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Directory of Experts

A source of comment and information for journalists

2012

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University of Chester

The Corporate Communications Department welcomes enquiries from the media, seeking opinion, analysis and information from University of Chester staff. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics, from the mainstream and high profile to the obscure and highly specialised, the University‟s academics and researchers can provide a valuable and reliable resource for informed comment. This Directory, while not exhaustive, is intended as a reference point, indicating some key individuals who may be experienced in liaising with the media, in addition to being ideally qualified to talk authoritatively about their particular field.

How to contact the experts To arrange an interview or request further information, please contact the Corporate Communications Department: By phone: 01244 511450; 01244 511706; 01244 513335 By fax: 01244 511302 By email: j.dodgson@chester.ac.uk alex.williams@chester.ac.uk g.sproston@chester.ac.uk

EXPERTS – BY DEPARTMENT OR FACULTY

Art and Design Miss Maxine Bristow Textile practice; textile materials and processes in contemporary visual culture Mr Steve Carrick Scripting interactive multimedia artworks; digital 3D modelling and animation Mr Tim Daly Photography: materials and processes; digital printing Dr Christopher Hart Advertising - brands, retailing, history; identity; Englishness; self and symbolism; historic vehicles Ms Maggie Jackson Visual imagery in Dante‟s Divine Comedy from the fourteenth century to the present; nineteenth-century Scandinavian painting and imagery of light; interdisciplinary images of the Lincolnshire landscape Dr Cian Quayle Fine art practice and theory (especially contemporary photographic practice and Kurt Schwitter‟s exile in England during the 1940s) Mr John Renshaw Pedagogy and practice in fine art, especially drawing; art education; interdisciplinary/cross-curricular education in the arts; creativity

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Mr David Rutherford Advertising; visual communication; photography; mass media; visual presentation to convey information in advertising, corporate communications and news Dr Jeremy Turner Sculpture as historical, technological and cultural interface; interdisciplinary images of the Lincolnshire landscape

Biological Sciences Professor Sarah Andrew Antibodies; immunology; molecular immunology; diet and cancer Professor Graham Bonwick Toxicology; pesticides; food contaminants; food analysis; environmental contaminants; environmental analysis; stress biomarkers Professor Cynthia Burek Conservation of the environment; sustainable development; geology; geodiversity; Local Geodiversity; Action Plans; Regionally Important Geodiversity Sites; women in the history of geology Mr John Cartwright Human evolution; history of science; science and literature Dr Alison Fletcher Primate behaviour and development; handedness in chimpanzees Dr Lottie Hosie Amphibian behaviour; conservation Ms Juliet Leadbeater Bats and conservation Dr Stephen Lewis Philosophy of medicine; evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine Dr Ian McDowall Species differentiation using DNA; DNA fingerprinting Dr Tessa Smith Biochemical markers of animal behaviour; behaviour of captive animals; hormones Dr Lynne Sneddon Animal welfare and behaviour; fish welfare; fish biology and behaviour Professor John Williams Stress protein biology; bone pathology Dr Philip Wood Food microbiology

Business, Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Professor Phil Harris Political marketing; public affairs; business markets; corporate reputation; regeneration; international business; business branding Ms Helen Hayes Economic situation; finance; accountancy Mr Andy Lilley Work based learning Ms Dilys Leonard Business and life coaching Mr Andy Lyon Tourism management

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Mr Paul McKie Lateral Thinking and Problem Solving; Strategic Analysis and Planning; Market Research; Diversification; Entrepreneurialism. Mr Steve Page Cultural impact of ICT on the workforce; strategic management and exploitation of information and knowledge; e-commerce; creative thinking for managers Dr David Perrin Higher education accreditation; accreditation of prior learning Mr David Parry Online and distance learning for practitioners Dr Malcolm Rhodes Leadership; management Professor Caroline Rowland Performance management; organisational culture; strategy Professor Peter Stokes Leadership and Management Development; business and marketing development; strategic innovation and creativity for business; business development in France. Mr Anthony Sturgess Operations management; management development Dr Russell Warhurst Rail passenger transport; air transport (passenger and freight); cycle commuting; transport and the environment Mr Tony Wall Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Dr Paul Webb Marketing; organisational learning; international business; e-learning and facilitating Dr Jon Talbot - doctoral study for practitioners in work

