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Current Heads and Managers of Departments/Schools
Head of Department/School
Andrew Boer
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer, Edge Hotel School
Professor Carlos Carrillo Tudela
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour Economics; Search and Matching Theory; Macroeconomics; Quantitative Economics
Dr Tracey Costley
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests:
English as Additional Language Learners (EAL); Academic Literacies; Student Identity in Writing at University;
Professor Pamela Cox
Head of Department - Professor, Department of Sociology
Research interests:
modern social and cultural history; social policy, social justice and criminal justice; gender relations; youth justice, child rights, family law
Professor Hongsheng Dai
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Mathematical Sciences
Research interests:
Bayesian computational statistics; Perfect Monte Carlo sampling; Mixture models; Graphical models; Diffusion models; Queuing models; Nonparametric statistics; Survival analysis; Longitudinal analysis; Distributed Deep Learning
Matthew De Abaitua
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence narratives; Climate fiction; Speculative autofiction
Fiona Elsted
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer, Essex Pathways
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests:
Teacher Training; Teacher Development; The Transition from Teaching General English to EAP; Teacher Reflection; The relationship between academic locus of control and long-term perceived self-efficacy for academic writing in undergraduates
Professor Kevin Lu
Head of Department - Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
C G Jung, analytical psychology, Jungian and Post-Jungian theory; psychoanalytic history and psychohistory, especially the application of analytical psychology to the discipline of history; oral history; historiography; transgenerational transmission of trauma; Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora; Psychology of Religion
Professor Shane Martin
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Government
Research interests:
Legislative Politics; Comparative European Politics; Public Policy; Irish Politics
Professor Ian Maynard
Head of School and Professor (R), School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Professor Silke Paulmann
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Psychology
Research interests:
Social language processing in normal and special populations (e.g., bilinguals, brain damaged, aging); Emotional and attitudinal language processing across different cultures; Motivational prosody processing; Event-related brain potentials
Professor Diana Bullen Presciutti
Head of School - Professor (R), School of Philosophy and Art History
Research interests:
visual hagiography (especially miracle scenes); charitable institutions (hospitals, confraternities); visual culture of social problems; late medieval and Renaissance Italian visual culture (1300-1600); reception theory; visual culture of the mendicant orders (especially Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Servites); gender and sexuality; medical humanities
Dr Andrew Priest
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of History
Research interests:
US foreign policy since c1860; Public opinion and foreign policy; Anglo-American relations
Professor Leonard Schalkwyk
Head of School - Professor (R), School of Life Sciences
Research interests:
Genomic and epigenomic methods and software; Epigenomics and the environment; Alzheimers disease; Schizophrenia
Professor Reinhold Scherer
Head of Department - Professor (R), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Research interests:
Brain-Computer Interfaces; Statistical and adaptive signal processing; Mobile brain and body imaging; Technology-mediated rehabilitation; Assistive technology
Professor Matthew Woollard
Director of UK Data Archive, UK Data Archive
Department/School Manager
Corinne Bacon
School Manager, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about:
Student Services
Maz Brook
School Manager, School of Life Sciences
Ask me about:
Strategic Planning; People Recruitment & Management; Financial Planning; Working with the School of Life Sciences; Curriculum Development & Teaching Planning; Space Management; Marketing & Student Recruitment; Quality Assurance & Accreditation; Harassment Support Network
Megan Capon
Department Manager, Department of Sociology
Ask me about:
In Sociology, I am responsible for administrative services in the Department, including managing the administration team, human resources, academic workloads, finance, curriculum, annual planning, exam boards, periodic reviews and quality assurance.; In CSEE, I am responsible for the engagement policies and procedures within the School, student communications, Welcome Week planning, and supporting the pilot 'Learning Support Advisors' programme.
Claire Cox
Department Manager, Department of Economics
Ask me about:
Professional services across the department; Supporting the department's academic leaders on planning, managing resources and representing the department across the university
Sam Durling
Department Manager, Department of Language and Linguistics
Lucy Glover
Department Manager, Department of Psychology
Ask me about:
Planning in the Department; Human Resources and Recruitment; Quality Assurance and Accreditation; Departmental Structures and Processes; Administrative Team Function; Queries, Complaints and Support for staff; Links with the Wider University
Caroline Ibrahim-Hansford
School Manager, East 15 Acting School
Silvia Lefley
Department Manager, Essex Pathways
Lauren Lewis
School Manager, Edge Hotel School
Ask me about:
• Edge Hotel School operations • Professional Services management • Work based learning • Policies and Procedures • HR matters
Carol Macaskill
Department Manager, Department of Economics
Ask me about:
professional services across the department; supporting the department's academic leaders on planning, managing resources and representing the department across the university
Sanja Marjanovic
Department Manager, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Emma McClelland
Department Manager, Department of History
Ask me about:
Strategic planning; HR matters and staff appointments; Timetabling; Exam boards; Quality assurance; Department finances
Marie Scott
School Manager, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about:
Strategic Planning, HR Management, Quality Assurance
Deborah Stewart
Department Manager, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about:
All matters to do with the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
Camilla Thomsen
Department Manager, Department of Sociology
Ask me about:
HR matters; Departmental and University policies and procedures; Exam Boards; Quality assurance; Compliance
Jamie Tuxford
School Manager, Essex Law School
Ask me about:
Human Resources and recruitment; Curriculum development; Quality assurance and acceditation; Working with the School of Law; Teaching timetables
Dr Daniela Wachsening
Department Manager, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Dr Robin Watkins
School Manager, Edge Hotel School
Ask me about:
Edge Hotel School operations • Professional Services management • Exams and Assessment • Policies and Procedures • HR matters
Hannah Whiting
School Manager, School of Philosophy and Art History
Ask me about:
Strategic planning; HR matters and staff appointments; Timetabling; Exam Boards; Quality assurance; School and Centre finances
Melanie Wiltshire
School Manager, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
For Heads of School and School Manager equivalents at East 15 Acting School and Edge Hotel School, please visit their respective web pages.