Currently, my main role is as Academic Workplanner for Psychology. In this role, I have responsibility for ensuring that Psychology colleagues have a fair and equitable workload and that all teaching is delivered efficiently and by appropriately qualified members of Psychology staff. I am also a Psychology Group Leader, with line management responsibility for a group of staff in the Psychology subject group. In this role, I am responsible for guiding and supporting these members of staff and carrying out their appraisals.

I joined the Psychology group at Sheffield Hallam University in 2002. In 2009, I became the Programme Leader for the undergraduate social science programme, before taking up my current roles of Academic Workplanner and Group Leader in 2014. I previously held a lecturing post at the University of Sunderland until 1999, and between 1999-2002, I was part of the SOVRN Research Project team investigating the effects of suicidal behaviour and the risk factors for suicidality. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My main teaching interests are in the areas of social psychology and qualitative research methods; and the supervision of research projects and dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.My specific interest focuses on how individuals cope with and make sense of bereavement and other life transitions.

Dr. Ehab is a dedicated academic and industry professional specialising in Digital Architecture, Sustainable Urban Design, and Urban Resilience. Currently a Lecturer in Architecture Design and Technology at Sheffield Hallam University, his work explores how digital technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Computational Design, can advance architectural design and urban development. His research integrates emerging methodologies and co-creation practices to promote sustainability, resilience, and efficiency in the built environment. With extensive experience in teaching, research, and industry collaboration, he is committed to advancing architectural education and fostering impactful knowledge exchange to address contemporary challenges in architecture and urbanism.

Dr Ehab is an architect, lecturer and researcher specialising in architectural design, sustainable urbanism and computational design. He joined Sheffield Hallam University in January 2024 as a Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology within the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute.

Dr Ehab holds a BSc in Architecture Engineering from Loughborough University, an MArch in Design (with Distinction) and a PhD in Architecture Design (Social Science) from the University of Nottingham. His doctoral research examined how virtual reality and immersive co-design methods can enhance public engagement and inclusivity in urban environments, advancing concepts of sustainable vertical urbanism, vertical public realms and mixed-use resilient cities.

Before joining Sheffield Hallam, Dr Ehab held academic and research appointments across the UK. He taught as a Studio Tutor in Architecture at the University of Nottingham and as a Lecturer in Architecture at Nottingham Trent University, leading design studio and digital communication modules. He later joined Loughborough University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Creativity, contributing to interdisciplinary projects on immersive design and digital innovation. He also contributed to the £640,000 Derby Urban Sustainable Transition (DUST) project, collaborating with the Canal and River Trust, Derby City Council, Marketing Derby and transport agencies to co-design urban interventions and develop a digital-twin model for sustainable city transformation.

Dr Ehab has also worked in professional architectural practice in the United Arab Emirates, where he led and contributed to a range of mixed-use and urban design projects. His work focused on integrating sustainable principles, digital design methods and human-centred spatial strategies into contemporary architectural practice.

His research focuses on inclusive urban design, healthy building design, digital twins, computational and immersive workflows for smart and resilient cities. His main areas of interest include Digital Architecture and Computational Design Methods; Urban Resilience and Inclusive Public Space Design; Smart Technologies Applications in the Built Environment; Urban Design and Planning; Sustainable Urban Futures and Smart City Development; Co-Design and Participatory Planning Processes; and Human-Centred Design for Smart Homes and Healthy Buildings.

He has published extensively in Q1 international journals, alongside book chapters with Springer Nature and peer-reviewed conference papers presented at HCI International and other international venues. His long-term goal is to advance interdisciplinary research connecting digital technologies with socially responsible architectural design.

At Sheffield Hallam University, Dr Ehab teaches across architectural design and technology modules, integrating sustainable, inclusive and digital design principles within the design studio. His teaching philosophy emphasises experiential learning, preparing students to address the environmental, social and technological challenges shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Dr Ehab is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), a Member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and an Affiliate Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He is also an active reviewer for ScienceDirect journals, including Sustainable Cities and Society and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

He welcomes PhD students and collaborators interested in digital and sustainable design, immersive environments and inclusive urbanism, and is open to partnerships that bridge academia, practice and emerging technologies.

