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Anthropology

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Nicolas Argenti** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265457 Email: nicolas.argenti@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 138	Memory, commemoration, and embodiment Youth and childhood Performance and politics Political violence Materiality Anthropology and time Cameroon, Greece and the Balkans.
Dr Andrew Beatty** Role: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265943 Email: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 141	Psychological and psychiatric anthropology Emotion Religion and ritual Indonesia and Mexico New approaches to ethnographic writing
Dr Liana Chua Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265429 Email: liana.chua@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 140	Anthropology of religion Materiality and museology Development and conservation Human-animal relations
Dr Amit Desai Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895266279 Email: amit.desai@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ138	Anthropology of India Religion Art and creativity
Dr Peggy Froerer** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265456 Email: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 143	South Asia Anthropology of education, learning & schooling Children, childhood and youth International development Inequality and social mobility
Dr Eric Hirsch** Role: Head of Department Phone: +44 (0)1895 265953 Email: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 134	Historicity and landscape Myth, personhood and ritual Power and property relations Papua New Guinea, Britain
Dr Isak Niehaus** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267413 Email: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 139	Southern Africa Political anthropology Witchcraft and cosmology HIV / AIDS Masculinity and sexuality History of anthropology
Dr Melissa Parker** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049 Email: melissa.parker@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 136	Anthropology of global health Neglected tropical diseases HIV/AIDS Anthropology of war Anthropology of international development
Dr William Rollason** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265041 Email: william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 135	Papua New Guinea Rwanda Development and the post-colony The future
Dr Ana Margarida Sousa Santos Role: Leach-RAI Research Fellow Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049 Email: ana.santos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 152	East and Southern Africa Anthropological perspectives on ethnicity, violence and history Understanding the structure and processes of political and ethnic violence
Dr James Staples** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267412 Email: james.staples@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 137	South Asia Medical anthropology (leprosy, disability, the body and pain) Suicide Anthropology of food Biography and life history

