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
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
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
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