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University of Chester
The Corporate Communications Department welcomes enquiries from the media,
seeking opinion, analysis and information from University of Chester staff. With a
wealth of knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics, from the mainstream
and high profile to the obscure and highly specialised, the University’s academics
and researchers can provide a valuable and reliable resource for informed comment.
This Directory, while not exhaustive, is intended as a reference point, indicating
some key individuals who may be experienced in liaising with the media, in addition
to being ideally qualified to talk authoritatively about their particular field.
How to contact the experts
To arrange an interview or request further information, please contact the Corporate
Communications Department:
By phone: 01244 511450; 01244 511706; 01244 513335
By fax: 01244 511302
By email: [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
EXPERTS – BY DEPARTMENT OR FACULTY
Art and Design
Miss Maxine Bristow
Textile practice; textile materials and processes in contemporary visual culture.
Mr Steve Carrick
Scripting interactive multimedia artworks; digital 3D modelling and animation.
Mr Tim Daly
Photography: materials and processes; digital printing.
Dr Christopher Hart
Advertising - brands, retailing, history; identity; Englishness; self and symbolism;
historic vehicles.
Ms Maggie Jackson
Visual imagery in Dante’s Divine Comedy from the fourteenth century to the present;
nineteenth-century Scandinavian painting and imagery of light; interdisciplinary
images of the Lincolnshire landscape.
Dr Cian Quayle
Fine art practice and theory (especially contemporary photographic practice and Kurt
Schwitter’s exile in England during the 1940s).
Mr John Renshaw
Pedagogy and practice in fine art, especially drawing; art education; interdisciplinary/
cross-curricular education in the arts; creativity.
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Mr David Rutherford
Advertising; visual communication; photography; mass media; visual presentation to
convey information in advertising, corporate communications and news.
Dr Jeremy Turner
Sculpture as historical, technological and cultural interface; interdisciplinary images
of the Lincolnshire landscape.
Biological Sciences
Professor Sarah Andrew
Antibodies; immunology; molecular immunology; diet and cancer.
Professor Graham Bonwick
Toxicology; pesticides; food contaminants; food analysis; environmental
contaminants; environmental analysis; stress biomarkers.
Professor Cynthia Burek
Conservation of the environment; sustainable development; geology; geodiversity;
local geodiversity; Action Plans; Regionally Important geodiversity sites; women in
the history of geology.
Mr John Cartwright
Human evolution; history of science; science and literature.
Dr Alison Fletcher
Primate behaviour and development; handedness in chimpanzees.
Dr Lottie Hosie
Amphibian behaviour; conservation.
Dr Stephen Fôn Hughes
Biomarkers and clinical outcome measures; leukocyte biology.
Ms Juliet Leadbeater
Bats and conservation.
Dr Stephen Lewis
Philosophy of medicine; evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine.
Dr Ian McDowall
Species differentiation using DNA; DNA fingerprinting.
Dr Jon Power
Bone biology, specifically osteoporotic bone loss using histological techniques;
parasitology, especially nematode infections.
Dr Tessa Smith
Biochemical markers of animal behaviour; behaviour of captive animals; hormones.
Professor John Williams
Stress protein biology; bone pathology.
Dr Philip Wood
Food microbiology.
Careers and Employability
Mr Paul Gaunt
Careers and employability; graduate employment.
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Clinical Sciences and Nutrition
Professor Lynne Kennedy
Diet, nutrition and health; nutrition inequalities and food poverty; novel approaches to
promoting nutrition and health; participatory action research methodology; qualitative
inquiry; evaluation of interventions (behaviour change, health promotion
approaches); evaluation of complex interventions; salutogenic/health assets
approaches; obesity; food policy.
Dr Sohail Mushtaq
Nutritional biochemistry; micronutrient metabolism (vitamin D, iron, riboflavin); lipid
metabolism; fatty acids.
Ms Clare Wright
Assessment and treatment of protein energy malnutrition in the clinical setting;
weight control as a means of reducing breast cancer risk; nutritional management of
cancer cachexia.
Computer Science and Information Systems
Mr Andy Davies
Web technologies and front-end website development; interface design and humancomputer interaction; web-based video production and motion graphics; digital audio
production; enhancing employability skills in higher education.
Mr Adam Hughes
Web technologies; social media; project management and student employment.
Dr John Kerins
Teaching of computing and information science; applied artificial intelligence;
semantic modelling; information and knowledge management.
Education and Children’s Services
Professor Jeff Adams
Creativity and democracy in education; contemporary arts in education; international
perspectives on creativity; creativity in professional practices; professional
development of teachers through the arts; using theory in educational research;
documentary graphic novels and comics.
Ms Frances Atherton
Early years education.
Professor David Cracknell/David Cumberland
Academies programme.
Mr John Duffty
ICT in primary education; creativity in primary education.
Dr James Holt
Religious education in schools; religion in fantasy literature especially JRR Tolkien
and CS Lewis; the role of faith in the public sphere.
Professor Rob Hulme
Education policy; inter-agency working (education, social work, health, police);
teachers’ professional identities and cultures; international movement of ideas and
practices/policy transfer in education and social policy.
