Dr Andrew Burlinson joined University of Sheffield’s Department of Economics as Lecturer in September 2023, and is a member of the Sheffield Urban, International Trade and Environmental Economics (SUITE) group and the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). 

Andrew joined Sheffield following his Lectureship in Energy Economics at the University of East Anglia (NBS). Before joining UEA he returned to the University of Warwick as a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics, following postdoctoral research associate roles in Loughborough University's School of Business and Economics.

Andrew holds a PhD at Warwick Business School (Economic Modelling and Forecasting Group) - funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund. He was awarded a distinction in Economics (MSc) at the University of Nottingham and a first-class hons degree in Economics (BSc) at Newcastle University/University of Groningen.

Dr Andrew Burlinson has published in international peer-reviewed journals including, Research Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and Energy Economics. He has worked on several projects funded by UKERC, Ofgem, EPSRC and CERRE.

Andrew is embedded in the current policy and research areas of consumer decision-making on the adoption of energy efficient and renewable technologies, and inequality within energy markets, with a focus on the deleterious effects of poverty on health, wellbeing, and healthy eating, as well as the resilience of households to high energy prices.

Andrew has contributed to policy discussions and roundtables with leading experts and practitioners, including the APPG on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum, Ofgem and National Energy Action.

His findings have received national (e.g., BBC Radio, Daily Mail, ITV, The Sun) and global interest (Africa, Asia, Europe, and America), as well as featured in Understanding Society's Insights Report, National Energy Action's 2023 Fuel Poverty Monitor, and Nottingham City Council’s Fuel Poverty Strategy (2018-2025).

My core research interest is in consumer law and policy. My current research projects focus on the regulatory mechanisms protecting consumers in the face of rapidly changing technology. I have also recently started looking at the linkage between consumer protection and trade governance. 

Research Interests

• Consumer protection law and policy
• The regulation of financial services innovation
• The impact of regulation on financial inclusion
• The regulation of online platforms
• Regulatory compliance

Associate Dean Education

Fraser joined Sheffield University Management School in 2018, as Professor and Chair in Marketing. Fraser has received research funding from numerous external businesses or organisations as well as research councils such as the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (ESPRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and has won prizes globally for his research and contribution to practice. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence Award for an article on electronic word of mouth. Fraser’s research is habitually interdisciplinary; with his current focus on sustainability, hedonic consumption, digital marketing, branding, entrepreneurship and co-creativity. He has recently been chair of the prestigious Academy of Marketing annual conference and co-chair the Global Branding conference held at Newcastle in 2018. Prior to joining Sheffield University Management School Fraser was Professor of Strategic Marketing Management at Newcastle Business School and also held roles as Associate Pro Vice Chancellor of Strategic Planning and Engagement, Associate Dean of Business and Engagement and Head of Corporate Development for the Faculty of Business and Law at the Faculty of Business and Law.

Fraser also has over ten years of practitioner experience, holding senior management and leadership positions globally. While working in industry, Fraser has assisted over 250 businesses in more than 60 countries to implement successful start-up, commercialisation, business expansion, marketing, branding, strategic planning and new product/service introduction strategies in industry sectors that vary from education to renewable energy, engineering, agri-food and graphene. His clients range from SMEs to MNEs and have included Nestlé, Royal Numico, Parker, Thomas Swan, Bank of Montana, Sage, UKTI, Nexus and Greggs, plus organisations such as the World Bank, USDA, and EU. Fraser has also held academic positions at Lincoln University (New Zealand); Newcastle University (UK); Northumbria University (UK), Macquarie University (Australia) the University of Montana (US), and Peter the Great St Petersburg University (Russia).

James is particularly interested in mixed methods’ studies of political behavior (at both elite and mass levels). He has experience of fielding experimental surveys, conducting focus groups and elite interviews, designing and evaluating surveys for a range of research purposes, as well as quantitative textual analysis and data visualisation.

Research portfolio that focuses on multiple facets of high temperature physical metallurgy, alloy design and manufacturing. Projects have included the development of new polycrystalline Ni-based superalloys for turbine disc applications, as well as strategies for the design of high temperature materials amenable to laser-based additive layer manufacturing. In addition, a major area of her research interests is that of high entropy alloys and the possibilities that these materials offer for expanding our understanding of physical metallurgy beyond a single base element and the associated thermodynamic principles governing this behavior.

