Professor of Health Management

Jeremy's research falls broadly into three areas, with plenty of crossover between them – management of health care organisations, team working, and statistics.

Recent projects in health care include:

• a study of the effects of NHS staff engagement and experience on patient outcomes
• a longitudinal evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds in the NHS
• the development and implementation of a tool to measure effectiveness of general practices.

Current work includes a study on the Retention of Mental Health Staff (RoMHS), an evaluation of specialist clinics for people suffering from multiple, medically unexplained symptoms (MSS3), and the Behaviour in Teams (BiT) study examining the benefit on giving teams feedback on their behaviour in meetings.

Professor of Organisational Studies

Damian's research focuses on issues of power, knowledge, identity and control in complex organisations and on the management of experts/professionals in these settings. He has developed these interests through research in a range of industries including financial services, creative industries, R&D and engineering. However, his primary research interest is on the transformation of health and care, with a particular focus on the organisational and policy dimensions of this transformation. He is committed to engaged research which is pragmatic but theory-driven, with a focus on supporting and informing real change in practice.

Damian is currently supervising several PhD students. He is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

• Organisation and policy change in health and care
• The devolution of health and care
• Workforce challenges in health and care
• Professional and managerial identity work in healthcare
• Critical analyses of project management and project organising
• Power and identity in the workplace

My main research interests are in the field of health protection-related topics such as disaster response and emergency planning, and the control of communicable diseases/infectious diseases. I am also interested in topics in international health, primary care as well as health service management.  Examples of my previous research  activities include

• mixed methods study of the state of integrated disease surveillance globally
• evidence reviews on mass testing for COVID, public health benefits of urban greenspace, emergency planning in health in the UK
• qualitative studies on beneficiary perspectives of humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka after the Asian Tsunami disaster, and of the drivers of smoking in young people in Pakistan
• developing evidence-based disaster management practice in the UK and Nepal,
• mixed methods study investigating barriers to testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in the migrant Chinese ethnic population in the UK,
• Methods: policy, qualitative, epidemiology and evidence reviews.

My current ongoing research projects (as of February 2017) are:  

• developing a series of health research projects on slum health in Nepal,
• evidence review of public health needs following earthquakes.

I am a General Practitioner and Senior Clinical Lecturer;  Deputy Academic Training Programme Director NIHR Sheffield Clinical Academic Training programme; Research training and Capacity Building Lead on the ‘PRIME’ NIHR RCUK Global Health Project 

I have research interests in the overlap of physical and mental health problems and health inequity in access to primary care of high risk, underserved populations. I have methodological expertise in health service qualitative and quantitative study design and analysis including the development and evaluation of complex interventions in primary care; recruiting for clinical studies in high risk deprived and/or socially excluded populations.

Current and recent projects:

EDIT: Early Diagnosis Intervention and Treatment of long-term conditions (respiratory disease, T2 Diabetes Mellitus, Cancer) in high-risk populations.  For example postnatal interventions for women with gestational diabetes, primary care interventions to improve respiratory health of high risk populations , for examples: people who use substances; people living with HIV;  people living with severe mental illness  

Co-investigator,  PhD and Clinical Academic Trainee supervisor on the ‘PRIME’ NIHR Global Health Research Group on PReterm bIrth prevention and manageMEnt (PRIME) https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/ptb-grant-reduce-child-death-1.794251. Our LMIC/ UK partnership includes partners in Bangladesh, South Africa and Nigeria. I work as a senior clinical academic within the evidence synthesis, clinical (intervention development, health service delivery)  and social science qualitative research teams  

Postgraduate supervision:

Clinical Academic Trainees; NIHR In practice training fellows; ACF and ACL; Masters; PhD students (multidisciplinary) 

• Health & Social Care at home and in institutions
• Care recipent's and care worker's perspectives and knowledge 
• Financialisation of social care, business models and managment
• Social innovation in home care provision - a Wellcome Trust funded project 2017-18.
• Diane's Department of Health and Comic Relief funded project examined organizational cultures in care homes for older people and positive experiences of care. This study was conducted with colleagues at the University of East Anglia, University of Stirling, University of Worcester and Cardiff University.
• Recently Diane was involved in a two and half year, Department of Health and Comic Relief funded participatory project with care home residents and family carers to examine the organisational dynamics of abuse and respectful care of older people in care homes.

Diane’s research examines organizational arrangements, cultures and change in health and social care systems with two sub themes – organizational failure and institutional abuse in care homes; and social innovation in home care provision.

Diane is interested in supervising qualitative research in health and social care systems and organization; job quality, care workforce and labour arrangments; care quality, abuse and mistreatment in organized care; voice, power and whistle-blowing in the workplace and other organizations; collaborative forms of organizing and partnership. 

Diane is particularly interested in action research, participatory appraoches and co-production, and the development of organizational ethnography using visual methods, poetics and film.

Research interests

My main interest is child-centred dental research to increase understanding of the impact of oral health and dental care on children and young people. My work involves inclusive research with children with the aim of informing policy and clinical practice.

I co-ordinate the Children and Young People Oral Health Research Group, a multidisciplinary team conducting research with children using a range of research methods

Research Interests

My research interests are in Health Services and Public Health research.  My main field of research is the evaluation of emergency and urgent first contact care and services, particularly A and E services, including trauma services and chest pain care; ambulance services including helicopter ambulances; and urgent first contact care services including telephone and out-of-hours services.  I also carry out methodological research related to the design of health service evaluations, and I have a particular interest in the use of routine (e-health) data for HSR.

My research interests are in palliative and end of life care, in particular the role of the family caregiver, palliative care in hospitals, care of older people at the end of life, and health economic approaches to palliative care. My methodological expertise lies mainly in qualitative, mixed methods research and evidence synthesis

My background is in economics and health economics and I am interested in using quantitative and qualitative research methods  in measuring and valuing health and wellbeing to support economic evaluations in health and social care. This includes:

• Development and testing of preference-based health and wellbeing measures in different populations
• Mapping between condition-specific and generic preference-based measures of health
• Developing and testing measures of health for children and adolescents
• Use of wellbeing measures in health and social care

I am an academic GP with a particular interest in how doctors and patients deal with persistent physical symptoms. My work aims to help doctors explain symptoms constructively. We recognise that symptoms have both peripheral (body) and central (brain) processes and the challenge is to translate developments in science, particularly neuroscience, into explanations which safely make sense of symptoms for patients and lead to better management

I have other interests around diagnosis, testing and reassurance, and healthcare use in relation to both mental and physical ill-health. I use a variety of methods including analysis of large data, development and evaluation of clinical interventions, and technological innovation.

Within the university I lead the Academic Unit of Primary Care, and represent the Academic Unit of Medical Education on faculty research committees. I am a member of the Centre for Urgent Care Research within ScHARR.

• Benefits of urban plants as determined by plant species choice
• Gardens / Gardening for health and well-being
• Climate change and urban plants
• Green walls and building insulation 
• Landscape plants and urban water management

Developing more sustainable landscape management techniques is a key driver in much of my research, and I have been involved in a number of projects investigating more efficient use of resources (water, organic waste streams as soil amendments, alternative growing media and energy).

I led a DEFRA LINK project - Efficient use of water in horticulture which proposed a 2/3 reduction in water use during the production of ornamental plants. This project involved 14 partner organizations and was rated 9/10 by DEFRA – one of the highest-ranking scores at the time.

I have also more recently conducted projects evaluating the use of grey water for landscape applications. I work closely with industry partners, for example, the Horticultural Trades Association on the ‘carbon footprint’ of plant production and maintenance; and the Royal Horticultural Society on maximizing invertebrate biodiversity through the appropriate use of garden ornamentals.

As a landscape horticulturalist, I also am very keen to understand more about how people relate to the landscape and what sorts of plant-based designs provide strong resonance with the public and why?

I am particularly interested in the relationship between plants, ‘naturalistic’ landscapes and human well-being. As such I have worked on a number of consultations with stakeholders in this field, including MIND, the horticultural therapy charity THRIVE, The Royal Neurological Hospital and the Landscape Institute.

Research Interests

Broad research interests:

My research interests are in the areas health policy and systems where I draw on my doctoral research and extensive experience working in this area in Nigeria (has worked for significant periods in all three tiers of government) and West Africa providing technical assistance to government officials at all levels in implementing strategies to strengthen health systems and deliver disease prevention and control programs.  I have worked with national, regional and local governments in design, implementation and evaluation of malaria control and health systems strengthening programs.  I have been involved in complex negotiations with different private sector suppliers of health commodities, addressing cost barriers to access for consumers as well as addressing prescriber behaviour in Nigeria, Ghana and Mali.  I have also worked with an international NGO in deployment of new and effective technologies in addressing high burden, high impact conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Methods I can supervise: 

Case studies

Specific Areas of Interest:

Health Systems Management

I am an academic GP.  My special interests are neurology, epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.  Major themes in my research are improving emergency care for people after a seizure and the use of free-association narrative interviews to give new insights into psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. All of my research is about health-service quality improvement, my personal methodological expertise is in quantitative methods but I work in multi-disciplinary research teams using mixed methods to develop and test complex interventions. 

I am very happy to receive informal enquiries.  Feel free to get in touch by email.  

My web profile is avaiable via this link:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/medicine/research/aupmc/staff/academicprofiles/jmdickson

Research Interests

My research interests are in developing machine learning methods, to address some of the fundamental questions in medicine. These include:

- predictive modelling

- explainable AI

- generative adversarial approaches (GAN)

- causal inference

- health inequality and bias

My work focuses on analysis of large-scale, longitudinal health records, including:

- biomarkers

- imaging

- multi-omics

- routine care data 

The aim is to optimise treatment strategies, improve patient care, and provide novel insights to health institutions.

Apart from clinical data, I also work on incorporating human behaviour data, such as those generated from wearable devices, with a particular focus on mental health.

The overarching objective of my research is to integrate predictive modelling in the bedside and bring the acquired evidence back, in a continuously improving feedback loop, consequently establishing a learning health system.

PhD Supervision

I will consider project proposals that relate to the aspects mentioned above.

Research Interests

My research focuses on improving the quality of life of people with long term conditions, particularly through exploration of the effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support the self-management of the rehabilitation process. My research work, funded predominantly through the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, and latterly the NIHR CLAHRC Y&H, has capitalised on new innovations in sensor and digital technologies and involves interdisciplinary work, integrating clinical rehabilitation researchers with engineering, design, mecatronics, informatics and digital media specialists.

My research is humanities based and critically explores architecture and urban space, using methodologies of critical-creative writing, ethnography, autotheory and feminism towards new cultural and social histories and theories. Key topics include combinations of architecture, health, domesticity, wellbeing, the body and the city. I use a variety of interdisciplinary sources including archives and English Literature. My current research, Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity, examines the role of architecture in the construction of the maternal body and maternity practices.

Potential PhD supervision areas: gender, domesticity and architecture/cities; health/wellbeing/medicine and architecture/cities; documentary, autotheory, ethnography and observational methods in drawing, writing and film; ideas of care and intersectional and decolonial feminism. I supervise both 'by design' and 'written' PhDs

Research interests

The main drive of Prof McDermott’s research programme is developing the evidence base for delivering supportive and symptomatic care for patients living with motor neuron disease. He is also interested in studying mechanisms of neurodegeneration, in order to develop treatments for patients with motor neuron disease and hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Offering PhD opportunities in the following areas:

• Investigating and delivering optimal respiratory support for patients with MND
• Establishing an evidence base for nutritional support in MND
• Designing and evaluating assistive technologies for patients with neuromuscular weakness
• Developing and evaluating novel service delivery mechanisms for patients with long term neurological conditions
• Genetic and phenotypic characterisation of motor system disorders
• Natural history study of motor system disorders
• Collaborating with pharmaceutical companies in Phase 1-3 studies
• Improving symptomatic management for patients with MND
• Epidemiology of motor neuron disease

My research interests lie mainly in health inequalities and patient experience. I am especially
interested in the areas of health care access and communication between patients and
healthcare professionals. Recent studies have included qualitative research with patients,
family members and staff. This includes studies in the areas of mesothelioma, Type 2
diabetes, ageing, gender and sexual health.
Methodologically, my expertise lies in qualitative research and community engagement.

Senior Lecturer in Management Sciences

Research interests

Mike's current research interests are in the area of Marketing and Operations Management and particularly concentrates on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) but not entrepreneurship.. Mike has published 3 books, 3 book chapters, over 140 articles and conference papers in both scientific and management areas. He supervises a number of PhD students mainly investigating topics in small and medium sized enterprises but not entrepreneurship. He welcomes PhD applications in any area of small and medium sized enterprise research but not entrepreneurship. He is particularly interested environmental issues in SMEs, issues of achieving a competitive advantage in SMEs, marketing in SMEs, success factors in SMEs and measuring the performance of SMEs.

