International visiting academics scheme
The international visiting academics scheme fosters an international community of scholars in areas related to the research taking place in our research institutes.
Internationally renowned scholars visit Teesside to engage with colleagues in the research institutes, lead masterclasses and seminars that will support the development of research activity by institute members and collaborate on joint research projects including the preparation of external grant applications.
Dr Suzanne Leveille
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr Leveille is an epidemiologist with an extensive background in geriatric nursing. Her areas of research interest include primary care interventions to improve chronic illness care and epidemiology of aging with an emphasis on pain and disability. Working with a team of investigators based at Hebrew SeniorLife, Dr Leveille is leading a population-based study of pain and elders living in the Boston area.
Dr Leveille plans to visit Teesside in 2010 and will be hosted by Professor Denis Martin of the Health and Social Care Institute. Planned masterclasses and seminars will focus on exploring why pain is a risk factor for falling and look at new developments in interventions to reduce the risk of falling in older people.
Professor Lin Perry
Senior Research Fellow, the Newcastle Institute of Public Health/Hunter Institute, University of Newcastle, Australia
Professor Perry is a registered nurse and a registered nurse teacher. Her research interests include the exploration of users’ perspectives in relation to stroke and cardiac services, nutritional aspects of health care and the implementation of evidence-based health care. Her current work focuses on cardiac monitoring in acute stroke, services for carers of stroke patients, nutritional support for stroke patients and residents in aged care facilities and service development for people with Type 1 diabetes.
Professor Perry plans to visit Teesside in 2010 and will be hosted by Dr Sharon Hamilton of the Health and Social Care Institute. Planned masterclasses and seminars will focus on developments in stroke nursing research.
Professor Chinnaiya Namasivayam
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
Dates of visit: 1 April - 30 June 2010
Professor Namasivayam is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Bharathiar University. His research activity focuses on colloid and interface science; water and wastewater treatment; reutilization of solid wastes; wasteland reclamation and photocatalysis.
Professor Namasivayam will be hosted by Dr Pattanathu Rahman from the Technology Futures Institute and the visit will result in collaborative work in the area of environmental biotechnology, particularly sustainable products for waste remediation.
During his visit, Professor Namasivayam will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and students addressing applications of agricultural solid wastes for wastewater treatments and recycling industrial solid wastes for wastewater treatments.
Planned masterclasses for staff and students address the development of activated carbons using non-conventional sources, agricultural solid wastes for wastewater treatments and industrial solid wastes for wastewater treatments.
Dr Kieran O'Doherty
The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dates of visit: 1-31 May 2010 (tbc)
Dr Kieran O'Doherty is an Assistant Professor at The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at The University of British Columbia. His research activity focuses on health care communications and ethics, and specific areas of interest include agency; social categorization; theory and methodology in the social sciences; deliberative democracy; risk, probability and uncertainty; and the psychology of health and illness.
Dr O'Doherty will be hosted by Professor Robin Bunton from the Social Futures Institute and the visit will result in collaborative work in the area of public engagement and public health genetics to establish a cross-national study of the UK and Canada.
During his visit Dr O'Doherty will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and students addressing issues of public involvement and deliberation in contemporary public arenas with particular reference to the development of biotechnologies. Two seminars on ‘Researching Public Engagement: new technology and public policy’ are also planned for staff and research students.
Professor Maria Brandimonte
Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, Italy
Dates of visit: 3-7 May 2010
Professor Brandimonte is Professor of Learning and Memory and the director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at Suor Orsola Benicasa University. Her research activity focuses on learning and memory, spatial cognition, psycholinguistics and cognitive aging.
Professor Brandimonte will be hosted by Dr Kazuyo Nakabayashi from the Social Futures Institute and the visit will lead to the consolidation of a research design for collaborative work in the area of memory and facial recognition.
During her visit Professor Brandimonte will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and students on the fundamentals of memory, prospective memory and current understanding of memory. A series of seminars for Master's students will also aim to deliver practical experience of memory research.
Dr Takehiko Sasaki
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dates of visit: 22-29 May 2010
Dr Takehiko Sasaki is Associate Professor in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering at the University of Tokyo. His research activity focuses on the development of new catalysts, study on photo-induced processes and chemical processes on solid surfaces.
Dr Sasaki will be hosted by Dr Maria Olea from the Technology Futures Institute and the visit will lead to collaborative research in the area of TAP measurements and analyses, EXAFS measurements and computational study for Co and Ni catalysts for biogas.
During his visit Dr Sasaki will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and undergraduate students addressing ‘Surface Chemistry, Surface Science and Catalysis’ and a lecture to Institute staff and postgraduate students addressing ‘Materials development for catalytic reactions: nanocrystals, ionic liquids and computational chemistry.’
Dr Bruce Rumbold
La Trobe University, Australia
Dates of visit: 15tJune - 10 July 2010
Dr Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit in the School of Public Health, La Trobe University. His research activity focuses on community capacity building in palliative care, spiritual care and pastoral care practice in palliative care services and illness narratives in chronic and life-threatening illness.
Dr Rumbold will be hosted by Dr Steve Conway from the Health and Social Care Institute and the visit will lead to collaborative work in the area of public health and palliative care.
During his visit Dr Rumbold will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and students focusing on public health and end of life care. He will also deliver a masterclass to Institute members focusing on public health approaches to advanced care planning. A second masterclass will be delivered to Institute members and staff and key practitioners in health and social care with a particular interest in partnership working with communities.
Professor Guangxin Zheng
Anshan Normal University, China
Dates of visit: dates to be confirmed
Professor Guangxin Zheng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Fine Arts at Anshan Normal University. Professor Zheng is an established artist specialising in traditional materials and techniques, particularly woodcut, oil and water colour. His work depicts the industrial landscape and has been exhibited at major venues across China.
Professor Zheng will be hosted by Professor Gerda Roper and Lesley Hicks from the Institute of Design, Culture and the Arts and the visit will lead to international exchange and exhibition opportunities between Teesside and China.
During his visit Professor Zheng will deliver a general lecture to Institute staff and students focusing on his current artistic practice that examines the way he explores the contemporary artistic and critical relevance of traditional languages and practices of art. His lecture will also address the place of his practice within the context of contemporary Chinese art.
He will also deliver six masterclasses to staff and students. Two of these will focus on Chinese folk painting and its relationship to his own practice where he explores Chinese culture through the use of landscape and representation. A further two masterclasses will introduce woodcut printmaking and two will relate to the importance of blank space in Chinese painting and how tradition informs this work.