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Dr Jane McKay
Education theory and education policy in relation to inclusive education; special
educational needs and disability, children’s rights and participation in decisionmaking, vulnerable groups, such as children in care, young people who are excluded
from education and young offenders; research methods.
Professor Allan Owens
International work; Drama in education and other professions, including health,
business and justice; inter-cultural applications of drama; the use of drama across
subjects and disciplines in higher education; teacher training.
Mr Tony Pickford
Primary education: geography; history; ICT.
Ms Tricia Sterling
Initial teacher training.
English
Dr Derek Alsop
Rochester; Sterne; Handel; eighteenth-century music and literature; Beckett;
Absurdism; twentieth-century music and literature; reader theory.
Dr Graham Atkin
Spenser; Shakespeare; philosophy, literature and friendship; emblems in literature.
Dr Peter Blair
South African literature.
Dr Ashley Chantler
Twentieth-century and contemporary literature; creative writing; modern textual
editing; the films of Clint Eastwood.
Dr Matt Davies
Language and power; the stigmatisation of social groups in the news (e.g. migrants,
trade unions); the power of opposites; historical roots and development of English;
attitudes to English; corpus linguistics.
Dr Melissa Fegan
Irish literature (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); literary representations of the
Great Famine; Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
Dr Francesca Haig
Contemporary historical fiction; Holocaust literature; confessional poetry; postapocalyptic fiction.
Dr Sarah Heaton
American literature and culture; nineteenth-century English literature and culture;
clothes, fashion and fabric in literature.
Dr Emma Rees
Cultural representations of the female body (women) in literature, film and art (such
as The Vagina Monologues); representations of Vietnam in film; representations of
mental illness (‘madness’) in film.
Dr Will Stephenson
John Fowles; contemporary fiction; utopian/dystopian fiction; literature and addiction.
Professor Chris Walsh
Victorian and twentieth-century fiction and poetry; Robert Browning; Dickens;
Tolkien.
Professor Deborah Wynne
English literature and culture (nineteenth century); Victorian popular culture;
women’s writing.
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Exercise and Nutrition Science
Dr John Buckley
Physical activity; exercise for health and rehabilitation.
Dr Stephen Fallows
Food and nutrition policy; nutritional awareness and behaviour.
Professor Kevin Sykes
Occupational health and fitness; community health; obesity; cardiac rehabilitation;
international development.
Geography and Development Studies
Professor Roy Alexander
Community carbon reduction; carbon footprinting; geo-ecology; vegetation analysis;
GIS (geographic information systems); Spain
Dr Rebecca Collins
Sustainable consumption and production; cultural production of waste; youth
cultures; material culture of the home and family
Dr Martin Degg
Natural hazard assessment and mitigation; natural disasters: earthquakes;
volcanoes; geo-education and community outreach; Middle East; Latin America
Dr Martin Evans
Political events (particularly civil unrest or conflict) and economic issues in subSaharan Africa, particularly West Africa
Professor Derek France
Climate change; Fieldwork; Pedagogy; Mobile Technologies, Smart Devices; Digital
Literacy
Ms Gill Miller
International development; development education; fair trade; world food issues;
Millennium Development Goals
Dr Graham Wilson
Sea-level change, palaeoclimatology, long-term environmental change, limnology
Health and Social Care
Ms Ann Bryan
Community and child health; “Every Child Matters” programmes; public health.
Professor Helen Cooper
Diabetes; patient education; interprofessional healthcare education; complexity
science.
Dr Jan Gidman
Practice-based learning in nurse education.
Dr June Keeling
Violence against women.
Professor Andy Lovell
Self-injury and learning disability; learning disability and the criminal justice system.
Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
Social exclusion; stigma; vulnerable groups; teenage pregnancy; teenage
parenthood; nurse recruitment; community nursing; stroke; violence experienced by
health care workers; writing for nurses; gender and women’s issues.
Dr Annette McIntosh-Scott
Health and social care education.
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Ms Andrea McLaughlin
Midwifery education.
Professor Mary Steen
Midwifery; maternity care.
Professor Michael Thomas
Eating disorders; anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; morbid obesity; mental health;
health education policy.
Ms Maureen Wilkins
Post registration development in nursing.
Mrs Louise Shorney
Post qualifying health care education; postgraduate medical education; long term
conditions; health care policy.
History and Archaeology
Dr Hannah Ewence
Modern British-Jewish history; British immigration history and race relations; the
modern history of the East End; the development of the British suburbs.
Professor Peter Gaunt
English Civil War; Oliver Cromwell; castles (eleventh to fifteenth centuries); Chester
(history); Cheshire (history).
Dr Donna Jackson
Modern American history; American foreign policy; history of the Cold War era;
American politics, Beatles heritage.
Dr Keith McLay
British and European warfare, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; contemporary
British defence policy and strategic issues.
Mr James Pardoe
Heritage (historical aspects); country houses and literary tourism (with particular
reference to Byron, Keats, Shelley, Scott and Wordsworth).
Professor Graeme White
English history from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta; the medieval English
landscape (especially field systems, settlements, castles, monasteries); the earldom
of Chester, 1071-1232; history of the University of Chester.
