I am currently working on the following areas in macroeconomics: social welfare measures derived from utility, implications of distorted steady states (including inflation bias) and distortionary shocks (e.g. UIP shocks) , stability under alternative monetary regimes, monetary and fiscal policy interaction, fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool, optimal debt stabilisation, alternative fiscal institutions, equilibrium exchange rates, and the methodology of macroeconomics.
Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Paul Rogers continues his work on trends in international conflict with a particular focus on the interactions of socio-economic divisions and environmental constraints. Within this area of study he works on issues such as the politics of energy resource use and the impact of climate change on international security. He has a particular research interest in radicalisation and political violence. His regional emphasis is primarily on the Middle East and South Asia and his work on sustainable security links with Oxford Research Group. He is also involved in a new pilot project for the Network for Social Change on “Remote Control” – the use of armed drones, Special Forces, privatised military companies and other forces to maintain control, raising issues of ethical behaviour, accountability, precedent-setting and and risk of proliferation. In the past, Paul lectured at Imperial College and was a Senior Scientific Office in Kenya and Uganda.
Before moving to Glasgow, I worked at the Universities of Durham, Middlesex and Aberdeen as a researcher, lecturer in economic geography and in economic development. My research interests include economic geography, urban and regional development, public ownership, economic democracy and employment relations.
QUALIFICATIONS BSc, Psychology (Royal Holloway, London), 1999 MSc, Evolutionary Psychology (Liverpool), 2001 PhD, Psychology (UCLan), 2006 MEd, Professional Practice in HE (UCLan) 2007 MSc, Psychological Research Methods (Open University), 2014 PAPERS 1. Robinson, Sarita Jane and Brewer, Gayle (2016) Performance on the traditional and the touch screen, tablet versions of the Corsi Block and the Tower of Hanoi tasks. Computers in Human Behavior, 60 . pp. 29-34. ISSN 07475632 Item availability may be restricted. 2. Brewer, Gayle and Lyons, Minna (2015) Discrimination of sexual orientation: Accuracy and confidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 90 . pp. 260-264. ISSN 01918869 Item availability may be restricted. 3. Abell, Loren, Brewer, Gayle, Qualter, Pamela and Austin, Elizabeth (2015) Machiavellianism, emotional manipulation, and friendship functions in women's friendships. Personality and Individual Differences, 88 . pp. 108-113. ISSN 01918869 Item availability may be restricted. 4. Abell, Loren, Qualter, Pamela, Brewer, Gayle, Barlow, Alexandra, Stylianou, Maria, Henzi, Peter and Barrett, Louise (2015) Why Machiavellianism Matters in Childhood: The Relationship Between Children's Machiavellian Traits and Their Peer Interactions in a Natural Setting. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 11 (3). pp. 484-493. ISSN 1841-0413 5. Brewer, Gayle, Hunt, Danielle, James, Gail and Abell, Loren (2015) Dark Triad traits, infidelity and romantic revenge. Personality and Individual Differences, 83 . pp. 122-127. ISSN 01918869 Item availability may be restricted. 6. Hendrie, Colin A., Brewer, Gayle, Lewis, Hannah and Mills, Francesca (2014) Contemporary and Historical Evidence to Suggest that Women’s Preference for Age at Birth of First Child Remains Consistent Across Time. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43 (7). pp. 1373-1378. ISSN 0004-0002 7. Simpson, Victoria J., Brewer, Gayle and Hendrie, Colin A. (2014) Evidence to Suggest that Women’s Sexual Behavior is Influenced by Hip Width Rather than Waist-to-Hip Ratio. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43 (7). pp. 1367-1371. ISSN 0004-0002 8. Lyons, Minna, Lynch, Aoife, Brewer, Gayle and Bruno, Davide (2013) Detection of Sexual Orientation ("Gaydar") by Homosexual and Heterosexual Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior . ISSN 0004-0002 Item not available from this repository. 9. Brewer, Gayle, Apell, Loren and Lyons, Minna (2013) It's not just a man-thing: testing sex as a moderator between peer attachment and machiavellianism, competition and self-disclosure. Individual Differences Research, 11 (3). p. 114. ISSN 1541-745X (Submitted) Item not available from this repository. 10. Brewer, Gayle and Howarth, Sharon (2012) Sport, attractiveness and aggression. Personality and Individual Differences, 53 (5). pp. 640-643. ISSN 0191-8869 Item availability may be restricted. 11. Hendrie, Colin A. and Brewer, Gayle (2012) Evidence to Suggest That Teeth Act as Human Ornament Displays Signalling Mate Quality. PLoS ONE, 7 (7). e42178-e42178. ISSN 1932-6203 12. Brewer, Gayle, Dewhurst, Annie M and Doran, Dawn (2012) Undergraduate Research Projects: practice and perceptions. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 11 (2). pp. 208-217. ISSN 1475-7257 Item not available from this repository. 13. Brewer, Gayle and Hendrie, Colin A. (2011) Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40 (3). pp. 559-564. ISSN 0004-0002 14. Brewer, Gayle (2011) Personality and symptoms of psychological ill health among adult male offenders. American Journal of Men's Health, 5 (3). pp. 236-242. ISSN 1557-9883 Item not available from this repository. 15. Brewer, Gayle (2011) Psychological health and bullying among adult male offenders. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 6 (1). pp. 33-40. ISSN 1744-9200 Item not available from this repository. 