Our staff

Professor Tony Edwards is a globally-recognised Professor of International Management. He has published forty articles in refereed journals, written fifteen book chapters and is author of a widely used textbook. Professor Edwards joined the University from King’s College London, where he was the Head of the School of Management and Business.

Mikko’s key expertise is linked to successful leadership of complex, multicultural and multidisciplinary organisations and initiatives, combining technical and social goals.

Helen is the Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance (IDIG) at Loughborough University London, and also holds a Chair in French and European Studies at Loughborough University.

Dr. Gerhard Schnyder is a Reader in International Management and joined the Institute for International Management from King’s College London in July 2017.

Professor Thomas Tufte is an internationally leading scholar in the field of communication for social change.

James joined us from Australia and is passionate about delivering outstanding opportunities for students in the business of sport.

Professor Jo Tacchi is a media anthropologist with a record of research collaboration with academic, commercial, government and community partners.

Aaron pursues research interests in the management of psychological, organisational and policy change in sport, business, health, religion and society.

Mike was the inaugural Dean of Loughborough University London (2013-2018). Mike is currently working with colleagues at MIT on research pertaining to innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystems.

With over eighteen years' experience of managing support services in higher education, Deborah's main responsibilities are to oversee the work of the Professional Services Team at Loughborough University London.

Aidan McGarry is Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean for Research at Loughborough University, London.

Graham is the Associate Dean Enterprise for Loughborough University London, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

Helen is the Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance (IDIG) at Loughborough University London, and also holds a Chair in French and European Studies at Loughborough University.

Dr Louise Scholes joined Loughborough University London from Durham University as a Reader in Entrepreneurship. She is on the editorial board of the International Small Business Journal and has a specialist research focus on entrepreneurship and family firms.

Dr. Gerhard Schnyder is a Reader in International Management and joined the Institute for International Management from King’s College London in July 2017.

Aaron pursues research interests in the management of psychological, organisational and policy change in sport, business, health, religion and society.

Mike was the inaugural Dean of Loughborough University London (2013-2018). Mike is currently working with colleagues at MIT on research pertaining to innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystems.

Dr Antonius van den Broek is a Programme Director and Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Design Innovation. He is specialised in the business side of design, particularly in the communicative role of design in strategy and management.

Dr Dorina Baltag's research interest lies at the intersection of the fields of International Relations and European external relations with focus on the practice of diplomacy.

Petre is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow undertaking research within the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance.

Professor Phil Budden is a Visiting Professor for the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance.

Dr Burçe Çelik teaches social movements and media, media cultures in the global south, and politics of communication. She is the Programme Director for all taught programmes in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

Dr Nicola Chelotti's teaching and research interests focus on negotiations, diplomacy and regional/international organizations, the EU in particular. It explores how and why states and international actors more in general negotiate and set up rules, regulations, treaties. The underlying theme is to understand how informal practices emerge in international interactions and shape policy processes and outcomes.

Dr Clelia Clini is a Research Associate on the project “Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination (MMPI): British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition”.

Dr Holly Collison is an anthropologist in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP).

Constantino (Con) is a Visiting Fellow and is predominantly based at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia where he is the Associate Dean of Marketing with responsibility for the staff and programs in that discipline area.

Dr Daniel Read joins the academic faculty as a Lecturer after completing his PhD with the Institute for Sport Business.

Dr Varuna De Silva is a lecturer in Digital Engineering and joined Loughborough University London in 2016, after working in the industry as a research engineer.

Safak is a leading international researcher and an established academic teaching professional specialised in digital media, machine intelligence, and privacy protection technologies applied in a variety of domains that matter to human lives.

Dr Ana Cristina Suzina is specialist in communication for social change with expertise in grassroots social movements, popular and participatory communication, communication epistemologies, media and democracy and power asymmetries.

Anaïs is trained as a cultural anthropologist with a focus on aesthetics as social justice, material culture- particularly fashion, boundaries of belonging and systems of value across economies at various scales.

Eddie is a Teaching Fellow in the Institute of Sport Business, with research interests in leadership and professional football exploring ideas that explain the influence leaders have on those they interact with.

Eric is currently module leader for Social Identities and Media, and Media Audiences and Users.

Dr Fanni Toth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Insititute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI).

