Faculty academic promotions 2025
18 Jul 2025
Congratulations to our academic colleagues across the Faculty who have been promoted this year.
AMBS
Promotion to Chair
- Innovation, Management and Policy: Mercedes Bleda
- Management Sciences and Marketing: Simos Chari
- People, Management and Organisations: David Hughes, Sara Willis
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Accounting and Finance: Yifan Li
- Innovation, Management and Policy: Yusuf Kurt
- Management Sciences and Marketing: Pietro Frigenti
- Masood Entrepreneurship Centre: Fatemah Salehi
SALC
Promotion to Professor
- Drama: Felicia Chan
- English, American Studies and Creative Writing: Noelle Gallagher, Anastasia Valassopoulos
- History: Eloise Moss, Stephen Mossman, Steven Pierce, Aashish Velkar, Charlotte Wildman
- Linguistics and English Language: Tine Breban
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Art History and Cultural Practices: Andy Hardman
- Drama: Cara Berger, Sophie Everest
- English, American Studies and Creative Writing: John Roache
- History: Emily Jones, Gerardo Serra
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute: Antoine Burgard, Rubina Jasani, Stephanie Sodero
- Modern Languages and Cultures: Ana Nino Alonso, Anna Strowe, Kasia Szymanska, Susana Lorenzo Zamorano
- Religions and Theology: Katja Stürzenhofecker
Promotion to Research Fellow
- Modern Languages and Cultures: Maxim Alyukov, Alexandr Voronovici
SEED
Promotion to Professor
- Global Development Institute: Johan Oldekop, Maria Rusca
- Manchester Institute of Education: Diane Harris
Promotion to Reader
- Geography: Saskia Warren
- Global Development Institute: Pritish Behuria, Shirley Jenner
- Manchester Institute of Education: Pauline Prevett
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Architecture: Matthew Wells
- Global Development Institute: Katarzyna Cieslik, Kelechi Ekuma, Thomas Gillespie, Nicholas Jepson, Rose Pritchard, Erla Thrandardottir
- Manchester Institute of Education: Loretta Anthony-Okeke, Charlotte Bagnall, Heather Cockayne, Sadia Habib, Rui He, Marcellus Mbah, Hannah Strickland
Promotion to Senior Research Fellow
- Geography: Jamie Anderson
Promotion to Research Fellow
- Geography: Jack Benton, Katherine Sugar
SoSS
Promotion to Professor
- Law: Elaine Dewhurst, Ruth Lamont
- Philosophy: Michael Scott
- Politics: Elena Barabantseva, Stephen De Wijze, Christian Schemmel, Nick Turnbull, Andreja Zevnik
- Social Statistics: Alexandru Cernat, Vanessa Higgins
- Sociology: Petra Nordqvist
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Criminology: Katie Benson, Jon Davies
- Economics: Agnes Kovacs, Carlo Reggiani
- Law: Luke Graham, Abubakri Yekini
- Philosophy: Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
- Politics: Jonathan Gilmore
- Social Anthropology: Sebastien Bachelet, Sonja Dobroski, Angela De Souza Torresan, Jolynna Sinanan
Promotion to Senior Research Fellow
- Social Statistics: Jools Kasmire
Promotion to Research Fellow
- Social Statistics: Georgia Chatzi