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Mr Abdullah Pandor
a.pandor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Katie Sworn
K.Sworn@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
My research interests are systematic review methodology, including Complex Intervention development. I am also interested in dementia research. |
Dr Katy Cooper
k.l.cooper@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests include: • Systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness for healthcare interventions |
Dr Munira Essat
m.essat@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 Tanefa Apekey
t.apekey@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 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. |
Professor Daniel Hind
d.hind@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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.” |
Dr Marrissa Martyn-St James
M.Martyn-StJames@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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 Lien Monkhouse
L.L.Monkhouse@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in Marketing Research interests Following the achievement of an MBA degree (with Distinction) from the University of Leeds, Lien carried out her PhD research in consumer behaviour of East Asian luxury goods market. She has conducted peer review for a few marketing journals and conferences (for e.g. Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, AIB South East Asia conference, Academy of Marketing conference). Lien has a few papers in 3* journals and has presented at different international conferences in her research area. |
Miss Diana Papaioannou
d.papaioannou@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Rachel King
rachel.king@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
I have a particular interest in researching nursing workforce issues and knowledge mobilisation. Current research includes longitudinal mixed methods cohort studies of advanced level nurse practitioners and trainee nursing associates. I am also involved in a systematic review of continuing professional development in nursing. Methodologically my expertise lies in qualitative research (using observations, focus groups and interviews), and reviews. I currently co-supervise two PhD students, exploring advanced nursing roles in surgery and stroke care settings, and welcome any prospective student interested in researching nursing workforce issues or aspects of knowledge mobilisation. |
Dr Lesley Uttley
l.uttley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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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Dr James Fotheringham
j.fotheringham@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 Christopher Carroll
c.carroll@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Alvaro Martinez-Perez
a.martinez-perez@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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I would be very keen to supervise PhD students with an interest in these substantive topics and with an interest in quantitative research methods. |
Dr Mark Taylor
m.r.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
I'm interested in culture. This includes what we might call "formal" culture, like theatre, music, and visual art. It also includes other ways that people spend their time such as playing video games, cooking, and watching telly. |
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. |
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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Professor Tracey Young
t.a.young@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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 |
I am interested in supervising Research Students in topics/areas such as:
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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 |
Dr Claire Cunnington
claire.cunnington@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Claire’s research has mainly focussed on interpersonal violence towards adults and children as well as the social work response. Claire is particularly interested in the lived experience of CSA recovery and the professionals supporting that recovery. Her work looks at how recovering can be conceptualised and facilitated. |
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. |
Professor Caitlin Buck
C.E.Buck@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
My research draws on experience in archaeology, palaeoenvironmental science and statistics, encouraging experts from a range of fields to share ideas and resources. Previous and current work includes:
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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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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. |
Professor Georg Struth
g.struth@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Georg works mainly on logical and algebraic methods in computer science, formalised mathematics with interactive theorem provers and program verification and correctness. His interests range from foundational work on the axiomatisation and semantics of sequential and concurrent computing systems to applications in the design and implementation of program verification software. |
Ms Kitty Nichols
k.nichols@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies Sheffield Methods Institute |
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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 John Derrick
j.derrick@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Research interests Specification, refinement and testing using formal methods:
I have specific interest in the use and theory of refinement in specifications languages. We have recently been applying this to the verification and liearizability of concurrent algorithms. Work on testing includes that on property-based testing for distributed applications (e.g. those written in Erlang), and reverse engineering. I have coordinated two EU FP7 grants in this area (ProTest and Prowess). |
Dr Kirill Bogdanov
k.bogdanov@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Research interests In traditional software development, specification and testing do not play an important role. In particular, changes to software code do not normally get reflected in a specificaton. At the same time, specification-based testing methods are very important for maintaing software quality, for identification of missing or incorrectly-implemented behaviour. K.Bogdanov's research aims to develop a method and a tool to take an incomplete state-based specification, hints for developers as to how it relates to code and both (1) extract an up-to-date specification and (2) generate tests from it. |
Ms Kitty Nichols
k.nichols@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Kitty has been teaching Sheffield Methods Institute (SMI) modules since the Institute first launched, but joined the SMI full-time in 2021, having previously been based in the Department of Sociological Studies where she completed her PhD. Before this Kitty completed her Masters degree in Sociology and Social Research Methods at The University of Newcastle and her undergraduate degree at The University of Leicester. In 2018 Kitty completed her PhD entitled ‘Banter, masculinities and Rugby Union: exploring the relationship between masculinity and humour in men’s lived realities of gender.’ Drawing on data from a three-year ethnographic study of a Northern Rugby club, the thesis was concerned with how men experience and negotiate the gendered structures which underpin sporting sites. She has since been developing and extending these ideas into papers. |
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 Lindsey Rice
L.Rice@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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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 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. |
Professor Helen Kennedy
h.kennedy@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
I have supervised seven PhD students to successful completion. My research interests are:
I’m interested in supervising PhD students working in areas such as:
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Professor James Chilcott
j.b.chilcott@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research Interests* Modelling in public health
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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:
He is available to supervise students in these and related areas. |
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. |
Dr Tim Highfield
t.j.highfield@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
My research focuses on how digital media and related technologies intervene within everyday life, encompassing visual, temporal, cultural, and political perspectives. Much of my work examines how the everyday cultural practices of digital media users intersect with political themes and issues, such as how digital content, and especially visual forms, are used to make sense of politics. I am also interested in the aims and roles of digital platforms themselves in making and shaping these interventions, and how these relate to the cultures and practices of their users.
I am interested in supervising PhD students investigating topics including:
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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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Dr Liz Croot
l.croot@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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 Anton Selivanov
a.selivanov@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
My research interests lie in the area of mathematical control theory. I study infinite-dimensional systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) and delay differential equations. My goal is to develop mathematical tools for designing controllers that guarantee the desired system behaviour in the presence of input/output delays, external disturbances, measurement noise, parameter uncertainties, and other phenomena occurring in practice. Research interests
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Dr Casey Strine
c.a.strine@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies Department of History |
Available to supervise history and biblical studies topics Casey's main research focuses on how the experience of involuntary migration influences the development of ethnic, national, and religious identity. He combines insights from the social scientific study of migration with historical sources (textual and material) in order to reconstruct the political, social, and cultural development of ancient Israel and Judah as well as for the interpretation of the literature of Israel, Judah, Assyria, and Babylonia. Casey is keen to supervise postgraduate students working in History or through the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Students with interests in the political, social and cultural history of ancient Israel and Judah—particularly those exploring the impact of migration on these societies and their texts—the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and the relationship between the visual arts and the Bible are welcome to be in touch with me. |
Dr Malcolm Patterson
m.patterson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Research Fellow PhD SupervisionI am currently supervising PhD students in the following areas:
I would welcome applications and inquiries in these areas and related areas corresponding to my areas of expertise listed above. PublicationsKnight, C;, Patterson, M.G, Dawson, J and Brown, J (2017). Building and sustaining work engagements- a participatory action intervention to increase work engagement in nursing staff. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(5) 634-649. Knight, C;, Patterson, M. and Dawson, J. (2017). Building work engagement: A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of work engagement interventions. Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 38(6) 792-812. Madrid, H.P. and Patterson, M.. Creativity at work as a joint function between openness to experience, need for cognition and organisational fairness. Learning and Individual Differences, forthcoming 2016. Stephan, U., Patterson, M., Kelly, C. and Mair, J. (2016). Organizations driving positive social change: A reveiw and an intergrative framework of change processes. Journal of Management, 42(5) 2016. Madrid, H., Patterson, M. and Leiva, P. (2015). Negative core affect and employee silence: How differences in activation, cognitive rumination and problem-solving demands matter. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(6) 1887-1989. Madrid, H.P., Patterson, M.G., Birdi, K.S. and Leiva, P.I. (2014). The role of weekly high-activated positive mood, context, and personality in innovative work behavior: A multilevel and interactional model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(2) 234-256.
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Professor Michael Thelwall
m.a.thelwall@sheffield.ac.uk Information School |
Research Interests I have two main research interests: bibliometrics and social media analysis. Bibliometrics involves primarily quantitative analysis of academic publications, including factors like citation rates, the role of collaboration, gender differences, and the relationship between citations and research quality. It also includes altmetrics, in the form of alternative quantitative indicators of research impact. In terms of social media analysis, I am interested in the development and applications of mixed quantitative-qualitative methods to analyse social web data for social science research goals. I am particularly interested in YouTube at the moment because of the availability of large scale data. Research supervision I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas:
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Dr Paraskevi Katsiampa
p.katsiampa@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in Financial Management Paraskevi’s primary research interests include Financial Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Forecasting, Spillover effects, Cryptocurrencies, Commodities, House prices, and Financial Crises, among others. Her secondary research interests include Pedagogy in Higher Education. She is also interested in interdisciplinary research projects involving quantitative methods. She regularly acts as a reviewer for several refereed academic journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and Research in International Business and Finance, among others. Paraskevi would welcome proposals from potential doctoral students wishing to work in any of the fields of her research interests. |
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 Kevin Hughes
K.J.Hughes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Kevin's research covers a range of topics related to fuel combustion, fuel degradation and deposit formation, pollutant chemistry, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, and process modelling in carbon capture and storage systems. In the area of combustion, degradation, and pollutant chemistry, the approach is a combination of experimental and theoretical investigation; for example the elucidation of a simple laminar flame structure by a combination of conventional species sampling techniques allied to laser diagnostic probing of the flame structure using the technique of planar laser induced fluorescence. This provides data that allows for the validation of detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms. These mechanisms are constructed by a variety of means ranging from experimental measurements of individual reaction rates, crude estimation by analogy, group additivity based methods, detailed theoretical calculation using quantum chemistry methods, and the application of master equation models to calculated potential energy surfaces. Insight is further gained by the application of sensitivity analysis methods to both allow the simplification of detailed mechanisms, and to highlight those regions of particular importance for the phenomena of interest. In the area of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, the focus is on the CFD modelling and the experimental testing of small scale devices, and the systematic investigation of their performance as a function of operating conditions and the properties of the individual fuel cell components such as electrical conductivity and gas permeability. This is complemented by an experimental and theoretical investigation of novel catalysts, using quantum chemistry methods to predict behaviour, along with catalyst synthesis, physical and electrochemical characterization, and finally testing in real fuel cell systems. Carbon capture and storage related research is focused on novel operating procedures related to gas turbines linked to solvent capture plants, with the aim of optimizing the overall system performance, and understanding the chemistry of solvent degradation and emissions. |
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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Dr Joe Purshouse
j.purshouse@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Dr Yuanbo Nie
y.nie@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
I have a strong interest in the control and simulation of aerospace systems, particularly when unconventional and counterintuitive solutions are needed. My current focuses are on
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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 Julie Jones
Julie.Jones@Sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
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Dr Jonathan Collinson
j.collinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Jonathan joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in January 2023. He is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Research interests
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Professor Shuxing Yin
shuxing.yin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Head of Accounting & Financial Management Subject Group Research interests Shuxing's research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, market efficiency and anomalies. She has acted as referee for Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, British Accounting Review, European Journal of Finance. She welcomes PhD applicants in the field of corporate finance, particularly focusing on Chinese (mainland and Hong Kong) markets, initial public offerings and market efficiency. |
Professor Robert Hierons
r.hierons@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
TestingProfessor Rob Hierons’ research largely concerns software testing. The main aim of this research is to devise automated techniques (and tools) that generate efficient, systematic test suites on the basis of program code, models or specifications. Progress in this area can help industry to produce higher quality software and potentially to do so more quickly. He has recently become interested in the testing of autonomous systems, with a particular focus on robotics. PhD SupervisonProfessor Hierons 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 Robyn Orfitelli
r.orfitelli@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
My research is focused on the intersection between first language acquisition and generative syntactic theory. I use a variety of corpus and behavioral measures to experimentally analyze children’s acquisition of complex syntactic phenomena. Recently, I have been interested in understanding the acquisition of a range of A-movement phenomena related to voice, including subject-to-subject raising, passives, and middles. I am working to link patterns in acquisition to systematic cross-linguistic differences in the representation of these structures. Other current or recent topics of interest include the Null-Subject stage in first and second language acquisition, word-level prosody in Samoan, and the syntax-prosody interface in language development. |
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 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).
