Mentoring and Coaching

Martin Price

Associate Director, Regional Engagement (Community), Regional Strategy and Partnerships team

Martin leads on community engagement. This includes building relationships with our close neighbours around campus and working with local stakeholders where our students and staff make their homes, to make lasting, positive impacts on people and communities across Coventry and Warwickshire. Martin is a Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) Fellow and works with WIE to improve and promote public engagement across the University.

Dr James Hodkinson

Reader in German, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

James is a specialist in German culture from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular interests in Islam, religion and (post)secular modernity, Romanticism and its legacies, and in the growing field of sound studies, and was recently a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2024-25). He has also become a recognised practitioner, mentor, and leader in public engagement, engagement-led research methodologies, and 'impact' work. He was a Foundation and later Senior Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) and from September 2025 he is WIE's Public Engagement Lead in the Faculty of Arts.

Dr Rajnaara Chowdhury Akhtar

Associate professor, School of Law

Rajnaara serves as Director of Research Funding and Co-Lead for the Multicultural Scholars Programme. She is a distinguished socio-legal scholar specialising in family law, focusing on the complex intersections of family law, gender, children, and minoritised communities. Her empirical research is geographically extensive, covering the UK, Qatar, Australia, and South Africa, and involves interdisciplinary collaborations spanning law, sociology, anthropology, and theology. Rajnaara frequently translates her findings into policy influence. She has provided expert evidence to the Law Commission of England and Wales on weddings law reform and regularly presents research at practitioner forums and policy events involving government and other stakeholders.

Dr Christopher Strelluf

Reader in Applied Linguistics, Head of Applied Linguistics

Christopher specialises in sociophonetics, language variation and change, and dialectology. His work aims to see the bigger picture behind language use, challenging the common misconception that language is fixed or that certain forms are inherently right or wrong. Instead, Christopher highlights how language serves as a crucial reflection of individuals, social groups, beliefs, experiences, and prejudices. He actively applies linguistics to combat social prejudice and inequality, for example, through his collaboration with Cockney Cultures on the A Cockney Blueprint for Tower Hamlets.Link opens in a new window This blueprint provided scientific advice supporting the recognition of Cockney as a community language by Tower Hamlets Council in March 2023, aiming to resists discrimination against a language variety and its speakers. His academic career follows his experience as an officer in the US Army in Afghanistan, where he observed first-hand how linguistic perceptions, such as locals instinctively distrusting a broadcaster with a Kandahar accent, affected real-world communication.

Dr Abimbola Ayorinde

Associate Professor, Health Science, Warwick Medical School

Dr Anna Tranter

Associate Professor, Warwick Global Academy

Anna is an educator and participatory researcher at the University of Warwick, specialising in amplifying student voice and co-creating knowledge with international learners. Her doctoral research used listening rooms and walking intraviews to explore student transitions through a relational and participatory lens and she regularly teaches international educators on participatory action research methods. Anna has published widely on active learning, co-creation and gamification, including recent work in Educational Futures, InForm, and forthcoming chapters with the Active Learning Network. She brings a practical, empowering approach to mentoring colleagues who wish to design ethical, inclusive and student-centred participatory research.

Dr Mark Fabian

Reader of Public Policy, Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS)

Mark studies wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective with a particular focus on policy applications. As part of his research into how policymaking can be transformed to promote wellbeing, he has undertaken several studies involving coproduction and participatory governance. This includes projects with major UK charities like Turn2us, and the development of 'how to' guides for service user involvement. His academic work in published in top outlets including Journal of European Public Policy and Perspectives on Psychological Science. His A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Link opens in a new windowwas published by Oxford University Press in 2022, and his first book for a general readership Beyond Happy Link opens in a new windowwas published in 2025 by Bedford Square.

Ninna Makrinov

Assistant Professor, WMG

Prof Helen Wheatley

Professor of Film and Television Studies

Helen is the co-founder of the Centre for Television Histories and Academic Director of the Warwick Institute for EngagementLink opens in a new window. She works collaboratively with archives and curators to engage the public with the history of British broadcasting, and has twice been awarded the university’s prizes for impact/community engagement for this work. Her book, Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual PleasureLink opens in a new window (IB Tauris, 2016) won the BAFTSS Award for Monograph of the Year in 2017. She published the monograph Television/DeathLink opens in a new window (Edinburgh University Press) in 2024.