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.

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

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Directors

Genevieve LeBaron

Director

Colin Hay

Director

Core Team

Andrew Baker

Professorial Fellow

Matthew Bishop

Research Fellow

Jasper Blom

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Hannah Boles

Research Fellow

Andrew Gamble

Professorial Fellow

Jonathan Kishen Gamu

Research Fellow

Ellie Gore

Global Challenges Research Fellow

Andrew Hindmoor

Research Fellow

Tom Hunt

Deputy Director

Michael Jacobs

Professorial Fellow; Head of Engagement and Impact

Hannah Lambie-Mumford

Research Fellow

Natalie Langford

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Scott Lavery

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Caroline Metz

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Owen Parker

Research Fellow

Tony Payne

Professorial Fellow

Merve Sancak

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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.

Ed Pemberton

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Remi Edwards

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Charline Sempéré

Co-convener, SPERI Doctoral Researcher Network

Patrick Kaczmarczyk

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

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

Senior Employment Specialist, International Labour Organization

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

Christie Harrison

Research Hub Manager, SRI/SMI, 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.

Dragos Adascalitei

Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, Management School

Nabeela Ahmed

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sheffield Institute of International Development

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

Katherine Cousins

Lecturer in Tax Law, School of Law

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

Maria Grasso

Professor of Politics and Quantitative Methods, Department of Politics

Katie Higgins

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

Andrew Johnston

Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, School of Law

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

Allister McGregor

Professor in Political Economy, Department of Politics

Jonathan Perraton

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics

Harry Pickard

Research Associate, 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

Mark Tomlinson

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

Peter J. Verovšek

Lecturer in Politics/International Relations, Department of Politics

Anh Ngoc Vu

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Politics and International Relations

Adam White

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

Matthew Wood

Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations

Ting Xu

Senior Lecturer, School of Law