SEED Academic Promotions 2025

26 Jun 2025

Congratulations to our academic colleagues in the School of Environment, Education and Development who have been promoted this year

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 Lecturer (Grade 7):

• Architecture: Ewan Harrison
• Geography: Richard Figueroa Alfaro
• Global Development Institute: Mohammed Ibrahim, Irene Okhade, Dereje Regasa
• Manchester Institute of Education: Sandra Ajaps, Thomas Fryer, Elizabeth Gregory, Taslima Ivy, Nahielly Beatriz Palacios Gonzalez, Haleema Sadia, Umit Yildiz
• Planning, Property and Environmental Management: Felix Agyemang

Promotion to Research Fellow:

• Geography: Jack Benton, Katherine Sugar