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Professor Alan Brennan
a.brennan@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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 PolicyI 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 ModellingI 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 AssessmentI 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. |
Dr Munira Essat
m.essat@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Helen Rodd
h.d.rodd@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
Research interests My earliest work was in the field of neuroscience, where I used the human My current research programme is driven by Health and Social policy which have highlighted the need to be more inclusive of children in decisions about their healthcare, as well as involving them more actively in health-related research and service development. In line with this, a key research objective is to develop robust patient-centred clinical outcome measures for use in dentistry. These will have important application within the NHS in determining the benefits of various treatment modalities in order to more effectively direct resource allocation. I work within a unique multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Sheffield, the ‘Person Centered and Population Oral Health’ group, which includes researchers across several clinical specialities and social sciences. The group conducts and implements high quality research in oral health, utilising the theories and empirical traditions of dental public health, sociology and psychology and a range of methodologies. |
Professor Glenys Parry
G.D.Parry@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMy interests include the application of research to policy and practice, service evaluation, process and outcomes of psychotherapy in health service settings and psychotherapeutic competence. |
Dr Chiara Orsini
c.orsini@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
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. |
Dr Anju Keetharuth
d.keetharuth@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My research interests include outcome measurement, psychometrics, economic evaluation and current health policy analysis including PROMs. I am also interested in economic evaluation of mental health policies and community services. |
Dr Amy Barnes
a.barnes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsI am broadly interested in public health policy processes, partnership and wider determinants of health. My more specific research interests focus on: 1. issues of power, participation and partnership in public health policy processes; 2. the role of civil society (community) organisations and community development approaches in the public health system and specifically in relation to addressing wider determinants of health and wellbeing; and 3. complex/systems approaches to policy evaluation.
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Dr Elizabeth Such
e.such@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests are:-
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Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford
h.lambie-mumford@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
Her research focuses on food insecurity, emergency food systems and the role of public policy. Her work has been at the forefront of the emerging evidence base on the growth of food charity in the UK and comparative research across Europe. |
Dr Lois Orton
l.orton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research questions the way we understand and address
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Professor John Holmes
john.holmes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research focuses on alcohol and public health. I have particular interests in trends and patterns in alcohol consumption, alcohol policy analysis, and the relationship between alcohol use and other health-related behaviours. Recent projects focus on alcohol pricing, trends in drinking occasions, cultures and practices, youth drinking trends, the development and evaluation of drinking guidelines, and the equity implications of alcohol policy. I would be interested in supervising doctoral research related to any of the topics above using quantitative or mixed methods. |
Dr Warren Pearce
warren.pearce@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Warren’s research lies at the intersection of science, policy and publics, with three main areas of research interest:
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Professor Damian Hodgson
d.hodgson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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:
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Dr Sophie Whyte
Sophie.Whyte@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My broad research is focused on mathematical modelling within health economics. I have gained significant expertise and experience in two related areas:
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Dr Duncan Gillespie
duncan.gillespie@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy fundamental interest is in informing decision making in health and healthcare.
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Professor Ian Bache
i.bache@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
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Professor Bhavani Shankar
b.shankar@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Sustainable diets, the analysis of economic drivers of over and under nutrition, food and nutrition policy evaluation and the role of agriculture and food systems in enabling better nutrition and health. Much of this work is of an interdisciplinary nature, conducted in collaboration with nutritionists, health scientists, geographers and environmental scientists. |
Professor David Robinson
david.robinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My research practice is situated at the interface of planning, geography and social policy and focuses on exposing and understanding contemporary challenges in urban society and critically analysing the responses of policy and practice. Much of my career has been spent at the interface of knowledge and action. My work is dominated by an interest in questions of how inequality arises, the associated burdens and benefits, and how to promote social justice. These questions have framed my long-standing interest in housing in the UK context. Decent, secure housing provides more than just a roof over someone’s head. It is a place of safety and security. It can promote health and well-being and inform life chances. My work has sought to expose and understand inequalities in access to these benefits within the UK housing system; underpinning processes of transformation in the politics of housing; and associated consequences for people and places. Particular areas of interest include: aspiration and choice in the contemporary housing system; housing and population ageing; the politics and provision of social housing; disadvantage and discrimination in the housing system; and the hidden and neglected experiences of particular groups. Other long-standing areas of interest include: the new politics of community within public policy making; and place-based experiences of new migrants, community relations and processes of integration. Indicative projects · Ageing and the (un)making of home – exploring notions of being at home in older age and implications for understandings of ‘ageing in place’ and ‘healthy ageing’ · For-profit social housing – exploring the transformational politics and practice of publically funded for-profit housing associations · Revisiting ethnic inequalities in the housing system – exploring the processes and experiences of discrimination and the contemporary policy and practice response · The shifting housing aspirations of young people – what dimensions of housing are young people prioritising and how are they negotiating access within the constraints of the contemporary housing sytem? |
Professor Richard Phillips
R.Phillips@Sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Research interests The World after Empire: themes include Muslim geographies and postcolonial cities Sexuality, Space and Power: constructions and contestations of sexual identities Curiosity and Adventure: from children’s books to health and wellbeing policies |
Dr Hannah Fairbrother
h.fairbrother@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
My principal research focus is on socioeconomic inequalities in health, particularly as they relate to children, young people and families. This is a longstanding interest and stems from my upbringing in Sheffield, a city of contrasts in health and wealth, visiting family in Anfield, Liverpool and through voluntary work in Cambridge with young mothers and with children in a disadvantaged area of Paris. I am particularly interested in: - Work to understand and address the underlying causes of inequalities in health - Public perspectives, particularly children and young people’s perspectives, on and understandings of inequalities in health and their relationship with broader societal inequalities - The role of health and wider policy (a health in all policies approach) and the potential for whole systems approaches to facilitate coordinated action in reducing inequalities in health - The importance of children and young people’s health literacy practices in making sense of, interacting with and responding to health information. I mobilise a variety of different methods to explore these key interests, including critical policy analysis, systematic and narrative literature review, participatory interviews, creative workshops, observation and systems mapping. |
Professor Alan Walker
a.c.walker@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests Alan Walker's research interests span a wide range in sociological analysis, social policy and social planning. This includes a major specialism in the social aspects of ageing, or social gerontology. With a Dutch and German colleague he invented the concept of social quality which seeks to understand and measure the quality of society (as opposed to individual quality of life). This concept has been applied empirically in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. He also has long-term research interests in poverty and inequality and social policy in China and other East Asian countries. Between 2005 and 2014 he directed the New Dynamics of Ageing Research Programme (http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/) and, before that, the Growing Older Programme (http://www.growingolder.group.shef.ac.uk/). Currently he directs two major European research projects on social innovation, active ageing and healthy life expectancy(http://www.innovage.group.shef.ac.uk/ and http://mopact.group.shef.ac.uk/). He has a long track record of successful postgraduate supervision, with 50 PhDs awarded so far, including students from several European countries, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Many of his previous doctoral students have gone on to become university professors. As well as being an active researcher he has close links with the policy world via the National Health Service and various voluntary organisations. |
Professor Andrew Lee
andrew.lee@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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
My current ongoing research projects (as of February 2017) are:
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Dr Hazel Squires
h.squires@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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. |
Professor Don Webber
d.j.webber@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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. |
Professor Zoe Marshman
z.marshman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
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 |
Mr Robert Akparibo
R.Akparibo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Broad area of research interest:
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Dr Muhammad Saddiq
M.I.Saddiq@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsBroad 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 |
Dr Binakuromo Ogbebor
b.ogbebor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Journalism, Media and Communication |
Journalism, Media and CommunicationBina’s research interests include media representation, the relationship between the media and democracy, critical incidents in journalism, race equality in journalism, media policy, and media self-coverage. Bina’s research and publications have contributed to knowledge relating to key debates about press regulation, the public interest, public trust, media ownership, political economy of the media, paradigm repair, boundary work, and the public sphere concept. Her research into how the British press covered the press standards debate that followed The News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry employed content and critical discourse analyses and was interdisciplinary in content drawing from law, politics and psychology in addition to journalism. Bina’s research entitled, A meta-analysis of key concerns and developments on media standards informed the 2020-2022 Impress Code Review. The research findings were used by the press regulator, Impress to modernise the Standards Code and make it fit for purpose in the digital age. Her research on the WhatsApp, Black People and COVID-19 Infodemic explored the WhatsApp Communications of Nigerians in the UK and Nigeria, using the methods of interviews and content analysis. This work made contributions to knowledge about effective health communications in times of Public Health Emergencies. Bina’s current research investigates race-based student activism in journalism, media, and communication schools in the UK using the methods of content analysis, interviews, and surveys. PhD Supervision
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Professor Colin Williams
C.C.Williams@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Professor of Public Policy Research interests Colin's broad research interests are in re-theorising the nature of economic development and investigating the implications for public policy. Spatially, his interests range across the full spectrum from local and regional economic development in the UK through to the restructuring of western economies, post-socialist societies and the third (majority) world. Much of his work focuses upon rethinking the meanings of 'economic' and 'development,' which directly feeds into the work of the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED). Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development Colin's particular research interest is in studying the magnitude and character of the informal economy and evaluating different public policy approaches and initiatives for tackling this sphere. |
Professor David Hyatt
d.hyatt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
David's research interests have a focus on pedagogy, particularly in a higher education context. As a result, his research currently centres around three major interlinked research areas of interest:
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Dr Daniel Holman
daniel.holman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research centres on social science and perspectives on health and illness, especially with respect to health inequalities and ageing. My work sits at the interface of sociology, social policy and public health. I have particular interests in intersectionality, biomarker analysis, chronic disease/multimorbidity, social determinants of health, the life course, and extending working lives. I have methodological expertise in the analysis of survey data, including the use of multilevel models and panel data methods. I am interested in supervising PhD students working on the above topics. |
Professor Peter Bath
p.a.bath@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research interests are in Health Informatics and include the following areas:
I am particularly interested in how patients, carers and health professionals seek, obtain and share information and advice in relation to their health and well-being through online digital resources.
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Professor Ravindra Maheswaran
r.maheswaran@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMy main research interest concerns the application of geographical information systems and science (GIS) to public health research and practice. Research fields within this area include (i) geographical and environmental epidemiology; (ii) geographical variations in health and health care; and (iii) methodology for spatial studies. |
Professor Felicity Matthews
f.m.matthews@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
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Professor Alicia O'Cathain
a.ocathain@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMixed methods, evaluation of new health services, patient views of health care, urgent care. |
Dr Harriet Churchill
h.churchill@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests My research interests bridge social policy and sociology with a focus on the analysis of policies, services and everyday lived experiences in relation to childhood, young people, parenthood and family support. I am interested in the relationship between child, family and social policy, and engage in critical policy analysis for improvements in child welfare and family support entitlements, provisions and services. I have completed qualitative research about lone mothers’ experiences of negotiating motherhood and paid work, parental empowerment in Sure Start Children’s Centres and parents of teenagers’ experiences of participating in group parenting programmes. Students who share similar research interests to those listed below are welcome to discuss the possibility of postgraduate supervision:
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Dr Ros Williams
r.g.williams@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Sociological Studies |
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:
Interested in supervising research students who are focused on the following topics (in UK and/or other national/regional/international contexts)
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Professor Sue Yeandle
s.yeandle@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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. |
Dr Abigail Tazzyman
a.tazzyman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Abigail joined the Sheffield Methods Institute as a Lecturer in Qualitative Methods in 2020. Previously she had worked at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Abigail completed a PhD at the University of York in 2015. Her thesis investigated female cultures of body modification across the life course, focusing on how women learn practices and the social norms which surround them. Abigails research has focued on organisational change (particularly within health and social care) and the impliations for workforce and inequalities as well as policy implementation. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, her research interests focus on organisation studies, inequalities and medical sociology/health services research and their intersection. Abigail would welcome students with an interest in medical sociology, workforce and organisations adbn gender studies . |
Dr Lorna Warren
l.warren@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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.
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Professor Paul Tappenden
p.tappenden@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Susan Mawson
s.mawson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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. |
Professor Matt Stevenson
m.d.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Allan Wailoo
a.j.wailoo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Themesa Neckles
themesa.neckles@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Themesa is interested in using critical methodologies for inquiring into issues related to educational theory, policy and practice with focus on an emancipatory agenda for individuals’ lives, their work and the societies in which they live. She is also interested in engaging with theoretical issues around spirituality and education. |
Dr Phil Shackley
p.shackley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Sarah Barnes
s.barnes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy primary research interest is in 'improving the quality of life of older people'. Key research areas arising from this are:-
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Professor Stephen Pinfield
s.pinfield@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research interests focus on scholarly communication, research data management, open access and open science, digital scholarship, digital information resources management, research policy, and managing information and technology services in organisations. Recently, this has included work on open-access publishing and dissemination, library and information strategy, and higher education research policy. I work at the intersection between technology deployment, policy development, and cultural practices, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Much of this has to date concentrated on applied areas, stemming from my professional background as an information services manager before moving into an academic role. I have, however, combined this with working with a number of theoretical models in order to understand patterns of uptake of innovative approaches to scholarship and communication. I am interested in the relationship between theory and practice, and in how researchers interact with practitioners in information-related and knowledge-producing organisations. PhD Supervision I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any areas of my research interests. |
Dr Tessa Peasgood
t.peasgood@sheffield.ac.uk Division of Population Health |
Tessa is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics within the Division of Population Health. She has a background in economics and is a mixed-methods researcher, with significant expertise in quantitative and qualitative research.
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Professor Paul Norman
P.Norman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Psychology |
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. |
Dr Christopher Carroll
c.carroll@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Charlotte Burns
charlotte.burns@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
I am interested in the factors shaping environmental resilience in the face of external challenges. More specifically - what puts environmental policy goals at risk and what enables them to withstand change and be resilient? My background is in studying decision-making and EU environmental politics and policy, with a specific focus upon the European Parliament. |
Ms Katie Powell
K.Powell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Broad areas of research interest:
Research Methods I am able to supervise:
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Dr Vito Polito
v.polito@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Quantitative macroeconomics, in particular applications of control theory within reduced-form (VAR) and structural (Dynamic General Equilibrium) models to study macroeconomic policy. Specific research topics include: (i) Fiscal policy sustainability, (ii) optimal monetary policy, (iii) sovereign credit risk, (iv) unemployment and social insurance, (v) optimal macroeconomic policy in heteroskedastic models. Vito is interested in supervising students in quantitative macroeconomics and its intersections with private and public finance, using either VAR, DSGE or OLG models. Specific areas of research he would supervise include: (i) analysis of time-varying volatility models; (ii) monetary and fiscal policy; (iii) sovereign credit risk; (iv) unemployment insurance; (v) ageing and public finances sustainability. |
Professor Barend van Hout
b.a.vanhout@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsI 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. |
Dr Jennifer Burr
j.a.burr@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Stephen Hincks
s.hincks@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests My primary research interests focus on three interrelated themes: Applied spatial analysis and GIS - developing and applying different conceptual, methodological and analytical frameworks to understand complex spatial structures and processes and their impacts on spatial development. Housing and neighbourhoods - understanding spatial housing markets and their uneven structures and functionalities. Urban-regional policy and planning - consideration of the policy frameworks and governance architectures that shape urban and regional development. |
Dr Vanessa Halliday
vanessa.halliday@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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. |
Dr Pamela Lenton
p.lenton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
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. |
Dr Matthew Wood
m.wood@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
I welcome all prospective PhD students interested in governance and public policy, political participation, EU and British politics, and issues of democratic authority and legitimacy. AI value engaged scholarship. PhDs under my supervision will therefore be particularly focused on transferrable skills and ensuring their work has 'impact'. |
Professor Craig Watkins
c.a.watkins@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests My current and recent research focuses on the structure and operation of property markets, particularly local housing systems, and the impact of public policy on real estate market performance. This research addresses theoretical and empirical issues and is generally, although not exclusively, located within a quantitative economic framework. There are four main sub-themes to this work:
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Dr Jill Thompson
jill.thompson@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
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I am a qualitative researcher and my research interests centre on working with vulnerable groups to explore ways in which they are enabled to actively participate in their health/health systems.
