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RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News NEW APPOINTMENTS Professor Tony Dickson has been appointed Visiting Professor to Salford Business School and the University. Professor Dickson has fulfilled a number of roles in higher education including: Head of Department of Sociology, Chair of the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences both at Glasgow Caledonian University; Dean of Social Sciences, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development) at Northumbria University. As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development) his responsibilities included leading the University’s significant international activities and expansion. He left Northumbria in 2006 to establish and become the President of Raffles University, funded by the Raffles Education Corporation. Raffles University has over 50,000 students and has its headquarters in Singapore but it operates in 10 countries and 19 major cities in Asia Pacific. Since 2008 he has been Managing Director of Global Higher Education Consulting. Professor Dickson will contribute to the School’s and the University’s internationalisation activities and will have an immediate input into ensuring the School and University fully capitalise on the prestigious PMI2 (Prime Minister’s Initiative 2) project with leading Chinese Universities. tony.dickson@globalhec.com Professor Tony Warne has worked in mental health care since 1975. He has over 20 years of experience in nursing and service management, and has worked in a variety of different specialist mental health service environments and contexts. Tony left the NHS in 1995 to join Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Health Care Studies as a teacher and nurse researcher. In 2006, he was appointed Professor in Mental Health Care at University of Salford, and appointed Head of School (School of Nursing) in 2007. In March 2009 he also became Associate Dean (Research) and intends to continue with both roles as the Faculty of Health and Social Care embraces the University’s new research strategy. The focus of Tony’s research interest is on inter-personal, intra-personal and extra-personal relationships, using a psychodynamic and managerialist analytical discourse. In the main his research has centred on exploring the impact of such relationships on nursing practice, policy, organisation and particularly nurse education and the preparation for practice. Much of his research has involved mental health nursing, although he has conducted research into other areas of nursing and health and social care. Tony is a Clinical Associate for the Healthcare Commission and has been a Magistrate for 14 years, with a special interest in the mentally disordered offender. He has published extensively and is the Co-Editor and author of the book Using Patient Experience in Nurse Education and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. t.warne@salford.ac.uk Professor Sharon Ruston has been appointed Chair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture in ESPaCH. She joins Salford from Keele University where she was Programme Director of Media, Communications and Culture for the past two years. Since 2007 she has been Vice-President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and this year becomes one of the judges for the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s annual essay prize. Her publications include Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism (2007) and Literature and Science (2008). She is particularly interested in the interrelationships that exist between literature, science and medicine in the early nineteenth-century, and is currently working on the poetry of chemist Humphry Davy. Professor Ruston is an external examiner for the ‘Literature and Medicine’ MA at King’s College, London and for the undergraduate degree at Lancaster University. Plans for Salford include organising a conference, ‘Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine, 1785-1859’ to commemorate 150 years since de Quincey’s death, to be held at Salford on 4th December 2009. s.ruston@salford.ac.uk Professor Sue Kilcoyne is the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Environment. She was appointed as Professor of Materials in January 2006, became Director of the Institute for Materials Research in October 2006 and took up the post of ADR in January this year. Sue’s academic work has always involved aspects of both biological and physical sciences. She graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc degree in Physics with Environmental Biology and continued at Liverpool to study for a PhD, which was awarded for her work on Mossbauer Spectroscopic studies of iron containing proteins. Throughout her career Sue’s research has focussed upon the application of physical techniques to a wide range of problems in for example, physics (magnetism, superconductivity), the life sciences (biomaterials, proteins), and in geology (Fe oxides in soils and clays). She works with multidisciplinary groups of academics throughout UK and Europe - physicists and biomaterials scientists at Leeds University, biophysicists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire and physicists at the Institute Laue Langevin in France, and is now extending this grouping through the development of an archaeometry research programme with archaeologists and local historians from the Blackden Trust in Cheshire. s.h.kilcoyne@salford.ac.uk 32
RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News Professor Stewart, Chair in Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, was Senior Lecturer in the Electrical Machines and Drives Group in the 6* Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Electrical Machines and Drives Group) at the University of Sheffield from 2002-2008, where he was a Staff Member of the Rolls-Royce UTC in Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives, and member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Initiative in the More Electric Aircraft (AIMEA-UK). In January 2009 he became Professor of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at the University of Salford, and in collaboration with Professor T.X. Mei, formed the CASE Centre for Control and Systems Engineering. His research encompasses the fields of control theory applications, electromechanical energy conversion, power systems, multi-objective optimisation and intelligent control systems. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he worked for 14 years in the automotive industry, latterly specialising in hybrid electric drivetrains and engine development. Examples of his research include EC funded projects on electromechanical valve actuation, automotive drive-by-wire systems and integrated modelling and optimisation toolboxes for Matlab. His recent research portfolio extends from free-piston linear energy converter technology (EPSCR GR/S97507/01), which is being undertaken in collaboration with Group Lotus Ltd., and intelligent domestic energy control (Yorkshire Forward Grant), to the modelling and optimal control of electrical power generation/energy storage systems on ‘more-electric’ aircraft (EU Framework VI). He has led major scoping and feasibility projects on power conversion, regenerative energy and energy storage with UK partners: Group Lotus PLC, GreenUrban Ltd., and ITI Energy Scotland Ltd, and will be leading More Electric Aircraft Power Systems work packages under the EU Framework VII ‘Clean Skies’ JTI. Professor Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, was a Reader in Control and Mechatronics in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds, which was ranked as the best Electronic and Electrical Engineering School in the UK in the 2008 RAE. In January 2009, he became Professor of Control and Mechatronics at Salford University, and formed the CASE Centre for control and Systems Engineering with Professor Paul Stewart. He currently leads a strong research team of 3 research associates and 5 PhD students which carries out leading-edge research in control and systems engineering mainly for energy efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles of the future. Professor Mei has a strong background and substantial research expertise in traction control and drives, steer-by-wire, fault tolerant control, power systems and optimisation, intelligent sensing, and condition monitoring. Prof Mei is a world leader in the latest research into active steering and mechatronic systems for rail and automotive applications. He has been very successful in attracting research grants from a variety of funding sources and supervised many research projects. He has given state-of-the-art plenary talks and invited research seminars at an international level and has also disseminated widely and regularly in leading academic journals and international conferences, including invited papers in special journal issues and special conference sessions. Some of his journal publications have been awarded best paper prizes in recognition of the quality and significance of his research. Professor Mei has also substantial industrial experience from his employment in manufacturing industry (including GEC Alsthom, Brush Traction and Linear Motors) at early stage of his career. He collaborates closely with a number of industrial partners through various research grants and proposals, including Modec, GGS, SET, InMoCo, TMS, TNEI, ATP and Greenurban. t.x.mei@salford.ac.uk Professor Stewart recently attended an EPSRC ‘Sandpit’ event on Low Carbon Airport Operations and secured an unprecedented tally of 3 new research grants as Principal Investigator, totalling over £1 million, all of which will be starting in Salford in July. p.g.stewart@salford.ac.uk 33
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