Katherine's research is rooted in critical disability studies scholarship and activism. Her research spans inclusive education, disabled children's childhood studies, as well as matters of health and social care in the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families. Her work draws on Feminist, Crip, Critical Psychology, Posthuman and DisHuman studies.

She engages with qualitative research approaches including: ethnography, narrative inquiry, arts-informed approaches, carried out in co-production with disabled people and their families and other allies.

Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Research interests

• Facility Location Problems: models, methods, applications
• Applications of Spatial Interaction theory
• Multi-Criteria Decision Making problems
• Decision Support Models for Logistics Problems
• Green logistics and low carbon innovation for Supply Chains

Research Interests

• Application of statistics in medical research
• Urgent and Emergency Care
• Analysis of routinely collected data
• Asthma Epidemiology

Lecturer in Accounting

Dr Mirna Jabbour's current research interest lies within management accounting, particularly risk management, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), capital allocation practices, and institutional theory applications into management accounting and risk management. She has one successful PhD completion as a second supervisor in the area of environmental performance. Mirna has supervised a doctoral student in the area of risk management.

Broad area of research interest:

• Malnutrition: under-and overnutrition
• Food environment and policy
• Nutrition in emergencies management
• Evaluation of complex interventions
• School health and nutrition
• Maternal and child health
• Low middle income countries

Specific areas of interest:

• The socio-cultural, economic and political influences of malnutrition
• Community-based approaches to addressing childhood malnutrition
• Food security, food systems and policies: Understanding the physical, economic, political, and sociocultural surroundings that influence an individual’s food choice
• Understanding how the individual dietary practices, patterns and behaviours impact on non-communicable diseases
• Social interventions to improve maternal and child health in low income countries.
• Infant and young child feeding practices, including school feeding interventions

Research Development Director for Work, Employment and Organisations

Research interests

Penny´s research interests can be broadly described as critical management. She is interested in the relationships between social structures and individuals and how these create and perpetuate inequalities in employment and careers. She is also interested in how taken-for-granted ideas and practices influence how individuals understand their experiences at work, and whether and how these ideas change and evolve. She is particularly interested in the role of language in these processes, and much of her recent work utilises a discursive psychology approach in which close attention is paid to how individuals produce accounts of their experiences and what these accounts can tell us about power. She has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Work, Employment & Society, and the Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology.

Research Development Director for Accounting and Financial and Management

Research Interests

1. Ownership, corporate governance and firm performance
2. Banking and credit markets
3. Impact of economic reforms

Areas of Research Supervision

1. Corporate governance
2. Corporate finance
3. Financial sector regulations

I am a mixed method researcher and equally use qualitative as well as quantitative methods. I explore gender based violence, especially intimate partner violence from the perspective of victims and perpetrators.  I am interested in exploring nursing research related topics,  inequalities in health care experiences and health outcomes and how the preparation and training of health professionals such as doctors, nurses and allied health professionals can contribute to tackling such inequalities. Any other topics related to nursing, nursing research  

Professor of Employment Relations

Research interests

Pauline's research focuses on employment security, with two main sub-themes. The first is employment security and the role of the trade unions in emerging economies. This research programme has considered different dimensions of work and employment and includes the development and analysis of large scale surveys in South Africa, Brazil and Mozambique in addition to in-depth qualitative research. The second is job security for those with disabilities and health conditions. Pauline continues to explore disability and employment, the dynamics of sickness absence and return to work, and the policies and practices surrounding this. Pauline has published in journals including British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Public Sector Management, Industrial Relations, International Journal of HRM, Journal of World Business, and Work Employment and Society.

PhD supervision:

Pauline would be interested in supervising students who wish to investigate disability and employment.

Research Interests:

• Access to and provision of equitable services for individuals from marginalised groups
• Learning disabilities
• Health behaviour particularly weight management
• Qualitative methods
• Narrative research
• Cross lanaguage qualitative research
• Realist synthesis
• Complex intervention development and evaluation
• Social Care Research

Research interests

Much of my early research centred on social care for older people, though it also extended to other aspects of community and health care services and their impact on the lives of service users and carers. More recently, I have focussed on issues of representation in later life, looking at the construction and framing of ageing and care-giving. I draw from a mix of anthropological, social policy, sociological, social gerontological, and feminist perspectives and approaches and the intersection of gender and age has been a key focus of my work. My interests include social and cultural dimensions of ageing, intergenerational relations and informal or family care relationships, which I have explored predominantly through qualitative methods, including interviews, focus groups, observation (participant and non-participant), ethnography, life stories and more recently visual approaches. I recognise the importance of `user involvement´ and interdisciplinarity in research and am committed, in particular, to the development of participatory research, raising questions about how we come to know what we know about the lives of people who use services and the connection of this knowledge with policy and practice.

I have recently completed 2 major research projects:

The social process of everyday decision-making by people with dementia and their spouses, an ESRC-funded study carried out with Dr Geraldine Boyle (PI) which aimed to explore and raise awareness of the decision-making abilities of people with dementia. 

Representing Self – Representing Ageing,  part of the cross disciplinary New Dynamics of Ageing Programme: http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/ and which I carried out, as PI, with Professors Merryn Gott and Susan Hogan. Known more familiarly by the title of Look at Me! Images of Women and Ageing, the project worked with women in Sheffield to explore representations of women and ageing in the media and to produce new images to challenge existing stereotypes: http://www.representing-ageing.com/. I won an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Society Award for the project in 2014 and am continuing to extend the project's impact through activities including intergenerational work in schools.

My other research activities have included:

The ESRC Older Women’s Lives and Voices project, exploring issues affecting the quality of life of older women across different ethnic groups within Sheffield and their involvement in services available to them:

The European Commission funded MERI project (Mapping Existing Research and Identifying Knowledge Gaps Concerning the Situation of Older Women in Europe), a collaborative project involving 13 EC countries and designed to contribute to the development of European studies and policy to improve older women’s lives.

Postgraduate Supervision

I have supervised 9 students to successful completion at PhD (x 8) and MPhil (x 1) levels. I am currently primary supervisor of 1 full-time and 5 part-time PhD students, including a joint location student (Trinidad and Tobago). I welcome applications to study full-time or part-time with me for MPhil or PhD research degrees that are related to my activities and experience. I would be particularly interested in hearing from students who wish to undertake participatory research with older people and carers.

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

My research falls at the intersections of Science and Technology Studies, Sociologies of Race and Ethnicity, and Digital Sociology.

My current and previous research includes:

• exploration of institutional practices of stem cell banking which included looking at race classifications, legacies of health care inequity, and genetic understandings of racial differences in blood and tissue in a UK context
• digital health and self-monitoring technologies - user, commercial and policy perspectives through ethnography, interview, and novel material methodologies
• stem cell donor recruitment activities in minority communities including ethnography of minority community donor drives, and digital method-based analysis of online minority ethnicity recruitment campaigns that focus on mixed raced donors

Interested in supervising research students who are focused on the following topics (in UK and/or other national/regional/international contexts)

• health activism - particularly targeted at, or taking place within, racialised communities
• processes of racialisation (and, more generally, invocations of racial difference) within biomedical contexts
• mixed raced experience, particularly in the context of health, and of new genetic sciences
• the intersection of race/ethnicity and digital media in general

My broad research is focused on mathematical modelling within health economics. I have gained significant expertise and experience in two related areas:

• Bayesian calibration of cancer natural history models: This is my main methodological research theme, please see MDM publication http://mdm.sagepub.com/content/31/4/625 and Example Excel model using the Metropolis Hastings algorithm to calibrate a state transition model available to down load from the Downloads box)
• Early diagnosis of cancer: I have substantial experience having worked on more than 15 projects in this area of applied research.
• In addition to these main research themes I have undertaken research to inform policy making: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for NICE (https://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds/collaborations/tag) , and research as part of the Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU) for DH (http://www.eepru.org.uk/)

My research, publications and teaching have focused on the relationship between work and care in contemporary societies, and on how people manage caring roles and responsibilities throughout the life course.

I specialise in research with the potential for policy and practical impact, and have expertise in making complex research findings accessible to a wide range of audiences, wide experience of research design and methods, and extensive knowledge of policy on care, carers and employment.

I currently supervise PhD students studying the work of carers’ organisations (Jenny Read) and the provision of home care in Shanghai (Wenjing Jin), and welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to study topics in my specialist field.

Research Interests

Stefania's overarching research interest is in dynamics of civic engagement on digital platforms of communication. Her approach to online data is based on a variety of textual analysis techniques - with an increasing focus on text analytics - informed by social network and framing theories. Stefania specifically focuses on:

• Digital activism: Stefania's early research focused on how digital media ease upward and downward scale shifts (i.e., from local to transnational and vice versa) in framing grievances. Work in this camp investigated the Global Justice Movement and the World Social Forum. She is also particularly interested in social media use with relevance to public sphere processes in the context of protest events, issue publics, everyday talk. Her work in this field has specifically focused on interactional and deliberative processes in the Cuban blogosphere and on meaning construction on Twitter streams relevant to anti-austerity protests in Italy.

• Digital health. Stefania is interested in the role of digital media in health democratizing processes, especially in processes of self-care, patient advocacy, health public debate, and health activism. Her main interest is in if, how and to what extent digital media may enhance bottom-up, patient-centred health practices. Stefania's work in this area is currently looking at online affordances for rare disease patient organisations in advocacy and activist dynamics and rare disease discourse practices on Facebook and Twitter.

Stefania has supervised PhD projects looking at different aspects of digital media use, among which, digital literacy, digital activism and online political participation. She is particularly interested in supervising students investigating digital activism, social media and health and/or who wish to apply digital methods approaches.

Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Research

Erica is a member of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, and the Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), and the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) here at the University of Sheffield.

Research interests include: Sustainable urban freight transport and logistics operations; city logistics; sustainable urban supply chains; and local authority freight transport planning and policy decision making. She welcomes exploring future collaborations with industry partners and research academics.

Prospective PhD candidates

Erica is interested in supervising doctoral students in the field of logistics, freight transport and supply chain management. In particular, she is keen to supervise students who have an interest in using qualitative methods in logistics related research. Prospective PhD students with related research interests are invited to send a research proposal and a CV for consideration.

Publications

Ballantyne, E.E.F., Lindholm, M. and Whiteing, A.W. (2013). A comparative study of urban freight transport planning: addressing stakeholder needs. Journal of Transport Geography, 32 93- 101.

Ballantyne, E.E.F. and Boodoo, A. (2010). Freight in an Eco-town: How does freight fit into eco-town planning? Logistics and Transport Focus, 12(6) 28-32.

Full list of publications

Research interests

• My research interests are discrete event simulation, individual patient modelling and mathematical modelling in the field of health technology assessment and cost-effectiveness

Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Development

Carole's research interests lie at the intersection of disciplinary fields: management and leadership learning, organization studies and human resource development. Her early research interests developed in response to a curiosity about the development of the self for work, particularly among managers and leaders. The interpretive foundation for this body of research is located in critical theory, particularly as it has been applied to the management studies and human resource development fields.

Her early research focus on the individual learning experience provides a backdrop for continuing inquiries into the power dynamics of learning environments, including her interest in women’s leadership learning, and in teaching and learning within international management education settings. An examination of business schools’ visual representations of their claims to internationalisation has led to an innovative area of methodological work that adopts a visual semiotic framework as one stage of a hermeneutic analysis of webpages. She continues to develop and apply this methodological development to different contexts: examinations of women leaders’ visual representations; organisations’ representation of their corporate ‘historic’ web identity; and conceptual contributions around the implications for organizations in the light of the ‘visual’ and ‘digital’ turns.

Carol welcomes proposals using qualitative research in the following areas: Management and Leadership Learning; Gender and Leadership; Critical Management Studies; Critical Human Resource Development; Visual Approaches to Organisation Studies.

Associate Professor (Senior lecturer) in Marketing & Research Director for MCCI

• Service Recovery and Complaint Management (e.g., service failure, service recovery, coping mechanisms and the service recovery paradox).
• Relationships in Services (e.g., customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, service quality, customer commitment, trust and perceived switching costs).
• International Marketing in Services (e.g., service customers’ attitudes and behaviours across cultures).
• Transformative Services (e.g., the impact of service interactions and servicescape on consumers’ well-being).
• Tourism Services (e.g., medical tourism and online travel communities).

Programme Director for Creative and Cultural Industries Management

Primarily interested in how people engage with material culture in museums (the encounter between a person and a thing), not least through developing collaborative creative projects with artists, Alex is also interested in how the museum workforce is supported to flourish. To that end, she initiated and is currently working with the UK Museums Association to undertake the first ever piece of research on bullying in the museums sector. In addition, she is involved in object-based research in heritage tourism sites in India, particularly in the City Palace Museum in Jaipur and in Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh, where she has collaborated with Professor Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester), Professor Manvi Seth (National Museum Institute, New Delhi) and an international team of researchers.

Alex's research methods are qualitative, often including reflexive interview, participant observation and visual methods. 