Professor Howard Williams
Archaeology of death, burial and commemoration (mortuary archaeology); early
Middle Ages, including the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.
Dr Katherine Wilson
The late Medieval Burgundian Netherlands; Burgundian tapestries; luxury textiles of
the later Middle Ages; the material culture of Burgundian Netherlands.
Human Resource Management Services
Miss Julie Mulliner
Leadership; employee engagement.
International Development
Professor Kevin Sykes
International development.
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Modern Languages
Dr James Clifford Kent
Film studies; photography, documentary & Fine Art Photography; visual culture
studies relating to contemporary Spain and Latin America; contemporary Cuban
literature, Cuba, Havana, place and pace; spatialisation and psychogeography.
Professor Claire Griffiths
France in Africa; French-speaking African countries (especially Senegal and Gabon);
development issues in French-speaking Africa; visual arts in francophone Africa;
France and the Slave Trade; gender and development; interpreting and translation
studies.
Dr Mark Gant
Nineteenth century Spanish politics; religion and fiction, particularly the works of
Carlos Frontaura; protestant churches in Spain; contemporary Spanish culture and
society.
Ms Brenda Garvey
Contemporary French and francophone; West African written and oral literatures.
Ms Heidi Spring-Jones
European studies; European cinema; German film.
Law
Ms Chantal Davies
Discrimination; human rights; employment law; equal opportunities.
Mr Phil Hunter
Employment law, company law, Civil Justice System and law teaching.
Mrs Wendy Steel
EU law, IP & Company law; law and film.
Learning and Information Services
Mr Brian Fitzpatrick
Library services; learning and information services; media services; e-books; student
learning spaces.
Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions
Ms Lynette Bailey
University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher
education; applicant demographics and attitudes; pre-HE/HE curriculum interface.
Mr Ric Bengree
University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher
education; applicant demographics and attitudes.
Ms Vicki Riley
Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE
curriculum.
Mr Sean Williamson
Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE
curriculum.
Mr Shai Vure
Social media; digital marketing; new technology.
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Mathematics
Professor Christopher Baker
Analysis and numerical analysis of functional differential equations; evolutionary
problems with after-effect (including integro-differential equations and deterministic
and stochastic delay-differential equations); applications and parameter estimation in
models (eg cell proliferation); inverse problems; integral equations; numerical
simulation in biomathematics; scientific computation and codes.
Professor Neville Ford
Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations, delay differential and integral equations, fractional differential
equations); stability theory; qualitative behaviour of solutions; mathematical models
in the biosciences.
Dr Jason Roberts
Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations, stochastic Volterra equations); stability theory; qualitative
behaviour of solutions; computational mathematics.
Dr Yubin Yan
Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations (deterministic and
stochastic); numerical methods for Volterra integral and integro-differential
equations; the finite element method; stability analysis and controllability for
convection diffusion system; the Navier-Stokes equation.
Media
Dr Alec Charles
New media; social media; media politics; reality television; journalism; science fiction
film and television; horror cinema; Alfred Hitchcock; television; cinema; literature;
cultural studies.
Simon Gwyn Roberts
News media and identity; the communication of place; Welsh news media.
Ms Kate Sillitoe
Visual communication; digital media; digital marketing; social media; mobile
advertising; viral marketing.
Performing Arts
Mr David Bebbington
Music; music theory; performance; voice and piano.
Mr Ben Broughton
Performance and new media technology; popular music; live performance; arts
management.
Ms Amanda Clarkson
Arts education; dance pedagogy; community dance practice.
Professor Peter Harrop
Anthropological approaches to performance.
Mrs Kaya Herstad Carney
Popular music; songwriting; performance; "Vocology in Practise" (VIP) singing
technique; singing for health benefits; performance anxiety; festival organisation and
management.
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Ms Evelyn Jamieson
Dance performance; contemporary dance; choreographic processes; applied and
community dance practice; dance and music devising; collaborative practice;
movement for actors.
Dr Dunja Njaradi
Performance studies; anthropology of theatre and dance; contemporary dance.
Professor Allan Owens
Drama in education and other professions, including health, business and justice;
inter-cultural applications of drama; the use of drama across subjects and disciplines
in higher education; teacher training.
Professor David Pattie
Contemporary theatre; popular music; Samuel Beckett.
Mrs Shelley Piasecka
Drama pedagogy; theatre directing; contemporary performance practice.
Miss Karen Quigley
Theatre and performance studies; performance philosophy; theatre histories.
Professor Darren Sproston
Composition; contemporary music; Roberto Gerhard; minimalism (in music); musical
analysis.
Psychology
Professor Mike Boulton
Social relationships; psychosocial adjustment; aggression and bullying in children.
Professor Ros Bramwell
Reproductive health psychology; women’s experience of the menstrual cycle; giving
birth in neonatal intensive care; breastfeeding; women’s views on their genital
appearance and why they have surgery to change it; gender disappointment.
Dr Janine Carroll
Health psychology; coping with chronic pain; dementia.
Dr Claudine Clucas
The importance of respect in doctor-patient relations, including the consequences of
such experiences for patient outcomes; psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS.
Dr Margaret Cousins
Developmental Coordination Disorder/Dyspraxia.
