BSS Staff

Dr Amarjit Lahel, Honorary Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations

Holly Snaith, Honorary Research Fellow

Professor Anne Stevens, Emeritus Professor of European Studies

Professor Michael Sutton, Emeritus Professor of Modern History and International Relations

Professor William Paterson, Honorary Professor of German and European Politics

Sociology and Policy

Dr Céline Benoit, Senior Teaching Fellow in Sociology

Dr Emily Christopher, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy

Dr Gary Fooks, Reader in Sociology

Dr Alina Geampana, Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Charlotte Godziewski, Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Dr Graeme Hayes, Head of Sociology and Policy Department, Reader in Political Sociology

Dr Susan Jones, Teaching Associate in Sociology

Dr Pamela Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Gaja Maestri, Lecturer in Sociology

Catherine Mcnie, Project Manager for CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future)

Dr Tom Mills, Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Professor Phil Mizen, Professor of Sociology and Policy

Dr Killian Mullan, Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Sarah-Jane Page, Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Alexis Paton, Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Katy Pilcher, Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Anton Popov, Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Dr Elisabeth Schimpfössl, Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Ebru Soytemel, Lecturer in Sociology

Dr Eleni Stamou, Research Fellow

Dr Katherine Tonkiss, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Policy

Honorary and Emeritus Staff

Professor Anneliese Dodds, Honorary Professor in Public Policy

College Office

Andrew Wilson (Director of Operations - College of Business and Social Sciences)
+44(0)121 204 3271 - a.r.wilson@aston.ac.uk

Joanne Duggan (Accreditation Lead)
+44(0)121 204 3217 - j.duggan1@aston.ac.uk

Susan Lord (PA to Executive Dean of College of Business and Social Sciences)
s.lord@aston.ac.uk

Angie Daniels (PA to Head of Aston Business School, Director of Operations And Associate Deans for the College of Business and Social Sciences)
+44(0)121 204 3562 - a.daniels3@aston.ac.uk

Stephen Belt (HR Advisor)
+44(0)121 204 4306 - s.belt@aston.ac.uk

Steven Jones (ABS Finance Partner)
+44(0)121 204 4348 - S.JONES8@aston.ac.uk

Jenifer Knight (School Support Co-ordinator - Operations and Information Management)
+44(0)121 204 5033 - j.knight3@aston.ac.uk

Lynne Woolley (School Support Co-ordinator - Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship)
+44(0)121 204 3038 - l.woolley@aston.ac.uk

Ravinder Kalsi (School Support Coordinator - Work and Organisation)
+44(0)121 204 3145 - r.k.kalsi@aston.ac.uk

Darshan Kitare (School Support Co-ordinator - Marketing and Strategy)
+44(0)121 204 3259 - d.k.kitare@aston.ac.uk

Linda Watts (School Support Co-ordinator - Accounting)
+44(0)121 204 4009 - l.watts1@aston.ac.uk

Ghyslaine Feunteun-Wicker (School Support Co-ordinator - Law)
+44(0)121 204 4603 - G.FEUNTEUN-WICKER@aston.ac.uk

Judith Moyle (School Support Co-ordinator - Law)
+44(0)121 204 5488 - j.moyle@aston.ac.uk

Programme Office

Programme Managers

Lindsey Allsopp (Programme Manager - PG/NS)
+44(0)121 204 3016 - l.a.allsopp@aston.ac.uk

Emma Szurminski (Programme Manager - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3157 - e.l.szurminski@aston.ac.uk

Hayley Jones (Programme Manager - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3235 - h.jones1@aston.ac.uk

Adam O’Reilly (Programme Support Assistant)
+44(0)121 204 3920 - oreilla1@aston.ac.uk

Quality

Jenny Holt (Quality Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3129 - j.e.holt@aston.ac.uk

Karen Penny (Quality Co-ordinator - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3988 - k.penny@aston.ac.uk

Zhenya Parnell (Quality Co-ordinator - PG/NS)
+44(0)121 204 5253 - z.parnell@aston.ac.uk

Timetabling & Planning

Rebecca Daly-Spiers (Planning & Timetabling Lead)
+44(0)121 204 3015 - r.daly-spiers@aston.ac.uk

Mingquing Jia (Planning and Timetabling Lead)
+44(0)121 204 3758 - jiam@aston.ac.uk