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Professor Jason Heyes
j.heyes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Associate Dean for Impact and Engagement Research interests My main research interest is in the connections between employment relations and HRM, the labour market and public policy. My research has examined the relationship between collective bargaining and vocational training activity and outcomes in the UK and Europe, the impact of the UK's National Minimum Wage legislation on pay, employment and training, and forms of trade union support for migrant workers. I would be interested in supervising doctoral work in the broad fields of Employment Relations and HRM. I would be particularly interested in supervising doctoral work in the following areas: vocational education and training; the state and employment relations; employment and social protection policy and outcomes; governance of the labour market; low-paid work and minimum wages; trade unions; social dialogue; vulnerable workers (e.g. migrants, work in the informal economy) |
Professor Kate Morris
kate.morris@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Kate’s areas of interest are: family minded policy and practice, family participation in care and protection, the reform of safeguarding practice and child welfare inequalities. She is passionate about social work and the role of social work in supporting change. Kate supervises PhD students in the areas of family caring relationships, family interventions and family support. Kate is Co-Director of the Family Potential Research collaboration http://www.familypotential.org. |
Professor Jan Windebank
j.windebank@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage French Studies School of Languages and Cultures |
Research interests Sociological and social policy research on gender divisions of domestic labour, domestic services, work-family reconciliation policy, social exclusion and the informal economy and undeclared work in Europe. |
Professor Aki Tsuchiya
a.tsuchiya@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics Division of Population Health |
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Professor James Chilcott
j.b.chilcott@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Elizabeth Goyder
e.goyder@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research Interests:Research topics in the field of developing and implementing evidence-based public health including: health inequalities, access to health care, physical activity interventions, type 2 diabetes and diabetes prevention. Methods:Research methods include mixed methods evaluations of public health and complex interventions and evidence synthesis/ systematic reviews of public health and complex interventions. |
Dr Madeleine Pill
m.c.pill@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
I take a critical approach to the theory and practice of governance and policy at the urban/ local/ neighbourhood levels. I am interested in how state-society relationships are adapting to globalising transformations in variegated ways, including strategies of collaboration, collective action and contestation. In particular I welcome proposals for PhD research into the role of local government in pursuing strategies such as co-production, new municipalism and community wealth building; and regarding the governance roles played by non-state actors, such as third sector organisations, ‘ed and med’ anchor institutions and philanthropic foundations. Suggested PhD topics: New forms of governance and co-ordination at the local level, such as co-production The role of non-state actors (including philanthropies) in urban governance Reconfiguring and rescaling central-local relations, such as through city-regional governance arrangements. |
Dr Steven Robertson
s.robertson@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
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. |
Professor Mark Hawley
mark.hawley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Suzanne Mason
s.mason@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMy research interests relate to the evaluation of complex interventions and systems in emergency care settings. I have extensive experience in multi-centre mixed methods studies which can directly inform the delivery of high quality emergency care to patients. |
Professor Gail Mountain
g.a.mountain@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests are focussed upon improving the quality of life of older people through provision of appropriate interventions, good design and by facilitating participation. I am particularly interested in improving the lived experiences of people at all stages of the dementia trajectory. |
Dr Lucy Mayblin
l.mayblin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research focus is on asylum policy regimes and the legacies of colonialism. I welcome applications from students interested in studying asylum, refugees, human rights, policy making, and postcolonial and decolonial theory in any international context. |
Dr Steven Ariss
S.Ariss@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Miss Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh
s.ejegi-memeh@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
My research interests lie mainly in health inequalities and patient experience. I am especially |
Professor Sarah Baker
s.r.baker@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
Research interests My principal research interest relates to the psychological and social factors which influence how people cope with chronic oral health conditions and their treatment. Such conditions include cleft lip and palate, oral cancer, orthognathic conditions, xerostomia, periodontal disease and edentulousness. This programme of work investigates the psychosocial factors which influence individual’s experiences of their oral health and the impact on well-being and quality of life. Understanding the role of such factors – sense of coherence, self esteem, social support networks, coping strategies, stress and resilience – allows us to explore potential mechanisms by which oral health impacts on individual’s daily lives and, in turn, develop intervention strategies that have the potential to improve health and well-being. Other research interests include a critical examination of the conceptual foundations of oral health quality of life concepts, together with methodological and statistical approaches within the OHQoL field. Much of this research involves modelling the biopsychosocial determinants of oral health and well-being across the lifecourse using statistical techniques such as, structural equation modelling. |
Professor Scott Weich
s.weich@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Scott Weich is Professor of Mental Health in ScHARR. He is also a practicing NHS Consultant Psychiatrist. His research interests include public mental health and the study of the distribution, causes and consequences of common mental disorders, as well as mental wellbeing. He has experience of large-scale observational and secondary research looking at socio-economic, ethnic, gender and spatial variation in mental disorders and their outcomes. Recent research includes the study of compulsion in mental health services, inclding compulsory admission and the use of Community Treatment Orders. He is also undertaking research into the way in which patient experience data are collected and used to influence service improvement in NHS mental health services. Prof Weich has an interest in the evaluation of service change in real-world settings. He is also interested in the evaluating improvements in the efficiency with which existing services are delivered, and in evaluating the use of technology in mental health care, and in the application of experience-based co-design in mental health settings. |
Professor Jennifer Roberts
j.r.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
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. |
Dr Caroline Mitchell
c.mitchell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Academic Unit of Medical Education |
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) |
Professor Jesse Matheson
j.matheson@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Jesse’s research focuses in applied micro-econometrics, with contributions to public, labour and health economics. His research agenda focuses on understanding, and empirically identifying, the influence that economic and social environment have on individual choice. Recent examples include a large randomised field experiment, run with a UK Police Force, which found that improving the access to public support services for victims of domestic violence leads to more efficient use of police resources. He also has a series of projects that measure the effect of social environment on individual decision making in the context of smoking, marital decisions, and raising children. Jesse is interested in supervising PhD students working in applied micro-econometrics. Specifically, he is interested in three areas: estimating social interactions and social spill-overs; the economics of health, particularly with respect to individual choice; and urban sorting and amenities. |
Mr Dan Pollard
d.j.pollard@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Broad area of interest:My interests are broadly in building mathematical models to assess the long term benefits and costs of different health care strategies/interventions and subsequently conduct an economic evaluation of adopting the new strategies/interventions. I have primarily done modelling in populations with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and people presenting with medical emergencies. Most economic evaluations I have conducted have involved developing an individual level simulation model. Research methods I am able to supervise:Mathematical modelling Economic Evaluation |
Dr Louise Kay
Personal Webpage School of Education |
Louise supervises doctoral students in the areas of: Curricular and assessment policy frameworks School readiness Leadership and professioanlism in Early Childhood Education Early Childhood Education and pedagogy Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Socio-cultural theory in Early Childhood Education Makerspaces |
Professor Wendy Baird
w.o.baird@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsResearch interest focuses on inequalities in health and access to health services for both those with chronic disabling diseases and those who are socially excluded from care.
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Dr Mark Bryan
m.l.bryan@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Mark is interested in supervising PhD students in variety of topics in empirical labour studies including:
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Professor Stefanie Pukallus
s.pukallus@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Journalism, Media and Communication |
Public Communication & Civil DevelopmentStef’s research interest and expertise focus on the role that public communication can play in the building, developing and diminishing of civil society. She has previously focused on the European Community and now focuses on post-civil war settings. For her the communicative spectrum of civil society includes non-mediated verbal communication, the factual and fictional media as well as the performative and the visual arts. She is equally interested in communicative spaces and the role of civility in civil society. Stef is co-founder and Chair of the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding (HCPB). She is currently working on her third monograph ‘Communication in Peacebuilding. Civil wars, civility and safe spaces’ (under contract) and acting as an advisor for UN Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (UN DDP) and their public information module. PhD supervision Stef is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:
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Dr Inge Kersbergen
i.kersbergen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Mark Tomlinson
mark.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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I am an interdisciplinary scholar having worked in economics, management, innovation studies and sociology over the past two decades. My main interests at the moment are in labour processes and labour market disdvantage (which includes skills, learning, organisational effects on human capital development, and the contribution labour makes to innovation systems etc). I also have a strong interest in poverty research in general. I broadly follow an economic sociological approach and use quantitative methods. I also try to apply my research to the real world in terms of policy development. |
Professor Sharron Hinchliff
s.hinchliff@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Nursing and Midwifery |
My research spans the areas of ageing, gender and sexual/reproductive health, as well as the psychology of health and health care. I have a strong focus on help-seeking for sexual issues, patient-practioner communication about sexual issues, and social attitudes around ageing, gender, and sex. Methodologically, my expertise lies in qualitative research, vulnerable groups, and sensitive topics. |
Professor Simon Rushton
simon.rushton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
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Professor Jeremy Dawson
j.f.dawson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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:
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 Karim Hadjri
k.hadjri@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Architecture |
Inclusive/age-friendly design; Ageing-in-place: accessible design; Design for health and wellbeing; Design of dementia-friendly environments; Design of enabling environments. |
Dr Lianrui Jia
l.jia@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research areas are platform studies, political economy of media, media policy and regulation. My research has a regional focus on China-based digital platforms, with a comparative lens on platforms across different regions, contexts, and increasingly, on regional mobile apps and platform "instances". I am interested in how state actors, private companies, as well as the capital market co-shape and influence the development, governance, and globalization aspects of digital platforms. |
Professor Jeremy Dawson
J.F.Dawson@Sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsJeremy'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; various studies of team working in health care, particularly in mental health services; an examination of the effects of organisational restructuring in the NHS; and a project looking at the diversity of hospital staff and their representativeness of the local community. In 2014 he begins an NIHR-funded study evaluating Schwartz Center Rounds® in the NHS. As well as teams in health care, he has a more general interest in team diversity, and in particular how it should be measured. As a statistician he has also undertaken a wide range of methodological research, particularly regarding interpretation of interaction effects, measurement of diversity, analysis of incomplete team data, and the effects of aggregation on relationships. He has published over 30 papers in refereed academic journals in the fields of psychology, management, health care and research methods, as well as numerous project reports and articles in practitioner publications. He is an editorial board member of five journals, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. |
Dr Nwanneka Ezechukwu-Anekwe
n.v.ezechukwu@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
My core research interest is in consumer law and policy. My current research projects focus on the regulatory mechanisms protecting consumers in the face of rapidly changing technology. I have also recently started looking at the linkage between consumer protection and trade governance. Research Interests
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Professor Kristine Horner
k.horner@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Germanic Studies School of Languages and Cultures |
Research interests My research is mainly in the field of sociolinguistics with an emphasis on linguistic anthropological approaches to the interface between language, society and identity; language politics and policy; language, migration and citizenship; language and cultural heritage. I lead a WUN research network on multilingualism and mobility. Also, I am currently working on a collaborative project on European migration, language policy and small states with my strand on the project focused on multilingual Luxembourg. |
Professor Cindy Cooper
C.L.Cooper@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Lindsay Blank
l.blank@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Simon Dixon
s.dixon@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Mr Abdullah Pandor
a.pandor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Nicholas Bishop
n.j.bishop@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
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. |
Professor Steven Julious
s.a.julious@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Thomas Webb
T.Webb@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Psychology |
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. |
Professor Barry Gibson
b.j.gibson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
Research interests The primary focus on my research has been the experience of oral health conditions and to this end I have been instrumental in securing funding from commercial bodies to explore the impact of dentine sensitivity on everyday life. This research conducted along with colleagues in the Unit of Dental Public Health has resulted in a new measure of the impact of dentine sensitivity. |
Professor Donna Rowen
d.rowen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Joanne Grady
j.k.grady@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations Jo has published work and research interests fall broadly into the following categories:
It does so by firmly placing the political economy of industrial relations and the labour process, within its broader capitalist context. Given this overarching focus, Jo's work examines (both empirically and theoretically) the power asymmetry that underpins the employment relationship, and the contrasting and conflicting priorities and interests. Specifically it examines the political economy and public policy associated with employment relations (particularly with regards inequality, both in terms of pensions, pay and conditions), and how labour market reform shapes the experience of work for so many; how labour market regulation facilitates this; how this then is transmitted globally via financialized capitalism; and finally the dynamics of collective resistance to these issues by trade unions and workers. In addition, her research analyses the ways in which financialization of the employment relationship plays out at macro, meso, and micro levels. Rather than simply theorising financialization – as so many other have done – Jo's research examines and analyses how precariousness (which is institutionalised by legislation) makes citizens more amenable to low pay via activation labour market policies and labour market deregulation more generally. It also examines how regulation (informed by neoliberal ideology) has helped produce an environment where organisations appropriate value from their staff as a contemporary strategy, particularly via company pension schemes. Underpinning these research interests is a focus on developing an empirically informed, theoretical model of how ‘financialized capitalism’ appropriates shareholder value from employees, and the role that regulation plays in facilitating this. To date this has included, re-examining the pension crisis in the UK. But also, connecting this more broadly to the development of ‘financialized capitalism’ and the pursuit of shareholder value. |
Dr Julia Moses
j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise history topics Julia's main research interests lie in the history of social problems and policy in Britain and Western Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published on five main strands of her research: the history of the welfare state, private law, and especially torts; transnational history; marriage and the family and, the history of ideas about 'risk'. She has recently completed a comparative study of conceptions of risk, workplace accidents and the welfare state in Britain, Germany and Italy, and her current research investigates the political history of marriage in Imperial Germany from transnational and global perspectives. Julie supervises students in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European (including British) history, in particular on the history of the welfare state and social problems and policy more broadly, including questions related to national, international and transnational regulation; government and bureaucracy; legal history; marriage and the family; and the history of the social sciences. |
Dr Linda Westman
l.westman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Linda is a Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Institute. Her research revolves around environmental politics, with a focus on urban climate governance, transformations, and justice. She joined the UI in 2019. Standing at the brink of a global environmental crisis, the days of business as usual in environmental politics are over. Far-reaching interventions are required to address the global climate breakdown. However, such actions will inevitably bring deep social impacts. Linda’s research examines various components of the governance and politics of climate action, including dynamics of transformation and multiple dimensions of justice. In particular, her current work seeks to interrogate the epistemological foundations of environmental justice theory and explore emerging conceptual directions in dialogue with feminist and decolonial scholars. Linda’s recent work involves documenting the evolution of urban imaginaries in international climate policy. This research points to the homogeneity of current climate discourse, including the limited possibilities to deliver transformative action from within dominant policy rationales. Overall, Linda’s work on international climate policy is transversed by a concern with the political economic arrangements that sustain international relations and the reproduction of hegemonic symbolic orders even through policy narratives that seek radical change. Linda’s previous research has examined empirical and conceptual perspectives of urban climate governance. This includes the role of private sector actors in sustainability politics and environmental governance dynamics in cities in China. In particular, her research has questioned the application of theoretical frameworks and concept developed within Europe and North America (e.g., partnerships, multilevel governance, transitions, justice) in this political setting. |
Dr Rebecca Webster
@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Psychology |
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. |
Professor Jonathan Nicholl
J.Nicholl@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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. |
Professor Elizabeth Cross
e.j.cross@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Elizabeth’s main research interests are in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), specifically vibration based SHM, which uses monitored dynamic properties of a structure for condition assessment and damage detection. SHM is still a relatively young field and so much of the research that goes on is confined to the laboratory. While it is true that research into SHM is becoming increasingly popular, it has failed, so far, to be taken up in any major way by industry, despite the obvious economic and safety benefits it could offer. Elizabeth’s current research is broadly concerned with how SHM can be made to work for the real world and encompasses the application of statistics and machine learning technology, as well as mathematics from other disciplines such as econometrics. |
Dr Richard Cooper
richard.cooper@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health The Medical School Department of Sociological Studies |
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Mrs Michaela Senek
m.senek@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
I am a mixed-methods researcher interested in supervising projects related to health services improvement (both focusing on workforce and patient outcome issues). |
Dr Helen Quirk
h.quirk@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Sarah Salway
s.salway@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Sarah Salway
s.salway@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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Professor Stephen Walters
s.j.walters@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Mr Chris Blackmore
