Staff Profile

I am a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Newcastle University, 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, Newcastle University, 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, Newcastle University, UK (2021)
• BSc (Hons) in Criminology, Northumbria University, UK (2019)

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

Currently teaching on:

SOC1034: Inequalities and Crime

SOC1032: Politics and Society

• Article

  • Mwedzi G, Phipps A. Using Community Power to Tackle Gender-Based Violence: An Intersectional Theorisation. Sociological Research Online 2025, 30(1), 136-152.