Luca Sabini is a Senior Lecturer in Project Managent at University of Herforshire Business School. Previously, it has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Associate Researcher at Newcastle Business School, working on a research project on Sustainability and Project Management. His main research focus is on the study of dynamics of institutionalization of new practices, with particular focus on sustainability within the new occupations (such as Project Management). His broad research interests are related with business organization, Information Technology, Project Management, Sociology of Profession.

My research interests lie in the field of healt hand social care of minority ethnic communities.  I conducted a number of studies to examine the mental health needs of peopel from Chinese backgrounds in the UK.  I was involved in a study, funded by NIHR, to look at the expereince of social care of Chinese people with physical diosabilities.  Other research interests include working with interpeters in health and social care settings, and practice education in social work. 

I joined the department of philosophy as a Research Fellow in 2017. Prior to coming to Hertfordshire, I studied for my PhD at the University of Manchester, MA at King’s College London, and BA at Kingston University.

You can read my papers and publications at PhilPapers.

You can see my CV here.

My current research interests are primarily in two areas: the philosophy of religion and epistemology.

In the philosophy of religion I am particularly focussed on researching questions concerning the nature and value of faith. For instance, what role does faith play in our everyday lives? Does faith require belief or trust, or can faith be had without these attitudes? What kinds of experiences do people have who suffer a loss of, or crisis of faith? Can faith be rational even if we lack evidence? How does faith help us to achieve our long-term goals? Each of these questions is important for understanding faith in the lives of both religious and non-religious people. I also have general interests in religious epistemology, for instance, I am interested in how we can have religious knowledge, whether religious beliefs can be rational, and the role that testimony and trust occupies in the formation of religious beliefs. Finally, I also work on 'non-realist' approaches to religion: theories, like religious fictionalism, which maintain that people do not, or should not hold religious beliefs, but should engage in religious practice nonetheless, and whether religious identity even requires holding religious beliefs.

My main interests in epistemology generally concern concepts in social epistemology. For instance, I have written on the ways by which we share knowledge with each other through testimony, and what ethical problems can occur in the context of our testimonial practices. In this regard I have interests relating to epistemic injustice, and how the ethics of testimony bears on pragmatic and epistemic reasons for belief. I am also working to connect several of these concepts to issues in the social epistemology of religion.

My research interests centre on the factors affecting the accuracy, fairness, and usefulness of assessment processes in organisations, particularly the conceptualisation and measurement of job performance; and cross-cultural management. I have published and presented at international conferences in the area of bias in performance appraisals.

I graduated with a BEng (Hons) from Cardiff University in 2000 in Civil Engineering and obtained an MSc and PhD degrees in 2001 and 2004 respectively from Cardiff University working the microstructural properties of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites and more specifically those affecting workability and self-desiccation. I then moved to Greece and worked as trainee civil engineer in order to obtain my professional engineering licence. In 2005 joined University College London to undertake an MSc in Project and Enterprises Management and following the completion of the course I joined Cardiff University to perform research funded by Laing O’Rourke on the behaviour of precast slab elements under positive and negative bending.

In 2007 I joined University of Cyprus (UCY) as postdoctoral fellow on a €255,000 project investigating experimentally and analytically the fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete. In 2011, following the completion of the project at UCY, I took up a visiting lectureship in Frederick University Cyprus and in 2013 returned to the UK to join University of Cambridge as Research Associate. Between 2013 and 2016 I worked on Materials For Life consortium developing microcapsules, and other encapsulation techniques, for self-healing applications in cement-based composites. In October 2016, I joined Cambridge Graphene Center exploring the potential of using graphene in the manufacture and production of the next generation hybrid construction materials. Since July 2017, I joined the University of Hertfordshire as Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering with a focus on Advanced Construction Materials.

My CV

My Scopus profile

My Google Scholar profile

My ResearchGate

My ORCID profile

• 2D materials and Civil Infrastructure
• Nano-technology in cement-based composites
• Digital fabrication and 3D printing in construction
• Self-healing materials
• Self-sensing materials
• Early age cracking in cement-based materials
• Sustainable cements and concretes
• UHPFRCCs
• High durability concretes

• Civil Engineering Materials
• Concrete Technology
• Sustainability in Construction
• Design of concrete structures
• Fracture Mechanics

Reviewer For:

• Construction and Building Materials
• Smart Materials and Structures
• International Journal of Fracture
• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• ACI Structural Journal
• ACI Materials Journal
• ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
• ICE Structures and Buildings
• Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
• International Journal of Sustainable Energy
• Materials
• 6^th International RILEM Symposium on SCC – SCC 2010, Montreal
• 9^th International Symposium on High Performance Concrete – HPC 2011, Rotorua
• 7^th International RILEM Symposium on SCC – SCC 2013, Paris.

