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Dr Roba Ashraf Abdelbadie

Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Corporate governance, Social network analysis, corporate disclosure/narratives, Diversity, CSR, Sustainability, Shared economy, Public audit, and Accountability.

Anna Ainley

Student Services Administrator (Engagement)

Dr Maryam Alhalboni

Lecturer in Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

  • Market Microstructure
  • Islamic finance
  • Corporate finance

Dr Alex Alterskye

Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

My research focus is concerned with developing understanding in the area of entrepreneurship and context, and I am particularly interested in sociological and institutional theoretical lenses. 

Dr Kate Andersen

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Welfare reform
  • Welfare conditionality and sanctions
  • Gender citizenship

Dr Keith Anderson

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Empirical finance, behavioural finance, bubbles, investment.

Professor Federica Angeli

Deputy Dean for Strategy and People

Chair in Public Management and Strategy

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Kay Anthony

Finance Officer (Wednesday - Friday)

Dr Behrouz Arabi

Research Fellow

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Kirsten Armit

Research Fellow

Discipline: People, work and employment

William Armstrong

Postgraduate Academic Supervisor & Tutor

Research interests:

  • Teaching writing in grammar
  • Use of space in the learning environment
  • Mindset (particularly productive failure) in education.

Jeremy Aroles

Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies

Head of Management and Organization Studies (MOS) group

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Professor John Ashton

Professor of Financial Regulation

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Financial Regulation, Financial Services, Competition. My research examines financial services and utility industries, sustainability, the pricing of financial services, mis-selling and cross-subsidies. Underlying all these studies I am interested in how we might enhance the regulatory approaches to oversee these markets. This interdisciplinary work has involved a diversity of policy work to improve how these markets operate. I have examined these areas using unique proprietary data sets and try to innovate using statistical approaches.

Diane Atkinson

Student Services Manager

Professor Katharina Bader

Chair in International HR Management

Workplace justice and business ethics Joint Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Head of People, Work and Employment Group

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

  • Global mobility
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion in organisations
  • Working parents
  • Hybrid and virtual work

Professor Peter Ball

Professor of Operations Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Operations management, sustainable manufacturing, resource productivity, circular economy, best practice diffusion, digital twins, simulation and modelling.

Debbie Banerjee

Quality Assurance Officer

Professor Snehasish Banerjee

Professor

Head of Group for the Marketing, International Business and Entrepreneurship (MIBE) group

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

  • Authentic versus fake online reviews
  • Fake news on the internet
  • Online consumer behaviour
  • Second screening
  • Digital marketing of brands

Helen Barnes

Personal Academic and Communication Skills Tutor/ Supervisor

Dr Caroline Barrett

Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances Committee

Lecturer

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Alternative pathways to professional occupations, Social mobility, Sociology of Professions, Work, Wellbeing, Qualitative methods.

Fabien Baugard

Careers Consultant

Dr Lynne Baxter

Senior Lecturer

Workplace justice and business ethics Joint Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Managing change, gender, qualitative, privatisation, technology, corruption.

Hayden Beaumont

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Professor Bryony Beresford

Co-Director of Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Disabled or chronically ill children and adolescents and their families
  • Service provision and multi-agency working
  • Developing methodologies for research with children

Nina Biehal

Emerita Professor

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Family support
  • Adoption; foster care
  • Family reunification

Professor Yvonne Birks

Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Associate Director NIHR School for Social Care Research

Director Curiosity Partnership

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Adult social care
  • Older people
  • Self Funders
  • Dementia
  • Capacity Building in social care 

Dr Gillian Bishop

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Associate Dean (Scholarship and Teaching Innovation)

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Barbara Blasko

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Catherine Botting

Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Jonathan Bradshaw

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Poverty and social exclusion
  • Comparative research
  • Child wellbeing

Dr Joanne Bretherton

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Homelessness and housing exclusion
  • Social enterprise service models
  • Service evaluation

Mrs Jess Broadberry

HR Assistant

Dr Sally Brooks

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Global development 
  • Technology and agrarian change
  • Philanthropic foundations

Abby Brown

Open Door Practitioner

Professor Kate Brown

Professor of Social Policy and Criminal Justice

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Care and control of vulnerable people  
  • The concept of vulnerability
  • Vulnerability and policing 

Professor Nicola Burgess

Professor of Operations Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Dr Robin Burrow

Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

  • The relationship between emotions and organizational behaviour, particularly in highly pressurised, safety critical environments.
  • The emergence, transmission and management of ‘emotional climates’ or ‘atmospheres’
  • The lived, practiced realities of morally reprehensible forms of labour at the extreme peripheries of society.
  • The spread and entrenchment of nonreality-based beliefs in organizations and society.

