Research interests: urban development and governance in the global South, including the links between urban, food, and health systems.

Research interests: the international governance of sustainable development; the use of science and data in international policymaking. 

Prof Sarah Ayres, School for Policy Studies 

Research interests: the governance of place, space and territory; devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and international context; exploring the role of partnership working and network management in the governance of territory. 

 

Research interests: international business management, economic geography and migration studies. 

 

Caroline Bird, University of Bristol Law School 

Research interests: environmental sustainability, and more specifically, community action, energy and climate change and sustainable environments. 

 

Research interests: educational futures, digital cultures, university futures, engaged and co-produced research.

 

Research interests: nationalism, ethnicity, racism and migration. 

 

Prof Richard Harris, School of Geographical Sciences 

Research interests: geographies of education and learning, the application of spatial statistics and geodemographics in marketing, public policy and urban geography. 

 

Dr Anne Haase, School for Policy Studies 

Research interests: individual and family-based theoretical interventions to lifestyle behaviour change.

 

Dr Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol Business School 

Research interests: Urban Economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy and Economic History; spatial disparities in the distribution of human capital, innovative activities and entrepreneurship that explain differences in regional economic development.

 

Research interests: housing, regeneration, land ownership, community-led solutions and alternative economic thinking

 

Dr Liz Holcombe, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 

Research interests: dynamic slope hydrology and stability modelling with a particular focus on urban landslide risk management in the Humid Tropics; engaged by The World Bank as Consultant Landslide Risk Management Specialist. 

 

Research interests: cross-national comparative research on Housing Assets and Intergenerational Dynamics in East Asian Societies, which is an ESRC funded project.

 

 

Prof Patricia Kennett, School for Policy Studies 

Research interests: governance and social policy, cities and citizenship; Co-Editor of the ISI ranked International Journal of Social Policy.

 

Prof Antonia Layard, University of Bristol Law School 

Research interests: how law, legality and maps construct space, place and ‘the local’; property, planning and environmental law.

 

Dr Su Lin Lewis, School of Humanities 

Research interests: global and transnational history in the twentieth century.

 

Dr Helen Manchester, School of Education 

Research interests: participatory, co-produced research with community and voluntary organisations and cultural institutions; space, place and future cities. 

 

Prof David Manley, School of Geographical Sciences 

Research interests: trying to better understand how the places in which individuals live interact with the outcomes that they experience over their life course. 

 

Research interests: housing policy and the housing system, also touching on complexity and systems thinking, urban technologies, infrastructure and place-based leadership. 

 

Prof Morag McDermont, University of Bristol Law School 

Research interests: Housing Law and Policy and Social Theory. 

 

Research interests: access to urban water services in comparative perspective, the rise of the regulatory state in the developing world, sub-national and local dimensions of climate change policy in developing countries. 

 

Dr Colin Nolden, University of Bristol Law School 

Research interests: energy and climate service business models; energy and climate policy; sustainability. 

 

Research interests: molecular and isotopic proxies for biogeochemical processes in modern and ancient sediments.

Dr Caitlin Robinson, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: the causes and consequences of different forms of spatial inequality, with a particular interest in energy, climate, and cities.

Dr Eric Saboya, School of Chemistry /School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: evaluating and attributing regional-scale emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances; Bayesian methods for developing atmospheric inversion models; evaluating sources of methane emissions in London using carbon-13 & carbon-14 tracer measurements with an atmospheric model. 

 

Dr Richard Sheldon, School of Humanities 

Research interests: British history from 1700 to 1860, especially the history of radicalism and protest movements and the comparative study of famines and famine relief c.1700 to the present.

 

Research interests: vaccination perceptions and uptake; participation, informal urbanisation, social cohesion and place-making in the context of urban disadvantage.

 

Prof Helen Simpson, School of Economics 

Research interests: empirical analysis of firm location decisions, productivity, innovation and the effects of foreign direct investment; Applied Microeconomics and Industrial Economics. 

 

Dr Robert Skinner, School of Humanities 

Research interests: the social and political history of South Africa, and more specifically the relations between South Africa and the rest of the world over the course of the past century. 

 

Dr David Sweeting, School for Policy Studies 

Research interests: local and urban governance studies. 

 

Research interests: empirical industrial organisation; behavioural economics; digital economics (in particular the sharing economy and online platforms).

 

Dr Rui Zhu, School of Geographical Sciences
Research interests: spatial (urban) data science; AI; data interoperability; smart city; social sensing.