The Centre for Urban Wellbeing Associate Members

Associate Members

Professor Sarah Aldred

Professor Sarah Aldred

Head of School
Professor of Exercise Biochemistry

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Sarah Aldred is an exercise biochemist interested in oxidative stress. She is interested in how exercise can perturb redox homeostasis in both health and disease. Sarah has worked with young and old, and with those suffering from psychosis and schizophrenia, cardiovascular disease and dementia. 

Sarah is Head of the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3084
Email
s.aldred.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Lailah Alidu

Dr Lailah Alidu

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Lailah's research interests are in health and wellbeing in vulnerable and hard to reach populations. 

Email
l.alidu@bham.ac.uk

Professor Hareth Al-Janabi

Professor Hareth Al-Janabi

Professor of Health Economics
Head of Health Economics Unit

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Hareth is a Professor of Health Economics, with a track record of innovation in health economics, and current interest in studying real-world resource allocation decisions. He has experience across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.  Hareth is head of the Health Economics Unit, Associate Editor for Social Science and Medicine, and sits on the shortlisting panel for ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8483
Email
h.aljanabi@bham.ac.uk

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

Professor of Economics

The Department of Economics

Siddhartha is an internationally recognised economist in the field of political economy and public policy. He was the recipient of the Duncan Black prize awarded by the Public Choice Society in 2015 for his work on the electoral incentives of prosecutors with Bryan McCannon. His work on political coalitions has been published in internationally leading journals and has been widely cited by ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6658
Email
s.bandyopadhyay@bham.ac.uk

Dr Susanne Boerner

Dr Susanne Boerner

Assistant Professor in Human Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Susanne Börner’s research focuses on youth everyday agency, emotions and urban well-being in the context of interconnected urban crises. Susanne is particularly interested in the experiences of those growing up and living ‘at the margins’, such as children and young people as well as multi-generational contexts of knowledge generation. Her Marie Curie Global ...

Email
s.borner@bham.ac.uk

Professor Matthew Broome

Professor Matthew Broome

Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health
Director of the Institute for Mental Health

School of Psychology

Youth Mental Health - Birmingham HeroesMatthew is an academic psychiatrist and Director of the Institute for Mental Health at the University.  He is a leader in the field of early psychosis and in the philosophy and ethics of mental health.

Telephone
01214147197
Email
m.r.broome@bham.ac.uk

Dr Shushu Chen

Dr Shushu Chen

Associate Professor in Sport Policy and Management

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr Shushu Chen is an Associate Professor in Sport Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Capital University of Physical Education & Sports, China. Her principal research interests include sport policy analysis and evaluation, and major sporting event legacy studies (particularly in the areas of impact evaluation). She is a British Academy ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7242
Email
s.chen.5@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rona Cran

Dr Rona Cran

Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of North America

Department of English Literature

My scholarship is interdisciplinary and centres on the literature and culture of New York City, queer writing, and modern American poetry.

Email
r.cran@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jennifer Cumming

Professor Jennifer Cumming

Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Jennifer Cumming is a community-based researcher with expertise in sport and exercise psychology.  She works collaboratively with clubs, organisations, and services in innovative and creative ways to develop and/or evaluate psychosocial interventions for improving performance, personal development, health, and well-being. 

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2877
Email
j.cumming@bham.ac.uk

Dr Roxanne Douglas

Dr Roxanne Douglas

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of English Literature

Dr Roxanne Douglas specialises in bringing together feminist theory, World-Literature theories, and Gothic studies, with a focus on Arab feminist writing in translation. She is also interested in women’s writing across borders, gendered history, sexuality studies, World-Systems approaches, and GoHoW (Gothic, Horror, and the Weird) across literary forms.

 

Email
r.n.douglas@bham.ac.uk

Dr Charles Goode

Dr Charles Goode

Teaching Fellow in Urban and Regional Planning
International and Year Abroad Tutor (GEES)
Postgraduate Planning Dissertation Lead

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Charles is a Geographer and trained planner with research and teaching interests in strategic planning/regional governance, community involvement, housing supply/affordability and planning history. His ESRC-funded doctoral research focused on the Green Belt, England's housing crisis and the planning system and is published in a range of practitioner and academic outlets. Charles' research is now ...