Lisa Burton

Finance Business Partner

Miss Holly Butler

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Ashley Campbell

Student Services Administrator (Engagement)

Amanda Camplejohn

Administrative Manager

Dr Kevin Caraher

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Labour markets, self-employment and welfare reform
  • Comparative social policy
  • Political economy of welfare states

Dr Beth Casey

Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Social work and child neglect
  • Gender and child neglect
  • Evaluation of social intervention

Debbie Casper

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Dr James Cave

Lecturer

Head of Group Strategy and Operations

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Caroline Chaffer

Joint Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning-Student Experience

Reader

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Sabrina Chai

Lecturer

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Public policy
  • Comparative social policy
  • Governance

Professor Sonal Choudhary

Chair in Sustainable Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Lisa Clark

Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Zoe Clark

Placements and Employability Coordinator

Lauren Coneron

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Bill Cooke

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Dr Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey

Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

Shifting ecosystems of markets and states Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

Current research interests and projects

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the voluntary sector

Public service management

Widening participation in education

Role of interest groups in policy development

Privatisation of public services and mixed economy of welfare

Dr Chris Corker

Lecturer

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

History, Management, Strategy, Industry.

Dr Suzanne Couloigner

Career Development Fellow

Discipline: People, work and employment

Dr Susan Cox

Lecturer

Deputy Director Online Programmes

Discipline: People, work and employment

Marilyn Crawshaw

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Impact of donor assisted conception and surrogacy
  • Women and children in Uganda and Pakistan
  • Use of human rights approaches

Mr Patrick Creedon

Postgraduate Academic Tutor and Supervisor

Roz Cumming

Centre Manager, ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

Professor Beatrice D'Ippolito

Director of External Partnerships and Engagement

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Design innovation, organisational capabilities, creative industries, digital technologies.

Professor Teresa Da Silva Lopes

Professor of International Business and Business History

Director of CEGBI

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

International business strategy in complex environments; business history; globalisation; political risk;
brands, trademarks, and international marketing strategy; entrepreneurship; internationalisation theory; alcoholic beverages industry; consumer good industries; the responsibility of multinational enterprises

Dr Kelly Devenney

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people
  • Refugee and migrant youth
  • Care leavers

Professor Alexandra Dias

Professor of Finance and Actuarial Science

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

The economics of Insurance; Retirement Income; Life Insurance; Financial Asset Pricing; Actuarial Science; Multivariate Analysis.

John Ditch

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • History of social policy
  • Comparative social security
  • Governance of public institutions 

Jo Dixon

Lecturer in Social Work and Research Fellow

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Outcomes for children and adolescents in and on the edges of care
  • Leaving care
  • Innovative approaches to working with vulnerable young people

Professor Bob Doherty

Dean of School

Principal Investigator FixOurFood

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Kiet Duong

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Empirical Finance
  • CSR/ESG/Climate Finance

Peter Dwyer

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Social citizenship
  • Welfare conditionality
  • Qualitative methods

Dr Michaela Edwards

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Director of UG programmes

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Dr Mark Egan

Senior Lecturer

Joint UG Admissions Tutor

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Dr Ulrike Ehgartner

Research Associate

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Anna Einarsdottir

Reader

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Employee networks; bullying, harassment and discrimination; critical diversity management; inclusion/exclusion; LGBTQI+ workplace experiences.

Dr Malek El Diri

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Emad Elkhashen

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Tax Avoidance
  • Accounting Education

Professor Nicholas Ellison

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Pierre-Luc Emond

Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Ziyun Fan

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Organization Theory, Critical Management Studies, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods, Secrecy, Organizational Communication, Gossip, Silence, Temporality, Transparency, Liminal Space.