Indra is a Teaching Fellow in the Institute for Innovation and he is currently working on Indra is currently working on several research projects in microfinance, sustainable development goals and teaching excellence.

Dr Jessica Noske-Turner is a senior lecturer with expertise in media and communication for development and social change.

Jie is the Programme Director for our MSc Digital Marketing with her research focusing on adopting marketing perspectives and methods to solve digital marketing problems.

Lauren is a senior lecturer in Sport Business with research interests in digital and social media communication and marketing within the sport industry.

Dr Merve Sancak's research sits between international political economy, comparative political economy and economic sociology.

Xiaolan is an expert in engineering and design, having completed her studies in both China and London.

Erhan is an internationally recognised and established researcher with a strong background in video technologies, human computer interaction and affective computing. He is the Chief Programme Director overseeing the operational delivery and quality assurance of all master programmes in the Institute for Digital Technologies. He is also the Programme Director for MSc Digital Innovation Management and MSc Digital Finance programmes.

Prior to joining Loughborough University London, Kun worked as a Research Associate in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department and a Research Fellow of the Enterprise Research Center at Imperial College Business School.

Dr Geurin has published extensively on the topics of sport communication and marketing, specifically focusing on athletes’ and sport organisations’ use of social media, as well as media portrayals of athletes of differing race, gender, and nationality.

Lydia Good leads Premiership Rugby’s BreakThru campaign.

Dr. Anna Grosman lectures the modules of corporate finance and digital finance. She is the Director of the MSc Digital Entrepreneurship. She is also the Research Lead for the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Anna is the Athena SWAN Lead and a member of the EDI Committee for Loughborough University London.

Emily is a lecturer in Sport Business, with research interests in sports mega-events and the associated concepts of leveraging and legacy.

Geoffrey Hodgson has been appointed as Professor in Management for the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London.

Dr Siv Jansson has worked at a range of institutions in the UK and overseas, including eight years living and working in New Zealand and eight months living in Australia. She teaches on ‘Identity, Culture and Communication'.

Philipp is an international management scholar whose research interests lie at the intersection of firms and institutions.

Ksenija is a Lecturer and a Programme Director for MSc Design Innovation Program, leading on Design Research and Design in Organisations modules. Ksenija’s research interest is in exploring how service design can promote human development whilst engaging with evolving social and ecological challenges.

Dr Surya Mahdi works within the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London.

Dr Lora Markova is a Research Associate at the Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC).

Angela's interest in entrepreneurship stems from her background as co-founder and director of Youth Speaks Seattle, a leading youth arts education social enterprise in Seattle, USA. She has extensive experience as an educator, teaching artist, youth mentor and collaborative digital content creator.

Aidan McGarry is Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean for Research at Loughborough University, London.

Dr Roy Meriton is a Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneruship, teaching modules on innovation management and research methods.

Tatevik Mnatsakanyan’s research and teaching are in the fields of Diplomacy, and International Security with a particular emphasis on critical approaches to security and to peace-building and postconflict reconciliation.

Dr Ruth Neubauer researches design practices and how design agency can be traced in the sociomaterial networks of practice. She is particularly interested in how design can be made accessible as design thinking for interdisciplinary use.

Dr Cristian Nitoiu’s teaching and research interest focus on the foreign policy of Russia and the EU, the international relations of the BRICS countries, EU-Russia relations, Eastern Europe, international relations, the European public sphere and international political communication.

Christina joined Loughborough University in the Midlands in September 2013, where she is currently Doctoral Programme Lead for International Relations, Politics and History.

Tim's research and teaching currently focus on Brexit, British politics, London, European politics, international relations and international security. He has combined work in academia (LSE, UCL, NYU and the EUI) with work in political institutions (the House of Lords and the European Parliament), think tanks (in Berlin, Washington D.C. and London) and with the British military.

Dr Sharon Prendeville is Head of the Institute’s Research Group, Director of the MSc Design Innovation programme. She specialises in critical and democratic aspects of design research and practice, drawing on theories from environmental politics, social movement studies, and critical studies of design and management. Sharon teaches ‘Design Futures’ where she engages students in these explorations into the design of social systems.

Angela is a fellow of the British Academy, specialist in feminist cultural theory, popular culture, the fashion industry and creative economy.

Professor Gregory Jackson has been appointed as a Professor of Comparative Management in the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London, and is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labor Politics at the Free University Berlin.

