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Professor Jon Ensor Director (Equitable Development; Environmental Governance; Climate Change Adaptation)

jon.ensor@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4817

 Saba Joshi

Dr Saba Joshi Deputy Director (International relations; Land governance and agrarian change; South and Southeast Asia)
saba.joshi@york.ac.uk 

Leanne Spencer
IGDC Administrator
l.spencer@york.ac.uk

Lydia Harris 

Lydia Harris
Research Support Officer
lydia.k.harris@york.ac.uk

 

Asha Abeyasekera Lecturer (South Asia; Sri Lanka; intimate relations; homemaking; ethical self making)

Sohail Ahmad Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Urban development; environmental and social sustainability; housing; informality; nexus between health, environment and energy use)
sohail.ahmad@york.ac.uk

Professor Henrice Altink Professor (Caribbean; History; Inequality; Environment)
henrice.altink@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2989 

Federica Angeli Chair in Management (Health inequities; Poverty alleviation; Hybrid organizing; Organizational Learning; Organizational networks)
federica.angeli@york.ac.uk

Katharina Bader Chair in International HR Management (Global mobility; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Gender equality; Comparative research)
katharina.bader@york.ac.uk 

Gideon Baffoe

Gideon Baffoe
Lecturer (Associate Professor) (Sustainable neighbourhoods; Poverty and inequality; Climate change; Food security and agricultural development; Urbanisation and natural resource governance)
gideon.baffoe@york.ac.uk 

Snehasish Banerjee Senior Lecturer (Digital Marketing; Online User Behaviour; Social Media; User-generated Content)
snehasish.banerjee@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5013

Colin Beale Reader (Biology; Ecosystems, Sustainability, Rangelands, Africa, Conservation, Biodiversity)

Sally Beckenham Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Environmental Justice; Indigeneity; Human Rights; Political Geography)
sally.beckenham@york.ac.uk 

Sarah Bezan Postdoctoral Research Associate (settler colonialism, extinction studies, science and technology studies, ecofeminism, animal studies) 

Anindya Bhattacharya Lecturer (Local institutions; Clientelism; India; Left-revolutionary)
anindya.bhattacharya@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2307

Sally Brooks Honorary Fellow (Sustainable Development; Technology; Smallholder Agriculture; Financial Inclusion; Philanthropy)
sally.brooks@york.ac.uk 

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Katherine Brookfield Lecturer in Human Geography (Participation; Built Environment; Mobility; Health)
k.brookfield@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4060

Eleanor Brown Lecturer in Education and Social Justice (Development Education; Buen vivir and alternatives to Development; Non-Formal Education; Global Citizenship; Sustainable Development)
eleanor.brown@york.ac.uk 01904 32 3514

Nina Caspersen Associate Dean (Research) Social Sciences (intra-state conflicts; peace processes and peace settlements; unrecognised/de facto states; rebel governance; state recognition)
nina.caspersen@york.ac.uk 01904 32 3555

Adriana Castelli Senior Research Fellow (Health System Performance; Health Economics; Global Health; Health Policy Reforms)
adriana.castelli@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1462

Claire Chambers Senior Lecturer (Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Migration; South Asia; Arab World)
claire.chambers@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4216

Sangeeta Chattoo Associate Professor/Senior Research Fellow (Citizenship; Ethnicity; Ethnography; Genetics; India; Race; South Asia)
sangeeta.chattoo@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1347

Steve Cinderby Senior Researcher; Co-leader SEI Transforming Governance research theme (Participatory GIS; Urban Health; Creative Methods; Scenarios; Behaviour Change)
steve.cinderby@york.ac.uk 

Sabine Clarke Senior Lecturer in Modern History (Science; Technology; Economic Diversification; Colonial Development)
sabine.clarke@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2974

David Clayton Senior Lecturer in History

Liam Clegg Lecturer (Global Economic Governance; Drivers of change in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Operations; UK Housing Provision)
liam.clegg@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2646

Bill Cooke Emeritus Professor, School for Business and Society at the University of York
bill.cooke@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5050

Peter Coventry Senior Lecturer (Environment and health; nature-based solutions; mental health; trials; evidence synthesis)

Kevin Cowtan Professor (Data Analysis; Climate Science; Structural Biology; Psychology of Science Denial; Philosophy of Science) 
kevin.cowtan@york.ac.uk

Darpan Das Lecturer (Air Pollution; Global South; Africa; South Asia; Environment and Health; Environmental Justice)

 

Dr Sara De Jong Professor (Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to development; NGOs; Gender; Migration)
sara.dejong@york.ac.uk

Marco Sakai Diaz Lecturer 
marco.sakai@york.ac.uk

Omara Dogar Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Health Sciences (Global/public health)
omara.dogar@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1541