Jon Fanning

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Professor Kevin Farnsworth

Reader in Social Policy

Programme Director of the School of Social and Political Sciences

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Political economy of welfare state
  • The power and influence of business on social and public policy
  • Corporate welfare

Dr Naomi Finch

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Comparative social policy
  • Gender and the welfare state
  • Family policy

Adam Fisher

School Support Administrator

Reception

Dr Sarah Forbes

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Nicola Forsdike

Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Knowledge, wisdom, management history, railways, how people learn, public services.

Dr Maria Franco Gavonel

Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development

Discipline: Social policy

Teresa Frank

Programme Administrator (NIHR SSCR)

Professor Mark Freeman

Professor of Finance

Associate Dean of Faculty

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Alannah Friend

Research Trainee

Discipline: Social work

Claudia Gabbioneta

Chair in Accounting and Management

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Professor Philip Garnett

Professor

Human futures in the digital transformation Joint Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Modelling and simulation of organisational behaviour, data mining and analytics, impact of Big Data analytics on privacy and liberty.

Vasileios Georgiou

Lecturer

Member of Ethics committee

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Ms Jo Gill

Lecturer in Management

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Employee wellbeing, personal development

Dr Alex Gillett

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Marketing, projects, history.

Professor Caroline Glendinning

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Social services, paying for care
  • Older people
  • Disabled people 

Professor Sharon Grace

Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Victimisation
  • Illicit drug use
  • Administration of justice

Dr Katherine Graham

Lecturer in Social Work

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Adult safeguarding
  • Personalisation
  • Social care workforce

Professor Anne-Marie Greene

Chair in Work and Diversity

Director of Research Impact

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Calling, mission, cause, Volunteer Management, Volunteering, Creative Industries, Women-only spaces, Emotions Management, Emotional Labour, Art and activism, Care ethics, Collective organising, Arts based methods.

Emily Greener

Student Engagement Coordinator

Kate Gridley

Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • People with dementia and their carers
  • Research methods involving people with dementia
  • Social care self-funders

Dr Jairaj Gupta

Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Yoo Jung Ha

Senior Lecturer in International Business

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

  • multinational enterprises
  • internationalization/divestment decisions
  • inter-firm alliances
  • innovation 
  • inter-organizational learning
  • sustainability 

Dr Philip Hadley

Research Associate

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Stephen Hall

Senior Industry Research Fellow

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Dr Matthias Hambach

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Director Postgraduate Programmes

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Professor Lindsay Hamilton

Chair in Animal Organization Studies

Deputy Dean of Strategy and Academic Planning

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

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

Dr Shane Hamilton

Reader in Strategy, Management and Society

Transformative food systems Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Agribusiness, agrifood, sustainability, strategy, entrepreneurship, risk management.

Dr Jialing Han

Career Development Fellow

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Hannah Woodcock

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Lydia Harris

Research Coordinator

Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award

Dr Christine Harrison

Associate Lecturer in Skills Development

Julie Harriss

Placements and Employability Coordinator

Laura Haviland

Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Communications Manager (NIHR SSCR)

Network Coordinator, Curiosity Partnership

Beverley Heath

Programme Manager

Discipline: Social policy

Nicola Henson

Head of Faculty Operations

Jen Hill

Programme Manager (NIHR SSCR)

Dr Sam Hinrichs

Research Trainee

Discipline: Social policy

Michael Hirst

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Unpaid caregiving
  • Social security, employment and disability
  • Bereavement 

John Hobcraft

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Biomarkers and behaviour
  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights
  • Gender and generations 

Professor Chris Holden

Professor of Social and Public Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • International and global social policy
  • Global health policy
  • Corporate influence on health and social policy

Dr Matthew Hollow

Senior Lecturer

Chair of the Board of Examiners

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Business History; fraud; entrepreneurship; family business.

