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
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	Political geography Governance of frontiers Ocean ontologies Ways of knowing in icy environments Art-Geography-Law interfaces Transdisciplinary pedagogies
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	Contemporary art music Composition Expressing environments through music Societal engagement through abstract sonic structures Exploring historical narratives through sound Musical notation of movement-based gestures
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	digital musicology media history digital humanities history of technology
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	History of statistics and data Machine learning and algorithms Social theory
Dr Karolina W. Nieberle	Psychology	Leader and follower identity dynamics Followership Shared leadership Employee voice behaviour
Dr Helen Roche	History	German history from the nineteenth century onwards; National Socialism; Italian Fascism Austrian history during the inter-war period; comparative fascism studies History of childhood and history of education, especially German elite education and humanistic education Youth exchange during the twentieth century; Anglo-German relations History and memory in post-war Germany Classical reception in general, and German philhellenism in particular Greco-German relations from the eighteenth century to the present
Professor Helen Fenwick	Durham Law School	Counter-terrorist law and policy Media freedom of expression (in particular contempt law, obscenity law and privacy law) Public protest Human Rights Act; proposals for a Bill of Rights
Professor William Lucy	Durham Law School	legal philosophy philosophy of private law the normative standing of access to justice adjudication and legal reasoning
Dr Fabian Wadsworth	Department of Earth Sciences	The permeability of random heterogeneous materials, with specific applications to volcanic and other crustal rocks. The coalescence of large heterogeneous arrays of viscous liquid droplets under surface tension, applied pressures, and chemical disequilibrium conditions. The viscoelastic response of multiphase magmas to stress, including cycles of material rupture and healing.
Professor Tourmas Eerola	Department of Music	Music and emotions Music perception, particularly melody, rhythm and timbre Music and movement