UNIVERSITY OF READING - Key Persons


Aaron Woodcock

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  • Lecturer

Agatha Gonzalez Pacheco

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  • Lete ISLI Programme Administrator

Aisha Alsagofi

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  • Associate Lecturer in Business

Alex Lukyanov

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  • Module Tutor

Anastasios Asimakopoulos

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  • Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes

Andrew Grice - CFO

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  • Director of Finance

Anna Ziomek

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  • Lecturer

Anthony Manning

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  • Visiting Fellow

Ash Bannister

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  • Lecturer

Ashley Burke

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  • Senior Global Partnerships Manager

Berta Badia-Barrera

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  • Associate Lecturer in EAP

Brian Turner

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  • Lecturer

Bruce Howell

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  • Associate Professor

Carolann Grandison

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  • Press Officer

Chris Bonham Erasmus

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  • Officer

Chris Masterton ISLI

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  • Programme Administrator

Clara Lauer ISLI

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  • Programme Manager

Colin Ash

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  • Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Daniel Devane

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  • Lecturer

Daniela Standen

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  • Associate Professor
  • Academic Director ( Teaching and Learning )

Dawn Willoughby

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  • Associate
  • Lecturer

Debbie Turner

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  • Executive Support Officer

Dr Adesola Sunmoni

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Alexander Mihailov

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  • Associate Professor in Economics
  • Internalisation Area Lead for Economics - Europe

Dr Andrew Primmer

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  • Fellow

Dr Anwesha Mukherjee

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  • Lecturer in Economics / Chair of Student - Staff Partnership Group ( SSPG )

Dr Carmen Lam

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  • Programme Director
Dr Carmen Lam had been working as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong. She was also the Deputy Teaching Assistant Coordinator, teaching TAs how to teach. She was awarded a Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by the university. Before this, Dr Carmen Lam worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. She was recognized by the university with the Faculty Performance Award in teaching and a number of Best Teaching Awards.

Dr Carolyn Molesworth-St Aubyn

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Carrie Zhang

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  • Lecturer

Dr Christos Mavrodimitrakis

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Chun Kit (Andy) Chung

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Craig Hughes

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  • Module Tutor

Dr Daguo Li

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  • Associate Professor - Director of China Partnerships

Dr David Marshall

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  • School Director of Teaching and Learning

Dr Dawn Clarke

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  • Module Tutor

Dr Dazhen Zhang


Dr Diya Abraham

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Dong Guo

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  • Deputy Dean ( Executive )

Dr Fangya Xu

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  • Programme Director
  • Associate Professor in Economics

Dr Frederick Stahl

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  • Visiting Member of Academic Staff

Dr Hong Wei

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  • Programme Director
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science
Dr Wei has been involved in various research projects, such as optical character recognition, criminal events detection, and automated border control. Dr Wei is the author/co-author of more than 60 refereed research papers and two text books.

Dr Hussein Hassan

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  • Programme Director
  • Lecturer in Economics / Director of Undergraduate Programme Studies

Dr Jade Siu

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr James Hallett

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  • Programme Director

Dr Jian Ding

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  • Programme Lead

Dr Jianmin Hou

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  • Programme Lead

Dr Jin Zhou

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  • Deputy Dean
  • Programme Lead

Dr Jonathan Boyle

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  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Joo Young Jeon

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Jun Li

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  • Programme Lead

Dr Ka Man Lam

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Karin Whiteside

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  • Associate Professor

Dr Kiran Karrouchi

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Lamma Zghoul

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  • Senior Global Partnerships Manager

Dr Lily Sun

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  • Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dr Lucy Watson

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  • EAP & Global Citizenship Lecturer

Dr Luis Patino

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Lulu Chen

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  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Mark Guzman

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  • Associate Professor
  • Postgraduate Exams Officer

Dr Martin Lester

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Min Xia


Dr Minyan Zhu

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Muhammad Shahzad

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Neha Dogra

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  • Associate Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Neha Hui

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  • Lecturer in Economics / Director of Postgraduate Research Studies ( Admissions )

Dr Nigel Wadeson

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  • Lecturer in Economics / Department Director for Teaching and Learning