Dr Libby Damjanovic
Face and voice recognition; emotion detection; cognitive processing in bilinguals.
Dr Sean Dunkin
The role of cognitive and social psychological factors on the development of Western
thought and philosophy; internet psychology; animal behaviour.
Ms Liane Hayes
Cognitive and clinical psychological aspects of women’s reproductive health.
Dr Peter Hayes
Physiological responses to autobiographical memory recall; flashbulb memory; the
development of learning materials.
Mr Nick Hool
Practice issues in cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies.
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Dr Nick Hulbert-Williams
Health psychology; stress and coping; cancer; cancer survivorship; psychosocial
oncology; family caregiving; impact of illness on family/children; psychological
interventions; psychological flexibility; cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT);
mindfulness; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Chair of the British
Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) and on a number of Department of Health
and National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) committees and steering groups.
Dr Moira Lafferty
Applied sport psychology, elite junior and senior athletes, parents, coaches,
psychological support.
Dr Lindsay Murray
Animal behaviour, especially primatology; personality psychology; self-awareness
and Mirror Self-Recognition (MSR).
Dr Jeremy Phillips
The psychology of work and working; social psychology, particularly the psychology
of attraction and love; forensic psychology, crime and criminal profiling.
Dr Sam Roberts
Effect of communication technology (eg mobile phones, Facebook) on social
relationships; process of social relationship formation, maintenance and decay;
evolutionary psychology.
Dr Paul Rodway
Hemispheric differences in emotional processing; laterality.
Dr Astrid Schepman
Psychology of language, particularly prosody and intonation.
Dr David Scott
Psychology of parenting; adult attachment; post-partum depression.
Dr Michelle Tytherleigh
Psychological wellbeing; occupational stress and work wellness; positive
psychology, including happiness; emotional intelligence; and the effects of stress on
the immune system (psychoneuroendocrinology).
Dr Heather Wilkinson
Long-term forgetting in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy; memory; cognition and
emotion; mental health.
Dr Liz Whelen
Illness beliefs; quality of life in cardiac patients; pain research; psychological
influences on food choice.
Dr Mandy Yilmaz
Parent-infant interactions and communication; early years development; crosscultural developmental psychology.
Research and Knowledge Transfer
Professor Neville Ford
European Research Funding, how to apply and the selection process.
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Social Studies and Counselling
Dr Mark Bendall
British and American politics, contemporary and twentieth century; ethical media
(corporate social responsibility); corporations and crime; recorded crime; violent
crime; gender discrimination; sexuality discrimination; celebrity; popular culture.
Dr Peter Cox
Cycling and society; sustainable transport; sustainable communities.
Ms Meriel D’Artrey
Political theory; political communication and marketing; political skills; political policy.
Dr Jonathan Louth
International relations; security (especially non-traditional security); political
economy; Southeast Asia (especially Cambodia and Indonesia), ASEAN; complexity
theory; resilience; Australian history and politics; compulsory voting; party politics.
Dr Stuart McNab
Counselling; counselling training; personal development groups.
Dr Rita Mintz
Counselling; counselling training; professional and ethical issues.
Dr Cassandra A Ogden
Sociology of health and illness and the body; chronic illness; disability welfare;
disability and mobility; disability representation; body image; feminisms;
methodology.
Dr Alessandro Pratesi
Sociology of emotions; families, relationships and intimacies; social care; ethics of
care; telecare/assistive technologies; gender; identity; qualitative methods.
Mr Joseph Rigby
Social theory and philosophy, post-structuralism, political thought inspired by a
reassessment of Marxism, post-Cartesian theories of political subjectivity,
globalisation, politics of immigration.
Professor Gordon Turnbull
Psychological trauma.
Dr Jo Turner
History of crime and punishment from 19th Century onwards; convict transportation;
penal servitude; female offending; petty offending and punishment.
Sport and Community Engagement
Ms Wendy Owen
Women’s football.
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Dr Daniel Bloyce
Sport policy, London 2012 legacy policy, active travel, money in the lives of
professional sports people.
Professor Ken Green
Physical education; young people, sport and leisure.
Dr Kevin Lamb
Exercise physiology; perceived exertion; assessment of physical activity; movement
analysis.
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Dr Nicola McWhannell
Physical activity, bone health and body composition (pediatric and adult); physical
activity, health and fitness interventions, school based interventions.
Dr Carmel Triggs
Applied sports psychology.
Dr Craig Twist
Exercise physiology; rugby league football (sports science aspects).
Dr Paul Worsfold
Sports biomechanics; sports engineering, equipment testing and development;
performance analysis, GPS analysis.
Student Support and Guidance
The Rev Dr Lesley Cooke
Student well-being; psychological health; student welfare; student funding; induction
of new students; citizenship.
Mr Mel Williams
Student behaviour; student safety; liaison with the local community; professional
suitability procedures.
Theology and Religious Studies
Dr Hannah Bacon
Feminist theology and its engagement with Christian doctrine and orthodoxy;
feminist theological approaches to secular dieting and weight-loss; Christian
theology.
Dr Chris Baker
Public theology, urban theology, religion and public policy, religion and civil society,
the postsecular city.
