Our Researchers

Amanda Blake Davis is a Lecturer in English Literature. Amanda specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture with an emphasis on Romantic poetry, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley. She has wider research interests in the environmental humanities, intermediality and intertextuality, and classical reception.

Amna is currently pursuing a PhD in Business, researching how digital transformation drives digital entrepreneurial success in SMEs, particularly in developed economies such as the UK.

Amy is an art psychotherapist and postgraduate researcher working with The Beeches Mother and Baby Unit in order to design, deliver and draw data from an art psychotherapy intervention with mothers.

Andrew is an active lecturer and researcher. He is committed to developing students aspirational horizons whilst producing first class research in the areas of nationalism and marginal beliefs.

Andrews Owusu is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the University of Derby, UK. Andrews has over 10 years of experience in teaching and research in accounting and corporate governance.

Andy Bloor is a Senior Lecturer and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for the Discipline of Primary ITT/E. His fields of interest are around Special Educational Needs and Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties in children, particularly those with Attachment Disorder and neuro-atypical children, as well as wider the Social Justice agenda in Education.

Andy is a Professor of Physical Activity and Health. He undertakes teaching, research and PhD supervision in the area of impact and implementation of physical activity interventions for health improvement. Andy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and a NICE Guidelines Implementation Expert. He was involved in the 2019 Chief Medical Officers' PA Guidelines.

Ang works as an artist and artistic researcher. Her research focuses on documentation as an act of ephemeral art process, and with animality and empathy (as acted and/or intuitively behaved) in human-animal companion-species relationships.

Prof Maligno is the EPM-Technology Chair and Professor of Composite Materials at the Institute of Innovative Sustainable Engineering (IISE) at the University of Derby.