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Ms Agnes Rydberg
A.V.Rydberg@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
Agnes holds a PhD in Public International Law from Queen Mary University of London, where she also completed an LLM. She also has a BSc in International Law from Orebro University in Sweden. Her future research plans include exploring the international law implications of climate change, and in particular the challenge of rising sea levels for small island developing states. She has several publications, including with Kluwer and Oxford University Press, as well as in the International Community Law Review and the Yearbook of International Disaster Law. She is an assistant editor of a book series on Principles of International Environmental Law. Her teaching experience in teaching contract law at Queen Mary and serving as a visiting tutor in public international law at Royal Holloway. Agnes has previously worked with UN Women and the International Bar Association. Research interests
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Dr Nicholas Woodrow
n.woodrow@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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. |
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'. |
Professor Mark Hopkinson
m.hopkinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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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 Munya Dimairo
m.dimairo@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Lyudmila Mihaylova
L.S.Mihaylova@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
Research interests: Broad research in the areas of signal processing, Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo methods, nonlinear estimation, target tracking, sensor data fusion, control, autonomous and complex systems (e.g. image and video processing, transportation systems, large scale systems) – both at theoretical and applied level. |
Dr Clara Mukuria
c.mukuria@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Richard Wilkinson
r.d.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Uncertainty quantification, Monte Carlo (especially Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods), applied statistical modelling, climate science. |
Professor Mike Williamson
M.Williamson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research Interests Protein structure determination by 2D and 3D NMR, and interactions with ligands. Methods for characterising protein mobility on multiple timescales. |
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 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. |
Professor Nicholas Williams
n.h.williams@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests Our research can be broadly described as physical organic chemistry. This is the design, synthesis and systematic study of (mainly) organic molecules. The molecules we are interested in designing are ones which either show fundamental insights into mechanisms, reactivity, recognition and/or catalysis, or exploit the understanding we have to create more complex supramolecular systems. Practically, we think at the molecular level (designing organic molecules with key structural features), make them (organic synthesis), and finally discover how well they function by carefully examining their properties. Currently, we have several main strands of investigation:Enzymes are remarkably efficient catalysts, operating under mild aqueous conditions; as man made efforts to achieve similar activity are many orders of magnitude less efficient, there is still a great deal that we do not understand. We are investigating well defined model compounds to understand how to combine several functional groups so that they work really effectively together. This helps give a deeper understanding of biological catalysis, and guides us in designing our own biomimetic catalysts. Organic ligands which can bind and control the reactivity of metal ions provide the best catalysts to date, and form the core of our models and catalysts. We are applying the discovery that individual components of a catalyst can be brought together to achieve cooperative catalysis (i.e. the whole is more effective than the sum of the parts!) towards creating supramolecular systems which can be controlled by recognition processes. This is the type of event which takes place in signalling at cell surfaces, and we are making transmembrane signalling systems which mimic this. As well as these larger systems, which involve many weak interactions, we are exploring molecular cages, which are held together by stronger interaction to make more well defined structures that are capable of binding and catalysing the reactions of substrates selectively. Keywords: Physical organic chemistry, biological chemistry. Mechanism, reactivity, and catalysis, especially relevant to organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and biology. Functional supramolecular systems. |
Dr Alexis Foster
alexis.foster@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsI specialise in research on the third sector such as charities and community groups. I also research wellbeing interventions including social prescribing. I am interested in services which link different sectors together such as housing associations working in hospital inpatient units. I also have experience in implementation and knowledge mobilisation for example, implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures. MethodsI am a mixed methods researcher with experience of booth quantitative and qualitative methods. I also undertake participatory and action research. I am passionate about stakeholder involvement especially patients/ service-users. |
Professor Val Gillet
v.gillet@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My research interests focus on:
Particular application areas include the identification of structure-activity relationships, toxicity prediction, 3D similarity methods and the de novo design of novel compounds. I also have expertise in developing novel representation methods for chemical structures with recent areas including reduced graphs, wavelet analysis and reaction vectors. |
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 supervising students using econometric methods to analyse individual behaviour. 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 particularly interested in obesity across different stages of life and how and why BMI changes over time. My current fellowship focuses on the causes and consequences of risky BMI trajectories in older adults. |
Dr Matthew Bacon
M.Bacon@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Dr Jennifer Burr
j.a.burr@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Steve Goodacre
S.Goodacre@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
Research InterestsMy research interests are clinical trials in emergency medicine, economic analysis, the organisation of emergency care and methods for evaluating the quality of emergency care. |
Dr Michael Mangan
m.mangan@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
My group uses bio-robotic methods to investigate how animals solve complex problems such as navigation before abstracting lessons learned to solve engineering goals. To reveal how animals function we utilise methods from computational neuroscience, behavioural ecology, graphics, information theory, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics disciplines. We then use more standard robotic and engineering methods to apply lessons to specific problem areas including robot controllers, novel sensing, and new methods of AI and machine learning inspired by natural intelligence. We celebrate this truly multidisciplinary approach which we find both stimulating and challenging. Therefore we welcome exceptional candidates from across fields but those with strong backgrounds in mathematical, physical sciences and engineering disciplines (including computer science and computational neuroscience) are particularly well suited to research in my group. |
Dr Jane McKeown
j.mckeown@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
My research interests are the care and involvement of people who have dementia and I am interested in research methods that enable people’s ‘voices to be heard’. |
Ms Permala Sehmar
p.sehmar@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
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Professor Rachel Smith
rachel.smith@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Wet granulation design and scale-up, DEM/CFD modelling of particulate processes, drug delivery methods, biological and water systems modelling. I am also a founding member of the Pharmaceutical Engineering Interest Group. |
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 Steven Ariss
S.Ariss@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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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 Richard Cooper
richard.cooper@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health The Medical School Department of Sociological Studies |
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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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Dr Berna Keskin
b.keskin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
My research interests focus on understanding the structure of the urban housing market and specifically exploring the relative merits of different approaches to capturing neighbourhood segmentation within house price models by using quantitative methods. My research adopts a variety of econometric methods to the analysis of property markets by investigating the effectiveness of different modelling techniques at capturing housing market segmentation. I am also interested in the structure and operation of real estate markets particularly from investor's and developer's perspective. |
Dr Aneta Piekut
a.piekut@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Dr Aneta Piekut (she/her) is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Methods Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK. Aneta also co-directs the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield. She is a mixed methods sociologist and her research spans disciplinary boundaries. Her research focuses on ethnic diversity, socio-spatial segregation and social cohesion, attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities, including their measurement and the problem of survey nonresponse. |
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 Li Su
Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience |
My lab is a multi-disciplinary research group aims to combine innovative and original computational methods including artificial intelligence models with the state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques (EEG, MRI and PET) in understanding, detecting and developing treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Offering PhD opportunities in but not restricted to the following areas
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Professor Steve Fotios
s.fotios@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Architecture |
My research of lighting has two main themes – human factors and research methods. Lighting and human factors: The main question is how do variations in lighting conditions (the amount, colour, and spatial distribution) affect perception of the environment and task performance, and non-image-forming effects such as alertness? Currently, I focus mainly on lighting for pedestrians and cyclists. Research methods: In the Lighting Research Group we aim to make sure our results are robust. In subjective evaluations, for example, we study how the question and the experimental design influence the responses gained in an experiment. Was Poulton correct that all subjective quantitative judgements are erroneous or misleading? I have supervised 20 PhD students to completion and set up LumeNet, the annual research methods symposium for PhD students of lighting. I am the Editor-in-Chief of Lighting Research and Technology. |
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. |
Dr Michaela Rogers
m.rogers@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Primarily I am a qualitative researcher with an interest in narrative but I have experience of managing mixed methods projects too. I am interested in all things that concern equality and social justice in relation to my practice discipline of social work and social care, but my main research interests and research lie in the following areas:
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Professor Michail Balikhin
m.balikhin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
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Dr Samantha Caton
s.caton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Enrico Dall'Ara
e.dallara@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Research InterestsMy research interests are related to better understanding bone mechanics and remodelling with imaging, experimental and computational methods. In particular the main goal of my research is to develop and validate computational models for the prediction of bone strength and risk of fracture in healthy and disease, applied to both preclinical and clinical studies. |
Professor Jaime Delgadillo
j.delgadillo@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Psychology |
My clinical interests are in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for depression, anxiety and addiction problems. My research primarily focuses on the development of methods to predict and prevent poor treatment outcomes (i.e. dropout, persistent distress after therapy, relapse) and to optimally match patients to specific interventions. |
Professor Peter Dodd
p.j.dodd@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Andrea Genovese
a.genovese@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
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Professor Kirill Horoshenkov
k.horoshenkov@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Professor Horoshenkov’s main research interests are in novel sensors for water industry, novel acoustic materials and material characterisation methods. His other area of work relates to noise control, audio-visual interactions and design of nature-inspired noise control solutions. |
Professor Derek Ingham
d.ingham@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Professor Derek Ingham is an applied mathematician who has worked on a wide variety of engineering and industrial mathematical problems in collaboration with numerous engineering scientists and with several industries and acted as an Expert Witness. He has published research papers with members of staff in all the engineering and environment departments, and several science and medical departments. At present he supervises 15 PhD students and has successfully supervised over 100 PhD students. Further he is on the editorial board of 12 international journals, has written 16 research books, over 900 research papers in referred journals and over 40 confidential industrial reports. He has received funding from over 70 different organizations. In particular, he has research interests in energy: wind energy, fuel cells; heat and fluid flows: flows in porous media, ill-proposed problems, cementing of oil castings, proppant transport in fractures, Stirling Engines, heating of oils and in ship holds. Carbon capture and storage. Environment: ventilation, fume cupboards, sampling, aerosols, filtration, gravity currents, atomisers, blowing snow. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Finite volume methods, finite element methods, Lattice Boltzman methods, boundary element methods. Turbulence. Boundary layer theory. |
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. |
Dr Tom Pering
t.pering@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
The measurement of sulphur dioxide, using ultra violet cameras, and modelling via computational fluid dynamics and laboratory analogues of a variety of degassing modes from basaltic magmas, including: passive, strombolian, and lava fountaining. Low-cost alternatives to previously expensive methods |
Ms Katie Powell
K.Powell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Rola Saad
r.saad@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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Dr Angela Sorsby
A.Sorsby@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
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Professor Markus Szymik
M.Szymik@Sheffield.ac.uk School of Mathematics and Statistics |
My research revolves around symmetries in topology, geometry, and algebra. I use homotopy theory and homological algebra, representation theory and K-theory to understand groups and their generalisations, but these methods have applications far beyond the study of symmetry. My current research also applies these ideas to number theory and algebraic geometry. |
Dr James Weinberg
james.weinberg@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
James is particularly interested in mixed methods’ studies of political behavior (at both elite and mass levels). He has experience of fielding experimental surveys, conducting focus groups and elite interviews, designing and evaluating surveys for a range of research purposes, as well as quantitative textual analysis and data visualisation. |
Dr Fiona Wilson
fiona.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk Nursing and Midwifery |
My research interests are in palliative and end of life care, particularly how people make decisions about care and service provision, and older people's care and access to services. My methodological strengths are in participatory approaches and qualitative research methods. |
Dr Tim Ireland
t.ireland@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Architecture |
My research interests include: # Computational/generative design: morphology/form finding and spatial configuration. # Algorithmic and biological design: understanding morphology and structure in natural constructions (for example termite mounds), and how understanding of such structures (the construction process, morphology, and physiological performance), can be applied in architectural design # Swarms and Collective Behaviour # Collective intelligence and distributed cognition # Communication and signification in natural systems (i.e., sign systems/biosemiotics) # Experimental architecture, with note to history and theory of (which is typically analogue or pre-modern algorithmic methods) and how such past work might be (re)applied and transformed through algorithmic generative design methods. # The design theory and work of Frederick Kiesler. |
Professor Adam Leaver
A.Leaver@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Chair in Accounting and Society Adam's current research interests include:
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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 Joseph Claghorn
j.claghorn@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
The focus of my personal research has been on the use of computational methods to model emergent processes in the landscape and to explore how these methods can be used in contemporary landscape architectural practice. This has been the topic of my doctoral thesis Algorithmic Landscapes: Computational Methods for the mediation of Form, Information, and Performance in Landscape Architecture. More broadly, I am interested in studying the emergent and evolutionary qualities of landscapes and in developing strategies for intervention in particularly difficult or complex contexts. In the past years, I have collaborated on research exploring the potential of landscape architectural interventions to address issues of disaster and risk while improving community living standards in low-income, largely informal settlements, including sponsored research in Colombia and in Brazil. In addition, I have curated the blog Generative Landscapes since August of 2014, which provides straightforward examples of algorithms developed using Rhino and Grasshopper. As of January 2019 the blog has just shy of 800,000 views from 170,000 unique visitors. |
Dr Dani Madrid Morales
d.madrid-morales@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Journalism, Media and Communication |
Global Communication and Computational Methods in JournalismDani's research focuses on global political communication and international media flows, with a focus on the Global South. He has published on the impact of global Chinese media on local journalistic cultures in English and French speaking Africa. He has also studied the multiple ways audiences in East and Southern Africa engage with news and entertainment on Chinese media.
