ANNEX 1

STRATEGIC AREAS FOR APPOINTMENT

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
School / Strategic Areas / Email address / Contact
The Business School /
  • Core Disciplines: Accounting, Business Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Management Science, Marketing and Strategy
  • Cross-cutting areas: Banking, business and climate change, credit risk, emerging markets, financial services management, innovation, public management, sustainability issues and technology-based entrepreneurship
/ / Elizabeth Andrews
Divinity /
  • Christian Ethics & Practical Theology
  • World Christianity
  • Religious Studies
/
/ Professor S Jay Brown
Economics /
  • Economic Theory
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Development Economics
/ / Dr Tatiana Kornienko
Edinburgh College of Art
(Architecture, Art,
Design, History of
Art, Music) /
  • Collections, Curating and Critique
  • Materials and Materiality
  • Designing with Data
  • Global Connections
  • Art, Design, Film and Narrative
  • Social Engagement and the Arts
/ / Professor Chris Breward
Education (Moray House) /
  • Institute for Education, Teaching & Leadership (teacher education, education leadership, language education, outdoor learning and sustainability education)
  • Institute for Education, Community & Society (community education and life-long learning, additional support for learning, childhood practice, child protection policy, technology-enhanced learning)
  • Institute for Sport, Physical Education & Health Sciences (physical education, physical activity for health, sport leisure and tourism policy, sport and exercise sciences)
/

/ Dr John Ravenscroft
Dr Rowena Arshad
Dr John Sproule
Health in Social Science /
  • Child & Adolescent Mental Health
  • Critical Care
  • Ageing & Dementia
  • Disability
/ / Linda Dick
History, Classics & Archaeology /
  • Classics (the classical languages& literatures, ancient philosophy,classical archaeology & ancienthistory)
  • History (historians with research specialisms in any medieval, early modern or modern area, e-learning, history and computing and Chinese history).
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/ Dr U Roth
Professor Alvin Jackson
Professor Ewen Cameron
Professor Alvin Jackson
Law /
  • Law or Criminology/ Socio-Legal Studies
/ / Professor Lesley McAra
Literatures, Languages & Cultures /
  • Medical Humanities: English Literature & Medicine (Departmentof English Literature)
/ / Dr James Loxley
Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences /
  • Cognitive Science – Philosophy
  • Cognitive Science – Psychology
  • Cognitive Science – Linguistics &English Language
/ / Debbie Moodie
Social and Political Science / Subject Areas:
  • Politics and International Relations
  • Science, Innovation and Technology Studies
  • Social Anthropology
  • Social Policy
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
Strategic Areas (in one or more of the Subject Areas):
  • British and/or Comparative PublicPolicy
  • Environmental Policy
  • Health Policy
  • International Development (including political economy andeconomics of Development)
  • International Relations(development/political economy,especially Latin America or EastAsia)
  • Justice and Human Rights
  • Sustainable Development(including the developing world)
  • Technology and Society
/ / Dr Neil Willett
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE
Institute / Strategic Areas / Email address / Contact
The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine / Cancer Research Centre
  • Drug discovery
  • Cancer genetics
  • Cancer biology
  • Clinical trials
  • Therapeutics
/ () / Professor M Frame
Molecular Medicine Centre
  • Medical genetics
  • Rheumatic diseases
  • Gastrointestinal diseases
  • Clinical genetics
/
() / Professor D Porteous
Population Health Sciences
  • Allergic and respiratory disease
  • Cardiovascular epidemiology
  • Ethnicity and health
  • Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases
  • Society and health, including families and relationships
/