Careers and Employability Mr Paul Gaunt Careers and employability; graduate employment

Clinical Sciences Dr Basma Ellahi Public health nutrition; ethnic diets; nutrition training Mr Duane Mellor Functional foods; the role of chocolate in health and clinical expertise in the nutritional management of diabetes and obesity Dr Sohail Mushtaq Nutritional biochemistry; lipid metabolism; micronutrients; fatty acids Ms Christine Wolfendale Nutrition in cardiovascular and critical care Ms Clare Wright Assessment and treatment of protein energy malnutrition in the clinical setting; weight control as a means of reducing breast cancer risk; nutritional management of cancer cachexia.

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Computer Science and Information Systems Dr John Kerins Teaching of computing and information science; applied artificial intelligence; semantic modelling; information and knowledge management Mr Tony Scott Project management

Education and Children’s Services Ms Frances Atherton Early years education Professor David Cracknell Academies programme Mr John Duffty ICT in primary education; creativity in primary education Ms Liz Fleet Initial teacher training Mr James Holt Religious Education in schools Professor Rob Hulme Education policy; inter-agency working (education, social work, health, police); teachers‟ professional identities and cultures; international movement of ideas and practices/policy transfer in education and social policy Professor Allan Owens International work; Drama in education and other professions, including health, business and justice; inter-cultural applications of drama; the use of drama across subjects and disciplines in higher education; teacher training Mr Tony Pickford Primary education: geography; history; ICT Ms Anna Sutton Initial teacher training Mrs Claire Warner Teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening; children‟s literature; assessment in primary schools Dr Anne-Marie Wright Special educational needs; inclusion; teaching and learning (CPD)

English Dr Derek Alsop Rochester; Sterne; Handel; eighteenth-century music and literature; Beckett; Absurdism; twentieth-century music and literature; reader theory Dr Graham Atkin Spenser; Shakespeare; philosophy, literature and friendship; emblems in literature Dr Peter Blair South African literature Dr Ashley Chantler Twentieth-century and contemporary literature; creative writing; modern textual editing; the films of Clint Eastwood Dr Melissa Fegan Irish literature (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); literary representations of the Great Famine; Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

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Dr Emma Rees Cultural representations of the female body (women) in literature, film and art (such as The Vagina Monologues); representations of Vietnam in film; representations of mental illness („madness‟) in film Dr Will Stephenson John Fowles; contemporary fiction; utopian/dystopian fiction; literature and addiction Professor Chris Walsh Victorian and twentieth-century fiction and poetry; Robert Browning; Dickens; Tolkien Professor Deborah Wynne English literature and culture (nineteenth century); Victorian popular culture; women‟s writing

Exercise and Nutrition Science Dr John Buckley Physical activity; exercise for health and rehabilitation Professor David Cotterrell Heart; cardiovascular system; exercise physiology Dr Stephen Fallows Food and nutrition policy; nutritional awareness and behaviour Professor Kevin Sykes Occupational health and fitness; community health; obesity; cardiac rehabilitation; international development

Geography and Development Studies Professor Roy Alexander Community carbon reduction; carbon footprinting; geo-ecology; vegetation analysis; GIS (geographic information systems); Spain Dr Martin Degg Natural hazard assessment and mitigation; natural disasters: earthquakes; volcanoes; geo-education and community outreach; Middle East; Latin America Professor Derek France Climate change; environmental change; pedagogy; fieldwork; Canada; Norway Ms Gill Miller International development; development education; fair trade; world food issues; Millennium Development Goals