Professor David Clough
Christian ethics, especially as they concern war and peace; environmental ethics
and animals.
Dr Matthew A Collins
The Dead Sea Scrolls; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Second Temple Judaism;
ancient Near Eastern mythology; New Testament contexts; Bible and popular
culture.
Dr Wendy Dossett
Japanese Buddhism; religious education; spirituality and addiction/alcoholism.
Professor Fabrizio M Ferrari
Hinduism; Indology; Tantra; myth; ritual; religious folklore; ritual healing.
Dr Ben Fulford
Christian doctrine; historical theology; systematic theology; the doctrine of the Trinity;
the theology of Scripture.
Professor Elaine Graham
Urban theology; religion and public policy; religion, culture and gender.
Dr James Holt
Mormon beliefs, practice and theology.
Professor William Kay
Pentecostalism; twentieth-century church history; Christianity in the UK, religious
education; modern church history; church schools; psychology of religious
development; personality; empirical theology; sociology of religion.
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Dr Steve Knowles
Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music;
philosophy of religion.
Dr Dawn Llewellyn
Women in contemporary Christianity and post-Christianity; feminist theology and
literature; motherhood and Christianity; third wave feminism (and its relationship to
religion); feminist generations; spiritual reading practices.
Dr Paul Middleton
Martyrdom; Religion and Violence; New Testament and early Christianity; Jesus;
Book of Revelation; Bible and sexuality.
Dr Wayne Morris
Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music;
philosophy of religion.
Professor John Stoner
Environment and human health.
Dr Alana M Vincent
Religion in public life, particularly issues of minority integration; modern Judaism;
religion and visual art; religion and fantasy literature (particularly J R R Tolkien, C S
Lewis, Lev Grossman, Michael Chabon).
Professor Robert Warner
Secularisation; the decline of religion in the West; the rise of fundamentalisms; the
futures of Christianity; the rise of new spiritualities; women and religion; students and
religion.
University of Chester Business School
Professor Phil Harris
Political marketing; public affairs; China Business and Society, business markets;
corporate reputation; regional economy and regeneration; international business and
branding.
Ms Helen Hayes
Economic situation; finance; accountancy.
Mr Andy Lilley
Work based learning.
Ms Dilys Leonard
Business and life coaching.
Dr Andy Lyon
Tourism management.
Mr Paul McKie
Lateral thinking and problem solving; strategic analysis and planning; market
research; diversification; entrepreneurialism.
Mr Steve Page
Cultural impact of ICT on the workforce; strategic management and exploitation of
information and knowledge; e-commerce; creative thinking for managers.
Dr David Perrin
Higher education accreditation; accreditation of prior learning.
Mr Colin Potts
Tourism; destination development and management (former Head of Tourism in
Chester and former President of the Tourism Management Institute).
Dr Malcolm Rhodes
Leadership; management.
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Professor Caroline Rowland
Performance management; organisational culture; strategy.
Dr Simon M Smith
International business; human resource management; organisational analysis;
organisational behaviour; leadership and management; quality management;
marketing; studies in higher education.
Professor Peter Stokes
Leadership and management development; business and marketing development;
strategic innovation and creativity for business; business development in France.
Dr Russell Warhurst
Rail passenger transport; air transport (passenger and freight); cycle commuting;
and transport and the environment.
Dr Tony Wall
Practical leadership; coaching; learning performance; high performance learning at
work; mindfulness; neuro-linguistic programming (NLP); applied psychologies.
Mr Paul Webb
Marketing; organisational learning; international business; and e-learning and
facilitating.
Dr Jon Talbot
Doctoral study for practitioners in work; town planning and urban regeneration;
professional lifelong learning; and higher education policy and practice.
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Directory of Experts
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A source of comment and
information for journalists
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University of Chester
The Corporate Communications Department welcomes enquiries from the media, seeking
opinion, analysis and information from University of Chester staff. With a wealth of
knowledge and expertise on a wide range of topics, from the mainstream and high profile
to the obscure and highly specialised, the University’s academics and researchers can provide
a valuable and reliable resource for informed comment.
This Directory, while not exhaustive, is intended as a reference point, indicating some key
individuals who may be experienced in liaising with the media, in addition to being ideally
qualified to talk authoritatively about their particular field.