16. Brewer, Gayle (2011) The evolutionary psychology of Shrek. In: Social political and economic aspects of Shrek. Palgrave Macmillan. Item not available from this repository. 17. Brewer, Gayle and Riley, C (2010) Sexual Dimorphism in Stature (SDS), jealousy and mate retention. Evolutionary Psychology, 8 (4). pp. 530-544. ISSN 1474-7049 18. Brewer, Gayle, Roy, Mark and Smith, Yvonne (2010) Domestic violence: the psychosocial impact and perceived health problems. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 2 (2). p. 4. ISSN 1759-6599 Item not available from this repository. 19. Brewer, Gayle, Roy, Mark P and Watters, J. (2010) Testicular Self-Examination in an Adult Community Sample. American Journal of Men's Health . ISSN 1557-9883 Item not available from this repository. 20. Hendrie, C.A. and Brewer, Gayle (2010) Kissing as an evolutionary adaptation to protect against Human Cytomegalovirus-like teratogenesis. Medical Hypotheses, 74 (2). p. 222. ISSN 03069877 Item availability may be restricted.
I set up the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit in 2007 to build upon the collaborative relationship between ongoing research within the Psychology Division at NTU and HMP Whatton (the largest sex offender prison in Europe, holding approximately 830 convicted male sex offenders). The unit's primary aim is to conduct and facilitate applied forensic research in the area of sex offending and sexual crime, with the research unit sitting at the juxtaposition between the world of prison and that of academia. Current research programmes include mixed method evaluations of anti-libidinal medication, pre treatment initiatives, prison and community based Circles of Support and Accountability. Also conducting research exploring religiosity and sexual offenders, peer support programmes, the collecting of sexually explicit materials, personality disorders in sex offenders, challenges for/with transgender prisoners, offenders who target elderly victims, as well as work with non-offending paedophiles and ex-prisoners who are seeking treatment and support to stay offence-free. The Safer Living Foundation I am co-founder and trustee of the Safer Living Foundation, a charity set up in 2014 to conduct (and evaluate) initiatives that help to prevent further victims of sexual crime. We are now running prison and community based CoSA and have also started Young People's CoSA. Additionally we are seeking funding to run a regional prevention project in which free treatment and support is offered to individuals concerned they may offend. Please contact me if you are interested. Further projects include researching child sexual exploitation, and helping institutionalised offenders in the transition from prison to community. Additionally the charity has the goal of setting up accommodation for sex offenders released from custody who would benefit from a 'three quarters' way house.
Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. He was Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, the US Sister organization of Anti-Slavery International and is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and has now been published in ten other languages. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it “a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery”. In 2008 he was invited to address the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Paris, and to join in the planning of the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative. In 2006 his work was named one of the top “100 World-Changing Discoveries” by the Association of British Universities. The Italian edition of Disposable People won the Premio Viareggio for services to humanity in 2000, and the documentary based on his work, which he co-wrote, Slavery: A Global Investigation , won the Peabody Award for 2000 and two Emmy Awards in 2002. Other awards include the Laura Smith Davenport Human Rights Award in 2005; the Judith Sargeant Murray Award for Human Rights in 2004; and the Human Rights Award of the University of Alberta in 2003. He was also awarded a Prime Mover Fellowship by the Hunt Alternatives Fund in 2009 and a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa , by Loyola University Chicago, in May 2010. He was a Trustee of Anti-Slavery International and a consultant to the United Nations Global Program on Trafficking of Human Beings. He has been invited to advise the US, British, Irish, Norwegian, and Nepali governments, as well as the governments of the Economic Community of West African States, on the formulation of policy on slavery and human trafficking. He edited an Anti-Human Trafficking Toolkit for the United Nations, and published, with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley, a report on forced labour in the USA, and completed a two-year study of human trafficking into the US for the National Institute of Justice. His book Understanding Global Slavery was published in September 2005. He is the author of New Slavery: A Reference Handbook (revised 2nd ed. 2005). In 2007 he published Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves , a roadmap for the global eradication of slavery which won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Promoting World Order. In 2008, with Zoe Trodd, he published To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves ; and with eight Magnum photographers, Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery . In 2009 he published with Ron Soodalter The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today , the first full exploration of contemporary slavery in the United States. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between slavery and environmental destruction, and with Jody Sarich a book on forced marriage. He gained his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics.