Placements

John Kenny (International & Student Development Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3962 - j.kenny@aston.ac.uk

Shereen Awan (Employability Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3360 - s.f.awan@aston.ac.uk

Examinations and Assessment

Christopher Booth (Examinations & Assessment Lead - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3199 - c.booth2@aston.ac.uk

Nicola Jones (Examinations & Assessment Lead - PG)
+44(0)121 204 3333 - n.s.l.jones@aston.ac.uk

Kelly Parkes (Support to Christopher Booth - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3770 - k.parkes1@aston.ac.uk

Georgia Kissun (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3688 - g.kissun@aston.ac.uk

Jaina Mistry (maternity as of Jan 2020) (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3423 – j.mistry15@aston.ac.uk

Patrick Coughlan (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3902 - j.smith19@aston.ac.uk

Charis Ashby (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)

Stephen Bailey (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3677- s.bailey3@aston.ac.uk

Jagdey Sarai (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)

Marie Oatley (Maternity Leave) (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3403 - m.oatley@aston.ac.uk

Maureen Creighton (Examinations & Assessment Assistant)
+44(0)121 204 3070 - m.creighton@aston.ac.uk

Wendy Mah (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 4896 - w.mah@aston.ac.uk

Phillippa Treharne Jones (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3827 - p.treharne-jones@aston.ac.uk

Ann Kite (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 4709 - a.kite@aston.ac.uk

Melissa Johnson (Examinations & Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3118 - m.johnson4@aston.ac.uk

Student Support and Development

Elsa Zenatti-Daniels (Student Development Lead - PG)
+44(0)121 204 3279 - e.f.zenatti@aston.ac.uk

Oliver Mihailovic (Student Support Lead - PG)
+44(0)121 204 3175 - o.mihailovic@aston.ac.uk

Hazel Awty (secondment) (Student Support Lead - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3159 - h.awty@aston.ac.uk

Bianca Matthews (Student Support Co-Ordinator - PG)
+44(0)121 204 3175 - t-matthewb@aston.ac.uk

Montana Davies-Shuck (Student Support Co-ordinator - PG)
m.davies-shuck7@aston.ac.uk

Kiran Gill (Student Support Co-ordinator - PG)
+44(0)121 204 3903 - k.gill14@aston.ac.uk

Nicole Ryan (Student Support Co-ordinator - UG/PG)
+44(0)121 204 3772

Margarita Seresht (Student Support Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3760 - m.seresht@aston.ac.uk

Sonia Devi (Student Support Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 4368 - s.devi3@aston.ac.uk

Dominic Vernon (Student Support Co-ordinator - LfA)
+44(0)121 204 5243 - d.vernon1@aston.ac.uk

Fatima Mursal (Student Support Co-ordinator - UG)
+44(0)121 204 4247 - f.mursal1@aston.ac.uk

Andrew Miller (Student Support Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 3617 - a.miller3@aston.ac.uk

Amy Jayne Terry (Student Support Co-ordinator - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3731 - a.terry@aston.ac.uk

Rebecca Pell (Student Support Co-ordinator - UG)
+44(0)121 204 3123 - r.pell@aston.ac.uk

Non-Standard Programmes

Melvina Neale - (Student Support Lead; MBA, Aston Online and Non-standard Programmes)
+44(0)121 204 3256 - m.neale@aston.ac.uk

Amy Hart (MBA Student Support Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3701 - a.hart@aston.ac.uk

Michelle Young (MBA Student Support Officer)
+44(0)121 204 4421 - m.young3@aston.ac.uk

Katie Sheldon (MBA Student Support Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3717 - k.sheldon@aston.ac.uk

Jenny Thompson (MBA Student Support Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3257 - j.l.thompson@aston.ac.uk

Jason Thompson (Degree Apprenticeship Support Officer)
+44(0)121 204 5466 - j.thompson6@aston.ac.uk

Aston On-line

Dave McCoy (secondment) (Student Support & Assessments Officer)
+44(0)121 204 3115 – d.mcoy@aston.ac.uk

Jamie Smith (Student Support & Assessments Officer
+44(0)121 204 5283 - j.smith19@aston.ac.uk

Katie Maloney (Student Support Co-ordinator)