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Professor Siddharth Patwardhan
s.patwardhan@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Research in the group undertakes the synthesis of bespoke nanomaterials using biologically inspired green routes. In our new book, the aim is to address the highly sought aspect of how to translate the understanding of biominerals into new green manufacturing methods. We cover aspects from the discovery of new green synthesis methods all the way to considering their commercial manufacturing routes. The group aims to demonstrate potential of green methods for nanomaterials synthesis by realisation of their real-life applications. Current projects are focussed on developing application of green nanomaterials in four distinct sectors:
A significant research focus is on developing the science underpinning scale-up of green nanomaterials, thus enabling their large-scale manufacturing. New Technologies Invented: |
Dr Indeewara Perera
i.perera@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Economics |
Indeewara’s research interests include model fitting, estimation, inference and forecasting in non-linear time series models, with special emphasis on statistical analysis of financial data. The concepts and tools used for weak convergence of stochastic processes in metric spaces, bootstrap methods, and goodness-of-fit tests play important roles in most of his research. He has produced several papers in leading journals in the areas of econometric theory, mathematical statistics, and time series analysis. Four of his papers have been published in journals ranked A* by the 2013 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List. Indeewara is interested in supervising PhD students working in Econometrics (Theoretical or Applied) and Statistics. Specifically, he is interested in the following areas:
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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 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 Ross Drummond
ross.drummond@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
Research description: Dr Drummond's research has three main focus areas: the management and control of energy storage devices, nonlinear systems analysis and the robustness analysis of neural networks. A primary concern is the use of control theoretic techniques to optimise the performance of energy storage devices such as lithium ion batteries. This includes the design of fast charging protocols, model development and advancing battery manufacturing methods. The need to understand battery dynamics has motivated his research into nonlinear systems, in particular searching for novel Lyapunov functions. Finally, using these advances in nonlinear systems, he has been applying these methods to quantify the robustness of neural networks and relate them to control theoretic techniques such as model predictive control. Together, these three research streams emphasize how effectively utilising modelling, control and optimisation can improve the performance of several leading technologies such as batteries and neural networks. |
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 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 |
Dr Andrew Nowakowski
a.f.nowakowski@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Andrew's research interests are in the area of aerodynamics, multi-component and multi-phase flows. In all these categories, the work aims to construct the algorithms for determining approximate solutions of relevant flow problems. Then, numerical methods are analysed and computer codes implementing the algorithms are developed, first for the purpose of showing the efficacy of the discretization methods and ultimately, to solve problems of practical interest. |
Professor Layla Skinns
l.skinns@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
A key focus of my research has been police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. In this setting, I am interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how this impacts on equality and on state-citizen relations. I am also interested in how the public – particularly detainees – perceive the police, which links my research to discussions about police legitimacy and to 'good' policing. Research Interests
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Dr Keith Tarnowski
k.tarnowski@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
My research focuses on fracture mechanics aspects of structural integrity, encompassing crack growth mechanisms such as fatigue and creep, as well as brittle and ductile fracture. My research combines experimental techniques with numerical modelling and I have experience of a wide variety of finite element analysis software packages including, ABAQUS, DYNA, NASTAN and PATRAN. I have developed improved methods of accurately measuring crack initiation and growth in ductile materials and in hostile environments. These methods, based on the electrical potential drop technique, facilitate improved material models that enable the continued safe operation of structures, avoiding premature maintenance and decomissioning programmes. This provides potentially huge social, environmental and economic benefits to variety of industries, e.g. power generation. The ASTM standards on fracture toughness testing (E1820) and creep crack growth testing (E1457) have been revied to incorporate this research. |
Dr Mark Tomlinson
mark.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests
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. |
Dr Alexandra Woodall
alexandra.woodall@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Programme Director for Creative and Cultural Industries Management Primarily interested in how people engage with material culture in museums (the encounter between a person and a thing), not least through developing collaborative creative projects with artists, Alex is also interested in how the museum workforce is supported to flourish. To that end, she initiated and is currently working with the UK Museums Association to undertake the first ever piece of research on bullying in the museums sector. In addition, she is involved in object-based research in heritage tourism sites in India, particularly in the City Palace Museum in Jaipur and in Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh, where she has collaborated with Professor Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester), Professor Manvi Seth (National Museum Institute, New Delhi) and an international team of researchers. Alex's research methods are qualitative, often including reflexive interview, participant observation and visual methods. |
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 Gemma Arblaster
g.arblaster@sheffield.ac.uk Ophthalmology and Orthoptics |
I am a clinical academic Orthoptist with an interest in strabismus, binocular single vision, eye movements, low vision and orthoptics. I have a special interest in projects that measure the outcomes of treatments for strabismus, functional outcomes and eye movement disorders, such as nystagmus. My previous research has been quantitative, but more recently has also included mixed methods research. Please contact me if you would like to discuss research in these areas. |
Dr Gianna Ayala
g.ayala@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Archaeology |
Research interests: My research interests are wide reaching and focus on the integration of different analytical methods. I work predominately in the Mediterranean but have worked all over the world, including Britain, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Argentina.
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Dr Gianna Ayala
g.ayala@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Dr Harsh Beohar
h.beohar@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
My research interests lie in developing new techniques or improve the existing ones for the behavioural analysis of concurrent systems. To this end, I use methods from algebra, logic, or/and category theory. In the past, I've worked on the following topics: coalgebras and their modal logic, model based testing of software product lines, semantics of hybrid systems, (pre)sheaves models for concurrency, and verification of asynchronous systems. |
Dr Rebecca Boston
r.boston@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Sustainable Oxide Processing Group My group and I are interested in developing new low-temperature synthesis routes to control particle size and shape in functional ceramic oxides. Current work includes Na- and Li-ion battery cathodes and anodes, thermoelectrics, dielectrics, oxide superconductors and materials for fusion energy generation. We also investigate novel low temperature sintering methods which allow us to create dense ceramics with controlled nanostructure, exploiting emergent structure-morphology relationships. |
Professor Thomas Bridgeland
T.Bridgeland@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
I am an algebraic geometer with a particular interest in homological methods, enumerative invariants and topological string theory. My research is currently focused on a large programme which aims to use Donaldson-Thomas invariants to define geometric structures on spaces of stability conditions. Research projects in this area typically involve a mix of algebraic geometry and complex analysis. |
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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Dr Roy Chaudhuri
r.chaudhuri@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research Interests: Bacterial genomics. Current research topics include:
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Dr Thomas Clark
t.clark@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests My main research interests are in the broad areas of research methodology, novel applications of social theory, and sport. More specifically, I am interested in the utility of social research and the impact of being researched; the ethics of social research; secondary research methods; methodological innovation; and, the sociology of lower league football. Currently, I am attempting to utilise novel sources of data in order to explore the sociology of evil. I am also interested in the sociology of deception, in all of its various disguises. |
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 SJ Cooper-Knock
S.J.Cooper-Knock@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies School of Law |
SJ Cooper-Knock's research focuses on the politics of urban life in South Africa. The current focus of their work includes: everyday policing and punishment; being and belonging in the city; the politics of crisis; and concepts of urban justice. SJ particularly welcomes applications that will be using qualitative methods and has an ongoing interest in arts-based approaches. |
Mr Lee Crookes
l.crookes@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Research interests Positioning myself as a critical geographer/planner, I am interested in using qualitative methods to explore contemporary issues related to housing, class, gentrification, urban regeneration and associated conflicts over the meaning and use of space. Within the context of a broad ambition to develop an understanding of planning ‘from below’, I am keen to extend and develop the focus of gentrification research from displacement to matters of emplacement whilst further examining the politics and geography of ‘home’, attachment to place and the personal and social costs of displacement. |
Professor Simon Dixon
s.dixon@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Samuel Farley
s.j.farley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Senior Lecturer Sam is a Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology at Sheffield University Management School. He is particularly interested in the Dark Side of workplace behaviour, including bullying, cyberbullying and incivility. Within this field, his interests include the measurement of bullying, perpetrators of bullying and methods of preventing and addressing bullying in organisational life. Prior to working at Sheffield, Sam worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds Business School. |
Dr Aimee Felstead
a.felstead@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Landscape Architecture |
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Dr Jonathan Foster
j.j.foster@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research interests My main research interests are within the area of information management, with specialist expertise in information governance and ethics. I have led and worked with colleagues from across a number of disciplines on externally funded projects in this area supported by the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, and Innovate UK. I predominantly use qualitative and mixed-methods. PhD Supervision Information governance and ethics; AI governance, accountability and ethics; trustworthy and responsible AI; information management. |
Professor Thomas Hain
t.hain@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Research interests Thomas' research interests cover many areas in natural language processing, speech, audio and multimedia technology, machine learning, and complex system optimisation and design. |
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 Liam Healy
liam.healy@sheffield.ac.uk School of Architecture |
My practice-research interests focus around situated speculative and critical design, participation, co-design, prototyping, DIY design, care, the Anthropocene, design's intersection with actor-network theory (ANT), science and technology studies (STS), and speculative thought. I am also interested in (and convinced by the value of) designing and researching through making and practice — to think through materials and their processes by experimenting, modelling and prototyping, as well as utilising photo and video methods. |
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. |
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 Georges Kesserwani
g.kesserwani@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Research interests Dr Kesserwani current research interests revolve around:
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Professor Vitaveska Lanfranchi
v.lanfranchi@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Her research has a fundamental interdisciplinary nature, and has developed both in industry and in academia. It concerns the intersection among ubiquitous computing, knowledge capture and visualization and human computer interaction in fields as diverse emergency response, mobility, smart cities, manufacturing, aerospace and more recently wellbeing. Her research focuses on user participatory design methods to develop novel methodologies and interfaces for ubiquitous and mobile computing. |
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 |
Dr Andrew Narracott
a.j.narracott@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease The Medical School |
Research interests My research interest is the application of numerical techniques to the study of cardiovascular systems, with development of associated experimental validation methods. Application areas include coronary artery stenting, native and prosthetic valve function and venous haemodynamics. Such applications cover a range of technical areas including structural mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction and multi-scale approaches for biological systems. |
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. |
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 |
Professor Pierre Ricco
p.ricco@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Pierre's research focuses on fluid mechanics and he has used experimental, numerical and theoretical techniques. He has been interested in turbulent drag reduction by moving surfaces (spanwise wall oscillations and traveling waves), and in boundary-layer transition to turbulence induced by free-stream perturbations.
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Dr Sarah Spencer
sarah.spencer@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Human Communication Sciences (old code) |
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Dr Neil Stewart
neil.stewart@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease |
My research interests include the development and optimisation of MRI methods and technology for hyperpolarised media and lung imaging. Ongoing projects include: |
Dr Eleanor Stillman
E.C.Stillman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
My main research interests lie in the practical application of statistics to geology and materials science. A long term concern has been the modelling of particle size, with investigations into its relationship with sediment transport processes and strength of composite materials. Other recent projects include the use of classification methods in pollen analysis, the design of resistant glazes and the production of computer-assisted-learning materials. |
Dr Christina Tatham
c.h.tatham@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Christina’s research is focused on young children’s experiences of, and access to, education Christina has a particular interest in participatory, visual methods with children and |
Professor Andrew Tyas
a.tyas@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Research interests Dr Tyas is head of the blast and impact research group in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, managing the testing laboratory at Harpur Hill, Buxton where research into blast physics and the response of structures to rapid dynamic loading is conducted. He is also a Director of Blastech Ltd, a University spin-out company offering consultancy and commercial testing services to industry in the field of blast and impact loading of structures. Additionally, he collaborates with Dr Matthew Gilbert in the development of computational optimisation-based methods for the design of structures. |
Professor Stephen Walters
s.j.walters@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Dr Kevin Walters
k.walters@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
My research interests are in the application and development of (mostly Bayesian) statistical methods to identify disease-causing DNA variants in population-based studies. I am interested in finding coherent ways of incorporating functional genomic information into priors to aid the detection of these causal variants. I have also recently become interested in developing statistical approaches to determine essential bacterial genes using transposon insertion data (next generation sequencing). One such approach uses modified Hidden-Markov models. |
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. |
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 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. |
Dr Christine Huebner
c.huebner@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield Methods Institute |
Christine’s research explores trends in political behaviour, political engagement, and conceptions of citizenship and democracy, in particular among young people. Her current research focuses on inequalities in political representation of young people and how experiences of inequality shape young people's political behaviour. Christine has accompanied and collected evidence on the outcomes of the lowering of the voting age to 16 in Scotland and Wales and is providing evidence-based advice to policymakers wanting to connect with young people around Europe, partially in her role as partner of independent and non-partisan think tank d|part. Her methodological interests include longitudinal qualitative and quantitative research designs, statistical modelling, and surveying difficult-to-reach groups. Prior to joining the Sheffield Methods Institute, Christine was Early Career Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2020. She welcomes applications to study PhD research degrees, either full or part time in the following areas: political participation, citizenship, perceptions of political legitimacy, political inequality, lowering the voting age, children’s voting, longitudinal qualitative methods |
Dr Guenter Moebus
g.moebus@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Core research develops from the advancement of methods of Characterization, Patterning and Irradiation of Materials on the Nanoscale (Nanometrology & Nanomanipulation). These methods are applied in collaboration with research groups spanning a wide range of research fields in optical, energy, catalytical and biomedical materials sectors. Particular materials examinations include oxide nanoparticles, nanoscale hydroxyapatite, metallic nanostructures with special plasmonic properties, porous alumina and related nanocomposites, piezo-actuation materials, metallic multi-layers, and multi-component oxide glasses, including those for radionuclide immobilisation. Recent priority research topics include:
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Professor Amaka Offiah
a.offiah@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
Research interests I am interested in the imaging of the paediatric musculoskeletal system including suspected child abuse, skeletal dysplasias including osteogenesis imperfecta and rheumatological conditions such as juvenile dermatomysosits and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. My research includes developing methods of determining which children have fragile bones prone to fracture and which do not. More specifically, I am concentrating on the optimisation of current techniques and development of novel methods of distinguishing brittle from normal bones, in understanding the mechanisms of accidental injury in infants and young children, in post-mortem imaging and in improving the detection and dating of the subtle fractures seen in abuse. More generally within the paediatric musculoskeletal system I am developing normative data for a signficant number of radiographic parameters measured in children for which robust normal standards do not exist, including vertebral fracture assessment, base of skull measurements and bone age. In collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Engineering, I am developing finite element models of children's bones to improve our understanding of accidental and inflicted injuries. My research has a focus on learning and teaching, amongst other projects I am developing software tools for teaching and training in suspected child abuse (ELECTRICA) and skeletal dysplasias (dREAMS). |
Dr Ozge Ozduzen
o.ozduzen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
First, Ozge studies media activism and participation, where she investigates political voice and mobilisation and intersectional approaches to urban and digital citizenship. Second, her research covers the interrelated areas of far-right digital publics, the visibility and spread of online conspiracy theories, and social media use during conflicts and crises. Ozge uses both qualitative (e.g., discourse-analysis-centred methods, in-depth interviews, and participant observation) and quantitative (e.g., sentiment and content analyses) methods in her research on digital media and society. Ozge is an experienced supervisor for students at BSc and MSc levels. She has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on digital cultures and social identities at Brunel University and Loughborough University, including Brexit memes, #MeToo culture, celebrity diplomacy and alternative online platforms in China. Ozge would be interested in supervising PhD students on online political cultures, DIY media activism, visual politics, online disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories, media and its relationship to radicalisation, and crisis communication. |
Professor Colin Smith
c.c.smith@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Research interests:
The experimental work has a strong basis in physical modelling, supported in particular by innovative digital imaging techniques. Whilst at Sheffield his research has been funded by EPSRC, NERC and industry. He is co-founder of a University spin-out company LimitState Ltd. The company specialises in the development of novel ultimate limit state analysis and design software applications which make use of research methods developed in the University, including LimitState:GEO, a rapid tool for geotechnical limit analysis in use in industry and universities in over 30 countries across the world. |
Dr Julie Walsh
j.c.walsh@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Sociological Studies |
My research is influenced by my historical involvement with Youth and Community Work and focuses on family, and the social constructions of what is perceived to be a 'normal' family within specific contexts. More broadly, I am interested in the ways in which the gender, generation, ethnicity, race and migration status of family members impacts on their sense of 'belonging' to both their 'family' and the broader community. I am also interested in the strategies employed by families, and individuals within families, to foster this sense of 'belonging' within a certain place. In addition to this, I have a long-standing interest in qualitative and ethnographic research methods and working with individuals and communities to understand the impact of broader narratives on everyday life. I am interested in supervising research students who intend to focus on any of the following issues (in UK and/or other national/regional/international contexts):
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Dr Jingxia Wang
jingxia.wang@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
have broad research interests in spatial planning, land resources management, and urban nature. My research interests lie primarily in the trans- and interdisciplinary areas, especially in the fields of landscape and urban ecology, land resources management, landscape planning and management, and social-ecological systems research. I have worked on the topics of nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, green infrastructure planning, climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, soundscape assessment and planning, and smart cities. My research methods include but are not limited to GIS-based and Remote Sensing-based methods and effective planning- and decision-support digital tools such as environmental modelling, environmental sensors, Internet of Things, point cloud and digital twins, and other smart technologies for urban nature. Are you looking for Honours, Scholarships, or a PhD project? I am keen to hear from individuals with studentship, doctoral or fellowship funding. I encourage applications that highly motivated and from diverse backgrounds, particularly for topics: • Green infrastructure planning • Nature-based solutions • Ecosystem Services & Nature’s contributions to People • Climate change adaptation • Biodiversity conservation and Resilient Cities • Soundscape planning and assessment • Smart cities |
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 |
Professor Frances Babbage
f.babbage@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Literature |
Research interests I welcome PhD applicants who wish to undertake research in fields that include contemporary theatre practice; devising; theatrical adaptation and rewriting; performance documentation and archive studies; and applied theatres. Sheffield University encourages practice-based as well as traditionally framed PhDs; I have supervised and examined several practice-based doctorates and am very happy to discuss such applications from potential research students. I currently supervise or co-supervise PhD projects in: aerial performance as critical practice; representations of ageing in contemporary British theatre; new models of performance dramaturgy; paratext and contemporary theatre; the methods of Maxwell and the New York City Players. |
Professor Kalina Bontcheva
k.bontcheva@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Natural Language ProcessingProfessor Kalina Bontcheva leads the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group. Her main research interests are in NLP methods for online abuse and disinformation analysis, social media mining and summarisation, and biomedical text analysis. Kalina has published over 150 peer reviewed papers on these topics. She regularly reviews papers for high profile conferences and journals in the field of AI and its applications.