Dr Matthew Holmes

Lecturer in Management

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

  • International Development
  • Local nongovernmental organisations
  • Community level programme delivery
  • Creative postcolonial methods within international development research
  • Development as freedom and capability approach
  • Theory of Justice

Dr Dan Horsfall

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy

Deputy Chair of the Board of Examiners (SPSW)

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

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

Professor Carole Howorth

Professor Emerita

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Family business

Social entrepreneurship

Family entrepreneurship

Small business

Dr Yuan Huang

Senior Lecturer in Operations Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

  • Human-centred operations
  • Customised production/services
  • Health care operations (emergency care)
  • Mountain rescue
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Process/flow improvement
  • Resilience

Professor Luisa Huatuco

Professor of Operations Management

Climate resilience and green transitions Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Sustainable supply chains, management of disruptions to distribution/logistics, high value manufacturing and complexity in the supply chain.

Professor John Hudson

Professor of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

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

Dr Carolyn Hunter

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Study of fun, humour and happiness at work, precarious work in the creative industries.

Vicki Imrie

Deputy Student Services Manager

Jules Ineson

Placements Manager

Alex Ionascu

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Dr Annie Irvine

Lecturer in Social Policy and Public Management

Discipline: Social policy

Professor Zoë Irving

Professor of Comparative and Global Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • International, global and comparative social policy
  • Austerity and welfare state change
  • Gender, work and social policy

Dr John Issitt

Lecturer

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Epistemology, Politics, Lived experience, Cross disciplinary learning, Philosophy of language, Reflexive approaches to learning.

Anthonia James

Operations Director, FixOurFood

Rowan Jasper

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Adult social care
  • Mental health
  • Older people, dementia, long-term conditions, self-funders

Dr Joyce Jiang

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Migrant workers, trade unions, employment relation, ethnography, art activism, participatory research, social movement, emotional labour, art-based research methods, social justice, sociology of work.

Dr Hannah Jobling

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Director of Well-being, Health & Communities pathway in the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership

Place, Social Justice and Well-being Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Mental health law, policy and practice
  • Social Work with young people
  • The policy-practice relationship

Justine Johnson

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Dr Uisce Jordan

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Poverty, social security & welfare reform
  • Representations, discourses and lived experiences of ‘welfare’
  • Adopting co-produced and participatory methodologies
  • The stigma of benefits and poverty
  • Devolution and ‘welfare’

Dr Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Social marketing, food, food waste, healthy eating, alcohol consumption, behaviour and social change, food policies, ethical consumption, consumer culture and sociology of food, practice theory, ethnographic research.

Kay Kaur

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Dr Juliet Kele

Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM)

Discipline: People, work and employment

Dr Simon Kelly

Lecturer

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Marketing and Sales Alignment, B2B Marketing and Sales, Value and Value Propositions, Competitive Advantage, Differentiation, Marketing Competencies.

Dr Shahadat Khandakar

Lecturer in Accounting

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Professor Kathleen Kiernan

Emerita Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

 

  • Families and inequalities
  • Family environments and child wellbeing in the early years
  • Family change in developed countries

Professor Ian Kirkpatrick

Chair in Public Management

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

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

Kirsty Knight

Student Services Administrator (UG)

Juliet Koprowska

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Communication in social work
  • Applied conversation analysis
  • Systems theory and group work practice 

Dr Nivedita Kothiyal

Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Gender, Diversity, Postcolonialism, Feminist, employment relations, global south, cross-cultural.

Dr Tina Kowalski

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Qualitative, employee wellbeing, diary studies, human resources, experience of older workers, role of technology on wellbeing, social media and wellbeing, future of work, work life balance, psychological contract.

Melanie Kreye

Associate Dean for Staff Development and EDI

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Stefan Kuehner

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Comparative and global social policy analysis
  • Social investment and productive welfare policy
  • Child wellbeing and benefit stigma 

Sue Lane

Lecturer in Accounting

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Alex Lee

Student Services Administrator (Engagement)

Dr Yuning Li

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Millie Light

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Xiao Lin

Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Dr Lyndsay Lindley

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Research involving older people with cognitive impairment
  • Social care for older people
  • Social care self-funders

Professor Philip Linsley

Professor

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Mary Douglas, risk, risk reporting.

Professor Stephen Linstead

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

Gender, post-feminism, masculinity; Culture, change, continuity; Aesthetics, affect, symbolism; Poetics, language, story; Humanizing organization; Critical management, reflexivity, learning, development; Creativity and creative work and occupations.

