Abigail Davis

Research Fellow

Abigail is an expert in living standards in the UK, particularly relating to the Minimum Income Standard.

Expertise: living standards, Minimum Income Standard, budget standards, poverty and social exclusion

Coronavirus, Economics, Society

Alex Christoyannopoulos

Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Alex is an expert in politics and international relations. He frequently comments on current affairs, especially terrorism.

Expertise: Terrorism and political violence, UK, EU and French politics, Religion and politics (especially anarchism), Leo Tolstoy’s political thought

Terrorism, Politics, Coronavirus

Dr Alex Zarifis

Research Associate

Dr Zarifis has published extensively on trust in e-business. His research has explored the role of trust in various areas of e-business that involve risk including the sharing economy and e-health.

Expertise: e-health, e-business, trust, privacy, online collaboration, leadership, artificial intelligence, insurance

Coronavirus, Technology, Business, Health

Dr Chris Zebrowski

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Dr Chris Zebrowski’s research investigates how resilience ideas are being operationalized in the context of emergency planning and response.

Expertise: Crisis and emergency governance, resilience, security

Politics, War and security, Society, Terrorism, Crime, Coronavirus

Dr Ian Taylor

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Ian studies human motivation. He has extertise on fundamental processes that drive behaviour and lead to long-term health. Currently, he is investigating the motivational determinants of healthy decision making and consequences low motivation.

Expertise: Human motivation; processes of behaviour; motivation in educational settings

Science, Society, Health, Coronavirus

Dr Jonathan S. Seaton

Reader in Business Economics

Jon is an expert in business economics, supermarkets and grocery pricing, as well as general economics. He prefers to be contacted via email.

Expertise: Supermarket, Prices, Grocery, Business Economics

Business, Economics, Coronavirus

Dr. Martin Sykora

Lecturer in Information Management

Dr Martin Sykora is an expert in Social Media and Sentiment Analysis, and can be interviewed in English, German or Slovak.

Expertise: Social Media Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Big Data.

Technology, Coronavirus

Gemma Witcomb

Lecturer in Psychology

Research activities span from breastfeeding and child feeding difficulties to adult eating disorders and body image disturbances in general and specific populations, in particular transgender.

Expertise: Transgender Health, Hormones, Compulsive Eating, Body Image, Appetite, Obesity

Health, Coronavirus

Matt Padley

Research Fellow

Matt is an expert in UK living standards and poverty and has pioneered research on retirement living standards.

Expertise: Living standards, poverty, Minimum Income Standards, retirement living standards, income and the Living Wage

Coronavirus, Economics, Society

Professor Amanda Daley

Professor of Behavioural Medicine

Amanda’s work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes, particularly around women’s health.

Expertise: Testing lifestyle interventions, public health diet and physical activity interventions, women’s health

Sport, Health, Science, Coronavirus

Professor Donald Hirsch

Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)

Donald is Director at the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) poverty, income, welfare.

Expertise: Poverty, Income, Welfare, Minimum Income Standard, National Living Wage, Universal Credit

Coronavirus, Society

Professor Jim Saker

Professor of Retail Management

Jim has been involved with the automotive industry for 20 years. He is an industry expert with specialist knowledge of retail, strategy and management within the sector.

Expertise: Automotive Industry, Automotive Retail, Automotive Management, Retail, Car Retail

Business, Coronavirus

Professor Jo Aldridge

Professor of Social Policy and Criminology

Professor Aldrige's areas of special interest and expertise are the experiences and needs of children and young people, including young carers; domestic violence and abuse; research with people with mental health problems and learning difficulties.

Expertise: Children and young people, young carers, domestic violence and abuse, vulnerable or marginalised groups, mental health, learning disabilities, participatory research methods

Society, Health, Disability, Crime, Coronavirus

Professor Kevin Morgan

Professor of Psychology

Kevin is an expert in sleep and its impact on health.

Expertise: Sleep, Insomnia, Sleep and Health, Sleep and Sports Performance, Sleep Deprivation

Health, Coronavirus

Professor Marcus Enoch

Professor of Transport Strategy

Professor Enoch's primary research interests are focused on land-based passenger transport systems, public transport, transport policy, travel plans and the future of transport.

Expertise: Transport systems, transport policy, transport futures, public transport

Engineering, Technology, Travel, Politics, Coronavirus

Professor Sue Hignett

Professor of Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety

Sue's research focuses on patient safety, patient handling, and hospital and ambulance design.

Expertise: Patient Safety, Patient Handling, Hospital Design, Ambulance Design, Health & Safety, Healthcare, Ergonomics

Health, Coronavirus

Stan Windsor

Doctoral Researcher - Sport Business and Sport for Development

Stan is an expert on national policy and funding implications on the provision of physical education with state schools in the UK.

Expertise: Physical activity, school sport funding, childhood inactivity, sport policy, socio-economic factors of sport, COVID-19 physical activity

Coronavirus, Children, Health, Society, Sport