E-Learning

Neil Cocklin (Senior Learning Technologist)
+44(0)121 204 4218 - n.b.cocklin@aston.ac.uk

Careers

Iwan Griffiths (Careers Adviser)
+44(0)121 204 4754 - i.griffiths@aston.ac.uk

Marketing, Recruitment and Alumni Relations

Paul Hebron (Head of Marketing - Aston Business School and Postgraduate)
+44(0)121 204 3222 p.hebron@aston.ac.uk

Sharon Shakespeare (Marketing Manager)
+44(0) 204 3927 s.shakespeare@aston.ac.uk

Sonya Bagley (Marketing Officer, Aston Business School)
s.bagley@aston.ac.uk

Gene Lock (Marketing Officer, School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
+44(0)121 4881 - g.lock@aston.ac.uk

Katharine Brenton (Marketing Assistant)
k.brenton@aston.ac.uk

Aisha Begum (Marketing Assistant)
+44(0)121 204 5024 - a.begum32@aston.ac.uk

Paula Eccles (Alumni Relations Manager)
+44(0)121 204 3216 - p.eccles@aston.ac.uk

Victoria Sheedy (Alumni and External Relations Officer)
+44(0)121 204 4785 - V.L.Sheedy@aston.ac.uk

Asad Syed (Alumni Relations Assistant)
+44(0)121 204 4098 - a.syed4@aston.ac.uk

Admissions

UG Admissions General Enquiries - +44(0)121 204 3030

PG Admissions General Enquiries - +44(0)121 204 3200

Reference requests - absugreferences@aston.ac.uk

Student Support enquiries including notification of staff absence - absugsupport@aston.ac.uk

Exams and Assessment enquiries - abs_assessment@aston.ac.uk

Admissions and Recruitment enquiries - absugentry@aston.ac.uk

Postgraduate Admissions enquiries - abspgenquiries@aston.ac.uk

International Relations

Dr Keith Schofield (Associate Dean International, Future Students and Product Development)
+44(0)121 204 4649 - k.schofield@aston.ac.uk

Selena Teeling (International Relations Manager)
+44(0)121 204 3253 - s.teeling@aston.ac.uk

BSS Research Office and Research Degrees Programme

Paul Jones (Senior Research Manager)
+44(0)121 204 4443 - p.jones5@aston.ac.uk

Dan Thomson (Research Manager)
+44(0)121 204 3972 - d.thomson1@aston.ac.uk

Maria Podsiadly (Conference & Events Manager)
+44(0)121 204 3368 - m.podsiadly@aston.ac.uk

Shrook Ahmed (Research Support Co-ordinator)
+44(0)121 204 4845 - s.ahmed59@aston.ac.uk

Research and Centres of Excellence

Advanced Services Group

Daniel Andrews (Research Fellow In Gamification)
+44 (0)121 204 3059 - d.andrews@aston.ac.uk

Timothey Baines (Professor)
+44 (0)121 204 3051 - t.baines@aston.ac.uk

Ali Bigdeli (Senior Lecturer)
+44 (0)121 204 3384 - a.bigdeli@aston.ac.uk

Patrick Keen

Sandra Starke (Business Development Manager)
+44 (0)121 204 4302 - s.starke@aston.ac.uk

Victoria Uren (Senior Lecturer)
+44 (0)121 204 3707 - v.uren@aston.ac.uk

Aston Centre for Europe (ACE)

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik

Aston Centre for Growth

Professor Mark Hart (Associate Director, Aston Centre for Growth and Deputy Director, Enterprise Research Centre)
+44(0)121 204 3048 - mark.hart@aston.ac.uk

Paula Whitehouse (Director, Aston Centre for Growth)
+44(0)121 204 3122 - p.a.whitehouse@aston.ac.uk

Kate Angel (Programme Manager, Aston Programme for Small Business Growth)
+44(0)121 204 4523 - k.angel@aston.ac.uk

Faye Oliver (Project Administrator, Aston Programme for Small Business Growth)
+44(0)121 204 3170 - f.oliver2@aston.ac.uk

Joanne Axinte (Programme Manager, Productivity through People)
+44(0)121 204 4485 - j.axinte@aston.ac.uk