Not currently taking new PhD students

Research interests

Health Psychology; predicting and changing health behaviour; habit and health behaviour; intention-behaviour relations; planning and implementation intentions; self-affirmation; binge drinking.

Research Interests

• Systematic review and evidence synthesis of medical, health and social science topics, including qualitative and mixed method evidence synthesis
• The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process
• Information retrieval and programme evaluation (implementation fidelity) research

Senior Lecturer (Statistician)

Research interests

Specific projects that Chris is currently working on include:

• The effects of perfectionism on well-being
• Cheating in sport; is it a team, individual or circumstantial act?
• From pitch to plinth; a study of statues of sportsmen and sportswomen (see http://www.sportingstatues.com)
• The psychology of nostalgia and the use of nostalgia branding
• The effect of the built environment and residential outdoor space upon well-being in older people

Research Interests

My fundamental interest is in mathematical modelling approaches to inform decision making in health and healthcare.

I am currently principal investigator or co-investigator involved in over 19 research programmes and projects. Current government / national policy research.

Alcohol Policy

I have been involved in modelling alcohol behaviours and policy since 2008, when we began a programme of research for UK research bodies and policy makers. With Prof Meier, we have developed the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, a leading international centre for alcohol policy and epidemiological modelling research. Our work has influenced government policy on minimum unit pricing for alcohol; shaping and informing policy in UK, Scotland, Canada, Wales, EU Commission, and Republic of Ireland.

Public Health - Health Economics and Decision Modelling

I am co-applicant (Health Economics and Decision Modelling leader) on large research grants for the NIHR School of Public health research and the ESRC funded UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies.

I have a wider portfolio of public health work including work around screening and prevention of diabetes, linking smoking and alcohol behaviours and developing a joint smoking and alcohol policy analysis model, encouraging behaviours in physical activity and general lifestyle risk reductions. This entire programme relates to the central methodological interest which is in developing and using novel mathematical modelling approaches to support and inform decision making around health and healthcare for international impact.

Health Technology Assessment

I have been heavily involved in health technology assessment and health economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals and interventions for both government bodies in the UK eg NICE and internationally, and also with the pharmaceutical industry.

I direct a programme of research in Health Economic Modelling / Health Technology Assessment which involves a large team of modelling staff and their collaborators. We are recognized as a leading national and international centre for HTA modelling research. I have been involved in direct leadership of over 30 research projects within the last five years, working closely with ScHARR-TAG and DSU.

Research Interests

I have extensive experience in modelling and have contributed to the methodology of economic evaluation in various areas. In 1993 I was one of the earliest researchers to apply discrete event models and was the first to apply a non-parametric method to estimate costs in the presence of censoring[1]. In 1994 I was the first to apply Fieller´s approach to calculate confidence intervals around cost-effectiveness ratios, and I introduced the acceptability curve, which is now a well known concept in cost effectiveness analysis[2]. In 1996 I was one of the first to apply probabilistic sensitivity analysis[3]. In 2000 I was one of the initial people to explore Bayesian techniques in economic evaluation[4]. I have had work published on discounting[5] and estimating utility functions[6].

I am one of the founding members of the EuroQol group and I currently enjoy chairing the valuation task force within the EQ-5D group. My experience covers several therapeutic areas, including renal disease, cancer, osteoporosis, sepsis, schizophrenia, blood safety and most notably cardiovascular disease. My main interest concerns the use of elegant techniques, mostly to solve practical problems, but sometimes also because of the elegance itself.

Research Interests

I am a qualitative researcher and my research interests include older adults, health inequalities and the integration of health and social care.

Research Interests

My primary research interest focusses on nutrition and dietetics, in particular the prevention and treatment of undernutrition in vulnerable population groups.  I have experience of using quantitative approaches, including the development of health measurement scales, as well as qualitative research.

Research interests

Pamela's research interests lie in the economics of education, labour economics and health. Pamela's primary interest is education economics. More recently Pamela has focused on the areas of household debt and health and the problems faced by the financially excluded. This is joint work with Paul Mosley and a book of the empirical research undertaken in UK cities will be published later this year. Pamela has also just completed an economic analysis of the Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (with Jenny Roberts and John Brazier) which was funded by the National Institute for Health Research.

Research Interests

• measuring, valuing, and modelling health, and other aspects of well-being
• incorporating equity concerns into social welfare functions
• normative economics of health and beyond

Lecturer in Business Analytics and Technology Management

Su Jung's research focuses on innovation and intellectual property management, with a particular interest in the context of open innovation, industrial dynamics of AI, and climate change. She is also broadly interested in developing frameworks and measures to support decision-making in relation to innovation management and policy, leveraging various analytics approaches including patent analytics, bibliometrics, and agent-based simulation.

Steve has 25yrs research and evaluation experience in the field of men, gender and health with particular emphasis on health promotion/public health and men's mental wellbeing. More recently, he has been developing an additional portfolio of nursing research relating to safe and effective staffing, nursing education, nursing leadership and developing nursing roles (particularly Nursing Associates and Advanced Nursing Practice). He is primarily a qualitative researcher with expertise in Thematic Analysis, data integration and critical realism.

Her research has a fundamental interdisciplinary nature, and has developed both in industry and in academia. It concerns the intersection among ubiquitous computing, knowledge capture and visualization and human computer interaction in fields as diverse emergency response, mobility, smart cities, manufacturing, aerospace and more recently wellbeing. Her research focuses on user participatory design methods to develop novel methodologies and interfaces for ubiquitous and mobile computing.

Research Interests

My research interests predominantly surround urban drainage and areas of expertise include: Monitoring and modelling of hydraulics and water quality in urban drainage systems and associated watercourses; Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban drainage; Modelling of surface water flooding; Application of rainfall radar to urban drainage; Laboratory and field testing particularly of CSOs and storage tanks; Solute tracing and analysis for determination of travel time and dispersion parameters; Application of GIS for visualisation and assessment of overland flow paths and flooding; Asset performance modelling; pressure transients in water distribution systems; asset condition and deterioration.

Research Interests

Fiona’s research interests include: Traumatic Brain Injury, Major Trauma, Biomarkers in Emergency Care and Injury Epidemiology. Latterly she has been Chair of the College of Emergency Medicine Research Committee – successfully setting up PhD studentships for Trainee Emergency Physicians, and the NW EM Walport Programme lead with a competitive ACF programme.
Recent publications include those looking at trends in trauma outcome and clinical effectiveness in trauma care and venour thromboembolism with a particular focus on head injury.

Research interests

Jenny's research interests centre on applied microeconometrics, particularly the interaction of health and labour market outcomes, health-related behaviours, health valuation, the economics of well-being and travel behaviours. She is currently leading a large, innovative, EPSRC-funded project, 'Reflect: Experienced utility and travel behaviour, a feasibility study', which uses smartphones to gather real-time data on commuting experiences, and to feed this back to them in various ways. The ultimate aim is to influence travel behaviour by encouraging people to reflect on their experience and those of other people.

Jenny is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, especially those with topics that are in line with the research interests described here.

My research questions the way we understand and address
inequalities in health, particularly as experienced by migrant and
ethnic minority groups. There is a focus on the intersection of three
main axes of inequality: race/ethnicity, gender and poverty and,
within this, on the role of power/control as an underlying social
determinant of health. My research takes an interdisciplinary
perspective, drawing on the theory and practical application of a
range of complementary methods drawn from sociology, political
science and history. Recent work, for example, has involved
developing critical methodologies that help us think differently about
the ‘problem’ of ‘Roma health’ and the types of knowledge that inform
how it is understood/addressed.

I have supervised Masters and PhD students in a range of social
science projects exploring pathways to and from health inequalities
among various disadvantaged groups (ethnic minorities, those living
in excluded communities, older people.) I am particularly interested to
hear from prospective students whose research explores the
intersection of health and social science with a focus on inequality
and critical methodologies.

Head of Operations Management and Decision Sciences Subject Group

PhD Supervision

Some PhD projects are currently open for students with scientific interests in the following areas:

• Optimisation in Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Efficient algorithms for NP-Hard problems in Network and Discrete Optimisation
• Locational Analysis and Spatial Decision Making
• Optimisation for Safety, Security and Emergency problems
• DSS in Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare Management

For further information on PhD open projects please send a message with your CV to: a.sgalambro@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Statica’s work focuses on the relationship between gender and domesticity in the development and transformation of housing infrastructures and urban landscapes in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Her research interests are in the feminist practices of care, intersectional feminism, theories of infrastructure and the anthropology of socialism, and urbanism, specifically the comparative investigation of urban contexts in postsocialist and postcolonial geographies. She employs documentary film as an integral aspect of both research and practice.

Research interest and PhD Supervision areas: (Post)socialist architecture and urbanism; global urbanism and postcolonialism; gender and architecture; documentary and ethnographic film; domesticity/housing infrastructures/care; intersectional feminism and urbanism.

Research Interests:

• Manufacturing-led innovation in electrical machines
• Multi-phase fault tolerant electrical machines for more electric aircraft
• Digital twin of electrical machines and drive
• High-speed electrical machines for traction
• Low-cost electrical machines
• Powertrain energy management for electric vehicles
• Bearing currents in electrical machines
• Digital twin of electrical machines and drives
• Manufacturing impact on electrical machines
• AC loss in electrical machines

I conduct qualitative research to understand the experience of living with long term conditions such as MND, dementia and cancer. I am particularly interested in the design and evaluation of complex interventions within social care.

Offering PhD opportunities in the following areas:

• Improving social care for people with long term health conditions
• Designing and evaluating complex interventions for social care
• Assessment and diagnosis experiences for people with MND
• Emotional labour of conducting research with people with long term health conditions

Lecturer in Management Accounting

Juliana’s research interests range from management accounting to inter-disciplinary accounting.

PhD supervision:

Juliana would be interested in supervising students with projects on:

• supply chain and accounting,
• managing reverse logistics, retails returns, and circular economy
• performance measurement and balanced scorecard
• strategic management accounting, including beyond budgeting
• accounting and human resource management, including HR monitoring in the supply chain and cost-benefit analysis of adaptations for people with disabilities at work

She is interested in all three aspects of sustainability: people, profits and planet. Juliana has also an interest in extending her research to include environmental accounting, closing the sustainability loop. Her research is based on mixed methods, utilising mainly case studies and surveys as methodological approaches.

Professor of Managerial Economics

Although Don has a background in applied economics, he is better described as a researcher of policy-relevant, social science issues. Specifically he is interested in research that puts people and social issues (rather than money) at the core of economic concern.

Don has written over 90 academic peer-reviewed articles and led or collaborated on £2.2m of externally funded research. His work has been discussed at the United Nation's International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Welsh Government and elsewhere. He is part of a consortium that recently completed an AHRC-sponsored project investigating the influence of design on the Bristol and Bath economy.

Prospective PhD students who wish to study productivity (very broadly defined), health, education and/or geographically-related issues are encouraged to contact him for further discussion. He is very open to qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research.

My practice-research interests focus around situated speculative and critical design, participation, co-design, prototyping, DIY design, care, the Anthropocene, design's intersection with actor-network theory (ANT), science and technology studies (STS), and speculative thought.

I am also interested in (and convinced by the value of) designing and researching through making and practice — to think through materials and their processes by experimenting, modelling and prototyping, as well as utilising photo and video methods.

Research Interests

My research interests are:-

• public health and health services research, particularly relating to black, minority ethnic and other marginalised groups
• migrant health;
• leisure and everyday, relational life;
• physical activity and health, particularly in relation to children, young people and families
• policy making and outcomes in the fields of employment, health and sport;
• sedentary lifestyles and 'sit less' interventions.

Research Interests

• Systematic review of evidence for clinical effectiveness in healthcare
• Health policy and decision making
• Systematic review methodology

Lecturer in Work Psychology

Rose’s research focuses primarily on understanding and managing crowd events. In particular, she is interested in exploring how local event management practices are influenced by wider contextual factors, such as current financial or political constraints.

As part of her research, Rose established the 'Crowd Behaviour Network' - an international forum for researchers and professionals involved with managing crowd events to share knowledge and expertise, helping enhance crowd safety and event success.

She hosts a Crowd Behaviour Network discussion group on LinkedIn - please feel free to join if you are interested!

Rose also has research interests in organizational safety and disasters, socio-technical systems thinking, and technology in the workplace.

Rose has developed strong links with many leading public and private sector organizations, including the Cabinet Office, the Emergency Planning College, Arup, London Metropolitan Police Service, South Yorkshire Police, Liverpool City Council, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and York Racecourse. She is also a member of the Sheffield University Policing Research Group (SUPRG).

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.

My research interests involve the use of decision-analytic modelling to help with policy decisions. In particular, this includes the use of health economic modelling for assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Public Health interventions. Key methodological interests include conceptual modelling and individual-level simulation.

