People

Our team combines knowledge and experience from a wide range of backgrounds and areas of expertise. We bring together experienced professors with early-career and doctoral researchers to create the SPERI research community.

Co-Directors
Core Team
Doctoral Researcher Network conveners
International Advisory Board
Research Support
Associate Fellows

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Co-Directors

Colin Hay

Co-Director

Hannah Lambie-Mumford

Co-Director

Core Team

Andrew Baker

Professorial Fellow

Stuart Bennett

Journal administrator, Comparative European Politics

Matthew Bishop

Research Fellow

Jasper Blom

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Leah Downey

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Andrew Gamble

Professorial Fellow

Jonathan Kishen Gamu

Research Fellow

Maya Goodfellow

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Katy Gordon

Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator

Andrew Hindmoor

Research Fellow

Tom Hunt

Deputy Director

Michael Jacobs

Professorial Fellow; Head of Engagement and Impact

Scott James

Visiting Researcher

Patrick Kaczmarczyk

Doctoral Researcher

Scott Lavery

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Genevieve LeBaron

Research Fellow

Owen Parker

Research Fellow

Ed Pemberton

Doctoral Researcher

Liam Stanley

Deputy Director

Doctoral Researcher Network conveners

SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network brings together postgraduate researchers from across the university who are working on topics related to SPERI's core research themes.

Remi Edwards

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

James Jackson

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Georgette Fernandez Laris

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Frank Maracchione

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Charline Sempéré

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

International Advisory Board

Jacqueline Best

Professor at the School of Political Studies, the University of Ottawa

Gurminder K Bhambra

Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex

David W. Blight

Sterling Professor of History, Yale University

Ben Chu

Economics Editor, The Independent

Jennifer Clapp

Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability, University of Waterloo

Rana Foroohar

Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor, Financial Times

Kieran Guilbert

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Andrew Haldane

Chief Economist at the Bank of England

Eric Helleiner

Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo

Gavin Kelly

Chair, Resolution Foundation

Daniel Mügge

Professor of Political Arithmetic, University of Amsterdam

Jamie Peck

Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, University of British Columbia

V. Spike Peterson

Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona

Anne Posthuma

Director of ILO/Cinterfor (The Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training)

Randeep Ramesh

Chief leader writer, The Guardian

Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum

US Director of Global Labor Justice

Vivien Schmidt

Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University

Robbie Shilliam

Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University

Helen Thompson

Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge

Research Support

Richard Franey

Operations Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences

Ann Charlett-Day

Departmental Manager, SRI/SMI, Faculty of Social Sciences

Katie Pruszynski

Research Communications and Marketing Manager, Faculty of Social Sciences

Jennifer Watson

Research and Impact Fellow, Department of Politics

Associate Fellows

SPERI’s Associate Fellows are a team of researchers from across the University of Sheffield who share our research interests and have expertise across a broad range of disciplines.

Joe Atkinson

Lecturer in Law, School of Law

Rowland Atkinson

Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, Urban Studies and Planning

Ataur Belal

Professor of Accounting, Management School

Sumon Kumar Bhaumik

Chair in Finance, Management School

Ruth Blakeley

Professor of Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics

Luke Blindell

Teaching Associate, School of Law

Sarah Brown

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics

Bojan Bugaric

Professor of Law, School of Law

Simon Bulmer

Professor of European Politics, Department of Politics

Charlie Burns

Professorial Fellow, Department of Politics

Diane Burns

Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies, Management School

Sally Cawood

Global Challenges Research Fellow, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Richard Craven

Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law

Hugo Dobson

Professor of Japan's International Relations, School of East Asian Studies

Rosaleen Duffy

Professor of International Politics, Department of Politics

Georgios Efthyvoulou

Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics

Liam Foster

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work, Department of Sociological Studies

Katy Fox-Hodess

Lecturer in Employment Relations, Management School

Andrea Genovese

Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management School

Tom Goodfellow

Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning

Katie Higgins

Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Irini Katsirea

Reader in International Media Law, Department of Journalism Studies

Alvaro Martinez-Perez

Lecturer in International and Comparative Social Research Methods, Department of Sociological Studies

Jonathan Perraton

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics

Alexandra Prodromidou

Lecturer in International Political Economy, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield-CITY College

Andreas Rühmkorf

Lecturer in Commercial Law, School of Law

Cemal Burak Tansel

Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Politics

Joanna Tidy

Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics

Mark Tomlinson

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, Department of Sociological Studies

Peter J. Verovšek

Lecturer in Politics/International Relations, Department of Politics

Adam White

Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law

Matthew Wood

Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations