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The following staff can be contacted via the University's Public Relations Office on 01484 472693 or via e-mail: john.ramsdin@hud.ac.uk.  RADIO INTERVIEWS - The Public Relations Office is equipped with ISDN connectivity for radio interviews with broadcast quality codec capability of G.722.

Art, Paintings and Sculpture

  • Professor Robert Ward - Sculpture and its relationship to ideas concerning space and time; Public sculpture and its engagement with the public; Exhibitions as process; The development of art education, philosopy and practice since 1950

Automotive Industry

  • Professor Rob Brown - Green chemistry; Solid acid/base catalysts for liquid phase reactions; Porous solids; Biodiesel synthesis; Adsorption calorimetric techniques for characterising solid catalysts and asorbents

Business and Management

  • Dr John Anchor - Strategic Management; Political risk assessment; Emerging markets especially in relation to strategy and international business issues; Higher education policy

Business Ethics

Children and Child Protection

  • Professor Adele Jones - International children’s rights; Child sexual abuse and victimisation; Child refugees and asylum-seekers; Psychosocial implications for children of HIV-AIDS; Child-centred research methodologies; Child protection policy formulation

  • Dr Bernard Gallagher - Child abuse/protection; Children in care; Child victimisation; Child welfare and research methodology

  • Professor Helen Masson - Children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours - policy, services development adn service user experiences; Child welfare and safeguarding

  • Professor Nigel Parton - Child protection, child welfare and social work; Comparing child protection systems; The contemporary politics of child protection

  • Professor Eric Blyth - Infertility and assisted human reproduction

Computing and IT

  • Professor Lee McCluskey - Artificial intelligence, especially the sub areas of automated planning, machine learning and knowledge engineering; Applications of artificial intelligence to autonomous and autonomic systems, including to road and air traffic control

Crime and Criminology

  • Professor David Canter - Criminal profiling; Investigative psychology

  • Professor Alex Hirschfield - Enviromental criminology and situational crime prevention; Crime pattern analysis and geographical information systems; Violence and the night time economy; Evaluation of crime reduction programmes; Links between crime, disadvantage and health

  • Dr Jason Roach - Criminal/forensic psychology, terrorism, detecting serious and serial offenders (crime profiling) and crime science

  • Dr Donna Youngs - Criminal profiling; Investigative psychology

Economics

Education and Teacher Training

  • Dr Martyn Walker - Teacher training (FE colleges); School and college management

  • Professor James Avis - Post-compulsory education; Political economy of education; Lived experience of learners and teachers; Professionalism; Education politics and social justice

  • Professor Glenn Hardaker - Inclusive education and internationalism; E-learning innovation and diversity; Learning styles and technologies; Madrasah management; Islamic pedagogya and curriculum

  • Dr Peter Moxon - Learning difficulties (dyslexia, autism, ADHD)

  • Dr Denis Feather - Academic identity; HE in FE, HE, Leadership; The dark side of leadership; Scholarship and direct marketing

  • Professor Robert Ward - The development of art education, philosophy and practice since 1950

Energy

Engineering

English

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Environment and Sustainability

Equality and Diversity

Ethnicity, Multi-culturalism, Community Cohesion and 'Britishness'

Forensic Science

  • Graham Williams - Crime scene investigations; DNA profiling; forensic science

Health

History

  • Professor Tim Thornton - History and Identity

  • Professor Keith Laybourn - The Labour Party; Trade Unions

  • Professor Paul Ward - Britishness since the late 19th Century

  • Professor Barry Doyle - Early 20th Century urban history, especially urban politics; The history of hospitals before the NHS; Post-war leisure and popular culture

  • Professor Richard Morris - Archaeology; The archaeological study of buildings; Settlement and landscape, historical topography; Churches and religious communities; 20th-century military aviation

  • Stephen Dorril - British Intelligence Services; MI6; Spies and espionage; The Cold War; The Profumo Affair; Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists

Human Resource Management

  • Professor Stephen Swailes - Human resource management; Employee performance; Employee behaviour in terms of team performance

Infertility

  • Professor Eric Blyth - Infertility and assisted conception; Sperm donation; Children's welfare and children's rights

Intelligence Services

  • Stephen Dorril - British Intelligence Services; MI6; Spies and espionage; The Cold War

Low Carbon Futures

Nanotechnology and Surface Measurement

Music

Nuclear Energy

Pharmacy and Drug Manufacture

  • Professor Mike Page - Superbugs and antibiotics; The chemistry of β-lactam antibiotics; Drug design

  • Professor Henry Chrystyn - Inhalers and the therapeutics of inhaled drugs; Clinical pharmacy in the primary and secondary healthcare sectors; Medicine management

  • Professor Barbara Conway - Pharmaceutics and the pharmaceutical industry

Physics

Politics

Science

Social Work and Social Policy

Transport and Tourism

  1. Interview

    Professor Eric Blyth of social work, on egg freezing and the perceptions of young women.
  2. Interview

    Dr Robert Perks, lead curator of oral history with the British library, on the importance of oral history.
  3. Interviews

    Dr Jill Townsley, course leader in Contemporary Arts on her award winning exhibit 'Sisyphus'.
Current affairs blog

Professor Chris Cowton is the Dean of the University’s Business School and editor of the quarterly international journal Business Ethics: A European Review.  Here he talks about the  Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards recommendation to jail bankers guilty of reckless … Continue reading ...

Economist Kevin Rowles on the country’s growing dependency on global trade and the problems that can cause. “Recent research from consultants PWC for the British government has reminded us of the interdependence of the world’s economy.  Revisionism about climate change … Continue reading ...


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