PhD SupervisionProfessor Bontcheva is particularly interested in hearing from research students interested in the following areas:
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Dr Christopher Cooney
c.cooney@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Our research seeks to understand the processes structuring large-scale patterns of biodiversity. As a lab we specialise in the use and development of phylogenetic comparative methods and large datasets to address fundamental questions about the forces shaping Earth’s biodiversity and the factors responsible for maintaining it. |
Dr Richard Craven
richard.craven@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Law |
My academic interests concern administrative law and market regulation. In my research, I focus on government buying and selling. I have published on various aspects of UK and international public procurement regulation, and I am currently researching the legal side of major government auctions. My research uses empirical methods, qualitative and quantitative, and, related to this, I have a growing interest in the research field of empirical industrial organisation. Research interests
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Dr Holly Croft
h.croft@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
I am an ecological remote sensing scientist with interests in agricultural, forested and Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. My research is focused on the use of remotely sensed data in the measurement and modelling of biophysical and ecological variables that influence vegetation productivity, carbon exchange and nutrient use, along with the effects of disturbance on ecosystem structure and function. I use remote sensing data, acquired from a range of platforms from UAVs to satellites, ground-based field experiments and novel analytical methods to improve our understanding of vegetated systems for research and management applications. |
Dr Kate Davison
kate.davison@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise history topics Kate’s research focuses on eighteenth-century British society and culture. She has a particular interest in humour and laughter in this period, and how they played a part in social practices and political processes, but this work has also drawn in wider themes relating to print culture, sociability, gender, race, and public politics. She also has an interest in approaches and methods associated with social network analysis in historical contexts. She is happy to supervise students with interests in most aspects of eighteenth-century British culture and society. |
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:
Family law:
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Dr Robin Highley
robin.highley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience |
I am interested in the neuropathology and pathophysiology of neurodegeneration, in particular motor neurone disease (MND), Parkinson’s disease and dementia. I use standard neuropathological techniques to characterize post mortem tissue kindly donated by individuals with these diseases and to highlight contrasts with tissue from people who were free from disease. These methods are used to study genes, proteins and molecular pathways of interest and the pathological effects of gene mutations known to neurodegeneration. I study mouse, zebrafish and cellular models of disase and the comparison of these with human tissue based pathology |
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 Caroline Jackson
c.m.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of History |
Available to supervise archaeology topics
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Mr 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 diagnosed with dementia using everyday technologies. I specialise in using innovative methods to involve people in research for whom self-report may not always be possible. My PhD was titled: Investigating the potential of touchscreen technology to create opportunities for independent activity with people living with dementia. 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. |
Dr Miguel Juarez
m.juarez@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
I am interested in Bayesian hierarchical modelling for panel and longitudinal data, in particular to address problems in econometrics and biology. I have developed mixture models capable of accommodating skewness and non-Gaussian tail behaviour in econometrics. I have been involved in developing models for systems biology as well, specifically trying to understand gene regulatory networks. Recentrly, I have developed models to analyse images from super-resolution microscopy. I am also interested in objective Bayesian methods and their relationship with measures of information. |
Professor Dorothea Kleine
d.j.kleine@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Geography |
• Sustainable and just development futures in the global South (and North) • Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) • Digital Geographies and digital participatory methods • Ethics of ICT-related development interventions, inclusive innovation and data ethics • The capabilities approach and sustainable development • Sustainable/ethical consumption research, food geographies, trade justice and Fair Trade Themes such as participation, gender, justice and choice run strongly through my work. I have conducted research in Latin America (Brazil; Chile), Europe (UK, Germany), South Asia (India) and Africa (Kenya; South Africa). |
Professor Rebecca Lawthom
r.lawthom@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Rebecca enjoys doctoral supervision and has a strong track record of working within supervision teams to achieve success. She is a feminist community psychologist, a disciplinary space which is suffused with explicit values and founded on social justice principles. Her work engages in qualitative, creative and often participatory processes. She has supervised theses which use ethnography, narratives, creative methods with children, older adults, migrants, disabled and older people. Rebecca's research shares a similar focus, working on projects which centre partnership working, social change and marginalisation. She is interested in supervising qualitative work which engages critically with education as a lifelong process. |
Dr Adrian Leyland
a.leyland@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Dr Leyland´s main research interests are plasma-based coatings & treatments for surface engineering and tribology, wear & corrosion of surfaces. Coatings and treatments studied include PVD ceramic, metallic and nanocomposite films and hybrid/duplex substrate pre-treatment by diffusion hardening, plasma electrolysis or interlayering (eg. by electroless plating), to improve coating durability. Practical applications for these processing methods range from tribological (friction and wear), through thermal barriers, to high temperature & aqueous corrosion-control – as well as biomedical, optical and other functional property requirements. |
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 Munitta Muthana
m.muthana@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
Research interests My research focuses on the role of innate immune cells like macrophages and dendritic cells in diseases including cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. Recently, I have used my knowledge of this area to develop innovative cell-based methods to target anticancer thereapy to tumours. For example, I have devised a way to use macrophages to deliver large quantities of cancer-killing virus to both primary and secondary tumours simultaneously (click here). My group is also interested in improving the delivery of therapies to diseased tissue using a nanomagnetic targeting approach. |
Dr Mohammed Nassar
m.nassar@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
Research Interests My research is focused on investigating the excitability of primary sensory neurones. The cell bodies of these neurones make Dorsal and Trigeminal sensory ganglia, and are part of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). |
Dr Caroline Oates
c.j.oates@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Reader in Responsible Marketing Research interests My main research efforts are focused on challenges in marketing, including sustainable marketing and marketing to children. My particular interests are centred on consumer behaviour, for instance how individuals make choices around sustainable consumption. My current research with colleagues from Scotland and Ireland investigates influences on sustainable consumer behaviour. My other research interest is marketing to children and here I am interested in what children understand when encountering marketing episodes across different media and in different contexts. I mainly work with qualitative methods.
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Dr Lee Pretlove
l.j.pretlove@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Information School |
Research Interests My research interests using qualitative methods focus on: - Self tracking practices in physical activity - Understanding personal privacy and information legislation rights - Post-custodial digital archival practice PhD supervision I am particularly interested in supervising PhD work related to those themes: - The behaviourial changes self tracking data and information makes in physical activity - The extent to which personal information rights are understood amongst the public when using online services and applications - The changing nature of the archive and the profession in digital societies |
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 Sam Rigby
sam.rigby@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Dr Sam Rigby is a Senior Lecturer in Blast & Impact Engineering and has extensive experience in numerical analysis and experimental techniques. His research interests include:
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Dr Jem Rongong
j.a.rongong@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Viscoelastic damping materials |
Professor Jennifer Rowsell
j.rowsell@sheffield.ac.uk School of Education |
Jennifer welcomes applications for doctoral research degrees in literacy and language education |
Miss Fiona Scott
f.scott@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Fiona’s work is located in the field of digital literacies. Her research engages with sociomaterial theory to theorise very young children’s intra-actions with digital devices and texts. She is concerned with child and family practices in relation to the digital and, in particular, the role played by social class. Fiona is also interested in research methods and methodologies, including the tensions associated with researching children’s lives in more-than-human contexts. Fiona’s PhD thesis, produced in collaboration with CBeebies, examined preschool children’s engagements with television and related media at home. |
Dr Anthony Simons
a.j.simons@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Research interests Dr Simons’ research focuses on turning formal results from verification and testing into practical benefits for software engineering. His current research areas include model-based testing and model-driven engineering, with applications to Cloud computing. He has also published widely in object-oriented software engineering, including type theory and software development methods. He is inventor of the JWalk automatic software testing tool for Java; and the JAST library for processing XML in Java. He is co-author of the OPEN Toolbox of Techniques. |
Professor Neil Sims
n.sims@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests Smart fluids |
Dr Lisa Stampnitzky
l.stampnitzky.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Politics and International Relations |
My research focuses on political discourse in the war on terror. My first book addresses the history of "terrorism" and terrorism expertise. My current research focuses on debates over the permissibility of torture in the U.S. after 9/11. I have used a variety of methods, including interviewing, discourse analysis, and archival research. I am particularly keen to hear from research students focusing on
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Professor Eleni Vasilaki
e.vasilaki@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Machine LearningAs a Computational Scientist and Engineer with extensive cross disciplinary experience, Professor Eleni Vasilaki contributes to understanding brain learning principles. Together with her team she takes inspiration from these principles to design novel, machine learning techniques, and in particular reinforcement learning methods. They develop data analytics frameworks for neuroscientists, and also work closely with engineers from other disciplines to design hardware that computes in a brain-like manner. PhD SupervisionProfessor Vasilaki is particularly interested in hearing from research students interested in the following areas:
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Professor James Wild
j.m.wild@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease The Medical School |
Research interests My research focus is the physics and engineering and clinical applications of MR imaging of hyperpolarised gases (3He and 129Xe) and protons in the lungs and pulmonary vasculature. Physics and engineering projects include:
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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 Karl Travis
k.travis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Alternative Disposal Concepts: Deep Borehole Disposal Behaviour of Materials under extreme conditions Simulation Methodology |
Professor Lee Brammer
lee.brammer@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests Our current research can be divided, broadly speaking, into three areas: (i) inorganic supramolecular chemistry, (ii) porous coordination framework materials, and (iii) reactions in molecular crystals. Work in inorganic supramolecular chemistry involves the use of transition metals to influence the construction and properties of supramolecular assemblies in the solid state (crystal engineering) and in solution. We have a number of ongoing projects in this area, but the principal focus is on (a) detailed study of intermolecular interactions using various experimental and computational methods, and (b) the application of the knowledge gained to the construction of network solids (infinite assemblies). Framework materials based upon coordination chemistry, often known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), provide a highly versatile alternative to well-established porous materials such as zeolites. Their synthesis is based upon molecular chemistry and they are typically constructed as crystalline network solids using metal centres as nodes which are linked via organic bridging ligands. Applications range from sorption and storage of gases (including hydrogen) and volatile pollutants, to host-guest chemistry for chemical separations and even catalysis. Current efforts in our group are focused on flexible, responsive materials and upon functionalised materials tailored to specific applications. Studies involve synthesis, characterisation by diffraction methods (single crystal, powder) and by a range of other techniques including thermal analyses and spectroscopy. Facilities Our research is based in excellent modern synthetic laboratories built in 2003, with an accompanying office suite for students and postdocs. The department maintains excellent instrumentation facilities for spectroscopy (NMR, IR, MS) and we have an outstanding X-ray diffraction facility that is crucial in characterisation of the crystalline materials that we study. We also make extensive use of major national and international facilities for diffraction, in particular high flux synchrotron X-ray facilities in the UK (Daresbury SRS and in future Diamond) and at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. General My general philosophy is to make use of a variety of approaches and techniques in pursuing research goals. A better overall understanding is developed by such an approach. Thus, students and postdocs have the opportunity to be exposed to many aspects of chemistry, while perhaps developing greater expertise or interests in certain aspects of a project. Many projects involve some synthesis of organic, organometallic and/or coordination compounds, and will involve supramolecular synthesis and/or materials synthesis methods (e.g. solvothermal synthesis). NMR and IR spectroscopy are widely employed and extensive use is made of diffraction methods, particularly single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, but also neutron diffraction. Materials characterization methods (e.g. DSC, TGA) are also used where needed and computational chemistry is used to support efforts in other areas. Where appropriate the work is conducted within the research group, but collaborative efforts with other research groups have always proven important in our work. We have established collaborations in areas of synthetic and computational chemistry, diffraction and materials characterisation such as gas sorption and magnetic measurements. Such collaborations often provide opportunities for group members to visit and work in other research labs. |
Professor Anthony Meijer
a.meijer@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests: Our research focuses on the theoretical/computational study of chemical reactions. The systems studied vary from small fundamental gas-phase reactions via gas-surface reactions to reactions involving flexible molecules. The results of these calculations are used together with the results of sophisticated experiments to obtain insight into the fundamentals of the reactions involved and to get a fundamental understanding of reaction dynamics. Below are given some projects to illustrate the work. Gas-surface scattering We are currently working on the formation of H2 on graphite. H2 is the most abundant molecule in interstellar space and it plays an important role in the formation of stars and in interstellar chemistry through reactions with ions and radicals. Moreover, the energetics of the reaction directly influences the thermal balance of the interstellar medium. H2 is generally supposed to be formed on interstellar dust grains for which the graphite is used as a template. Our calculations complement experiments done in the group of Prof. S. D. Price at UCL and astronomical modelling and observations done in the groups of Prof. D. A. Williams and Dr. J. Rawlings at UCL through the Centre for Cosmic Chemistry and Physics. Gas-phase reactions We have done extensive work on the H + O2 combustion reaction in the past, in particular focusing on the role the total angular momentum in this reaction. This lead to the first-ever rigorous theoretical cross sections, which compared well with experimental data from the Wolfrum group at the University of Heidelberg. We are re-investigating this reaction in collaboration with Dr. M. Hankel of the University of Queensland. We are also currently applying the methods developed to the photo-dissociation of molecules inside van der Waals complexes, such as Ar-H2S and Ar-H2O, where angular momentum effects allow the van der Waals molecule to survive when one of its constituent molecules, such as H2S, is dissociated. We also have plans to apply the developed methods to the calculation of rates for reactions between radicals at low temperatures, which is important for our understanding of the interstellar medium and our understanding of extraterrestial planets and moons. Reactions and Structure of conformationally flexible molecules As molecules become larger, they generally become more flexible. As a consequence the potential energy surface becomes more complicated with many local minima, which may or may not be accessible at thermal energies. Each of these minima will be a distinct structure with e.g. a distinct IR spectrum. We are currently working on methods to allow us to generate many minima, which can then be screened for further investigation. This work ties into a number of collaborations we have, such as with Dr. Mathias Schäffer of the University of Cologne, who studies conformationally flexible molecules in the gas-phase using IRMPD spectroscopy as well as internal collaborations on the structure, reactivity, and properties of organic and organometallic compounds. Algorithm development for Quantum Dynamics Calculations Quantum Dynamics calculations are significantly harder than standard electronic structure calculations due e.g. the exponential scaling with respect to the basis set size. We are working on methods that will allow us to solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation more quickly. In particular, we develop efficient parallel methods to make calculations tractable. |
