Lord Victor Adebowale

Victor Adebowale is a Visiting Professor of the School of Social Sciences and Chief Executive of Turning Point.

The School of Social Sciences has developed good links with the large not-for-profit social care provider, Turning Point (www.turning-point.co.uk), including the development of a graduate entry scheme which was launched at the University in 2004 and was repeated in 2005. Turning Point provide services for people with a range of complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability. As a large employer they offer a range of job opportunities suitable for graduates, including posts such as project worker and support worker, as well as a variety of managerial and other positions.

Professor Karen Celis

I am a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since October 2011, affiliated at the Department of Political Science. During the Spring Semester of 2012 I will hold the Francqui chair on Political Participation at the University of Leuven. I am Co-convenor of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) since 2007.

I conduct theoretical and empirical research (qualitative, comparative) on political representation of groups (women, ethnic minorities, class, age groups, LGBT), equality policies and state feminism. Besides Dutch books, articles and book chapters, I was co-editor of two special issues on the substantive representation of women (Representation, 44/2; Parliamentary Affairs 61/3) and I have published in West European Politics, Political Studies, Social Policies, Regional and Federal Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Legislative Studies, and Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. I am (co-) author of book chapters in Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology (eds. G. Goertz and A. Mazur), Changing State Feminism: Women's Policy Agencies Confront Shifting Institutional Terrain (eds. J. Outshoorn and Kantola, J.) and Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the Democratic State. A comparative Study of State Feminism (ed. D. McBride-Stetson). I am co-editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012 published online).

Sue Duncan

Sue Duncan is a Visiting Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Lincoln.
She currently works as an independent consultant in social research and professional practice, mainly with public sector clients here and abroad. She has senior level experience in the social research and policy environment and worked for over thirty years in the public sector, at the centre of government in the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, and in social policy departments, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, and Communities and Local Government. She has worked in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and in the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, where she was Director, responsible for good practice in policy making, research and evaluation and for evidence-based policy making. For much of her career she was in the Government Social Research service, where she worked closely with senior civil servants and Ministers, providing research based advice and policy analysis to inform government decision making. She was appointed as the first ever Chief Government Social Researcher, leading the thousand or so social researchers working across government, with responsibility for all social research issues and the effective use of research in government.
Her current interests are policy making, including policy transfer; using evidence in policy and delivery; research utilisation and research impact. She is also interested in research professional practice issues, including research capability and research quality. She has lectured and written widely on policy, research, research utilisation and evidence-based policy making, both here and abroad. Publications include a book on the policy process under New Labour (Bochel & Duncan, 2007) Making policy in theory and practice, (Bristol: Policy Press) and articles in peer-reviewed journals.
She has an MA in Sociological Studies, University of Sussex and a BSc (Hons) Sociology, University of Bath. As well as being a Visiting Professor at Lincoln, she is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol; an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University and an Honorary Doctor of Science of the University of Bath.
She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences; a Fellow of the Market Research Society and is currently President of the Social Policy Association and a Trustee of the Stroke Association.

Selected publications and articles

Draper, AK, Adamson, AJ, Clegg, S, Malam, S, Rigg, M, & Duncan,S (2011) ‘Front of Pack nutrition labelling; are multiple formats a problem for consumers?’ European Journal of Public Health.

Duncan, S (2011) ‘Eat your greens: why doesn’t social policy research have more impact?’ Policy World, Autumn 2011, Social Policy Association.

Duncan, S (2011) ‘Why policy research is more important than ever.’ Research, 21st October 2011, Market Research Society.

Duncan, S (2010) ‘The policy-research relationship’, in ISSA Social Security Research and Policy Manual, International Social Security Association, Geneva. 

Duncan, S (2010) ‘Management of the research process’, in ISSA Social Security Research and Policy Manual, Geneva. 

Duncan, S (2010) Acting on evidence: some observations on the civil service employee engagement survey.

Contact: sueduncan@dsl.pipex.com

November 2011

Wei Lei (Emerson)

Emerson is a visiting Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences. An Associate Professor of Political Science at the Shandong Political Research Institute (China),  Emerson has researched and published widely on the Chinese political system and political party leadership. Recent publications include A Brief History of Political Thought in Ancient China (2003), and Exploration & Reform (2001).

