Erskine Programme

Erskine Programme

Honour Roll 2011

Visiting Erskine, Canterbury and Oxford and Cambridge Fellows for 2011 are listed below in the order of the School/Department which they visited. The visitor's name, home university or organisation, and the area/s of expertise are listed. Not all Schools/Departments have a Fellow in any one year, so you may wish to check other years for Fellows in your area. Visiting Canterbury Fellows names appear in boldVisiting Oxford Fellows names appear in bold+italics. Visiting Cambridge Fellows names appear in BOLD+CAPS. Please click on the name of the visitor to make e-mail contact.

 

Name

Institution and Research interest

Accountancy & Information Systems

Professor Jeffrey Berryman

University of Windsor, Canada
Contract law specialising in remedies, equitable remedies, alternative dispute resolution

Professor Niels Bjørn-Andersen

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
IT strategy/planning, IT leadership/managing IS resources, use of IT in international trade, eBusiness/eCommerce, IT for collaborative innovation

Professor Niamh Brennan

University College Dublin, Ireland
Financial reporting; corporate governance; forensic accounting

Dr Margaret McKerchar

University of NSW, Australia
Tax compliance behaviour, research design, tax administration, environmental taxation, tax policy

Biological Sciences (School of)

Associate Professor Matthew Perugini

University of Melbourne, Australia
Protein structure and function; enzymes of metabolism; analytical ultracentrifugation protein interactomes

Professor Robert Warner

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Behavioural ecology, the interaction of behaviour and life history, population ecology, particularly in coral reef fishes, marine conservation ecology

Chemical & Process Engineering

Mr Alfred Center

Cornell University, USA
Plant design and process control in the refinery industry

Professor Matthias Kind

Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, Germany
Crystallization, precipitation, granulation, drying, heat and mass transfer, thermal separations

Chemistry

Professor Robert Grubbs

California Institute of Technology, USA
Organometallic chemistry with applications in the synthesis of organic compounds and polymers

Professor Anthony Hill

Australian National University, Australia
Synthetic challenges in co-ordination and organometallic chemistry

Associate Professor Jonathan White

University of Melbourne, Australia
Physical organic chemistry; x-ray crystallography

Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

Associate Professor Fabio Biondini

Technical University of Milan, Italy
Computational methods for concrete structures; life-cycle reliability and optimization of structural systems; earthquake engineering

Professor Jonathan Fannin

University of British Columbia, Canada
Geosynthetics & soil reinforcement, landslides and debris flows, seepage erosion of earth dams

Professor Thian Yew Gan

University of Alberta, Canada
Water resources planning & management, advanced surface hydrology, mapping/modelling water quality & quantity, stochastic processes of hydrology

Professor Roberto Leon

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Behaviour and design of steel and composite structures under seismic actions

Professor Say Kee Ong

Iowa State University, USA
Wastewater treatment; site remediation; pollutant transport; fate of contaminants, antibiotics, and estrogens

Communication Disorders

Associate Professor Kim S Schairer

University of Wisconsin, James H.Quillen VAMC, USA
Combining physiological measures with behavioural measures to study shared underlying mechanisms in the auditory system

Professor Nancy Tye-Murray

Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Audiology; cochlear implants; rehabilitation of persons with hearing loss; auditory speech processing

Professor A Lynn Williams

East Tennessee State University, USA
Speech development in children; assessment and intervention for children with speech sound disorders

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Professor Franco Davoli

University of Genoa, Italy
Telecommunications networks; multimedia communications; wireless networks; energy-efficient networking

Professor Gordon McCalla

University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Artificial intelligence, social and ethical issues in computing, teaching first-year computing

Professor Paul J. Wagner

University of Wisconsin, USA
Database systems; computer security; computing education; social and ethical implications of computing; OO software development

Economics and Finance

Professor Tim Cason

Purdue University, USA
Behavioural economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, industrial organisation

Professor Richard SMITH

University of Cambridge, UK
Econometric theory; estimation & inference in econometrics; hypothesis testing; model selection

Associate Professor Stratford Douglas

West Virginia University, USA
Applied econometrics; energy economics

Professor Jack Cooney

Texas Tech University, USA
Corporate finance; financial markets & institutions; financing emerging businesses; commercial bank management; credit institutions; maths of finance

Associate Professor Daniela Puzzello

University of Illinois, USA
Economic theory; monetary theory; mathematical economics; general equilibrium