Research interests

Developmental speech, language and communication needs:

• Developmental trajectories and long term outcomes of children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
• Impact of social disadvantage on children’s speech, language and communication development
• Complex co-morbidity between speech and language development, social disadvantage, behavior and mental health in children and adolescents
• Evaluating the effectiveness of speech and language therapy interventions for children and adolescents

Research Interests

Subhasish M. Chowdhury joined Sheffield as Professor of Economics in 2022. His areas of research interest cover both theoretical and applied investigations of problems in Conflict, Industrial Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. Subhasish serves as a Co-Editor of the journals ‘Frontiers in Behavioral Economics’, and ‘Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy’ and is an editorial board member of ‘Studies in Microeconomics’. He has also served as a guest-editor for ‘Economic Inquiry’ and the ‘Journal of Economics Psychology’. His research has been published in journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Theory etc.

Senior Research Fellow

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• destructive leadership
• emotions, moods and innovative work behaviour
• knowledge sharing
• organisational interventions to enhance employee engagement
• start-up journeys of entrepreneurs
• participative action research interventions to improve quality of patient care

I would welcome applications and inquiries in these areas and related areas corresponding to my areas of expertise listed above.

Publications

Knight, C;, Patterson, M.G, Dawson, J and Brown, J (2017). Building and sustaining work engagements- a participatory action intervention to increase work engagement in nursing staff. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(5) 634-649.

Knight, C;, Patterson, M. and Dawson, J. (2017). Building work engagement: A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of work engagement interventions. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 38(6) 792-812.

Madrid, H.P. and Patterson, M.. Creativity at work as a joint function between openness to experience, need for cognition and organisational fairness. Learning and Individual Differences, forthcoming 2016.

Stephan, U., Patterson, M., Kelly, C. and Mair, J. (2016). Organizations driving positive social change: A reveiw and an intergrative framework of change processes. Journal of Management, 42(5) 2016.

Madrid, H., Patterson, M. and Leiva, P. (2015). Negative core affect and employee silence: How differences in activation, cognitive rumination and problem-solving demands matter. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(6) 1887-1989.

Madrid, H.P., Patterson, M.G., Birdi, K.S. and Leiva, P.I. (2014). The role of weekly high-activated positive mood, context, and personality in innovative work behavior: A multilevel and interactional model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(2) 234-256.

Full list of publications

Chiara ‘s research is in Applied Microeconometrics and lies at the intersection of Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Public Economics. Chiara studies the behaviour of individuals, firms, and governments, and her research tries to understand intended and unintended effects of public policies, effects of innovation, issues relevant for the design of markets, inequality, consumer response to information, and the transmission of human capital.

Chiara is interested in supervising dissertations in Applied Microeconometrics, especially on topics related to the production of health and impact of healthcare policies.

Research Interests

My group aims to understand how cells adopt different identities during embryonic development and disease. This knowledge is essential for the precise control of cell behavior and the generation of clinically relevant cell populations from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). We are particularly interested in dissecting the events leading to the “birth” of the cell types which make up the posterior (thoracic and lumbosacral) spinal cord. In the embryo, these are produced by Neuromesodermal Progenitors (NMPs), a bipotent cell population which also gives rise to paraxial mesoderm, the precursor of the body musculature and skeleton. We have recently succeeded in deriving human NMPs (hNMPs) from hPSCs by “mimicking” the signalling environment of their niche in vivo. We are now utilizing these cells as a starting point for answering the following questions:

1. How do pluripotent cells differentiate into NMPs?
2. How do NMPs differentiate into spinal cord and paraxial mesoderm?
3. What are the optimal culture conditions promoting the generation of different posterior spinal cord cell types (e.g. motor neurons, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes)? How do they differ from their anterior counterparts?

My research group is also part of Centre for  Stem Cell Biology (CSCB)

• Japanese and East Asian politics
• International Political Economy
• Comparative capitalisms (particularly between Anglo-American countries, Japan and China)
• Globalization and resistance
• Politics of finance and technology
• Credit markets and credit rating agencies

My current research focuses on a globalization-financialization-digitalization nexus and Japanese society’s resistance to it as well as the comparative analysis of Japanese and Chinese models of capitalism (particularly in the areas of consumer credit, vehicle electrification and credit rating agencies).

Dr Fumihito (Fumi) Gotoh specialises in Japanese and East Asian Politics and International Political Economy with a focus on comparative capitalisms (particularly between Anglo-American countries, Japan and China), globalization and resistance, politics of finance and technology, credit markets and credit rating agencies.

My latest research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sound and the history of technology in Japan and Asia.

