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Artemis Skarlatidou
Lecturer in Citizen Science, UCL Geography
Email: a.skarlatidou@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Social Data Science
Specific expertise: Socio-technical and design perspectives in the implementation of geographic interfaces and technologies; The trust-building potential of bottom-up participatory approaches in science and environmental sustainability; usability and trust design
Teaching: Geography in the field, Digital Geographies; Technology for Nature; Foundations of Citizen Science; Designing and Managing Citizen Science; Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing; Data Politics and Society
Paul Longley
Professor of Geographic Information Science, UCL Geography
Email: p.longley@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Social Data Science; Urban Infrastructure
Specific expertise: The development of neighbourhood geodemographic classifications, extending to historical classifications and characterisation of workplaces and wider population activity patterns; Modelling geodemographic and urban land use change using microsimulation and associated methods; Family name geographies and onomastics (the study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names); Retail geography and consumer behaviour; and the delivery of public services, specifically education, health and policing.
Teaching: Thinking Geographically
James Cheshire
Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, UCL Geography
Email: james.cheshire@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Social Data Science
Specific expertise: quantitative geography, mappable Big Data
Teaching: Data Analysis; Cartography of Visualization
Caroline Parker
Lecturer in Anthropology and Professional Practice, UCL Anthropology
Email: caroline-parker@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour
Specific expertise:
- Extensive experience in combining ethnographic methods, epidemiological approaches, and implementation science to reduce health inequalities.
- Community based participatory research.
- The public health impacts of incarceration and policing in Latin America, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- Structural racism and racial health disparities.
- Pharmaceutical markets, opioid use disorders, substance use disorders, and HIV/AIDS.
Teaching:
- Racial Capitalism Caribbean Plantation Societies
- Pharmaceutical Worlds: Markets, Medicines and Metaphors Anthropology of Health and Wellbeing
- Medical Anthropology Anthropological Theory Regional Studies of Culture
James Baggaley
Head of Communications and Engagement, UCL Policy Lab
Email: j.baggaley@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: climate change, global health and social justice
Sarah Wolferstan
Senior Specialist in Public Engagment, Archaeology South-East, UCL Archaeology
Email: sarah.wolferstan@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: cultural heritage management, partnerships, fundraising
Louise Rayner
Director of Archaeology South-East, UCL Archaeology
Email: louise.rayner@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: Archaeology; Prehistoric and Roman pottery; Roman London; Coaching for leadership; project management; publication; training and capactiy building
Teaching: Later prehistoric and Roman London, pottery and artefacts, post-excavation method and practice
Michael Thaler
Lecturer in Economics, UCL Economics
Email: michael.thaler@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Business Planning, Behavioural Economics and Corporate Law
Specific expertise: Behavioural economics; Experimental economics
Teaching: Microeconomics, experimental economics, behavioural economics
Pip Laurenson
Professor in Conservation of Contemporary Art, UCL History of Art
Email: p.laurenson@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: institutional responses to time-based media works of art, installation art, socially engaged practice and performance art; Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Teaching: Theory and History of Conservation and Methods and Materials.
Muki Haklay
Professor of Geographical Information Science, UCL Geography
Email: m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Social Data Science
Specific expertise: participatory mapping and GIS, Citizen Science, Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and usability aspects of GIS, and public access to environmental information.
Teaching: Introduction to citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing
Mark Maslin
Professor of Earth System Science, UCL Geography
Email: m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: Early human evolution in Africa; Defining the Anthropocene; Past and future of the Amazon rainforest; Continental slope stability and gas hydrates; Quaternary climate transitions, cycles and thresholds; Global green and low carbon economy; Climate change, population, development and global health
Teaching: Environmental change; Dynamic Earth
Chris Brierley
Professor of Climate Science, UCL Geography
Email: c.brierley@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Oceanography; Atmospheric sciences; Geochemistry; Ecology.
Teaching: Environmental Systems and Processes, Data Acquisition and Interpretation; Ideas in Geography; Hydroclimatology; Climatology
Christian Schuster
Professor in Public Management, UCL Political Science
Email: c.schuster@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: data analytics and civil service management: using data from original surveys, administrative records and field experiments for more evidence-based management of public servants.
Teaching: Governance and Public Management; Policy Advice
Anna Maguire
Lecturer in Public History, UCL History
Email: anna.maguire@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture, and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: Migration and displacement in the twentieth century - Refugee charities and activism - Mobility during times of conflict - Encounters (including as a methodology) - Diversifying pedagogy and assessment - Local and community based public history production - Co-production and participatory research
Teaching: Critical Public History; Public History Research Project: Examining Public History; Public History Research Project: Creating Public History; Migrant City: Migration, Public History and London
Florence Sutcliffe Braithwaite
Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History, UCL History
Email: f.sutcliffe-braithwaite@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture, and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: Historical studies; Policy and administration; Political science; Sociology
Teaching: social change, new social movements and politics in postwar Britain; marriage and the family in twentieth-century Britain; queer and LGBT history in Britain since c. 1880; writing history.
Mat Disney
Professor of Remote Sensing, UCL Geography
Email: mathias.disney@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Urban Infrastructure; Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: remote sensing; satellite and aircraft data; lidar and ground-based measurements and modelling; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; radiative transfer modelling
Ecology; Environmental management; remote sensing; forest struture and function; carbon cycle and climate
Forest ecosystems; Forest biodiversity; biomass and carbon; tree stucture and function.
Teaching: Remote sensing, methods, scientific data analysis, tools and modelling
Rachel King
Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies, UCL Archaeology
Email: rachel-king@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Heritage, Culture and Conservation Management
Specific expertise: Archaeology; Heritage, archive and museum studies; Historical studies; Anthropology
Teaching: presenting the past to the public and heritage research methods
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Professor of Economics, UCL Economics
Email: f.postel-vinay@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Business Planning, Behavioural Economics and Corporate Law
Specific expertise: Applied economics; Economic theory; Econometrics; Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory); Labour economics
Anna Donovan
Lecturer in Law, UCL Faculty of Laws
Email: anna.donovan@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Business Planning, Behavioural Economics and Corporate Law
Specific expertise: Corporate governance; Corporations and associations law; Corporate social responsibility; Business ethics; Organisational behaviour
Teaching: Company Law, Law Connections, Corporate Finance; Comparative Corporate Governance; Company Law; Law Innovation and Public Policy
David Napier
Professor of Medical Anthropology, UCL Anthropology
Email: d.napier@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour
Specific expertise: Anthropology; Clinical sciences; Cultural studies; Heritage, archive and museum studies; Health services and systems; Public health; Epidemiology
Teaching: Medical anthropology
Julie Norman
Associate Professor (Teaching) in Politics and International Relations, UCL Political Science
Email: julie.norman@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise:
• Policy-relevant research on protracted conflict, divided societies, political violence, resistance, security, extremism, polarization, and foreign policy
• Focus on the Middle East, including Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq; US foreign policy
• Extensive experience with ethnographic fieldwork, oral history, interviews, and focus groups, as well as surveys and experimental methods
• Consulting experience with United Nations Development Programme, British Council, IrishAid, US Institute of Peace (USIP), MoD, FCDO, US State Department
• Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East & International Security at RUSI; Member of Israel-Palestine Working Group and Transatlantic Working Group at Chatham House
Teaching:
• Political Violence
• Middle East Politics
• US Foreign Policy
• Disagreeing Well
Lauge Poulsen
Professor of International Relations and Law, UCL Political Science
Email: l.poulsen@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: Politics and law of international economic relations. Chair of OECD’s inter-governmental work programme on climate change and investment law. Served as specialist adviser to the International Trade Committee in the House of Commons and was advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2020. In 2022, Poulsen was appointed OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for services to UK trade policy.
Teaching: modules on Trade Policy and Climate Change and International Political Economy.
Robert Hazell
Professor of Government and the Constitution, The Constitution Unit, UCL Political Science
Email: r.hazell@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: constitutional reform agenda, devolution in Scotland, Wales and the English regions . He has served on four different government advisory bodies on freedom of information, and three times acted as Special Adviser to parliamentary committees. He has given evidence to numerous official bodies and parliamentary committees, and done consultancy for the House of Commons, House of Lords, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice, Information Commissioner, Scottish Parliament and World Bank.
Parama Chaudhury
Pro-Vice Provost (Education - Student Academic Experience), Director of CTaLE and Professor (Teaching), UCL Economics
Email: p.chaudhury@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Business Planning, Behavioural Economics and Corporate Law
Specific expertise: labour economics, specifically inequality and technological change, and economics education. Parama currently leads the CTaLE Team in designing and delivering bespoke economics training courses for public sector clients, including UK government departments and regulatory agencies. She is an elected member of the Royal Economic Society's Council and the RES Education and Training Committee, and chaired the 2023 Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Economics Subject Benchmark Statement.
Teaching: Introductory Economics. Industrial Relations. International Trade.
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, Former Co-Director of UCL's Migration Research Unit, UCL Geography
Email: e.fiddian-qasmiyeh@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: Migration and refugees studies. Experiences of and responses to conflict-induced displacement. Regularly contributes to evaluations and assessments by humanitarian organisations and agencies such as Oxfam and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Teaching: Migration and Transnationalism/ Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Migration/Gender, Generation and Forced Migration/Issues in Global Migration
Helene Burningham
Professor of Physical Geography, UCL Geography
Email: h.burningham@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: environmental governance
Teaching: Geomorphology /Coastal Geohazards/ Environmental GIS/Models in Environmental Science/Field Evidence of Environmental Change
Eloise Marais
Associate Professor in Physical Geography, UCL Geography
Email: e.marais@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: local and international expert panels including the UK Air Quality Experts Group, the GEOS-Chem Model Steering Committee, and the US Health Effects Institute Global Health Oversight Committee.
