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Dr David James

Sports engineer Dr David James is a leading science communicator. He regularly delivers high profile lectures on the role that technology plays in...



Dr Fin O'Flaherty

Fin is a chartered engineer with a background in civil engineering. His main expertise is in the area of repair and maintenance of built infrastructure,...



Professor Steve Haake

Professor of sports engineering Steve Haake is a media fellow for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council, the founding editor of the Sports...



Dr Luke Beardon

Luke has a particular interest in individuals with autism who have broken the law and has been working as a practitioner and consultant in the...



Professor Chris Breen

Professor Breen is responsible for the Polymers, Nanocomposites and Modelling Research Centre at the University. He is the head of a new EU-funding...



Professor Chris Hopkins

Chris is an expert on the British novel in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly fiction of the First World War, the 1930s and the...



Dr Marian Duggan

Marian is a criminology lecturer teaching, researching and publishing on gender and crime, victimisation, sexuality, hate crime and sexual violence...



Alan McGauley

Alan teaches modules in politics and has worked in the public and voluntary sector. Expertise:UK politicsGangsIllegal drug marketsLocal governmentRegenerationUSA...