Our people

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

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

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

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

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