C.M.Blackmore@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Specific areas of interest:My main research interest is in the role of emotions in online learning, and more generally the impact of the internet on well-being. I have been involved in developing and evaluating e-learning Psychotherapy training resources across Europe. Since my doctoral research, I have become interested in the potential of learning analytics and the use of data on well-being to enhance and personalize students' learning, and the application of the same principles in analysing therapeutic interactions. I am developing an interest in narrative therapy and use of virtual reality. |
Dr Jennifer MacRitchie
j.macritchie@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Music |
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Dr Clara Mukuria
c.mukuria@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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:
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Dr Mark Brown
mark.brown@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Research Interests I welcome enquiries from students thinking of undertaking research in any of these areas:
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Dr Samer Adra
samer.adra@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Associate Professor of Finance Samer’s research is primarily focused on the interaction between stock market movements, macroeconomic forces, and corporate actions. He examines the extent to which companies 'learn' from the variations in their monetary and economic environment in developing and adjusting key corporate actions such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Equity Offerings. He also studies the role of informed trading - within the framework of the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox and the original work of F.A. Hayek - in influencing stock returns at both the firm and market levels. Samer’s recent research focuses on the channels via which the richness of the information environment can be exploited by both investors and companies in properly positioning themselves in a complex business environment. He welcomes Ph.D. proposals in the fields of M&As, Equity Offerings, and Applied Monetary Analysis. |
Professor Ruth Blakeley
r.blakeley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
Professor Blakeley’s research and teaching focus on international security, terrorism and political violence, and human rights. |
Dr Tehyun Ma
tehyun.ma@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise history topics Tehyun's main research interest is in the history of state-building in China and Taiwan, with a particular focus on how state-building and propaganda fostered legitimacy at home and abroad. In keeping with her interest in state formation, she has also written on the long history of imperial rule and colonial intervention in China between the eighteenth century and the Communist takeover in 1949. She is happy to supervise students working on the history of modern China and Taiwan, particularly those with an interest in the Republican era (1911-1949), World War II, and the early Cold War. |
Dr Kate Weiner
k.weiner@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
I work at the intersection of medical sociology and science and technology studies. My doctoral research looked at lay and professional constructions of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a treatable hereditary condition associated with heart disease. My analysis focussed on the themes of geneticisation, genetic responsibility and biosociality, three prominent concepts in discussions of the social implications of genetic knowledge. Subsequent research projects looked at more mundane health technologies for cholesterol management, including cholesterol-lowering foods containing plant sterols and prescription and over-the-counter statins. Current research is expanding this work on consumer health technologies, looking at self-monitoring technologies such as blood pressure monitors and weighing scales/BMI monitors. All of these studies consider professional expectations as well as people’s accounts of why and how they adopt and use, or don't use, particular products or technologies. They consider the way responsibilities for health are distributed, the practices involved and the implications for forms of expertise in relation to health care. The work critically engages with notions of 'self-care' and 'health behaviours', proposing alternative lenses such as care infrastructures and practice theory approaches. I have an ongoing interest in developments in the biomedical sciences. Recent work has looked at the routine practices of racialised prescribing. Research interests:
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Dr Phil Joddrell
p.joddrell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My primary research interest is focused on improving the quality of life for people living with dementia using everyday technologies. I specialise in the accessibility of technology for people with dementia or cognitive impairment (see www.actodementia.com), and using innovative methods to involve people in research for whom self-report may not always be possible. I am broadly interested in the health and wellbeing of older adults including (but not limited to) the use of technology to achieve this. I have a psychology background and spent 6 years working with older adults with dementia and mental health problems in a hospital environment. Alongside my university position, I also work for Dementia UK in the Research and Publications Team. |
Dr Graeme Manson
Graeme.Manson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests The main concern of Dr Manson´s research has been, throughout, the development of robust structural health monitoring strategies for the purposes of damage identification. Over the years, this has taken on various approaches beginning with the examination of the response of nonlinear mechanical systems before moving into the fields of signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and multivariate statistics for damage identification. More recently, with the questions of damage prognosis and robustness of structural health monitoring systems, the research has led toward the investigation of the propagation of uncertainty through systems and structures. |
Dr Laura Sbaffi
Laura.Sbaffi@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
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Dr Kushwanth Koya
k.koya@sheffield.ac.uk Information School |
I am currently working on projects to ascertain the information needs and their classifications, of young informal carers in the UK in collaboration with Strathclyde and Leeds Beckett. Along with colleagues at Northumbria, De Montfort and Suffolk, I’ am investigating the microblogging dynamics of NHS workers during the Covid19 pandemic. I’ am also working with two of my former students, Rob Frear (Chesterfield Royal Hospital) and Salime Mascarenas (Prometheus Group) to ascertain diabetes ketoacidosis readmission risks from hospital records and information needs of stakeholders towards developing trust in machine learning based manufacturing processes in the aerospace industry respectively. My recent research investigated the interpretation of GDPR principles by various UK Higher Education stakeholders, particularly focussing on the utilisation of student data and in collaboration with Santander Bank on a students’-led project, we investigated the factors responsible for digital banking adoption in young adults in the UK. My previous research has contributed towards identifying information practices influencing the attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goals and cultural sustainability. I was a named researcher in a JISC funded project which led to the development of a recommendations-based reading list prototype learning and resource management for UK higher education libraries, which further sparked interest to develop a novel ranking method for research datasets, based on quality and popularity. My research has been published in scholarly outlets i.e., Journal of the Association of Information Science & Technology (JASIST), Journal of Information Science, PlosOne, iConference and the Asia-Pacific Information Technology Conference (ACM organised). |
Ms Abi Stevely
a.stevely@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My research focuses on alcohol epidemiology, public health policy evaluation, and reducing health inequalities. I am interested in how complex social systems produce and interact with population health and inequalities, and in using this knowledge to inform intervention development, evaluation and refinement. My recent projects have focused on changes in the clustering of health and wellbeing indicators among adolescents in high-income countries since the early 2000s, and the evaluation of major alcohol policies including minimum unit pricing in Scotland. |
Dr Elisabeth Garratt
elisabeth.garratt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
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. Beth's personal blog can be found here. |
Dr Antony Williams
Anthony.Williams@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Tony's research interests are focused in areas of critical psychology and psychoanalytic concepts and theory. To date his research has focused on contributing to the concept of a critical educational psychology. Related areas of interest include group dynamics, conceptions of mental health and emotional wellbeing, case study research and the use of reflexive and interpretative research methods. |
Mr Ben Kearns
b.kearns@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Robert Pryce
r.e.pryce@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
I am broadly interested in all areas of economics of health, but especially the economics of "sin" behaviours such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling. I am also interested in the economics of food. I am currently involved in several different topics within the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group including work on alcohol dependence, local alcohol consumption estimates, joint modelling of tobacco and alcohol demand, and modelling of price policies.
I am also more generally interested in wellbeing work, especially work combining this with "sin" behaviours. Previous work includes looking at the monetary cost of problem gambling on wellbeing. I have also supervised an MSc dissertation looking at smoking and wellbeing. |
Professor Parveen Ali
parveen.ali@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
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 |
Dr Praveen Thokala
P.Thokala@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Venet Osmani
v.osmani@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School The Medical School |
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. |
Professor Pauline Dibben
P.Dibben@Sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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. |
Dr Ali Gerged
a.m.gerged@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer in Accounting Ali's research interests primarily focus on exploring a variety of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues. For instance, Ali is a leading figure in the realm of research exploring the causes and outcomes of corporate environmental disclosure in both developed and emerging markets. Additionally, Ali leads research initiatives that examine the influence of various gender diversity-related criteria on improving the pro-sustainable performance of companies. Furthermore, his research interests extend to include Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethical accounting, global sustainability initiatives, Corporate Governance, and other relevant subjects. |
Dr Robert Barthorpe
r.j.barthorpe@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Dr Barthorpe's research covers a range of problems in the field of structural dynamics and beyond, with an underlying theme being the integration of numerical modelling and experimental data. Structural health monitoring is one of his major research themes. The broad aim of an SHM system is to be able to identify, at an early stage, occurrences of damage that may ultimately lead to the failure of the component or system being monitored. Established approaches to this task typically fall into one of two categories: they are either based entirely on experimental data, or make use of a numerical model that is periodically updated as new data becomes available. Both of these approaches have distinct drawbacks: for the former, lack of appropriate experimental data is the major issue; for the latter, model-form uncertainty is among the challenges faced. Part of Rob's work is in investigating ways to circumvent the lack of data problem through novel experimental and data-modelling techniques. A larger part is in developing new methods for integrating experimental and numerical methods, such that uncertainty in both the experimental measurements and the numerical model may be accounted for. These methods are being developed for application to aerospace structures, wind turbines and civil infrastructure. However, the domain of applicability is much broader as the issues of handling uncertainty, solving inverse problems and overcoming test-model discrepancy are pervasive in many branches of science and engineering. Applications being investigated include the energy performance of buildings and the modelling of human bones. |
Dr Paul Brindley
p.brindley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
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). |
Dr Harry Hill
harry.hill@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
I am interested in supervising research students and have interests in the following areas:
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Mr Matthew Franklin
matt.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My current interests are in the use of routinely collected care data for the purpose of costing analysis, economic analysis and decision modelling. I also have an interest in the capability-approach and extra-wefarism and its conceptual and practical application to economic evaluations and decision making, and the conceptual and practical use of outcome measures in general. I can supervise students interested in the use of large databases of rountinely collected care data for health economic analysis and decision modelling problems. These databases include, but are not limited to:
The aforementioned are some of the more commonly used databases, but I have experience using rountinely collected care data from primary, secondary, intermediate, mental health, ambulance and social care services. I can also supervise students interested in the conceptual and practical basis of using outcome measures for the purpose of economic evaluation; this includes those students interested in the extra-welfarist approach to welfare economics in relation to the market for health and healthcare. I have more specific interests in research focussed on frail older people, dementia, cognitive impairement and more generalised mental health conditions.
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Mrs Elizabeth Taylor Buck
e.taylor-buck@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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
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Dr Philip Powell
p.a.powell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
hilip (Phil) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR). He has a background in Psychology, Economics, and Health Outcomes research and is a mixed-methods researcher, with combined expertise in quantitative, qualitative, and experimental research methods. Phil’s research interests include:
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Professor Peter Dodd
p.j.dodd@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Emma Hock
Emma.Hock@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsI am interested in supervising research into health behaviour change. I am particularly interested in supervising research on physical activity. I am able to supervise students in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research, and many different types of evidence synthesis. |
Dr Michelle Horspool
m.horspool@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsAs well as having an interest and clinical background in substance misuse and mental health (which was the area or work for my PhD), I have experience in designing and delivering complex interventions, as well as the feasibility, design and recruitment to studies within primary care and pharmacy settings. |
Dr Stefania Vicari
s.vicari@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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:
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Dr Rebecca Ogden
r.ogden@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Languages and Cultures |
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Dr James Meiring
j.meiring@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease |
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. |
Professor Tracey Young
t.a.young@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Saurabh Mishra
s.mishra@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
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. |
Dr Shannon Li
xinshan.li@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Dr Li's research interest is in the human musculoskeletal system, particularly on personalised finite element modelling of bones and skeletal muscles. Dr Li is particularly interested in applying these modelling methods to study a range of clinical problem, from bone fracture to improvements on female health. Dr Li is currently creating a database for bone strength in young children, in order to create a tool for the diagnosis of unexplained fracture in children. She is collaborating with Sheffiled and Germany to improve women's health using computational modelling. Dr Li is also interested in the biomechanics of skeletal muscles to understand the healthy and diseased states. Research keywords
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Dr Chantelle Wood
chantelle.wood@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Psychology |
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. |
Dr Tanefa Apekey
t.apekey@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Chris Millard
c.millard@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise history topics Chris is currently writing a history of illness deception in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Munchausen Syndromes and Modern Medicine. This book charts the chronic faking of illness (Munchausen syndrome), deliberately making one's children ill (Munchausen syndrome by proxy), and faking illness online (Munchausen by internet). These linked categories are related to diverse concerns in Britain, such as the expanding welfare state and National Health Service, the 'rediscovery' of child abuse in the 1960s and 1970s, and the anxiety created by online anonymity. More generally, Chris is interested in the ways in which modern medicine and psychiatry influence and inform our everyday lives, from assumptions about who we are, the advice we are given, and the services provided for us. This involves research in the history of the emotions, the history of anthropology and sociology, and the history of psychiatry, psychology, social work and medicine. He is happy to supervise anyone interested in medicine, psychiatry, psychology, patient activism, social work, child guidance, the emotions, gender roles, the welfare state, the National Health Service and child abuse in twentieth- century Britain. |
Dr Emma Cheatle
e.cheatle@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Architecture |
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 |
Dr Mengdie Zhuang
m.zhuang@sheffield.ac.uk> Personal Webpage Information School |
My research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and has applications both in academic, public service and in industry. The topics and methods I am interested in include, but are not limited to: Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualisation, Urban Analytics, Digital Health, Machine Learning, Spatial Data Science, Representation Learning. A detailed and updated list can be found here. |
Professor Brendan Stone
b.stone@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Literature |
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. |
Dr Anna Weighall
Personal Webpage School of Education |
Dr. Anna Weighall is a Reader in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at the School of Education, with a cross-disciplinary focus encompassing Education and Psychology. She specialises in the intricate relationships between sleep, memory, and learning, along with spoken language development and vocabulary acquisition across different age groups and linguistic backgrounds. She is also an expert in sleep research, including the role of sleep in mental health and wellbeing. Dr. Weighall’s research employs a multi-faceted experimental approach aimed at understanding the complex interplay between sleep, memory, and language learning. Notable areas of focus include:
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Dr Jayne Finlay
jayne.finlay@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
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:
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Dr Siobhan McAndrew
s.mcandrew@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Siobhan’s current research interests span behavioural social science; the study of religion, culture and values in social and political life; and digital policy. Prior to joining Sheffield Methods Institute, Siobhan was QStep Director and Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at the University of Bristol. Siobhan currently leads a research project into vaccine confidence and attitudes to public health policy, and is also involved in funded projects on cultural sector employment and cultural data innovation. Her methodological interests lie in generation of new historical datasets, linkage of born-digital and survey data, and network analysis. Siobhan is also Programme Director of the BA and BSc degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, leading core modules on concepts and research methods |
Professor Nikolaos Dervilis
n.dervilis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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Dr Isaiah Durosaiye
i.durosaiye@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Architecture |
Dr Durosaiye researches ageing and the built environment. He holds a PhD (2016) in architectural design and an MSc in Sustainable Waste Management (2013) from the Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. After graduating as a civil engineer in 1993, he went on to obtain an MBA in 1995 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Before joining the University of Sheffield, between 2013 and 2016, he worked as a lead researcher on the EU Lifelong Learning Programme OIKONET project, which focused on contemporary housing solutions, through the synergistic collaboration across research, pedagogy and community participation. His research interest is in age-friendly environments, spanning the notion of ageing-in-place, inclusive workplace design, sustainable design of the built environment and post-occupancy evaluation. |
Professor Nicholas Latimer
n.latimer@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMy research interests focus on economic evaluation methodology, with a particular emphasis on the incorporation of survival analysis within economic models. My doctoral and post-doctoral research has focused primarily on methods for adjusting survival estimates in the presence of treatment switching - that is, when patients in the control group of a clinical trial switch onto the experimental treatment, thus confounding estimates of the treatment effect (where the relevant question for an economic analysis is what would have happened if control group patients did not receive this experimental treatment). Adjustment methods are primarily from the causal inference literature, and I have a related interest in the use of causal inference methods to estimate comparative effectiveness from registry datasets, particularly in the area of cancer. |
Miss Diana Papaioannou
d.papaioannou@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests are in the following areas:
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Professor Mark Strong
m.strong@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My Research interestsI have three related research interests that fall under the general banner of Uncertainty Quantification: (1) how do we properly account for all relevant uncertainties when we build a computer model of a physical, biological or social system? (2) how do we (efficiently) compute value of information? (3) how do we work out the value of a computer model? How much should we pay to make a simple model more complex? When do we stop increasing the complexity of a model? Jeremy Oakley, Jim Chilcott and I have proposed an "internal" discrepancy-based method for managing model uncertainty. See this paper in JRSS Series C, and this paper in SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification. The method is discussed in more detail in my PhD thesis. We have proposed an efficient method for computing partial EVPI. This method works for any number of parameters of interest and requires only the PSA sample. See this open access paper in Medical Decision Making. R functions to implement the method can be downloaded here. This paper uses Gaussian process-based methods that are nicely described in the Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models (MUCM) toolkit. The partial EVPI method extends nicely to the computation of EVSI. See here for our open access paper on the efficient computation of EVSI. |
