Interview Panel Flashcards
(34 cards)
Can you name these people?
Who’s on the panel?
- Professor Stephen Jarvis – Provost and Vice-Principal
- Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams – PVC and Head of College of Social Sciences
- Professor Edgar Meyer – Dean, Birmingham Business School
- Professor Caroline Moraes – Department of Marketing, Birmingham Business School
- Professor Lisa Webley – Birmingham Law School
- Professor Nicola Gale – Head of School of Social Policy & Society
- Daljit Smith – HR Business Partner, College of Social Sciences
What should you know about Stephen Jarvis’s research?
Current position: Provost and Vice-Principal
Research expertise:
- Data science
- Robotics and autonomy
- Aerodynamics and continuum mechanics (with applications in areas like jet engine design)
- Networks and distributed systems
- Computer graphics and visualization
- Software engineering
Key points of connection with Stephen Jarvis?
- High Performance Computing & performance modelling
– e.g. apply to Synthetic Control estimation – estim dopplegangers
- Urban Science (In 2014 he became Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science, which now supports more than 60 PhD students.)
– Real time estimation of local health, wellbeing, house price dynamics, moving decisions
– Neighbourhood effects research using Dexter and CANALS etc.
- Private Sector partnerships
– RCTs with employers on how best to support working carers
What should you know about Stephen Jarvis’s bio?
- Current position: Provost and Vice-Principal
- Four-year Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Rolls-Royce, focused on HPC code development, optimisation and performance modelling.
- In 2013, collaborative work with the US National Laboratories led to a R&D Top 100 award, widely recognised as an ‘Oscar of Innovation’.
- More recently Professor Jarvis has applied these techniques to data-intensive domains, at the intersection of big data and high performance computing.
- In 2014 he became Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science, which now supports more than 60 PhD students.
- Professor Jarvis has run funded research projects with IBM, UK MOD, Rolls-Royce Plc, Intel, Bull Information Systems, Microsoft Research and others.
What do you know about Nick Vaughan-Williams’ research?
PVC and Head of College of Social Sciences
Professor of International Politics
Interested in:
- the international politics of borders, migration, and security,
- particular emphasis on the relationship between sovereignty, subjectivity, and the spatial dimensions of security
Summarise Nick VW’s book:
Squire, V, Perkowski, N, Stevens, D & Vaughan-Williams, N 2021, Reclaiming migration: Voices from Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’. Manchester University Press.
- Critically assesses the EU’s migration policy.
- Presents unheard voices from the “migrant crisis.”
- Analyzes migratory testimonies co-produced with people on the move (2015-2016).
- Documents how EU policies create precarity for migrants in perilous conditions.
- Highlights flawed assumptions in the policy agenda.
- Explores claims and demands for justice by people on the move.
- Contributes to debates on migration, borders, postcolonialism, and knowledge production.
- Written by a multidisciplinary team of scholars.
Summarise Nick VW’s book:
Vaughan-Williams, N 2021, Vernacular border security: Citizens’ narratives of europe’s ‘migration crisis’. Oxford University Press.
- EU citizens are often portrayed as fearing a loss of border control.
- Despite increased security and visible violence, border anxieties among EU citizens seem to have increased.
- The book questions why tougher security hasn’t reduced these anxieties.
- It notes a lack of understanding of how diverse EU citizens perceive and discuss the ‘crisis’.
- The authors argue that citizens, elites, and migrants all shape the understanding of and responses to the ‘crisis’.
- The book calls for a shift in understanding border security.
- It advocates for a new approach combining ‘top-down’ analysis of government practices with ‘bottom-up’ studies of everyday life.
Summarise Nick VW’s book:
Vaughan-Williams, N 2017, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Argues that ‘irregular’ migrants are paradoxically seen as both a threat and in need of protection.
- States that humanitarian policies can expose migrants to dehumanizing border security.
- Claims the dominant understanding of the issue fails to address deeper problems.
- Offers an alternative diagnosis using biopolitical theory.
- Sets out a new research agenda for critical border and migration studies.
Key points of connection with Nick VMs research?
- Role of migration in ageing economies – 2/3 global pop in countires with fertility < rep rate. Africa the exception.