Health and Social Care Ms Ann Bryan Community and child health; “Every Child Matters” programmes; public health Ms Jan Gidman Practice-based learning in nurse education Mrs June Keeling Violence against women Dr Andy Lovell Self-injury and learning disability; learning disability and the criminal justice system Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead Social exclusion; stigma; vulnerable groups; teenage pregnancy; teenage parenthood; nurse recruitment; community nursing; stroke; violence experienced by health care workers; writing for nurses; gender and women‟s issues

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Ms Jill McCarthy E-learning; nurse education; ethical issues in health care Dr Annette McIntosh Health and social care education Ms Andrea McLaughlin Midwifery education Mrs Linda Meredith Nurse education (managing change) Professor Mary Steen Midwifery; maternity care Professor Michael Thomas Eating disorders; anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; morbid obesity; mental health; health education policy Ms Maureen Wilkins Post Registration development in nursing

History and Archaeology Dr John Doran Medieval Papacy; City of Rome in the Middle Ages; Pope Celestine III; Pope Innocent II; Pope Innocent III; Chester (medieval history) Professor Peter Gaunt English Civil War; Oliver Cromwell; castles (eleventh to fifteenth centuries); Chester (history); Cheshire (history) Dr Donna Jackson Modern American history; American foreign policy; history of the Cold War era; American politics Dr Keith McLay British and European warfare, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; contemporary British defence policy and strategic issues Mr James Pardoe Heritage (historical aspects); Country houses and literary tourism (with particular reference to Byron, Keats, Shelley, Scott and Wordsworth) Professor Graeme White English history, Norman Conquest to Magna Carta; landscape history of Britain (especially field systems, settlements, castles, monasteries, roads); history of the University of Chester; history of Chester City Football Club; quality assurance in higher education Professor Howard Williams Archaeology of death, burial and commemoration (mortuary archaeology); early Middle Ages, including the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

International Development Professor Kevin Sykes International development

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Languages Professor Claire Griffiths France in Africa; French-speaking African countries (especially Senegal and Gabon); development issues in French-speaking Africa; visual arts in francophone Africa; France and the Slave Trade; gender and development; interpreting and translation studies. Dr Mark Gant Nineteenth century Spanish politics; religion and fiction, particularly the works of Carlos Frontaura. The protestant churches in Spain; contemporary Spanish culture and society. Ms Brenda Garvey Contemporary French and francophone; West African written and oral literatures Ms Heidi Spring-Jones

European studies; European cinema; German film Dr Debbie Wagener German reunification; East German women‟s experience after reunification; computer-assisted language learning and online communication

Law Ms Chantal Davies Discrimination; human rights; employment law; equal opportunities Professor Roger Kay Family law; adult relationships Mrs Wendy Steel EU law, IP & Company law; law & film

Learning and Information Services Mr Brian Fitzpatrick Library services; learning and information services; media services; e-books; student learning spaces

Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions Ms Lynette Bailey University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher education; applicant demographics and attitudes; pre-HE/HE curriculum interface Mr Ric Bengree University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher education; applicant demographics and attitudes Ms Vicki Riley Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE curriculum Mr Sean Williamson Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE curriculum

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Mathematics Professor Christopher Baker Analysis and numerical analysis of functional differential equations; evolutionary problems with after-effect (including integro-differential equations and deterministic and stochastic delay-differential equations); applications and parameter estimation in models (eg cell proliferation); inverse problems; integral equations; numerical simulation in biomathematics; scientific computation and codes Professor Neville Ford Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, delay differential and integral equations, fractional differential equations); stability theory; qualitative behaviour of solutions; mathematical models in the biosciences Dr Pat Lumb Detection of small solutions to delay differential equations; parameter estimation in mathematical immunology; numerical approaches to forward-backward equations; modelling and computation of plant species interactions Dr Jason Roberts Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, stochastic Volterra equations); stability theory; qualitative behaviour of solutions; computational mathematics Dr Yubin Yan Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations (deterministic and stochastic); numerical methods for Volterra integral and integro-differential equations; the finite element method; stability analysis and controllability for convection diffusion system; the Navier-Stokes equation

