New professors and readers 2025

Congratulations to colleagues who have become professors and readers through the latest conferment process.

Their applications were considered by the VC and Conferment Panel in consultation with independent external assessors.

The new professors and readers are:

Carol Cox: Professor of Policing

Rafaela Ganga: Professor of Public Sociology

Scott Foster: Professor of Postgraduate Research Culture

Track Dinning: Professor of Entrepreneurship Education

Matthew Millings: Professor of Criminal Justice

Lisa Newson: Professor of Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine

Stephanie Evers: Professor of Wetland Ecology and Biogeochemistry

Heather Panter: Associate Professor in Policing Studies

Hilary Bishop: Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage

Julie Roberts: Associate Professor in Forensic Anthropology

Sondeep Kandola: Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Max Hashem Eiza: Reader in Network Security and Privacy

Jose Areta: Associate Professor in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition

Suzanne Cronshaw: Associate Professor in Digital Marketing Pedagogy

Jennifer Germain: Associate Professor in Public Health Approaches to Risk Behaviours

Frances Yeoman: Associate Professor in Journalism and Media Literacy

Mawada Abdellatif: Associate Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering

Andrea Livesey: Associate Professor in Engaged History

Sean Malkeson: Reader in Thermofluids

Richard Webster: Reader in Plant Physiology

Simone Durr: Associate Professor in Engagement for Biofouling and Environmentally Friendly Antifouling

Ismini Nakouti: Associate Professor in Microbial Natural Products