Dr Diane Burns
d.burns@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies Research interests
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. |
Dr Marrissa Martyn-St James
M.Martyn-StJames@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Yu Chen
yu.chen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of East Asian Studies |
Research interests Dr Chen’s research interests are in China’s urbanisation and rural-to-urban migration. China is experiencing the largest migration wave in human history, with hundreds of millions of people moving from the countryside to cities to seek better life. She is interested in the social, economic, spatial and environmental consequences of such massive urbanisation. She is currently working on the following projects: ESRC/CASS Urban Transformations: Urban Development, Migration, Segregation and Inequality (2015--2018). This project aims to bring together researchers from the University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to develop new ideas, innovative methods and analysis on the impacts of migration on urban development, the related social-spatial segregation and public policy challenges. ESRC/GCRF: Dynamics of Health & Environmental Inequalities in Hebei Province, China (2017–2018). This project aims to develop the data infrastructure and to examine the social and health impacts of rapid urbanisation and air pollution, in order to improve decision support tools for economic and social policy. She is also interested in rural-to-urban migrants and their life prospects. Her previous projects examined the aspirations and socio-economic integration of new-generation migrants in urban China. She welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in the fields of urbanisation, migration, urban development and housing. |
Dr Yichuan Wang
Yichuan.Wang@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Marketing Dr Yichuan Wang is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Marketing at the University of Sheffield, with previous posts as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Marketing at the Newcastle University Business School, and an Instructor in Business Analytics at the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University (USA) where he earned his PhD in business & information systems. His research focuses on examining the impact of digital technologies and information systems (e.g., big data analytics, AI, and social media) in influencing practices in marketing, healthcare management, and tourism management. |
Dr Andrew Burlinson
a.c.burlinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Dr Andrew Burlinson joined University of Sheffield’s Department of Economics as Lecturer in September 2023, and is a member of the Sheffield Urban, International Trade and Environmental Economics (SUITE) group and the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). Andrew joined Sheffield following his Lectureship in Energy Economics at the University of East Anglia (NBS). Before joining UEA he returned to the University of Warwick as a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics, following postdoctoral research associate roles in Loughborough University's School of Business and Economics. Andrew holds a PhD at Warwick Business School (Economic Modelling and Forecasting Group) - funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund. He was awarded a distinction in Economics (MSc) at the University of Nottingham and a first-class hons degree in Economics (BSc) at Newcastle University/University of Groningen. Dr Andrew Burlinson has published in international peer-reviewed journals including, Research Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and Energy Economics. He has worked on several projects funded by UKERC, Ofgem, EPSRC and CERRE. Andrew is embedded in the current policy and research areas of consumer decision-making on the adoption of energy efficient and renewable technologies, and inequality within energy markets, with a focus on the deleterious effects of poverty on health, wellbeing, and healthy eating, as well as the resilience of households to high energy prices. Andrew has contributed to policy discussions and roundtables with leading experts and practitioners, including the APPG on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum, Ofgem and National Energy Action. His findings have received national (e.g., BBC Radio, Daily Mail, ITV, The Sun) and global interest (Africa, Asia, Europe, and America), as well as featured in Understanding Society's Insights Report, National Energy Action's 2023 Fuel Poverty Monitor, and Nottingham City Council’s Fuel Poverty Strategy (2018-2025). |
Professor Andrew Booth
a.booth@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests focus on all methods of systematic review, evidence synthesis, evidence based practice, and knowledge translation. I am particularly interested in systematic review topics from developing countries, particularly from Sub-Saharan Africa, and in public health topics such as alcohol and HIV/AIDS. I have published with students in topics such as medication adherence, social marketing, disaster management and evidence based management. My current research students are working in knowledge management in acute hospitals and use of NICE guidance in Social care. I have been involved in development of a wide range of tools for dissemination, both web based and as online briefings. In 2013 I was one of the first to achieve the University of Sheffield's PhD by Publications with my thesis entitled Acknowledging a Dual Heritage for Qualitative Evidence Synthesis: Harnessing the Qualitative Research and Systematic Review Research Traditions. My most recent interests centre on multiple types of review, including rapid reviews, mapping reviews and scoping reviews. |
Dr Tom Darton
t.darton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease |
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Professor Lenny Koh
s.c.l.koh@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Professor Lenny Koh is Crosscutting Chief of Resource Sustainability, Founder and Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) and Co-Head of the flagship Energy Institute at The University of Sheffield. Her work contributes to advancing the understanding and resolution of complex supply chains using interdisciplinary approaches crossing supply chain management and information systems domains. Her research is world leading and is recognised for its scientific novelty and has generated significant impacts for societies, governments and industries from manufacturing to services globally. She is also the pioneer of SCEnAT Cloud based suites supported by Microsoft including SCEnAT, SCEnAT+, SCEnATi and SCEnAT 4.0; and the FPSCRS tool supported by Rolls-Royce. Research interests Prof. Koh's expertise lies in logistics/supply chain management, particularly in; low carbon futures/industries, low carbon supply chain, energy supply chain, environment and sustainability science, energy efficiency, and uncertainty management. She has also produced a considerable amount of research in production planning and control, enterprise resource planning, and information science. Life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, negative emission technology, system modelling, climate change, decision science, and energy, food, material and resource sustainability and resiliency are some of the main themes of her research and innovation. |
Dr Calum Webb
c.j.webb@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
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.” |
Professor Andrew Hindmoor
a.hindmoor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
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Professor Robin Purshouse
r.purshouse@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
Research interests: Robin's research aims to help improve how we identify and choose between possible solutions to a problem, with a particular focus on the process of policy appraisal. There are a number of factors that make policy appraisal a challenging research area:
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Professor Sarah Neal
s.neal@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Multiculture, ethnicity, identity, community and belonging; rural and urban places, migration, everyday life, social in/exclusion and policy interventions. |
Professor Elizabeth Wood
e.a.wood@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Elizabeth's research focuses mainly on early childhood and primary education, including teachers and children. She has specific interests in play and pedagogy; curriculum and assessment in ECE; teachers’ professionalism, professional knowledge and leadership. Elizabeth's work on curriculum includes comparative policy analysis between the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Her work on policy analysis in early childhood education draws on critical discourse analysis and aims to understand how teachers mediate and contextualise policy in local contexts. |
Professor Rachael Finn
r.l.finn@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Dean Professor Finn’s research takes an organisation studies perspective, with a particular focus on policies and processes or organising in the health and social care context. She has published extensively in the field of health care organisation, worked closely with external partners (including NHS and third sector), receiving grant funding from a range of funders (e.g. NIHR, ESRC, NHS and The Health Foundation) and taking an interdisciplinary approach (e.g. collaborating with colleagues from ScHARR, School of Nursing and Medical School). Current and recent research has included:
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Ms Annette Haywood
a.haywood@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsI am a qualitative researcher and my research interests include older adults, health inequalities and the integration of health and social care. |
Dr Joe Hulin
j.hulin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My main interests centre on the impact of mental health and physical co-morbidities and the analysis of routinely collected datasets in health services research. |
Dr Jane Mulderrig
j.mulderrig@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research interests My doctoral research developed a method of combining (Faircloughian) critical discourse analysis with corpus linguistic tools in the analysis of education policy. I drew also on regulation school state theory in order to critically examine the evolving relationship between policy agendas and wider developments in the UK economy, politics and society. I am particularly interested in the way policy discourse is used to construct and legitimate neoliberal identities, roles and power relations between citizen and state. Key themes explored in my recent publications are the historic emergence of an ‘enabler’ model of governance and the use of ‘personalisation’ as a legitimation strategy in policy. More generally I am interested in the strategic role of (national) policy discourse in recontextualising, disseminating and legitimating dominant political imaginaries in advanced liberal economies. My current research applies and elaborates this approach to critically explore the social construction of ageing in the UK. Focussing on policy and public discourse, this work aims to contribute a critical discourse perspective to academic debates on societal and political responses to population ageing. |
Dr Matthew Bacon
M.Bacon@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Dr Gulsirin Gok Muller
g.gok.muller@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Gulsirin is a qualified lawyer and she has been advising clients from an array of industries in competition law matters. |
Dr Eirini Katsirea
i.katsirea@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Journalism, Media and Communication |
International Media LawIrini's research interests are in the areas of European, international and comparative media law and policy. She has published extensively in these areas. Her current research projects include 'Examining the impact of IPSO on editorial standards and complaints handling', funded by IPSO, and "Press Regulation in the Digital Era." PhD supervisionIrini is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:
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Dr Konstantinos Mouratidis
k.mouratidis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Research interests My research focuses on two areas: Economic forecasting and Monetary Economics. In the area of economic forecasting, I evaluate the forecast performance of forecasters using survey data. Alternatively, in the area of monetary economic, I analyze monetary policy preferences and the policy decision of central banks. I would be interested in supervising PhD students in these areas. |
Dr Emily Wood
e.f.wood@sheffield.ac.uk Division of Population Health |
My research interests are primarily around mental health staffing and the nursing role in health services. Methodologies include qualitative and mixed methods and single case experimental design. |
Dr Nicholas Woodrow
n.woodrow@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Susan Oman
s.m.oman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research Interests I research how data and evidence work in practice, looking at particular policy issues, such as well-being, loneliness, inequality and class. My research focuses on the role of knowledge and information in social change and revealing the positive and negative effects of practices assumed benevolent and robust. I am particularly interested in projects which research data, tech, knowledge and policy issues in the creative and cultural industries, Higher Education, local or national governance, as well as social and cultural policy more generally.
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Professor Matthew Flinders
m.flinders@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
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Professor Peter Styring
p.styring@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
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Dr Georgios Efthyvoulou
g.efthyvoulou@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Research interests Georgios' research interests lie in the areas of political economics, international industrial economics, and applied econometrics. In particular, his research focuses on:
Georgios is actively involved in presenting his work to the academic and policymaking community through seminars, policy workshops, and world-leading international conferences. |
Professor Nathan Hughes
nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Sociological Studies |
Nathan supervises PhDs in issues related to youth and young adults, crime and criminalisation, and childhood neurodevelopmental disability. His research is at the interface between social policy, criminology and developmental sciences. It considers the explanations for patterns of offending apparent in emerging understandings of typical and atypical adolescent neuromaturation, and their implications for policy and practice. His work is uniquely interdisciplinary within his field, drawing on developmental psychopathology and adolescent developmental science to support biosocial modelling of patterns of offending and desistance, and applying this to a critical analysis of criminal justice practices and interventions. In particular, he focuses on practices and interventions that discriminate against and criminalise young people as a result of neurodevelopmental disability, and those that engage young adult offenders. |
Dr Emma Broglia
e.l.broglia@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Psychology |
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Professor Renee Timmers
r.timmers@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Music |
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Professor Daniel Hind
d.hind@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Liam Foster
l.foster@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests Much of my research focus is on inequalities in later life and policy implications, particularly in relation to pensions. This has often included a gendered focus. The role of planning for retirement has also been explored. I have liaised with the Labour Party, Trade Unions, the European Parliament and pension providers about these findings. I am also interested in theories of ageing and the application of the political economy of ageing. I have also published on the notion of active ageing considering comparative policy approaches to the implementation of active ageing measures. The impact of poverty and social exclusion on policy has been central to much of my research, for instance, in relation to my work with colleagues on funeral provision and the notion of responsibility and on social quality. I employ a variety of methods in my research including interviews, surveys and secondary data analysis of secondary data sets. These skills have been used in consultancy work for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) employing quantitative methods to evaluate student satisfaction and career paths following the completion of Architecture degrees and for AXA Wealth in relation to pension education. |
Professor Liz Sharp
l.sharp@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My interests lay in public engagement in environment and infrastructure planning and development, with a particular focus on water and green infrastructure. I am fascinated by processes of policy change and how the interplay of different individuals’/organisations’ perspectives is played out in the evolution of their practices. I have worked on waste management and water supply but my current research is focused on public engagement in the design and development of green infrastructure for flood reslience. My research focuses on policy change in the UK and Europe but I have supervised a variety of PhDs with foci across the world. Suggested PhD projects/topics 1. Investigations of how and when civic society groups have intervened to improve the environment of their area through working with or protesting against the relevant authorities in relation to water infrastructure 2. Studies of how green infrastructure is being implemented in specific locations with an emphasis on whether and how the authorities are engaging the public in the design and development of the features 3. Systematic investigations of authorities responses to changing understandings about green infrastructure through a study of policy documentation and/or practices. For example, in a UK context it might be appropriate to look at surface water rmanagement plans to investigate the links between these and statutory local plans. |
Dr Sarah Payne
s.payne@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
In its broadest sense, my academic research is driven by a desire to understand what limits or stimulates real estate development activity. My pervading interest is in developing a more nuanced understanding of the real estate development process and in promoting the use of behavioural research to inform policy development, monitoring and evaluation. My research interests coalesce around the following areas of investigation:
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Dr Penny Breeze
Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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. |
Professor Sara Fovargue
s.j.fovargue@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
I have been teaching and researching issues relating to health law and ethics, and family law (particularly relating to children) for over 20 years and I am passionate about these subjects. I have also taught Criminal Law, English Legal Systems/Legal Methods, and Gender and the Law. Research interests Health care law and ethics generally - specifically:
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Dr Brian Rice
b.rice@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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
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Dr Chris Wood
c.wood@sheffield.ac.uk Department of English Literature |
I am interested in the many uses of the arts and popular culture, and the relationship between mental health, urban living, and politics. I think that people with mental health problems often find ways to live well and that one of the most positive developments in this field is the strength of the service user and voices movement. Collaborative approaches to mental health seem to me to offer a way forward. I have recently become a trustee of Art Refuge UK which uses art therapy in different international locations to support people (particularly young people and children facing the difficulties of migration). |
Professor Andrew Baker
a.p.baker@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
I work in the broad field of International Political Economy. My interests include the politics of economic ideas and knowledge, the political economy of change following financial and economic crises, the politics of macroeconomic policy and financial governance, financial sector power, alternative forms of financial and monetary organization, NGO campaigning on these issues, and the future of the global financial and monetary system. |
Professor Susan Hartley
s.hartley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Dr Catherine Jackson
c.c.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests My research focuses on exploring the functioning of local property markets, from the perspective of improving the knowledge and information base for property investment decision-making. This focus highlights the role of local characteristics and context in market performance. Specific interests include - local retail rental determination; retail policy and market performance; and the operation of office and industrial markets. |
Dr Su Jung Jee
s.j.jee@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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. |
Professor Alberto Montagnoli
a.montagnoli@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Research interests Alberto’s research interests lie in the area of financial markets and banking. A central theme of his work has been the interaction between financial markets, monetary policy and the real economy at both a national and regional level. Recently his work has focused on various areas of behavioural finance and macroeconomics. Alberto is interested in supervising PhD students with topics that are in line with the research interests described above. |
Dr Yinka Olusoga
Personal Webpage School of Education |
Yinka is a historian of childhood and education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle combined archaeology, medieval history and social studies. She then went on to gain a PGCE from the University of Warwick, specialising in the 4-8 age-range, and a PhD, from Leeds Beckett University. Her research focuses on the discursive construction of children and childhood in the educational policy, political debate, art and popular culture, in the present and in the past. |
Dr Joe Purshouse
j.purshouse@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Professor Richard Bentall
r.bentall@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Psychology |
Psychiatric classification. Psychosis (‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’): the mechanisms involved in hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms. The social determinants of mental ill-health. Psychological treatments. |
Professor Gillian Hardy
g.hardy@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Psychology |
Is not taking new PhD students Research interests Psychological treatments for depression: psychotherapy processes and outcomes; attachment theory; interpersonal processes. Psychological health in employment. |
Dr Simon Hayes
s.a.hayes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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. |
Dr Jaqui Long
jaqui.long@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Ms Shijie Ren
s.ren@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Tim Rogers
Tim.Rogers@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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Dr Alys Griffiths
Alys.Griffiths@sheffield.ac.uk Division of Neuroscience |
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:
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Professor Monica Hernandez
monica.hernandez@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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. |
Dr Joanne Thompson
j.thompson1@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Academic Unit of Medical Education |
My current research is focused around the Social Accountability of Medical Schools, the impact on medical students and community organisations working in partnership with the university. This involves supporting students to become more aware of health inequity and social determinants of health and the broader implications for society.