Dr Jiaxin Liu

Lecturer in Social and Public Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Shuyi Liu

Research Associate

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Dr Xiaowen Liu

Associate Lecturer in Skills Development

Research interests:

  • Study abroad experience
  • Learning and teaching second language pragmatics
  • Transcultural communication
  • Learner identities
  • Pedagogy supporting international students in developing academic and communication skills.

Dr Yun Liu

Lecturer in Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Professor Charlie Lloyd

Professor of Social Policy and Criminal Justice

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Criminal justice responses to drug use: prisons, probation and police
  • Drug policy
  • Stigmatisation and recovery of people who use drugs

Dr Stuart Lowe

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Housing policy
  • Comparative welfare states
  • Policy analysis 

Nadina Luca

Senior Lecturer

EDI Deputy Chair (including Athena Swan)

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

 

Social marketing; health behaviour change; transformative consumer and service research; food wellbeing; participatory methods; co-creation; community-based interventions; ethics and critical marketing.

Professor Neil Lunt

 Associate Dean for Internationalisation

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

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

Carrie Lyall

PA to the Dean and Administrator

Dr Sophie Mackinder

Senior Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Social protection
  • Social policy in fragile states
  • Global governance of social policy

Dr Adrian Madden

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Viktor Manahov

Reader

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Financial markets, behavioural finance, asset pricing and portfolio management, stock marketing trading, high frequency trading, cryptocurrency trading.

Dr Filippos Maraziotis

Career Development Fellow

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Filippos’s research investigates the intersection of empirical labour economics, organisational practices, and family. His research primarily focuses on examining the connections between family dynamics, gender norms, workplace practices, and employment outcomes through microeconometric applications. Filippos is also interested in identifying potential public and social policy implications arising from his
research.

Andy Marsh

IT Desktop Specialist

Liz Matykiewicz

Associate Dean

Senior Lecturer

Director of Online Programmes

Programme Leader

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Organisational change; leadership; identity; qualitative methods.

Professor Leo McCann

Professor in Management

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Sociology of Work; Critical Management Studies; Professionals and White-Collar Work; Uniformed Services; Emergency Services; History of Management; History of Universities; Military; Qualitative Methods; Ethnography.

Sinéad McCotter

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Professor Alexander McNeil

Professor

Programme Leader

Joint Head of Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Quantitative financial risk management, actuarial science. Projects of a highly mathematical nature.

Jess Millar

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Dr Laura Mitchell

Senior Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Play, learning, ethics, pedagogy, serious games, culture, gamification, training.

Professor Simon Mollan

Professor of Business Strategy

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

  • Banking history
  • International development and development finance
  • Business history
  • Leadership, management, and society

Ian Money

Senior Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship)

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Nicola Moran

Lecturer

Research Fellow

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Mental health social work
  • Mental health, policing and the criminal justice system
  • Unpaid carers and mental health
  • Improving social connections and mental wellbeing for people with mental health problems

Belinda Morris

Operations Director, FixOurFood

Dr Suzanne Mukherjee

Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • The healthcare experiences of children and young people with life-limiting conditions; 
  • The lived experiences and support needs of autistic people and their families across the lifespan;
  • The prevention of stress and burnout in healthcare staff. 

Professor Karen Mumford

Professor

Director of Postgraduate Research

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Equality, wage outcomes, tenure, job satisfaction, networking.

Professor Daniel Muzio

Professor

Deputy Director of Research

Equality, Justice and Ethics Theme Leader

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Professional occupations and organisations.

Kristian Myrseth

Chair in Management

Joint Head of Group

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Ali Naqvi

Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/ Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Carers, mental health carers and young carers
  • Loneliness and isolation
  • Co-production of research and social care services

Rachel Naylor

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Dr Jane Neal-Smith

Reader in Management

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

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

Dr Chandani Nekitsing

Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Professor Michael Zisuh Ngoasong

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Liz O'Brien

Student Services Coordinator (Postgraduate)

Dr Lisa O'Malley

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Veterans and military welfare
  • Scoping study methods
  • Crime prevention and community safety

Ms Olga Eva Rutkovska-Lis

Associate Lecturer and Advisor in Skills Development

Academic & Communication Skills Lead for MSc Management

Research interests:

Olga’s current interests cover exploring interdisciplinarity in course development, educational inequalities, quality assessment within the HE sector as well as teacher education and training, and (online) course design.

