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2014 Honour Roll

08 December 2023

See which academic fellows visited UC in this 2014 Honour Roll.

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Accountancy and Information Systems

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Sue CongerUniversity of Dallas, USA
Business process management, IT Services management/ITIL, IT governance, innovative use of IT in organisations, privacy & ethics in IT use n
Professor Taylor FosterNew Mexico State University, USA
Financial accounting
Dr Stewart KarlinskySan Jose University, USA
International taxation; US taxation; tax policy; tax compliance; tax professionals; comparative taxation

Biological Sciences

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Elisar BarbarOregon State University, USA
The assembly, structure, and function of large protein complexes, including the molecular motor dynein and nuclear pore complexes.
Professor Michael LawesCharles Darwin University, Australia
Forest ecology & conservation; behavioural & evolutionary ecology; primatology
Professor Jerry TurnbullUniversity of Liverpool, UK
Glycobiology expert, specialising in heparan sulphate biology in cell regulation, disease and drug discovery

Chemistry

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Bryan BrooksBaylor University, USA
Water quality & reuse; toxicology; risk assessment, aquatic ecology & harmful algae blooms
Dr John BrownUniversity of Oxford, UK
Organic chemistry; transition metal catalysis; reaction mechanism
Professor Philip GaleUniveristy of Southampton, UK
Supramolecular chemistry, in particular the molecular recognition, sensing and lipid bilayer transport of anionic species
Professor Richard McCreeryUniveristy of Alberta, Canada 
Surface spectroscopy; molecular electronics; electrochemical kinetics; advanced carbon materials
Professor Andrew PhillipsYale University, UDA
Chemical biology; new biologically active small molecules; transcription factors & non-coding RNAs in cancer biology
Professor Stephen WithersUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
Chemical biology; mechanistic enzymology; glycoscience

Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Daniel AbramsUniversity of Illinois, USA
Structural engineering; earthquake engineering; masonry
Dr Joel BurkenMissouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Environmental engineering, contaminated site remediation, phytoremediation
Professor Rachel DavidsonUniversity of Delaware, USA
Risk analysis; natural hazards; engineering decision making
Professor Michael MamloukArizona State University, USA
Pavement design, evaluation & maintenance; material characterisation; road asset management; rehabilitation design; pavement modelling

College of Science

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Christiaan SterkenVrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Optical spectrophotometry of variable stars, scientific writing for young astronomers

Communication Disorders

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Louise BrownJames Cook University, Australia
Development and assessment of professional competence in speech pathology and audiology
Dr Josephine MarriageIndependent Children's Hearing Centre, UK
Paediatric audiology
Associate Professor Jane PimentelEastern Washington University, USA
Anatomy & physiology of the speech mechanism, communication neuroscience, aphasia
Professor Nancy Tye-Murray

Washington University, USA

Aural rehabilitation

Computer Science and Software Engineering

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Andrzej BargielaUniversity of Nottingham, UK
Operational research applied to public utility, transport & optimised scheduling systems; Computational Intelligence focused on uncertain information processing
Dr Scott GrissomGrand Valley State University, USA
Human-computer interaction
Dr Andrew NuxollGrand Valley State University, USA
Artificial episodic memory; artificial intelligence; cognitive architectures

Economics and Finance

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Richard FroyenUniversity of North Carolina, USA
Macroeconomic theory; monetary policy; analysis of economic fluctuations and stabilisation policy
Associate Professor Robert MohrUniversity of New Hampshire, USA
Environmental & natural resource economics; innovation & technology adoption; job design; human resources practices
Professor Ray ReesUniversity of Munich, Germany
Applied microeconomic theory, with special interest in problems involving risk
Professor Ajai SinghUniversity California Santa Cruz, USA
Corporate finance; financial markets
Associate Professor John SpraggonUniversity of Massachusetts, USA
Experimental economics; environmental economics; microeconomics; game theory

Educational Studies & Leadership

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Paul RestaUniversity of Texas at Austin, USA
Web-based collaborative & virtual learning environments; indigenous education; advanced instructional design; technology & teacher education

Forestry

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Associate Professor Horacio BrownUniversity of Chile, Chile
Tree physiology; silviculture, forest production
Dr Raffaele SpinelliCNR IVALSA, Italy
Forest engineering, biomass harvesting systems, mechanisation, Italian pulp forest industry
Dr Lei WangUniversity of Helsinki, Finland
Forest products marketing

Gateway Antarctica

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Mahlon Kennicutt IITexas A & M University, USA
Antarctic environmental science and oceanography

Geography

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Christophe ClaramuntNaval Academy Research Instit, France
Computer science; spatial information theory; geographical information science; web GIS; urban and environmental GIS
Professor Gerry Kearns (Joint Fellowship)National University of Ireland, Ireland
Historical, political & cultural approaches to medical themes including HIV/AIDS
Dr Karen Till (Joint Fellowship)National University of Ireland, Ireland
Urban, cultural & political geography; memory politics; urban design & planning; and art, public engagement & placemaking

