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We have more than 100 members with expertise and research interests spanning multiple disciplines and geographic regions.

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Dr Asha Abeyasekera

Lecturer

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • South Asia
  • Sri Lanka
  • Intimate relations
  • Homemaking

Dr Sohail Ahmad

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Urban development
  • Environmental and social sustainability
  • Housing
  • Informality

Professor Henrice Altink

Professor in Modern History

Research interests:

  • Social inequalities in the Caribbean

Professor Federica Angeli

Deputy Dean for Strategy and People

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Health inequities
  • Poverty alleviation
  • Hybrid organizing
  • Organizational Learning

Professor Katharina Bader

Chair in International HR Management

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Global mobility
  • Diversity
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Gender equality

Dr Gideon Baffoe

Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Research interests:

  • sustainable cities and neighbourhoods
  • urbanization, poverty and inequality
  • livelihood and environmental change
  • climate change
  • ecosystem services
  • agricultural development and food security
  • natural resource governance

Dr Snehasish Banerjee

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Digital Marketing
  • Online User Behaviour
  • Social Media
  • User-generated Content

Professor Colin Beale

Reader

Department of Biology

Research interests:

  • Biology
  • Ecosystems
  • Sustainability
  • Rangelands

Dr Sally Beckenham

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Environmental Justice
  • Indigeneity
  • Human Rights
  • Political Geography

Dr Anindya Bhattacharya

Lecturer

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Research interests:

  • Local institutions
  • Clientelism
  • India
  • Left-revolutionary

Katherine Brookfield

Senior Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Participation
  • Built Environment
  • Mobility
  • Health

Dr Sally Brooks

Honorary Fellow

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Sustainable Development
  • Technology
  • Smallholder Agriculture
  • Financial Inclusion

Dr Eleanor Brown

Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education

Research interests:

  • Development Education
  • Buen vivir and alternatives to Development
  • Non-Formal Education
  • Global Citizenship

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Writer in Residence

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

Nina Caspersen

Associate Dean (Research)

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Intra-state conflicts
  • Peace processes and peace settlements
  • Unrecognised/de facto states
  • Rebel governance

Adriana Castelli

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Health System Performance
  • Health Economics
  • Global Health
  • Health Policy Reforms

Dr Claire Chambers

Professor of Global Literature

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Migration
  • South Asia

Dr Sangeeta Chattoo

Associate Professor/Senior Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Citizenship
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnography
  • Genetics

Professor Steve Cinderby

Professor

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Participatory GIS
  • Urban Health
  • Creative Methods
  • Scenarios

Sabine Clarke

Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Chair of the Graduate School Board (Research Students)

Department of History

Research interests:

  • Science
  • Technology
  • Economic Diversification
  • Colonial Development

Dr David Clayton

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Department of History

Research interests:

  • Economic history
  • Environmental history
  • History of Hong Kong
  • History of Britain

Dr Liam Clegg

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Global Economic Governance
  • Drivers of change in the world bank and IMF Operations
  • UK Housing Provision

Karen Coales

Research Associate

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

Programmes of research focusing on mental health and long term conditions in South Asia

Bill Cooke

Emeritus Professor

School for Business and Society

Professor Peter Coventry

Professor of Environment and Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Environment and health
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Mental health
  • Trials

Professor Kathryn Cowtan

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Research interests:

  • Data Analysis
  • Climate Science
  • Structural Biology
  • Psychology of Science Denial

Dr Darpan Das

Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Air Pollution
  • Global South
  • Africa
  • South Asia

Professor Sara de Jong

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to development
  • NGOs
  • Gender
  • Migration

Dr Omara Dogar

Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Global/public health

Professor Helen Elsey

Professor of Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Urban health
  • Public health
  • Gender and equity

Professor Jon Ensor

Director of IGDC, Professor

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Equitable development
  • Environmental governance
  • Climate change adaptation

Dr Tomaz Fares

Lecturer

Department of Politics

Research interests:

  • Chinese studies
  • Agrarian studies
  • International political economy
  • Environment and sustainable development

Ambrose Field

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Strategy

Research interests:

  • Creativity and Community
  • Technology
  • Education

Matthias Flueckiger

Senior Lecturer

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Dr Maria Franco Gavonel

Lecturer

Global Social Policy and International Development

Research interests:

  • Migration
  • Sustainability and sustainable development
  • Human capital 

Dr Nicolai Gellwitzki

Lecturer

Politics & International Relations

Research interests:

  • Ontological security
  • Critical security studies
  • Emotion research in Politics and International Relations
  • International Relations Theory
  • International Political Psychology

Dr Adrian Gonzalez

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability

Director of Learning and Teaching

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Political geography
  • Political ecology
  • Natural resource management
  • Natural resource conflict

Professor Paul Gready

Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights

Centre for Applied Human Rights

Research interests:

  • Transitional justice
  • Human rights
  • Development alternatives
  • Informality

Dr Adam Green

Lecturer in Sustainability

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Inequality
  • Sustainability
  • Economic growth
  • Agriculture

Dr Alex Green

Senior Lecturer

York Law School

Research interests:

  • International law
  • Statehood
  • Climate change
  • Climate justice

Professor Jean Grugel

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Governance
  • Human rights
  • Political economy
  • Democracy

Professor Louise Haagh

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Human development
  • Social justice
  • Democratisation
  • Economic governance

Dr Anika Haque

Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Environment

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Sustainable development
  • Urban development
  • Urban (climate) resilience
  • Urban inequality (gender and economic inequality)

Dr Terry Hathaway

Lecturer, Norwegian Study Centre

Research interests:

  • Political Economy
  • Corporate Power
  • Sustainability
  • Neoliberalism

Professor Sam Hellmuth

Professor

Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Research interests:

  • Language
  • Spoken communication
  • Arabic
  • Middle East

Paul Heron

Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Severe Mental Ill Health (SMI)
  • Comorbid physical and mental health
  • Research ethics and cohorts
  • Preventative psychosocial interventions in refugees

Dr Eric Hoddy

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Development and human rights
  • Climate and environmental change
  • Human rights and social movements
  • Transitional and transformative justice

Professor Chris Holden

Professor of International Social Policy

Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances Committee

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Global social policy
  • Global health policy
  • Global economy
  • Political economy

Dr Bailey House

Lecturer

Department of Psychology

Research interests:

  • Psychological Development
  • Human evolution
  • Social norms
  • Prosocial behavior

Paul Hudson

Programme Leader: MSc Environmental Economics & Environmental Management

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Disasters
  • Flooding
  • Insurance

Dr Hannah Jennings

Lecturer in Global Mental Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Qualitative methods
  • Chronic disease
  • Community interventions

Dr Eleanor Jew

Lecturer in Environment and Development

Research interests:

  • land use management
  • wildlife utilisation
  • conservation agriculture
  • biodiversity indicators
  • ecosystem service provision

Professor Jeff Jia

Chair Professor of Supply Chain Management

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Agricultural co-operatives
  • Supply chain management
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience

Professor Kamran Siddiqi

Professor in Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Epidemiology
  • Public health
  • Tobacco
  • Tuberculosis

Dr Ruth Kelly

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Story-telling
  • Development imaginations

Kelli Kennedy

Research Associate

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • net zero research at the place-based level but with global connections and implications
  • comparative social policy research in UK, Canada, and USA.

Professor Paul Kerswill

Emeritus Professor

Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Migration
  • Ethnicity
  • Language

Dr Shahadat Khandakar

Lecturer in Accounting

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Management and financial accounting
  • Labour control
  • Modern slavery
  • Financial resource management

Dr Joshua Kirshner

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Human Geography

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Urban energy transitions
  • Development planning
  • Political geography
  • Migration and social exclusion

Dr Joshua Kirshner

Senior Lecturer

Environment and Geography

Dr Judith Krauss

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Value chains
  • Political ecology
  • Decoloniality and justice in conservation
  • Sustainable development goals

Professor Melanie Kreye

Associate Dean for Staff Development and EDI

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Circular supply chains
  • Servitization
  • Inter-organizational relationships
  • Service-based business models

Dr Daniel Kyereko

Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education

Research interests:

  • Education and social justice
  • Ghana
  • West Africa
  • Africa

Dr James Lees

Associate Lecturer

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Research interests:

  • Physics
  • Astronomy
  • Engagement
  • Outreach

Professor Philip Linsley

Professor of accounting and risk

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Risk
  • Management
  • Culture
  • Financial inclusion