Lucy Ormondroyd

School Support Administrator / Reception

Dr Bukola Oyinloye

Research Associate

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Ms Nicola Ozbek

Administrator (HR & General)

Dr Geoff Page

Lecturer

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Anjan Pal

Lecturer in Marketing

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Digital Marketing and Online Consumer Behaviour. I am interested to supervise projects focusing on enhancing technology-mediated user experiences, framing online marketing communications, understanding user-brand interactions, preserving brand's reputation from fake news, exploring peer-to-peer marketplaces, and investigating consumer journey as well as decision-making processes.

Dr Natalie Paleothodoros

Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship)

SBS Programme Leader [Online]

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Dr Nicola Palmer

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Tourism development, ecotourism, stakeholders, sustainability, pro-poor development, Central Asia, visitor economy.

Dr Karolos Papadas

Associate Professor of Marketing

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Sustainability marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, brand management, international marketing, marketing strategy, digital marketing.

Dr Andrew Papworth

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Professor Gillian Parker

Emerita Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Boundaries in the health and social care system
  • Models of health care 'closer to home'
  • Research and policy-making 

Professor Ruth Patrick

Professor of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Poverty, social security and welfare reform
  • Welfare conditionality, sanctions and welfare-to-work
  • Participatory approaches

Dr Silvia Pazzi

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

My research interests are in the areas of public sector accounting and accountability, NGO accountability, financial reporting, and accounting quality.

Professor Andrew Pendleton

Honorary Professor

Research interests:

  • Employee share ownership and financial participation
  • Employee ownership
  • Corporate governance and labour

Orla Phipps

Research Trainee

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Helena Pinto

Reader

Joint Head of Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Corporate Governance and executive compensation.

Professor Tyrone Pitsis

Chair in Strategic Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Professor Nicholas Pleace

Associate Dean of School (Research and Impact)

Professor of Housing and Society

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Homelessness and housing exclusion
  • Housing, social justice and climate justice
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Comparative research

Dr Madeline Powell

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Social enterprise, public management, services marketing, value co-creation, hybrid organizing, public service logic.

Deborah Quilgars

Senior Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
  • Young people
  • European perspectives

Dr Lewis Ramsden

Lecturer

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, Markov Processes, Risk Theory, Levy Processes.

Dr Gwyther Rees

Associate Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Child wellbeing
  • Child maltreatment
  • Looked-after children

Dr Chen Ren

Lecturer in Marketing

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dr Enrico Reuter

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

Professor Deborah Roberts

Professor of Marketing and Innovation Management

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Open and user innovation, co-creation, marketing & innovation, ecosystems.

Professor Ellen Roberts

Emerita Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Public and project management
  • The management of change
  • Organisational learning

Dr Leigh Rooney

Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Professor Antonios Roumpakis

Professor in Comparative Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Comparative and international social policy
  • Social research methods
  • Employment, pensions and family

Dr David Rowe

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Dawn Rowley-White

Digital Communications Coordinator

Karen Rowlingson

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

Poverty, wealth, economic inequality, social security, tax systems

Professor Tony Royle

Professor

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Employment relations/HRM, MNCs, corporate social responsibility, international labour standards, employee voice and codetermination, atypical work, gig economy, emotional labour, international and national trade unions, union organizing.

Dr Julie Rugg

Reader

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • The private rented sector

  • Housing assistance and the welfare system

  • Landlord and tenant housing behaviours

  • Funeral policy

See website: https://www.cemeteryresearch.org/

Dinah Sackey

Educational Advisor

Dr Şule Şahin

Senior Lecturer

Director of the Centre for Actuarial Compensation and Valuation of Life (CAVOL)

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Şule's research interests lie in the area of stochastic investment models for long-term applications, mortality modelling and compensation for loss of earnings.