Wray Bennett (Relationship Manager, Mentoring for Growth)
+44(0)121 204 5300 - w.bennett@aston.ac.uk

Ibrahim Abbas (Business Engagement Manager)
+44(0) 204 5010 - i.abbas1@aston.ac.uk

Chrisitan Byron (Birmingham Innovation)
+44(0) 204 4034 - c.byron@aston.ac.uk

Kamila Rafiqi (Centre Co-ordinator)
+44(0) 204 3378 - k.rafiqi@aston.ac.uk

Aston Indian Centre for Applied Research

Professor Pawan Budhwar

Professor Prasanta Dey

Dr Bimal Arora

Divya Jyoti (Administrator)

Dr Pavel Albores

Dr Vidu Badigannavar

Dr Srikanth Bellary

Professor Robert Berry

Dr Sudeshna Bhattacharya

Dr Amit Chattopadhyay

Dr Soumyadeb Chowdhary

Dr Philip Davies

Dr Neeru Malhotra

Dr Sudhakar Sagi

Dr Jim Scott

Mr Kirit Vaidya

Dr Daniel Wright

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL)

Dr Neus Alberich (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) n.alberich@aston.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Atkins (Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics) s.atkins@aston.ac.uk

Dr Nabanita Basu (Research Associate in Forensic Data Science) n.basu@aston.ac.uk

Dr Lucia Busso (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) l.busso@aston.ac.uk

Dr Emily Chiang (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) e.chiang2@aston.ac.uk

Professor Malcom Coulthard (Chair of Aston Institute of Forensic Linguistics Advisory Board)

Dr Felicity Deamer (Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics) f.deamer@aston.ac.uk

Professor Lauren Devine (Director of the Centre for Language and Law) l.devine@aston.ac.uk

Professor Tim Grant (Director of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics) t.d.grant@aston.ac.uk

Dr Leigh Harrington (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) l.harrington@aston.ac.uk

Dr Kate Haworth (Director of the Centre for Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts) k.haworth@aston.ac.uk

Dr Annie Heini (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) a.heini14@aston.ac.uk

Dr Krzysztof Kredens (Director of the Centre for Forensic Text Analysis) k.j.kredens@aston.ac.uk

Dr Nadia Makouar (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) n.makour@aston.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Mojedano Batel (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) a.mojedanobatel@aston.ac.uk

Dr Ralph Morton (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) r.morton2@aston.ac.uk

Dr Helen Newsome (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) h.newsome@aston.ac.uk

Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison (Director of the Forensic Speech Science Laboratory) g.s.morrison@aston.ac.uk

Dr Márton Petykó (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) m.petyko@aston.ac.uk

Dr Piotr Pezik (Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics) p.pezik@aston.ac.uk

John Pollard (Operations Manager) j.pollard2@aston.ac.uk

Dr Roberto Puch-Solis (Deputy Director of the Forensic Data Science Laboratory, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Data Science) r.puchsolis@aston.ac.uk

Dr Emma Richardson (Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics) e.richardson4@aston.ac.uk

Dr Tahmineh Tayebi (Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics) t.tayebi@aston.ac.uk

Dr Philip Weber (Research Fellow in Forensic Data Science) p.weber1@aston.ac.uk

Honorary and Adjunct Members

Mitchell Abrams (Visiting AIFL Researcher) 190205803@aston.ac.uk

Dr Ewald Enzinger (Senior Research Engineer, Eduworks Corporation)

Dr Isabel Picornell (Director, QED Forensic Linguistics Ltd) isabel@qedforensics.com

Professor Yaron Matras (Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester) yaron.matras@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Cuiling Zhang (School of Criminal Investigation, Southwest University of Political Science and Law)

John O'Shea (Legal Translation Practitioner) info@jurtrans.com

Dr Ria Perkins r.perkins@aston.ac.uk

Dr Claudia Rosas (Instituto de Lingüística y Literatura, Universidad Austral de Chile)

Dr Juliette Scott (Legal Translation Practitioner, Researcher & Consultant) juliette.scott@tiscali.co.uk

