Experts Directory
Our academic members of staff are internationally renowned for their expertise in a wide range of contemporary topics.
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Dr Afshin Shahi
Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Middle East Politics
Expertise: Middle East politics and security, political Islam, religious sectarianism
Dr Andrew Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Forensic and Archaeological Sciences
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, archaeological human remains, ancient keratin remains, Mummy Studies, mummified human/ faunal remains
Dr Carlton Reeve
Head of School for Media, Design and Technology
Expertise: games, animation, visual effects, graphics, game-based learning, social media
Dr Chris Gaffney
Head of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences
Expertise: archaeological geophysics, 3D and spatial analysis of data, philosophy of science, TL dating, trace element analysis
Dr Fiona Macaulay
Senior Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development
Expertise: Brazil; criminal justice systems; prisons; human rights; feminicide; police and politics; gender-based violence; police reform; police training; women in politics; Brazilian politics
Dr Jo Buckberry
Reader in Biological Anthropology
Expertise: Human osteology, age estimation and sex assessment, palaeopathology; trauma analysis, early medieval, medieval and post-medieval funerary archaeology
Dr Julia Beaumont
Lecturer in Biological Anthropology
Expertise: Teeth, dental development, isotopes, palaeodiet, forensic dentistry, collagen, neonatal, maternal health
Dr Mark Baimbridge
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Expertise: European economic integration, Labour market flexibility, industrial disputes, elite labour markets
Dr Prathivadi Anand
Head of Peace Studies and International Development
Expertise: environmental economics, sustainable human development, right to water, institutional economics, governance, accountability, China, India
Dr Russell Delderfield
Male Eating Disorders Researcher
Expertise: disordered eating, qualitative, social psychology of eating disorders, counselling and psychotherapy for male eating disorders, masculinities and Critical Men’s Studies, misandry, masculism, philosophy and methodology of qualitative research, hermeneutics for social psychology, researcher development, person-centred practice, reflective practice
Dr Simon Tweddell
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
Expertise: Education research, Team-based learning
Mr Jamie Beck
Lecturer in School of Allied Health Professions and Sport
Expertise: Education, trauma, forensic science, sports medicine
Professor Amir Sharif
Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Circular Economy
Expertise: Food security, Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Circular Economy, Humanitarian Logistics, Management programmes, Supply chain management, Operations management, Project management, Leadership Causal mapping, Systems thinking, Systems dynamics, Artificial Intelligence , Internet of things , Industry 4.0, Learning and Teaching, MBA, Executive Education, Leadership Development, Employability, Information systems, Strategy, People Management, Board governance, Internationalisation, Global education, Transnational education
Professor Anne Graham
Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Transfer
Expertise: Inflammation, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, endothelial cells, cell signalling, MAP kinase, angiogenesis, microRNA
Professor Brendan Barrett
Professor of Visual Development
Expertise: amblyopia, vision and sport, vision and reading
Professor Christoph Bluth
Professor of International Relations and Security
Expertise: Russia and Eurasia, Pakistan, Iraq, Germany, North East Asia, Korea
Professor Daniel Neagu
Professor of Computing
Expertise: artificial intelligence, toxicology, software engineering, online social networks, data quality, big data, healthcare
Professor Diana Anderson
Professor of Biomedical Science and Established Chair
Expertise: cancer, oxygen radicals, human biomonitoring, unbalanced precursor pools, dietary imbalance, male-mediated developmental defects, nanotoxicology, general toxicology
Professor Edward Mallen
Head of Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Science
Expertise: refractive error, accommodation control, neural adaptation to blur, adaptive optics
Professor Gregory Watts
Professor of Environmental Acoustics
Expertise: sustainable environments, environmental engineering, road traffic noise, traffic, urban and rural open spaces, tranquillity
Professor Hassan Ugail
Professor of Visual Computing
Expertise: geometric design, visualisation, simulation based design, computer science
Professor Jan Oyebode
Professor of Dementia Care
Expertise: fronto-temporal dementia, cultural aspects of dementia, end of life and bereavement, interventions, cognitive rehabilitation
Professor Marcus Rattray
Professor of Pharmacology
Expertise: Neuroprotection, astrocytes, addiction, motor neurone disease, pharmacology
Professor Murna Downs
Professor in Dementia Studies
Expertise: quality of life, quality of care, lived experience of dementia, effectiveness of training and education, culture change; mixed methods
Professor Owen Greene
Professor of International Development
Expertise: non-proliferation and disarmament, regional security, conflict prevention, climate change, ozone depletion, sea pollution, Europe, East Asia, West Africa, South Asia
Professor Paul Rogers
Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies
Expertise: Changing causes of international conflict, Terrorism and political violence, Environmental conflict, Middle East security, Arms control and disarmament, Middle East; Persian Gulf
Professor Stephen Rimmer
Head of School of Chemistry and Biosciences, and Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Polymers, Biomaterials, Radical Polymerisation, Cationic Polymerisation, Polyurethanes, Emulsion Polymerisation, Smart Polymers, Anti-microbial agents, Tissue Engineering, Drug delivery
Professor Udy Archibong
Pro Vice-Chancellor Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Expertise: equality, inclusion, diversity
Professor Vincent Gaffney
Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology
Expertise: Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Prehistoric Archaeology, Croatian Archaeology, Roman Archaeology
Professor Zahir Irani
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic, Innovation and Quality)
Expertise: Management Decision Making, Leadership, Food Security and electronic Government, student engagement, employability, enhancement