Economics and Finance

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Professor Ray Barrell** Role: Professor of Economics Phone: +44 (0)1895 265430 Email: Ray.Barrell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 253	Consumption, trade and monetary and fiscal policies FDI, R&D education and growth Money and banking, financial regulation
Professor John Bennett** Role: Professor of Economics Phone: +44 (0)1895 266649 Email: john.bennett@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 254	Development and transition economics Informal labour markets Privatization
Professor Nauro Campos** Role: Professor of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 267115 Email: nauro.campos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 263a	Economic growth Political economy Finance Labour economics
Dr Alessandra Canepa** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266207 Email: alessandra.canepa@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 247	Econometrics Empirical finance Financial econometrics
Professor Guglielmo Maria Caporale** Role: Professor of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 266713 Email: guglielmo-maria.caporale@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 251	International finance Monetary and financial economics Macroeconomics and econometrics
Dr Qiwei Chen Role: Lecturer of Finance and Accounting Phone: +44 (0)1895 267763 Email: qiwei.chen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 248	Behavioural finance especially momentum, disposition CDS Earning management anomaly and company valuation Behavioural accounting
Dr Ioana Chioveanu** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267863 Email: ioana.chioveanu@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 269	Microeconomics theory Industrial economics Competition policy
Dr Mauro Costantini** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267958 Email: mauro.costantini@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 260	Econometrics of panel data Time series Forecasting
Dr Javier Coto-Martinez Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267724 Email: javier.coto-martinez@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 262	Macroeconomics International macroeconomics
Dr Evangelos Dioikitopoulos Role: Lecturer in Economics Phone: +44 (0)1895 267862 Email: evangelos.dioikitopoulos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 244	Growth theory Dynamic optimal taxation Macroeconomic dynamics Demographics and economic history
Dr Jan Fidrmuc** Role: Senior Lecturer in Economics Phone: +44 (0)1895 266528 Email: jan.fidrmuc@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 255	Political economy Institutional economics Labor and family economics Development and transition economics
Professor Sugata Ghosh** Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266887 Email: sugata.ghosh@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 261	Growth theory and empirics Macroeconomic theory and policy Applied microeconomic theory Development economics
Dr Charles Grant Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265393 Email: charles.grant@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 259	Applied Microeconometrics
Dr Omaima Hassan Role: Lecturer in Financial Accounting Phone: +44 (0)1895 267680 Email: omaima.hassan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 246a	Determinants and implications of financial reporting Market-based accounting research Corporate governance Earnings management
Dr John Hunter** Role: Lecturer in Econometrics Phone: +44 (0)1895 266648 Email: john.hunter@ brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 257	Arbitrage in economic and financial markets Exchange rate and small macro modelling Non-stationary time series Regulatory econometrics
Professor Menelaos Karanasos** Role: Professor of Financial Economics Phone: +44 (0)1895 265284 Email: menelaos.karanasos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 269	Empirical finance Applied macroeconomics Time series analysis Financial development
Dr Dilruba Karim** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265955 Email: dilruba.karim@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 246	Early Warning Systems Banking Crises Financial Regulation
Dr Aris Kartsaklas Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267259 Email: aris.kartsaklas@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 270	Financial econometrics and forecasting Market microstructure and asset pricing Applied macroeconomics
Dr Panagiotis Konstantinou** Role: Senior Lecturer of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 265036 Email: Panagiotis.Konstantinou@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 252	Open economy macroeconomics and international finance Finance and growth Voter participation and political campaign expenditures
Dr Kyriacos Kyriacou Role: Lecturer in Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 266656 Email: kyriacos.kyriacou@Brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 267	The impact of derivatives on underlying markets The information content of Director trades Executive stock options Insider trading (general)
Professor Guy Liu Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266650 Email: guy.liu@Brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 258	Industrial organization and competition Financial economics and corporate governance Chinese industry development and enterprise reform Energy economics and electricity industry
Dr Bryan Mase** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266647 Email: bryan.mase@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 256	Applied corporate finance Insider trading
Dr Tomoe Moore** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267531 Email: tomoe.moore@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 250	Emerging financial markets Applied macroeconomics in emerging and developing countries Global finance Banking sector in emerging economies
Dr Russ Moro** Role: Lecturer of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 266058 Email: russ.moro@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 266	Company credit rating Neuroeconomics Non-parametric and semi-parametric methods
Dr Matthew Rablen** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267848 Email: matthew.rablen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 265	Tax evasion Behavioural economics Public economics Voting
Dr Anja Shortland** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267091 Email: anja.shortland@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 268	Economics of security Civil conflict Piracy Financial development
Professor Frank Skinner** Role: Professor of Corporate Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 267948 Email: frank.skinner@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 241	Financial contracting Debt pricing Investment strategies Agency theory
Dr Nicola Spagnolo** Role: Reader Phone: +44 (0)1895 266636 Email: nicola.spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 245	Applied macroeconomics Empirical finance Financial crises and contagion Time series econometrics
Dr Fabio Spagnolo** Role: Reader in Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 265637 Email: fabio.spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 264	Financial econometrics International finance Nonlinear time series
Sotiris Vandoros Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266871 Email: s.vandoros@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 240	Health economics Pharmaceutical economics and policy Industrial economics Experimental economics
Dr Alexia Ventouri** Role: Lecturer in Accounting and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 267165 Email: alexia.ventouri@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 239	Efficiency and productivity of financial institutions Bank regulation and supervision Competition issues in banking Finance and growth