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Dr Philipp Horn
p.horn@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests My research interests centre around inclusive urban development planning in the global South, with a regional focus on Latin America. My work is highly interdisciplinary and engages with debates in urban studies, planning, geography and global development. Within this broad agenda, my research focuses on urban indigeneity, territorial contestation, alternatives to development, and citizen-led and participatory planning. My current research documents emerging patterns of indigenous urbanisation in Bolivia and looks at the everyday lived experience of urban indigenous peoples, paying particular attention to intersectional differences around age and gender. Through direct engagement with indigenous youth activists and local authorities, my research examines opportunities and challenges around integrating specific interests, demands and alternatives to development promoted by indigenous peoples into urban planning policy and practice. Methodologically, I prefer making use of co-productive, decolonial and participatory approaches and deploying creative methods such as participatory filming, counter-mapping and photovoice. Projects I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who have interests in the following areas:
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Dr Sarah Son
s.a.son@sheffield.ac.uk School of East Asian Studies |
Dr. Son’s research background is in the role of identity in international relations, particularly as it affects the inter-Korean divide – both at the state level and at the level of social interactions between North and South Koreans. Her research is interdisciplinary at times, drawing on aspects of anthropology, sociology and history to understand the role of social relationships in the complex politics of the region. Her past research has looked at questions of identity in the policy practice of North and South Korea on a number of issues, including North Korean escapees, international human rights norms and multiculturalism policy. As a result of her professional work in the NGO sector on North Korean human rights issues, her current research concentrates on methods of monitoring and recording human rights abuses in North Korea, through interviews with North Korean escapees in South Korea. She is involved in a long-term project based in Seoul that uses Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) technology to map locations of abuses, as well as relevant event information. Dr. Son also conducts and supervises research on themes including migration and diaspora, contemporary social movements, popular culture, international relations, nation branding, identity, security and peace-building, with a focus on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia more broadly. |
Professor Dilichukwu Anumba
d.o.c.anumba@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
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. |
Dr Sabine Little
s.little@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
My work is situated in the field of heritage language learners and identity - how families who speak multiple languages in the home navigate these languages, and what this means for individual family members' sense of identity and well-being. Language is an integral part of identity, but is a very personal experience, even within the same family, so my work focuses on helping families and policy-makers understand issues and pressures faced by heritage language families, and to develop holistic support opportunities. I supervise projects focusing on heritage languages from a family, child, school, or societal perspective. Methodologically, my work focuses on co-production and participatory research methods. |
Professor Steven McIntosh
s.mcintosh@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Research interests Steve researches in the areas of Labour Economics and the Economics of Education. Much of his research examines the labour market outcomes of education, considering for example the wage returns to particular qualifications, and the incidence and implications of mismatch between the demand for and the supply of skills. Steve´s current research projects involve a study of the wage returns to apprenticeships, an examination of the relationship between vocational qualification subjects and job tasks, the effects of the polarisation of the labour market on worker transitions, and an evaluation of a government training provision policy. Steve is interested in supervising any applied microeconometric PhD in the areas of labour or education. |
Dr Subhasish Modak Chowdhury
subhasish.chowdhury@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Research Interests Subhasish M. Chowdhury joined Sheffield as Professor of Economics in 2022. His areas of research interest cover both theoretical and applied investigations of problems in Conflict, Industrial Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. Subhasish serves as a Co-Editor of the journals ‘Frontiers in Behavioral Economics’, and ‘Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy’ and is an editorial board member of ‘Studies in Microeconomics’. He has also served as a guest-editor for ‘Economic Inquiry’ and the ‘Journal of Economics Psychology’. His research has been published in journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Theory etc. |
Dr Abigail Parrish
a.parrish@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Abigail is a former secondary modern foreign languages teacher and her research interests arise from this experience. She is interested in motivation to learn a language, particularly in schools, and how this links to factors such as choice, multilingualism and socio-economic status. She uses self-determination theory in her work, which is a broad theory of motivation and wellness grounded in psychology. Abigail would be interested to hear from prospective research students interested in language learning motivation, self-determination theory, school-level language learning or language policy, multilingualism in schools and related topics. She is particularly interested in projects with a quantitative element and those focused on schools in England. |
Dr Eleni Stathopoulou
e.stathopoulou@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Research Interests Eleni is an applied theorist and her main area of expertise lies within the fields of Microeconomics and Environmental Economics. Her work focuses on environmental policy making. She is also interested in the Net Zero energy transition and she has worked as a Work Package leader on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Smart-BEEjS project, to study and support cities and communities in their goal to produce more energy than they use and boost knowledge sharing across stakeholders, exploiting a human-centric and energy-just approach to designing Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). Eleni is interested in supervising PhD students in environmental economics and industrial organisation. |
Dr Bo Wang
b.v.wang@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
I am a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. My research focuses mainly on English criminal law and comparative criminal law. I also have broad interests in philosophy of criminal law, Chinese criminal law and justice and criminal policy. My doctoral research focused on derivative complicity liability in English criminal law and a monograph based on this has been returned for REF2021. Research Interests
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Professor Vanesa Castan Broto
V.CastanBroto@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Vanesa’s research focuses on the governance of global environmental change in the urbanization age. She focuses on three interrelated themes: 1) the governance of climate change in urban areas; 2) urbanization and the dynamics of energy transitions; and 3) barriers to the implementation of climate change action.
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Dr James Fotheringham
j.fotheringham@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Cristina Sechel
c.sechel@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Research Interests Cristina's research interests are in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. She is currently working on the causal impact of health status on labour market outcomes as part of the social and economic value of health programme funded by The Health Foundation. She has also worked on urban location choices and gender issues in economics. Her PhD focused on the use of Subjective Well-Being information in Economics. It proposed a methodology for measuring aggregate Subjective Well-Being across nations motivated by Cognitive Dissonance Theory, and examined the evidence for cognitive dissonance in reported life satisfaction data using objective indicators of well-being. She is broadly interested in the economics of well-being and the role of subjective well-being in economic decisions and outcomes. |
Mr Leo Appleton
l.appleton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
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Professor Patricia Cowell
p.e.cowell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Human Communication Sciences |
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Dr Liz Croot
l.croot@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Merlyne De Souza
m.desouza@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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Dr Munya Dimairo
m.dimairo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Sherif El-Khamisy
S.El-Khamisy@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research Interests: Mammalian genome stability in health and disease. I head the human DNA repair group aiming to understand how defects in repairing DNA damage cause degenerative disorders and cancer. Our lab is primarily funded by fellowships from the Wellcome Trust and the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. |
Dr Claire Elcock
c.elcock@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
Oral clinical phenotyping, involving the accurate measurement of oral parameters using image analysis.
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Professor Clare Gardiner
c.gardiner@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
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 |
Professor Michelle Marshall
m.marshall@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Academic Unit of Medical Education |
My interests focus on student engagement within the education process and in different educational contexts and environments so that students are able to achieve their potential. I also have an interest in social accountability and what it means to be socially accountable in health professions education. |
Professor Jeremy Oakley
j.oakley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
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. |
Dr Penelope Watt
p.j.watt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
I am a behavioural ecologist working on personality traits, the genetic basis of behaviour and the impact of stress on behaviour, including transgenerational effects and potential epigenetic mechanisms, in fish. We also work on earthworm behaviour, distribution and health with the view to improve soil quality. |
Professor Jill Carlton
J.Carlton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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:
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Professor Heidi Christensen
heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Speech and HearingProfessor Heidi Christensen is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are on the application of AI-based voice technologies to healthcare. In particular, the detection and monitoring of people’s physical and mental health including verbal and non-verbal traits for expressions of emotion, anxiety, depression and neurodegenerative conditions in e.g., therapeutic or diagnostic settings.
PhD SupervisonProfessor Christensen is particularly interested in hearing from research students interested in the following areas:
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Professor Julie McGarry
j.h.mcgarry@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Nursing and Midwifery |
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. |
Dr Claudine Bowyer-Crane
Personal Webpage School of Education |
Claudine's research focuses on the development of language in young children and how this supports literacy development. She has been involved in a number of projects designing and evaluating early interventions including the Nuffield Early Language Intervention Home | Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) (teachneli.org). She is theme lead for the Communication and Language strand of the Better Start Bradford project Home | Better Start Bradford, leading on evaluations of commissioned services in the Better Start Bradford reach areas. As Associate Research Director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Claudine was involved in a broad range of evaluation projects from pilot studies to RCT's. Currently Claudine is investigating the impact of COVID-19 on children's educational outcomes in the Early Years and early stages of primary school Home | ICICLES (iciclesproject.com). Claudine is particularly interested in making links between research, policy and practice. |
Dr Marie Hutton
m.a.hutton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Driven by her own experiences of familial imprisonment, Marie’s research has focused on the lived experience of family contact in prisons and human rights from a socio-legal and criminological perspective. A key focus of Marie’s research has been critiquing the institutional practices and policy frameworks that inform the rules around family contact drawing on original empirical data and from theoretical perspectives from criminological literature. She maintains a particular focus on the experiences of adult relationships during imprisonment from a socio-legal perspective (such as the romantic partners of prisoners and parents of prisoners). Marie also has a developing interest in communication cultures and understandings of equality in the prison environment. Research interests
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Professor Lorraine Maltby
l.maltby@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research interests: The human global population is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 and managing landscapes to provide the food, water, fuel, housing and other resources required by this growing population, whilst protecting the ecosystems that provide them, is a major challenge. My research addresses this challenge and is concerned with understanding the impact of anthropogenic activities on freshwater ecosystems and their catchments. A major research aim is to gain a mechanistic understanding of key ecosystem services and the ecological processes that underpin them, and to investigate how they are affected by anthropogenic inputs and activities. The output from this research is used to inform environmental decision making and to influence policy development and implementation. Current research topics include:
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Dr Jennifer Preece
jenny.preece@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My core research interests coalesce around the UK housing system, particularly understanding people’s experiences of changing housing and neighbourhoods. My research had primarily involved exploring the drivers of, and individual responses to, the changing nature of urban living, particularly the way in which this may result in reconfigured housing aspirations and adjusted expectations of housing outcomes. I maintain a strong interest in processes of marginalisation, identity formation, belonging and place. Having previously worked in the social housing sector, I am also interested in applied research in policy and practice settings, for example relating to the changing nature of affordable housing provision in England. PhD topics: Expectation adjustment in changing housing systems Belonging in new build housing developments |
Professor Joanna Shapland
J.M.Shapland@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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) Areas of Research Supervision
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Dr Samantha Caton
s.caton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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:
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Professor Nils Krone
n.krone@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Research interestsHis main clinical interests are inborn errors of steroidogenesis, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, disorders of sex development (DSD), and PCOS; his main research interests are on inborn errors of steroid hormone biosynthesis and steroid hormone metabolism in health and disease. Current efforts of his work concentrate on the implementation of model systems to study genetic variants and the integration of diagnostic methods in adrenal disease and DSD. His group has implemented various in vitro assays to study enzymatic defects in steroidogenesis. The most recent work of his group explores the consequences of disrupted steroid hormone synthesis and action on whole organism employing zebrafish as a model organism in translational steroid hormone research (Endocrinology 2013; Endocrinology 2016). This research is based at the Bateson Centre. The main focus of this clinical research program is on CAH. He leads on a multicentre, 17 tertiary paediatric endocrine centres in the UK, NIHR RD TRC funded project to establish the evidence basis on the current health status in children and young people with congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the UK. In addition, he works on a program to improve health care deliver for children and young people with adrenal conditions and DSD. |
Dr Denis Newman-Griffis
d.r.newman-griffis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests I study practical effectiveness and responsible design of artificial intelligence technologies for medicine and health. This includes:
I am also interested in LGBTQ+/queer perspectives on data science processes, and on developing technology-enhanced pedagogical methods for teaching data science. Research supervision I am interested in supervising PhD research projects in areas such as:
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Dr Stephanie Butcher
s.butcher@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Stephanie is a Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development in the Department of Geography at Sheffield University. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, with the UKRI “Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality” programme (2018-2022), focusing on ‘knowledge translation’- tracing how diverse knowledge(s) produced by grassroots activists can inform local-level policy and planning, as well global agendas such as the SDGs, and how policy and planning can better respond to everyday conditions of inequalities. Her PhD was completed with the Development Planning Unit, at the University College London, and focused on the 'everyday politics' of water infrastructure for informal settlement residents in Kathmandu, Nepal. Informed by participatory action-research, it examined the micro-politics of how gender, tenure relations, and ethnicity shaped how diverse residents interacted with the socio-technical aspects of infrastructure, impacting a sense of citizenship. Research interests focus on citizen participation in urban governance, gender and diversity, and urban inequalities (especially housing and infrastructure). As a part of this work, I have partnered with grassroots organisations, NGOs, and/or research institutes in cities in Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and the UK to support community-driven processes of development. I am particularly interested in the use of participatory methodologies, the ethics of action-research, and critical pedagogies. Current research and teaching focuses on three interconnected strands: 1. Global Development & Social Justice: Examining the production of inequalities within housing, infrastructural, and environmental policies, planning, and practice, and the conceptual implications of engaging theoretical frames such as social justice and citizenship in rethinking development. 2. Knowledge and Ethics: Examining the epistemologies that underpin how we think about contested concepts such as sustainability and resilience, and the contribution of especially Feminist and Southern epistemologies in building knowledge which can address global challenges. 3. Social Mobilisation and Action: Examining the collective practices through which peripheralized groups are mobilising against conditions of inequalities, and the possibilities for how these practices might rupture or renegotiate capitalist/colonial/patriarchal structures which are driving uneven processes of development. |
Dr Edward Yates
edward.yates@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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:
In addition to these four research areas Edward is interested in the theoretical development of critical, global political economy, and in research methodologies. |
Professor Lizzy Craig-Atkins
e.craig-atkins@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Archaeology |
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:
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Professor Lizzy Craig-Atkins
e.craig-atkins@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise archaeology topics
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Dr Morgan Harvey
m.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research Interests My research focuses on the following main areas:
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. |
Dr Judita Preiss
judita.preiss@sheffield.ac.uk Information School |
Research Interests My main interests are in text mining, both from semi-structured sources (such as publications) and unstructured sources (web, social media) and the application of natural language processing techniques for the purpose of knowledge extraction. I am particularly interested in applications in health, employment and education. PhD supervision I am interested in supervising PhD projects that exploit natural language, including:
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Dr Louise Preston
l.r.preston@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy 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. |
Dr Andrew Bell
andrew.j.d.bell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Before moving to Sheffield, Andy was a lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he also completed his undergraduate degree (in Geography) and PhD (in Advanced Quantitative Methods). Methodologically, Andy’s interests are in the development and application of multilevel models, with work focusing on age-period-cohort analysis, fixed and random effects models, and multilevel models for uncovering intersectionality. He uses these methods in a broad range of substantive areas, such as mental health across the life course, the effect of unpaid care on employment outcomes, changing attitudes to migration, etc. |
Dr Harriet Cameron
h.cameron@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Harriet is interested in the discourses of learning, learning difference and learning identity. She is particularly interested in the way language around learning disabilities and differences comes to shape the way diagnoses of autism, (specific) learning disability, ADHD and mental ill-health are constructed in specific places, spaces and times. Harriet is also interested in the lived experiences of people who come to be categorised as ‘deficient’ in learning or communicating, and in how systems, processes, and policies interact with these experiences, both in ‘western’ contexts and in the global South. |
Professor Judy Clegg
j.clegg@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Human Communication Sciences School of Allied Health Professions Nursing and Midwifery |
Research interests Developmental speech, language and communication needs:
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Professor Judy Clegg
j.clegg@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Human Communication Sciences (old code) |
Research interests Developmental speech, language and communication needs:
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Professor Helen Colley
h.colley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
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.