I teach and research in plant molecular biology. This is based on PhD and postdoctoral research totalling 11 years in the UK and Canada before arriving at Sheffield Hallam University. Since 2006 I have continued research as principal investigator of a research group. My research experience is applied to teaching to deliver plant biology modules that promote active learning and develop research skills.

My fascination with plant biology started during my undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, and continued to develop via PhD research at the University of Calgary (Canada). A further six years of postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester allowed me to advance my research skills and to tackle fundamental questions about how proteins are organised within cells.

I teach physiology content across a number of the department's undergraduate bioscience courses as well as lead modules on our degree apprenticeships in cardiovascular and respiratory sleep science. I am also one of the admissions tutors for the Department of Bioscience and Chemistry. I have an active research portfolio which centres around micro-computed tomography and lead our micro-CT facility with the Biomolecular Science Research Centre.

Dr Nicola Aberdein obtained a BSc with honours in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Dundee before completing her Ph.D. at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh whilst researching the effects of short chain fatty acids on adipose tissue metabolism and function. Dr Aberdein most recently spent time in the United States as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Mississippi Medical Center where she took an integrative approach to physiology investigating leptin's major actions in the central nervous system in response to diet induced obesity.

Dr Aberdein lectures on the topics of physiology and anatomy to undergraduate students, she also teaches on her research topic of leptin signalling, obesity and bone physiology. Dr Aberdein leads three modules as part of the Healthcare Science Degree Apprenticeship for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sleep Scientists and also supports the development of student professional portfolios.

PhD in Forensic Accounting exploring the fundamental forensic accounting skillsets and mindsets required to enhance audit quality in the UK and explored how this integrated “mindset–skillset” framework can be embedded within accounting and auditing education and professional training.

Dr Alim Abubakre is on the advisory board of the London Business School Africa Club and is the non-executive chair of These Executive Minds. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Business at Sheffield Business School.

His research is around Responsibility for the Environment, Society and Governance, focusing on three primary contexts: oil and gas, ethical finance and manufacturing. In addition, conceptually, he is interested in Stakeholder theory, Impression management, environmental, social performance and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility. He has recently published a transdisciplinary paper with other international collaborators in an ABS3 journal ( International Public Management Journal). The title of this paper is Modeling the barriers to multistakeholder collaboration for COVID-19 pandemic response: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Alim Abubakre has been invited to present his research at conferences organised by the British Academy of Management and the Academy of Management. His pedagogy is informed by his research. He is an external doctoral examiner at UNICAF. In addition, Dr Alim has served as an expert on Doctoral Progress Review Panels at Coventry University. Dr Alim Abubakre has also been a reviewer for the award-winning book Open Strategy: Mastering Disturbances Outside General Management. Alim is happy to supervise PhD candidates.

Dr Alim Abubakre had worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and Nottingham Business School before joining Coventry University as a full-time academic. He is a Senior Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (HEA). Alim is also a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs and a Certified Management & Business Educator. He has supervised over forty postgraduate students and over fifty undergraduate students to completion. He has served as Associate Director of MA Leadership and Management course, during which the course was successfully reviewed, partnership with Cadbury was forged, culminating in a field trip and confab on BREXIT, and the opportunity was conceived. He mentors early career academics or highly experienced practitioners new to Academia and sits on PhD progression boards.

Alim is a former entrepreneur interested in research, international project management, consulting, stakeholder engagement and executive education. In the past twelve years, Dr Alim Abubakre has worked with many of the world's top business schools and multinational corporations to create executive development programmes. Under Alim's leadership, the company he founded, Texem has trained over 4000 African, European and Asian senior executives, including CEOs, Chairs of Boards, Government Ministers, and Vice-Chancellors, on different management themes that help organisations achieve their goals. Specifically, in partnership with institutions such as the University of Oxford, Henley Business School, Aston Business School and Manchester Business School, Alim has developed academic curricula for executive development programmes.

While working on World Bank projects, Alim was instrumental in accessing and implementing many successful projects with management issues before his involvement. Alim also worked as part of the project management team that delivered a Public-Private Partnership infrastructure project valued at £3 billion; this was the largest public-private partnership project undertaken in West Africa as of 2007.

