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

Our experts

Dr Gill Combes

Deputy theme lead for West Midlands CLAHRC

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Service evaluation

Activity:

  • Research and innovation

Summary of expertise

Gill is a specialist in the evaluation of new services for people with long-term conditions, including new care pathways, use of digital technology and primary research into emotional support for patients.

  • g.combes@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214148666

Dr Dominique Moran

Reader in Carceral Geography

Expertise:

  • Public service reform: Criminal justice

incarceration, rehabilitation, reoffending, prison design

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 - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Dominique is an expert on rehabilitative custodial environments. This is the design and alteration of custodial environments to maximise potential to support rehabilitative outcomes during and post-custody, including the potential for 'environmentally sustainable' custodial environments.

  • @drdommoran
  • d.moran@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214148013

Professor Peymané Adab

Professor of Public Health

Expertise:

  • Research & intelligence: Evaluation of interventions

Evaluation of complex interventions

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 - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Peymané is interested in the development and evaluation of childhood obesity prevention intervention in the UK and China. She has expertise in evaluation of weight management programmes and cultural adaptation of programme of weight management in children and adults.

  • p.adab@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214143777

Professor Jonathan Reinarz

Professor in the History of Medicine

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

History of Burns, fire and fire services

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 - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Jonathan is an expert on the history of medicine. He is running a large AHRC-funded project on the history of burns in British society (1800-2000), with innovative outreach work in schools on burns prevention, collaborating with local fire services.

  • @reinarzhistory
  • j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214158122

Dr Helen Parretti

NIHR academic clinical lecturer

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Primary care and weight management

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Helen is an academic GP, conducting research on weight management interventions in primary care. She also has expertise on the care of patients after bariatric surgery in primary care, previously having worked in a NHS England CRG subgroup in this area.

  • h.m.parretti@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214143766

George Bramley

Research Fellow

Expertise:

  • Research & intelligence: Evaluation of interventions

Public services redesign

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 - adult skills

Summary of expertise

George is an expert in the development of business cases for public services. He follows Green Book methodology, including the specification of economic rationale, option appraisal and underpinning theory of change.

  • g.bramley@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214147942

Professor Melanie Calvert

Professor of Outcomes Methodology and Director Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Patient reported outcome assessment in healthcare

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 - adult skills
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Melanie is Director of the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research, which aims to optimise the use of PROs in clinical trials and routine care to inform patient centred care.

  • @CPROR_UoB
  • m.calvert@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214148595

Dr Jonathan Mathers

Senior Lecturer Qualitative and Mixed Methods Applied Health Research

Expertise:

  • Research & intelligence: Trial design

Qualitative and mixed methods research.

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Jonathan has expertise in the design and use of qualitative and mixed methods research techniques for trials and feasibility studies for trials, including research with patients and healthcare professionals.

  • j.m.mathers@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214146024

Dr Emmanouil Tranos

Lecturer in Human Geography

Expertise:

  • Exploiting the economic geography

Digital economy, big data

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 - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Emmanouil has expertise on the spatiality of the Internet and the digital economy, as well as on the use of big data as a means to understand cities and urban systems. His research combines econometric methods and spatial analysis with tools and concepts from network theory.

  • e.tranos@bham.ac.uk
  • 01214142680

Dr Semira Manaseki-Holland

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

maternal-child health, health systems in low-and-middle-income countries, quality of health care

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
  • Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Semira is an expert in maternal-child health, public health aspects of child health, health care quality improvement, particularly in relation to low and middle-income countries though she has undertaken UK-based work.

  • s.manasekiholland@bham.ac.uk
  • 012141443533