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Dr Andrew Cox
a.m.cox@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research interests focus on a number of areas:
Research supervision Some topics I am particularly interested in supervising PhD work related to those themes:
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Dr Jill Edmondson
j.edmondson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Dr Becky Field
b.field@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests focus on how services can support health and well-being, particularly for people living with dementia or people at risk of developing dementia. I am an experienced qualitative researcher. I am also interested in approaches to support active aging, occupational therapy, assistive technology, knowledge translation/implementation and involving AHPs, particularly occupational therapists. |
Professor Julie Gottlieb
julie.gottlieb@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
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. |
Professor Naomi Hawkins
n.l.hawkins@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Naomi Hawkins's research focuses on the interaction of law and biomedical science, particularly around intellectual property rights. She uses traditional legal research and empirical methods to investigate the impact of human gene patents on the development of translational outcomes of genetics and genomics research. She is also interested in the ways in which data sharing practices intersect with intellectual property rights in science
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Dr Zhe Hui Hoo
z.hoo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research interestsMy 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. |
Professor Zi-Qiang Lang
z.lang@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
Research interests:
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Dr Olena Mandrik
o.mandrik@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interest is in evaluation of healthcare interventions through modelling the long-term clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness. Specific areas of interest:
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Professor Nicolas Martin
n.martin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
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 |
Dr Sammia Poveda Villalba
s.c.poveda@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
The interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions, the role of identity and agency within gender, class and race oppression and their intersections with a particular focus on mental health. Critical theory, critical pedagogy and the capabilities approach. Current research Recovery and reintegration of survivors of modern slavery (Philippines) Psychosocial wellbeing, ICTs and post-conflict societies (Myanmar) Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) training for librarians Mobile application for women’s empowerment Conscientisation and human development |
Dr Preeti Raghunath
p.raghunath@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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. |
Professor Marcelo Rivolta
m.n.rivolta@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research Interests Deafness is a major public health issue worldwide, with more than 3 million people in the UK alone enduring a moderate to profound hearing loss. The Rivolta laboratory is dedicated to study the biology and behaviour of auditory stem cells (primarily human) and to explore their potential to regenerate the damaged inner ear. |
Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole
k.runswick-cole@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
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. |
Dr Nicolas Van de Sijpe
n.vandesijpe@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
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. |
Dr Lauren White
l.e.white@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Lauren joined the Sheffield Methods Institute in January 2023 as a Lecturer in Social Research Methods, having previously worked as a researcher in iHuman and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Lauren is a sociologist interested in health, disability, everyday life, materialities and mobilities. Her research is often interdisciplinary in nature and spans sociology, geography, urban studies, and critical disability studies. She is particularly interested in creative and participatory qualitative research methods and doing meaningful public engagement. |
Dr Jared Ahmad
j.ahmad@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Journalism, Media and Communication |
Journalism, Politics, & CommunicationJared’s research principally focuses questions of (self-)representation, power and identity in regard to non-state terrorism. He has principally written on print, broadcast and online portrayals of 'Islamic' terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and is especially interested in the complex interactions that take place between terrorists, political elites, journalists and citizens in today's 'hybrid' media environment. His work is interdisciplinary and fuses approaches taken from cultural studies, political communications, visual culture, and poststructuralist theory. Jared’s current research focuses on the way different groups imagine the Islamic State phenomenon, and examines the interplay between the group’s propaganda and media, policy and public imaginations of the threat. He also has a growing interest in ultranationalist and far-right extremist propaganda narratives and imagery. PhD supervisionJared is particularly interested in hearing from research students writing on the following areas:
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Dr Erica Ballantyne
e.e.ballantyne@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management ResearchErica 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 candidatesErica 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. PublicationsBallantyne, 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. |
Professor Thomas Goodfellow
t.goodfellow@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests My broad research interests centre on comparative processes of urban development and change in cities of the global South, and especially Africa. I focus particularly on the politics and political economy of urban change, for example with regard to urban land and transportation, infrastructure and housing – and I am interested both in the investment and governance dynamics in these sectors, and how city-dwellers experience and contest these changes. I also have a growing interest in the experiences of refugees and displaced people in cities, both within the global South and in the UK. I have conducted research in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya, but am open to supervising PhDs focusing on any national context (as well as comparative work). My recent and current research has focused on urban-rural migration in Africa and its impacts on conflict and peace-building, infrastructure and housing in African urban peripheries, and Chinese investments in Africa and the consequences for urban development and socioeconomic inclusion. By way of example, I would welcome PhD proposals in the following broad areas (among others), for potential supervision: - Mega-infrastructure investments in African cities and their economic, social and political consequences - Land and/or housing policy reforms or experiments in African cities, and their potential to promote inclusive and sustainable forms of urban development - Refugee communities in UK cities and their experiences of exclusion, access to services and engagements with the state |
Dr Andrea Jimenez
a.jimenez@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
My research revolves around the role of innovation in socioeconomic development. I explore this from two distinct dimensions: the internal processes within organisations, by looking at absorptive capacity, knowledge sharing and collaboration; and the wider geopolitical dimension around innovation discourses embedded in the international development sector. Research interests:
PhD supervision I am interested in supervising PhD projects that explores the role of innovation and technology in socioeconomic development. This includes, but is not limited to, issues around:
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Dr Hannah Lewis
h.j.lewis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Hannah is interested in understanding how policies shape the daily lives of people who migrate. She has explored how asylum seeker dispersal, the destitution of refused asylum seekers, ‘race’ and multicultural strategies, and immigration status shape community, family, transnational relationships, work and leisure among migrants and people seeking asylum. Her recent work has centred on concepts of precarity and contingency and how the social and legal status of migrants can create insecurities that may increase susceptibility to poverty, exclusion and forced labour. |
Dr Melanie Lombard
m.b.lombard@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My research has focused on two core areas as follows: Urban informality: This theme aims to examine different manifestations of informality in rapidly changing, diverse urban setting, with a focus on informal housing and neighbourhoods, and social processes that construct them, focusing on cities in Mexico, Colombia and the UK. Land conflict in cities: The second area of my research explores urban land conflict in cities of the global South, through a focus on land tenure, contextual factors such as violence, and how communities and urban policy makers respond. In both areas I am interested in comparing cases from diverse settings. Suggested PhD topics I am interested in supervising PhDs exploring aspects of urban informality, particularly relating to land and housing, and especially in ‘under-explored’ areas (eg Europe, US, MENA) as well as places where debates are more established (eg Latin America). I am particularly interested in comparative approaches to informality across the ‘global North and South’, e.g. in the context of austerity in Europe. Additionally, I welcome proposals focusing on aspects of land and territory in conflict-affected or violent contexts, particularly in Latin American cities. These could be ‘post-conflict’ contexts, or places which are not experiencing civil conflict but do have high levels of violence. |
Dr Christina Maags
c.maags@sheffield.ac.uk School of East Asian Studies |
Christina's research interests include political economy, multi-level governance and local policy implementation in the People’s Republic of China. Using these analytical frameworks as a lens, she has particularly conducted research on cultural heritage politics and the politics of demographic ageing in contemporary China.
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Dr Aidas Masiliunas
a.masiliunas@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Research Interests Aidas is an experimental economist who uses laboratory, online and field experiments, as well as game theory, to understand human behaviour. Aidas is interested in understanding how boundedly rational decisions depend on the framing, information or feedback in the game. To address these questions, Aidas compares the predictions of agent-based models to experimental data in games where convergence is slow or there are multiple equilibria to which choices could converge. Results from this research shed some light on whether behaviour is driven by beliefs, preferences or bounded rationality, and how the policymakers could use information design to shift behaviour in a desirable manner. Aidas is also interested in using experimental methods to address problems such as climate change, income inequality and collusion in oligopolies. Some aspects of each problem can be modelled by appropriately designed games and the consequences of potential policy interventions can be investigated using both behavioural game theory and laboratory experiments. Specifically, his recent research explores whether exposure to income inequality has a negative effect on productivity, whether the outcomes of climate change negotiations depend on historical responsibility and whether collusion is more likely in more concentrated markets. |
Dr Gillian Sharpe
law@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Research Interests My research interests centre on the intersections of criminal and social justice, in particular the extent to which criminal and youth justice policies and interventions, as well as welfare policies, often fail, in spite of their good intentions, to advance justice or ameliorate the life circumstances of poor, marginalised and vulnerable groups. My current research focuses on two areas. The first of these is youth justice policy and practice - in particular the assessment, criminalisation and penal governance of young women - and the second concerns (ex-) offenders' experiences of life after punishment and their transitions into adulthood. Previous empirical research has focused on desistance from crime amongst men and women previously on probation, the community supervision of women lawbreakers, housing provision and social support for women ex-prisoners and their dependent children, domestic violence advocacy, and the supervision and surveillance of persistent and serious young offenders. I am experienced in qualitative research methodologies and in conducting research with vulnerable groups. Areas of Supervision I would be interested to hear from prospective research students in the areas of youth justice, the punishment of, and provision for, women who offend, and desistance from crime. |
Dr Enrico Vanino
e.vanino@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Enrico's research interests are focused on applied microeconometrics, particularly the interaction between international economics and economic geography, regional and urban economics, economic development, firms' innovation and productivity. Specifically, his research looks at firms’ behaviour, and the industrial and spatial analysis of globalization, applying econometric methods and GIS techniques to industrial and trade data at the micro-level, mainly using granular longitudinal data on firms’ characteristics, innovation and internationalization. Research strands include:
Enrico is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, specifically in topics related to trade and international economics, regional and urban economics, micro-level analysis of firms’ behaviour in terms of internationalization, productivity and innovation, development economics with specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa or the Chinese economy, and environmental economics. |
Dr Aidan While
a.h.while@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Aidan's core research interests are in climate policy and climate politics; the spatial, environmental and societal impacts of automation; and the changing context for planning control at different spatial scales. His research is international in scope and he has experience of supervising PhD research in China, South Korea, India, North America, South America as well as the UK. Potential PhD projects: Robotics, automation and the future of cities - how are robotics, AI and automation impacting on urban infrastructures and daily lives? What does this mean for the future of cities? What are the benefits and possible downsides of robotics and automation in the city? Automation, the environment and climate change - how is automation being used in response to climate turbulence and environmental change? What does this mean for the ability of different groups and interests to exist in a world of climate change? Growth management through urban planning - how is urban planning being used to facilitate the development of rapidly growing places? How are social, economic and environmental interests being addressed? The impact of climate change on urban life and urban futures - how are different places and interests responding to climate change and environmental turbulence? What does that mean for uneven development and socio-environmental inequalities? |
Dr Zeyneb Kurt
z.kurt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
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. |
Dr Pamela McKinney
p.mckinney@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research interests focus on: Pedagogy for Information Literacy in Higher Education. The relationship between Inquiry-based Learning and Information Literacy, including how learners can be supported in their inquiries through the development of Information Literacy capabilities and how Information Literacy can be taught using Inquiry-based pedagogies Reflective practice for teachers and learners in Higher Education The development of teaching competencies in librarians. Students working in groups and the tools and technologies groups use to communicate and collaborate. Information Literacy and Information behaviour in everyday life contexts with a specific focus on health information literacy in marginalised comunities Self-tracking information practices PhD supervision I am interested in supervising PhD research projects in the areas of: Information literacy and Information behaviour in educational or everyday life contexts Health information literacy in marginalised communities The teaching practices of librarians, and professional development for teacher-librarians Self-tracking information practices I am interested in qualitative approaches to research, and welcome proposals for Phenomenography, grounded theory, situational analysis and visual methods |
Dr Andrew Mills
a.r.mills@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
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:
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. |
Professor Kate Reed
k.reed@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies Sheffield Methods Institute |
Research interests My research focuses on two areas: the social and ethical implications of genetic screening and the impact of novel technological application in medicine. These interests are reflected in two of my most recent projects. The first was a project funded by the The Wellcome Trust which focused on exploring the gendered nature of genetic screening in pregnancy. The second, a recently completed British Academy funded project on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) use in pregnancy. The findings from this project were recently presented at an interdisciplinary dissemination event funded by the Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation (December 2013). I am currently collaborating with the medical school and local NHS to develop this imaging work further, focusing in particular on the role of imaging in post-mortem. I am also continuing to develop research bids in the area of genetics, family history and health. Students with an interest in the new genetics, and reproductive technology would be particularly welcome. I would also welcome supervising students with interests in the areas of social theory, race and ethnicity, gender studies. |
Prof Dame Pamela Shaw
pamela.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience The Medical School |
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. |
Dr Liz Williams
e.a.williams@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Research InterestsI am a UK registered nutritionist. My primary research interests are the role of diet in the prevention of chronic disease, healthy ageing and dietary assessment methods in older adults. I am interested in dietary strategies to improve musculoskeletal health, diet and digestive health and in technology use for supporting people to adopt healthy behaviours. I am also interested in diet and fertility. My research methods are primarily quantitative, and I have considerable experience in conducting and supervising dietary intervention trials in adult/older adult populations. My recent PhD students have studied the following: - a randomised control trial to investigate the effect of vitamin D on musculoskeletal function in post-menopausal South-Asian women - dietary pattern analysis in people with colorectal adenoma - vitamin D for the management of symptoms in people with irritable bowel syndrome - complex dietary intervention (physical activity, vitamin D and protein) to prevent musculoskeletal ageing - development of a novel method of dietary assessment in older adults |
Dr David Benbow
d.benbow@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
I completed my undergraduate degree in Law with Politics at Keele University in 2007. I then worked as a lawyer and as a teacher (in further education) before returning to Keele University to undertake an LLM in Law and Society in 2013. In 2014 I was awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) to undertake a PhD at Keele University. My PhD research consisted of an ideology critique of market reforms to the English National Health Service (NHS). I joined the School of Law at the University of Sheffield in January 2018. |
Dr Katherine Fish
k.fish@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Research Interests I am an applied environmental microbiologist with inter-disciplinary research interests regarding understanding the microbial ecology of natural and engineered environments, particularly with respect to microbial biofilms. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how microbial management approaches impact biofilms and, in turn, how biofilms respond to these practices, predominantly (but not exclusively) in aquatic systems. My current research involves collaborative projects which incorporate (micro)biological, physical and chemical analyses to explore the influence of management approaches, such as disinfection concentration, on biofilm physical (EPS and cells) and community structure (using molecular analysis), with consideration of impacts on public health and water quality. |
Professor Alison Gartland
a.gartland@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
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. |
Professor Sally Hines
sally.hines@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
I have much experience of supervising PhD students to completion. These are some of the areas my previous research students have worked in: Masculinity, Emotion and Music Masculinity and War Heterosexual Identities Asexuality Young People and Social Media Bisexuality Sex Work Violence and Gender Young People and Gender Sexuality and Class Trans and Non-binary Identities Trans and Health I am particularly interested in working with students whose interests relate to the following areas: Gender Studies - including trans and non-binary Feminist Theory and Practice Masculinities Studies Sexualities Social Movements Intimacies and Personal Life Citizenship and Recognition Reproduction Feminist STS Studies Identity Studies The Body |
Dr Helen Hoyle
h.e.hoyle@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
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. |
Dr Amanda Loban
A.Loban@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Christian Morgner
c.morgner@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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 |
Professor Karl Taylor
k.b.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Economics |
Research interests Karl's research interests lie in the area of applied microeconometrics focusing on labour economics, the economics of education and, household financial decision-making. His research has focused on individual, household and firm-level data including matched workplace-employee data. Examples of research projects include empirical analysis of the reservation wages of the unemployed (ESRC) and empirical analysis of wage growth, human capital and risk aversion (Leverhulme Trust). He has been involved in advisory reports for the Home Office and more recently the Department of Health looking at the minimum pricing of alcohol. Karl is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics. |
Dr Paul Taylor
P.M.Taylor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My research interests include prognostication and clinical decision-making, particularly with respect to end of life care. In addition to developing my own ambitions, I have worked with St Luke’s on their existing research portfolio, including EnComPaSS and project ECHO. I have collaborated with researchers nationally to support St Luke’s involvement with the £1.3m Yorkshire Cancer Research funded RESOLVE study, and the NIHR portfolio StOIC study, exploring management of opioid-induced constipation in cancer patients. In collaboration with colleagues at ScHARR, I am undertaking research into Avoiding Emergency Admissions in Palliative Patients, funded by the Sheffield Health Care Challenges Collaboration. |
Dr Kevin Thwaites
k.thwaites@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
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. |
Dr Matthias Benzer
m.benzer@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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.
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. |
Professor Sundari Anitha
S.Anitha@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Anitha joined the Department of Sociological Studies in 2024, having previously worked at the University of Lincoln, the University of Leeds and the University of Central Lancashire. Anitha’s research focuses on two areas across the disciplines of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology: (i) the problem of violence against women and girls (VAWG) at the intersection of gender, race, border and migration in diverse contexts including the UK, US and India; domestic violence and abuse, including particular manifestations such as dowry-related abuse, forced marriage, transnational forms of violence such as abandonment of wives and domestic servitude; sexual violence including everyday forms of sexual harassment in online and offline spaces; gender-based violence in university communities; and (ii) the intersection of gender, race and ethnicity in employment relations; agency, solidarity and industrial action by migrant workers; and trade union representation of migrant workers. Anitha’s research draws upon qualitative research methods, including life history methods. Anitha has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on a range of research projects and received funding from the The Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the British Academy. Anitha served as Associate Editor of Women’s Studies International Forum (2022-23) and is a member of the Editorial Board of British Journal of Criminology and Women’s Studies International Forum. Anitha was a member of the REF2021 Sociology sub-panel. She is a member of the ESRC peer review college. Anitha’s research spans the following areas:
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Professor Rowland Atkinson
rowland.atkinson@shefield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Rowland is an urban sociologist with wide-ranging interests around city life in relation to social inequalities. His work focused on the connections, disconnections and consequences of inequalities and has included research on gentrification and gated communities, as well as social housing and urban poverty. A key aim of his work is connect harms and social problems as being related to choices, policy programs and decisions made by affluent households and city systems (economic and political) and to find ways of addressing these connections. He is most interested in supervising students with similar aims and who are interested in developing their work to address urban social problems and questions of social injustice. Possible projects: 1. The extension of gating – Gated communities have slowly grown in popularity in the UK, alongside the development of what have been called fortress homes. This general process of fortifying urban space, and domestic space in particular raises questions about the openness of previously public spaces as well as the consequences and experiences of wealthy urbanites living inside these homes and neighbourhoods. The geography, development and social/community formations and outcomes of these transitions could form the basis of a doctoral study. 2. Sterile urbanisms – What are the mobility, residential and employment strategies being used by affluent city residents in the co/post-covid context? This question raises interesting questions about where cities, urban life and questions of social proximity (across class, ethnic, gendered divisions) will move in the future. Processes of suburbanisation, colonisation of rural and high amenity areas 3. Necrotecture – Empty homes and dead read residential continue to present major challenges in many cities around the world, often as a result of global capital flows into residential markets constructed to appeal to international investors. Examples can be found in Africa, Latin America, US, Canada and UK among others. There is scope here to develop our knowledge of the drivers of empty residential space and homes, the consequences for their immediate localities (e.g. driving up prices, hollowing-out communities) and their link to criminal flows of money or money laundering and the need to police and challenge these deadening influences on city life. |
Professor Jo Bates
jo.bates@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research is in the field of Critical Data Studies. Critical Data Studies is an interdisciplinary field that uses social theory to inform examination of the social drivers, implications and power relations of emergent forms of data and algorithmic practices. My recent research broadly breaks down into three areas: (1) data and AI cultures of practice - including issues around Responsible data/AI practice, (2) data journeys & data friction - particularly climate and energy data flows, and (3) digital labour - particularly crowdwork. You can read more about my research in each of these areas on my website: https://lifeofdata.org/site/category/research-areas/ I am currently working on the following projects, which involve collaborations with a variety of organisations including GSK, JISC, BBC and DWP: - Patterns in Practice (Principal Investigator). AHRC funded. https://lifeofdata.org/site/patterns-in-practice/ - Living with Data (Co-investigator). Nuffield funded. https://livingwithdata.org/current-research/ - Energy data-sharing scoping study (PI). Internally funded. PhD Supervision I am interested in supervising PhD projects that advance the critical study of emerging data and algorithmic practices and flows. By critical I mean projects that in some way grapple with issues of power, ethics and justice as they relate to topics of data, automation, data science and/or AI. I tend to use qualitative research methods, including ethnographic methods and (policy) document analysis. There is a wide range of potential projects in this area. Applicants are advised to check out recent papers in key journals (e.g. 'Big Data and Society' and 'Information, Communication and Society') and conferences (e.g. Data Power, Data Justice) to get a sense for emerging topics. |
Professor Neil Hyatt
n.c.hyatt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Radioactive waste management and disposal. |
Dr David Tobin
d.tobin@sheffield.ac.uk School of East Asian Studies |
David’s research uses discourse analysis and ethnographic methods to explore the relationship between identity and security in global politics. How and why are identities treated as security matters? What are the effects of treating identity as a security matter? His research answers these questions by focusing on the ethnic and international politics of China, specifically ethnic relations and violence in Xinjiang. His first book, Securing China’s Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang (Cambridge University Press) bridges the gap between Global IR theory and micro-fieldwork approaches to ethnic relations in Chinese Studies. It employs an innovative theoretical approach drawn from Postcolonial theory and critical IR to analyse the relationship between identity and security in Chinese policy-making and ethnic relations between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The book is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Xinjiang, including during the 2009 violence, from interviews to participant-observation of security practices. The book argues that China’s party-state exacerbates cycles of violence between Han and Uyghurs in Xinjiang by targeting Turkic and Islamic identities as national security threats. David was invited to present his book to the UK All-Party Parliamentary China Group in October 2020 and to provide evidence to the Uyghur Tribunal. He considers public-engagement and providing robust analysis for policymakers to be core components of research and knowledge production. David’s current research builds on his fieldwork to explore both the official thinking behind China’s current “fusion” ethnic policies, including interment camps and inter-generational separation practices, and the social and emotional impact of state violence and family separation on the global Uyghur diaspora. |
Dr Sara Vannini
Information School |
Research Interests My research interests are at the intersection of critical studies of technology and society, social change, and information ethics. I focus on social appropriation and embodied experiences of technologies by different social groups, digital poverty, information privacy in the context of people’s migration and displacement, critical studies of information and communication technologies within sustainable development, and the role of public access to information in mis/disinformation. My research is qualitative and I use participatory and visual methodologies of research.