He has designed and co-delivered programmes for Private sector organisations such as Airtel, UBA, Ecobank, Seplat, Masters Energy, Energia, Unilever, Fidelity Bank, Ag Leventis, GTBank, First Bank and Leadway Assurance. Government (Ministers, MPs, Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries, and Directors). He has also worked with multinational organisations such as Directors at Unilever, EY, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Manchester United, Bentley, CSRwire, Jaguar Land Rover, Cadbury, Manpower, and Microsoft.

Dr Alim Abubakre is on the advisory board of the London Business School Africa Club and is the non-executive chair of These Executive Minds. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Business at Sheffield Business School.

His research is around Environment, Social and Governance, focusing on three primary contexts: oil and gas, ethical finance and manufacturing (e.g. cement industry). In addition, conceptually, he is interested in Stakeholder theory, Impression management, environmental, social performance and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility. He has recently published a transdisciplinary paper with other international collaborators in an ABS3 journal (International Public Management Journal). The title of this paper is Modeling the barriers to multistakeholder collaboration for COVID-19 pandemic response: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Alim Abubakre has been invited to present his research at conferences organised by the British Academy of Management and the Academy of Management. He is an external doctoral examiner at UNICAF. In addition, Dr Alim has served as an expert on Doctoral Progress Review Panels at Coventry University. Dr Alim Abubakre has also been a reviewer for the award-winning book Open Strategy: Mastering Disturbances Outside General Management.

Dr Alim Abubakre had worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and Nottingham Business School before joining Coventry University as a full-time academic. He is a Senior Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (HEA). Alim is also a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs and a Certified Management & Business Educator.

Alim is a former entrepreneur interested in research, international project management, consulting, stakeholder engagement, connecting Africa and executive education. In the past twelve years, Dr Alim Abubakre has worked with many of the world's top business schools and multinational corporations to create executive development programmes for African executives. Under Alim's leadership, Texem has trained over four thousand African, Europe and Asian senior executives, including CEOs, Chairs of Boards, Government Ministers, and Vice-Chancellors, on different management themes that help organisations achieve their goals[4]. In addition, in partnership with institutions such as the University of Oxford, Henley Business School, Aston Business School[5] and Manchester Business School[6], Alim has developed academic curricula for executive development programmes[7]. His achievements have included 60-70% repeat participation in executive development programmes based on the quality of educational programmes and the experience of participants[8].

While working on World Bank projects, Alim was instrumental in accessing and implementing many successful projects with project management issues before his involvement. Alim also worked as part of the project management team that delivered a Public-Private Partnership infrastructure project valued at £3 billion (after Purchasing Power Parity considerations); this was the largest public-private partnership project undertaken in West Africa as of 2007.

He has designed and co-delivered programmes for Private sector organisations such as Airtel, UBA, Ecobank, Seplat, Masters Energy, Energia, Unilever, Fidelity Bank, Ag Leventis, GTBank, First Bank and Union Assurance. Government (Ministers, MPs, Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries, and Directors). He has also worked with multinational organisations such as Directors at Unilever, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Manchester United, Bentley, CSRwire, Jaguar Land Rover, Cadbury, Manpower, and Microsoft. Alim was previously a board member of Cambridge to Africa and the Director of Strategy at a consulting firm in Cambridge, advising many Russell group institutions on their internationalisation strategies. He completed his PhD in CSR and Strategy at the University of Southampton.

I am Associate Professor in Education in the Sheffield Institute of Education and a Principal Fellow (PFHEA). My research focusses on mathematics education, teacher learning and doctoral researchers’ experience. Recent projects include mathematics education policy reviews for the Royal Society’s Mathematical Futures Programme, an ESRC-funded study of research mobilities, evaluations of teacher professional learning (DfE & MEI) and narrative studies of experiences of learning. I came into higher education after seventeen years’ experience teaching and leading secondary mathematics and six years as a professional development advisor. I am currently REF Units of Assessment coordinator for education.

My research interests include exploring the socio-cultural and individual factors influencing professional and adult learning, particularly in relation to mathematics teacher learning and to doctoral researchers’ experience. Research projects include a mathematics education policy review, an evaluation of the Further Mathematics Support programme and evaluations of national mathematics curriculum and professional development projects. Other projects include narrative studies of experiences of learning on the professional doctorate and analysis of policy and workplace factors influencing opportunities for engagement in mathematics professional learning.