Politics and History

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Wali Aslam Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265436 Email: wali.aslam@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 218	United States foreign and security policy International security Asian (particularly South Asian) security International Relations theory
Dr Alison Carrol** Role: Lecturer in European History Phone: +44 (0)1895 267980 Email: alison.carrol@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 215	Modern European History Borders and borderlands French and German political history Nations and nation-building
Dr Gareth Dale** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267298 Email: gareth.dale@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 214	Karl Polanyi Environment / climate change Social movements Eastern Europe
Dr Philip Davies** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266827 Email: philip.davies@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 226	Organisation and governance of intelligence agencies and communities National intelligence cultures and traditions Intelligence professionalization, professional practice and doctrine Intelligence, counter-intelligence and cyber- and protective-security policy
Dr Filippo Del Lucchese** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267880 Email: filippo.dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 227	History of political thought History of philosophy Political theory Cinema
Dr Inge Dornan** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266831 Email: inge.dornan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 228	Gender and race in the Americas (17^th-19^th century) Slavery and the slave trade Abolitionism Print and press culture in the Americas
Professor Justin Fisher** Role: Professor of Political Science Phone: +44 (0)1895 266309 Email: justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 208	Political parties & elections Political finance Political trust British and comparative politics
Dr Martin H. Folly** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266823 Email: martin.folly@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 230	The Grand alliance in the Second World War Diplomacy and foreign policy during the Second World War and early Cold War The early history of NATO United States foreign policy 1914 - 1976
Dr Kristian Gustafson** Role: Lecturer in Intelligence Studies Phone: +44 (0)1895 265436 Email: kristian.gustafson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda	Intelligence Doctrine Military affairs Horizon scanning
Dr Martin Hansen** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267715 Email: martin.hansen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 220	Parliaments Political parties West European politics Governments
Professor Matthew Hughes** Role: Head of Department Phone: +44 (0)1895 266872 Email: Matthew.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 210	Military history War studies International history Palestine and the Middle East
Professor Elke Krahmann** Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266345 Email: elke.krahmann@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 236	International relations Security studies Non-state Actors
Dr Thomas Linehan** Role: Lecturer in History Phone: +44 (0)1895 266829 Email: thomas.linehan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 232	‘Fringe’ parties, movements and politics in Britain, 1880s - Communist politics and movements Socialist politics and movements Far right politics, movements and ideologies, including antisemitism
Dr John MacMillan** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266101 Email: john.macmillan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 216	Democratic peace Liberal state peace / war Military intervention International relations theory
Dr Stephen Marrin** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267864 Email: stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 213	Intelligence and American government/foreign policy Intelligence analysis Applied epistemology
Professor Kenneth Morgan** Role: Professor of History Phone: +44 (0)1895 266828 Email: kenneth.morgan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 211	Slavery and the slave trade Maritime history Australian history Caribbean history
Professor Mark Neocleous** Role: Professor of the Critique of Political Economy Phone: +44 (0)1895 266824 Email: mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 237	History of Ideas Marx and Marxism Police, security and state power Pacification
Dr Niall Palmer** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266826 Email: niall.palmer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 224	US presidency US elections US party politics & ideology US political history
Dr Tamson Pietsch** Role: Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History Phone: +44 (0)1895 267981 Email: tamson.pietsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 225	Britain and Empire Global and transnational history History of universities Ships and the sea
Dr Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267717 Email: Katja.Sarmiento-Mirwaldt@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 219	Borders and border regions Political communication Employment relations
Dr David Scott** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266825 Email: david.scott@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 217	China in the international system India in the international system East-West encounters Orientalism
Dr Matthew Seligmann** Role: Reader Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267261 Email: matthew.seligmann@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 212	The Anglo-German naval race The origins of the first World War Intelligence history
Dr Astrid Swenson** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267912 Email: astrid.swenson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 221	Modern European history Heritage and memory Comparative and transnational history French, German and British cultural history
Dr Peter Thomas** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267573 Email: peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 229	History of political thought and philosophy Marxist philosophy and theory Contemporary social and cultural theory
Dr Varun Uberoi** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265858 Email: varun.uberoi@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 231	Normative political theory Public policy Multiculturalism National identity