He is currently undertaking a comparative analysis of the UK & Chinese political systems.

Emerson's contact details are as follows:

Emerson Wei,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Shandong Political Research Institute,
588 JingQi Road,
JINAN 250021,
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

E: weileiw@hotmail.com or ewei@lincoln.ac.uk
T:  0086 531 87088193
M: 0086 13964006677

Professor Ben Mepham

Campus: Brayford (Lincoln)
Email: bmepham@lincoln.ac.uk
Tel: 01636 813601 (private office)

Visiting Professor in Bioethics

QUALIFICATIONS

BSc (London): physiology
PhD (London): biochemistry

Ben Mepham graduated from University College London in 1961 and then pursued postgraduate research at the Institute of Animal Physiology at Cambridge. From 1968 he researched and lectured at Nottingham University, firstly as a physiologist and subsequently as a bioethicist, being appointed Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics in the School of Biosciences in 1993. As a physiologist, he (co)authored over 80 academic papers, principally on research into the biochemistry, physiology and endocrinology of lactation, including the books The Secretion of Milk (1976), Physiology of Lactation (1987); and editorship of Biochemistry of Lactation (1983).

As a bioethicist, he introduced undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Nottingham, and to date has authored well over 100 papers, as well as the highly acclaimed textbook Bioethics: an introduction for the biosciences (Oxford University Press; 2nd edition: 2008). He co-edited Issues in Agricultural Bioethics (1995) - the proceedings of the first UK international conference on this subject, and contributed to and edited Food Ethics (1996), which led to the establishment of this new field of applied ethics. The ethical framework (ethical matrix) he devised in 1996, is now used by several governmental, intergovernmental and advisory committees. Recent publications include: ‘A notional ethical contract with farm animals in a sustainable global food system’ in Sustainable Farmland Management (eds. Fish R et al, CABI, 2008. pp. 125-134); ‘The Ethical matrix as a tool in policy interventions: the obesity crisis’ in Food Ethics (eds. Gottwald F-T et al, Springer, 2010. pp. 17-29); and three 6,000 word chapters (Food ethics; Agricultural ethics; and Functional foods) in Elsevier’s on-line Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (ed. Chadwick R F, 2011).

Following early retirement in 1997, he was appointed a member of the Government’s Biotechnology Commission (2000-2003) and served on several national and EU committees. He remains an honorary professor in bioethics at Nottingham, lecturing in bioethics programmes. He was appointed Executive Director of the Food Ethics Council (1998-2002), and continues to play an active part in several Council projects, e.g. the Inquiry into Food Justice (report published in 2010). A co-founder the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (2000), he was awarded honorary life membership (2009) in recognition of ‘extraordinary services to the Society.’

His current research interests focus on: i) bioethical issues relating primarily to non-medical concerns (e.g. food, agriculture, the global environment, treatment of animals, research ethics) as they impact on public policy; and ii) ethical tools for public engagement (notably, development of the ethical matrix). At Lincoln, he lectures (or has lectured) in a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including those run by the schools/departments of policy studies, criminology, psychology, health and social care, and biological sciences. He is also an active member of the new interdisciplinary Animals, culture and society network, the University and AFAS Research Ethics Committees and the College of Professors.

In 2005 he established Gladstone Books, a Lincoln-based second-hand book business, which holds a general (primarily, academic) stock, with some specialisation in science and philosophy.

Mahmoud Khalifa

Mahmoud studied his Bachelor and Masters degree in Political Science at Suez Canal University, Faculty of Commerce, Egypt. In 2004 He became a demonstrator in Suez Canal University and in 2009 an assistant lecturer

The topic of his Masters Degree was 'Constitutional Amendments and Their Effects on Democratic Development in Egypt'. This included a comparative study between the UK, USA & France.

Published in a local journal in Egypt, Mahmoud is a member of the Political Studies Association in the UK and a member in Egyptian of the International Law Association. He joined Lincoln university in 2011 as a visiting fellow.

Research

Mahmoud’s research interest lies in public administration, particularly public policy issues in Egypt and the UK, and decentralisation and democratic transition in the Middle East. His PhD dissertation is about decentralisation and public policy making in Egypt, under the supervision of Professor Hugh Bochel. Mahmoud is currently working on a research paper entitled 'Egypt at the crossroads: the role of political science'.