Broad area of research interests:

• Health economics
• Economic evaluation

Methods I am able to supervise:

• Economic evaluation
• Preference elicitation

Specific area of research interests: 

• Economic evaluation alongside controlled trials
• Valuation of non-health outcomes
• Process utility
• Willingness to pay methodology
• Decison rules for reimbursement
• Transferability of economic evaluations
• Global Health

I have a number of research interests and is particularly interested in areas that cross traditional subject boundaries. My research interests include

• Resonant power conversion
• Piezoelectric transformers for power converters
• Thermal management and temperature estimation in power electronic and energy storage systems
• Sensor technologies
• Rapid impedance spectroscopy techniques
• Power electronics

Please get in touch if you’d like to pursue a PhD in an area related to these themes.

Research interests

Our research aims to improve outcomes for children with inherited and acquired bone diseases and understand better the factors contributing to fracture in apparently healthy children.

We are currently conducting two studies of oral Risedronate therapy in children with Osteogenesis Imperfect (OI) and are collaborating with colleagues in Montreal to study Zoledronie acid in infants with severe OI (PI Francis Glorieux). In addition we are waiting with colleagues to study osteoporosis in children with inflammatory joint disease (POP study, PI Madeleine Rooney, Belfast) and the effects of Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy on skeletal outcomes in infancy (MAVIDOS study, PI Cryus Cooper). We are the European centre for an open label study of recombinant bone-targeted alkaline phosphotase in severe hypophosphotasia (PI Cheryle Greenburg; funded by Enobia Pharma). Children travel from other European countries to participate in the study.

Research interests

I am a social psychologist, interested in self-regulation and behaviour change. Specifically, I am interested in how people achieve their goals and make changes to their behaviour.

The usual answer is that people need to be motivated. However, even medium-to-large changes in people's intentions seem to have only a small-to-medium effect on their behavior. In short, motivation is not enough. As a result, much of my research to date has investigated how the effects of motivation can be boosted by forming specific plans - known as "implementation intentions" - that links good opportunities to act with suitable responses to those opportunities.

Research Interests

• Measuring and valuing health and quality of life
• Modelling preference data
• Methodology of developing preference-based measures of health from existing measures
• Mapping between measures to generate utility values
• Measuring and valuing child health

I have three main areas of interest:

Placebo/nocebo effects - How can we enhance placebo and reduce nocebo effects in the context of medicines in a way that is ethical (i.e without impacting informed consent)? And does this have implications for adherence?

Risk communication - Improving communication of risks in patient information leaflets, the doctor-patient consultation, and the role of empathy.

Health behaviour in the context of public health emergencies - Changes in behaviour as a result of public health scares and how to encourage protective health behaviours.

Research interests

My current research focuses on Urban Stormwater Management and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). I am specifically interested in the hydrological performance of SuDS and on strategic SuDS retrofitting. My work is aimed at understanding the processes that control the quantity and quality of urban runoff in order to develop fit-for-purpose models of those processes and generate novel strategies to enable stormwater to be managed more effectively/sustainably. The work embraces fundamental science (hydrology, hydrodynamics, soil science), and has strong practical relevance. I have a track record of monitoring and modelling green roof hydrological performace, with current projects focusing on bioretention cell design, dual-function rainwater harvesting systems and evapotranspiration rates from urban vegetation.

Other ongoing work focuses on the use of computational fluid dynamics to optimise the design of combined sewer overflows and other sewer ancillary structures. This requires both the flow field and pollutant transport (sediment or solute) to be accurately modelled, in three-dimensions and in response to time-dependent inputs. Recent work aimed to understand and model the effects of vegetation on flow and solute transport in vegetated stormwater ponds.

Broad area of research interest: 

• Health inequalities
• Gender
• Race/ethnicity
• Poverty
• Reproductive health
• Work and health
• South Asia

Research methods I am able to supervise:

• Qualitative
• Quantitative or mixed methods
• Participatory and inclusive research approaches

Specific areas of interest:

• UK South Asian populations
• Intersecting inequalities
• Complex interventions
• Knowledge translation

Primarily I am a qualitative researcher with an interest in narrative but I have experience of managing mixed methods projects too. I am interested in all things that concern equality and social justice in relation to my practice discipline of social work and social care, but my main research interests and research lie in the following areas:

• interpersonal and gender-based violence (including intimate partner violence, elder abuse, domestic homicide, child abuse, and other forms of family violence);
• gender, trans and gender diversity;
• hidden voices and marginalised communities;
• narrative methods.

I am also interested in, and would welcome applications, concerning:

• Identity and belonging;
• A sociology of family, family practices and identity;
• Hate crime;
• Stalking and harassment;
• Digital methods, abuse, stalking and harassment;

• Music and healthy ageing
• Music and dementia
• Music, health and wellbeing
• Music learning and cognitive skills
• Music technology and new musical instruments

Research Interests

My research interests include data mining and analytics, data science, and big data. My research concerns foundations for efficient information retrieval, data management and knowledge discovery from different types of data, in particular those with spatial dimension such as spatial data, spatio-textual data, and spatio-temporal data.

I worked on the problems of query processing on spatio-textual data, spatial co-location pattern mining, and in the area of indoor location-based services (LBS). I am also interested in applying machine learning models in databases to improve the quality and query efficiency of spatial data.

• Spatial database

• Data mining

• Indoor Location-based services

My research has been published in top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) and IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). You can find more about my research on my personal webpage.

Research supervision

I would welcome proposals related to any of the above areas. I am also interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• Data mining and analytics for big data

• Machine learning for databases

• Spatial data science, data management and data querying

Research interests

My research interests focus on:

• Trust formation in health online information

• Information needs of healthcare professionals

• Online information needs of men and women in different contexts (e.g. e-commerce, health, finance, holidays, etc.)

• Non-compliancy issues in relation to chronic conditions (e.g. why people tend to not use medications as prescribed)

• How to understand and meet the needs of dementia patients’ cares

• How to understand and meet the needs of Alzheimer’s patients’ cares

I would be interested in supervising PhD students in any of the above areas.

Beth joined the Sheffield Methods Institute as a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods in September 2019. Before this, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, Oxford. She completed her PhD in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester in 2015, exploring the role of income on mental health in 3-12 year-old British children and their parents. Her research focusses on mental health in adults and children, poverty, food poverty, and homelessness.

She is a strong believer in engaging with non-academic audiences, and to this end has spoken about food insecurity on TV and radio. Her research on UK food insecurity has received widespread press coverage, been cited in government debates and was also made into an impact film.

Beth's personal blog can be found here.

Research interests

• The use of statistics in health economics
• Extrapolation and time-series analyses
• Survival analysis and model uncertainty
• Vascular disease, cancer, depression
• Chronic diseases, mental ill health, and their interactions
• The use of health economics for pathway (service) re-design
• Mathematical modelling, including simulation

Research Interests

My research interests are:

• Healthcare modelling
• Health economics
• Multi-criteria decision analysis
• Optimisation

Methods and Instruments

• Within and beyond trial health-economic modelling
• Patient reported outcome and experience measures - Symptom burden, quality of life (utilities), mapping to the EQ5D
• Observational data, secondary use of data and data linkage for epidemiology and comparative effectiveness
• Statistical methods to reduced confounding - Instrumental variables, marginal structural models, G-methods and treatment switching
• Discrete choice experiments
• Systematic review and meta-analysis

Topics

• Health Technology Assessment
• The two-day break in three times as week haemodialysis
• The health economics surrounding renal replacement therapy - In centre haemodialysis (range of formats and settings including intensive frequency/duration and minimal care), peritoneal dialysis, home haemodialysis and transplantation
• Patient centred care, decision making and research prioritisation

My research interests centre of the use of digital representations of landscape, at the planning scale. This frequently involves the use of Geographic Information Science (GIS) and statistics to address the many challenges facing our landscapes. I have a particular interest in exploring inequalities in greenspace access, mapping land cover and in geographic definitions of the Rural-Urban divide.

The use of mobile technology forms an important strand of my research. I am interested in mapping using GPS but also in automated extraction from social media and other online data (such as Flickr and Twitter) in order to inform about the use and values of urban greenspace.

I am currently involved in the Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature (IWUN) project, led by Dr Anna Jorgensen within the Department and funded by NERC through the Valuing Nature network. I am working on Work Package 1 which seeks to investigate the statistical relationships between health inequality, deprivation and greenspace in Sheffield using a range of secondary data (see funded research below).

I am a co-author on the Rural-Urban Classification which is the official statistic used to distinguish rural and urban areas in England and Wales. The work identified and characterised physical settlements in order to generate a typology of settlement form (such as ‘village,’ ‘town’ or ‘urban fringe’).

I am interested in vague and fuzzy geographic objects. Despite the widespread acknowledgment that people will frequently have varying opinions relating to spatial boundaries and categorization, most digital representations treat such continuous spatial objects as discrete objects. My doctoral studies were concerned with formulating vague definitions of place through the extraction of differing opinions held on the internet. As such, it generated vague and probabilistic data for both neighbourhood boundaries and settlement classifications. I am interested in applying these concepts within landscape planning (for example using vague boundaries within Landscape Character Assessment).

My primary research interest is strengthening the collection, collation, and use of HIV data to inform prevention and care programming in sub-Saharan Africa.

Working towards this broad objective, my key research areas are

• developing epidemiological methods to strengthen the collection and use of data collected through surveillance and service delivery platforms
• characterising the locations, populations and individuals at greatest risk of infectious disease
• designing and implementing frameworks to collect strategic health data
• constructing health indicators / minimum indicator-sets
• implementing continuous data quality improvement
• formative research into the health and wellbeing needs and priorities of communities

Research Interests

My research interests are in child and adolescent mental health and interventions that focus on the relationship between child and caregiver. In 2009 I was awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship. I used a mixed methods design to create an online manual of dyadic art therapy.

Research Methods I can Supervise

• Mixed Methods
• Manual Development

Specific Areas of Interest

• Child and adolescent mental health
• Parent-child interventions
• Parenting interventions
• Early years 
• Art therapy

Research Interests

• Infectious disease modelling.
• Epidemiology
• Burden estimation
• TB, particularly in settings with high-HIV prevalence, and population-level TB interventions.
• TB in children.
• Individual-based modelling methodologies.
• Methods for model calibration and uncertainty analysis
• Cost-effectiveness modelling
• Global health

• New media and digital cultural studies
• Reproductive health, justice and politics in Latin American culture, especially teenage parenthood and reproductive health and representations of childbirth, pregnancy and midwifery.
• The intersection of market forces and articulations of national identity, especially in the contexts of tourism and nation branding

I originally came to Sheffield in 2003 for medical school. I stayed in South Yorkshire for my junior doctor jobs and then started specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. I went to Oxford University in 2015 to work on typhoid human challenge models and then got my PhD, based in Malawi studying typhoid epidemiology and vaccination in Africa and Asia. I have worked across Africa and Asia including the West Africa Ebola Virus Outbreak in 2014.

I am currently an academic clinical lecturer in the department of infection and immunity interested in measuring the vaccine preventable burden of infectious diseases in at-risk populations and using vaccines to prevent antimicrobial resistance.

Available to supervise history topics

Saurabh's interests lie in exploring a range of themes connected with the social history of colonial and post-colonial South Asia. More specifically, his focus areas till now have included the following: the history of science and medicine in the subcontinent, the nature of Islam in South Asia, the history of agrarian processes and structures, and the formation of colonial policies and ideologies. He is currently working on a project on indentured labour in British Guiana which investigates the lives and experiences of indentured labourers through the lens of medical/health issues. While the plantation economy has been studied by a number of historians, this project adopts a different perspective by focusing on the medical regime that labourers were subjected to.

I am a social psychologist, with a particular focus on behaviour change and intergroup relations. My key research interests centre around understanding and changing social, health and environmental behaviours, and evaluating and improving interventions to reduce prejudice. Much of my research at the moment focuses on applying behavioural science to the issue of indoor air quality and pollution. 

Synthesis and application of nano-particulate materials for dental applications.

The application of nucleating agents for the remineralisation of dentine

Integrity of structurally compromised restored teeth as compound systems

Optimisation of ceramic crown-tooth compound systems

Development and characterisation of novel restorative systems.

Remote digital communication for the provision of health care in dentistry

Development of L&T in restorative dentistry

Clinical evaluation of restorative systems

Broad area of research interest:

• Primary and secondary prevention of nutrition-related diseases.
• Interventions to support healthy eating and lifestyle in underserved groups.
• Reviews
• Food analysis and nutrient composition
• Public health, including low/middle income countries
• Sustainable diets

Methods I am able to supervise:

• Quantitative
• Qualitative (interviews, focus group discussions and vox pops)
• Mixed Methods
• Systematic review
• Narrative review

Research interest:

• Nutrient composition of ethnic foods
• Development of food-based resources for health promotion and interventions
• Community-based interventions to support healthy eating and lifestyle.
• Interventions to enhance health literacy, expand health opportunities and reduce nutritional issues related to under/over nutrition.
• Promotion of sustainable diets.