Professor Roy Sainsbury

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Welfare reform and Universal Credit
  • Employment and disability
  • Comparative social policy 

Sarah Clayden

Open Door Practitioner

Dr Kyle Schwartz

Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Marginalization, Social Vulnerability and Resilience
  • Forced Displacement, Mobility, and Refugee Studies
  • Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Research
  • Global Health and Development
  • Ethnography and Urban Sociology

Dr Mia Shandell

Programme Manager, NIHR Three Schools Dementia Programme

Dr Ian Shaw

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Practice-research relationship
  • Qualitative methods
  • History of social work and sociology 

Claire Sinclair

Lecturer

Programme Leader for the BA Business and Management

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Professor Ian Sinclair

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Foster Care
  • Treatment foster care
  • Residential care for children

Professor Christine Skinner

Emerita Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

Family policy; national and international child maintenance (child support) policies; non-resident fathers; separated families; lone mothers; symbolic meanings of money; child wellbeing; childcare, early-education and 'foundation years' policy; marriage, cohabitation relationship formation and dissolution; parenting and work-life balance. 

Hannah Smith

Quality Assurance Administrator

Holly Smith

Programme Manager OSCaR - PGfAR

Dr Katie Smith

Training & Resource Development Officer, Curiosity Partnership

Research interests:

Curiosity Partnership

Professor Carolyn Snell

Professor of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Sustainable development
  • Social inequality
  • Environmental policy

Sophie Caswell-Jones

Capacity Building Coordinator (NIHR SSCR)

Hannah Spencer

Placements and Employability Coordinators

Darren Spillett

Student Services Coordinator (Undergraduate)

Dr Dimitrios Stafylas

Assistant Professor

Deputy Chair of the Board of Examiners (Management)

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

My current research interests lie the area of empirical finance. More specific, my interests include hedge funds, mutual funds, stock market behaviour and issues in corporate finance.

Mike Stein

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Young people leaving care, including empirical, comparative and historical research
  • Neglected and maltreated teenagers
  • The history and rights of young people living in and leaving care

Mrs Sophie Stewart

Programme Manager, FixOurFood

Helen Story

Student Support Administrator - Admissions

Jade Sullivan

Student Services Administrator (PG & PGR)

Dr Jane Suter

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Managing workplace mental health, wellbeing, small business, line managers, presenteeism, work life balance, Healthcare workforce.

Dr Simon Sweeney

Reader

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

European Union; single European market; security and defence; HE internationalization; social capital; HE pedagogy.

Polly Sykes

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Head of Social Work

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Practice education
  • Learning disabilities, including transitions
  • Palliative care

Dr Saeedeh Taheri

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Discourse analysis of spoken and written educational discourse
  • Contemporary stylistics
  • Cognitive stylistics and linguistic pragmatics
  • English language teaching methodology
  • Material development for EAP and ESP.

Emma Tait

Lecturer Practitioner Social Work

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Systemic Social Work with children and families
  • Attachment and trauma informed parenting work
  • Relationship based supervision practice

Dr Luke Telford

Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

Currently, my core research interests are:

  • Working class culture
  • Politics
  • Levelling Up ‘left behind’ places
  • Social harm
  • The Covid-19 pandemic

I am interested in supervising PhD students particularly in the areas above. If you are a student interested in undertaking a thesis in the areas above, please email me.

Dr Kevin Tennent

Reader

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Management history, business history, corporate governance, sport management.

Professor Jacco Thijssen

Professor

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

Real options, Stochastic control, Optimal stopping.

Ali Thompson

Student Engagement & Experience Manager

Dr Jenny Threlfall

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

System integration in health, social care and social work Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Parenting
  • Academic achievement
  • Racial and economic inequality

Dr Slobodan Tomic

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Management

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Public policy and administration
  • Regulation
  • Integrity policies

Dr Bob Townley

Director of Postgraduate Programmes

Senior Lecturer in Work, Management and Organisations

Discipline: Management and organisation studies

Research interests:

Psychoanalysis, leadership, skills, identity, emotions, mental health / wellbeing, small businesses.