How to contact the experts
To arrange an interview or request further information, please contact the Corporate
Communications Department:
By phone: 01244 511450; 01244 511706; 01244 513335
By fax: 01244 511302
By email: [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
EXPERTS – BY DEPARTMENT OR FACULTY
Art and Design
Ms Maxine Bristow
Textile practice; textile materials and processes in contemporary visual culture
Mr Steve Carrick
Scripting interactive multimedia artworks; digital 3D modelling and animation
Mr Tim Daly
Photography: materials and processes; digital printing
Dr Christopher Hart
Advertising - brands, retailing, history; identity; Englishness; self and symbolism; historic
vehicles
Ms Maggie Jackson
Visual imagery in Dante’s Divine Comedy from the 14th century to the present; 19th-century
Scandinavian painting and imagery of light; interdisciplinary images of the Lincolnshire
landscape
Dr Cian Quayle
Fine art practice and theory (especially contemporary photographic practice and Kurt
Schwitter’s exile in England during the 1940s)
Mr John Renshaw
Pedagogy and practice in fine art, especially drawing; art education; interdisciplinary/crosscurricular education in the arts; creativity
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Mr David Rutherford
Advertising; visual communication; photography; mass media; visual presentation to convey
information in advertising, corporate communications and news
Dr Jeremy Turner
Sculpture as historical, technological and cultural interface; interdisciplinary images of the
Lincolnshire landscape
Biological Sciences
Professor Sarah Andrew
Antibodies; immunology; molecular immunology; diet and cancer
Professor Graham Bonwick
Toxicology; pesticides; food contaminants; food analysis; environmental contaminants;
environmental analysis; stress biomarkers
Professor Cynthia Burek
Conservation of the environment; sustainable development; geology; geodiversity; Local
Geodiversity; Action Plans; Regionally Important Geological Sites; women in the history of
geology
Mr John Cartwright
Human evolution; history of science; science and literature
Dr Alison Fletcher
Primate behaviour and development; handedness in chimpanzees
Dr Lottie Hosie
Amphibian behaviour; conservation
Ms Juliet Leadbeater
Bats and conservation
Dr Stephen Lewis
Philosophy of medicine; evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine
Dr Ian McDowall
Species differentiation using DNA; DNA fingerprinting
Dr Sohail Mushtaq
Nutritional biochemistry; lipid metabolism; micronutrients; fatty acids
Dr Tessa Smith
Biochemical markers of animal behaviour; behaviour of captive animals; hormones
Dr Lynne Sneddon
Animal welfare and behaviour; fish welfare; fish biology and behaviour
Professor John Williams
Stress protein biology; bone pathology
Dr Philip Wood
Food microbiology
Business, Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
Professor Phil Harris
Political marketing; public affairs; business markets; corporate reputation; regeneration;
international business; business branding
Ms Helen Hayes
Economic situation; finance; accountancy
Mr Andy Lyon
Tourism management
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Professor David Major
Work related learning
Mr Steve Page
Cultural impact of ICT on the workforce; strategic management and exploitation of
information & knowledge; e-commerce; creative thinking for managers
Professor Tony Proctor
Computer modelling and simulation of business processes; marketing decision support
mechanisms; creative problem solving
Dr Malcolm Rhodes
Leadership; management
Professor Caroline Rowland
Performance management; organisational culture; strategy
Mr Anthony Sturgess
Operations management; management development
Dr Russell Warhurst
Rail passenger transport; air transport (passenger and freight); cycle commuting; transport
and the environment
Dr Paul Webb
Marketing; organisational learning; international business; e-learning and facilitating
Careers and Employability
Mr Paul Gaunt
Careers and employability; graduate employment
Chaplaincy
Revd Ian Arch
Spiritual life of students; University’s engagement with faith groups and religion
Computer Science and Information Systems
Dr John Kerins
Teaching of computing and information science; applied artificial intelligence; semantic
modelling; information and knowledge management
Mr Tony Scott
Project management
Clinical Sciences
Dr Basma Ellahi
Public health nutrition; ethnic diets; nutrition training
Ms Christine Wolfendale
Nutrition in cardiovascular and critical care
Ms Claire Wright
Nutritional support in cancer and the severely ill patient
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Education and Children’s Services
Ms Jaki Brien
Teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening; children’s literature; assessment in
primary schools
Professor David Cracknell
Children’s services; “Every Child Matters” programmes; multi-professional working
Mr John Duffty
ICT in primary education; creativity in primary education
Professor Rob Hulme
Education policy; inter-agency working (education, social work, health, police); teachers’
professional identities and cultures; international movement of ideas and practices/policy
transfer in education and social policy
Professor Allan Owens
Drama in education and other professions, including health, business and justice; intercultural applications of drama; the use of drama across subjects and disciplines in higher
education; teacher training
Mr Tony Pickford
Primary education: geography; history; ICT
Ms Anna Sutton
Initial teacher training
Dr Anne-Marie Wright
Special educational needs; inclusion; teaching and learning
English
Dr Derek Alsop
Rochester; Sterne; Handel; 18th-century music and literature; 20th-century music and
literature
Dr Graham Atkin
Spenser; Shakespeare; philosophy, literature and friendship; emblems in literature
Dr Peter Blair
South African literature
Dr Ashley Chantler
20th-century and contemporary literature; creative writing; modern textual editing; the films
of Clint Eastwood
Dr Melissa Fegan
Irish literature (19th and 20th-centuries); literary representations of the Great Famine; Emily
Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Dr Emma Rees
Cultural representations of the female body (women) in literature, film and art (such as The
Vagina Monologues); representations of Vietnam in film; representations of
mental illness (“madness”) in film
Dr Will Stephenson
John Fowles; contemporary fiction; utopian/dystopian fiction; literature and addiction