Invited Talks and Keynote Lectures

• “Self-healing construction materials: Learning from Nature”, Cambridge Science Centre – “Lifeworks” exhibition, October 2016
•  “Microencapsulation and bacterial healing for cement based composites”, The University of Hong Kong- People's Republic of China, 28/01/2015
• “Self-healing cement based composites using microencapsulation and bacteria” at “The Sino-UK Workshop on Self-Healing Materials”, Shenzhen - People's Republic of China, 23-25/01/2015
• Keynote lecture on “Mimicking nature: Developing concepts for self-healing construction materials” at Laing O’Rourke Graduate Conference Cambridge - UK, 09/12/2014
•  “Microencapsulation for self-healing of cement based composites” atGhent University - Belgium, 15-16/12/2014
• “Self-healing cement based composites using microcapsules”at “Repair Strategies for Civil Infrastructure” organised by CH2M Hill IDC, Swindon - UK, 05/12/2014
• “Development of self-healing construction materials”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge - UK, 24/10/2014
•  “Development of microcapsules for self-healing cement based composites” atTU Delft - Netherlands, 22-24/09/2014
•  “Self-healing materials for the hydrocarbon extraction industry” atTullow Oil Plc, London - UK, 16/04/2014
• Keynote lecture on “Learning from nature: Self-healing construction materials” at “Society of Petroleum Engineers Forum Series – Zonal Isolation to the Extreme”, Vilamoura - Portugal, 16-21/02/2014.

Critical care

Cancer

Palliative care/end of life care

PPI

I spent more than 25 years in public sector strategic communications before starting my PhD in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics in 2012.  I was awarded my doctorate in February 2017 for my thesis: Between media and politics: can government press officers hold the line in the ‘age of political spin’? The case of the UK since 1997.  I taught at the LSE summer schools (2016/2017) and at Brunel University (2016-17), running modules as part of the MA in Media and Public Relations, and I now lecture in Media Cultures to undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

My research focus is on public communication and the relationship between media and politics, and I position myself between three media studies areas: mediatization and media sociology; political and public communication; and public relations and promotional culture.  I worked at the BBC for 19 years as a TV and book publicist so have an enduring interest in British television.  My current research interests include the examination of  the recent history of UK government communication, and a thematic content analysis of the ITV daily live programme Loose Women.

Joe is a lecturer in Business Analytics at Hertfordshire Business School. He received his PhD in Management Science in 2016 from the University of Southampton, Southampton Business School. Prior to joining the University of Hertfordshire in November 2017, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Southampton, Faculty of Health Sciences. With a background in operational research, he undertook research projects and consultancy within a range of industries, among which are logistics, health care and glass production. His main research interests are approximation algorithms and metaheuristics for combinatorial optimisation problems including cutting and packing, scheduling, and network design.

• Metaheuristics
• Heuristics
• Cutting and Packing
• Scheduling
• Supply Chain Management

• 6BUS0273 Supply Chain Management
• 7BSP1011 International Supply Chain Management

• Consumption
• Masculinity
• Menswear
• Online Communities
• Subcultures

• Consumer Culture
• Cultural Studies
• Digital Cutlure
• Fashion Theory
• Media Studies
• Sociology of Popular Culture
• Sport & Society

Nathaniel Weiner is a lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the University of Herefordshire's School of Creative Arts.  He received his MA in Media & Communications from Goldsmith and is a PhD candidate in York University & Ryerson University’s joint PhD program in Communication and Culture, where he researched consumption and masculinity in online menswear communities.  His most recent research project looks at representations of canonical youth subcultures in fashion and popular culture.    Nathaniel has published in Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style, TheEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies, Men and Masculinities and Punk & Post-Punk.  

My research covers  psychoanalytic and film theory as well as Italian and French cinema and critical theory. I have published articles in journals such as Screen, French Studies, and the Journal for CulturalResearch. I am currently revisiting elements of my work on Afterwardsness in Film while also writing on the Italian experimental filmmaker Ugo Nespolo anbd working on end of life care and the media.

After a degree in Microbiology from King’s College London and MPhil from the Horticultural Research International/Univ. of Westminster in the molecular biology of Bacillus thuringiensis and the use of natural gene transfer systems, Jameel then worked in vaccine development for his PhD, where he also gained experience of working with ACDP category 3 pathogens, at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at Porton Down; this was part of the Public Health Laboratory Service, (now the Health Protection Agency).

He had two W.H.O. fellowships in the Immunology Unit, at the Dept. of Medical Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, continuing his work in vaccinology, applied to the human Schistosoma parasite. He then worked for one year as a Research Assistant at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (UCL-Middlesex branch), working in the lab of Prof. Mike Waterfield on PI3 kinase signalling. During his second period at LSHTM he discovered a new complement regulatory protein receptor in the Schistosoma parasite and went on with funding from the Sir Halley Stewart Trust to characterise this together with Prof. Bob Sim at the MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Univ. of Oxford.

