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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
Professor James Crabbe has a long-standing interest in modelling biological systems and has developed a number of computer programs for his field. In the last five years he has developed computational models for coral reefs and currently works on the genetics, recruitment and survival of reef-building corals around Discovery Bay, Jamaica, and in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia.
Professor Crabbe's research has resulted in 209 research publications in refereed journals (156), books, book chapters and articles in books, plus 14 items of commercial software, and numerous invitations (four in 2010) as Plenary or Keynote speaker at international conferences promoting links between social and environmental sciences. In 2011 he gave an invited seminar at the Cairns Institute for Social Science, James Cook University, Queensland, and gave the Inaugural Seminar at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, linking the University of New South Wales, Sydney and Macquarie Universities. In the last year, he has published over ten papers, including one in PNAS and two in PLOS One.
Dr Gail Kinman is involved in research on building emotional intelligence and resilience in social workers and nurses; enhancing support for cancer patients who return to work during treatment; and emotion in the workplace (e.g. crying in female employees) to name just a few exciting research areas.
Dr Kinman’s has published numerous journal articles and contributed to several books on these topics.
Professor Gurch Randhawa has spent many years researching issues relating to cancer and palliative care; mental health; diabetes; kidney disease; and transplantation - issues amongst minority ethnic groups.
He has pioneered research in the UK examining cultural and religious influences toward organ donation amongst South Asian groups, with a grant from the King’s Fund.
He is currently carrying out research contributing to the improvement of diabetes and renal services.
Professor Paul Burns has over thirty years experience of working with hundreds of entrepreneurs, small firms and their advisers, including Grant Thornton, BDO Stoy Hayward, 3i, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and Lloyds Banks.
He has also advised and consulted at various levels of government in the UK and overseas.
Professor Burns is an author of numerous books, journal articles and research reports.
Recent books include Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation (2005) and the second edition of his market leading textbook Entrepreneurship and Small Business (2007).
Professor Garry Whannel is one of the world’s leading experts on the cultural analysis of media sport.
His books include Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation, (1992) and Media Sport Stars, Masculinities, and Moralities (2002).
He has also co-edited the textbook Understanding Television (1990).
Professor Cyril Weir has more than 30 years experience in the fields of English language learning and assessment.
He has carried our consultancies, delivered courses and lectured on evaluation and assessment in over 50 countries worldwide.
In 1983 Cyril completed his PhD degree in Testing English for Academic Purposes at the Institute of Education in London. I
n the last seven years he has been involved with test development in over 20 countries worldwide and receives many invitations to speak abroad.
He has recently been sponsored to deliver plenary and keynote addresses in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Poland and Russia.