Previously, I led postgraduate research in the Sheffield Institute of Education and led the Doctorate in Education (2015-2020).  Beyond Sheffield Hallam, I was Deputy Director of the Education, Childhood & Youth Pathway, ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership and coordinated the Doctorate in Education Directors' National Network.

I began my career as a secondary mathematics teacher in inner London, later supporting schools in developing mathematics teaching. Prior to moving to Sheffield Hallam, I volunteered in Ethiopia for two years with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), leading professional development programmes for teachers and teacher educators. Building on my early career as a mathematics teacher and teacher educator, I have contributed internationally to curriculum and teacher development projects: Mathematics in the Making (MiMa) and the Erasmus+ funded Project in Citizenship and Mathematics (PiCaM).

I currently hold the lecturer position within the Department of Engineering and Maths at Sheffield Hallam University, where I facilitate and support higher education learning. I specialize in teaching modules on civil engineering, railway engineering, and project management. I am passionate about bridging the gap between theory and practice for students' success. My research interests include transportation planning, materials analysis, and construction management.

I am currently a lecturer in the Department of Engineering and Maths at Sheffield Hallam University, where I am dedicated to facilitating and supporting higher education learning. With nearly eight years of university teaching experience before joining Sheffield Hallam, I have honed my skills in teaching modules on civil engineering, railway engineering, and project management.

I hold a PhD and MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering, an MBA specializing in Strategic Management, and a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering. I am also a Fellow of the Advance HE. 

My passion lies in bridging the gap between theory and practice, ensuring the success of my students by providing them with a comprehensive understanding of the complexities within engineering. My research interests are diverse and include transportation planning, materials analysis, construction management, pavement evaluation, traffic engineering and safety, rail infrastructure life cycle analysis, statistical modelling for road infrastructures and pavements, accident analysis and vehicle safety, traffic psychology, intelligent transportation systems, and construction methods and management.

Through my teaching and research, I strive to inspire and empower the next generation of engineers to achieve their full potential.

Dr Olatunji Adekoya is a distinguished scholar and Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (HRM) at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. As an accomplished educator, researcher, and academic leader, I bring over several years of experience in higher education, research, and consultancy. I serve as the Course Leader for the MSc Human Resources and Organisational Development programme at Sheffield Hallam University.

My academic credentials include a PhD in Management from the University of East London, an MBA from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, a Diploma in Business Analytics from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor's in Economics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. My diverse qualifications underpin my expertise in HRM, organisational behaviour, and business management, which I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. As a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), I continuously enhance my commitment to teaching excellence and fostering inclusive, experiential learning environments.

I have established myself as a leading research scholar. My robust research portfolio covers broad areas of management studies and human resource management, exploring critical issues such as work-life balance, employee wellbeing, workplace flexibility, workplace technologies, gender and workplace issues, green HRM, and employment relations. My works have been published in prestigious journals, including the British Journal of Management, Gender and Society, the International Journal of HRM and Information Technology & People, Gender, Work & Organisation, Personnel Review, etc. I have also co-edited seminal books exploring critical issues in international and local contexts, particularly drawing attention to issues in the Global South.

My leadership extends to doctoral supervision, where I mentor researchers investigating several related topics. I also serve as an external examiner for universities in the UK and abroad, ensuring rigorous academic standards in higher education. My teaching philosophy centres on fostering critical thinking, experiential learning, and inclusivity, preparing students to navigate and excel in complex global environments.

Beyond academia, I am a management consultant and trainer. I currently lead high-impact projects that deliver actionable insights that drive organisational resilience and sustainability and promote equality, equity, diversity and inclusion.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Digital Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University. I teach across software engineering, programming, enterprise systems, and DevOps at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Before joining academia, I spent over a decade in industry, most recently as Chief Technology Officer for a logistics and terminal operations company in Nigeria, where I led the design and delivery of enterprise software systems for the country’s largest general cargo terminal. This industry experience shapes my teaching and research, with a strong emphasis on real-world application, commercial awareness, and bridging the gap between academic knowledge and professional practice.

I am an Associate Head in  Sheffield Business School. In my role, I lead on academic operations across the Business School to flexibly deploy staff, ensure the effective management of resources, and leads on academic quality standards; all to optimise the diverse skills of fellow academics, and facilitate collaboration both within the division and across the Business School. In addition, I work with the central SHU team to ensure delivery of Sheffield Business School’s new suite of online courses. 