- Migrant care workers
- Employment impacts of immigration
- Social frontiers & borders
Research interests of Edgar Meyer – Dean, Birmingham Business School?
Tahir, A, Al-Zubaidy, M, Naqvi, D, Tarfiee, A, Naqvi, F, Malik, A, Vara, S & Meyer, E 2019, ‘Medical school teaching on interprofessional relationships between primary and social care to enhance communication and integration of care – a pilot study’, Advances in Medical Education and Practice.
- Aims to enhance interprofessional relationships in healthcare.
- Health and social care integration is a debated topic and focus of an upcoming NHS Green Paper.
- Uncertainty exists regarding the implementation of this integration, with current barriers.
- Literature suggests that collaborative cultures foster effective interprofessional relationships.
- Communication is crucial for integrating primary and social care and should be introduced early in medical training.
Professor Caroline Moraes – Department of Marketing, Birmingham Business School
Potential points of connection:
- Ethics & markets
- Poverty & austerity
- Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access
Caroline Moraes bio?
- Co-Director of the Centre for Responsible Business.
- Director of Research for the Department of Marketing.
- Research focuses on ethics, sustainability, and responsibility in consumer practices, marketing, and markets.
- Interdisciplinary work aiming to benefit consumers and society.
- Previous experience in the advertising industry.
summarise Caroline Moraes’ article:
Moraes, C, McEachern, MG & O’Loughlin, D (eds) 2024, Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications. Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 1 edn, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226222
- Poverty excludes people from social and economic activities, increasing reliance on welfare.
- This book examines poverty and its perpetuating political-economic measures since the 2008 crisis.
- The book focuses on food insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, and poor health.
- It utilizes qualitative methods to highlight lived experiences alongside quantitative approaches.
- Interdisciplinary: social policy, geography, marketing, economics, public health, and sustainability.
Summarise Caroline Moraes’ article:
McEachern, MG, Moraes, C, Scullion, L & Gibbons, A 2024, ‘Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access’, Urban Studies, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 2231-2249. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241234803
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/moraes-caroline
- This demand has shifted responsibility from policymakers to the third sector.
- The research investigates the spatial engagement of food aid providers.
- It draws on Castilhos and Dolbec’s concept of segregating space.
- The research uses original qualitative data from food aid organizations.
- Social supermarkets are presented as transitional spaces.
- Transitional spaces bridge the gap between food banks (segregating spaces) and mainstream food retailers (market spaces).
- The study introduces the concept of transitional space.
- This concept explains the movement from emergency food aid to more secure food access.
- The research expands Castilhos and Dolbec’s typology of spaces.
- It offers a more detailed understanding of the spatial dimensions of urban food poverty.
Can you name these people?
Points of connection with Caroline Moraes’ research?
- Potential points of connection:
- Ethics & markets
- Poverty & austerity
- Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access
- how issues of ethics, sustainability and responsibility manifest in everyday consumer practices, marketing, and markets
Can you name these people?
Professor Nicola Gale – bio?
Head of School of Social Policy & Society
Nicola Gale, MA, PhD, is a health sociologist and interdisciplinary health researcher, working in the fields of health services research, public health, primary care, community-led and complementary health care. She specialises in qualitative and mixed methods research.
Professor Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical work that involves, aids better understanding of, and meets the needs of a diverse population.
Potential points of connection with Nicola Gale:
What is Professor Gale’s core substantive research interest?
Health care practice and the everyday work of professionals, para-professionals, complementary and lay healthcare workers in community and primary care settings
Focuses on the dynamics of health care delivery and worker interactions in these settings.
What interdisciplinary group is Professor Gale currently Co-Director of?
Confronting Antimicrobial Resistance (CARe)
A group focused on addressing issues related to antimicrobial resistance.
In which theoretical fields does Professor Gale’s work cut across?
- Sociology of health and illness
- Embodied sociology
- Sociology of work and professions
- Health policy and implementation
These fields inform her understanding of health care practices and their implications.
What concept has Professor Gale explored that involves direct interaction with the bodies of others?
Body work
This concept highlights the embodied knowledge and the professional identity of practitioners.