Email
c.goode@bham.ac.uk

Dr Victoria Goodyear

Dr Victoria Goodyear

Associate Professor in Pedagogy in Sport, Physical Activity and Health

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Victoria is a pedagogical researcher in sport, physical activity and health. Her main research area focuses on social media/digital technologies and young people’s health and wellbeing, and she is interested in the professional learning needs of teachers/coaches.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4874
Email
v.a.goodyear@bham.ac.uk

Professor Colin Greaves

Professor Colin Greaves

Professor of Psychology Applied to Health

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Greaves conducts internationally recognised research on health behaviour change. He develops and evaluates practical behavioural interventions to prevent and treat chronic illnesses.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8061
Email
c.j.greaves@bham.ac.uk

Professor Anne Green

Professor Anne Green

Professor of Regional Economic Development

The Department of Strategy and International Business

After completing an undergraduate degree in geography, Anne has spent nearly all of her career conducting applied research of relevance to academia and policy in research centres/ institutes in the higher education sector.

She started her career at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) in Newcastle. Apart from a short stint at the Department for City and Regional Planning ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 9666
Email
a.e.green.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr James Gregory

Dr James Gregory

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Dr James Gregory received his doctorate in political theory before moving into social and housing policy research.  His housing research started at the Fabian Society, where he was a Senior Research Fellow. James is interested in homeownership, asset-based welfare, and neighbourhood research. In addition to a number of think-tank reports, James has recently published papers in Critical ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 6212
Email
j.gregory@bham.ac.uk

Professor David Hannah

Professor David Hannah

Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability)
Director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action
Professor of Hydrology, UNESCO Chair in Water Science

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

David is a physical geographer with interdisciplinary research interests focusing on three complementary themes within hydroclimatology (interface between hydrology-climatology): (1) hydroclimatological processes within alpine, Arctic, mountain and glacierized river basins; (2) climate and river flow regimes; and (3) river energy budget and water temperature dynamics. He has cross-cutting ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 46925 (for own research)
Email
d.m.hannah@bham.ac.uk

Professor David James

Professor David James

Chair in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Department of English Literature

My research and teaching areas span twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing, with a particular focus on the history and theory of the novel. Most recently, I’ve been working on the politics and poetics of affect in contemporary fiction and life-writing, combining my interests in the history of emotions, disability studies, and narrative medicine.

Email
d.james.1@bham.ac.uk

Professor Phil Jones

Professor Phil Jones

Professor in Cultural Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Phil Jones - Research in 60 seconds videoDr Phil Jones is a cultural geographer who focuses on issues related to the city.  His work deals with a number of research areas including urban regeneration, cycling and the arts.  He has a particular interest in research methods, including qualitative GIS, mobile interviewing and arts-based approaches.

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 5546
Email
p.i.jones@bham.ac.uk

Dr Gerald Jordan

Dr Gerald Jordan

Assistant Professor

School of Psychology

Dr. Gerald Jordan’s programme of research examines how young people  transform their lives and communities following a serious mental health challenge; and how such transformations are shaped by personal, social and community-level determinants of health and resilience that are, due to issues of intergenerational injustice, increasingly becoming difficult to access . He conducts his ...

Email
g.jordan@bham.ac.uk

Dr Irina Kuznetsova

Dr Irina Kuznetsova

Associate Professor

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Irina Kuznetsova's research expertise includes areas of migration, forced displacement, health, and critical urbanism. Her recent projects focus on social consequences of population displacement in Ukraine, Russia, Rwanda, Nigeria and Japan, including mental health and well-being, and the impact of migration on rural communities.

Email
i.kuznetsova@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Lilley

Dr Rachel Lilley

Senior Fellow with the Birmingham Leadership Institute

University of Birmingham

Dr Rachel Lilley is a practitioner academic with expertise in environmental  and social change.  Her research has included a world leading project on improving decision making and collaboration in government, building  psychological capability in Senior Leaders through research and a training intervention using behavioural economics and attention practices such as ...

