Our staff
Experienced staff within Social Sciences know the importance of applied skills
Dr Hugh Atkinson
Hugh specialises in British, European and American Politics and the politics of sustainability. Main research focus lies in local democracy, sustainability and climate change.
Dr Rashid Aziz
Dr Rashid Aziz is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Course Director for the Criminology undergraduate programmes in the Department of Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences.
John Baines
John Baines has expertise in developing and presenting training programmes and courses in education and sustainability for professionals. He is the author of numerous education books and packs for school age students on environmental topics and issues.
Dr Kerry Baker
Dr Baker's areas of interest include youth justice, probation, risk assessment, practitioner decision-making and the role of faith based organisations in the criminal justice system.
Dr Elaine Bauer
Dr Elaine Bauer's background is in Social Anthropology, with research covering a wide variety of themes including international migration and communication, language brokering, transnationalism, race and ethnic relations, family structures and relationships and household organisation.
Prof. Caitriona Beaumont
Prof Caitríona Beaumont is Director of Research for the School of Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Social History in the Division of Social Sciences.
Dr Paul Blackledge
Dr Matthew Bond
Dr Matthew Bond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Course Director of the Sociology undergraduate programme.
Prof. Bob Broad
Dr Adrian Budd
Dr Budd specialises in International Relations, with interests in international theory, imperialism, and globalisation. His last book analysed neo-Gramscian international relations theory.
Evangelia Chaligianni
Evangelia is a Research Assistant in the Weeks Centre for Social & Policy Research, undertaking research in schools and institutions for the Arts Award Project. The aim of the research project is to explore the impacts and outcomes of participation in Arts Award on young people aged 11- 25 over time.
Dr Charlotte Clements
Dr Charlotte Clements is Lecturer in History in the Division of Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Science.
Andrea Colquhoun
Andrea began teaching in the early1990’s. She has an MA in Culture and Modernity, PGCHE and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is currently undertaking a PhD.
Dr Katie Donington
Katie is a Lecturer in History in the Department of Law and Social Sciences.
Dr Clara Eroukhmanoff
Clara is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at LSBU. She has published in Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Security and contributed to chapters in edited volumes on counter-terrorism and the temporality of emotions.
Claire Felix-Baptiste
Claire specialises in teaching social work theory. Her interests lie in black and minority ethnic (BME) mental health and academic success and social work education. Claire has over 25 years’ worth of work experience of community social work focusing on the progression of black and minority communities in the UK.
Dr Jaya Gajparia
Dr Jaya Gajparia is the Couse Director of the Masters programme in Education for Sustainability, an internationally recognised distance learning programme established in 1994. She also teaches on a variety of Undergraduate Sociology courses.
Dr Beverley Goring
Dr Beverley Goring specialises in Education for Sustainability, which forms the core of her current teaching. She has taught on the University’s Foundation course and a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Education, Sociology, Social Policy and Development Studies and Research Methods.
Angela Grunsell
Ange Grunsell specialises in Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship. She has particular interests in teaching and learning in schools, and the reform and development of national curricula to fit the needs of the next generations worldwide.
Prof. Trudy Harpham
Professor Trudy Harpham has worked in a number of research roles within social studies. Her research is based on urban policy development, planning, monitoring and evaluating urban health projects in developing countries.
Denise Harvey
Denise Harvey is Joint Course Director of BA Social Work in the School of Health and Social Care.
Dr Tirion Havard
Dr Tirion Havard is a qualified social worker with a practice background in the Probation Service where she worked with offenders from a variety of backgrounds.
Liz Jackson
Liz Jackson is a tutor on the Education for Sustainability Masters course. She has tutored on the course since 2007 and also worked for WWF-UK in education for sustainable development.
Prof. Gaim Kibreab
Professor Gaim Kibreab's interests include forced migration, development and governance in post-conflict societies.
Dr Seun Kolade
Dr Seun Kolade specialises in the diffusion of agricultural innovations; social capital and post-disaster preparedness and response; and entrepreneurship and innovation in developing countries’ SMEs.
Prof. Stina Lyon
Professor Lyon is interested in sociology of education, gender, race and ethnicity and welfare state ideology.
Dr Christine Magill
Dr Chris Magill is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and the Course Director for the MSc in Criminology and Social Research Methods in the School of Law and Social Sciences and Course Director for the MSc in Criminology and Social Research Methods.
Dr Paul Maiteny
Dr Maiteny is an ecologist, anthropologist and psychotherapist. He specialises in the practical application of his understanding of psycho-cultural and psycho-spiritual causes and consequences of the destruction of ecological systems.
Dr Alex Mifsud
Dr Mifsud is a tutor in the Division of Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences. She specialises in Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with interests in employee engagement and training through the application of thinking skills.
Dr Esmorie Miller
Dr Esmorie Miller is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law and Social Science.
Dr Julien Morton
Dr Morton is interested in philosophy of science and the theory of agency.
Dr Lisa Pine
Dr Pine currently teaches modules on 'Revolutions, Wars and the Making of the Modern World', 'War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century' and 'Genocide and Crimes against Humanity'.
Dr Andrew Richardson
Dr Andrew Richardson is a Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Health & Social Care.
Dr Federica Rossi
Dr Rossi is a Senior lecturer. She teaches Criminology, Sociology and Political Science, with particular interest in the criminalisation of political movements, political violence, terrorism, victims.
Edwin Shaw
Edwin is a Lecturer in the Social Sciences Division, teaching and conducting research in politics and criminology.
Rebecca Swenson
Rebecca Swenson is a lecturer in Occupational Therapy at London South Bank University.
Gillian Symons
Gillian Symons has 30 years’ experience in the field of Education for Sustainability, with a particular focus on formal education at all levels through work with schools, universities and NGOs.
Dr Shaminder Takhar
Dr Shaminder Takhar is Associate Professor in Sociology specialising in race, gender, sexuality and social justice. She is the research ethics co-ordinator for the School of Law and Social Sciences.
Prof. Ros Wade
Ros is a specialist in research and scholarship in the area of education for sustainability (EfS). She chairs the London Regional Centre of Expertise in EfS and is a Research Fellow of the Schumacher Institute.
Dr Elian Weizman
Elian is a lecturer in International Relations at the Division of Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences.
Jill Yates
Jill Yates specialises in practice learning and practice education with interests in service user involvement in teaching and learning and its application to developing innovative practice placements.
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