Psychology

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Professor David Bunce** Role: Professor in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267242 Email: david.bunce@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 230	Cognitive ageing and dementia Early detection of age-related cognitive impairment Age, mental health and cognitive function Age and cognitive/skilled performance in work/applied contexts
Dr Survjit Cheeta** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266530 Email: survjit.cheeta@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 268	Psychopharmacology Neural systems underpinning depression Emotional processing, learning and memory Cognitive behavioural therapies
Dr Andrew Clark** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265127 Email: andrew.clark@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 258	Evolutionary psychology Sexual selection Mate preferences Mating tactics and strategies
Dr Rachel Crockett** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267584 Email: rachel.crockett@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 120	Healthy eating behaviour Population health interventions to change behaviour Communication of risk information
Dr Bridget Dibb** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266564 Email: bridget.dibb@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 122	Post-traumatic growth after the onset of illness Illness beliefs and adjustment to chronic illness Social comparison in chronic illness The role of stigma in adjustment to chronic illness
Dr Liory Fern-Pollak Role: Associate Research Fellow Phone: Email: liory.fern-pollak@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 262	Neural correlates of reading in multiple languages Dyslexia fMRI
Dr Stanley Gaines Jr** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265485 Email: stanley.gaines@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 108	International development Personal relationships Cross-cultural psychology Ethnic studies
Professor Fernand Gobet** Role: Professor of Cognitive Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265484 Email: fernand.gobet@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 263	Psychology of expertise CHREST cognitive architecture Acquisition of language Methodology of computational modelling
Professor Robin Goodwin** Role: Professor of Social Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265470 Email: robin.goodwin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 203	Cross-cultural psychology Psychological adaptation to social change Psychological responses to pandemic threat Societal threats (e.g. terrorism, earthquakes) Culture and relationships
Dr Toshie Imada** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267684 Email: toshie.imada@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 116	Cross-cultural psychology Culture and social cognition, emotion and motivation Cognitive development Cultural products Intercultural competence
Dr Tara Marshall** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267096 Email: tara.marshall@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 114	Cross-cultural psychology Close relationships Gender and sexuality
Professor Lynn Myers** Role: Professor of Health Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265879 Email: lynn.myers@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 143	Health psychology Coping styles Adherence/ compliance with treatment Risk perception
Professor Dany Nobus** Role: Pro-Vice-Chancellor Phone: +44 (0)1895 265944 Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk Office: Wilfred Brown Room A117	Psychoanalysis History of psychiatry Epistemology
Dr Justin O’Brien** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265475 Email: justin.obrien@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 124	Visual development Neuroimaging Developmental disorders Visual psychophysics
Dr Andrew Parton** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267326 Email: andrew.parton@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 256	Cognitive neuropsychology and impaired cognition Visual cognition Visuo-motor control Implicit/explicit memory
Dr Nicholas Pound** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266311 Email: nicholas.pound@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 103	Male competitiveness, risk-sensitivity, impulsiveness and violence Facial morphology, health and endocrine status Perception of personality in faces Social and psychological influences on male reproductive physiology and sexual behaviour
Dr Michael Price** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266974 Email: michael.price@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 158	Evolutionary psychology Evolution of moral beliefs Cooperation in groups Organizational behaviour
Dr Martina Reynolds** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265482 Email: martina.reynolds@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 110	Interdisciplinary research on performance, media and social science Creating media for dementia sufferers Media for mobile and other platforms Ageing /mental illness in television drama Qualitative research
Dr Toby Robertson** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265945 Email: toby.robertson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 113	Intergroup relations Social identity Attitudes and social influence
Dr Charlotte Russell** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266366 Email: charlotte.russell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 259	Neuropsychology of attention and episodic memory Lifespan changes in attention and episodic memory Monetary and social reward in attention and memory
Dr Noam Sagiv** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265341 Email: noam.sagiv@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 260	Synaesthesia Cross-modal interactions Neural correlates of consciousness Face perception
Dr Marvin Schiller Role: Research Fellow Phone: +44 (0)1895 267487 Email: marvin.schiller@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 259	Cognitive modelling Problem gambling Artificial intelligence AI in education
Dr Achim Schuetzwohl** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266327 Email: achim.schuetzwohl@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 211	Surprise Jealousy Facial expression
Dr Isabel Scott** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265907 Email: isabel.scott@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 257	Facial perception Mate choice Moral psychology Economic psychology Evolutionary perspectives
Dr Janine Spencer** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265474 Email: janine.spencer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 206	Visual development Developmental disorders Biological motion perception Infant development
Dr Adrian Williams** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265452 Email: adrian.williams@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 269	Visual (and more broadly, sensory) perception Visual coding and representation in the brain Cortical organisation Neuroimaging - functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Dr Barlow Wright** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267327 Email: barlow.wright@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 163	Topics in developmental psychology Psychology of reasoning Disorders and disability psychology Psychology of ethnicity
Professor Taeko Wydell** Role: Head of Psychology Department, Professor of Cognitive Neurospychology / Neuroscience Phone: +44 (0)1895 265473 Email: taeko.wydell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 205	Cognitive neuroscience of language & reading in different languages Language and literacy impairments (dyslexia, SLI, etc) Research using fMRI, EEG, MEG & TMS Bilingualism / trilingualism