Barnaby Dye Lecturer (Political Economy; Development; South-South Cooperation; Infrastructure; Electricity; International Relations)
barnaby.dye@york.ac.uk 

Helen Elsey Senior Lecturer in Global Health (Urban health, public health, gender and equity)
helen.elsey@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1341

Ambrose Field Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Strategy) (Creativity and Community; Technology; Education)
ambrose.field@york.ac.uk

Matthias Flueckiger Senior Lecturer in Economics
matthias.flueckiger@york.ac.uk

Richard Friend Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Human Geography (Governance dimensions of Social and Environmental Change; Climate Change; Mekhong Region)
richard.friend@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4375

Peter Gardner Lecturer (Ethnicity; Language Politics; Postconflict Societies; Political Sociology)
peter.gardner@york.ac.uk

Paul Gready Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights (Transitional Justice; Human Rights; Development Alternatives; Informality)
paul.gready@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5831

Adam Green Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Department of Environment & Geography (Inequality, Sustainability, Economic Growth, Agriculture, Governance, Urbanism)
adam.green@york.ac.uk 

Alex Green Lecturer, York Law School; Academic Associate, 23 Essex Street Chambers (international law; statehood; climate change; climate justice; global justice; political philosophy)
alex.green@york.ac.uk

 

Jean Grugel Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations (Governance; Human rights; Political Economy; Democracy; Citizenship) 
jean.grugel@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2061 

Adrian Gonzalez Lecturer (Political Geography; Political Ecology; Natural Resource Management; Natural Resource Conflict; Environmental Justice)
adrian.gonzalez@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5958

Louise Haagh Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations (Human Development; Social Justice; Democratisation; Economic Governance; Future of Work)
louise.haagh@york.ac.uk 01904 32 3549

Anika N. Haque Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Environment (Sustainable development, Urban development, Urban (climate) resilience, Urban inequality (gender and economic inequality), Informality, Climate change adaptation)
anika.haque@york.ac.uk 

Sam Hellmuth Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science (Language; Spoken Communication; Arabic; Middle East; South Asia)
sam.hellmuth@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2657

Paul Heron Research Fellow (Severe Mental Ill Health (SMI); Comorbid Physical and Mental Health; Research Ethics and Cohorts; Preventative Psychosocial Interventions in Refugees; Southeast Asia Populations)
paul.heron@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1746 

Eric Hoddy Lecturer (development and human rights; climate and environmental change; human rights and social movements; transitional and transformative justice)
eric.hoddy@york.ac.uk

Chris Holden Professor (Global social policy; Global health policy; Global economy; Political economy; Transnational
corporations; International organizations)
chris.holden@york.ac.uk 

Bailey House Lecturer (Psychological Development; Human Evolution; Social Norms; Prosocial Behavior; Cross-Cultural Comparisons; Public Goods Dilemmas)
bailey.house@york.ac.uk 

Paul Hudson Lecturer (Climate Change Adaptation; Disasters; Flooding; Insurance;  Climate Risk; Nature based solutions) 
paul.hudson@york.ac.uk

Zoe Irving Reader in Comparative and Global Social Policy (Global Social Policy; Decent Work; Austerity; Small Island States)
zoe.irving@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1247

Nikita Jacob Research Fellow in the Health Policy team at the Centre for Health Economics (applied econometrics, family, health and development economics, mental health of individuals, especially children and adolescents)
nikita.jacob@york.ac.uk 

Hannah Jennings Lecturer in Global Mental Health (Qualitative Methods; Chronic Disease; Community Interventions)
hannah.jennings@york.ac.uk

Eleanor Jew 
Lecturer in Environment and Development (Land Use Management; Biodiversity Conservation; Conservation Agriculture; Ecosystem Service Provision)
eleanor.jew@york.ac.uk

Jeff Jia Chair Professor of Supply Chain Management (Agricultural Co-operatives; Supply Chain Management; Sustainability; Resilience; Management Theory)
fu.jia@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5308

Edward Joyner Network Philanthropic Partnerships and Alumni Rep; Development Manager - Social Sciences, External Relations
edward.joyner@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4389

Ruth Kelly Research Fellow (Story-telling; Development Imaginations)
rek523@york.ac.uk 

Paul Kerswill Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science (Sociolinguistics; Migration; Ethnicity; Language)
paul.kerswill@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2660

Shahadat Khandakar Lecturer in Accounting (Management and financial accounting; Labour control; Modern slavery; Financial resource management; Accountability; Political Discourse theory)
shahadat.khandakar@york.ac.uk 

Mariam Khokhar Mariam A. Khokhar Research Associate  Department of Health Sciences 
mariam.khokhar@york.ac.uk

