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Health and Wellbeing
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Professor Thom Baguley
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Memory; Applied statistics
Professor Di Bailey
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Social work/Counselling, Health and Wellbeing, Crime
Area(s) of expertise: Offender health; Mental health; Self-harm; Social work; Action research; Evaluation
Dr Natalie Braber
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Language
Area(s) of expertise: Aphasia; Accents and dialects; Language and emotion; Language and identity; Language in the East Midlands
Viv Brunsden
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Psychology, Emergency Services, Health and Wellbeing, Society, Crime
Area(s) of expertise: Psychology of the emergency services (esp the fire and rescue service); Violence against emergency service workers; Posttraumatic reactions; Humanitarian assistance; Psychology of disaster; Community safety
Dr Louise Cummings
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Language
Area(s) of expertise: Communication disorders; Public health (scientific reasoning specifically); Speech and language therapy
Professor Robert Dingwall
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Higher Education/Universities, Law, Society, Transport
Area(s) of expertise: Pandemics; Infectious diseases; Public health; Organisational aspects of health care; Health policy; Bioethics; Reproduction; Research and science policy; Research ethics, Open access publishing; Families and the law; Law and health care; Compensation; Courts; Science and society; Scientific ethics; New technologies; Scientific misconduct; Transport futures; Transport planning; New energy sources for transport.
Dr Kirsty Elliott-Sale
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Sport , Medical , Science
Area(s) of expertise: The elderly; Falls risk; Muscle strength; Osteoporosis; Physiology or exercise physiology; Pregnancy; IVF; Female athletes or female physiology
Matthew Gough
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Law
Area(s) of expertise: Mental health and community care law; Mental capacity; Mental health care
Dr Deborah Hall
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Medical
Area(s) of expertise: Charity support for people with hearing loss and tinnitus; Hearing-related problems; Tinnitus; Human brain imaging; Pitch coding
Cyndy Hawkins
School of Education
Subject(s): Early Years/Childhood inc. Parenting, Health and Wellbeing
Area(s) of expertise: Children’s play spaces; Risk and play; Wellbeing
Dr Nick Hayes
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, History, Media, Property, Society
Area(s) of expertise: Health and hospitals; Local and regional history; Media history; Twentieth Century British urban, social and political history; War and reconstruction; Media history; Housing and the building industry; Class and status
Dr Maria Karanika-Murray
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Business, Careers
Area(s) of expertise: Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Developing healthy organisations; Risk assessment; Risk management; Health at work; Promoting health at work; Psychosocial health; Resilience; Stress; Wellbeing at work; Work psychology and health
Dr Maria Kontogianni
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Internet/Online, Psychology, Relationships, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: Sexual disorders; Online identity; Conflict; Stereotyping; Attraction; Cheating in relationships; Intimate relationships; Jealousy; Gay parenting; Sexuality
Dr Ahmad Lotfi
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Technology, Science, Health and Wellbeing
Area(s) of expertise: Assistive technology, Global Positioning System (GPS); Smart devices, Robotics, Assistive robots, Monitoring, Ambient assisted living, Dementia, Intelligent environments
Dr Michael Loughlin
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Medical , Science
Area(s) of expertise: Bacterial resistance to disinfectants; antibiotic resistance
Dr Alan McNally
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Science, Medical , Health and Wellbeing
Area(s) of expertise: Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria; E.coli infections; How bacteria evolve into human pathogens
Dr Claire Minshull
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Sport , Health and Wellbeing
Area(s) of expertise: Exercise and training; Fatigue; Rehabilitation and prevention of injury; Sports injury (especially knee)
Professor Murray Pratt
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Europe, Film and Television, France, Health and Wellbeing, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: European identity; Contemporary French cinema; Contemporary French culture; Contemporary French writing; French identity; AIDS and HIV prevention in France; Sexuality in France; Internationalisation in Higher Education
Dr Preethi Premkumar
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Medical , Society, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Psychological therapy; Psychosis; Brain imaging; Social relationships
Professor Robert Rees
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Medical , Science
Area(s) of expertise: Cancer and immunology; Cancer biomarkers; Cancer vaccines; Immunotherapies; Diagnosis; Prognosis and clinical utility
Chris Ring
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Social work/Counselling, Society, Health and Wellbeing
Area(s) of expertise: Social work (with adults); Mental health (aspects of) Social aspects of ageing
Dr Simon Watts
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Relationships, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Quality of life in dementia; Love; Love relationships; Research methods; Qualitative research; Q methodology
Dr Glenn Williams
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Society, Transport
Area(s) of expertise: Personality and stress; Psychology of wellbeing and happiness; Stress and wellbeing in the workplace; Commuting stress; The psychology of commuting and transport use; Encouraging more active and sustainable travel choices; Organisational change and stress; Arts participation and wellbeing; Community psychology; Developing a sense of community in society; Tackling social inequalities; Targeting social problems (i.e. poverty); Addressing prejudice
Dr Belinda Winder
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Crime, Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Internet/Online
Area(s) of expertise: Fraud; Internet sex offenders; Offenders and mental health; Offending and health; Resettlement of offenders; Sex offenders; Sexual crime; Forensic psychology
Professor Gregory Woods
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Film and Television, Health and Wellbeing, Literature, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: LGBT studies; Gay/lesbian film, writing and culture; Queer culture; HIV/AIDS; Poetry (as writer and critic)
