Associate Fellows - Durham University

Institute of Advanced Study

The IAS Associate Fellowship is a broad based community of Durham colleagues from across the disciplinary spectrum who are engaging with the IAS in forthcoming or recently completed interdisciplinary projects. The Fellowship is intended to provide a network for Fellows to come together and share ideas and experience.

Associate Fellow	Department/School	Research Interests
Professor Robert Baxter	Biosciences	pollution ecology arctic plant ecologyarctic climate change
Professor Chris Brown	Education	Evidence informed policy and practice Teacher Professional Development School System Improvement
Dr Atanu Chaudhuri	Durham Business School	Supply chains and business models for digital manufacturing Supply chain risk management Supply chain integration
Professor Alexandra Cristea	Computer Science	Web Science User Modelling Adaptive, personalised web
Professor Chris Gerrard	Archaeology	Common rights and resources Historic earthen architecture The western Atlantic seaboard in the Middle Ages
Dr Mariann Hardey	Durham Business School	Women in digital leadership roles Consumer-generated-content (CGC) Tech Cities
Dr Ben Alderson Day	Psychology	Developmental Psychopathology Voice-hearing and Schizophrenia Autism Spectrum Disorders Executive Functioning
Dr Olga Demetriou	School of Government and International Affairs	Refugees and Displacement European Asylum System Gender, feminism and peace building Cultural heritage conflicts Citizenship Minorities
Professor Simon James	English Studies	Victorian and Twentieth-Century Fiction Literature and Gender Literary Theory, esp. Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis and Gender; Theories of Pleasure Textual editing, including digital editing
Dr Marco Bernini	English Studies	Narrative theory (in particular cognitive narratology), Modernist fiction Cognitive sciences
Dr Kimberley Jamie	Sociology	Health Family health Medicines use Health technologies Lay health understandings/behaviours Healthcare work and professional practice
Dr Henry Jones	Durham Law School	International Law Legal History Law and Geography Law and Humanities Law and Literature Critical Legal Theory Marxist Legal Theory
Professor Debbie Riby	Psychology	Neurodiversity Neurodevelopmental conditions Social perception and social cognition in Williams syndrome (WS) and Autism (ASD).
Dr Rille Raaper	Education	Student experience, identity and agency Higher education policy and practice Politics of higher education and student movements Consumerism in higher education Widening participation in higher education Assessment policy and practice Critical theory and critical discourse analysis
Dr Margarita Staykova	Physics	Biophysics Biological membranes Functional interfaces Living materials
Professor Philip Steinberg	Geography
Professor Jim Ridgway	Education	mathematics education assessment technology in education gifted and talented children educational psychology
Dr Jeremy Kendal	Anthropology	Social transmission and population dynamics
Dr James Osborn	Physics	Atmospheric physics Free-space optical communications Astronomical instrumentation
Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou	Anthropology	Gender Identity Greece Politics Migration and Refugee Issues
Dr David Chivers	Economics and Finance	Macroeconomics of Labour Markets Macroeconomics of Growth and Development
Professor Susanne Braun	Management and Marketing	Leader and follower identity dynamics Narcissism in leadership Authentic leadership
Dr Noura Al Moubayed	Computer Science	Natural Language Processing Machine Learning for Healthcare Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning Anomaly Detection Social Robotics Brain Computer Interfaces Evolutionary Computation
Dr Yingchao (Jane) Zhang	Durham Business School	Human Resource Analytics Corporate Governance and Performance Management Compensation and Worker Motivation, Selection, and Teamwork. Data Driven Decision Analysis Behavioural Economics
Dr Eric Egan	Music
Professor Rob Barton	Anthropology	Behavioural ecology and sociobiology Evolution of mamalian reproductive traits Primate evolution and behaviour Brain evolution Cognitive evolution
Dr Eamonn Bell	Computer Science
Professor Julie-Marie Strange	History	Class, Emotion, Material Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Animals/ Dogs Victorians
Dr Liam Liburd	History	Black British history History of 'race' & racism in modern Britain History of the British white supremacist movement British imperial history The legacies of empire & decolonisation
Dr Zanna Clay		Primate Conservation Comparative Affective Science Social cognition Evolution of language and culture Evolution and development of empathy Primate behaviour Science outreach - primatology Development of communication and social learning Primate vocal communication Animal cognition Child gesture development Applications to primate conservation
Dr Alex Campolo	Geography