Professor Chris Walsh
Victorian and 20th-century fiction and poetry; Robert Browning; Dickens; Tolkien
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Dr Deborah Wynne
English literature and culture (19th-century); Victorian popular culture; women’s writing
Exercise and Nutrition Science
Dr John Buckley
Physical activity; exercise for health and rehabilitation
Professor David Cotterrell
Heart; cardiovascular system; exercise physiology
Dr Stephen Fallows
Food and nutrition policy; nutritional awareness and behaviour
Professor Kevin Sykes
Occupational health and fitness; community health; obesity; cardiac rehabilitation
Geography and Development Studies
Professor Roy Alexander
Community carbon reduction; carbon footprinting; geo-ecology; vegetation analysis; GIS
[geographic information systems]; Spain
Dr Martin Degg
Natural hazard assessment and mitigation; natural disasters: earthquakes; volcanoes; geoeducation and community outreach; Middle East; Latin America
Professor Derek France
Climate change; environmental change; pedagogy; fieldwork; Canada; Norway
Ms Gill Miller
International development; development education; fair trade; world food issues; Millennium
Development Goals
Health and Social Care
Ms Ann Bryan
Community and child health; “Every Child Matters” programmes; public health
Ms Jan Gidman
Practice-based learning in nurse education
Dr Andy Lovell
Self-injury and learning disability; learning disability and the criminal justice system
Professor Tom Mason
Nurse education (mental health aspects); forensic psychiatric issues relating to the
management of violence and aggression; mentally disordered offenders; learning
disabled offenders and secure service provision
Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
Social exclusion; stigma; vulnerable groups; teenage pregnancy; teenage parenthood; nurse
recruitment; community nursing; stroke; violence experienced by health care workers;
writing for nurses; gender and women’s issues
Ms Jill McCarthy
E-learning; nurse education; ethical issues in health care
Dr Annette McIntosh
Health and social care education
Ms Andrea McLaughlin
Midwifery education
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Mrs Linda Meredith
Nurse education (managing change)
Dr Mary Steen
Midwifery; maternity care
Professor Michael Thomas
Eating disorders; anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa;
morbid obesity; mental health; health education policy
Ms Maureen Wilkins
Post Registration development in nursing
History and Archaeology
Professor Peter Gaunt
English Civil War; Oliver Cromwell; castles (11th-15thcenturies); Chester (history); Cheshire
(history)
Dr Donna Jackson
Modern American history; American politics
Dr Keith McLay
British and European warfare, 17th and 18th-centuries; contemporary British defence policy
and strategic issues
Mr James Pardoe
Heritage (historical aspects)
Professor Graeme White
English history, Norman Conquest to Magna Carta; landscape history of Britain (especially
field systems, settlements, castles, monasteries, roads); history of the University of Chester;
history of Chester City Football Club; quality assurance in higher education
Dr Howard Williams
Archaeology of death, burial and commemoration
(mortuary archaeology); early Middle Ages, including
the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
Languages
Professor Claire Griffiths
Contemporary France as a world power; Francophone Africa; African gender and
development
Ms Heidi Spring-Jones
European studies; European cinema; German film
Dr Debbie Wagener
German reunification; East German women’s experience after reunification; computerassisted language learning and online communication
Law
Ms Chantal Davies
Discrimination; human rights; employment law; equal opportunities
Professor Roger Kay
Family law; adult relationships
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Learning and Information Services
Mr Brian Fitzpatrick
Library services; learning and information services; media services; e-books; student learning
spaces
Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions
Ms Lynette Bailey
University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher education;
applicant demographics and attitudes; pre-HE/HE curriculum interface
Mr Ric Bengree
University sector application trends (regional and national); demand for higher education;
applicant demographics and attitudes
Ms Vicki Riley
Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE
curriculum
Mr Sean Williamson
Progression routes (pre-HE education to university; workplace to university); pre-HE
curriculum
Mathematics
Professor Christopher Baker
Analysis and numerical analysis of functional differential equations; evolutionary problems
with after-effect (including integro-differential equations and deterministic and stochastic
delay-differential equations); applications and parameter estimation in models (e.g. cell
proliferation); inverse problems; integral equations; numerical simulation in biomathematics;
scientific computation and codes
Professor Neville Ford
Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations, delay differential and integral equations, fractional differential
equations); stability theory; qualitative behaviour of solutions; mathematical models in the
biosciences
Dr Pat Lumb
Detection of small solutions to delay differential equations; parameter estimation in
mathematical immunology; numerical approaches to forward-backward equations;
modelling and computation of plant species interactions
Dr Jason Roberts
Numerical solution of functional differential equations (Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations, stochastic Volterra equations); stability theory; qualitative
behaviour of solutions; computational mathematics
Dr Yubin Yan
Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations (deterministic and stochastic);
numerical methods for Volterra integral and integro-differential equations; the finite element
method; stability analysis and controllability for convection diffusion system; the
Navier-Stokes equation
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Media
Kate Sillitoe
Visual communication; digital media; digital marketing; social media; mobile advertising;
viral marketing
Performing Arts
Mr David Bebbington
Music; performance; voice and piano
Mr Ben Broughton
Performance and new media technology; popular music; live performance; arts management
Ms Amanda Clarkson
