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Professor Cathy Myles
Professor Cathy Myles
Professor of Education Practice, Pro Dean for Student Education at the University of Leeds Business School.
Cathy is a Chartered Accountant and spent time in the banking sector before moving into professional practice. The majority of this time was with Ernst & Young both in Leeds and Sydney where she specialised in the retail industry and financial services within audit and assurance. Cathy then moved into teaching in 2007 and spent time with BPP and Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) before moving to her current role at Leeds University Business School in 2011.
Cathy's primary research interest is in developing accounting education, particularly in relation to academic tutoring and support, and feedback to students. She is also focused on improving the academic performance of students and in developing their professional skills, which combine to ensure high student employability on completion of their academic studies.
Professor Lisa Jack
Professor Lisa Jack
Professor of Accounting in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Portsmouth.
Lisa began her career as an ACCA graduate trainee with Eastern Electricity and then with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in Ipswich. She worked as an auditor in local government and higher education. After ten years auditing, she moved into teaching professional accountancy and management programmes in further education and HEIs, becoming a qualified teacher as well as a qualified accountant. Taking her PhD as a mature student, Lisa was a senior lecturer at the University of Essex, moving to Portsmouth as Professor in Accounting in 2009. In 2018, she was appointed to the REF UOA17 Sub-panel as an assessor. She has also held external roles for the ICAEW, CIEH, Management Control Association, the British Accounting and Finance Association and CABS Journal Guide.
Professor Jo Blanden
Professor Jo Blanden
Jo Blanden graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1998; she studied for a Master's degree in Economics at University College London. From 2000 to 2005 she was a full-time researcher in the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and completed her PhD at UCL over this time. She joined the Department of Economics at Surrey in October 2005 and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE.
Her research specialises in educational inequality, social mobility and early years. Jo’s recent research has used econometric approaches and administrative data to explore aspects of the free entitlement to nursery education in England. She is currently working on a project to discover the impact of school closures in the pandemic on family wellbeing.
Professor Karen Shalev Greene
Professor Karen Shalev Greene
Professor of missing person studies and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons.
Karen served in the Israeli Air Force Intelligence between 1991-1993. She graduated with a B.A. in Criminology and English literature from Bar Ilan University, Israel in 1997. She then graduated with an MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 1999 and with a PhD in Investigative Psychology in 2004.
As the Director of the Centre, Karen collaborates on various research projects with Police agencies, Police forces, NGOs and other academics in the field from the UK and internationally.
Professor Anne Murphy
Professor Anne Murphy
Professor of History and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.
Prior to Portsmouth, Anne worked at the University of Hertfordshire, starting as a lecturer in History in 2009 and subsequently serving as Head of History, Associate Dean of Research and latterly as Dean of the School of Humanities. Academia is my second career. Anne previously spent twelve years working in the City trading interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives. Anne's research focuses on early modern financial markets and investment behaviour and the organisation and management of the 18th-century Bank of England.
Professor Suki Sian
Professor Suki Sian
Professor of Accounting, Head of Department of Accounting and Financial Management, Queen Mary University, London
Suki joined the School of Business and Management at QMUL having trained as an auditor and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. She completed her MSc at the London School of Economics and has a PhD in Accountancy from the University of Aberdeen. She is currently the Head of the Department Accounting and Financial Management in the School of Business and Management and the Director of the Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG). She serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting History and Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
Professor Leïla Choukrone
Professor Leïla Choukrone
Professor of International Law and Director of the University of Portsmouth Thematic Area in Democratic Citizenship.
Her research focuses on the interactions between international trade and investment law, human rights, development studies, jurisprudence and social theory. For the past 20 years, it has been applied to the Global South in India, South Asia, China and East Africa in particular.
Professor Leïla Choukroune has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters and Journals special issues in English, French, Spanish or Chinese and authored more than 10 books, including recently, Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law (2016), Exploring Indian Modernities (2018), Adjudicating Businesses in India, (2020), International Economic Law, (2020).
Bernadette Topham
Bernadette Topham
Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Portsmouth.
Bernie has responsibilities for the strategic management and operation of key professional support services that underpin the effective and efficient operation of the University and provide the important services that students and staff need.
She oversees many departments including Estates and Campus Services, the Library, Sport and Recreation, Marketing, the Department of Student and Academic Administration, and Information Services. Bernie has an MBA from the University of Plymouth, and was previously Chief Executive of Eastleigh Borough Council. She also has held director-level roles with Portsmouth City Council and the Borough of Poole Council.
Fiona Hnatow
Fiona Hnatow
Chief People Officer at the University of Portsmouth
Fiona has a wealth of experience working within large scale, complex and challenging organisations and holds both an undergraduate degree in Education and Training, gained at the University of Greenwich, and a postgraduate degree in Human Resource Management, gained at the University of Westminster. She also has a Post-16 PGCE, and taught Business, Accounting and Human Resource Management taught in further education when her three children were young. Fiona has worked in commercial, public sector, education and not for profit sectors and currently holds two external Board positions at the RSPCA and Hampshire Pension Fund. Prior to joining the University of Portsmouth as Chief People Officer, she was the Director of Human Resources at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Fiona has also worked at Transport for London as Head of Human Resources moving into this role after her time working for the City of London Corporation where she was part of a senior team responsible for establishing a large-scale multi-academy trust.