I am particularly interested in the ways in which sound was perceived, hierarchized, regulated, manipulated, and given meaning differently in different places and at different times.

Sound, its perception, reception and even consumption has worked throughout history to shape and effect gender, racial and national identities.

In Asia, the understanding of sound is also marked by political, social and cultural transformations shaped by colonial and post-colonial experiences.

I am interested in how the study of sound helps to expose some of the core issues and processes driving changes in technology, the environment, politics, aesthetics, cultural and social relations in Asia.

I am a founding member of the Asian Sound Culture Studies and Modernity Project. This is a large multi-year project and, together with colleagues based in Tokyo and the British Library, I am currently editing a collection of papers looking at sound culture and change across Asia since the late 19th Century.

The project explores the nature of modern sound in Asia to provide a perspective that decentres the 'West' and offers a broader consideration of the nature of sound in the process of modernity in Asia.

My long-standing research interests cover national identity, nationalism, gender, the mass media and consumer society in Japan and East Asia.

My recent book-Mass Media Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan-examined the transformation of nationalism and national identity in connection to the rise of consumer society during the 1950s and 1960s.

I am currently working on an article examining masculinity and consumerism in Japan in the global context of the 1960s which completes research I have been carrying out on the magazine Heibon Punch- considered the first men’s lifestyle magazine in Japan (founded in 1964) and neglected in academic considerations of gender and popular culture in postwar Japan.

Research interests

My Group takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating a range of biological problems ranging from basic biology to prototype translational projects.  There are several areas of research within the group which centres around the study of human pathogens with an overall aim at understanding microbial disease processes and exploiting the knowledge we generate for translational purposes wherever possible.

Bacteriophage biology:

Since 2016 the group have embarked on a programme of bacteriophage studies targeting a range of AMR (AntiMicrobial Resistant) pathogens including several of ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococci, Staphylococci, Klebsiella, ESBL etc)  as well as oral bacteria (Streptococci and Enterococci).

In recent years we have focused on isolation and characterisation of bacteriophage targeting pathogens from  a range of hard to treat Diabetic Foot Ulcer infections- which we call the DiaPhage project..  We aim to both understand the biology of these phages and their interactions with their bacterial hosts as well as working with clinical colleagues to develop them into viable novel antimicrobial treatments to cure DFU and other human infections.  We use a combination of genomics, biochemistry, structural biology and antibiotic resistance assays. 

The work is conducted in collaboration with colleagues from the faculty of science as well as clinical colleagues from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals trust.

Oral microbiology:

Our main focus is aimed at understanding the fundamental biology of bacteria residing in the oral cavity.  These studies have focused in several areas:

-        Biology of periodonatal pathogens: aimed at understanding how these bacteria interact with each other, human cells and within biofilms with a focus on glycobiology and innate immune modulation

-        Functional understanding of the oral microbiome: in collaboration with oral consumer product companies we focus on understanding how the composition and metabolism of the oral microbiome is influenced by nutrients, oral antimicrobial products.  We use a combination of nanopore based microbiome sequencing and metaproteomics (in collaboration with colleagues in the faculty of Engineeering).

The group  employ a variety of genetic and biochemical techniques while in collaboration with colleagues in the faculty of Medicine, faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering to answer key questions within our areas of interest.

I work at the intersection of medical sociology and science and technology studies. My doctoral research looked at lay and professional constructions of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a treatable hereditary condition associated with heart disease. My analysis focussed on the themes of geneticisation, genetic responsibility and biosociality, three prominent concepts in discussions of the social implications of genetic knowledge. Subsequent research projects looked at more mundane health technologies for cholesterol management, including cholesterol-lowering foods containing plant sterols and prescription and over-the-counter statins. Current research is expanding this work on consumer health technologies, looking at self-monitoring technologies such as blood pressure monitors and weighing scales/BMI monitors. All of these studies consider professional expectations as well as people’s accounts of why and how they adopt and use, or don't use, particular products or technologies. They consider the way responsibilities for health are distributed, the practices involved and the implications for forms of expertise in relation to health care. The work critically engages with notions of 'self-care' and 'health behaviours', proposing alternative lenses such as care infrastructures and practice theory approaches. I have an ongoing interest in developments in the biomedical sciences. Recent work has looked at the routine practices of racialised prescribing.

 Research interests:

• everyday health practices
• mundane health technologies
• self-monitoring, self-tracking, self-care
• social implications of biomedical developments eg genomics, epigenetics
• social categories in the clinic
• qualitative research methods