Research Interests

The focus of both my clinical and basic research is on optimising pituitary hormone replacement. My group have identified and characterised uncommon mutations in the growth hormone receptor which have led to fundamental observations on the mechanism by which the growth hormone receptor signals through a pre-formed dimer. This work has led to a greater understanding of the regulation of growth hormone secretion and recently the group have developed a long acting form of growth hormone which has exceptional pharmacokinetic properties that means administration may only be required once a fortnight or once a month. This work was published in Nature Medicine in 2007.

The Clinical Research Programme has been investigating different regimens for replacing cortisol, testosterone and oestrogen in hypopituitary, hypogonadal and adrenal insufficient patients. The group have designed a new modified release form of hydrocortisone, Chronocort, which in phase 1 studies has proven to replicate the normal circadian rhythm of cortisol. This work is currently being taken through to phase 2 studies in congenital adrenal hyperplasia patients. Other work has examined the incidence of hypogonadism in cancer survivors and optimising oestrogen replacement in young women of fertile years.

I co-chair the Endocrine Unit Management Team which consists of 6 Consultant Endocrinologists and runs a number of unique and innovative specialist clinics in the Health Care Trust including: Pituitary Clinic, Transition Clinic for Paediatric Endocrinology, Late Effects Clinic for Cancer survivors, Joint Surgical Endocrine Clinics, Obesity Clinic, Genetic Endocrine Clinic and a Pituitary Multidisciplinary Team.

Publications and Patents: 234 publications during career, 34 publications in the last 5 years, Scopus h-index of 34, 7 papers cited over 100 times, 2 over 200 times and 1 over 300 times.  35 patents granted from 7 independent patent families.

1. Patent granted 2010: C Strasburger, M Bidlingmaier, Z Wu, G Matarese, R Ross. Leptin antagonist and method for quantitative measurement of leptin. US 7,807,154 B2
2. Patent granted 2012: R Ross, P Artymiuk, J Sayers.  Fusion protein compromising growth hormone and growth hormone receptor. US 8,173,782 B2

Research interests

The World after Empire: themes include Muslim geographies and postcolonial cities 
Two generations after it was broken up, the British Empire lives on in a number of ways, including through communities that trace their heritage and origins to former colonies, and in cities, born of empire, that are forced to redefine themselves for new times. I have investigated these issues through research involving British Muslims and members of the Liverpool-born black community (see Muslim Spaces of Hope, published in 2009, and Liverpool ’81: Remembering the Riots, 2011). I have also researched the ways in which empire is invoked in contemporary political action, through a project on anti-imperialism in the UK anti-war movements (which protested intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq). I have also investigated the historical geographies of the British Empire through studies of colonial travel and adventure literature (Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure, 1997) and through an historical geography of sexuality politics in the British Empire (Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography, 2006).

Sexuality, Space and Power: constructions and contestations of sexual identities 
Sexuality is an important vehicle for constructing and contesting power relations between national, cultural and religious groups. I have traced imperial sexuality politics through key sites within the British Empire, investigating the legacies of these colonial histories and geographies in ex-colonies including Jamaica and Sierra Leone. I have also begun to examine these dynamics within Europe, investigating cultural practices through which Muslims are constructed as 'non-liberal' minorities, through representations of forced marriage and homophobia. My books about sexuality investigate the contested regulation of sexuality in the British Empire (Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography, 2006), examine sexuality politics and identities outside the cities that dominate research on sexualities (De-Centring Sexualities, 2001), and investigate the place of sexuality within sometimes tense relationships between majority societies and cultural minorities (controversies surrounding Muslim attitudes towards marriage and homosexuality are examined in a paper published in Gender, Place and Culture, 2012).

Curiosity and Adventure: from children’s books to health and wellbeing policies
My first book, entitled Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997), investigated boys' adventure stories, tracing their significance for constructions of imperialism and masculinity. I have subsequently researched and written about adventures through a range of juvenile and adult literature, notably travel writing. My more recent work focusses upon a term closely related to adventure – curiosity – through research on ‘space for curiosity’ (the title of a paper in Progress in Human Geography, 2014) and interventions on the sometimes celebrated, sometimes embattled place of curiosity in universities (paper in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2010). My interests in curiosity extend to a practical and philosophical approach to pedagogy, and a desire to better understand and encourage curiosity-driven learning among students was the motivation behind my book for students on the subject of geographical fieldwork: Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012).

My major areas of interest are management of urological cancers, clinical trials, early drug development and translational medicine. I have set up a large number of clinical trials from early phase to late phase studies during my career. My work on organ preservation in bladder cancer moved all the way from an early phase I study (Hussain et al Annals of Oncology 2001), to phase II efficacy study (Hussain et al BJC 2004) that led to a Cancer Research UK funded study BC2001 trial that was reported in New England Journal of Medicine (James, Hussain, Hall et al April 2012). This study has now changed the standard of care for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer opting for organ preservation treatment.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the following areas:

• Harms/adverse events in behavioural change trials
• Randomised controlled clinical trials
• Systematic reviews

Research interests

My research interests include:
• Systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness for healthcare interventions
• Development of methods for systematic reviewing and evidence synthesis including meta-analysis, meta-regression, individual patient data analysis and mixed-treatment comparisons/network meta-analysis
• Critical appraisal and risk of bias assessment methods for systematic reviews
• Exercise interventions for health outcomes

Lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences

Professor of Information Innovation & Management

Research interests

I am Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield and Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal and Fetal Medicine at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I am Training Programme Supervisor for the Maternal and Fetal Medicine subspecialty in Sheffield. I run clinical services addressing high risk pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis and therapy and prematurity prevention.

I am Principal Investigator on several Project Grants funded by the UK’s Department of Health, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Medical Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), developing technologies for preterm birth risk assessment and interventions to mitigate preterm birth and other pregnancy complications.

I am Director of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Preterm Birth Prevention and Management (PRIME) - an interdisciplinary research alliance working across UK, Africa (currently South Africa - Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg; Nigeria – Kano, Benin and Ilishan), and South East Asia (currently Bangladesh and Karnataka India).

My translational research projects have attracted over £8million of grant income in the last 8 years and mainly focus on the physiology of human birth, reproductive immunology and reducing health inequalities.

I have supervised 18 PhD/MD students, and 10 Postdocs in the last 10 years amongst other. Areas in which I am able to supervise PhD/MD studentships and include:

·      Molecular biology of human parturition
·      Reproductive immunology of high-risk pregnancies and recurrent pregnancy loss
·      Global maternal and Newborn health
·      Health inequalities in maternal newborn health
·      Premature birth, still birth, pre-eclampsia, placental disorders.
·      Clinical and laboratory Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Calum Webb joined the Sheffield Methods Institute as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2021, having previously worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Sociological Studies. His research explores socioeconomic inequalities in the child welfare system and their relationship to fiscal and social policy using quantitative research methods. He completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Sheffield in 2019 as an ESRC-funded White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership student.

His research on child welfare inequalities and the funding of local services for children and young people has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Child & Family Social Work, and elsewhere. Outside of academic circles, his work has been cited by the National Children’s Bureau, Ofsted, Children England, the British Association of Social Workers, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, the Department for Education, and other organisations.

From 2021-2024 Calum will be leading an innovative new research project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the British Academy titled “Investment in Prevention and its Systemic Effects (IPSE): Modelling the causal effects of spending in children's services with a whole systems approach.” 

My research interests include:

• Investigating the drivers of antimicrobial resistance in lower- and middle-income country settings.
• Understanding the role and developing vaccines and diagnostics for enteric fever and other causes of non-specific febrile illness in low-resource settings.
• The ethical use of human challenge studies to advance the discovery and translation of tools for patient benefit.

Research Development Director for Operations Management and Decision Sciences

Rob studied Chemistry (BSc) and Physical Chemistry (PhD) at the University of Durham (UK) and joined the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield in 1988, where he held the Chair of Material and Biomaterial Chemistry from 2001. During this period, Rob helped develop a materials-cell technology (myskin) for treating severe burns and scalds; adopted in the UK by the NHS, this technology was used over a decade in all the UK’s major burns centres. Rob also established Plasso Technology, an advanced materials for life science research company. Plasso developed technology that now underpins a range of products (PureCoatTM) sold globally for cell culture and cell therapy.  

In 2006, Rob joined the University of South Australia, where he held the positions of Director of an advanced manufacturing research institute, Dean of Research and Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President. At the invitation of the Minister of Education he served on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts for three years.  

In Australia, he successfully co-led bids for an A$110M national centre for wound management innovation and a A$60M national centre for cell therapy manufacturing. Both have resulted in successful innovations in wound care and cell therapy. These include the companies, Carina Biotechnology (www.carinabiotech.com), which is developing a novel CAR-T cell therapy for solid (cancer) tumours and Tekcyte (www.tekcyte.com), whose products include a cell-based therapy for non-healing wounds, which entered clinical trials at the beginning of 2022.   

Rob returned to the UK as the Director of the Lancaster Material Science Institute, where he helped establish the Material Social Futures Centre for Doctoral Training, focusing on how materials’ innovations shape society (and vice versa). See Material Social Futures | Lancaster University.  This centre is training 22 PhD students. 

Last year, Rob cofounded with Dr Endre Szili (UniSA) Plasma-4 (www.plasma-4.com) a company that is developing novel plasma (ionised gas)-materials technology for the treatment of a range of clinical indications.  

Over his career, Rob has won over A$250M of grants and investments, including ARC Discovery, Linkage etc, CRC, and in the UK, EPSRC, Wellcome, Leverhulme, Royal Society etc. He has supervised to completion 25 PhDs and 30 post-doctoral researchers. He has published over 250 substantive peer reviewed papers. 

In 2013, Rob was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.  

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. 

Rob rejoined the University of Sheffield in October 2022.

My research has encompassed issues such as: 

• Tort Law, Private Law Theory, Egalitarianism in Private Law
• Medical Negligence and Comparison with Strict Liability
• Informed Consent and Injury to Autonomy
• Egalitarian v Economic Analysis of Standard of Care
• Maternal Prenatal Duty
• Private Law Responses to Sex Trafficking
• Over Determined Causation
• Duty of Care for the Creation of Exploitative Demand
• Digital Privacy Law and Gender Justice
• The Law of Remedies and the Law of Restitution, and The Overlap Between Restitution for Wrongs and by Subtraction

Lecturer in Sustainable Management

Dominic researches resilient and sustainable supply chains. His research interest extends to topics on strategic supply chain and operations management, strategic global supply chains, and Africa's supply chain issues.

I am a specialist in Periodontology, with a MSc and PhD in Translational & Regenerative Dentistry.

I am qualified in Brazil and in the UK, with over a decade of experience in clinical and research
environments.

I have been dedicating my life to understand the body biology, so that new oral health interventions are fully based on the natural biological processes of body. I have a strong track record of restorative dentistry research, having completed my PhD (2014-2018), supervised by Professor Paul Sharpe, on operative dentistry biology, which produced high impact research on dental pulp stem cell biology. My research has the potential to transform the way that teeth cavities are treated in the future, making current filling strategies obsolete. Additionally, during my NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship (2019-2023), I developed periodontal research with focus on ageing and glucose metabolism, by using an array of research methodologies, such as pre-clinical, computational biology, microbiological sequencing, and clinical research. I administrated an international research group based in the UK and in Brazil, which together achieved excellent results repurposing Metformin as new drug for the management of periodontal disease. My work was awarded the 2022 Sir Wilfred Fish Prize (BSP) and received attention from national and international media outlets.

My focus will be to continue these lines of research bringing positive media attention to the cutting-edge research taking place at your university and building new and beneficial collaborations within and outside the University.

My career ambition is to shape the future of Dentistry via molecular biology, genetics and
epigenetics, developing techniques that are industry viable and affordable for the general public.
The dream being to help patients to naturally grow and repair their own oral tissues and organs.

Research interests

I undertake research and teaching activities in the field of long-term conditions and ageing. Specifically I work in the fields of dementia care and family caregiving. In particular I am keen to continue these activities in the context of applied, translational research.

Research interests

• Control – power systems
• Power electronics
• Embedded systems
• Energy storage and management
• Intelligent systems
• Telematics
• Optimisation and Modelling
• Evolutionary computing

• Radar signature management
• Active radar absorbers
• Phase modulating microwave structures
• Antennas
• Phased array antennas and systems
• Adaptive optimisation techniques
• Acoustic arrays and imaging systems

I am interested in supervising research students and have interests in the following areas:

• Health inequalities and equity considerations in economic evaluation
• Measuring and valuing quality of life
• National health policy e.g. NHS service reorganisation, impact of population health change and large scale public health interventions, economic efficiency of the health service or NHS staff
• Epidemiology of chronic diseases
• Health condition areas:

            o Chronic kidney disease
            o Dentistry
            o Breast cancer screening
            o Diabetes
            o Obesity
            o Respiratory disease
            o Mental disorders
            o Occupational health

Research methods I can supervise:

• Decision modelling.
• Applied microeconometrics, particularly quasi-experimental research.
• Economic evaluation.

