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Members

We have more than 100 members with expertise and research interests spanning multiple disciplines and geographic regions.

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Lecturer

Centre for Women's Studies

Research interests:

  • South Asia
  • Sri Lanka
  • Intimate relations
  • Homemaking

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Urban development
  • Environmental and social sustainability
  • Housing
  • Informality

Deputy Dean for Strategy and People

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Health inequities
  • Poverty alleviation
  • Hybrid organizing
  • Organizational Learning

Chair in International HR Management

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Global mobility
  • Diversity
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Gender equality

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Digital Marketing
  • Online User Behaviour
  • Social Media
  • User-generated Content

Reader

Department of Biology

Research interests:

  • Biology
  • Ecosystems
  • Sustainability
  • Rangelands

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Environmental Justice
  • Indigeneity
  • Human Rights
  • Political Geography

Sarah Bezan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Leverhulme Centre for Biodiversity

Research interests:

  • Settler colonialism
  • Extinction studies
  • Science and technology studies
  • Ecofeminism

Lecturer

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Research interests:

  • Local institutions
  • Clientelism
  • India
  • Left-revolutionary

Senior Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Participation
  • Built Environment
  • Mobility
  • Health

Honorary Fellow

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Sustainable Development
  • Technology
  • Smallholder Agriculture
  • Financial Inclusion

Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education

Research interests:

  • Development Education
  • Buen vivir and alternatives to Development
  • Non-Formal Education
  • Global Citizenship

Nina Caspersen

Associate Dean (Research)

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Intra-state conflicts
  • Peace processes and peace settlements
  • Unrecognised/de facto states
  • Rebel governance

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Health System Performance
  • Health Economics
  • Global Health
  • Health Policy Reforms

Professor of Global Literature

Department of English and Related Literature

Research interests:

  • Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Migration
  • South Asia

Associate Professor/Senior Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Citizenship
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnography
  • Genetics

Professor

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Participatory GIS
  • Urban Health
  • Creative Methods
  • Scenarios

Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Chair of the Graduate School Board (Research Students)

Department of History

Research interests:

  • Science
  • Technology
  • Economic Diversification
  • Colonial Development

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Department of History

Research interests:

  • Economic history
  • Environmental history
  • History of Hong Kong
  • History of Britain

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Global Economic Governance
  • Drivers of change in the world bank and IMF Operations
  • UK Housing Provision

Emeritus Professor

School for Business and Society

Professor of Environment and Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Environment and health
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Mental health
  • Trials

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Research interests:

  • Data Analysis
  • Climate Science
  • Structural Biology
  • Psychology of Science Denial

Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Air Pollution
  • Global South
  • Africa
  • South Asia

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to development
  • NGOs
  • Gender
  • Migration

Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Global/public health

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Political Economy
  • Development
  • South-South Cooperation
  • Infrastructure

Professor of Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Urban health
  • Public health
  • Gender and equity

Professor Jon Ensor

Director of IGDC, Professor

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Equitable development
  • Environmental governance
  • Climate change adaptation

Lecturer

Department of Politics

Research interests:

  • Chinese studies
  • Agrarian studies
  • International political economy
  • Environment and sustainable development

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Strategy

Research interests:

  • Creativity and Community
  • Technology
  • Education

Senior Lecturer

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Lecturer

Global Social Policy and International Development

Research interests:

  • Migration
  • Sustainability and sustainable development
  • Human capital 

Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Governance dimensions of Social and Environmental Change
  • Climate Change
  • Mekhong Region

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability

Director of Learning and Teaching

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Political geography
  • Political ecology
  • Natural resource management
  • Natural resource conflict

Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights

Centre for Applied Human Rights

Research interests:

  • Transitional justice
  • Human rights
  • Development alternatives
  • Informality

Lecturer in Sustainability

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Inequality
  • Sustainability
  • Economic growth
  • Agriculture

Dr Alex Green

Senior Lecturer

York Law School

Research interests:

  • International law
  • Statehood
  • Climate change
  • Climate justice

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Governance
  • Human rights
  • Political economy
  • Democracy

Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Human development
  • Social justice
  • Democratisation
  • Economic governance

Assistant Professor in Human Geography and Environment

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Sustainable development
  • Urban development
  • Urban (climate) resilience
  • Urban inequality (gender and economic inequality)

Lecturer, Norwegian Study Centre

Research interests:

Political Economy
Corporate Power
Sustainability
Neoliberalism

Professor

Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Research interests:

  • Language
  • Spoken communication
  • Arabic
  • Middle East

Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Severe Mental Ill Health (SMI)
  • Comorbid physical and mental health
  • Research ethics and cohorts
  • Preventative psychosocial interventions in refugees

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Development and human rights
  • Climate and environmental change
  • Human rights and social movements
  • Transitional and transformative justice

Professor of International Social Policy

Chair of the Exceptional Circumstances Committee

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Global social policy
  • Global health policy
  • Global economy
  • Political economy

Lecturer

Department of Psychology

Research interests:

  • Psychological Development
  • Human evolution
  • Social norms
  • Prosocial behavior

Programme Leader: MSc Environmental Economics & Environmental Management

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Disasters
  • Flooding
  • Insurance

Professor of Comparative and Global Social Policy

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Global social policy
  • Decent work
  • Austerity
  • Small island states

Lecturer in Global Mental Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Qualitative methods
  • Chronic disease
  • Community interventions

Professor Jeff Jia

Chair Professor of Supply Chain Management

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Agricultural co-operatives
  • Supply chain management
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience

Relationship Manager

Professor in Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Epidemiology
  • Public health
  • Tobacco
  • Tuberculosis

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Story-telling
  • Development imaginations

Research Associate

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • net zero research at the place-based level but with global connections and implications
  • comparative social policy research in UK, Canada, and USA.

Emeritus Professor

Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Migration
  • Ethnicity
  • Language

Lecturer in Accounting

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Management and financial accounting
  • Labour control
  • Modern slavery
  • Financial resource management

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Value chains
  • Political ecology
  • Decoloniality and justice in conservation
  • Sustainable development goals

Associate Dean for Staff Development and EDI

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Circular supply chains
  • Servitization
  • Inter-organizational relationships
  • Service-based business models

Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education

Research interests:

  • Education and social justice
  • Ghana
  • West Africa
  • Africa

Associate Lecturer

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Research interests:

  • Physics
  • Astronomy
  • Engagement
  • Outreach

Professor of accounting and risk

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Risk
  • Management
  • Culture
  • Financial inclusion

Lecturer in Global Social Policy and International Development

School for Business and Society

Research interests:

  • Social protection
  • Fragile states
  • World Bank
  • Global political economy

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Environmental change
  • Tropical vegetation
  • Biogeography
  • Ecology

Deputy Head of Media Relations

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Public Health

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Injury epidemiology
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Injury and violence prevention

Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor)

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Tobacco
  • Alcohol
  • Medication adherence
  • Low- and middle- income countries

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Health inequality
  • Oral health
  • Mental health
  • Tobacco cessation

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Research interests:

  • Systematic reviews
  • Child health
  • Paediatric oncology
  • Supportive care

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Power
  • Economic governance
  • South Africa as a rising power in global governance
  • Commonwealth

Senior Lecturer (International Relations)

Department of Politics and International Relations

Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology

Department of Sociology

Research interests:

  • Democratisation
  • Political leadership
  • Environmental sociology
  • Contentious politics

Lecturer

Department of Environment and Geography

Professor

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Professor of Psychiatry

Department of Health Sciences

Research interests:

  • Comorbidity of mental and physical health
  • Long-term health conditions
  • Care and treatment

Research Assistant

Stockholm Environment Institute

Research interests:

  • Supply chain impacts
  • Deforestation
  • Trans-boundary climate risk
  • Carbon footprint

Senior Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Ethnic conflict
  • Civil war
  • Mass atrocities
  • Peacebuilding

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Lecturer

Department of Archaeology and Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Applied archaeology
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Traditional knowledge

Honorary Professor

Centre for Health Economics

Lecturer

Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Politics of development
  • Gender
  • Political violence
  • Uganda

Health Economics Research Associate

Department of Health Sciences

CNAP Art Lecturer in Algal Biology

Department of Biology

Research interests:

  • Algal biology
  • Metabolism
  • Enzymes
  • Biotechnology

Reader

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Ecosystem services
  • Environmental hazards
  • Sustainable use
  • Environmental co-operation

Research Fellow CCMD

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Research interests:

  • Health inequalities
  • Mental health
  • Maternal and infant health
  • Pregnancy

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • International development
  • Economic inequality with links to health
  • Education and wellbeing
  • Impact evaluation of environmental policies

Professor

Centre for Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Economic evaluation
  • Social care/long term care
  • Informal unpaid care

Research Development Manager

Professor

Department of Environment and Geography

Research interests:

  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystem services
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Disease

Lecturer in Education and Social Justice

Department of Education