ANNEX 1
STRATEGIC AREAS FOR APPOINTMENT
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCESchool / 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
Divinity /
- Christian Ethics & Practical Theology
- World Christianity
- Religious Studies
/ Professor S Jay Brown
Economics /
- Economic Theory
- Applied Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Development Economics
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
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
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).
/ Dr U Roth
Professor Alvin Jackson
Professor Ewen Cameron
Professor Alvin Jackson
Law /
- Law or Criminology/ Socio-Legal Studies
Literatures, Languages & Cultures /
- Medical Humanities: English Literature & Medicine (Departmentof English Literature)
Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences /
- Cognitive Science – Philosophy
- Cognitive Science – Psychology
- Cognitive Science – Linguistics &English Language
Social and Political Science / Subject Areas:
- Politics and International Relations
- Science, Innovation and Technology Studies
- Social Anthropology
- Social Policy
- Social Work
- Sociology
- 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
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
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
- Fundamental immunology
- Immune regulation of disease
- Host pathogen population biology
- 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
Centre for Neuroregeneration
- Neural development & repair mechanisms
- Neuronal cell death & survival
- Axonal and synaptic degeneration
- Pain, as a response to neural injury and degeneration
Centre for Integrative Physiology
- Genes and development
- Membrane biology
- Neural control systems
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
UoE-MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
- Modulation and regulation of inflammation
- Tissue remodelling and regeneration
- Imaging
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
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
- The niche in long-term germ cell function & tissue regeneration
- Scarless healing
- Developmental programming
The Roslin Institute /
- Conserving genetic diversity
- Control of animal diseases
- Developing new diagnostics
- Improvingfood quality &
() / 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
Chemistry /
- The Chemistry/Biology Interface
- Experimental and Theoretical Chemical Physics
- Molecular Synthesis
- Materials Chemistry
Engineering /
- Energy & Carbon Capture
- Bioengineering & HealthcareTechnology
- Optimisation & Control
- Synthetic Biology & theEngineering/Life Sciences interface
- Systems & Communications
- Smart & Sustainable Civil Infrastructure
GeoSciences /
- Global Change: through measurements, theory, andcomputational modelling
- Geography and the LivedEnvironment: people, society andthe environment
- Earth and Planetary Science:resources, natural hazards andenvironment
Informatics /
- Software Engineering: model–drivendevelopment, testing, verificationand security
- Computational Cognitive Science
- Systems: particularly operating systems and multicoreNetworks
- Data Intensive Research
- Modelling & Simulation
/ Professor David Robertson
Mathematics /
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Operational Research
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