Research interests

My main research interests are within the area of information management, with specialist expertise in information governance and ethics. I have led and worked with colleagues from across a number of disciplines on externally funded projects in this area supported by the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, and Innovate UK. I predominantly use qualitative and mixed-methods.

PhD Supervision

Information governance and ethics; AI governance, accountability and ethics; trustworthy and responsible AI; information management.

Research Interests

His principal research interests are anabolic strategies in the treatment of myeloma bone disease and novel strategies to target myeloma tumour. He also has holistic research interests including life with cancer – holistic care and quality of life studies, computational modeling of cancer including using digital simulations and game technology.

Lecturer in Strategic Management

Research

My research focuses on the broad areas of business and society and transitioning and emerging economies. In particular I focus on the activities and strategies of non-profit non-governmental organisations, the activities and strategies of firms’ vis-à-vis societal issues and related practices of strategy including corporate social responsibility.

Areas of Research Supervision

I am open to supervising PhD or postgraduate taught students in the areas of:
- Non-profit organisations and social enterprises (activities and strategies in both ‘western’ and transition contexts)
- Social issues in business and management (CSR, CSR practices and traditions in transition and emerging economies)
- Cross-sector partnerships (strategic, management, practices issues in transition and emerging economies)

• Music and emotion
• Embodied cognition and cross-modal correspondences with music
• Music for health and wellbeing 
• Expressive performance of music and ensemble communication 

Senior University Teacher in Managerial and Corporate Economics

Lina Kloviene is a Senior University Teacher in Managerial and Corporate Economics at Sheffield University Management School Executive and Professional Education.

Lina is interested in supervising PhD students who would like to examine issues relating to with accountability and transparency in higher education institutions.

Research Interests

I am a Research Associate in biofilm management and monitoring within drinking water distribution systems at The University of Sheffield. My research interests include analysing and characterising biofilms, specialising in how nutrients, including assimilable organic carbon, impact the bulk water and biofilm microbiology.

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

My research looks into practices and processes of accountability across different contexts, including NGOs, public service organisations, and within processes of human relatedness. I also am interested in university governance, accounting/management education and the use of playful learning and gamification techniques within education.

Lecturer in Strategic Management

His main research interest lies in the nexus of spirituality and strategy practices within family firms. His research particularly focuses on how religious beliefs inform and shape the strategizing processes and practices of family firms operating in the Anatolian part of Turkey, where religion permeates society. He is also interested in strategy-as-practice in pluralistic and paradoxical contexts. One of his papers was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2017, and his PhD dissertation was shortlisted for the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2020.

I have a particular interest in researching nursing workforce issues and knowledge mobilisation. Current research includes longitudinal mixed methods cohort studies of advanced level nurse practitioners and trainee nursing associates. I am also involved in a systematic review of continuing professional development in nursing.

Methodologically my expertise lies in qualitative research (using observations, focus groups and interviews), and reviews.

I currently co-supervise two PhD students, exploring advanced nursing roles in surgery and stroke care settings, and welcome any prospective student interested in researching nursing workforce issues or aspects of knowledge mobilisation.

Penny is currently a research associate in ScHARR within the Health Economics and Decision Modelling Section. Penny has been at ScHARR for over 4 years, first as a PhD student and more recently working as a health economics modeller. Before working in ScHARR Penny was working as a health economics consultant at IMS Health developing cost-effectiveness models for pharmaceutical products. The subject of her thesis was to investigate the use of health economic models to develop drug development programmes for new treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus. Since working at ScHARR Penny has been working on a project funded by the School for Public Health Research (SPHR) to provide a coherent, model based framework for the evaluation of strategies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Penny has developed a new cost-effectiveness model to evaluate a broad range of type-2 diabetes prevention interventions in the United Kingdom. Penny's research interests are in methods for longitudinal data analysis for use in decision-analytic modelling. Specifically in complex natural history models with multiple dynamic risk factors.

Lecturer in Organisation Studies

Socio-ecological sustainability is the central concern of my research. In the broadest terms my interdisciplinary researching explores how people make sense of and attempt to organise for socio-ecological sustainabilities. The attachment to Organisation Studies as my core disciplinary association, involves an attention to understanding how processes of organising and organisations are inherently political, and embedded in webs of social, ecological, political, cultural and economic relations of power. Originality is a key quality of my approach, by attempting to engage with voices, groups and perspectives that are usually silenced in dominant management and organisation orthodoxies, in order to raise awareness of alternative possibilities. The three intersecting focuses of my research are: (i) sustainable forms of organisation; (ii) reflexivity and learning; and (iii) critical leadership perspectives.

The focus of his recently published work includes:

- Understanding relations of power in non-hierarchical organisational contexts.
- Developing a more complex and nuanced understanding of scale in relation to sustainable organising.
- Offering new approaches to sustainability in management education.
- Exploring how whiteness can be understood in relation decolonising management knowledge and education.
- Considering how reducing air travel and resource consumption in higher education can be understood as part of possible pathways to decolonization.

Lecturer in Marketing

Shilpa has earned a doctorate in management and a postdoctoral fellowship in marketing. Her research interests include sustainability, digitalization, marketing, strategy, branding, sustainable business and consumerism, the digital platform ecosystem, behavioural operations, and FinTech.

Her research has appeared in high-impact and internationally reputed journals, including Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, among others. Along with this, she has a strong pipeline of research to her credit. She is serving as a reviewer for reputed high-impact journals, including the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Consumer Studies, International Journal of Bank Marketing, to name a few, and global conferences, namely the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meetings and the Academy of International Business (AIB) conferences, among others.

She is a professional member of reputed bodies including the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research, IEEE, the MIS Quarterly (MISQ) Insider Community, and the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) Community.

Currently, she is actively engaged in different research projects aimed at promoting sustainable consumption, such as working as a Fellow in the COMFOCUS project funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme.

Psychiatric classification. Psychosis (‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’): the mechanisms involved in hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms. The social determinants of mental ill-health. Psychological treatments.

Research interests

His research interests primarily concern the development of `SMART´ systems for health monitoring and mitigation in composite materials. He also has an interest in the nanomechanical testing of polymeric and other viscoelastic materials.

Current research interests include:

• Machine learning for structural dynamics and Structural Health Monitoring
• Bayesian statistical modelling of structural systems
• Probabilistic nonlinear system identification
• Joint input/state/parameter identification

My main research interests lie in microeconometrics, the analysis of micro level data on the economic behaviour of individuals. I am also interested in more general model and methods development to analyse individual level data showing nonstandard characteristics. Recent examples include analysis of health state utility data, health and life satisfaction, the economics of illicit behaviour, the dynamics of children developmental outcomes and applications to individuals’ decisions to participate in welfare programmes.

My research activity is strongly interdisciplinary, focusing on the interface between ecology, design and horticulture in urban green space and built development, and has an active interaction with industry, national agencies, and local community groups. My research falls into four major areas:

• development of sustainable and innovative vegetation and planting design techniques
• the vegetation, planting and ecology of green roof systems
• rain Gardens and other landscape rainwater management features; d) long-term ecological monitoring

I am interested in the chemical basis of the interactions between plants and other organisms, particularly herbivores; the impact of these plant-mediated interactions on the structure and function of ecological communities; and how this complex web of species interactions is affected by climate change.

My areas of expertise include: plant defences, particularly the role of silicon in crop resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; plant-soil, plant-herbivore and multi-trophic interactions; the impacts of climate change on crops and their pests; sustainable pest management and food security; agri-environment policy.

Lecturer in Resource Efficiency

Research

My research is focused in the areas of Problem Structuring Methodologies and Behavioural Operations Management. I am interested in exploring methodological developments which allow us to understand what we don't know about a problematic situation so that we can facilitate inquiry to bring about appropriate and relevant real world changes that work. I have a particular interest in participatory methodologies for engaging stakeholders in a problematic system, to ensure a human-centred, holistic analysis and understanding can be achieved

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Alice's research is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating theories and insights from the economic geography of innovation, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business literature. Alice's research interests include but not limited to:
- The interaction of multiple sources of knowledge leading to innovation and entrepreneurship outcomes
- The role of gender in innovation and entrepreneurship outcomes
- Clusters and entrepreneurial support organizations (accelerators/incubator)
- Ambidexterity
- Digital entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem, and others

Head of Accounting & Financial Management Subject Group

Research interests

Shuxing's research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, market efficiency and anomalies. She has acted as referee for Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, British Accounting Review, European Journal of Finance.

She welcomes PhD applicants in the field of corporate finance, particularly focusing on Chinese (mainland and Hong Kong) markets, initial public offerings and market efficiency.

My research interest focuses on understanding spatial intratumoural heterogeneity in high-grade brain tumours with a particular focus on responses to DNA damage and leveraging this knowledge to deliver new ways to monitor and treat disease in patients. I aim to combine a long-term ethos of excellence in clinical and surgical practice with internationally excellent academic research to ensure the best possible care and outcomes are extended to patients both now and in the future. I would be pleased to discuss PhD opportunities in areas including: DNA repair inhibitors and combinations; tumour treating fields; development of clinically- and surgically-relevant patient-derived 2D and 3D models; surgically-delivered therapies; early detection of tumour recurrence; surgical device development, and; early phase (including phase 0 / window-of-opportunity) clinical trials.

Research interests

My research (and teaching) often involves me in working with users of mental health services. I am currently working with a range of initiatives in which service-users are supported in using creative arts and digital media to explore and communicate their experience and influence healthcare policy and practice. I am always keen to hear from individuals, groups, or organisations who want to develop similar or related work. I am a long-time mental health service-user myself, and have a strong commitment to the rights and empowerment of individuals using mental health services and/or living with mental distress. I am committed to promoting service-user led research wherever this is feasible.

Research interests

• Developing the library workforce (including LIS education; professional skills and competencies of library workers)

• Academic libraries

• Role, impact and value of public library services

• Health and NHS Library Services / Clinical Librarianship

• Critical librarianship practice

• Library classification systems (application / development / issues and challenges of bias)

Specific area of research interests:

• Statistical methods
• Clinical trials methodology to improve trial efficiency across disease areas
• Adaptive designs
• Bayesian methods with application in clinical trials
• Early phase clinical trials
• Diagnostic accuracy studies
• Hierarchical or multilevel modelling
• Global health research
• Prediction modelling

Oral clinical phenotyping, involving the accurate measurement of oral parameters using image analysis.

Normal and abnormal oral growth and development, including investigations into anomalies of tooth number, size, form and structure.

Quantification of dental plaque and periodontal disease.

Child protection, children and young people's oral health, oral neuroscience.

My research interests are in Bayesian statistics, in particular uncertainty quantification for complex computer models, eliciting probability distributions from experts, and applications in Health Economics. On my personal website you can read these guidance notes for more information about PhD projects and suggested background reading.

Broad Research Interests:

My research interests are health-related quality of life and patient outcome measures. In 2006 I was awarded a fellowship (Researcher Development Award) through the National Co-ordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development, NCCRCD). My PhD involved designing a paediatric disease-specific health related quality of life measure for amblyopia. The Child Amblyopia Treatment Questionnaire (CAT-QoL) is a short questionnaire that was designed for children aged 4-7 years to measure the impact of amblyopia treatment from the child’s perspective.

Research Methods I can Supervise:

• Instrument Development
• Mixed Methods
• Specific Areas of Interest:
• Paediatric
• Quality of Life

I am a registered nurse in adult and mental health fields of practice and an established researcher with specialist interest in the field of domestic abuse – recent work has focused on mental health and complex presentations of sexual harm and domestic abuse in older age - intimate partner and gender based violence and sexual harm.

As a registered nurse I am also interested in research studies which focus on nursing practice/development and/or organisational change.  

My research largely utilises a qualitative approach to enquiry including ethnography, arts based and narrative co-production.  I am a qualified trainer for the Joanna Briggs Institute of Systematic Reviews.

I have a number of years’ experience in undergraduate programme evaluations and management of medical assessments. Consequently these are areas I find most interesting when considering research topics.  Assessments can cover a number of formats and these begin in admissions and go all the way to Finals. I have a particular interest in the psychometrics of assessment.  Student evaluations are very important to the development of learning and teaching experiences.  I have an interest in questionnaire studies but am also fascinated by the breath of material that comes from free form collection of data in talking with students.

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management

Research Interests

Beat’s research interests revolve around firms transitioning from private to public ownership, including initial public offerings (IPOs), venture capital, private equity, and market risk. His work also involves artificial intelligence applications in the area of finance.

PhD Supervision

Beat would welcome proposals from potential doctoral students wishing to work in the field of initial public offerings (IPOs), venture capital, private equity, and market risk. He would also be very interested in supervising projects on applications in the area of finance.

