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
Dr Judy Scully
Senior Lecturer
Expertise:
- Research & intelligence: Evaluation of interventions
Evaluation research that shows impact
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Civic engagement (third sector, charities etc)
- Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
Summary of expertise
We have conducted rigorous research evaluating crisis management, convergent volunteers, creative industries innovating with SME's, Patient an d Public Involvement, Engaging research for Business Transformation. We have worked with the Quality Care Commission and the Department of Health for 8 years conducting the NHS National Staff Survey, and locally with Birmingham City Councils. We have broad experience of policy at both a national and local level in terms of what works well and what does not work in organisations large and small.
- j.w.scully@aston.ac.uk
- 07790752315
Summary of expertise
The sequential approach from laminar to turbulent fluid flow using bifurcation theory with applications in environmental, chemical, automotive, aviation, atmospheric and hydrodynamic engineering.
- s.c.generalis@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043639
Summary of expertise
Membrane proteins are druggable targets for a huge range of human diseases. My research team develops technologies to make membrane proteins as part of the drug discovery pipeline. As target proteins, I am particularly interested in aquaporin water channels (involved in brain swelling following stroke or traumatic injury) and G protein-coupled receptors (one of the most important classes of pharmaceutical drug target). The technologies we have developed are, however, applicable to diverse membrane proteins.
- @RoslynBill
- r.m.bill@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044274
Summary of expertise
I am working on topic detection and tracking from social media, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, online community analysis, text to image conversion, etc.
- y.he9@aston.ac.uk
- 01212045329
Martin Jüttner
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Programme Director MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
Expertise:
- Medical and life sciences
Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Education/teaching - undergraduate
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
My specific area of expertise is in visual cognition, with a particular emphasis on the development of object recognition in school children. Further information about my current research can be found here: http://www.aston.ac.uk/lhs/staff/az-index/juttnerm/
- m.juttner@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044065
Summary of expertise
I teach and conduct research in the area of techno-criticism, especially in a French context. Within this field, I am currently very interested in how France is adapting to the challenges of digital culture and how this is reshaping legislation and cultural practices.
- @DocSudlow
- b.sudlow@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043134
Summary of expertise
I use visual psychophysics and computational modelling to investigate how the retinal image is analysed in terms of basic image features (such as motion and contour orientation) across space and across the eyes. I design experiments in which humans detect targets in visual displays and compare their performance to that of a computer model run on the same experiment.
- t.s.meese@aston.ac.uk
- 01212044130
Summary of expertise
Focus on how manufacturers can innovate their business models and change their organisations in order to compete through services. Manages a partnership of global businesses, supporting them to transform.
- e.musson@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043580
Summary of expertise
Expert on text mining and natural language processing - when applied to healthcare and clinical domain, this includes extraction of patient experience online; detection of adverse drug effects in social media; topic extraction from clinical document; sentiment analysis and opinion mining, etc.
- y.he9@aston.ac.uk
- 01212045329
Tim Grant
Professor of Forensic Linguistics
Expertise:
- Public service reform: Criminal justice
Investigative techniques, online and digital crime
Activity:
- Research and innovation
- Business engagement (industry, facilities, initiatives etc)
- Public service engagement (local authorities, NHS, police etc)
- Education/teaching - postgraduate taught & research
Summary of expertise
Prof Tim Grant is Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics and works principally in the areas of forensic authorship analysis and online crime. He has worked on criminal and civil cases in the UK and overseas and has worked as an investigative advisor and provided expert evidence in numerous cases.
- @CFL_Aston
- t.d.grant@aston.ac.uk
- 01212043799