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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Dr Joanne Britton
n.j.britton@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Research interests My research focuses on the meaning and role of race and racism and the significance of social identity in a range of contexts including the criminal justice system, legal profession and voluntary sector. In keeping with developments in these areas, it has a specific focus on critical whiteness and mixed race studies. I have a long standing interest in European Muslims and have completed research which examined the interplay of race, ethnicity, gender and generation in the lives of Muslim men. I welcome applications to study for MPhil or PhD research degrees with me, either full or part-time, in any of the following areas linked to my research interests:
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Professor Guy Brown
g.j.brown@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Speech and HearingProfessor Brown's main research interest is Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA), which aims to build machine systems that mimic the ability of human listeners to segregate complex mixtures of sound. He has particular interests in reverberation robustness, models of auditory function in normal and impaired hearing, and sound localisation via binaural models. He is the co-editor (with DeLiang Wang) of Computational auditory scene analysis: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications (IEEE Press/Wiley-Interscience). A recent strand of work in his lab is looking at AI-enabled tools for music generation.
PhD SupervisionProfessor Brown is particularly interested in hearing from research students interested in the following areas:
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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. |
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 Dani Densley Tingley
d.densleytingley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Her research interests centre around reducing the whole life carbon of the built environment, exploring the effectiveness of different methods to achieve this, across multiple scales - predominately buildings and cities. She has a particular interest in the use of materials to reduce whole life carbon. The building level approach explores design strategies to reduce whole life and embodied carbon, this includes areas such as design for deconstruction and material reuse, design for adaptability, use of low carbon materials and material efficiency. At the city scale, an urban metabolism approach is taken, exploring the material metabolism of cities, seeking to answer the question, what are our cities made of? A greater understanding of city stocks enables strategic planning decisions and retrofit and can highlight future reuse potential thus faciliating greater material salvage. |
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:
o Chronic kidney disease Research methods I can supervise:
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Professor Caroline Jackson
c.m.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Archaeology |
Research interests: My research interests are very varied and diverse. For instance I have worked on lithics in Swaziland, conducted surveying work with the University of Cardiff at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara and excavated at Amarna in Egypt. My main research is however, on the study and scientific analysis of archaeological materials, specialising in glass and other vitreous materials such as faience. The primary focus of this work is in Bronze Age Egypt and the Aegean mainly from production sites and on Roman glasses from consumption contexts. I use scientific methods to analyse archaeological glass and experimental archaeology to elucidate patterns relating to provenance, trade and consumption in the ancient and historic world.
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Dr Frazer Jarvis
A.F.Jarvis@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Dr Jarvis works in the area of algebraic number theory, an area which uses techniques from algebra, algebraic geometry and classical number theory, amongst others. In particular, he studies the relationship between modular forms, elliptic curves and representations of Galois groups. That this is currently an active area of research is clear from the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles; Wiles uses exactly these methods in his proof. Dr Jarvis is particularly interested in generalisations of these ideas (known as the Langlands Philosophy), and even in possible generalisations of Fermat's Last Theorem. For example, one might ask whether the Fermat equation of a given degree (or a similar equation) has solutions in a given field extension of the rationals. Within this speciality, there are a number of possible research topics. |
Dr Helen Kemp
e.h.kemp@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism |
Research Interests I have a long-standing interest in the autoimmune responses and genetic aspects of the depigmenting disease vitiligo, and work on projects to profile autoantibody responses against melanocytes in vitiligo as well as in melanoma. I am also interested in characterising autoimmune responses against the calcium-sensing receptor in patients with parathyroid autoimmunity. I have an interest in the aetiology of autoimmune thyroid disorders and have characterised autoantigens, autoantibodies, cytokine gene expression, and genetic susceptibility factors in these diseases. I have international collaborations with respect to all these research areas. A further interest is the use of siRNA and anti-sense oligonucleotides for the treatment of Cushing’s disease. Research Methods Molecular biology; immunoassays; cell culture; phage-display |
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 Juliana Matos De Meira
j.m.meira@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in Management Accounting Juliana’s research interests range from management accounting to inter-disciplinary accounting. PhD supervision: Juliana would be interested in supervising students with projects on:
She is interested in all three aspects of sustainability: people, profits and planet. Juliana has also an interest in extending her research to include environmental accounting, closing the sustainability loop. Her research is based on mixed methods, utilising mainly case studies and surveys as methodological approaches. |
Dr Oleksandr Mykhaylyk
o.mykhaylyk@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests Scattering methods Much of my research focuses on the structural analysis of soft matter materials and in particular polymers. We live in a Golden age of Materials Science and Biology, based on a solid underpinning from Chemistry and Physics. One of the keys to this success is recent progress in structural characterization techniques where scattering methods, giving access to structural organization of matter from atomic scales to microns, occupy a dominating role. Experimental data obtained by scattering methods (SAXS, WAXS, XRD, SANS and SLS) provide structural information associated with Fourier space. My research investigates how this information can be transformed into real space, convenient for our understanding. This involves structural modelling, Monte-Carlo simulations and Fourier transformation techniques. An advantage of scattering methods is that they can be used for kinetic studies of materials in-situ in different environments. Therefore, an other aspect of my work is design of dedicated experimental set-ups for studying materials under external impact such as shear flow or extensional flow, temperature or pH changes. I have a continuous interest in fat crystallization, colloids and nanoparticles structure, in particular core-shell systems (examples of my research are nanodiamonds to carbon onions transition, a phase separation of polyurethane confined by a nanosized spherical shell). My current research is on thermo-responsive block-copolymer micelles and vesicles. Mechano-optical rheology Rheology is widely recognized as a basic method in processing of polymers, food and cosmetics. In addition, visualization can be used as an effective tool for studying phenomena taking place in fluids. Since soft matter materials subjected to flow often demonstrate a related anisotropy in their refractive index and stress, this causes birefringence visualizing the flow. I have recently developed a new combinatorial technique, shear-induced polarized light imaging (SIPLI), for rheo-optical measurements of polymeric liquids. The SIPLI technique has already been successfully used for studying shear-induced nucleation and crystallization of polyolefins (see the figure), fibrillation in natural silks and flow alignment of block-copolymer self-assembled structures. My present research focuses on further development of SIPLI for in-situ studies of shear-induced phenomena such as stress, orientation and structural transitions taking place in gels, polymers, copolymers, liquid crystals and colloids. Polymer crystallization Microstructure of solidified polymers depends on thermo-mechanical process history. In general, processed thermoplastics are composed of two structural morphologies: spherulitic (isotropic) and shish-kebab (anisotropic). Ratio of these morphologies in the end-product controls its mechanical properties and material performance. While spherulitic structure is reasonably understood there is still no a reliable theory for structural formation of shear-induced shish-kebabs. My work is on physical understanding of how the formation of shear-induced morphologies is related to polymer polydispersity, thermodynamics and flow conditions. Based on our research we have proposed a four-stage model for shish-kebab formation including stretching of molecules, nucleation, aggregation and fibrillation. |
Dr Behzad Nematollahi
b.nematollahi@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
Behzad has research interest and expertise in: |
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 Jags Pandhal
j.pandhal@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
My Research interests are:
It is widely recognised that the fundamental training of a biologist and an engineer is different. Mathematical theories and quantitative methods are at the forefront of engineering approaches, and therefore their application to complex systems, including biological, is a useful attribute. However, biologists have the advantage of formulating better testable hypotheses, experimental designs and data interpretation from these complex biological systems. This is namely due to different techniques and strategies used by life scientists to qualitatively decipher complex systems. The skills of an engineer and life scientist are therefore complementary. I work at this interface to reveal (hopefully useful) information about complex biological systems. |
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 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 |
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. |
Dr Graham Williams
g.t.williams@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research interests Broadly speaking, my specialty is Late Medieval and Early Modern English language, and my research methods are derived from historical linguistics, especially pragmatics. In particular, I have worked extensively with manuscript and digital letter collections in order to study actual English, dating from c.1400-1650. I also have strong research interests in manuscript studies, paleography, digital editing and corpora - in particular the implications these perspectives have for the historical study of language. At the moment, I am developing research on: 1) the history of verbal irony (e.g. sarcasm, mock (im)politeness and banter) in English, as evidenced by both literary and non-literary texts; and 2) the letters and language of Margaret Tudor (1489-1541), princess of England and Queen of Scots. |
Dr Ashley Willis
A.P.Willis@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Research interests * Patterns in fluid flows and their stability to perturbations. * Transition to turbulence and chaos in shear flows. * Generation of magnetic fields by the motion of fluids, e.g. the geodynamo. * Founder of - openpipeflow.org - A description of the mathematics behind the following videos can be found here. I am interested in supervising motivated students with a strong mathematical background, in applying their knowledge and learning new techniques for the study of dynamical systems. An excellent setting for new methods, perhaps the traditional test-bed, is the modelling of fluid flows. Unexpected transitions in flow patterns and chaotic behaviour are commonplace, and our understanding of nature is greatly enhanced through numerical simulation and experiments. I am particularly interested in the appearance of turbulence in fluid flows, and modelling of the flows inside planets. The latter is usually responsible for the generation of planetary magnetic fields. For further information please contact me. The following links may also be of interest: Turbulence. Dynamos. |
Professor William Zimmerman
w.zimmerman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Research Interests:
Perlemax Ltd. Perlemax Ltd, a University spinout company, was founded to exploit his research and technological advances. Perlemax and Zimmerman have won the below awards and recognition:
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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 Atul Bhaskar
A.Bhaskar@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Interests Solid Mechanics & Cellular Media: Linear and non-linear mechanics of beams, plates and shells, mechanics of composites, sandwich constructions, contact mechanics, statics, dynamics & acoustics of cellular media, asymptotic analysis applied to the statics & dynamics of solids, dynamics and acoustics of poro-elastic media, end effects in solid mechanics, multi-scale mechanics, scaling laws, lattice structures, solid foams, elastic metamaterials, mechanics of additively manufactured matter, elastic stability. Structural dynamics and Vibrations: Linear vibrations of discrete and continuous systems, wave propagation, vibration of periodic structures, experimental modal analysis, linear and non-linear vibrations of composite plates, structural dynamics of porous media, damping in vibrations: analytical, numerical and experimental aspects, random vibrations, crashworthiness, dynamics of gyroelastic continua, aeroelasticity, impact of space debris of elastic satellite structures. Mechanics & manufacturing of bio-structures: Additive manufacture of lattice scaffolds, cardiovascular stent design: response, plasticity, dynamics, mechanical response of scaffold structures, bio-tribology and micro-patterning. Design search & optimisation: Sensitivity analysis, structural dynamic modification, application of design search methods for structural dynamics problems, evolutionary structural optimisation, response surface analysis, hybrid methods. Applied mathematics: R-function theory, Differential transforms and their application to mechanics, Dynamical systems theory applied to reaction-diffusion systems, parameter dependent eigenvalue problems in structural dynamics & structural stability. |
Professor George Panoutsos
g.panoutsos@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
My research focuses on explainable and trustworthy machine learning (ML). Explainability is multifaceted in this context; I work on mathematical and computational methods in Computational Intelligence (CI) that enable enhanced understanding and transparent information use for neural networks, visual and numerical performance measures for many-objective optimisation algorithms, as well as linguistic interpretations of models, and safe control systems. Explainability and trustworthiness are key barriers in using machine learning in a range of critical applications, e.g. in engineering, and healthcare. A multitude of research questions still need to be addressed, for example how neural network - based systems learn and perform when information/data is imperfect, how can we exploit prior knowledge for enhanced learning, and how can we develop performance metrics that will allow us to understand the optimisation of systems at scale. Towards formulating research questions in machine learning, I often use challenge-driven research e.g. in manufacturing, healthcare, as case studies. This way, applications drive the research questions, towards maximising impact. I also use explainable machine learning for translational research and to create innovation to address global challenges (e.g. sustainability, energy). The advanced monitoring, optimisation and control of manufacturing processes is such an example, where ML-based methods can be used to reduce material waste, and minimise energy use. I welcome PhD applications in topics that fall under Computational Intelligence, in particular when these are concerned with explainable machine learning. Examples of recent PhD projects include, physics-guided neural networks, physics-guided generative models, new performance metrics for decomposition-based many-objective optimisation, information theoretic explainability in neural networks, safe reinforcement learning, and linguistic interpretations of Convolutional Neural Networks.