My teaching covers leadership, organisational culture and behaviour, reflective practice, facilities management, project management and property management. My PhD focused on Organisational Culture and Socialisation with a focus on FM ‘Cultural Fit’, outsourcing and cultural integration. This built upon my industry background and experience in both people and place prior to joining Sheffield Hallam University. I am interested in the effects culture, motivation, people and service have on organisations particularly in workplaces. I am also interested in multidisciplinary research as they create richer results and have the potential for wider influence and reach. A strong believer in applied research, I am mostly interested in the dual concepts of people and place.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Master of Science
• Bachelor's Degree

I completed a BSc. in International Law and Diplomacy and a MSc. in Forensic Criminology. I teach across the criminology and policing programme while collaborating with colleagues on social justice issues. I also have a strong enthusiasm for applied and interdisciplinary research. 

I joined Sheffield Hallam as an associate lecturer in 2018 and my interest centers around crime prevention, the criminal justice system, criminological theories, gang culture and violence. I am particularly interested in the conceptualisation and theorisation of crime and my doctoral thesis explores police accountability. I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Course Leader for the MSc Forensic Psychology; BPS Chartered Forensic Psychologist; HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist.

I am the Programme Director for the MSc Forensic Psychology, which has been running at SHU since 2017. I lead on three modules on this programme, Assessment and Formulation, Qualitative Research Methods, and Offender Treatment and Intervention, and I teach on other modules on this course, including Legal and Criminal Justice and Investigative Psychology. I also teach at undergraduate level on forensic psychology-related modules, and I supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. I am a British Psychological Society Chartered Forensic Psychologist, and a Health and Care Professions Council Registered Practitioner Psychologist. My previous work has included being a Prison Psychologist, and I am carry out consultancy work for criminal justice agencies, for example relating to the risk assessment of offenders. Mr research interests lie in risk assessment and rehabilitation of offenders, in particular individuals who commit online sexual offences. I have also been involved in research around policing of football and the experiences of fans and police in this context.

I have a wealth of experience managing academic units at senior level, including developing and implementing strategies; and managing large and complex academic projects. As Head of Academic Planning and Delivery for Sheffield Business School, I work closely with the Business School Director to provide strategic leadership, planning and resource management for the Business School, including portfolio and portfolio performance management, staffing and resourcing, and accreditations.

Prior to joining academia, I worked as a senior manager in the food industry ecosystem, working closely with food manufacturers and retailers on food quality and regulations.

My research interests span student experience and outcome, sensory evaluation of food, and attitudes towards food and nutrition.

I am a Chartered Scientist, a Registered Sensory Scientist and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I mostly teach Mechanical Engineering themed subjects such as applied mechanics, dynamics and control systems. Previously, I worked in the oil and gas industry as field engineer on design and delivery of well testing and perforation (TCP) solutions and later in oil well cementing. One of my proudest moments still is developing and successful deployment of a multizone perforation approach which is still used in the industry. I obtained an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leeds and a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

I Joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2021 and I am currently Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. My research is focussed on the design, modelling and control of dynamic and autonomous systems such as UAVs and ground vehicles. This follows on from work which I did during my PhD at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). I am also interested in applications of renewable energy systems and experimental stress analysis. I am a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). I am course leader for the MEng/BEng (Hon) Mechanical Engineering Courses at Hallam. I thoroughly enjoy leading a transformative engineering programme where individuals are inspired, supported and challenged in their development as professional engineers ready to take on and solve contemporary engineering problems.

Senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. I am interested in learning more about how young children acquire complex cognitive systems, with an emphasis on how young children use grammar. Typical tools: 1) Gathering, transcription, and coding longitudinal datasets of real conversations between kids and adults, as well as conducting data analysis to test hypotheses regarding the frequency with which kids employ particular words and morphemes in useful ways (e.g., Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). 2) Organizing and conducting experiments, such as studies based on grammaticality judgements or the preferential looking method (e.g., Aguado-Orea et al., 2016). 3) Child speech elicitation using experimental settings, also to test what they already know (e.g., Aguado-Orea et al., 2019). 4) Online scales that adults can use to judge their own language skills (Joyce and Aguado-Orea, 2022). Co-author of a book for university students on The Psychology of Education. My main skills are data analyses (including Bayesian and mixed regression models) with R, Jamovi, and I also use Python for selecting random samples of speech.

