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

Stathis Tapinos

Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management

Expertise:

  • Skills for growth and employment for all

Strategy development; strategic foresight; scenario planning; executive education

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

I have been involved in numerous SME growth programmes delivering workshops on strategy development

  • e.tapinos@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212043356

Rozbicka, Patrycja

Lecturer in Politics and IR

Expertise:

  • Exploiting the economic geography

Music industry

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Music industry - regulation of music industry and its effects on: venues, employment (musicians, sound/video experts), publishing companies.

  • p.rozbicka@aston.ac.uk
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Gareth Griffiths

Lecturer

Expertise:

  • Environmental technologies

Biofuels, biochemistry, lipid technology, algae

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

My area of expertise is in plant biochemistry of fats and oils, high value chemicals and biofuels from 'green' sources. My research is funded by industry and EU grants through Marie Currie to delivery practical solutions for the implementation of algal biorefineries.

  • g.griffiths@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212043415

Daniel Andrews

Research Fellow in Gamification

Expertise:

  • Digital and creative

Gamification and games production

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
  • Education/teaching - undergraduate
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Experienced in working with various stakeholders to ensure the delivery of digital gamified applications and serious games. Has designed, developed and evaluated prototypes, and worked as a producer with companies of various sizes.

  • d.andrews@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212043059

Luc Boutsen

Lecturer in Psychology

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Thematic area: visual cognitive neuroscience

Activity:

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

Summary of expertise

Expertise / interests in the psychology and neuroscience of visual perception and cognition in healthy adults and adults affected by brain damage (e.g. following stroke). Areas include: face perception, object recognition and action preparation, and visual attention. Methods used: purpose-built behavioural tests, brain electrophysiology and eye tracking. Recent topics of research include (1) tool perception, (2) facial disfigurements and face perception, and (3) action affordances.

  • l.boutsen@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212044069

Tomasz Mickiewicz

50th Anniversary Professor of Economics

Expertise:

  • Skills for growth and employment for all

Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Activity:

  • Research and innovation
  • Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
  • Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
  • Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research

Summary of expertise

Factors of regional entrepreneurship; migration, ethnic minorities and entrepreneurship; local social capital and entrepreneurship

  • @MickiewiczTomek
  • t.mickiewicz@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212043007

Irundika Dias

Research fellow

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Activity:

  • Research and innovation

Summary of expertise

Expert on lipids and lipid oxidation in relation to cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and dementia. Have undertaken research on free circulating lipids and lipoproteins; LDL and HDL. Developed new analytical methods to study low abundant species.

  • h.k.i.dias1@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212045111

Michael Larkin

Reader in Psychology

Expertise:

  • Public service reform: Mental health

Families & relationships; co-design; service & intervention development.

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

Expertise in collecting & interpreting experiential data. Published research on families' and young people's experiences of psychological distress, and of the health & social care services provided for such distress. Good knowledge of evidence base on role of relationships in maintaining mental health. Experience of intervention evaluation. Expertise in using Experience-Based Co-Design to develop/improve services based on users' experience.

  • @ipanalysis
  • m.larkin@aston.ac.uk
  • 07956284101

Ellis Cashmore

Visiting professor of sociology

Expertise:

  • Digital and creative

Culture, media and sport.

Activity:

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

Summary of expertise

Aspects of contemporary culture, including entertainment, broadcasting and other media. Sport, racism and celebrity.

  • @elliscashmore
  • e.cashmore1@aston.ac.uk
  • 07766520319

Adam Watkins

Research Fellow

Expertise:

  • Medical and life sciences

Parental diet and offspring health

Activity:

  • Research and innovation

Summary of expertise

My research focuses on the impact parental diet has on fertility, offspring development and long-term health. I investigate the molecular, epigenetic, biochemical and physiological mechanisms linking parental nutrition to the development, growth and cardiovascular, metabolic and bone health of their offspring.

  • @AdamWatkins78
  • a.watkins1@aston.ac.uk
  • 01212045111