Professorial appointments
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 09:31:00 GMT
The University recently appointed a number of existing staff to the position of professor
Seven professors were appointed (in alphabetical order):
- Dr John Anchor – Business School
- Dr Rachel Armitage – School of Human and Health Sciences
- Dr Aaron Cassidy – School of Music, Humanities and Media
- Dr Wolfgang Faber - School of Computing and Engineering
- Dr Roy Fisher – School of Education and Professional Development
- Dr Jessica Malay – School of Music, Humanities and Media
- Dr Surya Monro – School of Human and Health Sciences
John Anchor is currently Head of Strategy, Marketing and Economics within the Business School and is Director of its Emerging Markets Research Group.
Professor Anchor has been appointed as Professor of International Strategy and his current research interests are strategic thinking and implementation in emerging markets, especially in Central Europe and the Middle East; political risk assessment in international businesses in emerging markets; and human capital theory as applied to Higher Education funding policy, in both developed and emerging markets. Recent co-authored articles include Student expectations of the financial returns to higher education in the Czech Republic and England: Evidence from business schools and The use of political risk assessment techniques in Jordanian multinational corporations.
Professor of Criminology Rachel Armitage has worked in community safety and criminology since 1998. In 2005, after posts as a Senior Consultant for crime reduction charity Nacro and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, she joined the University of Huddersfield’s Applied Criminology Centre. She is currently Associate Director of the Centre. Professor Armitage has published extensively on the subject of ‘designing out crime’, specifically the UK Secured by Design award scheme. Recent projects include a prestigious Home Office project to update the evidence base on the impact of residential design on crime. She has also worked with Abu Dhabi’s Urban Planning Council to develop planning guidance specific to crime prevention through environmental design. She is a Director of the UK Designing out Crime Association and a member of the National Designing out Crime Advisory Panel. Her first sole authored book, Crime Prevention through Housing Design: Policy and Practice, was published in 2013.
Aaron Cassidy, who is Research Co-ordinator for Music and Music Technology in the University’s School of Music, Humanities and Media, has been appointed Professor of Composition. Professor Cassidy’s work has been performed by leading contemporary music specialists at major festivals and venues around the world, including Donaueschingen, Ultraschall, Warsaw Autumn, Darmstadt, London’s Southbank Centre and New York’s Miller Theatre. Recordings of his work are available on a variety of labels, and his work has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and radio stations across Europe, the USA and Australia. He has received grants and commissions from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Council, and PRS for Music Foundation, amongst numerous others, and as an author his contributions include chapters in the New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century series and journals including Sonic Ideas and Contemporary Music Review. He is the co-editor Noise In And As Music, published in 2013 by Huddersfield University Press.
Vienna-born Wolfgang Faber joined the University in 2013 as a Reader at in the School of Computing and Engineering’s research group named PARK (Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge) and has recently been appointed as Professor of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are in the fields of artificial intelligence, databases, and theoretical computer science, in particular in knowledge representation and reasoning, logic, planning, agents, diagnosis, computational complexity and similar topics. A principal focus of his work has been logic programming, in particular a formalism known as answer set programming. Professor Faber was one of the main architects of the well-known answer set programming software system DLV. In the summer this year, Professor Faber and a team of his former students secured victory in the Answer Set Programming Modelling Competition at the inaugural FLoC Olympics, instituted by the Federated Logic Conference and taking place in Vienna.
Roy Fisher joined the University of Huddersfield’s School of Education and Professional Development in 1996. Newly-appointed Professor of Education, he is Head of the Department of Initial Teacher Education. He also manages quality assurance within his School and across its provision operated in collaboration with partner institutions. Roy is a member of SEPD’s Graduate Education Group and Teaching and Learning Committee, and the University’s Standing Committee on Collaborative Provision, and Quality and Standards Advisory Group. He was founding chair, then co-chair, of The Yorkshire and Humberside Learning and Skills Research Network from 1998 to 2008. Roy sits on the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers Management Forum and the editorial board of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Recent co-authored papers include State intervention and vocational teacher education in Scotland and England 1999 - 2012 and Liberal conservatism, vocationalism and further education in England. His publications have encompassed, inter alia, autodidactism, subject specialist pedagogy, and representations of education in popular culture.
Before joining the University of Huddersfield’s School of Music, Humanities and Media, Jessica Malay – now Professor – taught Renaissance literature, a subject on which she completed her PhD. Her recent research activities have continued in this field and have included the role of principal investigator for a project entitled Anne Clifford’s Great Books: A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place, which received funding of £156,000 from The Leverhulme Trust. This project’s aim is to produce an edition of the Great Books of Record compiled by the 17th century noblewoman Anne Clifford and it developed from Professor Malay’s work on the relationship between social space and its representation in the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has investigated Anne Clifford’s historical and autobiographical writing as well as the material culture that she was so involved in producing. Professor Malay is also interested in literary history and in exploring the effects of culture on literary production. The author of numerous articles and chapters her most recent sole-authored book is The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England.
Surya Monro has been appointed Professor in the University of Huddersfield’s School of Human and Health Sciences, where she contributes to the work of the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences. She specialises in research on the citizenship and equality of gender and sexual minorities. A current project deals with the role of public officials in protecting LGBT people’s basic rights across the EU Member States. She is also actively engaged in the development of scholarship concerning bisexuality and transgender. Her first sole-authored book was Gender politics: Activism, citizenship and sexual diversity and she is co-author of Sexuality, Equality and Diversity and Contract or trust? The role of compacts in local governance. Professor Monro has contributed to a range of public debates, and on several occasions she has contributed to BBC national radio. Recent co-authored articles include Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Populations: The Role of English Local Government and Public Duty and Private Prejudice: Sexualities, Equalities and Local Government.