Telephone
07807324668
Email
r.lilley@bham.ac.uk

Zena Lynch

Zena Lynch

Associate Professor (Hon) in Environmental Health

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zena Lynch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham where she is lead for the MSc Environmental Health programmes.  Previously she worked as a Health Policy lead in the West Midlands and also as a lead practitioner for Environmental Health departments.  She investigates interactions between housing and health and the impact of poor and insecure housing on people’s ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5556
Email
z.lynch@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ali Mazaheri

Dr Ali Mazaheri

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Programme lead for BSc Psychology

School of Psychology

Dr Mazaheri is an expert on the role of oscillations in cognition and behaviour. His research focuses on the neural interactions underlying different facets of  cognitive control in both the healthy and clinical populations.

Email
a.mazaheri@bham.ac.uk

Professor Francis Pope

Professor Francis Pope

Professor of Atmospheric Science

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Francis is an environmental scientist with wide ranging interests in the atmospheric sciences, human health and sustainable cities. He trained as a physical chemist and he uses this fundamental knowledge to develop novel instrumentation and probe systems of interest. 

Francis has active research projects in the broad areas of air pollution, climate change, fundamental aerosol chemistry and ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 9067
Email
f.pope@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mary Quinton

Dr Mary Quinton

Assistant Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr Quinton is interested in how positive youth development approaches in sport and community settings improve emotional regulation, social connectedness, and mental well-being in young people. Dr Quinton uses sport psychology and pedagogical theories to understand how young people’s backgrounds and support needs influence their development, engagement, and motivation to learn and perform in ...

Email
m.quinton@bham.ac.uk

Dr Louise Reardon

Dr Louise Reardon

Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy
School Deputy Director of Research (Impact)

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Louise is Associate Professor of Governance and Public Policy at the Institute of Local Government Studies and School Deputy Director of Research (Impact)

Louise has written widely on agenda setting, multi-level governance, policy change, and wicked problems. She is particularly well known for her research on transport governance, and the wellbeing agenda.

Her work has been published in leading ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 8393
Email
l.h.reardon@bham.ac.uk

Dr Darja Reuschke

Dr Darja Reuschke

Associate Professor

The Department of Strategy and International Business

Darja Reuschke’s research concerns changes in local labour markets and new forms and locations of work and businesses that are emerging through new technologies, economic restructuring, crisis and social change. One focus of her research has been on self-employment and home-based work and how these forms of working are connected with social context, city regions, housing and neighbourhoods. ...

Email
d.reuschke@bham.ac.uk

Dr Daniel Wheatley

Dr Daniel Wheatley

Director of Undergraduate Programmes
Reader

Department of Management

Daniel Wheatley is Reader in the Department of Management. He is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Birmingham Business School, having previously acted as Director of Undergraduate Programmes (2018-2021). His research focuses on workplace well-being including job quality, work-life balance and flexible working arrangements, spatial dimensions of work including work-related travel, ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7488
Email
d.wheatley@bham.ac.uk

Dr Kate Woodcock

Dr Kate Woodcock

Reader in Applied Clinical Psychology
Lead of People and Culture for the School of Psychology

School of Psychology

Dr Kate Woodcock’s research interests can be summarised as aiming to investigate and explain human behaviour by considering multiple potential influences at different levels of explanation. For example, people’s genes, their brain structure, their brain functioning, cognitive, physiological and emotional functioning can all affect people’s behaviour both individually and in an ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6036
Email
k.a.woodcock@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rebecca Wynter

Dr Rebecca Wynter

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Rebecca is an Honorary Research Fellow for the four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injuries and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’.

Rebecca is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history of psychiatry, mental health, neurosurgery, neurodiversity, and First World War medicine and disability. She has worked with ...

Telephone
+44 0121 414 2921
Email
r.i.wynter@bham.ac.uk

Alice Menzel, Doctoral Researcher, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Alice Menzel feminist geographer, specialising in the field of emotional geographies. Her own research concerns the emotional experiences of expectant fathers across myriad everyday spaces/places (particularly against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic). Alice’s broader interests include feminist methodologies/approaches, the spatialities of family life – specifically parenting – and social research on emotions and bodies. Alice also manages the CUWb newsletter. Email: Aem467@student.bham.ac.uk

Ahmed Shaalan
Dr. Associate Professor in Marketing Management, University of Birmingham Dubai, Centre for Urban Wellbeing

Hannah Absalom, Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate, Centre for Urban Wellbeing

Iman Ghosh, Research Associate, Centre for Urban Wellbeing

Dr Marco Di Nunzio, Associate Professor in Urban Anthropology, Centre for Urban Wellbeing