Sociology & Communications

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Monica Degen** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265940 Email: monica.degen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 149	Cities and space The senses and embodiment Material cultures Sociology of everyday life
Dr Lesley Henderson Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 265459 Email: lesley.henderson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 144	Sociology of media Media, health & science Public engagement Qualitative research
Dr Jason Hughes** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265633 Email: jason.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 177	Figurational sociology Sociology of emotions Organisational/industrial sociology Sociology of health and illness Sociology of addiction
Dr Sharon Lockyer** Role: Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 267373 Email: sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 146	Sociology of mediated culture Critical comedy studies Media controversies Gender, class and disability
Dr Sarita Malik** Role: Lecturer in Media and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 266874 Email: sarita.malik@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 152	Race and representation Media genres Media policy and institutions Diasporic media
Dr Chris McMillan Role: Temporary Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267541 Email: chris.mcmillan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 152	Sociological theory Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism Slavoj Žižek Global capitalism, climate change, migration and labour / poverty
Dr Hauke Riesch Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267541 Email: hauke.riesch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 152	Sociology of science Public understanding of science Risk and environment Philosophy of science
Dr John Roberts** Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 266377 Email: john.roberts@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 155	Public sphere, urban space, and free speech New media Global political economy and management Social theory
Professor Chris Rojek** Role: Professor of Sociology and Culture Phone: +44 (0)1895 266599 Email: chris.rojek@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 147	Culture Celebrity Leisure; Recreation; Tourism; Event management Invisible government
Professor Clive Seale** Role: Professor of Sociology Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267139 Email: clive.seale@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 148	Sociology of health and illness Communication in health care Health and mass media End-of-life care
Dr Sanjay Sharma** Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)18952 65835 Email: sanjay.sharma@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 156	Critical multiculturalism & anti-racism New media & internet politics Digital methods Radical pedagogy
Professor Steven Wainwright** Role: Head of Department, Professor of Sociology Phone: +44 (0)7793 056589 Email: steven.wainwright@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 150	Science & Technology Studies Medical Sociology Sociology of the Arts History & Philosophy of Social Science Russian Culture & Identity
Dr Simon Weaver** Role: Lecturer in Media and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 265029 Email: simon.weaver@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 145	Social & cultural theory, the work of Zygmunt Bauman, semiotics Representations of disability & ‘deformity’ in media Rhetoric in discourses of health Racist & offensive humour, humour & rhetoric Sociology of race, ethnicity & racism
Professor Clare Williams** Role: Professor of Medical Sociology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267720 Email: clare.williams@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 151	Sociology of health and illness Sociology of bioethics Gender Qualitative research