Staff Profile

I am the Degree Programme Director for UG Programmes in Sociology at Newcastle.

My research is about knowledge-production and policy-making in the areas of post-immigrant integration, citizenship, 'race' and class. I am interested in state regulation and disruptive agency, the politics of crisis and the circulation of far-right ideology.

Before joining Newcastle, I taught political sociology and social policy at the University of Lincoln, held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute and a research post at the the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol.

Editorial Boards: The Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Ethnicities

Member of College of Experts: Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (2025)

2024/25: SOC2087 Identity and Difference in Multicultural Britain

Previous teaching at Newcastle: SOC1032 Politics and Society, SOC2058 Understanding Social Change and Transformation, SOC8052 Theories of Society, Power and Politics

Member of the Advisory Group for the revision of the QAA Sociology Benchmarks (2025)

External Examiner: MSc programmes in Sociology (University of Bristol); MA programmes in Migration, Refugee and Development Studies (University of Sussex)

• Articles

  • Dobbernack J. The Spectacular Politics of the UK "Small Boats Crisis". International Political Sociology 2025, 19(1).
  • Dobbernack J. Making the "left behind" as a subject of crisis. The Sociological Review 2024, 72(2), 258-275.
  • Dobbernack J. Civic Inclusion for Permanent Minorities: Thinking through the Politics of "Ghetto" and "Separatism" Laws. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2022, 45(16), 568-590.
  • Dobbernack J. Making a presence: Images of polity and constituency in British Muslim representative politics. Ethnicities 2019, 19(2), 292-310.
  • Dobbernack J. The missing politics of muscular liberalism. Identities 2018, 25(4), 377-396.
  • Dobbernack J. Zivilisation und Politik. Positionen in der Beschneidungsdebatte [Civilisation and Politics. Positions in the debate on male circumcision]. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 2016, 29(2), 34-43.
  • Brown W, Dobbernack J, Modood T, Newey G, March AF, Tønder L, Forst R. What is important in theorizing tolerance today?. Contemporary Political Theory 2015, 14(2), 159-196.
  • Dobbernack J, Meer N, Modood T. Misrecognition and Political Agency. The Case of Muslim Organisations in a General Election. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2015, 17(2), 189-206.

• Authored Books

  • Dobbernack J. The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014.
  • Dobbernack J, Modood T. Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Report

  • Dobbernack J. Citizenship, Nationality and Immigration in Germany. Ottawa: Global Centre for Pluralism, 2017.