Leadership team in the School for Business and Society

Dean of School

Principal Investigator FixOurFood

Discipline: People, Operations and Marketing

Professor of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Comparative social policy analysis
  • The policy making process
  • Political economy of welfare

Deputy Dean for Resource Planning

Discipline: Work Management and Organisation

Research interests:

Professions, Professional Regulation, Professional Firms (Law and Consulting), Public Management, Outsourcing, Comparative Institutions impacting on the workforce, Flexibility and Temporary Employment.

Jane Barrand

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

 Associate Dean for Internationalisation

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Health and social services management and delivery
  • Welfare policy
  • Medical tourism

Associate Dean for Research and Impact

Discipline: Work Management and Organisation

Joint Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning-Student Experience

Reader

Discipline: Accounting and Finance

Joint Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning-Student Experience

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Self-employment, labour market policies and social protection
  • Democratisation of public services
  • Politics of welfare

Associate Dean for Staff Development and EDI

Discipline: People, Operations and Marketing

Associate Dean for Post Experience Education & Accreditation

Discipline: Work Management and Organisation

Research interests:

Airline pilots, gender issues, gender at work, women pilots, human factors.

Deputy Dean (Strategy and Academic Planning)

Chair of Animal Organization Studies

Discipline: Work Management and Organisation

Research interests:

Ethnography, analysis of workplaces where there are mixed species, human-animal relations, ethics of food production, animal welfare and care.