Business and Management
To contact any of the Business and Management experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Paul Alan Armstrong |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Organisation Studies |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Sociology of work, organisation studies, organisational behaviour, organisation theory, equality, organisational development, professional learning and reflective practice, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, pedagogical epistemologies |
| Name | Seema Bhate |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Consumer behaviour, cognitive style, style/involvement model, consumer behaviour analysis, advertising, gambling behaviour |
| Name | Alexander Bickerton |
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| Job title | Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Further education and higher education, creative and leisure studies, consultancy/training projects for organisations in the North East of England |
| Name | Ian Carr |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Strategic finance, financial management, business strategy, corporate responsibility, personal development planning, business and career coaching, sales and sales management, work-based learning |
| Name | Michael Cassop-Thompson |
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| Job title | Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Marketing, services marketing, research methods, strategic management/ quality assurance, leisure industry management |
| Name | Alan Charlesworth |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | E-marketing |
| Name | Yvonne Dixon |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Marketing management, strategic marketing, services marketing and integrated marketing communications |
| Name | John Dixon-Dawson |
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| Job title | Head of Leadership and Management Subject Division |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Strategic management and corporate strategy, coaching and personal development, public sector policy and work-based learning |
| Name | David Donkin |
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| Job title | Assistant Director |
| Faculty | Student Recruitment and Business Partnerships |
| Areas of expertise | Business and community interaction with the University, student enterprise and start-up companies, staff spinout companies and other commercialisation of intellectual, property at the University |
| Name | Kim Drady |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Human resource management, leadership, creativity and innovation |
| Name | Anne Edwards |
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| Job title | Academic Tutor |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Marketing management, cause-related marketing and retail |
| Name | Jeffrey Evans |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Company insolvency |
| Name | Robert Hall |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Accounting standards, financial management and performance management |
| Name | James Kevin Gallagher |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Skills development for business and management students, professional skills development and personal development |
| Name | Andrew Hambler |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Business and Management |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | The constraints on the expression of religion & belief in the UK workplace |
| Name | Gary Huckins |
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| Job title | Senior Safety, Health and Environmental Consultant |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Teaching of safety, health and environmental management |
| Name | William Hunter |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Mediation, coaching, employment relations, individual case work |
| Name | Elewechi Okike |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Principles of accounting, cost accounting, financial accounting/reporting, management accounting, accounting theory, auditing, corporate governance, international accounting; accounting for business (MBA Programme), managing equality and diversity, business ethics, research methods, supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research projects; including supervision of PhD students |
| Name | Dr Gail Sanders |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Professional identity, adult learning |
| Name | Dr Hamid Seddighi |
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| Job title | Principal lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Professional identity, adult learning |
| Name | Alan Springhall |
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| Job title | Senior Health and Safety Consultant |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Engineering, health and safety regulatory requirements in manufacturing industries & businesses, glass, plastics, and bulk paper processing, aerospace manufacture, working with large continuous flow drying ovens, high hazard and explosive atmospheres, fire safety |
| Name | Derek Watson |
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| Job title | Programme Director |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Management and leadership, consultancy skills, organisational behaviour, motivation, conflict, stress total quality management, health & safety, and environment |
| Name | Sharon Wilson |
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| Job title | Postgraduate Assistant in Tourism |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Volkswagen campervan sub-culture, tourism mobilities and experiences, tourism economies, visual contemporary art |
| Name | Bob Woodfield |
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| Job title | Programme Leader Business |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | International business, business economics |
| Name | Dr Tie Xu |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Operations Management |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Operations and process management, logistics and supply chain management, service operations management and project management |


