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Director Professor Peter Ratcliffe joined the Department to teach courses on social statistics and social research methods. He contributes to MA quantitative methods teaching and the more methodologically oriented sections of Sociological Imagination and Investigation. Following his research in the area of race and ethnic relations, his teaching incorporated the third year option on 'Race', Difference and the Inclusive Society.
 
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Senior Research Fellow and CRED Centre Manager Dr Teresa Staniewicz is also Project Manager for two projects for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), an EU statutory body. One is the InFoPortal Project; the other being the Comparative Project (2011 - 2015). She has produced many policy reports for FRA over the past six years. Teresa currently Co-convenes the ‘Race’, Difference and the Inclusive Society (3rd yr undergraduate) module with Peter. Her areas of interest and specialties, as reflected in her academic output, are broadly: identity construction (sub-cultural; national) in white minority ethnic (diasporic) communities, the role of sedentarism in the situational experiences of groups such as Travellers, Gypsies, and Roma; the formation of demographic datasets of such ‘hidden’ minority communities; analysing migratory patterns in urban and rural settings, and, the experiences of, post-accession labour migrantion. Other interests span the following:
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