Dr Sophie Mackinder

Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Social protection
  • Fragile states
  • World Bank
  • Global political economy

Professor Rob Marchant

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Environmental change
  • Tropical vegetation
  • Biogeography
  • Ecology

Dr Amanda Mason-Jones

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Injury epidemiology
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Injury and violence prevention

Dr Sumit Mazumdar

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • political economy and institutional economics aspects of health financing programmes across different global contexts

Dr Noreen Mdege

Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor)

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Tobacco
  • Alcohol
  • Medication adherence
  • Low- and middle- income countries

Dr Masuma Mishu

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Health inequality
  • Oral health
  • Mental health
  • Tobacco cessation

Jess Morgan

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Research interests:

  • Systematic reviews
  • Child health
  • Paediatric oncology
  • Supportive care

Dr Peg Murray-Evans

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Power
  • Economic governance
  • South Africa as a rising power in global governance
  • Commonwealth

Dr Tom O'Brien

Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Democratisation
  • Political leadership
  • Environmental sociology
  • Contentious politics

Ms Jessica Ochalek

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Estimation of the marginal cost per unit of health produced by healthcare systems
  • Methods to inform health benefits package design and move toward universal health coverage
  • Analysis of how the value of pharmaceuticals provided under universal coverage is shared between manufacturers and healthcare systems
  • The economic evaluation of health technologies within healthcare and across sectors

Professor Kate Pickett

Professor of Epidemiology

Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Public health and society

Dr Kelly Redeker

Senior Lecturer

Department of Biology

Professor Paul Revill

Professor

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Use of economic evaluation to inform resource allocation and health care organization

Dr Phil Roberts

Lecturer

Department of Politics & International Relations

Research interests:

  • Heterodox political economy, especially with regards to development
  • The political economy of global food production, particularly within the 'rising powers.'

Dr Jo Rose

Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer

Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • understanding community and local stakeholder engagement in humanitarian responses and development programmes

Professor Indrajit Roy

Professor

Department of Politics & International Relations

Research interests:

  • the politics of global development, with a focus on ‘new development futures’ that promise to reframe the discipline

Dr Marco Sakai

Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Professor Paulo Santos Monteiro

Professor

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Professor Najma Siddiqi

Professor of Psychiatry

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Comorbidity of mental and physical health
  • Long-term health conditions
  • Care and treatment

Mr Faraz Siddiqui

Research Fellow

Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • smokeless tobacco consumption among adolescents and adults in the UK and South Asian countries

Joe Simpson

Research Assistant

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Supply chain impacts
  • Deforestation
  • Trans-boundary climate risk
  • Carbon footprint

Dr Noemia Siqueira

Research Associate

Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • the economic aspects of public and global health, particularly in the Global South

Dr Claire Smith

Senior Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Ethnic conflict
  • Civil war
  • Mass atrocities
  • Peacebuilding

Professor Lindsay Stringer

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Dr Daryl Stump

Lecturer

Department of Archaeology and Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Applied archaeology
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Traditional knowledge

Professor Marc Suhrcke

Honorary Professor

Centre for Health Economics

Dr Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha

Health Economics Research Associate

Department of Health Sciences

Dr Sean Thomas

Reader

York Law School

Research interests:

  • The impact of Circular Economy, specifically the legal aspects
  • The way law deals with waste, in terms of governing supply chains, transactional regulation, and the impact on those who choose to interact with waste (such as freegans
  • The implications of socio-technological change, and the potentially negative impact on commercial and non-commercial users.

Dr Thierry Tonon

CNAP Art Lecturer in Algal Biology

Department of Biology

Research interests:

  • Algal biology
  • Metabolism
  • Enzymes
  • Biotechnology

Julia Touza

Reader

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Ecosystem services
  • Environmental hazards
  • Sustainable use
  • Environmental co-operation

Noortje Uphoff

Research Fellow CCMD

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Research interests:

  • Health inequalities
  • Mental health
  • Maternal and infant health
  • Pregnancy

Adrián Villaseñor

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • International development
  • Economic inequality with links to health
  • Education and wellbeing
  • Impact evaluation of environmental policies

Professor Helen Weatherly

Professor

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Economic evaluation
  • Social care/long term care
  • Informal unpaid care

Professor Piran White

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystem services
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Disease

Dr Reva Yunus

Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education