The universities of the West Midlands have a track record of supporting our regional partners to deliver the strategic goals of economic prosperity, effective public services and robust, evidence-based policy. Our directory of experts from across our twelve universities enhance relationships with regional partners, allowing the West Midlands Combined Authority, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Local Authorities and other public bodies to tap directly into our wealth of academic and professional knowledge, giving you direct access to experts in priority areas that support economic growth, public service reform and research and intelligence capability for the West Midlands.
Our experts - 641 match your search
Nicholas Theodorakopoulos
Reader
Expertise:
- Skills for growth and employment for all
Small Firm Management Development, Entrepreneurship Development
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Education/teaching - adult skills
- Education/teaching - apprenticeships
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expert on interventions design to build management capacity in small firms and supply chains
- n.theodorakopoulos@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043472
Breno Nunes
Lecturer in Operations Management
Expertise:
- Environmental technologies
Green Technology Management, green operations strategy.
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Green Operations Strategy, environmental decision making, management of green technology, etc
- @brenotsnunes
- b.nunes@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043153
Richard Terry
Networked Learning Director
Expertise:
- Digital and creative
Digital learning solutions.
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
- Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
- Education/teaching - apprenticeships
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expert in designing and delivering learning programmes and e-learning solutions, both as an educator and in the field of educational software development.
Possess an understanding of the technology, and an appreciation of how it can best be used in the context of executive and management development.
- r.s.j.terry@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043204
Rebecca Knibb
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Expertise:
- Research & intelligence: Evaluation of interventions
Improving quality of life
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
- Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
- Education/teaching - 16-18 year group
- Education/teaching - adult skills
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expertise on development and evaluation of interventions aimed at improving quality of life for patients and parents of children with long-term conditions. Has particular expertise in psychometric scale development for use in interventions and clinical trials. Is involved in research to improve management of allergy and asthma through changes in clinical practice and the use of web-based innovations.
- @rebeccaknibb81
- r.knibb@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043402
Summary of expertise
Dr Sutherland trained as a synthetic organic chemist (PhD Manchester University, PDRA MIT) and has over 20 years’ experience of synthetic organic chemistry. His research centres on using synthetic organic chemistry as a tool with which to develop new materials. Bespoke monomers are designed and synthesised before being introduced into polymerisation reactions, or pre-formed polymer scaffolds, to generate materials with properties tailored for wide-ranging applications in fields ranging from cellular delivery and bioimaging to organic electronics molecular recognition, combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening.
- a.j.sutherland@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043425
Lisa weaver
Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting
Expertise:
- Skills for growth and employment for all
Improving financial literacy
Activity:
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Education/teaching - 16-18 year group
- Education/teaching - adult skills
- Education/teaching - apprenticeships
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expert on financial literacy - providing training to help individuals understand the financial information of companies and other organisations.
- l.weaver@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043793
Summary of expertise
Expert in multiscale hybrid Molecular Dynamics / Hydrodynamics theory and computer modelling of large biomolecular systems. Building atomistic models of complete viruses using high performance computation and multiscale theory.
- D.Nerukh@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043533
Wen-Ping Cao
Professor
Expertise:
- Research & intelligence: Trial design
Condition monitoring
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
- Education/teaching - 16-18 year group
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Electrical machines and drives
Power electronics
Wind power generation
Electrified vehicles
- w.p.cao@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044264
Summary of expertise
Importance and measurement of oxidative changes to biomolecules, especially fats and proteins, in inflammatory diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Study of biomarkers for oxidative cell damage and development of new methods of measuring them.
- @CorinneSpickett
- c.m.spickett@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044085
Summary of expertise
Experienced leader of research in Higher Education, with over 20 years’ experience of research management and leadership in UK Universities. Skills include strategy and policy development, service delivery, project management and change leadership.
- @SallyPuzey
- S.A.Puzey@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044243