Lecturer in Work Psychology

I am a Lecturer in Work Psychology. Before joining the Management School in 2019, I was an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Education University of Hong Kong.

I completed my PhD at Lancaster University, UK and my postdoctoral training at Carnegie Mellon University, US.

My program of research focuses on identifying the cognitive factors that influence individual and group problem solving, particularly for problems requiring creativity and innovation.

I also examine how solutions to these problems can be facilitated through the use of different approaches, e.g., incubation, sleep, and task-switching.

I am an ecologist, specialising in aquatic and riparian ecosystems, and catchment management practices. I have a background in environmental planning, with a particular focus on urban water and nature-based solutions, such as sustainable urban drainage (SUDS) and river restoration.

My research interests centre around the conditions, policies and practices that enable or hinder the rehabilitation and regeneration of impacted (and semi-natural) ecosystems. Much of my work has been concerned with values and the economic valuation of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. I am interested in PhD supervision and research examining the roles of the public and private (including finance) sectors and how they do - or do not – invest in ‘green’ c.f. ‘grey’ solutions.

Senior Lecturer in Management Science

Diego Ruiz-Hernandez holds a PhD in Operational Research from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Catalonia.

He developed his academic career at the following institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1998-2009), Universidad de Navarra (2006-2009), and the University College for Financial Studies (2009 to 2018).

He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Lancaster in the United Kingdom. He has been visiting lecturer at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux for several years.

Diego's research interests are mainly focused on the wide area of facility location and related problems. He has particular interest in network restructuring, facility delocation (closing), and applications of facility location models and techniques to problems that are not necessarily locational.

Diego is also interested in the problem of proliferation in the market place. This problem (associated with the existence of numerous products, markets and channels) is a consequence of the quest for growth in highly competitive and slow growing markets, and introduces severe and costly complexities in the firms organisation's fabric, and has important effects in the its operations and its supply chain, while simultaneously raises important sustainability concerns. Diego and his co-authors have proposed an entropy-based measure for complexity and have established its empirical relevance and practical relevance in collaborations with renowned forms of global presence. Their work is now is heading towards the identification of mechanisms for controlling complexity and lessening its impact on the firm's finances.

Finally, Diego continues his previous work on stochastic scheduling and dynamic resource allocation. He is currently working on the problem of scheduling preventative maintenance interventions for systems consisting in a large number of independently deteriorating equipment. he has special interest on applications to off-shore wind farms.

Students interested in further exploring the problem of complexity in the supply chain, and its implications on resilience and sustainability, are encouraged to send their proposals. Diego is also keen on working with students with interests in facility location, distribution, routing, scheduling, and other problems in supply chain and operations management, as well as more generic problems in management science.

Overview

I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in psychology and human nutrition. I have considerable experience in supervising quantitative and qualitative research projects (lab based and free-living).

Research interests

My primary research interests are centred around (equitable) food systems, eating/ feeding behaviour(s), food consumption, and health. I have a specific interest (but not limited to) in the following topics:

• Promotion of healthy diets across the lifespan – specifically in young children and older adults
• Food insecurity
• Infant and child feeding behaviours
• Triple burden of malnutrition (over- and under-nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies)
• Impact of environmental influences on the habitual diet

Examples of recent PhD projects

• Biofortification and UK consumer acceptance
• Prevalence and associated predictors and determinants of disordered eating behaviours (DEB) among female adolescents in Saudi Arabia
• Downsizing: Using environmental cues to acquire healthy portion control in children
• Risk Factors for, and determinants of Obesity/Overweight in the Home Environment of 2-5-year-old Ghanaian preschoolers
• The contribution of urban horticulture to food security resilience, health and wellbeing
• Co-benefits of urban horticulture to physical, mental and environmental health, and motivations and barriers to gardening engagement

Research interests:

I am a specialist in human osteology and palaeopathology with particular interests in multidisciplinary approaches to questions surrounding past population structures, health, disease and lifestyle. I have worked with human remains from many periods and locations, but have primarily focussed on material from post-Roman to modern periods in the UK. My current main areas of research include:

• Multidisciplinary analysis of osteological and funerary data from early medieval to post-medieval contexts
• The character and provision of funerary practices in early Christian and medieval England
• Health status and social status in past populations
• Disease, disability and disfigurement in the past (including social attitudes to sickness and medical/surgical interventions)
• The archaeology of childhood
• Archaeology of the body, especially practices for managing, manipulating and curating human remains

Research Interests

My research focuses on the following main areas:

• (Interactive) Information Retrieval, particularly mobile IR - how situational context and distractions impact search behaviour/performance and how this can be mitigated
• Recommender systems and personalisation, particularly to help improve people’s nutritional intake, meal planning and overall health
• Conversational agents and how these can be used to solve problems in search, recommender systems and health

PhD Supervision

I would welcome proposals related to any of the above topics and have experience working with a wide range of research methods. I am particularly interested in work that seeks to tackle problems with a mixed methods approach and that directly involves target users in research via co-design and user studies.

Research Interests

My interests lie primarily in undertaking evidence reviews of complex interventions, specifically in service delivery areas and in the identification of evidence for reviews. I have led a variety of different reviews for organisations including the HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre, the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and the ScHARR Public Health Collaborating Centre and have been involved in a number of publications from this work. I have also published on methods relating to searching. From my prior research projects, I maintain an interest in health services research with a particular interest in information use by patients and carers. I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the University Of Sheffield. It examined the impact of the MMR vaccine scare on parents in terms of their decision making and information requirements.

Research interests

Dr Kinoshita's interests are in the environmental-friendly applications of materials, his research programmes at the Immobilisation Science Laboratory (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) extend from nuclear waste management to CO2 storage. His researches focus on fabrication and characterisation of oxide-based materials to improve their capacity to host aiming compounds and the compatibility of the products to the environment. Based on thermodynamics, both experimental and computational techniques are used for the research.

Key projects
- Low temperature synthesis of ceramics for nuclear waste immobilisation.
- CO2 storage in recycled cementitious waste materials using molten salt media.
- Electrochemical leaching of nuclear waste forms for prediction of long-term integrity, in collaboration with collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Research interests

Prof Pilakoutas' research is in the fields of:

• Structural Concrete
  Shear, Punching shear, Ductility, Deflections, Crack Width, Nunerical Modelling
   
• FRP
  All aspects of behaviour of Internal and Externally Bonded Reinforcement, including Durability and Nunerical Modelling
   
• Fibre Reinforcements
  Steel, PP, Glass and all recycled fibres. All aspects of behaviour of cast, sprayed or roller compacted FRC and Nunerical Modelling
   
• Construction Innovation
  Novel types of Reinforcement and Strengthening, Couplers, Terminators, Cold Formed sections, Composite sections, 3-Printing, Recycled Aggregates, Recycled Fillers, Recycled Natural Materials, Rubberised Concrete, Structures made of ice, Coastal Concrete Structures, Functional Origami Structures
   
• Earthquake Engineering
  All aspects of behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Structures including Shear Walled Structures, Repair and Strengthening using FRP and Post Tensioned Metal Straps (PTMS), Seismic Risk Assessment and Management, Vulnerability Assessment, Novel Energy Dissipation Structural Elements

Research Interests

My research interests span victimisation and victimology, restorative justice, business and crime, the informal economy, desistance, crime prevention and social control, and comparative criminal justice.

Currently, I am engaged in research for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) on what is quality in probation supervision, as well as continuing to analyse our work on how offenders stop committing offences (desistance). I am also writing about worldwide trends in restorative justice.

Member of the Centre for Criminological Research (University Research Centre)
Member of the Centre for Well-Being in Public Policy (University Research Centre)
Member of CRISP – the centre for research on the informal economy

Areas of Research Supervision

• Criminal justice
• Victimisation, victimology and victims in the criminal justice system
• Restorative justice
• Business and crime
• Offending, desistance and offending careers

My research broadly fits into understanding factors that influences student performance and in Professional development, including professionalism, moral and ethical aspects of practice, and inter-professional working. I am interested in and have an established track record in improving students’ learning experience through, Technology Enhanced Learning.  Through my publications I have contributed to the learning of ethics in healthcare, developing ethical reasoning, professionalism and safe practice.

My current work and recent publications attempt to answer questions of why there maybe disparities in academic performance between different student sub groups, better understanding ethical issues during decision making and patient management, and how technology can help us to improve student experience. 

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

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is the 6th most common cancers worldwide. The survival rate for head and neck cancer is poor. This is largely due to late diagnosis and a lack of effective therapeutic agents.

My particular research interest is in the development of multi-cellular three dimensional in vitro models of the oral mucosa in health and disease. My current research utilises these models to develop; new methods of detecting oral pre-cancer, novel drugs to treat oral cancer and new modes of drug delivery systems.

My interdisciplinary research aims to address the challenge of improving the sustainability and resilience of ecosystems, with a focus on urban and agricultural systems.  I have a particular interest in the interaction between soils, plants and the ecosystem services they provide to a growing global population.  

Urban horticulture

My research addresses the current and future potential of urban horticulture to make a contribution to local and national food security. This includes growing at a household level in gardens and allotments and using controlled environment agricultural systems in grey infrastructure.  I am also interested in the ecosystem service co-benefits of growing food, from soil quality to health and wellbeing.  As part of this research I run a national-scale citizen science project called Measure Your Harvest (MYHarvest.org.uk), that works people to collect long-term home grown crop yield data. My research also addresses the bioavailability of urban soil pollutants to fruit and vegetable crops and potential risks to human health. I work closely with local authorities and NGOs to deliver this applied research.

Soil and vegetation carbon budgeting

I have developed methods for soil carbon budgeting in complex urban ecosystems in both greenspaces and beneath greyspaces.  I am really interested in the role of black carbon in soil carbon storage and sequestration. 

Understanding the urban forest

Trees have been demonstrated to contribute disproportionately to ecosystem service provision in cities and towns but we have less understanding of how the unique combination of pressures in the urban environment, e.g. pollution and encasement in greyspace, affect their health and resilience to future climate change.  My research addresses both the role of urban trees in provision of ecosystem services e.g. heat island mitigation and carbon storage, and the effects of urban pressures on tree health and resilience at a species specific scale and the consequences for ecosystem service provision.

Available to supervise history topics

Julie's research interests lie in modern British political history, the history of extremism (with a focus on right-wing extremism in Britain), the construction of gender identities in the political sphere, and the history of mental health in times of crisis. She has published widely on women, gender and politics between the wars, including the role of women in Britain's fascist movement, women and the peace movement, and gender and appeasement.

Research interests

My general research interests are in the area of health services research essential to deliver a better performing healthcare system. More specifically, I am interested in using time series analysis of electronically captured behaviour data to understand habit and to support behaviour change among people with CF and healthcare professionals.

Research Interests

My research interest is in evaluation of healthcare interventions through modelling the long-term clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Specific areas of interest:

• Evaluations of public health programmes
• Screening and early detection
• Natural history disease modelling
• Cancer modelling
• Calibration of the models
• Transferability of models and cost-effectiveness studies
• Global research

Preeti’s current research is on the Global Data Economy. One strand of this research historicises the making of the global data economy, looking at intertwined histories of imperial datafication and transnational labour involved in building colonial railways across Britain’s colonies. The second strand currently being developed focuses on technologies in the life course of Myelopathy (a degenerative neurological disease) and concomitantly, patient-centric health data governance.

Most of Nicolas’ current research uses cross-country data to study the effectiveness of foreign aid. This includes work on the fungibility of education and health aid, and on a new method to identify the causal effect of aid in a panel data context, used to study the domestic absorption of aid. In addition, he is involved in research on the nexus between child labour and school achievement in Peru.

Nicolas would consider supervising PhD students with a focus on applied econometrics in a number of fields, including development economics and political economy.

Lecturer in Employment Relations

Edward Yates is a Lecturer in Employment Relations in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield.

Edward is a member of the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) located within the Management School.

Edward’s research explores the relationship between processes of political economy, state regulation, employment relations and labour market outcomes. He is particularly interested in the behaviour of local labour markets, in particular for young workers. Edward’s current research is organised into four main areas:

1. Local labour markets. Specifically how processes of capitalist accumulation manifest in and through local labour markets and how this is expressed in the behaviour of local state actors, local employers, and workers.
2. State regulation of work, employment, and labour markets. In particular how shifts in the global economy in the last 50 years have impacted upon state policy for labour market regulation and what this means for workers.
3. Young workers. Edward’s research examines central and local government policy regarding young workers, wage-rates for young workers, conditions of work and employment, skills and training provision, and the theoretical development of a ‘political economy of youth’.
4. Work, employment and labour markets in the NHS. This strand of research explores contemporary conditions of work and employment in the NHS for different staff groups and occupations.
   • The research examines: the intensification of working conditions in the NHS, processes of churn and attrition, pension changes, the role of trade unions and professional organisations in the NHS, and NHS financing.