Joshua Kirshner Senior Lecturer in Human Geography (Urban Energy Transitions; Development Planning; Political Geography; Migration and Social Exclusion)
joshua.kirshner@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4277

Judith Krauss Lecturer (value chains, political ecology, decoloniality and justice in conservation, Sustainable Development Goals)
judith.krauss@york.ac.uk

Melanie Kreye Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management (circular supply chains, servitization, inter-organizational relationships, service-based business models [servitization])
melanie.kreye@york.ac.uk 

Daniel Kyereko Lecturer (Education and Social Justice; Ghana; West Africa; Africa; Global South)
daniel.kyereko@york.ac.uk

James Lees Associate Lecturer (Physics; Astronomy; Engagement; Outreach)
James.lees@york.ac.uk 

Philip Linsley Professor of Accounting and Risk (Risk; Management; Culture; Financial Inclusion)
philip.linsley@york.ac.uk 01904 32 5018

Darrin McDonald (political-economic factors moulding variable development performance among states in sub-Saharan Africa)
Darrin.mcdonald@york.ac.uk

Sophie Mackinder Associate Lecturer (Social Protection; Fragile States; World Bank; Global Political Economy; Global Social Policy)
sophie.mackinder@york.ac.uk

Robert Marchant Professor (Environmental Change; Tropical Vegetation; Biogeography, Ecology; Palaeoecology; Ecosystem Modelling)
robert.marchant@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4061

Samantha Martin Deputy Head of Media Relations, Communications and Marketing
s.martin@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2029

Amanda Mason-Jones Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health (Injury Epidemiology; Child and Adolescent Health; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Injury and Violence Prevention)
amanda.mason-jones@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1290

Sumit Mazumdar Research Fellow in Global Health (political economy of public policy; health systems financing; health policy; conflict and humanitarian contexts)
 

Noreen Mdege Associate Professor in Global Public Health (Tobacco; Alcohol; Medication Adherence; Low- and Middle- Income Countries)
noreen.mdege@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1836

Masuma Mishu Research Fellow (Health inequality; Oral Health; Mental Health; Tobacco Cessation; NCDs)
masuma.mishu@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1748

Paulo Santos Monteiro Senior Lecturer Economics

Jess Morgan Senior Research Fellow and Paediatric Oncology Trainee at Leeds Children's Hospital (Systematic Reviews; Child Health; Paediatric Oncology; Supportive Care)
jess.morgan@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1082

Peg Murray-Evans Associate Lecturer (Power; Economic Governance; South Africa as a rising power in Global Governance; Commonwealth; EU trade agreements with Africa; Caribbean and Pacific countries)
peg.murray-evans@york.ac.uk 01904 32 3518

Tom O'Brien Lecturer in Political Sociology (Democratisation, Political Leadership, Environmental Sociology, Contentious Politics, and Human Security)
t.obrien@york.ac.uk

Jessica Ochalek Research Fellow (Priority Setting; Health Economics; Economic Evaluation; Global Health)
jessica.ochalek@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1442

Tobias Palma Stade PhD Student, School of Arts and Creative Technologies (participatory practices in audio-visual media; participatory storytelling; decolonial narratives; post-human condition in the arts; interactive storytelling)
tobias.palmastade@york.ac.uk

Alejandro Pena Senior Lecturer in International Relations (International Relations; Political Sociology; Latin American Politics)
alejandro.pena@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2321

Kate Pickett Professor of Epidemiology (Epidemiology; Health; Justice; Inequality)
kate.pickett@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1377

Kelly Redeker Lecturer (Soil-plant-atmosphere Systems; Climate Change Issues)
kelly.redeker@york.ac.uk 01904 32 8560

Paul Revill Professor and Co-Director of the Global Health Team (Health Economics; Economic Evaluation; Decision Making; Resources)
paul.revill@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1488

Phil Roberts Associate Lecturer (Political Economy of Development; Food Production; Economic thought of Development; Marxian analysis; Heterodox Economic Theories)
philip.roberts@york.ac.uk

Jo Rose Programme Leader and Lecturer (Disasters, humanitarian crises; resilience, vulnerability, communities, context)
jo.rose@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1658

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Professor Indrajit Roy Professor (South Asian politics; Global development; New development futures)
indrajit.roy@york.ac.uk

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra Reader (Health System Performance; Health Economics; Global Health; Development Economics)
rodrigo.morenoserra@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1426

Kamran Siddiqi Professor in Public Health (Epidemiology, Public Health, Tobacco, Tuberculosis)
kamran.siddiqi@york.ac.uk  01904 32 1335

Najma Siddiqi Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry (Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Health; Long-term Health Conditions; Care and Treatment)
najma.siddiqi@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1681

