Faculty academic promotions 2026
29 Jun 2026
Congratulations to our academic colleagues across the Faculty who have been promoted this year.
AMBS
Promotion to Chair
- Accounting and Finance: Jennifer Rose, Georgios Voulgaris
- Management Sciences and Marketing: Tommy Chan
- People, Management and Organisations: Mathew Johnson, Stefania Marino, Jenny Rodriguez
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Accounting and Finance: Oluwatoyin Dosumu, Sarah Zhang
- Innovation, Management and Policy: Dimitrija Kalanoski, Aarti Krishnan, Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman
- Management Sciences and Marketing: Tatiana Martinez
- People, Management and Organisations: Syed Imran Saqib
SALC
Promotion to Professor
- Art History and Cultural Practices: Leandro Valiati
- English, American Studies and Creative Writing: Fred Schurink
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute: Birte Vogel
- Linguistics and English Language: Colin Bannard
- Modern Languages and Cultures: Minjie Xing
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Art History and Cultural Practices: Samuel Hind, Emilia Terracciano, Biyun Zhu
- English, American Studies and Creative Writing: Ingrid Hanson, Beth Underdown
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute: Omer Aijazi, Nimesh Dhungana
- Modern Languages and Cultures: David Bailey, Marco Biasioli, Yu Kit Cheung, Ablimit Baki Elterish, Liza Langley, Sandra Torres
- Music: Alexander Gagatsis
Promotion to Senior Language Tutor
- Modern Languages and Cultures: Saadia Gamir, Sandra Strigel, Merce Enjuanes Vazquez
SEED
Promotion to Professor
- Architecture: Lea-Catherine Szacka
- Geography: Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Abi Stone, Cristina Tenemos
- Global Development Institute: Thomas Lavers, David Lawson, Osman Ouattara, Antonio Savoia
- Manchester Institute of Education: Sylvie Lomer, Laura Winter
- Planning, Property and Environmental Management: Philip Black
Promotion to Reader
- Geography: Matthew Dennis, Emma Shuttleworth
- Planning, Property and Environmental Management: Anna Gilchrist, Nuno Pinto
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Architecture: Ewan Harrison
- Geography: Craig Thomas
- Global Development Institute: Gianluca Iazzolino
- Manchester Institute of Education: Sandra Ajaps, Jonathan Board, Helen Hanna, Sara Jackson, Catherine Kelly, Chae-Young Kim, Nahielly Beatriz Palacios Gonzalez, Ishba Rehman, Umit Yildiz
- Planning, Property and Environmental Management: Sahil Gandhi
Promotion to Lecturer
- Architecture: Benjamin Blackwell
- Geography: Matthew Tomkins
- Manchester Institute of Education: Laura Goodfellow, Andrew Gunn
- Planning, Property and Environmental Management: Joseph Glentworth, Amy Phillips, Robert Richardson
Promotion to Senior Research Fellow
- Geography: Mehebub Sahana
Promotion to Research Fellow
- Architecture: Niamh Kavanagh
- Manchester Institute of Education: Qiqi Cheng, Christopher Knowles, Emma Thornton
SoSS
Promotion to Professor
- Law: Fae Garland, Alexandra Mullock
- Politics: Carl Death
- Social Statistics: Eduardo Fe
- Sociology: Elisa Bellotti
Promotion to Reader
- Economics: George Bratsiotis
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- Criminology: Thiago Oliveira
- Law: Amber Darr, Rachael Ntongho, Pinar Oruc, Yusra Suedi
- Philosophy: Emily Caddick-Bourne, Stephen Ingram, Raamy Majeed
- Politics: Luke Bhatia, Ellie Gore, Michael Macgamit, Nicole Martin, Jasmin Ramovic
- Social Statistics: Tatjana Kecojevic
Promotion to Research Fellow
- Law: Catherine Bowden