PhD Research Students

Holly Anderson - andersh1@aston.ac.uk

Juliane Ford - fordj1@aston.ac.uk

Liubov Green - greenl6@aston.ac.uk

Marlon Hurt - hurtm@aston.ac.uk

Fiona Kelcher - kelcherf@aston.ac.uk

Andrew Patrick Reczek - reczeka@aston.ac.uk

Alice Richardson - 149160490@aston.ac.uk

Lisa Rogers - rogersl1@aston.ac.uk

Natascha Rohde - 180176838@aston.ac.uk

Daniela Schneevogt - schneevd@aston.ac.uk

Madison Hunter - 190185697@aston.ac.uk

BSEEN

Carolyn Keenan (Project Manager, BSEEN)
+44(0)121 204 4452 - c.a.keenan@aston.ac.uk

Kath Preston (Enterprise Consultant, BSEEN)
+44(0)121 204 5202 - k.preston3@aston.ac.uk

Zhenya Parnell (Project Coordinator, BSEEN)
+44(0)121 204 5253 - z.parnell@aston.ac.uk

Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)

Gertrud K Reershemius

Kelly-Mae Saville

Ilaria Scaglia

Ebru Soytemel

Nicholas Theodorakopoulos

Katherine Tonkiss

Jonathan Tritter

Joseph Yannielli

A-GamE Centre

A-GamE (Aston Games in Education) was launched in November 2018 to share best practice in the use of games, experiments and simulations in teaching.

>Find out more here.

Centre for Innovation and Enterprise Development

Bejan Analoui (Teaching Fellow)
b.analoui@aston.ac.uk

Yasmin Ansari (MBA Careers Advisor)
+44 (0)121 204 3709 - y.ansari@aston.ac.uk

Ian Cornelius (Teaching Fellow)
+44(0) 204 3955 - I.cornelius@aston.ac.uk

Samantha Doidge (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
+44(0) 204 3147 – s.doidge@aston.ac.uk

Linda Ferguson (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
l.ferguson@aston.ac.uk

Simon Finley (Enterprise Coach Programme Director)
+44(0) 204 3269 - s.finley@aston.ac.uk

Paul Fleming (Teaching Associate)
p.fleming1@aston.ac.uk

Kerry Goodall (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
k.goodall@aston.ac.uk

David Grice (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
d.grice@aston.ac.uk

Amy Hart (Student Support Officer)
+44(0) 204 3701 – a.hart@aston.ac.uk

Rosy Jones (Associate Dean of Innovation, Digital and Enterprise Delivery)
r.jones21@aston.ac.uk

Celia Lawson-Pegg (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
c.lawson-pegg@aston.ac.uk

Wendy Mah (Examinations and Assessment Co-ordinator)
+44(0) 204 4896 - w.mah@aston.ac.uk

Jasvir Mahil (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
+44(0) 204 3964 - j.mahil@aston.ac.uk

David Mccoy (Online student support)
+44(0) 204 3115 – d.mccoy@aston.ac.uk

Melvina Neale (Student Support Lead)
+44(0) 204 3256 – m.neale@aston.ac.uk

Richard Orme (Teaching Fellow)
+44(0) 204 5116 - r.orme@aston.ac.uk

Lloyd Parsons (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
l.parsons1@aston.ac.uk

Aimee Postle (MBA Careers Consultant)
a.postle1@aston.ac.uk

Jason Purcell (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
j.purcell1@aston.ac.uk

Zowie Ready (Teaching Associate)
z.ready@aston.ac.uk

Frances Seabridge (Teaching Fellow)
+44(0) 204 4411 - f.seabridge@ston.ac.uk

Jordan Shaw (Business Enterprise Development Associate Coach)
j.shaw3@aston.ac.uk

Elizabeth Tappenden (Degree Apprenticeship Coach)
e.tappenden@aston.ac.uk

Jason Thompson (Degree Apprenticeship Support Officer)
+44(0) 204 5466 – j.thompson6@aston.ac.uk

Kirit Vaidya (MBA Director)
+44(0) 204 3263 – k.g.vaidya@aston.ac.uk

Elinor Vettriano (Team Entrepreneurship Coach)
e.vettriano@aston.ac.uk

Simon Willans (Director Engagement Operations)
+44(0) 204 3165 - s.willans@aston.ac.uk

Efua Wilson-Turco (Degree Apprenticeship Tutor)
e.wilson-turco@aston.ac.uk

Centre for Language Research at Aston (CLaRA)