Dr Nisha Singh

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  • Associate Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Pat Parslow

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Philip Smyth

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  • Deputy Director of Academic English Assessment

Dr Qijun Qiu


Dr Qiong Huang

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  • Programme Lead

Dr Richard Carciofo

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  • Module Tutor

Dr Samantha Rawlings

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  • Associate Professor in Economics
  • School Lead for Diversity & Inclusion

Dr Shixuan Wang

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  • Associate Professor in Economics

Dr Silvia Baldanza

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  • Module Tutor

Dr Stefania Lovo

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  • Associate Professor in Economics
  • Director of Postgraduate Research Studies ( Admissions )

Dr Stephen Kastoryano

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  • Lecturer in Economics

Dr Steve Robinson

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  • Programme Director

Dr Steven Bosworth

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  • Associate Professor in Economics
  • Postgraduate Taught Programmes Director / Reading Behavioural and Experimental Social Science Lab Co - Director ( BESS )

Dr Thanet Markchom

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  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Todd Jones

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Veundjua Muruko-Jaezuruka Lecturer

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  • Lecturer

Dr Wangwei Lin

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  • Programme Director

Dr Weiwei He

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  • Associate Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr William Flannery

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  • Visiting Fellow

Dr Xiaomin Chen

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  • Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dr Yueyue Yu


Dr Zahra Pooranian

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  • Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr Zuowei Wang

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  • Programme Director

Elda Celislami

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  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

Elda Petropoulou

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  • Associate Lecturer in EAP

Emily Salvesen

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  • Lecturer

Emma Beschizza ISLI

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  • Programme Co - Ordinator

Enzo Raimo

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  • Visiting Fellow

Gemma Peacock

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  • Lecturer

Geoff Meen

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  • Emeritus Professor

Gill Brown

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  • Associate
  • Lecturer

Gill Kendon

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  • Lecturer

Hafsa Shoukat


Helen Davies

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  • Executive Support Administrator - Erasmus and Study Abroad Team

Indrakshi Mukherjee

Indrakshi Mukherjee is a first-year PhD student under the AFESP programme; with Dr Kieran Hunt, Dr Robert Lee, Dr Ambrt Lee, and Dr Stephanie Johnson as the ECMWF partner supervisor, on Understanding the Potential for month-ahead prediction for monsoon systems

Iva Yu

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  • Student Progression Manager

J Pemberton

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  • Emeritus Professor

James Appleby

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  • IFP Lecturer

James Wylie

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  • Lecturer

Jennifer Sizer

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  • EAP Lecturer

Joan McCormack

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  • Associate Professor

Johal ISLI

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  • Support Manager
  • Kam

John Slaght

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  • Ros Richards Emeritus Staff Member
  • Emeritus Staff

Juan Garcia Valencia

Juan Garcia Valencia is a first-year PhD student under the SCENARIO DTP; supervision led by Prof. Chris Hollowar; with Dr Lorenzo Tomassini as CASE supervisor at the Met Office, on Sea surface temperature pattern influence on monsoon variability and change

Kate Nash

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  • Executive Support Administrator

Katie Searle

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  • Administration Officer
  • Executive

Kerry Patterson

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  • Emeritus Professor

Laura Connolly

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  • Lecturer in Transnational Education ( TNE )

Laura Coomber

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  • IELTS Manager

Laura Miles

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  • Senior Global Partnerships Manager

Lauren Andrews

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  • NUIST Programme Coordinator

Leslie Lust

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  • Lecturer

Lillian Mookodi

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  • Associate
  • Lecturer

Liz Wilding

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  • Professor

Louise Crompton ISLI Short

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  • Courses Co - Ordinator

M A Utton

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  • Emeritus Professor

Marcus Dowse Erasmus

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  • Manager

Maria Kinch

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  • Director of Foundation Year Studies

Marina Della Giusta

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  • Visiting Professor

Mark Peace

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  • Lecturer

Matthew Tolley

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  • Lecturer in EAP and Academic Skills