Arts education; dance pedagogy; community dance practice
Ms Mariella Greil
Dance; collaborative intermedia performance; tableaux mouvantes; installations; sonic art
Dr Peter Harrop
Anthropological approaches to performance
Professor Allan Owens
Drama in education and other professions, including health, business and justice; intercultural applications of drama; the use of drama across subjects and disciplines
in higher education; teacher training
Professor Darren Sproston
Composition; contemporary music; Roberto Gerhard; minimalism (in music); musical
analysis
Psychology
Dr Mike Boulton
Social relationships; psychosocial adjustment; aggression and bullying in children
Professor Ros Bramwell
Reproductive health psychology; women’s experience of the menstrual cycle; giving birth in
neonatal intensive care; breastfeeding; women’s views on their genital appearance and why
they have surgery to change it
Dr Sean Dunkin
The role of cognitive and social psychological factors on the development of Western thought
and philosophy; internet psychology; animal behaviour
Ms Liane Hayes
Cognitive and clinical psychological aspects of women’s reproductive health
Dr Peter Hayes
Physiological responses to autobiographical memory recall; flashbulb memory; the
development of learning materials
Mr Nick Hool
Practice issues in cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies
Dr Nick Hulbert-Williams
Health psychology; cancer; chronic illness; stress and coping; caregiving demands;
psychological interventions for illness; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dr Lindsay Murray
Primatology (in particular personality, social behaviour; and self-recognition in chimpanzees
and gorillas)
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Dr Jeremy Phillips
The psychology of work and working; social psychology, particularly the psychology of
attraction and love; forensic psychology, crime and criminal profiling
Professor Colleen Schaffner
Conflict management, aggression and social relationships in wild and captive primates
Dr Astrid Schepman
Psychology of language, particularly prosody and intonation
Dr David Scott
Psychology of parenting; adult attachment; post-partum depression
Dr Heather Taylor
Neuropsychology of long-term memory processes, in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy,
amnesia and PTSD; post-traumatic stress disorder; trauma memory; abnormal
psychology
Ms Liz Whelen
Illness beliefs; quality of life in cardiac patients; pain research; psychological influences on
food choice
Public Health Research
Ms Catherine Perry
Health research; social research; evaluation; obesity; “Sure Start” Children’s Centre
programmes; organisation and delivery of primary care; nursing roles; sexual health
Professor Miranda Thurston
Research ethics; evaluating public health interventions; domestic abuse; physical activity and
exercise; research methodology; children and young people’s health and well-being; healthy
schools; obesity
Social Studies and Counselling
Dr Mark Bendall
Ethical media (corporate social responsibility); corporations and crime; recorded crime;
violent crime; gender discrimination; sexuality discrimination; celebrity; popular culture
Dr Peter Cox
Cycling and society; sustainable transport; sustainable communities
Ms Meriel D’Artrey
Corporate communications; reputation management; public relations and marketing
communications
Dr Stuart McNab
Counselling; counselling training; personal development groups
Dr Rita Mintz
Counselling; counselling training; professional and ethical issues
Dr Cassandra Ogden
Sociology of health and illness; disability; inflammatory bowel disease; children coping with
chronic illness
Professor Gordon Turnbull
Psychological trauma
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Professor Ken Green
Physical education; young people, sport and leisure
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Dr Kevin Lamb
Exercise physiology; perceived exertion; assessment of physical activity; movement analysis
Ms Wendy Owen
Women’s football
Dr Andy Smith
Young people, sport and leisure; youth lifestyles; physical education; sport policy; disability
sport
Dr Carmel Triggs
Applied sports psychology
Dr Craig Twist
Exercise physiology; Rugby League football (sports science aspects)
Student Support and Guidance
Mr Steve Clapham
Student behaviour; student safety; liaison with the local community; professional suitability
procedures
Dr Lesley Cooke
Student well-being; psychological health; student welfare; student funding; induction of new
students; citizenship
Ms Paula Harrison
Student welfare; mental health; disability
Theology and Religious Studies
Dr Hannah Bacon
Feminist theology and its engagement with Christian doctrine and orthodoxy; feminist
theological approaches to secular dieting and weight-loss; Christian theology
Dr Chris Baker
Public theology, urban theology, religion and public policy, religion and civil society,
the postsecular city
Professor David Clough
Christian ethics, especially as they concern war and peace, environmental ethics and animals
Professor Celia Deane-Drummond
Science and theology; ecotheology; bioethics; environmental ethics; animal theology and
ethics
Dr Wendy Dossett
Japanese Buddhism; religious education
Dr Fabrizio M Ferrari
Hinduism; Tantra and Shaktism; mysticism; ritual theory; religious folklore and subaltern
studies; critical theory
Professor Elaine Graham
Urban theology; religion and public policy; religion, culture and gender
Professor Tom Greggs
Inter-faith work between Muslims, Jews and Christians; religion and politics; Christian
theology
Dr Steve Knowles
Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music; philosophy
of religion
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Dr Paul Middleton
Martyrdom; Religion and Violence; New Testament and Early Christianity; Jesus; Book of
Revelation
Dr Wayne Morris
Christian theology; religion and popular culture; spirituality and popular music; philosophy
of religion
Professor Robert Warner
Secularization; the decline of religion in the West; the rise of fundamentalisms; the futures of
Christianity; the rise of new spiritualities; women and religion; students and religion
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Contact Information:
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University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ
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www.chester.ac.uk
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