In addition to these four research areas Edward is interested in the theoretical development of critical, global political economy, and in research methodologies.

Reserach interests

My research interests cover use of data science and machine learning models to address problems in bio-informatics, computational biology and health-informatics fields. I would be happy to supervise PhD students who are interested in bioinformatics and health informatics. For example, developing/employing data science and machine learning models to understand the key mechanisms underlying diseases by integrating multi-omics data resources; to assess/monitor the change in wellbeing of the participants of a particular intervention study; employing explainable AI to predict the subtypes of different cancer types from the pathological images; predicting the associations between circular RNA, microRNA, and target genes which drive a particular type of cancer.

PhD Supervision

Example topics:

-Prediction of biomarkers (e.g. circRNA, microRNA or mRNA) of a given cancer type.

-Integrating multi-omics data resources for biomarker prediction in common human diseases such as cardiometabolic disorders.

-Using explainable AI to analyse histopathological images to predict subtypes within a cancer cohort and extending this approach to other cancer types.

My research passion is to bring cutting edge technologies to application reality in complex environments through co-creation with Industry partners.  Concrete examples include current partnerships with Rolls-Royce and Airbus which are seeing novel application of:

• Sensors: self powered wireless sensors running on engine testbeds, and RADAR/LiDAR systems for health monitoring and vision-based control;
• Data analytics: real-time to estimates of unmeasurable engine states, bring physics into data driven deep models for advanced anomaly detection;
• Control architectures: using systems based engineering to develop cyber-secure distributed control systems with multiple levels of safety criticality, fusing machine learning with control methodologies for increasing system resilience to faults and degradation.

PhD topics in diverse areas are available including vision-based health monitoring systems for aircraft landing gear, generative AI for jet engine fleet forecasting, novel state estimation approaches using 'black-box' simulation models.

Research interests

The Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience, established as part of a major strategic initiative within the University of Sheffield is well-placed to harness the revolutionary developments in biomedical science for the benefit of patients with neurodegenerative disease. The major goal of my group is to elucidate the functioning of motor neurones in health and disease and to translate these basic science findings into health benefits for patients afflicted with degenerative motor system disorders.

My research group consists of a multidisciplinary team of basic and clinical scientists investigating molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in disorders of the human motor system, particularly motor neurone disease (MND), spinal muscular atrophy and hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP). The Neurology group is closely linked with Neuropathology, headed by Professor Paul Ince. The research resources underpinning this programme include clinical material (Biobanks of DNA, blood RNA, CSF, fibroblasts and CNS tissue donated by patients for research); and in vitro and in vivo experimental models employed to investigate molecular mechanisms of motor neurone injury including genetic perturbations, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and disorders of RNA processing.

Research interests

My research group is interested in how our bones function in health and disease with an emphasis on cancer. We are interested in knowing why primary bone cancers occur and how to best treat them. We are also interested in trying to understand why and how primary cancers such as breast and prostate spread preferentially to bone. Other interests include investigating mechanisms leading to osteoarthritis and failure of orthopedic implants. We use cutting edge scientific techniques and technologies, both in vitro and in vivo,  to answer clinically relevant questions.   

• Aesthetics, colour and human reactions to urban green infrastructure (UGI)
• Futureproofing places for climate resilience, biodiversity and human health and wellbeing
• Co-creating nature-based solutions (NBS) in deprived diverse places
• Connecting children with nature through co-creating NBS
• Green social prescribing: Opportunities, challenges, and environmental co-benefits

I use integrative inter-disciplinary approaches drawn from environmental psychology, urban ecology, sociology and cultural geography. As a landscape architect I believe strongly in the importance of design for diverse urban publics rather than for professional elites, and aim to reconcile human aesthetic preferences, well-being and ecological objectives.

Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries

Dr Morgner's research lies within fields like complexity studies, network analysis and creative practices, with a particular focus on diversity and inclusivity. He has a particular interest in grand conceptual questions and methodological innovation in studying global cultural processes and innovation.

Dr Morgner would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students, particularly in the following areas: Cultural and Creative Industries Social Theory (in particular on Niklas Luhmann’s system theory). Race and Inequality Interaction and Health Disaster and Risk Communication Urban development

My research interests and activities focus on two main themes, which are integrated into approaches to research-led-teaching: the theory and philosophy of urban landscape design and their impact on the intellectual underpinning and conceptual development of design processes and spatial languages; socially sustainable approaches to planning and design in urban open spaces, particularly how spatial and experiential dimensions converge to influence psychological health and well-being.

These general areas of interest converge in Experiential Landscape and Socially Restorative Urbanism, a research stream concerned with applying an integrated approach to human-environment relations to place making in urban open space settings. Along with Dr James Simpson, I lead the Socio-Spatial Urbanism Unit.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal ecology

My work was amongst the first to apply molecular techniques to the study of this important, but poorly studied, group of fungi. I have demonstrated that diversity is heavily impacted by arable practice, there is host preference in the symbiosis and that mycorrhiza can impact other soil processes.  Currently I am involved in projects exploring the dynamics of AM fungal communities across disturbance gradients, the interplay between AMF and fine root endophyte fungi in the arbuscular symbiosis and the role that this symbiosis could play in sustainable agricultural systems. 

Soil nitrogen dynamics

I am interested in soil N dynamics with a particular focus on agricultural systems.  This has led to an increased understanding of the role of fungi in denitrification dynamics, the role of management in denitrifier and nitrifier community size and structure, the impact of different substrates and to the role of plants and their mycorrhizal status in moderating nitrification and denitrification rates.  Much of this work is now reaching fruition with data from projects investigating the role of root exudates and land use in driving N dynamics.  Current projects and applications are exploring the possibility that detrimental impacts of agriculture can be mitigated through crop breeding and/or changes in fertilisation practice.

Research interests

Roger's research interests are split into three areas: solving industrial wear problems; application and development of a novel ultrasonic technique for machine element contact analysis and design of engineering components and machines. The research themes are wide ranging, but the main focus is on:

Railway Engineering

• Wheel/rail contact tribology – including wear (wheel profile evolution), RCF, friction management (use of top of rail friction modifiers; grease lubrication and traction gels), isolation and links to effective train detection
• Rail infrastructure improvement – including laser cladding of rail to reduce wear/RCF; design and testing of insulated rail joints; overhead line wear testing
• Condition monitoring – including real-time measurement of the wheel/rail contact; force measurement and detection of loosening in bolted joints.

Human Interactions

• Fundamental characterization and modelling of skin friction including use of OCT to determine sub-surface skin strain
• Hand/object interactions – including kitchen equipment, sports equipment etc. and effects that wearing medical examination gloves has on dexterity, grip and tactile discrimination
• Human tissue interaction with medical devices including catheters
• Pedestrian slips and falls, particularly barefoot slips and characterisation of flooring performance
• Multi-scale modelling of skin to incorporate effects of moisture and temperature to optimise design of medical products that interface with skin.

Research interests

John Newell-Price Is Professor of Endocrinology. He trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and then the Royal London Hospital. He did his specialist training in endocrinology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he was an MRC Training Fellow from 1995-1998, and ahs been at the University of Sheffield since 2000.  At Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust he leads the busy Specialist Endocrine Services. 

The focus of both his clinical and basic research is glucocorticoids (steroids). His group has identified important aspects of epigenetic regulation of proopiomelanocortin, the key regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and now is using this information to design strategies to modify over-expression in conditions of excess hormone secretion, such as Cushing's disease.

The clinical research programme has been investigating means of inhibiting excess ACTH and cortisol in man and improving cortisol replacement in adrenally insufficient patients, in first in man studies to Phase 3 registration studies. 

Other work focuses on the diagnostic and management strategies for patients with Cushing's syndrome, and those also for patients with neuroendocrine tumours.

Dr Kate Tomlinson is a Lecturer in Tribology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She is a member of the Leonardo Centre for Tribology and the Rail Innovation and Technology Centre at the University of Sheffield.

Kate became a lecturer in the department in 2023, prior to that she was a Senior Lecturer in Railway Engineering Management at Sheffield Hallam University. She graduated from the University of Derby with a BSc in Mathematics (1st class) in 2017, before moving to the University of Sheffield to obtain her PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

Kate’s PhD was sponsored by Network Rail and concerned the life extension of railway track components through additive manufacturing. She has since worked as a Research Associate in broader areas of Tribology, focusing on friction and biotribology.

Kate’s research crosses many of the aspects of tribology (friction, wear, and lubrication) and is predominantly focused on the railway sector. Her work aims to improve the environmental impact of rail travel through the understanding of rail-wheel contact, the characterisation of new materials and the development of new maintenance techniques. One of her research themes is the study of wear particles generated through rail-wheel contact and the impact this has on air quality in underground railways. Through her experience in biotribology she can further consider the frictional effects that issues like particulate matter have on the human body.

Our research aims to drive new advances in the development of materials and processes for sustainable infrastructure, environmental remediation, waste management, and clean energy. This will enable industry to meet the needs of our society both sustainably and cost-effectively, improving the well-being of our society and environment.

Broadly speaking, our research group focuses on investigation of composition-structure-property relationships, reaction mechanisms and kinetics in cements, glasses, ceramics and nanomaterials using advanced spectroscopic and microstructural techniques, including solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Current projects focus on:

• Development of low-CO2 cements for sustainable infrastructure.
• Understanding durability and degradation phenomena in low-CO2 cements.
• Understanding and controlling radionuclide-mineral interactions in cement matrices used for immobilisation of radioactive waste.
• Understanding mass transport processes in cements for applications in both construction and nuclear sectors.
• Controlling reaction mechanisms, kinetics and retention in cement wasteforms for safe disposal of heavy metal pollutants.
• Life cycle assessment of cements and related materials.

Research interests

Matthias’s research has focused on contemporary Sociological Theory and Social Science Methodology. His work explores the potential contributions of Critical and Poststructuralist Social Theory to the sociological study of contemporary capitalist society: of its dominant social relations and of their implications for human life and thought. Moreover, Matthias has examined the methodological challenges of 20th and 21st century Social Theory to Sociology’s epistemological, empirical and methodical, interpretive and analytical, socio-critical and normative, and textual dimensions.

Matthias’s current research project centres on a sociological inquiry into the operations of quality of life ideas in the health sector, notably in healthcare regulation. His analyses focus on: definitions of quality of life; measurement and valuation instruments; operationalisations of quality of life conceptions in regulatory work, especially in cost-effectiveness analysis; and connections between quality of life ideas and approaches to human suffering and death. Operations of quality of life ideas are investigated in view of their underlying knowledge base, their implicit normative commitments and value judgements, their governing bioethical principles, and their political orientations. The project addresses discussions on capitalism’s dominant modes of valuing human life and of conceptualising happiness and the good life as well as damaged and bad life, responses to human suffering, and approaches to finitude, dying, and death. The project seeks to intervene in the sociological debate on prevalent biopolitical configurations with a view to the conceptions of, and interventions in, individual and population life they entail.

• Sociological Theory
• Sociological Methodology
• Cultural Theory
• Quality of Life Debates
• Biopolitics
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Sociology of Suffering, Dying, and Death
• Regulation Studies

Matthias is interested in supporting doctoral research in social and sociological theory, especially (though not exclusively) in critical, poststructuralist, and postmodern theory. He is also interested in supervising theoretically informed empirical sociological research on health and illness, healthcare, suffering, and death.

Matthias has supported doctoral students working on topics such as the social dimensions of MP3s, media constructions of social class, racism in language education, hospices, deinstitutionalisation, and the fitness industry.

 Research interests

I welcome research students who are interested in applied linguistics in its broadest sense. Qualitative and multiple/mixed methods approaches (incl. participatory and inclusive designs), interdisciplinary research as well as collaborations with institutions and organizations outside the University are all welcome. Interesting topics include but are not restricted to the following

• Individual multilingualism (from a socio-cultural perspective)
• Intercultural communication
• Interpersonal communication
• English as a Lingua Franca
• Translation and localization
• Multimodal communication (including audiovisual translation)
• Intercultural/contrastive pragmatics
• Register analysis (comparative/diachronic)
• Communication in organizations and institutions (including web-based communication)
• Business communication
• Interaction with technology (including user studies)
• Technology and science communication
• Risk, health and safety communication
• Medical communication
• Second language use
• Second language identities

Research Interests

My research focuses on the provision of library services to people affected by incarceration. I have carried out research on family literacy initiatives in prison, prisoners’ engagement with library services, staff experiences of prison library provision, and policymaking in the prison library context. I am interested in supervising PhD students in the area of prison librarianship and prison education. 

I would welcome proposals related to:

• Information needs and/or information behaviour of people in carceral settings

• Collaboration between prison libraries and other library sectors such as public, health or academic libraries

• Training and professional development needs of prison library staff

• Prison library policy and how it has been implemented in different countries/contexts

• Participatory action research studies which allow those with lived experience of prison to help facilitate change in library policy and practice