() / Professor H Campbell
Professor S Cunningham-Burley
MRC Human Genetics Unit
  • Biomedical systems analysis
  • Chromosomes and gene expression
  • Medical and developmental genetics
/
() / Professor N Hastie
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases / Centre for Infectious Diseases
  • Infection and evolution
  • Disease epidemiology
  • Immune response
Institute of Immunology & Infection
  • Fundamental immunology
  • Immune regulation of disease
  • Host pathogen population biology
Division of Pathway Medicine
  • Immunity and metabolism
  • Neonatal health
  • Host protection pathways in acquired diseases
  • Genomics based host-pathogen detection
  • Application of genomics to neglected diseases
/
/ Professor R Maizels
Professor P Ghazal
Edinburgh Neuroscience / Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
  • Imaging
  • Neuropsychiatric genetics
  • Prion diseases
  • Regenerative neurology
  • Neuropathology
  • Clinical trials & research design
/
() / Professor S Chandran
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems
  • Behavioural neuroscience
  • Disconnected mind
  • Cognitive neuroimaging
  • Cerebral pharmacology
  • Neural health & cognitive ageing
/ () / Professor R G Morris
Centre for Neuroregeneration
  • Neural development & repair mechanisms
  • Neuronal cell death & survival
  • Axonal and synaptic degeneration
  • Pain, as a response to neural injury and degeneration
/ / Professor P Brophy
Centre for Integrative Physiology
  • Genes and development
  • Membrane biology
  • Neural control systems
/ () / Professor M Shipston
The Queen’s Medical Research Institute / UoE-BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science
  • Atherosclerosis & tissue ischaemia
  • Underlying processes, from early life development to neuroendocrine and steroid signalling, to tissue regeneration
  • Molecular and cell biology, to model organisms to clinical trials
/ () / Professor B Walker
UoE-MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
  • Modulation and regulation of inflammation
  • Tissue remodelling and regeneration
  • Imaging
/ () / Professor J Iredale
Centre for Regenerative Medicine
  • Properties of stem cells & their niches
  • Stem cell self-renewal & differentiation in vitro & in vivo
  • How to harness this knowledge to develop new therapies
/ / Professor C Ffrench-constant
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
  • The niche in long-term germ cell function & tissue regeneration
  • Scarless healing
  • Developmental programming
/ / Professor P Saunders
The Roslin Institute /
  • Conserving genetic diversity
  • Control of animal diseases
  • Developing new diagnostics
therapeutics for animals & humans
  • Improvingfood quality &
safety /
() / Professor D Hume
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
School / Strategic Areas / Email address / Contact
Biological Sciences /
  • Bioinformatics
  • Chemical, metabolic or evolutionarysystems biology
  • Immunology
  • Plant biotechnology /food security
  • Population ecology
  • Population genetics
  • Stem cell imaging or tissueregeneration
  • Stochastic biology / live cell imaging
  • Synthetic biology
/ / Professor David Leach
Chemistry /
  • The Chemistry/Biology Interface
  • Experimental and Theoretical Chemical Physics
  • Molecular Synthesis
  • Materials Chemistry
/ / Professor Eleanor Campbell
Engineering /
  • Energy & Carbon Capture
  • Bioengineering & HealthcareTechnology
  • Optimisation & Control
  • Synthetic Biology & theEngineering/Life Sciences interface
  • Systems & Communications
  • Smart & Sustainable Civil Infrastructure
/ / Professor Alan Murray
GeoSciences /
  • Global Change: through measurements, theory, andcomputational modelling
  • Geography and the LivedEnvironment: people, society andthe environment
  • Earth and Planetary Science:resources, natural hazards andenvironment
/ / Professor Sandy Tudhope
Informatics /
  • Software Engineering: model–drivendevelopment, testing, verificationand security
  • Computational Cognitive Science
  • Systems: particularly operating systems and multicoreNetworks
  • Data Intensive Research
  • Modelling & Simulation
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/ Professor David Robertson
Mathematics /
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Operational Research
/ / Professor Harry Braden
Physics & Astronomy /
  • Experimental particle physics at theLarge Hadron Collider
  • Collider physics (BSM, modelbuilding, Monte Carlo, perturbativeQCD)
  • Studies of strongly-correlatedelectron systems, quantum orderingand novel phases
  • Characterization and synthesis ofmaterials at extremely high pressure,from dynamic shock or static
  • Local-universe cosmology
  • Fundamental cosmology
/ / Professor Arthur Trew