Media Ms Kate Sillitoe Visual communication; digital media; digital marketing; social media; mobile advertising; viral marketing

Performing Arts Miss Dani Abulhawa Site-responsive performance; gender and public urban space; skateboarding practice and mythology; play and virtuosity, topography and performance; performance documentation. Mr David Bebbington Music; music theory; performance; voice and piano Mr Ben Broughton Performance and new media technology; popular music; live performance; arts management Ms Amanda Clarkson Arts education; dance pedagogy; community dance practice Professor Peter Harrop Anthropological approaches to performance Mrs Kaya Herstad Carney Music; songwriting; performance; singing and singing for health

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Ms Evelyn Jamieson Dance performance; contemporary dance; choreographic processes; applied and community dance practice; dance and music devising; collaborative practice; movement for actors Dr Dunja Njaradi Performance studies; anthropology of theatre and dance; contemporary dance Professor Allan Owens Drama in education and other professions, including health, business and justice; inter-cultural applications of drama; the use of drama across subjects and disciplines in higher education; teacher training Professor David Pattie Contemporary theatre; popular music; Samuel Beckett Mrs Shelley Piasecka Drama pedagogy; theatre directing; contemporary performance practice. Miss Karen Quigley Theatre and performance studies; performance philosophy; theatre histories. Professor Darren Sproston Composition; contemporary music; Roberto Gerhard; minimalism (in music); musical analysis

Psychology Dr Mike Boulton Social relationships; psychosocial adjustment; aggression and bullying in children Professor Ros Bramwell Reproductive health psychology; women‟s experience of the menstrual cycle; giving birth in neonatal intensive care; breastfeeding; women‟s views on their genital appearance and why they have surgery to change it Dr Claudine Clucas The importance of respect in doctor-patient relations, including the consequences of such experiences for patient outcomes; psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS Dr Margaret Cousins Developmental Coordination Disorder / Dyspraxia Dr Sean Dunkin The role of cognitive and social psychological factors on the development of Western thought and philosophy; internet psychology; animal behaviour Ms Liane Hayes Cognitive and clinical psychological aspects of women‟s reproductive health Dr Peter Hayes Physiological responses to autobiographical memory recall; flashbulb memory; the development of learning materials Mr Nick Hool Practice issues in cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies Dr Nick Hulbert-Williams Health and clinical psychology; Cancer and Psychosocial Oncology; Stress; Caregiving; Health services research; Psychological interventions including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

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Dr Lindsay Murray Animal behaviour, especially primatology; personality psychology; self-awareness and Mirror Self-Recognition (MSR) Dr Jeremy Phillips The psychology of work and working; social psychology, particularly the psychology of attraction and love; forensic psychology, crime and criminal profiling Dr Sam Roberts Effect of communication technology (e.g. mobile phones, Facebook) on social relationships; process of social relationship formation, maintenance and decay; and Evolutionary psychology Dr Paul Rodway Hemispheric differences in emotional processing.Laterality. Dr Astrid Schepman Psychology of language, particularly prosody and intonation Dr David Scott Psychology of parenting; adult attachment; post-partum depression Dr Michelle Tytherleigh Psychological wellbeing; occupational stress and work wellness; positive psychology, including Happiness; emotional intelligence; and the effects of stress on the immune system (psychoneuroendocrinology) Dr Heather Wilkinson Long – term forgetting in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy; memory, cognition and emotion; mental health. Dr Liz Whelen Illness beliefs; quality of life in cardiac patients; pain research; psychological influences on food choice Ms Mandy Yilmaz Parent-infant interactions and communication; Early years development; cross-cultural developmental psychology