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Dr Ben Partridge
b.m.partridge@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests Research in the Partridge group focuses on the development of new methods for the synthesis of organic molecules. We design our methods to make chiral molecules, controlling the stereochemistry in our reactions. To achieve this, we use our two main interests: catalysis and organoboron chemistry. Ultimately our work aims to:
Catalytic Transformations of Alkylboron Reagents Organoboron reagents have been described as the “Universal Functional Group” as they undergo a wide range of transformations while exhibiting broad functional group compatibility. In particular, arylboronic acids are used in many catalytic C–C and C–heteroatom bond forming reactions, e.g. the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling (awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize). In contrast, transformations of alkylboronic esters are highly underdeveloped, often requiring harsh conditions. We aim to develop new, mild catalytic transformations of alkylboron reagents, particularly new amination and halogenation reactions. These reactions should be stereoselective, using the inherent stereochemistry of the alkylboron, or through catalyst control. Building a toolbox of catalytic transformations of alkylboronic esters will ultimately allow us to generate libraries of compounds from common alkylboron precursors. This approach has potential applications in drug and agrochemical discovery. Frustrated Lewis Pairs as Green Catalysts Normally if you combine a Lewis acid and Lewis base, a neutralisation reaction occurs. However, by building steric hindrance around either the Lewis acid or Lewis base (or both), neutralisation can be prevented. Instead you get a highly polarised complex known as a Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP). These species have been shown to have many interesting properties, such as the ability to spilt H2 and catalyse hydrogenation reactions. We are interested in designing new FLP catalysts for metal-free hydrogenation. This area has potential to make a significant impact towards making organic synthesis more sustainable. FLPs, derived from cheap, readily available main-group elements could replace traditional transition metal catalysts, which are comparably more scarce, expensive and toxic |
Professor Graham Leggett
graham.leggett@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Introduction Our work centres on the structures, properties and reactivity of molecular surfaces (organic thin films and monolayers) on nanometre length scales. There are two principal foci: nanofabrication (the construction of molecular objects smaller than 100 nm) with a particular emphasis on nanoscale biological interfaces (the organisation of biomolecules, and the study of their structure and function, on molecular length scales); and nanotribology (the study of sliding contacts between nanometre scale molecular objects). Nanofabrication The integration of top-down (lithographic) with bottom-up (synthetic chemical) methodologies remains a major challenge in molecular nanoscience. There is a critical length range, between ca. 100 nm and the dimensions of a single biomacromolecule, in which there are few established methods for the execution of chemically specific molecular transformations. Our work on nanofabrication revolves around the use of photochemical methods to execute selective molecular transformations in nanometre-scale regions at surfaces. Photochemistry is an attractive tool, because organic chemistry furnishes us with a wide choice of photochemical strategies, and because photolithography remains the go-to fabrication tool many years after its eventual demise was predicted. The challenge is to find ways to execute photochemical transformations on nanometre length scales. We have found that near-field methods yield exquisite control at length-scales down to a few tens of nm, and interferometric lithography offers remarkable performance over macroscopic areas via fast, inexpensive, simple approaches. Interferometric techniques have enabled us to fabricate dense arrays of structures as small as 25 nm covering square cm regions. Arrays of gold nanostructures have been used in spectroscopic investigations of light-harvesting complexes, and have led to the exciting discovery of strong coupling between localised surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) and excitons in these molecules. Nanotribology Tribology is the study of sliding contacts between materials, and includes the phenomena of friction and wear. Our particular interest is in nanometre-scale contacts between molecular materials. Nanometre-scale sliding contacts are important for a variety of reasons; the following are examples:
Surface Analysis I am director of the Sheffield Surface Analysis Centre (SSAC) which is home to a variety of state-of-the-art surface characterisation equipment, including an imaging secondary ion mass spectrometer and two X-ray photoelectron spectrometers. |
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 Fiona Boissonade
f.boissonade@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
I have a major research interest in the mechanisms of altered neuronal excitability that occur under the pathological conditions of nerve injury and inflammation, and which contribute to the development of chronic pain, including that in the oro–facial region. Much of this research has been done at the academic–industrial interface. Collaborations with GSK, Pfizer and Eli Lilly have funded a wide range of pre-clinical translational studies, using pre-clinical models and human tissues to identify and validate a range of regulators of neuronal excitability as potential targets for the development of novel analgesics and anti-inflammatory mediators. Other research projects are directed towards improvement of nerve regeneration. This work investigates methods of improving nerve repair through the use of a range of anti-inflammatory and anti-scarring agents, and includes collaboration with the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield to develop bioengineered conduits to enhance nerve regeneration. In other projects I collaborate with the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) investigating the role of chemokines in CNS disease. |
Dr Jessica Bradley
jessica.bradley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Jessica is an interdisciplinary linguist and ethnographer, with particular research interests in creative practice and the arts (see her personal website https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/dr-jessica-bradley/home). Her research expertise is in creative and artistic methods, ethnographic approaches, and multilingualism, in particular lived experiences of multilingualism. She has led a series of funded research projects in creative approaches to linguistic landscapes, including developing cutting edge participatory and arts based research approaches to language in public space. Recent esearch explores how the arts can support new mothers, parents of young children and communities who experienced isolation during the COVID19 pandemic. Her professional background is in educational engagement in the arts and social sciences and in particular widening participation. She welcomes applications from potential doctoral researchers which engage with lived experiences of multilingualism and difference, motherhood and autoethnography, and is particularly keen on arts based research, ethnographic approaches, and co-production with creative practitioners, children and young people, all areas in which she has published widely. |
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. |
Mr Adam Carter
adam.d.carter@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Adam joined the department in 2019 as Research Associate on the ‘Brexit and Everyday Family Relationships’ project, led by Dr Katherine Davies. This explored how families negotiated the politics of Brexit in their everyday lives, and traced how Brexit’s influence mapped onto and worked through established family practices. The research drew on a suite of qualitative, ethnographically-inspired methods including interviews, diaries and ‘Gogglebox’ video observations. Previously, he completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Dr Vik Loveday and Professor Monica Greco, on how the live stand-up comedy environment is permeated by social power relations. While completing the PhD, Adam taught on undergraduate programmes about value and identity, culture and communication, and social theory. He also convened a module at Birkbeck, University of London on ‘Class’ from a psychosocial perspective. In early 2021 he started his Leverhulme ECF project ‘Laughing through life? Humour’s role for families facing challenging times.’ The research will use a participatory video method to explore the positive and negative potentials of humour as a coping strategy for negotiating tough life course situations. |
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 Tim Craggs
t.craggs@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research InterestsSingle-molecule approaches provide unprecedented detail to the understanding of essential biological processes, as was recognized in the awarding of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their unique advantage stems from the ability to go beyond the ensemble- and time-averaging of common biochemical techniques, enabling the identification and interpretation of asynchronous reactions, transient states, and rare sub-species. Research in the Craggs Lab involves the development and application of single-molecule fluorescence techniques to addressing crucial questions across physics, chemistry and the life sciences. Recent work has focussed on the development and application of single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET – a molecular ruler for the 30-90 Å scale) to questions of protein folding, and DNA transcription, replication and repair. These methods are capable of observing individual molecules and molecular interactions in real time, and understanding their dynamics. In addition to this mechanistic work, we have shown we can use smFRET to measure absolute distances with angstrom accuracy, opening the door to FRET driven structural biology. |
Dr Dana Damian
d.damian@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering |
Research Interests: My research group focuses on biomedical robotics, specifically bionics and capsule robots to advance healthcare technology for long-term therapies and non-invasive surgical interventions.
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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 Joel Foreman
j.foreman@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
A combination of experimental and modelling approaches to polymer and polymer composite science. Development of experimental structure property relationships in polymers of use in the composites industry, primarily epoxy and phenolic resins. Various modelling techniques for predicting material properties ranging from continuum to atomistic and some finite element methods. Research interests
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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 Mordechai Katzman
M.Katzman@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Dr Katzman's research is in the area of commutative algebra. Specifically, he is interested in the following. Characteristic p methods:Certain theorems in algebra can be proved by showing that they hold in positive characteristic, and in characteristic p one has extra structure given by the Frobenius map x↦xp. There are several tools, notably tight closure, which exploit this extra structure to prove some remarkable theorems. Local cohomology modules:This modules derive their importance partly from the fact that they detect interesting properties of modules over commutative rings (e.g., depth.) Unfortunately, these objects tend to be very big are rather mysterious. It is very difficult to describe them in any detail even in seemingly easy cases. Dr. Katzman has recently been producing both examples showing that these objects are more complicated than previously conjectured but also instances where they can be understood fairly well. Combinatorial aspects:One of the simplest family of modules imaginable are monomial ideals in polynomial rings and, perhaps surprisingly, these objects have a very rich structure, in some sense richer than the structure of graphs. Dr Katzman has recently been studying certain monomial ideals associated with graphs a discovering some surprising connections between the algebraic and combinatorial properties of these objects. |
Professor Ali Khurram
s.a.khurram@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
My main research interest is in the interaction of chemokine receptors and their ligands in the pathogenesis of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC). During my Masters and PhD., I have studied the expression and role of various receptors including CXCR4 (receptor for CXCL12/SDF-1alpha), CXCR1 and CXCR2 (receptors for CXCL8/IL8) and XCR1 (receptor for XCL1/lymphotactin). My PhD findings showed the expression of the XCR1 receptor outside the immune system and on epithelial cells for the first time where it facilitated cancer cell signalling, migration, invasion, proliferation in addition to stimulating adhesion to ECM components and release of Matrix Metalloproteinases. I am also currently looking at the role of XCR1 and lymphotactin interaction in OSCC metastasis and involved in a study to design an antagonist for XCR1 in liaison with the Chemical Engineering department. |
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 Antonios Ktenidis
Antonios.Ktenidis@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Education |
Antonios is interested in (the construction of) 'non-normative' bodies in education e.g. dis/abled bodies, and how developmentalism as a discourse and ideology permeates and materialises in educational spaces e.g. ableist underpinnings of school furniture, curriculum, body pedagogies and biopedagogies. He also has a keen interest in the role height plays in education or, put differently, how height(ism) manifests and matters in education. Furthermore, Antonios' research focuses on social in/justice in education, looking at how dis/ableism, racism, classism, fatism, heightism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are (re)produced in education, especially from an intersectional perspective. His research is interdisciplinary and brings into dialogue a range of disciplines, such as Critical Disability Studies (phenomenological disability studies, poststructuralist disability studies, posthuman and dis/human disability studies), Disability Studies in Education, Critical Psychology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Stature, Sociology of Space, and Children's Geographies. Methodology wise, he is interested in inclusive qualitative methodologies, such as narrative inquiry and creative and art-based methods. He is also passionate about research ethics, especially in relation to sensitive topics and discourses of vulnerability. |
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 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 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 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 Penelope Ottewell
p.d.ottewell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
Research Interests My research is focused on advanced breast and prostate cancer with particular emphasis on bone metastases. Primarily, this involves using a complement of in vitro and in vivo model systems to investigate the molecular alterations responsible for metastases to bone and response to treatment. Metastases are a result of a stepwise accumulation of genetic/epi-genetic mutations promoting distinct molecular alterations that drive different stages in the metastatic process; mutations involved in intravasation are not the same as those involved in tissue homing and colonisation. Importantly, molecular alterations acquired by tumour cells have profound effects on cytokine production and immune cell regulation. My research team hypothesise that cytokine driven changes to the tumour immune environment promotes metastatic spread and that pharmacological regulation of immunity may provide effective treatment methods for, currently incurable, bone metastasis. The aims of my research are to: (A) Identify specific molecular and immune cell regulatory determinants involved in tumour cell intravasation, homing to bone and colonisation of the metastatic site. (B) Decipher how these determinants impact on treatment efficacy in different cancer subtypes. (C) Establish more effective treatments for metastatic breast and prostate cancers. |
Professor Beth Perry
b.perry@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
Beth’s research focuses on critically interrogating and developing pathways to more just sustainable urban futures. She focusses on urban governance, transformation and the roles of universities, with an emphasis on socio-environmental and socio-cultural transitions. She is currently leading three major UK projects focussed on co-producing urban transformations, with a team of researchers working across the Urban Institute and Sheffield Methods Institute:
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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 Alice Pyne
a.l.pyne@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Alice’s expertise is in high resolution single-molecule microscopy. She has achieved unprecedented resolution for single biomolecules in solution through the development of new Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) methods in collaboration with Bruker (CA, USA). Her research has resulted in both the highest-quality AFM images of the DNA double helix achieved to date, and the first visualisation of variations in the DNA double helix structure on a single molecule. Alice's research exploits these techniques to improve our understanding of DNA structure, interactions, and therapeutics.