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Andrew Evans

Aberystwyth University, UK
Semiconductors, particularly surfaces and interfaces; in-situ x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Dr Chris Mack

University of Texas at Austin, USA
Semiconductor lithography; optical lithography

Professor Paulo Ribeiro

Calvin College, USA
Power quality & electronics; energy storage, superconducting magnetic energy systems, energy conservation, sustainable energy systems

Engineering College

(Human Interface Technology Laboratory & Computer Science & Software Engineering)
Associate Professor Robert Lindeman

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Human interaction in virtual environments

Fine Arts, Music and Theatre, School of: (Fine Arts, Music, Theatre & Film Studies)

Prof Richard Gough

University of Wales, UK
Theatre; performance studies; performance research

Forestry

Dr Raffaele Spinelli

CNR, Italy
Forest engineering; biomass harvesting systems; mechanisation; Italian forest industry

Gateway Antarctica

Professor Julian DOWDESWELL

University of Cambridge
Polar research, specifically glaciology and the geology of polar continental margins

Dr Julia Jabour

University of Tasmania, Australia
Environmental management of Antarctica

Geography

Professor Paul C Adams

University of Texas at Austin, USA
Geography of communication technology; representations of space & place; sociospatial implications of technological change; nationalism in public discourses

Dr Tony Hoare

University of Bristol, UK
Global environmental change; changing land uses urban waterfronts & environmental aspects of outport & estuary dev; changing geography of higher education

Professor Ian McKendry

University of British Columbia, Canada
Meteorology and climatology, air pollution, mesoscale meteorology, synoptic climatology, aerosol research

Professor Josef Strobl

Universität Salzburg, Austria
Spatial analysis; digital terrain & surface modelling, spatial data infrastructure, space & renewable energy, eLearning and geoinformatics

Geological Science

Professor Thomas Gardner

Trinity University, USA
Active tectonics; quaternary geology; hydrology; earth surface processes; environmental geology in Costa Rica, Australia and California

Associate Professor Noah Snyder

Boston College, USA
River morphology and behaviour, sedimentation and response to climatic and tectonic drivers

Humanities, School of: (American Studies, Art History & Theory, Cinema Studies, Classics, Cultural Studies, English, History, Philosophy)

Associate Professor Jeffrey Brian Downard

Northern Arizona University, USA
Ethics; aesthetics & philosophy of law; philosophies of Immanuel Kant and C.S. Peirce

Professor Dugald Murdoch

University of Stockholm, Sweden
History of philosophy; philosophy of science

Languages, Cultures & Linguistics (School of): (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Linguistics, Russian, Spanish, European Languages and Cultures)

Dr Alexander ETKIND
European Lanuguages & Cultures Programme

University of Cambridge, UK
Russian literature, cultural history; memory studies

Dr Ghada Khattab
Linguistics Programme

University of Newcastle, UK
Monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition; phonetics/phonology and sociolinguistics; foreign accent

Law

Ms Laura Hoyano

University of Oxford
Tort; medical law; human rights law; evidence

Literacies and Arts in Education

Dr Scott McLeod

Iowa State University, USA
Educational leadership and ICT, including e-learning and teaching

Management

Dr Nicole Coviello

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
International entrepreneurship; marketing; networks

Professor Roger Dunbar

New York University, USA
Business strategy and policy; management and organisational analysis

Mathematics and Statistics

Emeritus Professor Victor J Katz

University of District of Columbia, USA
History of mathematics and in its use in teaching

Dr Jonathan Pitchford

University of York, UK
Mathematical biology including population dynamics

Professor Warwick Tucker

Uppsala University, Sweden
Computer-aided proofs in analysis and parameter estimation

Māori, Social and cultural Studies in Education, School of

Prof Elizabeth Jones

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Practitioner-orientated research; action research; Poststructuralist theory

Mechanical Engineering

Professor Philip Doepker

University of Dayton, USA
Mechanical design; structural mechanics; engineering education; product development and education

Professor Norman Dowling

Virginia Tech Institute & State University, USA
Mechanical behaviour of materials

Professor William Hofmeister

University of Tennessee Space Institute & Vanderbilt University, USA
Materials and manufacturing

Physics and Astronomy

Professor Sudhakar Panda

Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India
String theory; cosmology; conformal field theory

Psychology

Prof Rosemary Tannock

University of Toronto, Canada
Child psychology and child development