Geological Sciences

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Simon BrocklehurstUniversity of Manchester, UK
Glacial geomorphology, landscape processes

Health Sciences

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor William Hsiao

Harvard University, USA

Health care financing and social insurance

Professor Stephen Walston

University of Oklahoma, USA

Health leadership; strategic planning & analysis; organisational development & redesign; quality programmes; organisational design

HIT Lab

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Agnieszka Szóstek

Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland

Interaction design, experience design

Humanities and Creative Arts

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Eric Meyer

Humanities/Social and Political Sciences/Media and Communications

University of Oxford, UK
Social informatics; studying computational approaches to research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences

Languages, Social & Political Sciences

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Mari Jones

Aotahi School of Maori & Indigenous Studies/ NCRE

University of Cambridge, UK
French linguistics and language change

Law

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Nigel Gravells

University of Nottingham, UK

Property Law; intellectual property law

Linguistics

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Philip Carr

Université Paul-Valéry, France

Linguistics, esp. phonology: phonetics, sociophonetics & phonology of English & French, phonology and the mind, philosophy of linguistics

Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Ruby DholakiaUniversity of Rhode Island, USA
e-Marketing; advertising; consumer behaviour
Professor Bo Ake Edvardsoon

Karlstad University, Sweden

Service Management & Service Marketing; Value Creation through Service & the Service Logic; New Service Development & Service Innovation

Māori and Indigenous Studies

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Oluwatoyin KolawoleUniversity of Botswana, Botswana
Development studies; agricultural studies; indigenous knowledges and politics of knowledge

Mathematics and Statistics

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Helen ByrneUniversity of Oxford, UK
Applied mathematics; dynamica systems as applied to biomathematics and modelling cancer growth
Professor Gary FroylandUniversity of New South Wales, Australia
Dynamical systems and ergodic theory, with geophysical applications
Associate Professor Alessandra LuatiUniversity of Bologna, Italy
Mathematical statistics; asymptotic theory; statistical inference; time series analysis
Professor Warwick TuckerUppsala University, Sweden
Computational and pure mathematics (including statistical parameter estimation for nonlinear dynamical systems)

Mechanical Engineering

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Associate Professor Alessandra LuatiUniversity of Bologna, Italy
Mathematical statistics; asymptotic theory; statistical inference; time series analysis
Professor Saeema Ahmed-KristensenTechnical Uni.of Denmark, Denmark 
Engineering design & product development including: engineering knowledge management, emotional design, design thinking
Professor Jeremy AstleyUniversity of Southampton, UK 
Finite element methods; computational acoustics; aero acoustics of gas turbine engines
Dr Nicholas BainesConcepts NREC, UK
Aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of flows in turbomachines
Ms Louise HamlinNASA-Caltech JPL, USA
Astronomical & earth-sensing instruments & missions; aeronautical engineering; rocket propulsion
Dr John ShrimptonUniversity of Southampton, UK
Fluid mechanics; particle laden flows; human breathing; turbulence modelling; aerodynamics

NCRE

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Richard Whitman

University of Kent, UK

EU Studies; foreign policy

Philosophy

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Jennifer Church

Vassar College, USA

Philosophy of mind - consciousness, emotions, irrationality, perception & imagination; Kant, Freud; feminist theory & philosophy of music

Professor Susan Dimock

York University, Canada

Meta-ethics; theoretical & practical ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of law; punishment theory; criminal responsibility; criminalisation; history of philosophy

Professor Harold Noonan

University of Nottingham, UK

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, identity & personal identity; philosophical logic; philosophies of Frege, Russell & Hume

Physics and Astronomy

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Konstantin ArutyunovUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland
Quantum nanoelectronics; nanoscale superconductivity; interface phenomena; applied nanotechnology
Dr June McCombieUniversity of Nottingham, UK
Astrophysical chemistry; laser & molecular spectroscopy; public outreach; teaching; science communication; diversity
Professor Larry Marschall

Gettysburg College, USA

Physics and astronomy

Professor Stephen Rand

University of Michigan, USA

Physics; lasers; electro-optics 

Psychology

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Assistant Professor Dan ChiaburuTexas A&M University, USA
Organisational behaviour; business administration
Professor Ray KesnerUniversity of Utah, USA
Behavioural neuroscience & neurology, particularly memory systems in the brain
Professor Magnus SverkeStockholm University, Sweden
Work psychology; job insecurity; industrial relations; research methods; questionnaire methods; statistics

Sports and Physical Education

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Michael Metzler

Georgia State University, USA

Physical Education & sport pedagogy; analysis of teaching & learning; educational research methodologies 

Teacher Education

NAME

INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST

Professor Kate Nation

University of Oxford, UK

Reading comprehension & impairment; role of language in reading comprehension difficulties & teaching strategies

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