Meiko Murayama

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  • Lecturer

Ms Kate Owen

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  • Chief Strategy Officer and University Secretary
  • Vice - President of the Council
Ms Kate Owen was Vice President, Executive and Organisation Development for BP until 2006 during a time of major mergers and change. She spent 24 years in the oil industry and 10 years in the retail industry, local government and Industrial Training Boards after graduating from the University of Nottingham. She spent eight years as a Governor of Imperial College, London and is now a Trustee for Imperial College Union. She is a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. She spent nine years on the Board of first, the Inland Revenue and then, after the merger, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. She was on the Ministry of Defence Training Review of the Armed Forces and a member of the Whitehall Risk Review Steering Group. She was a Non-Executive director of BIOSS, an organisation consulting company and a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 1991. She also runs her own organisation consulting business.

Nancy Mendoza

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  • Press Officer

Natalie Drake

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  • Lecturer

Niaz Asadullah

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  • Visiting Fellow

Nicola Humphrey

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  • Administration Manager
  • Executive

Okiemua Okoror


Ollie Sirrell

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  • Press Officer

P E Hart

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  • Emeritus Professor

Parveen Yaqoob

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  • Deputy Vice - Chancellor, Professor
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Professor
  • Vice - Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Parveen Yaqoob deputises for the Vice-Chancellor in both executive and ceremonial functions when he is unable to do so himself. Professor Yaqoob graduated with a BA in Physiological Sciences and subsequently a DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. Following post-doctoral positions at both the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton, she was appointed to a Lectureship in Human Nutrition at the University of Reading in 1998 and awarded the title of Professor of Nutritional Physiology in 2010. Her research investigates the influence of nutrition on immunity, inflammation and vascular function, particularly with respect to cardiovascular disease and she contributes to a number of national and international research funding panels. Professor Yaqoob was elected Fellow of the Association for Nutrition in 2014, appointed Head of the School of Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy in 2015 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation in 2018. Professor Yaqoob was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Paul Lindley

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  • Vice - Chancellor

Pete Castle

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  • External Communications and PR Manager

Purnima Darji

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  • Placement Co - Ordinator

Rabiul Awal

Md Rabiul Awal is a fourth-year PhD student under a University of Dhaka/World Bank grant, co-supervised with Dr David Ferreira (2020-present) on Hemispheric energy transports and the Asian monsoon

Rachel Rushton

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  • Lecturer

Rachel Tregidgo

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  • Administration Assistant
  • Executive

Rehana Bari

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  • IFP Lecturer

Rhian Taylor

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  • Master

Richa Saun


Richard Hoyle

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  • Visiting Professor

Robert Pitt

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  • Lecturer

Ron Chan

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  • Lecturer in Foundation Year Mathematics, Information Systems, Statistics

Sana Ahmed

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  • Associate
  • Lecturer
  • Academic Professional Affiliated

Sarah Harford

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  • Lecturer

Sarah Mattin

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  • Associate Professor

Sarah Najm

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  • Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

Sasha Shen

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  • Student Progression Manager

Sayantani Ghosh


Sebastian Watkins

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  • Lecturer

Sharon McIlroy

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  • Lecturer

Sharon Sinclair-Graham

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  • Ros Richards Emeritus Staff Member
  • Module Tutor

Shirley Williams

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  • Professor Emerita, National Teaching Fellow

Shuang Gao

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  • Senior International Partnerships Manager

Shweta Nigam

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  • Associate Lecturer in EAP

Steve Thomas

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  • Head of Global Partnerships

Sukhi Sanghera

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  • School Administration Manager

Susan Peel

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  • Visiting Fellow

Svetlana Mazhurnaya

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  • Director of Academic English Assessment

Tim Poulter

Job Titles:
  • Administration Officer
  • Executive

Tina Bhati

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  • Placement Administrator

Tina Jenkins

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  • Module Tutor

Vicki Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Administration Officer
  • Executive

Victoria Collins

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  • Associate Professor

Wendy Hillier

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  • Lecturer

Yousef Mahdi

Job Titles:
  • Executive Support Administrator

Yuanyuan Feng

Job Titles:
  • Associate Lecturer in Computer Science