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Staff Profile

Gabriella Mwedzi

Lecturer in Sociology

  • Email: gabriella.mwedzi@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: HDB 4.126
    School of Geography, Politics and Sociology 
    Â鶹´«Ã½
    Henry Daysh Building
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    NE1 7RX
Background

I am a Lecturer in Sociology at Â鶹´«Ã½. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Â鶹´«Ã½, 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, Â鶹´«Ã½, 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, Â鶹´«Ã½, 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

  • Article

    • Mwedzi G, Phipps A. . Sociological Research Online 2025, 30(1), 136-152.