Finance, economics and trade policy
Finance, economics and trade policies are a major focus for the University and for policy makers. These researchers are actively engaging with the policy process and would welcome further engagement from policy makers.
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Emeritus Professor of European Law
Anthony Arnull specialises in the law of the European Union. He worked at the European Court of Justice from 1989-92 and was Head of Birmingham Law School between 2006 and 2009. He was Acting Head of the College of Arts & Law at Birmingham from April to August 2015. Professor Arnull is the author of The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (Leicester University Press, 1990); The ...
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- a.m.arnull@bham.ac.uk
Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography
Professor John Bryson is Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography at Birmingham Business School. John's research is motivated by a desire to understand and explain the complex ways in which production is organized through space and in place and via a variety of forms of enterprise.
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- +44 (0)121 414 5549
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- j.r.bryson@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor of United States History
I’m a historian of the American Revolution, the early United States, and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I have taught courses on American political thought, the nineteenth-century west, and women in the revolutionary era—I’ve also taught on the past and present of presidential elections, and a module on student journalism! Following my first book,
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- 0121 414 5747
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- t.cutterham@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Work and Employment Relations
Department Director of Research
Tony is Professor of Work and Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School. He is part of the Organisation, Work and Employment (OWE) group in the Department of Management. He joined Birmingham Business School in May 2018, from Bangor University. Tony has over twenty years of employment relations experience as an academic, researcher, and journalist in the UK and Republic of Ireland, ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 7702
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- t.dobbins@bham.ac.uk
Professor of International Legal Studies
Associate Dean of Birmingham Law School
Rilka Dragneva-Lewers is Professor of International Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. She works on regional integration, EU external policy, legal reform and international diffusion of norms with a special reference to Eastern Europe. Her recent publications focus on Eurasian economic integration and its overlaps with EU initiatives in the post-Soviet region. Rilka’s work has strong ...
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- 0121 414 3146
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- r.dragnevalewers@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Professor Robert Elliott is an applied economist who works at the intersection of international economics, development economics, environmental and energy economics and international business. He has a particular interest in the Chinese economy, firm behaviour, natural disasters and the impact of globalisation on the environment.
He is an editor for the Sustainable Future Policy Lab, ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 7700
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- r.j.elliott@bham.ac.uk
Barber Professor of Law
Professor Enonchong is the author of three major practitioner works in the field of banking and commercial law. He has advised in a number of complex international commercial disputes and has acted as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations. Professor Enonchong is the author of Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing, now in its 4th edition.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6283
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- n.e.enonchong@bham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
John Fender has been at the University of Birmingham since 1992 and was Professor of Macroeconomics between 1998 and 2021. Since February 2021 he has been an Emeritus Professor. He is an active researcher and supervises postgraduate students. He published a monograph on Austerity in September 2020.
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- j.fender@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
My work combines corpus linguistic and experimental methods with discourse analysis to study the linguistic factors at the heart of important societal issues such as trust, polarization and climate change.
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- +44 (0) 121 415 8346
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- m.fuoli@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of Research (Impact), School of Social Policy and Society
Birmingham Fellow
Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology. She is also the Deputy Director of Research (Impact), School of Social Policy and Society.
Kayleigh’s research interests focus on poverty and inequality, social security, and stigma, specifically investigating charitable food provision and food insecurity. Her work is strongly ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 5717
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- k.garthwaite@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Regional Economic Development
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 ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 9666
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- a.e.green.1@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Modern History
My main interest lies in post war Germany, the political, social and economic reconstruction of the country (including Allied occupation policy) against the backdrop of the Cold War.
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- +44 (0)121 414 5759
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- a.gruenbacher@bham.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow
An anthropologist by education, I enjoy doing interdisciplinary research, teaching and dissemination, including applied work in the heritage sector. My main interest is the production of heritage in post/colonial contexts and the associated politics of history, social memory and development, including local as well as transnational relations and practices, from heritage management to tourism and ...
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- h.jorgensen@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Dr Maureen Mapp is a lawyer whose research and teaching interests are in public law and private law particularly how to bridge the normative gap between law and non-state ethno cultural norms. In this regard, Maureen has provided technical expertise to the Commonwealth Secretariat on adoption of cryptocurrencies and their impact on agricultural based economies. In collaboration with UNAFRI, ...
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- +4 (0)121 414 2886
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- m.o.mapp@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Professor McAuliffe’s principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order. By clarifying the ways in which language plays a key role in determining judicial outcomes at the EU level, she challenges EU scholarship to look beyond more conventional approaches to the development of a rule of law that draw on law alone. ...
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- 0121 414 7269
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- k.mcauliffe@bham.ac.uk
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Claire McIvor is a tort lawyer whose main research interests are: (i) liability for the acts of others (both vicarious and non-vicarious); (ii) public authority liability in negligence (particularly police liability), and more recently, (iii) legal applications of Epidemiology.
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- c.mcivor@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Social Policy
Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM)
Louise is an Associate Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM). Her research interests focus on older people and personal finance (and personal finance-related issues), including financial security, financial advice, and the regulation of consumer financial services.
Louise’s research is strongly empirical, but against a ...
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- +44(0)121 415 1066
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- l.e.overton@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Company Law and Company Law in Context
Professor Talbot approaches company law and corporate governance from a law in context position, with particular emphasis the corporation as a social, economic, cultural, moral and aesthetic phenomenon, and the dehumanising consequences of an identity which is distinct from the living actors. Her current research is concerned with two distinct areas; one, the ...
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- 0121 414 3631
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- l.e.talbot@bham.ac.uk
Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean of Birmingham Law School
The research of Martin Trybus aims to make a contribution to the understanding and development of the Law of the European Union, especially its economic and constitutional aspects, to establish ‘European Union Defence and Security Law’ as a separate legal subject, and to contribute to the understanding and development of European Union Public Procurement Law.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6330
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- m.trybus@bham.ac.uk
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Dr Ben Warwick’s research explores how economic factors affect human rights (and especially socio-economic rights). He is interested in the ways that laws and the institutions that enforce them change under such pressures. He is a specialist in international human rights, the United Nations human rights bodies, and human rights in various crisis contexts.
Ben is a lead quality assessor on ...
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- 0121 414 6233
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- b.t.warwick@bham.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University of Birmingham’s School of Computer Science as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies. Over the course of more than 25 ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6298
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- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Chen Zhu is committed to teaching and researching intellectual property (especially copyright) and informational jurisprudence. He is also an advocate of free and open-source software (FOSS) for legal pedagogy and research.
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- 0121 414 8564
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- c.w.zhu@bham.ac.uk