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Dr Jane Norris

Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts

Areas of expertise: design theory, specifically luxury product future trends.

Professor George Zhang

Professor of Chinese; Director, Centre for Modern Languages

Areas of expertise – Chinese language learning and teaching, intercultural communications and cross-cultural business management, language policy, language competence, language standards and assessment, teacher training and professional development.

Dr James D. Boys

Associate Professor of International Political Studies

Areas of expertise – the United States and its place in the world.

Hadi Enayat

Assistant Professor of Politics

Areas of expertise – religion and international relations, the sociology of law and secularism studies.

Dr Eunice Goes

Professor of Politics

Areas of expertise – British party politics, British political thought and Britain’s relationship with Europe.

Dr Michael F. Keating

Professor of International Political Economy

Areas of expertise – global best practices, Neo-liberalism, energy and infrastructure, financial sector reform, knowledge economies and innovation systems, tertiary education, politics in sub-Saharan Africa and East/South-East Asia.

Dr Paul Rekret

Associate Professor of Politics

Areas of expertise – modern and contemporary political theory, sociology of childhood, theories of democracy, global politics of popular culture.

Dr Christopher Wylde

Associate Professor in International Relations

Areas of expertise – global development politics, Latin American development, Argentine political economy, and Brazilian political economy.

Professor Dominic Alessio

Professor of History; Vice President of International Programmes

Areas of expertise – theories of empire (especially South Pacific related), science fiction film, radical right politics

Dr Martin D. Brown

Associate Dean for Research; Associate Professor of International History

Areas of expertise – international history, the Cold War, European diplomatic history, James Bond

Professor Simon Goldsworthy

Professor of Public Relations and Advertising

Areas of expertise – public relations, advertising, journalism, propaganda, celebrity culture, ethics, censorship and political communication

Dr Ira Konstantinou

Professor of Psychology

Areas of expertise – psychology, cognitive processes of memory and awareness, critical thinking

Nicola Mann

Associate Professor of Communications and Visual Cultures

Areas of expertise – visual culture, popular culture, urban regeneration, cultural studies, the social value of the arts, museum education

Dr Sue Pell

Assistant Professor of Communications

Areas of expertise – activist archives, DIY archives, social housing activism, anti-gentrification campaigns, urban social movements, social movement communication, public sphere and democracy

Dr Robert J. Wallis

Professor of Visual Culture; Associate Dean; Convenor of the MA in Art History and Visual Culture; School of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Research Centre for International Visual Arts and Cultures

Areas of expertise – the archaeology and anthropology of art and religion, with a focus on rock art, shamanism, neo-shamanism; Britain in the prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods; the archaeology of falconry

Professor Trevor Morris

Professor of Public Relations

Areas of expertise – Public Relations and Political Communications

Dr Ivan K. Cohen

Associate Professor of Finance and Economics; Chair of Faculty Senate

Areas of expertise: Monetary / macroeconomics, UK pension funds; health economics and management; Association football (soccer) finance and economics.

Dr. Parviz Dabir-Alai

Professor of Economics; Chair, Wellbeing Research Centre

Areas of expertise – a) Emerging economy issues, particularly with respect to areas of economic reform and also idiosyncratic labour markets; b) Economics of happiness; c) Financing of large scale infrastructure projects within the Caribbean region

Professor Dr. Carola Hieker

Associate Professor of Business and Management; MBA Director

Areas of expertise: organizational behavior, leadership, coaching & mentoring, diversity

Associate Professor Nastaran Nourouzi Richards-Carpenter

Associate Professor of Marketing; Programme Director of MA Luxury Brand Management

Areas of expertise – marketing, psychology and buying behaviour of luxury goods, fashion and luxury brand management

Associate Professor Inma Ramos

Associate Professor in Business, Management and Law

Areas of expertise – international investment banking and international corporate finance law, compliance and regulation, with a particular emphasis on Corporate Governance in Financial Markets

Professor Sabine Spangenberg

Professor of Economics; Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes

Areas of expertise – history of economic thought, welfare economics, public economics