Faraz Siddiqui Research Fellow (Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology; Tobacco Cessation; Adolescent Health)
faraz.siddiqui@york.ac.uk

Joe Simpson Research Assistant (Supply chain impacts; Deforestation; Trans-boundary climate risk; Carbon footprint; Resource dependencies)
joe.simpson@york.ac.uk

Noemia Siqueira

Noemia Siqueira Research Associate (Health Economics)

Claire Smith Senior Lecturer (Ethnic conflict; Civil War; Mass Atrocities; Peacebuilding; Southeast Asia)
claire.smith@york.ac.uk 01904 32 2643

Lindsay Stringer

Lindsay Stringer Professor in Environment and Development (Department of Environment and Geography)

Daryl Stump Lecturer (Applied Archaeology; Sustainable Agriculture; Indigenous Knowledge; Traditional Knowledge; IK; ITK)
daryl.stump@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4979

Marc Suhrcke Professor of Global Health Economics 
marc.suhrcke@york.ac.uk

Peter Sutoris

Peter Sutoris Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Education
peter.sutoris@york.ac.uk

Rebecca Tapscott Lecturer (Politics of development; gender; political violence; Uganda; research ethics and their regulation)
rebecca.tapscott@york.ac.uk 

Frances Thirlway Research Fellow (Tobacco Control; Smoking Cessation; Health Inequalities; Harm Reduction; Global Health)
frances.thirlway@york.ac.uk

Thierry Tonon Lecturer (Algal Biology; Metabolism; Enzymes; Biotechnology)
thierry.tonon@york.ac.uk 01904 32 8785

Julia Touza Senior Lecturer (Ecosystem Services; Environmental Hazards; Sustainable Use; Environmental Co-operation)
julia.touza@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4246

Noortje Uphoff Research Fellow (Health Inequalities; Mental Health; Maternal and Infant Health; Pregnancy; Systematic Reviews)
noortje.uphoff@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1056

Adrian Villasenor-Lopez Research Fellow (International Development; Economic inequality with links to health, education &wellbeing; Impact evaluation of environmental policies)
adrian.villasenor-lopez@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1494

Helen Weatherly Senior Research Fellow (Economic Evaluation; Social Care/Long Term Care; Informal Unpaid Care)
helen.weatherly@york.ac.uk 01904 32 1447

Helen Wells Research Development Manager - Social Science
helen.wells@york.ac.uk

Piran White Deputy Director of the NERC-funded Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability Directorate (Biodiversity; Ecosystem Services; Health and Wellbeing; Disease; Governance)
piran.white@york.ac.uk 01904 32 4062 

Reva Yunus Lecturer in Education and Social Justice (Education; Poverty; Precarity; Childhood; Youth; Gender)
reva.yunus@york.ac.uk 

 

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Enoch Adranyi

An investigation into the implications of expanding artisanal and small-scale gold mining on agriculture and livelihoods in Ghana
esa524@york.ac.uk

Lauren Avery

A look at approaches to disability activism through a case study of community support networks for mothers of children with disabilities in Brazil
lauren.avery@york.ac.uk 

Charlotte Bagshaw

Charlotte Bagshaw

Examining anti-child labour collective action in Malawi
cjb636@york.ac.uk

Stella Chiemela

Analysis of the relationship between climate change, conflict, and food insecurity in Nigeria
snc517@york.ac.uk 

Mir Dosteen Hoth

Mir Dosteen Hoth

Elite Capture and Clientelism on the Developmental Budget and Its Impact on the Service Delivery: A case study of Balochistan, Pakistan
mh1971@york.ac.uk

 

Young-Gil Kim

Formal-Informal Institutional Relationships, Subsequent Processes, and Different Outcomes:  Addressing a Problem of Competing Claims to Land in Dili and Ainaro District, Timor-Leste
yk800@york.ac.uk

Diana Infante Vargas

Diana Infante Vargas

Mobility, gender and its context in Saltillo, Mexico; an analysis into informal transport systems through a gender lens
dpiv500@york.ac.uk

Luqman Muraina

Decolonization in the teaching of Development Studies in Nigerian higher education
llm529@york.ac.uk

Lilian Saka

Lilian Saka

The role of gendered institutions in the design and delivery of regionally integrated reproductive health policy in Africa
lilian.chigona@york.ac.uk

Aasim Sheikh

Interactions of Global Activism and Production: Determining
Stakeholder Outcomes

as3145@york.ac.uk

 

Tom Hart Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

  Chris Dye Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Carmen Lacambra Director of Research and Environmental Services Grupo Laera
  Fiona Lambe Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) 
Gale Rigobert Gale Rigobert CEO/Principle Consultant Propel Ltd

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