Research and Knowledge Transfer Professor Neville Ford European Research Funding, how to apply and the selection process

Social Studies and Counselling Dr Mark Bendall British and American politics, contemporary and twentieth century; ethical media (corporate social responsibility); corporations and crime; recorded crime; violent crime; gender discrimination; sexuality discrimination; celebrity; popular culture Dr Peter Cox Cycling and society; sustainable transport; sustainable communities Ms Meriel D’Artrey Political theory; political communication and marketing; political skills; political policy Dr Jonathan Louth International relations, security, human security, Southeast Asia, Australian history and politics, complexity theory, resilience, compulsory voting, party politics. Dr Stuart McNab Counselling; counselling training; personal development groups

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Dr Rita Mintz Counselling; counselling training; professional and ethical issues Dr Cassandra Ogden Sociology of health and illness; disability; inflammatory bowel disease; children coping with chronic illness Professor Gordon Turnbull Psychological trauma

Sport and Exercise Sciences Professor Ken Green Physical education; young people, sport and leisure Dr Moira Lafferty Applied sport psychology, elite junior and senior athletes, parents, coaches, psychological support Dr Kevin Lamb Exercise physiology; perceived exertion; assessment of physical activity; movement analysis Dr Nicola McWhannell Physical activity, bone health and body composition (pediatric and adult); physical activity, health and fitness interventions, school based interventions. Ms Wendy Owen Women‟s football Dr Andy Smith Young people, sport and leisure; youth lifestyles; physical education; sport policy; disability sport Dr Carmel Triggs Applied sports psychology Dr Craig Twist Exercise physiology; Rugby League football (sports science aspects) Dr Paul Worsfold Sports biomechanics; sports engineering, equipment testing and development; performance analysis, GPS analysis

Student Support and Guidance Mr Steve Clapham Student behaviour; student safety; liaison with the local community; professional suitability procedures Dr Lesley Cooke Student well-being; psychological health; student welfare; student funding; induction of new students; citizenship Ms Paula Harrison Student welfare; mental health; disability

Theology and Religious Studies Dr Hannah Bacon Feminist theology and its engagement with Christian doctrine and orthodoxy; feminist theological approaches to secular dieting and weight-loss; Christian theology

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Dr Chris Baker Public theology, urban theology, religion and public policy, religion and civil society, the postsecular city Professor David Clough Christian ethics, especially as they concern war and peace; environmental ethics and animals Dr Matthew A. Collins The Dead Sea Scrolls; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Second Temple Judaism; ancient Near Eastern mythology; New Testament contexts; Bible and Popular Culture Dr Wendy Dossett Japanese Buddhism; religious education Dr Fabrizio M Ferrari Hinduism; Tantra and Shaktism; mysticism; ritual theory; religious folklore and subaltern studies; critical theory Dr Ben Fulford Christian doctrine; historical theology; systematic theology; the doctrine of the Trinity and the theology of Scripture Professor Elaine Graham Urban theology; religion and public policy; religion, culture and gender Dr Steve Knowles Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music; philosophy of religion Dr Dawn Llewellyn Women in contemporary Christianity and post-Christianity; feminist theology and literature; motherhood and Christianity; third wave feminism (and its relationship to religion); feminist generations; spiritual reading practices. Dr Paul Middleton Martyrdom; Religion and Violence; New Testament and Early Christianity; Jesus; Book of Revelation Dr Wayne Morris Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music; philosophy of religion Dr Mohammad Seddon Islam, beliefs and practices; Muslim minorities in Britain and the West; Muslim youth; Yemen and British Yemenis Dr David Shepherd Biblical Studies (esp. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament); Aramaic Language; religion and violence; representations of the Bible in visual culture Professor Robert Warner Secularization; the decline of religion in the West; the rise of fundamentalisms; the futures of Christianity; the rise of new spiritualities; women and religion; students and religion

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