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Professor Ning Qin
n.qin@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests The Aerodynamics Research Group's interest is in the development and application of computational aerodynamic tools to a wide range of industrial problems in aerospace, automotive, and environmental industries. These advanced tools provide in-depth analyses and design optimisation for engineering products, such as aircraft wing drag reduction, racing car down force enhancement, and gas turbine and wind turbine blade efficiency improvement. The aerodynamic analysis and design tools vary from very fast panel methods to popular commercial CFD packages, from the most advanced adjoint method for optimisation (adj-MERLIN) to the detached eddy simulation software (DGDES) for massively separated turbulent flows, developed within the group. Current projects include: flow separation control, shock control for drag reduction, adjoint based shape optimisation for transonic wing performance, hybrid RANS/LES for synthetic jet, VG and plasma flow control, MAV low Reynolds number aerodynamics, and feature aligned adaptive mesh techniques. |
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 Ranjan Sen
ranjan.sen@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research interests My primary research interest lies in developing techniques to reconstruct and account for phonological change over time, and investigating to what extent synchronic structure plays a role in diachronic phonology. One aim is to improve methods used to access fine-grained phonetic evidence from dead languages, to allow a better evaluation of theories of change grounded in phonetics. We can then better address the much-debated question of whether phonetics and analogical pressures alone drive sound change, or if structural constraints play a role. My current research focuses on three areas: (1) investigating the role played by prosodic structure in sound change, examining the roles of syllable and foot structure in Latin and other languages; (2) working in collaboration with Professor Joan Beal (University of Sheffield) and Dr Nura Yáñez-Bouza (University of Manchester) to construct a database of eighteenth-century English phonology from contemporary sources, (e.g. pronouncing dictionaries), in order to address problems in English phonology, both historical and contemporary; (3) working in collaboration with the Oxford Phonetics Laboratory to investigate theories of speech production and phonological representation in the mind, from the evidence of reading aloud non-words, examining questions of both phonological and psycholinguistic significance. |
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 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 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 Philip Watson
p.f.watson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Oncology and Metabolism The Medical School |
Research interests My main research interests center on the aetiology of autoimmune disease, with a particular focus on the thyroid. Autoimmune thyroid disease is the most prevalent form of organ-specific autoimmunity in the population and affects approximately 1-2% of individuals. Antigenic targets in autoimmune thyroid disease are well characterised and this, together with the availability of patient material, makes the disease and important model for other forms of autoimmunity. In seeking to better understand the origins of thyroid autoimmunity we have developed techniques to study the nature of the immune response. In particular we have used phage display methods to analyse the autoantibody repertoire of thyroid disease patients. |
Professor Jennifer Coates
jennifer.coates@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of East Asian Studies |
My research and teaching is situated at the intersection of Japanese Studies, Film Studies, History, History of Art, and Anthropology, and can best be characterized as Japanese Cultural Studies. My wider research interests include Japanese and East Asian cinema, photography, gender studies, filmmaking, and ethnographic methods. I have published on these topics and others in Cultural Studies, Participations, Japanese Studies, Japan Forum, the U. S.-Japan Women’s Journal and The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. I am developing a book manuscript entitled 'Feelings Without Words: Growing Up With the Cinema in Postwar Japan', based on four years of ethnography in Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. The book explores the role of cinema in the development of a sense of self for those who grew up during the Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and its aftermath. Framed as an ethno-history of cinema attendance and reception in the Kansai region of Western Japan, this original study positions cinema as a discursive object in the living memories of the era. Individual chapters deal with the origin stories of cinema in Japan, gender and the cinema audience, the gap between Occupation authorities’ expectations of the audience and lived experience, and cinema's relation to activism. Many of my research outputs take a cross-regional and interdisciplinary approach, including publications on Manchurian-Japanese wartime co-production films, postwar Japanese co-productions with Hong-Kong, and transnational star personae. I have conducted research on the simultaneous development of ethno-fiction filmmaking techniques in France and Japan, and on Taiwanese and Korean co-productions set in Tokyo, and co-authored an article on film-motivated tourism in China. I have also collaborated with affect theory specialists in the UK, USA, and Japan, and with a group of art historians in Zurich on two projects on photography. Moving beyond traditional research publication methods, I completed a short documentary titled When Cinema Was King (2018) on the topic of Japanese cinema audiences and their memories. Before joining SEAS, I studied, researched, and taught in many areas of the world. I was an AHRC Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2012), a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University (2011), Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University (2014-2018), and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures at the University of East Anglia. |
Dr Briony Hannell
B.Hannell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Sociological Studies |
Briony joined the Department of Sociological Studies in early 2021. She initially joined the department as a University Teacher in Digital Media and Society (Grade 8), before transitioning to her current role as a University Teacher in Sociology in September 2021. In addition to her primary role as a University Teacher, Briony has also undertaken a fixed-term role as a Research Associate in Digital Technologies with Professor Helen Kennedy, as well as a HEIF-funded fixed-term role in the Sheffield Methods Institute as a Research Associate in the Creative Industries. Briony previously worked as an Associate Lecturer and Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia, where she spent three years teaching across gender studies, political communication, digital sociology, and digital politics. Briony completed her studies in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, completing her BA (Hons) in Society, Culture and Media (1:1*) in 2015, her MA in Media and Cultural Politics (Distinction) in 2016, and her PhD in Politics in 2021. Briony is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and is currently enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PG Cert LTHE) at the University of Sheffield. She is currently co-lead of the Critical Diversities and Everyday Life Research Theme. While Briony is formally trained in cultural politics and the sociology of media and culture, her interdisciplinary research spans across feminist sociology, feminist cultural studies, media and communications, internet studies, girls’ studies, and fan studies. Briony is a qualitative feminist researcher and she uses ethnographic methods (both online and offline), including participant observation, focus groups, interviews, surveys, discourse analysis, and textual analysis. Her ethnographic research locates digital media fan communities as an important space for young people to produce, negotiate, and contest the meanings of feminism(s) in an informal and everyday context. In doing so, her work locates digital youth cultures on Tumblr as a fruitful site for young people to engage in feminist activism, community building, and knowledge sharing, while also complicating utopian framings of these digital spaces to reveal the contradictory and ambivalent processes of inclusion and exclusion at work within them. Broadly speaking, she is interested in the following:
Briony’s research on Tumblr has been featured in WIRED magazine, and she has been invited to interview as an expert on gender, popular culture, and fan culture for The Observer, Mashable, Vice, and BBC Radio, amongst others. Her first monograph will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2023. |
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. |
Dr Joab Winkler
j.r.winkler@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Computer Science |
Research interests Joab Winkler’s main research interests are image processing, and algebraic and numerical properties of curves and surfaces in computer-aided design systems.
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Professor Serena Cussen
s.corr@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Energy storage research: Moving towards a more electrified world presents considerable energy storage challenges. Amongst these, the development of low cost, durable, high energy density, safe batteries is paramount for delivery of an all-electric vehicle market. A major theme of our research is to develop novel, facile routes to functional materials using our expertise in solid state and wet chemical methods to provide new battery electrodes and electrolytes across a range of chemistries. We apply a comprehensive range of lab- and synchrotron-based techniques to fully interrogate these materials to elucidate their structure and morphology, investigate their physical and dynamic properties and evaluate their electrochemical performance. Specific research projects include: High nickel-content electrodes for Li-ion batteries: The benefits of moving to high nickel-content electrodes include potentially higher energy densities and reducing the cobalt content, which addresses the ethical implications and cost associated with this metal. Our group work on the synthesis of micron and nanosized NMC variants. Together with our collaborators in the Faraday Institution Degradation project, we investigate degradation mechanisms in these materials through a holistic approach and design methodologies to mitigate those deleterious effects. Next generation cathode materials for Li-ion batteries: We are interested in new electrode architectures that enhance long-term performance and durability. Our group has experience in core-shell structures, faceted particles and composite materials. We are developing new synthetic strategies for garnering control over particle morphology to interrogate the effect this has on battery performance. We investigate higher nickel content cathodes, disordered materials, polyanionic and high Li content cathodes, in addition to coating strategies for electrode particles. New materials for safer all solid-state batteries: Current batteries rely on flammable organic electrolytes that are potentially hazardous and limit performance. Research in the Corr group is ongoing to develop new solid ceramic electrolytes which present more stable alternatives and display high ionic conductivities. Classes of materials we currently study include perovskites, garnets, NASICONS and agyrodites. Developing microwave approaches to battery materials: Post-processing of novel metallorganic precursors can afford nanostructured materials. By careful design, nanoparticles with specific properties may be tailored. This opens up a ‘bottom-up’ design approach to new materials. We are interested in new heterometallic precursors which afford the opportunity to tune stoichiometries and resulting particle shape. Chemistries beyond Li-ion: Magnesium-ion batteries represent a potentially transformative approach to current electrochemical energy storage technologies yet their translation to market remains hindered due to a lack of appropriate candidate cathode materials. Our group is developing new Mg-ion cathode materials, in combination with new electrolyte systems. Materials for Conservation Working with collaborators at the Mary Rose Trust, we are designing a new approach to the conservation of Mary Rose artefacts, going beyond current methods where potential acid sources remain in the wood through the use of smart multifunctional magnetic nanocomposites. These target and remove harmful entities lodged inside wooden structures. We can direct magnetic nanoparticles to desired areas inside the wood, optimising the removal of harmful species. We use state-of-the-art synchrotron tools to evaluate the structure and speciation of species found within these priceless artefacts. |
Dr Sarah Brooks
s.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Sheffield University Management School |
Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour Sarah joined the University of Sheffield in 2012 after being awarded a Management and Business Development fellowship jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). The fellowship was designed to improve practitioner experience within the academic field. In December 2015, Sarah became a full-time lecturer in Organisational Behaviour with specific focus on Occupational Psychology, Human Resource Management and Leadership. Research Sarah’s research interests include all aspects of voice and silence and organisational communication. As a qualitative researcher, Sarah is keen to use innovative and unique methods designed to provide insight into cognitive and mental models of individual behaviour such as card sort, repertory grid and thinking aloud technique. PhD SupervisionSarah is interested in hearing from anyone interested in studying voice and silence or wider communication issues in the workplace. Working with Organisations and Public EngagementIf you are interested in knowing more about the reasons why employees don’t speak up to their managers, or why managers might not encourage voice, please contact me. I am happy to run workshops designed to raise awareness of these issues. If you would like to work with me on a piece of research in your organisation, I would also be delighted to hear from you. PublicationsBrooks, S. (2014). Understanding workplace voice and silence. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology in Practice, 6 26-38.
