Staff Profile
Gabriella Mwedzi
Lecturer in Sociology
- Email: gabriella.mwedzi@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: HDB 4.126
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
缅北禁地
Henry Daysh Building
缅北禁地
NE1 7RX
Background
I am a Lecturer in Sociology at 缅北禁地. I hold a PhD in Sociology from 缅北禁地, awarded in 2025. My doctoral thesis, Between Faith, Community, and Belonging: The Intersectional Struggles of Black Pentecostal Christian Migrant Women Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in the UK, explored the complex interplay of religion, migration, and gendered violence within diasporic communities.
Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Sociology, 缅北禁地, UK (2025)
- Thesis: Between Faith, Community, and Belonging: The Intersectional Struggles of Black Pentecostal Christian Migrant Women Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in the UK
- MA in Sociology and Social Research, 缅北禁地, UK (2021)
- BSc (Hons) in Criminology, Northumbria University, UK (2019)
Research
Research Interests:
- Decolonial research practices and Black feminist ethics
- Ethical and ethnographic research methodologies
- African Pentecostal Christianity and diasporic religious identities
- Migration, belonging, and intimate partner violence
- Processes of social and cultural marginalisation
- Black feminism and intersectionality in sociological research
Teaching
Currently teaching on:
SOC1034: Inequalities and Crime
SOC1032: Politics and Society
Publications
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Article
- Mwedzi G, Phipps A. . Sociological Research Online 2025, 30(1), 136-152.