) before joining Goldsmiths in 2015.

Emma is the convenor for the MA Sociology (Urban Studies). At post-graduate level, she is also convenor for ‘Methodology Now’, ‘Cities and Society’ and ‘Remaking the City’. At undergraduate level she also convenes the module ‘London’, as well as teaching on Undergraduate programmes in Sociology and Criminology.

Peter Coles: Visiting Fellow

Peter Coles is a fine-art photographer, translator and editor and has been a Visiting Fellow in CUCR since 2007, he regularly teaches on the MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths. His interests focus on the urban biosphere and, in 2016, he collaborated with the Conservation Foundation to set up Morus Londinium (supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund) to research, preserve and raise awareness of the cultural heritage of London’s historic mulberry trees. 

Louise Rondel: Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow

Working across urban sociology, environmental studies and critical beauty studies, her thesis Wax works: Hairlessness, infrastructure and the air that we breathe focuses on the relationship between bodies and spaces, urban infrastructures of distribution, walking and embodied methods, lively materials, the uneven distribution of toxicity, labour practices and beauty consumption. 

Viktor Bedö

As an academic with philosophy and design theory background, Viktor Bedö is interested in experimental research methodologies that evolve around embodied knowledge, urban space and technology. As a street game designer, he creates low-tech physical games to understand better how cities work today and prototype how they could work tomorrow.

Viktor is also a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures in Base and founder of Tacit Dimension, an independent street game research lab.

Professor Marjorie Mayo: Emeritus Professor

Marjorie Mayo is a longstanding associate of CUCR and now an emeritus professor.  For more than twenty years has been conducting ground-breaking community development and social justice work combining urban social research and a commitment to policy intervention and practical community solutions.

Roger Green: Visiting Research Fellow

Urban community researcher, community activist, and campaigner. Actively involved in working with marginalised and ‘hard to reach' communities. Commitment to universities working with communities using co-production/co-design, participatory research and engagement methodologies.