Fiona is proudly the first in her family to attend University.
Professor Samantha Parsley
Professor Samantha Parsley
Professor and Research Lead in the Dept. of Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at the University of Portsmouth.
Samantha specialises in the 'people' dimensions to work and management with a particular interest in the emotional, sensory and aesthetic aspects to wellbeing and motivation at work. She has held previous Professorial posts at Cardiff University, and Uni of Essex. She is a co-chair of the Association of Electronic Music's Diversity and Inclusion working group, joint series editor for the Palgrave Series in Business, Arts and the Humanities, an editor of the journal Organizational Aesthetics and the Routledge Companion to Visual Organization. She has held research grants from the ESRC, British Academy and is currently a Leverhulme Trust Fellow.
Prof Robin Lumsdaine
Prof Robin Lumsdaine
The Crown Prince of Bahrain Professor of International Finance at American University’s Kogod School of Business.
Robin Lumsdaine is the Crown Prince of Bahrain Professor of International Finance at American University’s Kogod School of Business, and Professor of Applied Econometrics at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, via a cooperative agreement between the two institutions. In addition, she is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Stability (CFS), and a fellow of both the Tinbergen Institute and the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar). She is also a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth, Treasurer of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE), an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics and a co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking.
Hazel Gant
Hazel Gant
Head of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation at the University of Portsmouth
Hazel has taught in Higher Education since 2002, previously as a lecturer in tourism and marketing at the University of Winchester. She also had a number of non-teaching roles at Winchester including being the specialist personal tutor for exchange students and students with disabilities as well as undertaking Programme Leadership for the Foundation Degree in Management. She was able to develop her interest in sustainability as a member of the Sustainability Working Group which aimed to develop a sustainable development strategy for the university. After a career break, she became a PTHP lecturer in marketing and tourism at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, University of Westminster and Southampton Solent University. Throughout her academic career, she has maintained a research interest in managing tourism destinations sustainably and branding of tourist destinations. She has delivered presentations at a number of high-profile conferences including the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference and the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference as well as delivering lectures, in the marketing of tourist destinations, at two European universities.
Prof Nick McGuigan
Prof Nick McGuigan
Professor of Accounting at Monash Business School, Australia
Professor Nick McGuigan is an award-winning educator who works as an innovator, instigator and disruptor in Monash Business School to create future‐oriented business education programs that focus on innovation, creativity and design thinking. He is both a Professor of Accounting and Director of Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion for the Monash Business School and a Professor of Accounting at Rostock University, Germany. Nick is directly involved in applied research, focusing on the enhancement of educational programs for accountants and business professionals.
His research interests include student conceptions of learning, diversity and social justice, integrated thinking and creativity, innovation, systems design and behavioural change, where he is a sought-after international speaker. This has led to the awarding of competitive research funds of over one and a half million Australian dollars, including Federal State level grants in both Australia and Germany.
Professor Sherria Hoskins
Professor Sherria Hoskins
Provost of the University of Portsmouth
The Provost has strategic responsibility for academic leadership and oversight across a wide range of University matters. This role means she ensures that Portsmouth continues to achieve and reach the aims and goals set out in its Vision. Professor Sherria Hoskins was Executive Dean (Science and Health) at the University of Portsmouth. Sherria restructured the Faculty of Health and Science, creating a saving of £6 million per annum and instituting many systems and processes to create organisational resilience. She is also a member of the University Executive Board who are responsible for the strategic leadership of the University of Portsmouth.
Professor Valerie Anderson
Professor Valerie Anderson
Emeritus Professor of HRD and Education at the University of Portsmouth, Adjunct (Visiting) Professor, University College, Cork.
Valerie had extensive HRM and HRD management and consultancy experience in a range of different public and private sector organisations before her academic career commenced in 1995. Prior to joining the University of Portsmouth, she worked at Northampton University and Westminster University. She is strongly committed to practice-focused research, in both HRD and in academic development. She is a Principal Fellow of Advance HE and was convenor of the Business Education Special Interest Group (BESIG) prior to leaving the University of Portsmouth in September 2023. In February 2024 she was honoured to be Inducted into the Academy of Human Resource Development HRD Scholar Hall of Fame. Since leaving her employment at Portsmouth she has continued to fulfil her roles as External Examiner at Heriot-Watt University and Dublin City University and is Chair of the European University Forum for HRD (UFHRD). In addition, she is Chair of the British Standards Institute (BSI) Technical Committee focused on Human Capital Management. She is a member of two International Standardization Organization (ISO) working groups engaged in developing international standards relating to Internships and Human Resource Management systems. Her current research interests are in the area of decolonising research methods.
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