PhD Supervision -Sustainability, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development: Issues connected to Information Systems/Information and Communication Technologies and social, socio-economic, and environmental sustainability / sustainable development. -People’s migration and human displacement and information issues - information practices, information activities, policy, politics, data justice, data privacy and security, datafication of migration, migration digital traces, digital identity, and digital status. -Digital poverty and public access to information - including role and potential for libraries or telecenters to address mis/disinformation; digital literacies and public venues to access information and communication technologies; role of digital inclusion networks. -Digital push backs - motivations not to adopt and not to use digital technologies by specific social groups. -Participatory methodologies to understand information activities, digital inclusion, or other information systems-related topics (e.g.: photo-elicitation, photo-voice, visual methods, theatre, playing and games). |
Dr Nicole Baumgarten
n.baumgarten@sheffield.ac.uk School of Languages and Cultures |
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
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Professor Chris Burton
chris.burton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Academic Unit of Medical Education Division of Population Health |
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. |
Professor Kurt De Vos
k.de_vos@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience The Medical School |
Research interests Research in the laboratory focuses on the mechanisms of nerve cell death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig disease), hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). We are especially interested in the involvement of axonal transport, mitochondria and ER. Current research themes include:
Work in the lab is funded by grants from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Thierry Latran Foundation, the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA), the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation, and the Moody Endowment Fund. |
Dr Nicola Dempsey
N.Dempsey@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
My work examines how relevant policies, strategies and political rhetoric are implemented in and experienced by urban green and open spaces users. This is conceptualised as place-keeping: the long-term management of our green and open spaces. This involves exploring innovative approaches to designing and managing open space while securing its long-term future by getting the right people, funding and policies in place. |
Dr Jon Dickson
j.m.dickson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Academic Unit of Medical Education Division of Population Health |
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
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Dr Laura Gray
laura.gray@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy main research interests lie in applied micro-econometrics and health. I am interested in applying advanced quantitative techniques to large datasets to explore obesity. I am particularly interested in obesity across different stages of life and how and why obesity prevalence changes over time, by age and across different generations. My previous research has included a range of quantitative methods including factor analysis, structural equation modelling, growth models and mixture models as well as methods for dealing with missing data. I am also interested in methods development in related research areas. Current and recent research includes the estimation of:
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Professor Angie Hobbs
a.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Philosophy |
Research interests Most of my work is in ancient Greek philosophy and in ethics (both ancient and modern), and I have broad interests across both fields. Topics that I particularly focus on are: the ethics of flourishing and virtue ethics; courage, heroism and fame; concepts of 'manliness'; war and peace; love and desire; mental health and illness; relations between philosophy and literature; relations between ethics and aesthetics. In Plato and the Hero I concentrate on Plato's critique of the notions and embodiments of 'manliness' and courage prevalent in his culture (particularly those in Homer), and his attempt to redefine them in accordance with his own ethical, psychological and metaphysical principles. The question of why courage is necessary in the flourishing life in its turn leads to Plato's bid to unify the noble and the beneficial, and the tensions this unification creates between human and divine ideals. I am currently working on a new translation of and commentary on Plato's Symposium (for Oxford University Press) and a book on heroism, courage and fame. |
Professor Endre Kiss-Toth
e.kiss-toth@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease The Medical School |
Research interests My group is interested in identifying novel regulators of inflammatory signal transduction, characterising their basic mechanism of action, as well as validating some of these novel genes as potential drug targets for therapeutic intervention in chronic inflammatory diseases. Much of our recent work has been focussing on studying the biological importance of the tribbles (TRIB) family of pseudokinases in cell types that are relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease. In addition, we have also been collaborating closely with several research groups, from the US and Europe to characterise the role tribbles proteins play in the development and progression of cancer. Most recently, we begun to develop approaches that enable us to selectively target TRIBs with the aim to use these as a platform for future drug development. To support our research goals, we have established a global network of collaborators to pursue joint projects that aim to understand the importance of tribbles in cell biology, both in health and disease. |
Professor Paul Latreille
p.latreille@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Professor of Management Research interests An economist by background, Paul's research interfaces applied labour economics and employment relations, and focuses on the management and resolution of workplace conflict, including mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and Employment Tribunals. More recently this has included funded work on the role of line managers and how an online training intervention might impact conflict confidence and competence. Other areas of research interest include the relationships between disability and work; occupational health and safety; vocational training; self-employment/entrepreneurship; and economic inactivity. Paul would be willing to consider supervising PhDs in relation to any of his research interests or related areas. Students wishing to explore research that draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives are very welcome, as are those wanting to undertake pedagogical research. |
Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones
s.l.rowland-jones@sheffield.ac.uk Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease |
Sarah Rowland-Jones has extensive experience in the cellular immunology of viral infections and a strong interest in global health. Her work has focused in the past on T-cell responses to HIV infection in cohorts in Africa and China, as well as dengue virus, CMV, EBV and influenza A. She is currently collaborating with Professor Rashida Ferrand (LSHTM) on laboratory studies of older children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV infection in Zimbabwe, many of whom experience serious comorbidities affecting their lungs, heart, musculoskeletal system, skin and CNS. Current studies have focused on the potential role of Cytomegalovirus co-infection in disease pathogenesis, host genetics of delayed disease progression and the longevity of responses to childhood vaccines. Within Sheffield our group is also planning studies of the immune response to viruses in patients who have received autologous stem cell transplants, usually for autoimmune disease |
Dr Sophie Rutter
s.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research InterestsMy research interests are at the intersection of critical studies of technology and society, social change, and information ethics. I focus on social appropriation and embodied experiences of technologies by different social groups, digital poverty, information privacy in the context of people’s migration and displacement, critical studies of information and communication technologies within sustainable development, and the role of public access to information in mis/disinformation. My research is qualitative and I use participatory and visual methodologies of research. Research supervisionI am particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas: The design and evaluation of health communications (text, images, different technologies and so on) and interventions How different people (i.e. children, professionals and so on) search for, and use, information, as well as the influence of the environment and the context of use The design of inclusive research methods / methodologies |
Dr Mark Stevenson
mark.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Natural Language ProcessingDr Mark Stevenson’s research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. He has worked on a range of topics in these areas including word sense disambiguation, Information Extraction, plagiarism/reuse detection, author identification, cross-lingual information retrieval and exploratory search. His research includes applications of these technologies to a range of areas including analysis of medical documents (study identification and evidence synthesis for systematic reviews; data mining information from corpora) and exploratory search (automatic organisation of large collections of documents, interpretability of topic models).
PhD SupervisionDr Stevenson is particularly interested in hearing from research students interested in the following areas:
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Dr Maria Tzanou
m.tzanou@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Dr Maria Tzanou’s research focuses on European constitutional and human rights law, privacy, data protection, surveillance, the regulation of new and emerging technologies and the inequalities of data privacy law and how these affect vulnerable groups. She is the author of The Fundamental Right to Data Protection. Normative Value in the Context of Counter-Terrorism Surveillance (Hart, 2017) and the editor of Personal Data Protection and Legal Developments in the European Union (IGI Global, 2020) and Health Data Privacy under the GDPR. Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses (Routledge, 2021). Research Interests
Maria is happy to supervise PhD research in the following areas: privacy and data protection, big data, AI and human rights, surveillance, regulation of emerging technologies. |
Dr Mark Bass
mark.bass@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research interestsHealing defects are one of the largest current health challenges, with chronic wounds frequently requiring amputation of the affected limb. In 2008, 200,000 UK patients were suffering chronic wounds, costing the health service £3.1 billion annually. Since then, a 26-49% increase in risk factors such as age and diabetes has made the situation worse. Upon wounding healthy skin, inflammatory cells combat infection, fibroblasts migrate into the wound bed and contract the defect, and finally re-epithelialisation closes the gap. However, these processes become less efficient with age and risk factors such as diabetes, obesity or smoking, eventually leading to the formation of chronic wounds that include pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers.
We are investigating the processes of fibroblast recruitment and wound re-epitheliasation with a view to developing new therapies to promote healing. Part of our work focuses on the signalling by adhesion receptors that detect the changes in skin upon injury. We investigate the signalling through Rho-family GTPases that regulate cell migration and receptor trafficking. We are finding that these pathways influence wound healing, but in more recent work we are finding that they also impact on cancer progression. Importantly, our projects in collaboration with the hospital and industry are translating our advances in basic biomedical science into practical application. We have developed ultrasonic strategies that reduce healing time by 40% and can be applied to human patients. By doing so, we are able to investigate fields that span from basic molecular science fields of signalling and migration to therapeutic outcomes. |
Professor Janet Brown
j.e.brown@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
As a clinician scientist, I engage in both clinical and laboratory research, which is internationally recognised, with publications in Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Nature Clinical Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Annals of Oncology Breast Cancer Research and Treatment and other journals. I lead the Clinical Bone Oncology and Biomarkers Group in University of Sheffield (LINK), which has a particular focus on the impact of cancer on the skeleton in patients with breast, prostate and renal cancer. Our recent research includes the use of biomarkers in established bone metastasis to aid patient management and studies of the negative impact of cancer treatments on bone health. One of the main objectives of our current clinical and laboratory work is to develop novel prognostic and predictive biomarkers for clinical use in patients with early cancer to help in prevention or delay of cancer metastasis to bone, after which disease is incurable. I also run clinical studies to develop innovative therapeutic approaches in breast, renal and prostate cancer. As Chief Investigator, I currently lead a large UK-wide, 40 centre, clinical trial (STAR) funded by NIHR, to determine whether treatment breaks in patients with renal cancer receiving targeted therapies, can reduce toxicity and have health economic benefits, without loss in efficacy. I am also PI on a clinical study funded by Cancer Research UK aimed at evaluating a potentially exciting new form of virotherapy in patients with prostate cancer. |
Professor Jonathan Leake
j.r.leake@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Dr Melanie Hassett
melanie.hassett@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in International Business ResearchMy research interest lies in internationalization strategies, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), post-acquisition socio-cultural integration and organisational change, emotions and cultural differences, as well as sustainability. My research focuses on the human side, such as emotions and change management, in international business strategy (M&A) and more recently in SME internationalisation. My research expertise also lies in research methods, particularly qualitative research methods, longitudinal, case study and mixed method approaches. This is reflected in a book, namely “Handbook in Longitudinal Research Methods in Organisation and Business Studies”, published by Edward Elgar in 2013, as well as an article on time, which was published in Management International Review in 2016 “TEMPUS FUGIT – A hermeneutic approach to internationalization process”. I am the co-editor in recently published Special Issue on “When Time Matters: Rethinking the Role of Time in IB Theory and Practice” in the Journal of World Business. PhD SupervisionI am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
PublicationsHurmerinta, L., Paavilainen-Mantymaki, E. and Hassett, M. E. (2016). TEMPUS FUGIT: A hermeneutic approach to the internationalization process. Management International Review, 56(6) 805-825. Hassett, M., Vincze, Z., Urs, U. and Angwin, D. (2016), “Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions from India: Motives and Integration Strategies of Indian Acquirers”, in Marinova, S., Larimo, J. & Nummela, N., Value Creation in International Business, Palgrave Macmillan-SpringerDegbey, pp. 109-139. Degbey, W. and Hassett, M.E. (2016), “Creating value in cross-border M&As through strategic networks”, in Heinz Tüselmann, Stephen Buzdugan, Qi Cao, David Freund and Sougand Golesorkhi, Impact of International Business: Challenges and Solutions for Policy and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 158–177. Nummela, N. and Hassett, M. (2016), “Opening the black box of acquisition capabilities”, in Risberg, A., King, D. and Meglio, O., The Routledge Companion of Mergers and Acquisitions, Routledge Companion Series, Routledge: Oxon, pp. 74–91. |
Dr Jacob Macdonald
j.macdonald@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My research focuses broadly around the application and methods of urban and environmental economics and data science. I am particularly interested in the interplay and spillovers of natural (environmental) urban amenities, the built environment and neighbourhood dynamics. This work emphasizes quantitative methods and leveraging big, novel, and geographic data. I have a background in spatial statistics, econometrics, data visualization, machine learning and capturing measures of the urban environment through remote sensing and secondary administrative data sources. I’m a broad champion of open data/ software, open (and accessible) science communication, and making use of increasingly available and new sources of data. My current work looks to better understand how the built urban environment and amenities in a local area can influence broader economic, socio-demographic or environmental processes. This falls generally along the following streams. 1) Measuring and Valuing Urban Amenities and Spillovers: This area looks at how to best capture, measure and incorporate features of the urban environment and amenities into spatial statistics and models. I am particularly interested in using quasi-experimental policy evaluation for valuing the impact of urban greenery, trees, open spaces and water amenities (among others) and their spillover effects on local hazards like flooding or pollution risks. 2) Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Local Housing, Employment and Retail: Using big, geographic data sources can help to better understand detailed variations and similarities in the overall economic vitality and homogeneity of markets across urban areas. I’ve worked extensively with housing, employment and retail data to better understand spatial patterns in local economic and consumer behaviour, identifying, mapping and delineating small area neighbourhoods and urban zones. 3) Patterns of Human Activity and Interaction in the Urban Area: As new forms of granular location data over time capture high detailed patterns of mobility and urban movement, a wide range of work can explore how the local population interact with the built and urban environment. Mobility patterns and spatio-temporal urban data not only help to inform on the relative attractiveness of certain spaces (e.g. parks and open spaces), but can also help in better understanding how our behaviour influences dynamics like congestion or pollution. |
Professor Simon Marvin
s.marvin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Simon is an internationally recognised academic with an excellent publication profile, with expertise in constructing conceptual understanding and empirical evidence of the changing relations between socio-technical networks and urban and regional restructuring. Simon has extensive experience of directing successful urban research centres in his previous roles at Newcastle University, Salford University, and more latterly Durham University, where he was Chair in the Department of Geography. There are three key dimensions to his track record. First, his work is noted for the way it develops innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives to help open up and explore important new agendas for urban studies and infrastructural research. To date, he has played major roles within urban and planning research towards addressing important questions surrounding telecommunications, infrastructure and mobility, sustainability and, most recently, systemic transitions, climate change, ecological security and smart cities. Second, his most influential work has been contained within a series of 8 major international books, edited collections, research monographs, and numerous refereed papers and book chapters. Collectively, these have had major global influence within urban planning, urban studies, architecture, geography, technology studies, and environmental studies. Notable here has been the international and cross-disciplinary influence of the two co-authored books with Stephen Graham: Telecommunications and the City, and Splintering Urbanism. These volumes in particular have reached very high levels of citation, led to the widespread adoption of a new urban lexicon and concepts, and have been the basis for journal special collections, major conferences, and research programmes. Two new books are about to be published in early 2016, a critical international assessment of smart cities, with Andres Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane, and the development of a socio-technical framing of urban retrofit practices, with Mike Hodson. Thirdly, supporting his writing has been a highly successful mixed economy of funded research projects from research councils ESRC, EPSRC, and NERC, from European sources and international foundations. He is currently working as either PI or Co-I on five RCUK funded grants, including two projects, one impact grant, and two international networks employing 5 researchers as well as research work for the Swedish Mistra Urban Futures Foundation. Finally, he regularly undertakes work for policy users, including central government and urban and regional agencies in the UK, Europe, and internationally. Simon is currently an urban expert on the JPI Urban Europe Scientific Advisory Board. Simon has a number of links to Sheffield - during the mid-1980s he completed an MA in Urban Studies and Planning here and during his PhD studies at the Open University he undertook a case study of Sheffield's combined heat and power district heating programme. |