I am a cancer biologist with 10-year experience in the field. I was appointed as Cancer and Cell Biology lecturer at the department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Sheffield Hallam University in 2021. I have more than 7-year experience in higher education; part of it was in United Arab Emirates, which gave me a wide experience in higher education and improved my inclusive practice in teaching. Additionally, I am a fellow in higher education, UK. Alongside my teaching, my research focuses on studying cell signalling in cancer and finding the link between the metabolic diseases and cancer.

After completing my medical degree, I pursued a career path in research and academia. I obtained my PhD degree from University of Leicester, UK. I was then appointed as research associate at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. I joined University of Sharjah, UAE, as assistant professor of Biochemistry. I taught medical biochemistry and cancer biology. I organised “We speak Science” event to foster the staff research collaboration and founded “The Researchers Club” for early career researchers. Beside these, I was awarded two targeted grants from the University and one grant from Al Jalila foundation, Dubai, UAE. 

To keep my networks active, I am a member in different international and national bodies. I am ambassador for European association for cancer research, and a member in Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, Royal Society of Biology.

I am Ramjanul Ahsan, an International Business and Entrepreneurship Lecturer at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University.

Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Law and Justice.

Previously a Probation Officer and Senior Manager within Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service.

I'm part of the Community Justice Learning Team and I teach undergraduate criminology and on the Professional Qualification in Probation.  I joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2019 having previously worked as a probation practitioner and manager for 17 years. My research interests relate to desistance, probation practice and probation training. I'm currently involved in research with other members of the Law and Criminology Department  relating to professional curiosity, emotional labour and burnout within the context of probation practice. I'm also working towards the Professional Doctorate in Education. My research relates to pedagogical approaches to enhancing critically reflective practice in probation practitioners.

I am an historian of Black Europe and of Empire and I have written widely on the development of a Black community in Germany. My current research focus is on the Black experience of Nazi Germany and Black compensation claims made in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

I joined SHU in 2010 after having previously worked at the University of Liverpool. My research and teaching interests include the history of the Black Diaspora in Germany, European colonialism, and constructions of race in pre-1945 Europe. My first book project, Exclusion and inclusion: Gradations of whiteness and socio-economic engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914 (Lang, 2007) looked at constructions of race in the settler colony of German Southwest Africa. I have since published widely on Germany's first Black community including Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960 (with Eve Rosenhaft, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2015). My current research focuses on the Black experience of Nazi Germany as well as post-war compensation claims made by Black victims.

I have worked on a number of museum and memorialisation projects in Germany and I have developed my own travelling exhibition, Black Germany 1884-1945, which has been shown in the UK, Germany and Cameroon and used with a number of school groups.

I am an active contributor to the website Black Central Europe.

Research Interests

• African Diaspora in Germany/Europe
• German and European colonialism
• Constructions of race and conceptions of blackness and whiteness
• History of the Holocaust
• Modern German and European history

I am a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for AI and Robotics (CEAIR), Sheffield Hallam University. My work is primarily focused on the MSCA Horizon 2020-funded project, PERSEO-ESR9, which aims to enhance robot autonomy and cognitive functions through advanced neuromorphic technologies.

My research explores the use of event cameras and neuromorphic computing to estimate cognitive load, thereby improving real-time human-robot interactions. This work extensively involves pioneering applications of event cameras in contexts where minimizing power consumption is essential.

Throughout my PhD, I have developed expertise in working with state-of-the-art neuromorphic hardware such as SpiNNaker, Loihi, BrainScale, and Synsens, implementing practical applications like gesture classification. These projects underscore the potential of neuromorphic technologies in achieving high computational efficiency with low power usage.

Currently, I am leading a cutting-edge project focused on real-time cognitive load estimation using multiple parameters. Simultaneously, I am also working on integrating the ARI Robot with SpiNNaker neuromorphic hardware and event cameras, to push forward the capabilities of autonomous systems in speed and efficiency.

My research propels theoretical advancements in cognitive science and robotics and has significant practical implications for the design of intuitive and sustainable human-robot interfaces.