Teaching: Understanding our Planet/Thinking Geographically I and II/Environmental Consequences of Human Activity
Hannah Knox
Professor of Anthropology, UCL Anthropology
Email: h.knox@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour
Specific expertise: the relationship between technical infrastructures and social life through ethnographic studies of projects of technical transformation, Her work is concerned with understanding contemporary manifestations of risk and responsibility, territorial politics, expertise, knowledge and technology.
Teaching: Digital Anthropocene
Amy Horton
Lecturer in Economic Geography and Degree Tutor for BSc Geography and Economics, UCL Geography
Email: a.horton@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Climate Change and Environmental Science
Specific expertise: examines how care homes for older people in the UK are funded, built and governed, including in times of crisis and pandemic; how local government, property developers and communities seek to shape urban development, especially the ownership and financing of housing and space for local traders; solutions to problem debt and alternative routes to financing our futures.
Teaching: Economic Geography/Thinking Geographically i and II.
Andrew Harris
Associate Professor in Geography and Urban Studies, UCL Geography
Email: andrew.harris@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Urban Infrastructure
Specific expertise: gentrification and the global city to urban infrastructure, vertical urbanism and transport planning; his work on creative city policy-making has been used by organisations including the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, the British Urban Regeneration Association, Camden Council and the Cultural Development Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Teaching: Urban Imaginations/Creative Cities/Urban Practices/London: Aspects of Change/MSc in Urban Studies Dissertation.
Inken von Borzyskowski
Associate Professor in Global Policy & International Relations, UCL Political Science
Email: i.borzyskowski@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: the domestic politics of international relations with an emphasis on international organizations and their effect on domestic conflict and elections. Specifically, her research falls into three areas: international democracy assistance; the causes and consequences of election violence; and international organizations’ membership politics.
Benjamin Lauderdale
Head of Department and Professor of Political Science, UCL Political Science
Email: b.lauderdale@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: his research has focused on developing new designs for highly multidimensional survey experiments that enable us to better measure key concepts relevant to public opinion and political behaviour. This has included: projects introducing new methods for measuring the relative importance of different issues to voters; the extent to which there are robust patterns in which kinds of political arguments are persuasive; public preferences over the composition of government spending; public attitudes towards alternative ways that governments raise tax revenues; and the extent to which political disagreement can be ascribed to moral disagreement.
Teaching: Measurement in Data Science/ Introduction to Quantitative Methods/ Voters, Public Opinion and Participation.
Valentina Amuso
Lecturer (Teaching) in Political Economy and Comparative Politics, UCL Political Science
Email: v.amuso@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: Her policy-oriented work focuses on enhancing stakeholder engagement to refine the policy development process, collaborating with policymakers and international organisations. She also works on developing approaches to enhance the consultation process, ensuring that a diverse range of perspectives informs policy formulation. Her research focuses on the role of government agencies in shaping regulatory approaches to innovation, as well as the decision-making mechanisms that underpin these approaches.
Teaching: Public Sector Economics; International Political Economy; and Innovation: Political Economy and Policy Perspectives.
Andrew Barry
Professor of Human Geography, UCL Geography
Email: a.barry@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management
Specific expertise: he contributed to wider debates about science and technology policy, worked at the office of Science and Technology Options Assessment at the European Parliament, and to the Institute of Public Policy Research Condition of Britain project, member of the advisory board of the British Film Institute InView project, commissioned to develop a design for an exhibition on Making Things Public.
Teaching: Human Ecology: Geographical Perspectives/ Political Geography and Geopolitics/ Environmental Knowledges/ Advanced Geopolitics.
Lucy Porter
Lecturer, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change
Email: lucy.porter@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour
Specific expertise: extensive experience in applying behavioural science theories and frameworks to develop health behaviour change interventions in academic and policy settings. member of Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK), an ESRC-funded hub for expertise and innovation in behavioural research. worked as a Principal Behavioural & Social Scientist at Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities where she worked on topics including diet and obesity, sexual and reproductive health, and alcohol harms reduction.
Teaching: Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Wendy Carlin
Professor of Economics, UCL Economics.
Director of CORE Econ, and co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy.
Email: w.carlin@ucl.ac.uk
Area of expertise: Public Policy and Management; Business Planning, Behavioural Economics, and Corporate Law
Specific expertise: The mission of the Stone Centre at UCL is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.