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Dr Alasdair Campbell
a.n.campbell@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
My research interests are centred on buoyant, reactive flow. This work can be can be broadly split into work in two general areas, namely process safety (incorporating combustion, explosion and the dispersion of reactive chemicals) and the energy-water nexus, focussing on the use of low-cost technologies for the production of potable or irrigation water in arid regions. My work has focussed on understanding the interaction of fluid mechanics and chemistry on a fundamental level using a combination of numerical and analytical techniques, coupled to simple experiments. My broad areas of interest are summarised below. Combustion The heat released by combustion reactions can result in significant changes in the density, and thus can induce natural convection. This work has led to numerous publications in high ranking chemical engineering, combustion and interdisciplinary journals and involves a theoretical and numerical investigation of natural convection coupled with two combustion phenomena, namely cool flames, which are a feature of low temperature combustion, and thermal explosion. Turbulent Plumes I work on the development new integral models describing plumes in which a chemical reaction alters the density. Such plumes can arise in a variety of circumstances ranging from industrial accidents (e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil spill) to volcanic eruption columns. The development of new models to describe such plumes is vital for designing effective responses to such events. Energy-Water Nexus I am interested in the investigation and deployment of low cost methods of solar energy capture and storage. In particular, I work on solar ponds, where salinity gradients can be used to trap solar energy and industrial waste heat for use in driving desalination processes. |
Professor Iain Coldham
i.coldham@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests New methodology in organic chemistry. Synthetic chemistry depends on reliable, high-yielding and selective reactions that access a wide variety of different structures. The discovery of new methods in synthesis is crucial to expand the range of novel compounds that can be made easily. Especially important is the development of new carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Our research group is studying the use of organometallic compounds in asymmetric synthesis, especially for carbon-carbon bond formation of nitrogen-containing compounds, prevalent in many biologically active molecules. We have found that 2-lithiopyrrolidines, piperidines and other cyclic amines undergo dynamic resolution in the presence of a chiral ligand (L*), leading to highly enantioenriched 2-substituted cyclic amine products. We have determined the kinetics of enantiomerization of several chiral organolithium compounds. Synthesis of biologically active compounds. We are using dipolar cycloaddition chemistry to access a variety of alkaloid structures. Intramolecular cycloadditions provide an efficient means to build up bicyclic and polycyclic ring systems in a rapid and stereocontrolled way. We have shown that this chemistry is applicable to the synthesis of the core ring system of the alkaloid manzamine A, which has significant biological activity (anti-cancer, anti-malarial, and other activity). One dipole that we use is an azomethine ylide, that we make by condensation of a secondary amine with an aldehyde. Intramolecular cycloaddition sets up two new rings and up to four new stereocentres in a single step. We have prepared simpler analogues of manzamine A and other heteroaromatic compounds to probe their biological activity. Recently, we have found that primary amines (such as amino-acids, amino-esters, hydroxylamine) can be used to condense with an aldehyde and promote a cascade process involving imine formation, cyclization, ylide formation and cycloaddition all in one pot. This chemistry provides an efficient method to prepare three rings directly from an acyclic aldehyde in a stereocontrolled way and has been applied to the total syntheses of several alkaloids (such as aspidospermidine, aspidospermine, quebrachamine and myrioxazine A). |
Dr Jill Edmondson
j.edmondson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Professor Susan Fitzmaurice
S.Fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research interests Fitzmaurice's research focuses on the history of the English language, using methodological perspectives provided by historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics. She is particularly interested in exploring the methods and kinds of evidence employed in historical approaches to language study. She is currently focussing on semantic change and exploring different approaches to historical semantics. She recently delivered the plenary lecture at SHEL 8 (Studies in the History of the English Language) in Utah on the role of contingent polysemy in the changing meanings of politeness in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (summer 2013). Her research on English in the eighteenth century utilizes the frameworks of social networks analysis, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis. Her data are drawn principally from the Network of Eighteenth century English texts (NEET). This is a large unconventional historical electronic corpus of letters, fiction, prose drama and essays produced by Joseph Addison and the members of his social milieu. Fitzmaurice is currently investigating on the history of the English language in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe. The first publication in the project on the history and structure of the colonial variety, ' L1Rhodesian English', appears in The Lesser-Known Varieties of English, (eds.) Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider, & Jeffrey P. Williams. Cambridge University Press (2010), pp. 263-285. She has also contributed a chapter on White Zimbabwean English (WhZimE) to the Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE), 2013. She has received British Academy support to investigate undocumented varieties of spoken English in Zimbabwe and is collaborating with scholars and students at the University of Zimbabwe on this strand of the larger Zimbabwe project. |
Professor Russell Hand
r.hand@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Radioactive waste vitrification |
Professor Nigel Harwood
n.harwood@sheffield.ac.uk Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research Interests I am interested in hearing from PhD applicants who wish to conduct qualitative or predominantly qualitative projects relating to academic writing, academic literacies, ESP/EAP, or language teaching materials/textbooks. I am a qualitative researcher, and the primary research methods I use in my work are interviews and textual analysis. My doctoral thesis is a corpus-based study of how the personal pronouns I and WE are used in academic writing across four disciplines (Business, Economics, Computing, and Physics) by ‘experts’ writing journal articles and postgraduate students writing dissertations. I have published papers on taking a lexical approach to ELT and on taking a corpus-based critical pragmatic approach to English for academic purposes. More recent work includes research on citation in academic writing, on proofreaders’ beliefs and practices when working on student texts, and on supervisors’ and supervisees’ experiences of master’s dissertation supervision. I have published my findings in outlets such as Applied Linguistics, Written Communication, Text & Talk, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, and Journal of Business & Technical Communication. In general, my research interests lie in the following areas:
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Professor Neil Hyatt
n.c.hyatt@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Radioactive waste management and disposal. |
Professor Jonathan Leake
j.r.leake@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Biosciences |
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Dr Natalia Martsinovich
Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests My research is focussed on studying the properties of surface-adsorbate interfaces and processes taking place at these interfaces. Important applications include photovoltaics and photocatalysis. I use a range of theoretical methods, mainly density-functional theory, and also charge transfer theory and molecular mechanics. Photovoltaics Photocatalysis Molecular self-assembly |
Professor Cheryl Miller
c.a.miller@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Clinical Dentistry |
My research interests are varied, interdisciplinary and lie within the field of materials for biomedical and dental applications. My research focuses on the design, fabrication and characterisation of novel glasses, ceramics and composites for dental and medical applications. Much of this research is in collaboration with Engineering Materials (UoS), Imperial College London, Chubu University, Japan and Sao Paulo University, Brazil. My research has also progressed to the production of custom prostheses using novel production methods and advanced manufacturing techniques such as additive manufacture, Hot-Isostatic-Pressing, Spark-Laser-Sintering, freeze-casting, laser machining and electro-spinning. In addition, due to my involvement in the MMedSci in Dental Implantology, I also supervise projects in the area of dental implantology. My research is progressing more towards knowledge and technology transfer, hence my industrial collaborations are widening and increasing, presently these include Ceramisys Ltd (a SME manufacturing and distributing bone augmentation materials); Fluidinova (a SME manufacturer of nanoceramics); Primequal (a SME specialising in development of medical devices); neotherix (a regenerative medicine SME specialising in novel bioresorbable scaffolds); CERAM (materials testing, analysis and consultancy); JRI (a manufacturer of orthopaedic implants and surgical instrumentation); Nobel Biocare (a world leader in innovative restorative and aesthetic dental solutions); Dentsply (a global leading manufacturer and distributer of high quality dental product) and GlaxoSmithKline (one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies). |
Professor Gwendolen Reilly
g.reilly@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Research interests Our research has applications in orthopaedic and dental medicine, where clinicians are looking for improved methods to repair skeletal tissues; bone, tendon and cartilage. Bone tissue engineering. Musculoskeletal cell mechanobiology. Orthopaedic biomaterials. |
Professor Anthony Ryan
a.ryan@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research interests The common theme in my research is phase transitions in polymers. Most recently we have used the knowledge of the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase behaviour in polymer blends and block copolymers to develop new processing methods based on self-assembly. This has led to the development of the new field of Soft Nanotechnology where synthetic and natural macromolecules are harnessed in a way that makes use of their intrinsic flexibility and susceptibility to Brownian motion to generate work from changes on molecular conformation. Developments in polymers responsive to their environment have lead to research into molecular machines, specifically the fabrication of molecular valves and motors. |
Dr Phil Shackley
p.shackley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Population Health |
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Professor Annette Taylor
a.f.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
My research involves reaction engineering: the design and optimisation of chemical/biochemical systems through consideration of catalytic reaction networks coupled with mass transport. The research combines experiments with kinetic modelling and has a wide range of applications such bio-reactors for fuel or food, materials formation or degradation, drug delivery and sensing. I'm particularly interested in aqueous phase catalysis and control of dynamics in cellular biological or bioinspired chemical systems. Taking inspiration from nature or the use of natural components allows us to design functional materials and processes that are greener or more sustainable, but also harness the unique properties arising from feedback in natural systems including collective behaviour (e.g. quorum sensing in bacteria) and self-organisation. Some current projects include:
COST Action on Emergence and Evolution in Complex Chemical Systems Gordon Research Conference on Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems |
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 Rachel Tomlinson
r.a.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Research interests As part of the Experimental Mechanics Laboratory, current research projects are in the development and use of optical instruments to measure strain in a wide range of applications, such as particulate reinforced materials, automotive glass, and aircraft components. |
Dr Alison Twelvetrees
a.twelvetrees@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Division of Neuroscience |
Neurons form complex extended cellular structures; for example motor neurons have cell bodies in the spinal cord whilst extending axons down to the muscles of the hands and feet. Dendritic trees are also highly branched and spatially specialised structures. These morphological specialisations of neurons are essential to their function, but also hugely challenging as the majority of newly synthesised protein is made in the cell body and then actively transported to its site of use, up to 1 meter away. In addition, retrograde transport back to the cell body is required to remove ageing proteins and organelles from the distal neurites for degradation, as well as to relay neurotrophic survival signals back to the cell body. Almost all the long distance transport events in neurons fall under the label of ‘microtubule mediated transport’. This label masks a complex set of co-dependent intracellular trafficking events of a huge array of cargos critical for maintaining neuronal homeostasis. There is now a large body of evidence demonstrating deficits in transport in multiple unrelated adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, as well as motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs). In addition, deficits in transport are frequently found as an early event in disease models. Our research is focused on how the microtubule cytoskeleton and its motor proteins, kinesin and dynein, build and maintain neurons. We aim to understand the molecular mechanisms of this process and create new avenues for translational research into neurodegnerative conditions. Current research themes include:
We use the methods of biochemistry, biophysics, neuronal cell biology and translational neuroscience to apporach our research questions in a truely multidisciplinary fashion. |
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 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 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 Sara Whiteley
sara.whiteley@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of English Language and Linguistics |
Research interests My research interests lie at the interface between language and literature, in the disciplines of stylistics, cognitive poetics and discourse analysis. My research examines issues of textual effect and interpretation in relation to contemporary prose and poetry. I am particularly interested in studying the experience of reading and researching reader responses to literary texts using empirical methods
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Dr Simon Willerton
S.Willerton@shef.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Dr. Willerton is interested in various ideas in low-dimensional topology coming from quantum physics, and in their relationship to geometry and algebraic topology. |
Dr Anthony Haynes
a.haynes@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests The Haynes group investigates mechanistic aspects of homogeneous transition metal catalysed reactions, particularly industrially important processes such as methanol carbonylation and alkene hydroformylation. Synthetic, spectroscopic, kinetic and computational methods are used to study the structure and reactivity of organometallic complexes and their roles in catalysis. Mechanisms of rhodium and iridium catalysed methanol carbonylation The catalytic carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid is one of the most significant industrial applications of homogeneous transition metal catalysis. We have a long-standing research collaboration with BP Chemicals, who operate methanol carbonylation plants worldwide, and introduced a new process(Cativa TM) in 1995 that uses a promoted iridium/iodide catalyst. Highlights of our mechanistic studies include the first spectroscopic detection of a highly reactive Rh-methyl intermediate in the rhodium-catalysed process[1] and elucidation of the role of promoters in the iridium-based system.[2] We recently showed that the rate of migratory CO insertion in [Ir(CO)2I3Me]- is dramatically increased by isomerisation to place a CO ligand trans to methyl.[3] Ligand effects on oxidative addition and migratory CO insertion Computational studies Facilities References |
Dr Michael Hippler
m.hippler@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage Department of Chemistry |
Research Interests The aim of my research is the development of new methods and applications of ultra-sensitive, high-resolution laser spectroscopy to study the structure and dynamics of molecules and clusters. The understanding of intramolecular primary processes in polyatomic molecules at the fully quantum dynamical level remains among the most challenging research questions in physics and chemistry, with applications also in biology and environmental sciences. High-resolution spectroscopy is among the most powerful tools in advancing such research and it is crucial in this context to develop new and ever more powerful spectroscopic experiments. In my work in Zürich, I successfully developed new experimental techniques for the infrared laser spectroscopy of gas-phase molecules. These techniques have been applied to the study of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, vibrational mode-specific tunnelling of hydrogen-bonded clusters and stereomutation dynamics. In one class of experiments, pulsed IR laser systems are used to excite vibrational transitions and a second, subsequent UV laser pulse to ionise the excited molecules. Ionisation detection of IR excitation has been coupled with a mass spectrometer thus adding a second dimension to optical spectroscopy. In another class of experiments, the extreme sensitivity of cavity-ring-down (CRD) spectroscopy (effective absorption path lengths of several km) is combined with the very high resolution of continuous wave (cw) diode lasers (100 kHz). This technique has been applied to measure accurately the transition strengths and weak overtone transitions of molecules (nitrous oxide, methane) and of hydrogen-bonded clusters (HF dimer). So far in Sheffield, I have studied molecular association by FTIR, Raman spectroscopy and high-level quantum-chemical calculations. For this purpose, I set up a very sensitive stimulated Raman experiment with photoacoustic detection ('PARS'). Among the intermolecular forces, the hydrogen-bond X-H...Y is particularly relevant. A hydrogen bond usually exhibits a characteristic 'red'-shift (shift to lower wavenumbers) of the X-H stretching vibration, but more unconventional 'blue'-shifting hydrogen bonds also occur and have become a hot topic of current research. In Sheffield, I have recently studied some unusual, "blue-shifting" hydrogen bonds (e.g., CHCl3...SO2 in the gas phase and open HCOOH structures in liquid formic acid) by theory and experiment. |