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.

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.

Dragos Adascalitei

Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, Management School

Rowland Atkinson

Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, Urban Studies and Planning

Ataur Belal

Professor of Accounting, Management School

Ruth Blakeley

Professor of Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics

Sarah Brown

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics

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

Hugo Dobson

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

Rosaleen Duffy

Professor of International Politics, Department of Politics

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

Maria Grasso

Professor of Politics and Quantitative Methods, Department of Politics

Andrew Johnston

Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, School of Law

Allister McGregor

Professor in Political Economy, Department of Politics

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

Stewart Smyth

Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Management School

Cemal Burak Tansel

Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Politics

Joanna Tidy

Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics

Merisa Thompson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Politics

Peter J. Verovšek

Lecturer in Politics/International Relations, Department of Politics