Our people
Find out more about the people who make up the Thomas Ashton Institute
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Neil Bourne
Professor in Extreme Environments
Co-Director of the Thomas Ashton Institute
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Andrew Curran
HSE, Chief Scientific Adviser and Director of Research
Co-Director of the Thomas Ashton Institute
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Darren Clement
Institute Operations Manager
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Vicky Turner
Institute Programme Manager
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Helen Kreissl
Institute Administrator
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Theme leads
Find out more about the people who lead each of our research themes:
Digitalisation and Complexity
- Clara Cheung, Lecturer in Project Management
- Helen Balmforth, HSE
Leadership, Work and Wellbeing
- Sharon Clarke, Professor of Organisational Psychology
- Ed Corbett, HSE
Reliability and Resilience
- Richard Kirkham, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
- Matt Clay, HSE
Safer Infrastructures
- Simon Thurlbeck, Visiting Professor
- David Glass, HSE
Social change and Inequalities
- Sheena Johnson, Senior Lecturer Occupational Psychology
- Helen Beers, HSE
Work and Health
- Martie van Tongeren, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health
- David Fishwick, HSE
Discovering Safety
Academic Leads
- Sophia Ananiadou - Professor in Computer Science, director of The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
Principal Investigator for AI capabilities to extract health and safety insights - Otto jan Bakker - Lecturer in Mechanical Design
Co-Investigator in Industry 4.0 - implications for health and safety - Paulo Bartolo - Professor in Advanced Manufacturing
Principal Investigator for Industry 4.0 - implications for health and safety - Clara Cheung - Lecturer in Project Management
Principal Investigator for leading indicators of health and safety failures and Co-Investigator for construction risk register - William Collinge - Lecturer in Project Management
Principal Investigator for construction risk register - Obuks Ejohwomu - Lecturer in Project Management
Co-Investigator for leading indicators of health and safety failures and Co-Investigator for construction risk register - Andre Freitas
Co-Investigator for construction risk register and leading indicators of health and safety failures - Mojgan Hadi Mosleh - Lecturer in Building Information Modelling
Co-Investigator for construction risk register - Akilu Kaltungo - Lecturer in Plant Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
Principal Investigator for international insights in the cement industry - Patrick Manu - Senior Lecturer in Project Management
Co-Investigator for leading indicators of health and safety failures project and Co-Investigator for construction risk register - John McNaught - Research Fellow in Computer Science
Co-Investigator in development of capacitates to extract health and safety insight
Postdoctoral Staff and Research Fellows
- Robert Ataria - Teaching Assistant
Researcher in international insights in the cement industry - Emrah Inan - Research Associate
Researcher in development of capacitates to extract health and safety insights - Carlos Osorio Sandoval - Research Associate
Construction risk register - Annika Schoene - Research Associate
Researcher in development of capacitates to extract health and safety insights - Hua Wei - Research Associate
Researcher in Digital health, Organisations & Strategy - Zili Zhou - Research Associate
Construction risk register
Read more about each project on the Discovering Safety website
Keeping the UK Building Safely
Academic Leads
- Helen Balmforth
- Helen Beers
- Neil Bourne
- Clara Cheung
- Sharon Clarke
- Bill Collinge
- Glen Cooper
- Ed Corbett
- Karen Davies
- Angelique Hartwig
- Sheena Johnson
- Richard Kirkham
- Akilu Kaltungo
- Patrick Manu
- Simon Thurlbeck
- Martie van Tongeren
- Andrew Weightman
Postdoctoral staff and research fellows
- Ruifeng Cao
- Lutong Li
- Chunxue Liu
- David Ling
Read more about the project: Keeping the UK Building Safely
COVID-19: Transmission and environment
Themes
Outbreak investigation
- Ioannis Basinas - UoM Contact
- Martie Van Tongeren
- Arpana Verma
Alongside colleagues from HSE, IOM and LSHTM
Approaches to evaluate environmental transmission mechanisms and controls
- Ian Hall - UoM Contact
- Thomas House
- Martie Van Tongeren
- Carl Whitfield
Alongside colleagues from University of Leeds, IOM and LSHTM
Sector specific studies
- Martie van Tongeren - Theme Lead
- Chris Armitage
- Ioannis Basinas
- Laura Byrne
- Melanie Carder
- Anne Clayson
- Anna Coleman
- Nicola Gartland
- Matt Gittins
- Angelique Hartwig
- Ireny Iskandar
- Sheena Johnson
- Sarah Lindley
- Damien Mcelvenny
- Sarah Rhodes
- Katie Stocking
- Arpana Verma
Alongside colleagues from HSE, IOM and LSHTM
Read more about the project: COVID-19: Transmission and environment
External Links
Health and Safety Executive - Working to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health.
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Discovering Safety Programme - Delivering health and safety benefits through a data-driven global community.
For more information about the Discovering Safety Programme team or to subscribe to their mailing list, please email: discoveringsafety@hse.gov.uk.
Virtual Faculty
As the Institute is established we are building a community of experts in different disciplines across both The University of Manchester and the Health and Safety Executive who will provide the basis for TAI's work.