Dr Agnieszka Trzeciakiewicz

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Katie Tseng

Lecturer

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Laura Tucker

Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Mental health social work
  • Professional roles in mental health
  • Social interventions in mental health across the life course
  • Public, patient and practitioner involvement in research
  • Interventions with marginalised and excluded groups

Professor Becky Tunstall

Honorary Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Social housing
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Inequality

Moshfique Uddin

Visiting Professor

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Dr Chidozie Umeh

Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: People, work and employment

Research interests:

Business in society, Context, Cross-cultural studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), Global North, Global South, Human Resource Management, Qualitative methods, Social identity.

Dr Michelle Upton

Lecturer in Operations Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Dr Rachel Vipond

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Youth justice
  • Risk and professional decision making
  • Probation and youth offending team practices

Dr Nadine Waehning

Senior Lecturer

Programme Leader

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

International Marketing, entrepreneurial/small-business marketing, consumer behaviour, food and drink sector.

Nabiha Waheed

Research Associate

Discipline: Social work

Dr Alison Wallace

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Sustainable homeownership
  • Low cost homeownership
  • Housing markets

Jordan Walmsley

Administrator

Dr Liz Wands-Murray

Research Associate (Curiosity Partnership)

Co-chair of the Rainbow Alliance - the University LGBTQ+ staff network

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

LGBTQ+ experiences of social care, regulation and governance, research capacity building and social care in later life.

Dr Abby-Ping Wang

Academic Skills Adviser

Martha Ward

Research Trainee

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Susan Watson

Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Professor Jill Webb

Professor

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Professor Martin Webber

Professor of Social Work

Director of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research

Discipline: Social work

Research interests:

  • Mental health social work
  • Development and evaluation of social interventions
  • Social capital and social inclusion

Professor Victoria Wells

Professor

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

Consumer, consumer behaviour, sustainability, pro-environmental behaviour, social marketing, pubs, public houses, alcohol, consumer co-operatives, foraging.

Dr Aniela Wenham

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Head of Social Policy

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Youth and social policy
  • Teenage pregnancy and parenthood
  • Qualitative research methods

Catherine Wheatley

Admin Coordinator

Dr Phillip Whitehead

Senior Research Fellow

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Mark Wilberforce

Reader

Discipline: Social policy

Research interests:

  • Social care in later life
  • Social work and mental health
  • Measurement and psychometrics

Dr Mandy Willcox

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Dr Des Williamson

Lecturer

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

Critical Management Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Research Methodologies, Archival Research, Discursive practices - especially concerning heroes and heroism.

Vikki Withers

PA to the Dean of School for Business and Society

Andrea Woodward

Programme Administrator

Dr Frank Worthington

Senior Lecturer in Management

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: People, work and employment

Dr Yangchun (Chris) Xiong

Lecturer in Operations Management

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

● Disruptive Technologies Adoption
● Sustainability In Supply Chain Management

Professor Shu-Jung Sunny Yang

Chair in Operations Management

Human futures in the digital transformation Joint Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Discipline: Operations, strategy and governance

Research interests:

● Supply Chain Resilience
● Sustainable Operations
● Data-Driven Operations
● Empirical Operations

Dr Oznur Yardimci

Research Associate

Discipline: Social policy

Professor David Yoon

Chair in Global Business and Development

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

  • Behavior of firms, entrepreneurs, and innovators in response to mega-events
  • Institutional changes, national culture, and grand challenges
  • Technological catch-up by latecomer economies.

Dr Jacqueline You

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Business, Entrepreneurship & Strategy

Discipline: Marketing, international business and entrepreneurship

Research interests:

  • Corporate Philanthropy
  • Cross-sectoral Partnerships
  • SMEs’ resilience
  • Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
  • Temporary Organisations
  • SunTze’s the Art of War: Implications for Resilient Leadership
  • Adversity in Space and Time
  • Transformative Value Creation: A Stakeholder Perspective

Michael Young

Online eLearning Support Officer

Dr Ruoran Zhao

Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Discipline: Accounting, finance and actuarial science

Research interests:

  • Corporate Biodiversity Risks
  • Epidemic Disease and Innovation
  • Political Connection and Firms’ Environmental Performance
  • Government Support of Female Employee-dominated Firms
  • Institutions and FinTech

Zoe Detheridge

Administrator