People
Members
We draw our membership from across the University of Leeds, and have partners around the UK and the world.
Members
| Profile Image | Title | First name | Last name | School | Job title | Areas of expertise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Saeed al-Qumairi | Dr | Saeed | al-Qumairi | S.Al-Qumairi@leeds.ac.uk | British Council International Research Fellow | Modern South Arabian; Mehri; Ecopoetics | |
| Professor Eric Atwell | Professor | Eric | Atwell | E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk | Computing | Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language | AI ArtificialIntelligence Language Computing Linguistics MachineLearning DataMining NaturalLanguageProcessing TextAnalytics English Arabic Quran Religious Health Medical Text Autism CorpusLinguistics |
| Dr Paul Bagguley | Dr | Paul | Bagguley | P.Bagguley@leeds.ac.uk | Sociology and Social Policy | Professor of Political Sociology | Protest and social movements, racism and ethnicity studies, employment and social theory. |
| Dr Maria Beger | Dr | Maria | Beger | M.Beger@leeds.ac.uk | Biology | Associate Professor in Conservation Science | Coral reef fish ecology; Marine conservation science; Spatial planning; Marxan; Climate change impacts on marine systems; Connectivity in spatial decision science; Genetics in conservation planning |
| Ian Connolly | Ian Connolly | Ian | Connolly | i.a.connolly@leeds.ac.uk | CELCE RA | Marine biology; biodiversity | |
| Dr Alaric Hall | Dr | Alaric | Hall | A.T.P.Hall@leeds.ac.uk | English | Associate Professor | Language, literature and history of medieval North-west Europe; Iceland and Icelandic |
| Dr Tom Jackson | Dr | Tom | Jackson | T.Jackson@leeds.ac.uk | Media and Communication | Lecturer in Digital Media | digital media; immersive technologies; ethnography; sensory research methods; photography; graphic design, sensory experience; new media; digital media; field recording; anthropology |
| Dr Rebecca Jarman | Dr | Rebecca | Jarman | R.S.E.Jarman@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Associate Professor of Latin American Studies | Latin American culture, history, and politics. Urbanization, poverty, and state-making in Venezuela. Landslides in Andean cities, conflict and reconstruction. |
| Professor Anna Madill | Professor | Anna | Madill | A.L.Madill@leeds.ac.uk | Psychology | Professor of Psychology | Qualitative methods; visual methods; well-being; mental health; gender and sexuality |
| Ricardo Michue Bendezu | Mr | Ricardo | Michue Bendezu | R.Michue@leeds.ac.uk | LCS | Teaching fellow of Spanish | |
| Roberta Morano | Roberta | Morano | R.Morano@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | postgraduate researcher | Arabic dialectology; Arabic language; Gulf Arabic; Oman; Arabic linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Documentation; Ethnolinguistics | |
| Dr Diane Nelson | Dr | Diane | Nelson | D.C.Nelson@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Senior Lecturer in Linguistics | Syntax, especially morphosyntax; animacy; Uralic languages; language origins and evolution; language endangerment and extinction; ecolinguistics |
| Prof Thea Pitman | Professor | Thea | Pitman | T.Pitman@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Professor of Latin American Studies | digital cultures and indigenous cultures in Latin America. |
| Dr Simon Popple | Dr | Simon | Popple | S.E.Popple@leeds.ac.uk | Media and Communication | Senior Lecturer in Photography and Digital Culture | Photographic history and theory; Early cinema; Archives and digital culture; Community archives and co-production. |
| Dr Serge Sharoff | Dr | Serge | Sharoff | S.Sharoff@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Senior Lecturer in Linguistics | Language Technology; Natural Language Processing; Machine Translation; Corpus Linguistics; Genres and text classification; terminology mining; related languages |
| Dr Stefan Skrimshire | Dr | Stefan | Skrimshire | S.Skrimshire@leeds.ac.uk | School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science | Associate Professor | religious, ethical and philosophical responses to climate emergency, mass extinction |
| Dr Timothy Thurston | Dr | Timothy | Thurston | T.Thurston@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Lecturer of Chinese Studies | China, Tibet, folklore, oral traditions, intangible cultural heritage, cultural sustainability, minority cultural production in China |
| Professor Emma Tomalin | Professor | Emma | Tomalin | E.Tomalin@leeds.ac.uk | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Professor of Religion and Public LIfe | Gender and religion; Religion and development; Religion and humanitarianism; Religion and peacebuilding; Religion and environmentalism; Buddhism and Hinduism; South and South-East Asia; Religious buildings |
| Dr Gisela Tomé Lourido | Dr | Gisela | Tomé Lourido | g.tomelourido@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Lecturer in Sociophonetics | accent variation in speech perception and production in bilingual and monolingual populations, Galician, English |
| Dr James Wilson | Dr | James | Wilson | J.A.Wilson@leeds.ac.uk | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Lecturer in Russian and Language Studies | Language variation in Czech; variationist sociolinguistics; language pedagogy; corpus-based language learning & teaching |