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
Combined elements of digital marketing beyond simply Promotional aspects (i.e. websites, social media, etc.). Products are becoming anticipative and more tailored; Pricing is dynamic to take account of supply/demand/competitive conditions; Placement is becoming more integrated as the time a consumer expects to wait from purchase to gratification continues to accelerate.
- @andrewlcorcoran
- a.l.corcoran@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043135
Summary of expertise
Expert on management & leadership development - Working with organisations to develop management and leadership capability to support growth and sustainability. Design and development of bespoke management training to meet organisation own requirements.
- @PaulWButler
- p.butler@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043071
Summary of expertise
Expertise in parental health behaviour in relation to children's long term health conditions and on health behaviour during pregnancy. Has conducted research and published widely in these areas and more broadly in the field of health psychology. Has contributed to policy and practice, both indirectly through research and directly through regional and national policy making bodies.
- h.m.pattison@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044073
Helen Higson
Provost and Deputy Vice Chancellor
Expertise:
- Skills for growth and employment for all
Employability, skills, growth, social mobility
Activity:
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Education/teaching - adult skills
- Education/teaching - apprenticeships
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expert on social mobility and widening participation, progression and achievement and retention in Higher Education, employability, skills development, employability competences, sandwich placements and their role in creating achievement and employability, degree apprenticeships, intercultural competences
- @higsonhe
- h.e.higson@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043191
Mark Hart
Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Deputy Director of the Enterprise Research Centre
Expertise:
- Exploiting the economic geography
Small Business Growth and Productivity
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Expert on the business demography, small business growth and productivity. Understands the dynamics of the private sector at local and national level over time and the role of SMEs. Leads leadership and management programmes that foster growth ambition amongst diverse groups of business owners. Expert on business support policy evaluation.
- @markhart84
- mark.hart@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043048
Roslyn Bill
Professor of Biotechnology
Expertise:
- Medical and life sciences
Membrane biology
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
My research team develops yeast to make membrane proteins for further study. As target proteins, I am particularly interested in aquaporin water channels, G protein-coupled receptors and hepatitis C virus receptor complex proteins. From the perspective of the yeast host cell, I am interested in how the regulation of translational processes impacts on recombinant protein yield.
- @RoslynBill
- r.m.bill@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044274
Summary of expertise
Leading engineering R&D in government and defence industry. Team building and leadership (apprentices to FRS and FREng), women in physics and engineering, technical skill development. UK and overseas Government advice, School / College Governor, award applications, peer reviewer...
- a.m.hodge@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043047
Summary of expertise
My expertise is on the area of model-driven engineering - developing systems from higher-level descriptions that focus more on what needs to be done rather than how to do it. I work on creating these descriptions, making sure they are valid and leveraging them for various tasks.
- @antoniogado
- a.garcia-dominguez@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044454
Summary of expertise
The development of tissue engineering strategies to model stem cell behaviour in the development of neuronal networks and also during neurodegeneration. Currently engaged in developing stem cell derived models of the CNS in an attempt to study complex cellular interactions that occur in development and diseases including: Alzheimer's disease, Rett Syndrome and epilepsy.
- @3rdfloorlab
- hillej@aston.ac.uk
- 01212045040
Summary of expertise
Using engineering to find solutions to clinical problems. Specialising in the design of medical devices and testing of biomaterials in the area of orthopaedics. Alongside this, design of devices to aid the progress of in vitro animal replacement science.
- @DrLauraLeslie
- l.j.leslie@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043747