WRDTP Welcome Event 2020

Chair

Professor Charlotte (Charlie) Burns is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International relations at the University of Sheffield. She is an EU expert who specialises on the European Parliament and environmental politics and policy. Her recent research focus has been upon  the impact of Brexit upon UK and EU environmental policy upon which she has given evidence to a range of legislatures and worked with external partners to promote independent expert advice and evidence. She is Co-Chair of the academic network Brexit and Environment.  Charlie is also Director of the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership and is passionately committed to delivering world class training and opportunities to post-graduate researchers.

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Dr Ana Manzano is an associate professor in public policy and director of postgraduate research studies in the School of Sociology & Social Policy (University of Leeds). She is a social scientist and methodologist interested in the relationship between research methods, evidence and policy making. Dr Manzano’s research involves applying a range of social research methods to evaluate applied complex interventions, programmes and policies, using qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.

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Hannah is a Research Fellow at SPERI and Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research focuses on food insecurity, emergency food systems and the role of public policy. Her work has been at the forefront of the emerging evidence base on the growth of food charity in the UK and comparative research across Europe.

Hannah’s research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Hannah’s work has an applied focus and her achievements in knowledge exchange and impact have been recognised by the ESRC with a first prize award for Early Career Impact at the ESRC’s Celebrating Impact awards (2014).

Hannah sits on the Food Standards Agency’s Advisory Committee for Social Science and on Child Poverty Action Group’s (CPAG) Policy Advisory Committee.

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Liz’s research is broadly focused on operational design and improvement in healthcare service supply chains with a specific interest in the pharmaceutical supply chain.  Her work aims to better understand healthcare systems so that they can be improved to ensure greater patient safety and optimal care. Liz is Deputy theme lead for the Safe Use of Medicines in the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and co-lead on the Process Evaluation stream of the NIHR funded ISCOMAT study (a National Institute for Health Research programme) focusing on patient safety/medicines transitions.  A strong strand of Liz’s research focuses on securing better access to medicines to support patient treatment and care. This is undertaken as part of the Medicines Optimisation Research Group. Recent activity has included working with pharma stakeholders to really understand factors affecting the supply of medicines to patients and how best to address this, analysing the impact of medicines shortages on Spanish pharmacists and participation in a NIHR funded study examining access to medicines at End of Life (The ActMed study).

Communicating for Impact Speaker

Katie Pruszynski is the Faculty of Social Science’s Research Communications and Marketing Manager. She works with academics from every department to raise the profile of the world-leading research undertaken within the Faculty.

Student Experience Speaker

Thesis: Survival through design: An examination of tiny housing as a unique and emerging sector within self-build projects

Student Experience Speaker

Thesis title: Heterogeneity in the development of Antisocial Behaviour