Emeritus professors

I am a founding editor of History Workshop Journal; and am on the scientific committee of Quest/Cost EU ‘Who cares in Europe?’, the advisory board of Psychoanalysis and History, and the Advisory of the Raphael Samuel Centre, Birkbeck University of London.

A selection of published work is listed on Goldsmiths' Research Online.

She is Executive Editor of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, past-Chair of the Sociology of Religion study group within the British Sociological Association, a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, and past Trustee of the Sociological Review. She also serves as a Member, Office for National Statistics, on census questions regarding Ethnicity, Identity, Language and Religion.

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Kiran is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Socioloigy. 

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Emma's previous projects include research on young homeless people and urban space, and comparative research on the middle classes in Paris and London.

Emma's research is driven by a series of questions about how people make a place for themselves in and across places. What shapes, enables and limits these spatial practices? How do these practices intersect with other forms of power, control, histories to produce spaces? How do everyday spatial practices impact on a person’s sense of self?

See her research outputs on Goldsmiths Research Online. 

She is interested in cities, having done research in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Fuzhou, Addis Ababa, Kuwait City and Seoul. She is currently the Director of the British Academy’s Cities and Infrastructure Programme, which comprises a portfolio of 18 multi-disciplinary projects delivering, with local partners, vital improvements in infrastructure in cities in the global south.

Author of many books and papers, she specialises in visual, spatial and biographical methods, often working with photographers and artists, most recently with Michael Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), and Douglas Harper (Duquesne University, Pittsburg). Caroline is the author of Flip-Flop: a journey through globalisation’s backroads, published by Pluto Press in 2014 and in Brazil in Portuguese in 2018 as Nas Trilhas De Um Chinelo. The accompanying website can be found at www.flipfloptrail.com. She is co-author, with Douglas Harper, of Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes and Journeys, published (2009) by the University of Chicago Press.

Caroline holds a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship Serious Money: a Mobile Investigation of Plutocratic London. She recently worked with Ho Wing Chung, at the City University Hong Kong, on an ESRC project, ‘What calculations and Strategies Drive Young Migrants? An Investigation of the Traffic between London, Hong Kong and Beijing’, and with Roger Burrows, Rowland Atkinson, Tim Butler and Mike Savage on ‘The Very Affluent Worker: A Study of Everyday Life in the Alpha Territory’.

Her research focuses on the theoretical, methodological and ethical implications of recent developments in the sciences of animal cognition and behaviour for social science thinking (i.e. for the kinds of concepts and theories deployed in the social sciences; for the relations of animals to social science teaching and research; etc.).

Her research theorises human agency and participation in everyday life especially in the experiences of marginalised social groups. I am interested in the ways in which agency, or lack thereof, is lived and experienced in everyday life across cultures and historical periods.

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She is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology. 

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Evelyn was PI of an ERC funded project, Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS; 2014-20). She is Founding and Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE open access journal, Big Data & Society, ranked in 2021 as the top journal (1/110; IF 5.987) in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Journal Citation Reports.  Recent books are Data Practices: Making up a European People (co-edited with Stephan Scheel)(2021); Being Digital Citizens, 2^nd Edition (co-authored with Engin Isin) (2020); and Data Politics (co-edited with Didier Bigo and Engin Isin) (2019).  

Evelyn’s publications can be found on Goldsmiths Research Online.

He has a keen interest in early American Pragmatism, radical pluralism, ecological humanities and more-than-human worlds, speculative and empirical philosophy, postcolonial thought, religious and non-secular practices, the art of life, and the history and philosophy of the human sciences.

He is the author of two monographs: The Adventure of Relevance (Palgrave Macmillan, with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers) and Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse (forthcoming). He has co-edited Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures (Routledge), and guest-edited Isabelle Stengers and the Dramatization of Philosophy (SubStance, 2018) and Problematizing the Problematic (Theory, Culture & Society, forthcoming).

Martin is a Founding Member of the Association for Process Thought.

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Vik's research interests are Social theory and philosophy; Marxism and critical theory; moral theory; masculinity and sexual politics. The body and emotional life; ecology and social theory; holocaust and modernity, psychoanalysing psychotherapy; identity and ethnicities. Men and feminism; sociology of knowledge; morality and social theory; equality and liberal theory.  

Vic has published widely.

See Vic's research outputs on Goldsmiths Research Online.

David Silverman is also Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane and Visiting Professor in the Management Department at King's College, University of London and the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney. He has authored 15 books and 45 journal articles on qualitative research, ethnography and conversation analysis.

Teaching

David pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD students. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, he has continued publishing methodology books. David has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending time with his grandchildren.

He studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research, University College Dublin and the University of Warwick, from which he received his PhD in 2003.

He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010), and (with Jeff Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute (2015). He edited The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics with Lorenzo Chiesa, and has translated several works by Alain Badiou, as well as Antonio Negri, Furio Jesi and Franco Fortini.

See his research outputs on Goldsmiths Research Online.