Dr Ysabel Gerrard
y.gerrard@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research mainly focuses on how the policies of technology and social media companies further marginalise particular social identities. Broadly speaking, my research interests fall into the following categories:
I would be particularly interested in supervising students researching one of the following topics: Social media content moderation: I am interested in various aspects of the content moderation process, including: the process of writing policies, the implementation of new rules, press/public responses, and users’ reception and circumvention. I am especially interested in policies that heavily affect marginalised populations, like adult content bans and mental health-related rules. Secret-telling apps: I have begun a new project about secret-telling social media apps and am interested in supervising students who also have interests in this area. |
Professor Paul Martin
paul.martin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests I have two main areas of research interest. The first is the ethical, legal and social issues associated with emerging medical technologies and the second focuses on the commercialisation of biotechnology and expectation dynamics in medical innovation. My research has previously examined the development of gene therapy, genomics, pharmacogenetics, stem cells and regenerative medicine. I have advised the European Parliament, the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (part of the French Prime Minister's Office), the UK Department of Trade and Industry and the Wellcome Trust. I am a member of the Editorial advisory Boards of Sociology of Health and Illness and New Genetics and Society. As regards my research interests in synthetic biology, I am currently a member of a BBSRC working group on synthetic biology, a co-investigator in a recently established multidisciplinary chell network and have co-authored a major review of the social and ethical issues raised by synthetic biology which was published in June 2008. As regards my research interests in neuroscience, I am leader of a strand of research on neurosociety as part of the £1.6m Leverhulme Trust Programme Grant 'Making Science Public'. |
Dr Nozomi Uematsu
n.uematsu@sheffield.ac.uk School of East Asian Studies |
I am working on my monograph titled Monstrous Happiness: Neoliberalism, Women’s Lives and Women’s Writing in Japan and the UK, which developed from my PhD thesis. I argue that neoliberalism created a particular culture we live now and this contemporary culture is the “harvest” of the 1980s. Looking at social discourse and literary texts in Japan and the UK in the 80s, I examine the ways in which women writers respond to and explore the ideas of women’s liberty, happiness and its contradictions. I examine literary texts such as works by Banana Yoshimoto, Foumiko Kometani, Jeanette Winterson and Doris Lessing. I am currently interested in, as well as writing on, the concept of female masochism, especially its psychic and narrative construction from social discourse, in literary and visual texts. This new project aims to provide a genealogy of female masochism, and how it differentiates from, as well as inherits, the idea of shame in Japanese culture. Research Interests
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Professor Keith Worden
K.Worden@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Keith's research is concerned with applications of advanced signal processing and machine learning methods to structural dynamics. The primary application is in the aerospace industry, although there has also been interaction with ground transport and offshore industries. |
Dr Veronica Barnsley
v.barnsley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Literature |
My primary research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literatures from India and Africa, with a particular focus on alternative and global modernisms and writing interested in children, youth and development. I am currently completing the manuscript of my first monograph, Postcolonial Children: Infancy and Development in South Asian Fiction in English. The book considers the figure of the child in fiction that deals with anti-colonial activism, Indian independence and the postcolonial state, looking at writers including Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Attia Hosain, Shashi Deshpande and Nadeem Aslam. I am also beginning a new project called ‘Youth and Health in Postcolonial Literatures: India, Nigeria, South Africa’, a comparative analysis of the concept of youth that seeks to make connections between Postcolonial Studies and the growing field of Medical Humanities. I am a founding member of The Northern Postcolonial Network, which supports knowledge exchange and networking amongst scholars working on postcolonial topics across the north of England and organisations and community groups with intersecting interests. We build sustainable relationships with groups and communities through research, public engagement and creative workshops in which we can explore issues including migration, asylum, human rights and inclusive pedagogy. Details of our past events and future activities can be found here www.northernpostcolonialnetwork.com I am a member of The British Association of Modernist Studies, the Modernist Studies Association and the Postcolonial Studies Association. |
Professor Ross Cameron
r.w.cameron@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
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. 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. |
Professor Michael Cork
M.J.Cork@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease The Medical School |
Research interests My research interests are inflammatory skin disorders including: atopic dermatitis (atopic eczema), psoriasis, alopecia areata and vitiligo. The group which includes both clinical and non-clinical staff has identified genetic variants associated with all of these diseases. Internationally, the Academic Unit of Dermatology Research is one of the leading groups translating basic dermatological science into new treatments for the clinic. Examples include `Skin Protease Inhibitors´ and `Vitamin A Metabolic Pathway Inhibitors´. In 2001, with help from The Wellcome Trust, the group formed a `spin-out´ company called `Molecular SkinCare´, with the aim of developing these treatments. Another major focus of the group is the effect of topical pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and oils on the structure and function of the skin barrier. Research in this area comprises investigation of the skin barrier defect associated with skin disorders such as atopic dermatitis, how skin barrier defects develop and how to treat or repair the skin barrier defect. This includes the determination of the effect of topical agents/products on the skin of volunteers visiting our clinical diagnostic `skin laboratory´, where we can measure specific properties of the skin barrier, non-invasively, using an array of specialised equipment. These results are then correlated with variants in the genes that determine the structure and function of the skin barrier. Research conducted by the AuDR is at the interface between the clinic, academia and industry. Work has been funded by charities, including: The Wellcome Trust, British Skin Foundation and Psoriasis Association; also by the Kuwait Ministry of Health; and by pharmaceutical/cosmetics companies; including Astellas, Johnson & Johnson and Stiefel-GSK. |
Dr Chun Guo
C.Guo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research summaryMy research interests are to understand the basic cell biology and signaling pathways associated with protein post-translational modifications (PTMs, e.g., Proteolytic Cleavage, Phosphorylation, Ubiquitination and SUMOylation) in cell death, survival and repair following stress, and to translate the findings into animal models of human diseases and into treatments for human disease. One type of PTM is SUMOylation, which involves the attachment of a small protein called Small Ubiquitin-related Modifier (SUMO) to target proteins. SUMOylation is essential for the survival of all plant and animal cells because it regulates protein-protein interactions, either promoting or hindering specific interactions according to the molecular environment. Thus the functional consequences of SUMO attachment vary greatly depending on the substrate and the cell type, and in most cases remain only poorly understood. SUMOylation can be reversed by the action of SUMO proteases to cleave the bond between proteins. This is called deSUMOylation. The largest and most characterised family of SUMO proteases is that of the sentrin-specific proteases (SENPs). Specific targets and physiological roles for SENPs are largely unknown. In my laboratory a combination of techniques including molecular cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology and histology is used to address the roles of protein SUMOylation and deSUMOylation in health and disease, particularly in neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The results may lead to better understanding of disease processes, more effective therapies, an enhancement to the quality of life of both patients and their carers and finally, an easing of the substantial economic burden which dementia and ALS currently impose.
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Professor Guillaume Hautbergue
g.hautbergue@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience The Medical School |
I have a long-standing interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling the human RNA metabolism in health and neurodegeneration. Research in my group primarily focuses on identifying gene expression alterations which cause progressive death of neurons in incurable neurodegenerative diseases and ageing in order to correct these pathophysiological changes using gene therapy approaches.
To this purpose, we use biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology together with various disease models which include mammalian cell lines, stable inducible cell lines, patient-derived neurons and mouse models. The main research themes currently under investigation in my laboratory are: 1. Targeting the nuclear export of pathological C9ORF72-repeat transcripts in C9ORF72 linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) as well as in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) using gene therapy programmes based on viral and non-viral approaches. 2. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of pathological repeat-associated non-AUG (RAN) translation in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD and FXTAS in order to identify novel therapeutic targets. 3. Identification of transcriptomes and translatomes using Next generation RNA sequencing technologies to define the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and how gene therapies/drugs confer neuroprotection. 4. Structural and functional characterisation of the nuclear export of pathological microsatellite repeat transcripts in neurological disorders. 5. Identifying the mechanisms leading to altered nucleocytoplasmic transport of proteins and cellular RNA in ageing and neurological disorders. |
Dr Catarina Henriques
c.m.henriques@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Tissue Repair and Immunity in Ageing (TRIA)Why we age and whether we can therapeutically prevent associated diseases has been my continued research motivation. And this is because age is the greatest risk factor for chronic diseases such as cancer, frailty, muscle atrophy, arthritis and many others. This means we are living longer than ever before, but with a heavy burden of disease which impacts on our quality of life and poses serious socio-economical challenges we must meet. Tissue homeostasis requires a tight balance between the clearance of senescent and damaged cells by the immune system and the replenishing of new cells from the stem cell niche. My research programme focuses on understanding the interplay between immune regulation and tissue homeostasis in health and with ageing, using zebrafish as a model. My ultimate aim is to identify therapeutic targets that can be used to incentivate tissue rejuvenation and ameliorate multiple co-morbidities of ageing |
Dr Ciara Kelly
c.kelly@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in Work Psychology Research InterestsI have two established streams of research. Both streams aim to further our knowledge of socially responsible and sustainable practices. One focuses on individual level practices and the other focuses on organisations and industry. At the individual level, I focus my research on building our understanding of how individuals’ roles and experiences outside of work influence their work lives, and vice versa. To do this I examine the impacts of leisure activities, idiosyncratic deals (‘i-deals’) and interpersonal emotion regulation on employees work and non-work lives. My research contributes to the literature on work-life enrichment by providing a more nuanced understanding of the roles individuals fulfil, beyond the traditional focus on family. It sheds light on broader mechanisms that facilitate individual success and productivity in the workplace. I do this through intensive longitudinal quantitative methods- often referred to as diary studies. At the organisational and industry level, my research deals with how businesses and public bodies can positively impact wider society. I have worked on multidisciplinary projects such as:
PhD SupervisionI am interested in supervising PhD students who would like to examine issues to do with the interface between work and other life domains - this can include work-life balance, enrichment and conflict pertaining to family and leisure domains as well as the impact of supportive supervisor behaviours on work-life balance. |
Dr Sihan Li
sihan.li@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
Sihan Li is a Lecturer in Climate Science in the Department of Geography at Sheffield University. Sihan obtained her PhD in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences from Oregon State University in 2017, on large ensembles of regional climate modelling over the Western United States. Her PhD work was focused on modelling the regional response to anthropogenic warming in complex terrain, the changing characteristics of hydrometeorological extreme events, and uncertainty quantification/reduction in climate modelling. She then moved to University of Oxford as a research associate to work on droughts and fires in the Amazonia in response to climate change. Sihan stayed in Oxford as senior research associate to work on hydrological modelling of monsoon rainfall triggered landslides in mountainous Nepal, as part of a large international interdisciplinary project Sajag-Nepal– a partnership to improve preparedness for the mountain hazard chain in Nepal. Current Projects:Deplete and Retreat: The Future of Andean Water Towers World Weather Attribution, an initiative to conduct real-time attribution analysis of extreme weather events as they happen around the world (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/) Previous Projects:Climate and Health Pump-Priming Fund: Dengue forecasting workshop Attributing Amazon Forest fires from Land-use Alteration and Meteorological Extremes (AFLAME) Evaluating Extreme Rainfall in Eastern China (EERCH) The Nature Conservancy/Oxford Martin School Climate Partnership Forest Mortality, Economics, and Climate (FMEC) |
Dr Ian Lidbury
i.lidbury@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Producing sufficient quantities of high-quality, nutritious food to meet the demands of a growing population will be a major challenge facing humanity over the next few decades. In addition, global emerging issues such as climate change and the phosphorus (P) crisis are compounding the problem of food security. In fact, finding sustainable alternatives to non-renewable chemical P fertilisers is now one of the great challenges facing global agriculture. |
Dr Elspeth Whitby
e.whitby@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
Research interests Imaging the fetus is routine during pregnancy in most countries. Ultrasound is the technique of choice as it is widely available and does not harm the fetus or mother. Despite major advances in ultrasound technology there are situations where it is necessary to know more or see more of the fetus. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is possible and during the last 20-25 years research has shown that MR is a valuable adjunct to ultrasound for fetal imaging. Over the last 12 years I have been involved in assessing the value of fetal MR in clinical practice and also developing additional sequences to image specific pathologies. |
Dr Po Yang
po.yang@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Dr Po Yang is a Senior Lecturer in Large Scale Data Fusion in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Wuhan University in China in 2004, before being awarded his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol in 2006. In 2010 he graduated with a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Staffordshire. From February 2015 to July 2019, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University. He worked as a Post-doc Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Bedfordshire from January 2012 to January 2015. Previously, he has also held the positions of Research Associate in Computer Science at the University of Teeside from September 2008 to February 2010, a Research Assistant in image processing at the University of Salford from March 2010 to December 2011. Since 2006 he has generated over 90 international journal and conference papers in the fields of Pervasive Healthcare, Image Processing, Parallel Computing and RFID related internet of things (IoT) applications. He serves as an Associate Editor in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine and IEEE Access. He has over 12 years full time research experience in computing areas (recent three years working on Pervasive Healthcare), which includes the key participation and local leadership of 6 EU funded projects CALLAS (RA in Affective Computing at Teeside University), IMPACT (RA in Image Processing at Salford University), GPSME, DRINVENTOR, MHA and CHIC (RF in Computer Science at Bedfordshire University) and 3 EPSRC/TSB funded projects. Dr Po Yang's research interests include: Pervasive Computing, Healthcare Informatics, Data Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) |
Dr Vitor de Carvalho Moreno das Neves
v.neves@sheffield.ac.uk School of Clinical Dentistry |
I am a specialist in Periodontology, with a MSc and PhD in Translational & Regenerative Dentistry.
My career ambition is to shape the future of Dentistry via molecular biology, genetics and |
Professor Beining Chen
b.chen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests The major focus of our research is to use computer aided molecular design and combinatorial chemistry to facilitate drug design and molecular recognition studies. A. Therapeutics TSEs, are progressive, invariably fatal neurological disorders occurring in sheep, cattle and humans, and in a variety of other ungulates, felines and rodents. The disease involves the formation of pathological deposits of protein in the brain. The protein responsible, the non-infectious cellular isoform of prion protein (PrPC), can adopt an aberrant insoluble infectious conformation (PrPRes), which accumulates extracellularly and is resistant to denaturation and digestion with protease. Aggregation of PrPRes leads to neural disorder and thereafter the death of animals and humans affected. The development of therapeutic compounds has always been considered as one of the most important and challenge areas to be tackled in TSE research. The project aims to develop drugs which interacts with the biosynthetic pathway of prion protein either to stabilise its conformation or to provoke the interaction of the protein with its abnormal counterpart. Our main focus now is to develop novel drugs for prion disease to cure Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) including Scrapie in Sheep, BSE in cattles and CJD in humans. Novel ideas together with well written proposal have recently secured her group major funding from the Department of Health worth over £1.15 million. We are also building up our research in natural product chemistry/bioorganic chemistry for lead discovery. Activities in therapeutics are expanding into other amyloid diseases as well as areas cardiovascular, CNS, anti-viruses. B. Proteomics - Structural Studies of Abnormal Prion Proteins With very few exceptions, all cells in the human body contain the same genes. We need to know what proteins are produced and are active in different cells and at different times, because it is the proteins that make things happen. For example, they govern how cells communicate with each other to mobilise an immune response, or to detect and respond to changes in their environment. The genome is a parts list and the proteome (the complement of proteins) is an activity report. Proteomics is about understanding the function of proteins, both individually and collectively. The most challenging area in the study of TSE is to understand how abnormal prion protein forms, and its structure and functions. Modern available technologies such as x-ray crystallography and NMR prove to be little use in studying the abnormal prion conformation due to the special insoluble properties of the plaque formed during protein aggregation. Theoretical modelling using molecular dynamics and bioinformatics as tools together with various labelling techniques are being developed in Dr. Chen's group for the prediction of abnormal prion structures. |
Professor Richard Ross
r.j.ross@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Research InterestsThe 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.
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