Associate Members
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
Institute of Applied Health Research
Lailah's research interests are in health and wellbeing in vulnerable and hard to reach populations.
- Email
- l.alidu@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Health Economics
Head of Health Economics Unit
Institute of Applied Health Research
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
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 ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6658
- Email
- s.bandyopadhyay@bham.ac.uk
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 of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health
Director of the Institute for Mental Health
School of Psychology
Matthew 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
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
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 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
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
Honorary Professor of Public Policy
Department of Public Administration and Policy
Catherine is an Honorary Professor of Public Policy, with a specific interest in urban governance and public policy.
- Email
- c.durose@bham.ac.uk
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
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 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 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
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
Reader in Social Policy
Director of Global Engagement for the School of Social Policy and Society
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Kelly is a Reader in Social Policy based in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology. She is the Director of Global Engagement for the School of Social Policy and Society.
- Telephone
- +44(0)121 415 8027
- Email
- k.j.hall@bham.ac.uk
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
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 in Cultural Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr 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
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 ...
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- g.jordan@bham.ac.uk
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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