From 2000, he continued for the next five years his research in complement regulation as a Senior Research Fellow, at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, in the Dept. of Biomedicine. With funding from the Research Foundations of Roche and Novartis and capital venture funding, his team, with help from Innogenetics NV in Belgium, developed  a synthetic peptide, able to therapeutically inhibit complement-mediated inflammation in vivo.

In 2005 Jameel returned to London, as a Senior Lecturer at London Met. Two years on he was made Professor of Immunology. In late 2007 he started his first experiments on microvesicles, from a preliminary interest in their ability to inhibit complement activation. In January 2009 he founded the Cellular and Molecular Immunology Research Centre, or CMIRC and is now a founding member of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles, on the editorial panel of the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, and Scientific Reports and has hosted ‘Microvesiculation and Disease,’ the second such meeting in the UK, in September 2012. Since 2010, Jameel has published 24 papers and one book chapter in this new field.

In December 2017 Jameel moved as the Professor of Biomedical Science to the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire to head the Biosciences Research Group. He has supervised 10 PhDs to completion and his main current funding comes from the IAPP project ’EVEStemInjury’ which is part of an EU consortium to use stem cell microvesicles to ameliorate acute kidney injury.

Dr Michael Moran is a Senior Lecturer of Management Leadership and Organisation at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire. He was awared a PhD from DCU Business School, Dublin City University in the area of hospitality management, employee voice, skill learning systems, work engagment and employee retention. He holds a Master's Degree in Strategic Management and Planning from Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin and a Commerce Degree (Hons) from National University of Ireland, Galway. He has previously held positions as part-time lecturer at both undergraduate and Master's level at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at National University of Ireland, Galway. Michael has considerable industry experience in in finance and hospitality management. He has published his work in peer-reviewed academic journals and presented at both national and international conferences.

Leanne is a Research Fellow in Intangible Cultural Heritage in the History Group. She is a historian of women, gender and the family, and her research interests include the family and its relationships, the life-cycle, religion (with an emphasis on Presbyterianism and Dissenting traditions) and migration. 

Leanne completed her Ph.D. at Queen's University, Belfast in 2015, entitled 'Love, Life and the Family in the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844'. Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on an AHRC-funded project entitled 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918', held jointly between Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast.

Leanne has published articles in Analecta Hibernica, Women's History Review and Journal of Family History. She is currently the co-Director of the Perceptions of Pregnancy Researchers' network with Jennifer Evans.

Leanne is interested in the following broad areas:

• The History of the Family and its Relationships
• The Household
• Religion and the Family, particularly the Presbyterian community
• Women's History
• Gender History
• Irish History
• Long Eighteenth-century, c. 1680-1850

Leanne's teaching specialisms include:

• The Family, Gender and Household in History
• Religion and the Family
• Social History

Leanne currently teaches on the following modules:

4HUM1104 The Fight for Rights: Freedom and Oppression, 1790s -1990s

5HUM1083 Nation and Identity: Newly Independent States in Interwar Europe, 1918-39

6HUM1153 How the Victorians Saw the World Abroad

I am a practicing artist who writes theory of art, focusing on the definition, role and value of art within society. Having spent 8 years working with anthropologists, and a few archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (2009-2017) and also at the Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden Netherlands), one of my areas of research interest is the benefits and pitfalls of inter-disciplinary practice, and specifically the misunderstandings that arise between anthropologists and artists when common vocabularies, methods and knowledge sets are assumed. My scholarly (meaning written academic) work describe the discipline of art, the type of knowledge that art produces, the role of art in democracy, and also the ethics of inter- and multi-disciplinary work with artists.

In addition to writing scholarly books and articles, I write fiction. Both my scholarly work, and my fiction have investigated art under neoliberalism, and the internalisation of neoliberal values. I have also written on how taxonomies effect knowledge-forming and understanding through the device of writing from the point of view a nineteenth century Fijian cannibal fork trying to understand the world of colonial encounters. Colonialism and the legacy of that period has been an area of interest for my art, curating and writing over a number of decades. That said, I am probably best known for writing on, and creating, socially-engaged participatory art.

Colonialism | Contemporary Art | Philosophy | Museums | Ethnography | Anthropology | Neoliberalism | Australia | Indigenous Cultures of Oceania | Ecology: the science and the politics

Nikolay Dimov is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Technology. Nikolay joined the Microengineering and Microfluidics Research Group to investigate Lab-on-Chip biodetection technologies. His research interests are in the development and implementation of miniaturised fluidic systems in combination with molecular biology and nanotechnologies, which are game changers for the future of drug discovery, testing and diagnostics.