Dr Yogachandran has a PhD in Signal and Information Processing and has worked at Loughborough University as a postdoctoral research associate.

Thor is the Director of IDI’s Dissertation Programme and the Co-ordinator of the school’s Collaborative Project module involving all seven Institutes at Loughborough London University and around 1000 students.

Amalia is a media and communications scholar specialising in the study of information technology adoption and influences in cultural and creative practice, international and community development.

Laura is a design scholar, activist and educator. She specialises in meaning innovation, sociocultural and human experience aspects of design.

Xiyu is a leading researcher and consultant with specialist knowledge of digital signal processing, cybersecurity, and machine learning.

Anthony’s expertise and background lies in International Business, entrepreneurship, management and strategy.

Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focuses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics.

Graham is the Associate Dean Enterprise for Loughborough University London, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

Xiang is a Teaching Fellow within the Institute for Digital Technologies.

Dr Pandora Syperek is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded research project Counter-Framing Design at the Institute for Design Innovation. She is a historian of modern and contemporary art, design and display culture, with special interests in gender and the nonhuman.

Professor Cuthbeth Tagwirei is an Apartheid Studies Scholar and a Marie Curie Fellow for the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

Dr Ida Telalbasic is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Programme Director for the MSc Service Design Innovation programme. She specialises in service design innovation and strategy, as well as, exploring the value of design-driven entrepreneurship.

Matt is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management.

Dr Tao Zhang is a Reader within the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Programme Director of MSc Managing Innovation in Creative Organisations (MICO).

Dr Juan Zhou is an academic visitor to the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

Professor Phil Budden is a Visiting Professor for the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance.

Rohit is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.

As part of his role, Peter is working with the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University London, sharing his expertise in national sport strategic planning, high performance leadership and coaching.

With over eighteen years' experience of managing support services in higher education, Deborah's main responsibilities are to oversee the work of the Professional Services Team at Loughborough University London.

Throughout her working career Fran has worked in various roles and gained extensive knowledge in many areas of student services and support within the higher education sector.

Asia was a Student Ambassador for three years whilst studying at Buckinghamshire New University.

Grace works as the Senior Support Officer for Student Experience at Loughborough University London.

Miranda joins us from City of Westminster College where she has undertaken a number of administrative roles including a PA role and more recently in relation to Student Records.

Naomi is the Senior Support Officer at Loughborough University London.

Rachael joins us from the University of West London where she is a Student Advisor with a focus on immigration and funding. She is involved in the University’s compliance committee and has developed policies and procedures to ensure compliance with government requirements.

Faysal works as part of the Student Support team as an IT Technician.

Ben is our resident East London Midlander and the driving force behind many of our student engagement innovations and community building activities.

Over the last 10 years, Dipesh has worked in a variety of technical roles at multiple universities across the UK.

As Partnership Development Manager, Ben links academia and industry together for Loughborough University London.

Deborah has worked and studied at Loughborough University for over 24 years, providing financial and administrative support and delivering University Teaching to staff and students.

Ashley manages operations on the Collaborative Project, a pioneering inter-disciplinary Master's module involving over 400 students and 15 collaborating organisations.

Maxine has worked in education for over 7 years and has experience in teaching English as a Foreign Language and in both writing and developing a variety of curricula.

Hayley has supported the development of start-up businesses and enterprise in Higher Education for the past three years and now joins us as Student Enterprise Adviser

Ben has been working in the Centre for Academic Practice as a Graduate Intern since graduating in 2013 with a degree in Social Psychology.

As part of Future Space, Nadine manages the careers service and offers guidance, coaching, and information to students, staff and graduates.

Megan is the student support officer at Loughborough University London.

Dan manages employer engagement projects on our London Campus. As part of the Future Space team, Dan leads on delivery of the Digital Skills Programme, and coordinates delivery of Collaborate and Talent+ activities.

With over 10 years of experience conceptualising and managing global disability sport and education programmes, Jennie recently joined Loughborough University to manage the Global Disability Innovation Hub's project - Overcoming Stigma though Paralympic Sport.

Bryony's current role at Loughborough University London is managing the procedures and processes around all aspects of PhD study. She also looks after some of the research activities of the department.

Prior to this role, Charlene was a Senior Support Officer and Student Ambassador Coordinator within our Student Services team.