Institutional Lead: Dr Patrycja Rozbicka

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Joint Deputy Director: Professor Ben Kotzee

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Institutional Lead: Dr Sally Ruane

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Institutional Lead: Dr Sally Horrocks

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Institutional Lead: Professor Darren Smith

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Joint Deputy Director: Professor Marek Korczynski

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Institutional Lead: Dr Nicholas Morton

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Director: Professor Jon Coaffee

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Director

Professor Jon Coaffee, University of Warwick

I joined the University of Warwick as Professor of Urban Geography in April 2013, and became Director of the Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership in May 2019. Prior to becoming Director, I have been Deputy Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress at Warwick (from September 2014).

I am an interdisciplinary scholar based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, with an interest in the interplay of physical, technical and socio-political aspects of urban security and resilience. This work has been supported by a significant number of UK Research Council grants and FP7 and H2020 EU funding linked to building resilience across socio-technical systems and working closely with a range of private and governmental stakeholders to ensure research has real world impact. This work has been published in multiple disciplinary areas and most notably includes a number of books: Terrorism, Risk and the City (Ashgate 2003), The Everyday Resilience of the City (Palgrave 2008), Terrorism, Risk and the Global City – towards urban resilience, (Ashgate 2009), Sustaining and Securing the Olympic City: reconfiguring London for 2012 and beyond (Ashgate, 2011), Urban Resilience: Planning for Risk, Crisis and Uncertainty (Palgrave 2016), the International Resilience Handbook (Routledge, 2016) and Futureproof (Yale University Press, 2019).

ESRC DTP Joint Deputy Director

Professor Ben Kotzee, University of Birmingham

I am a Reader in Philosophy of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, where I have been teaching since 2012. I studied philosophy and law in Stellenbosch, South Africa and researched for my PhD in philosophy at King’s College London. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town and a lectureship at Birkbeck, University of London, I moved to Birmingham. I joined the Midlands Graduate School as Deputy Director in 2021.

I research topics in applied epistemology and applied ethics as it pertains to education and also have research interests in professional education.

I am the editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education (published by SAGE).

ESRC DTP Joint Deputy Director

Professor Marek Korczynski, University of Nottingham

Since August 2019 I have been Director of the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Nottingham, and Joint Deputy Director of the Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

I am a sociologist of work, based in the Business School. My main research focuses are on the social relations of contemporary service work, social theory and work, and the relationship between music and work. My books include Songs of the Factory (Cornell University Press), Rhythms of Labour (Cambridge University Press, co-authored), Social Theory at Work (Oxford University Press, co-edited), and On the Front Line (Cornell University Press, co-authored). I am committed to engaging with people outside of universities. I have been interviewed about my research four times on BBC Radio 4, and have presented my research at numerous arts festivals and other public forums.

I have supervised seven PhD students to completion, and have been awarded a prize for teaching excellence at the University of Nottingham Business School. I also hold the title of Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University.

ESRC DTP Institutional Lead

Dr Patrycja Rozbicka, Aston University

I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, where I have been teaching since 2015. I studied politics, social sciences and European studies in Poland and the Netherlands, and I completed a PhD in Political Science at the European University Institute, Italy. Before coming to the UK, I held appointments at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and a visiting researcher post at the Institute of European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. I joined the Midlands Graduate School as the Area Studies Pathway Lead in 2021 and the Institutional Representative for Aston in October 2022.

My research agenda focuses on two main topics: participation of interest groups in the European and national policy-making and on the regulation of the live music industry in the UK and EU. I have been involved in successful international projects as INTEREURO, CIGs and BLMP.

ESRC DTP Institutional Lead

Dr Sally Horrocks, University of Leicester

I joined the University of Leicester in 1994 and have been institutional lead for the Midlands Graduate School since 2015. I served as Postgraduate Director in the School of History from 2012-2016.

I am an historian of 20th and 21st century Britain with a focus on science and technology and interests in gender, the media, oral history and moving image sources. Since 2011 I have been senior academic advisor to two National Life Stories oral history projects; An Oral History of British Science and An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK.

I have been involved in successful contributions to public history as part of the team behind the Voices of Science website and as advisor to the BBC’s World War One At Home project.

ESRC DTP Institutional Lead

Professor Darren Smith, Loughborough University

ESRC DTP Institutional Lead

Dr Sally Ruane, De Montfort University

I am a Reader in Social Policy at De Montfort University in Leicester where I have worked for many years following a first degree and PhD in Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University. I specialise in health policy and have a particular interest in health service reform such as the reorganisation of health services and use of public-private partnerships. A second research interest concerns the promotion of the study of taxation within social policy scholarship. I am co-author or co-editor of several books including Paying for the Welfare State in the 21^st Century (Policy Press) and Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation (Policy Press).

I co-lead the Social Policy Association endorsed Tax and Social Policy Group.

ESRC DTP Institutional Lead

Dr Nicholas Morton, Nottingham Trent University