Leeds Metropolitan University

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Sheila Scraton: Pro-Vice Chancellor, Director of University Research, Professor of Leisure and Feminist Studies

Sheila Scraton’s major research interests include cross-national qualitative work on women and sport; sport, ethnicity and gender; women and football; older women and leisure; gender and physical education; leisure and feminist theory. She is currently Director of University Research leading all pan-University research and the University submission for RAE2008. She has published extensively in leisure and sport studies, was the Managing Editor of Leisure Studies from 2000 to 2003 and is a current member of the Advisory Boards of Leisure Studies, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and Sport, Education and Society.

Tony Bryant: Professor of Informatics

Professor Bryant has been an active researcher in software engineering and information systems since the 1980s. Collaborations have included major projects with BT – as BT Reader – involving technology transfer across the organization for specification methods for development and design of BT’s information systems. He has been involved with process improvement projects, including consultancies with The Halifax, Price-Waterhouse-Coopers, and several large insurance companies. These involved use of various versions of the Capability Maturity Model and the draft standard for Process Assessment.
He has recently established an International Masters in Information Management, based at the University of Malaya. The students are drawn from EU and ASEAN countries, and they study full-time; visiting professors of international repute – selected and invited by Professor Bryant - provide the instruction. He is currently in the process of establishing a linked Masters programme with USST School of Management - University of Shanghai Science and Technology.

Stephen Parkinson: Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law and Professor of Business Strategy.

Stephen Parkinson’s particular areas of interest are in developing and implementing effective marketing strategies, management development and the management of change, branding and promotion and international business. He is the author of ‘New Product Development in the Engineering Industry’, ‘Organisational Buying Behaviour’ ‘Using the MicroComputer in Marketing’ and ‘Marketing: An Introductory Text’l. He is also the author of over 100 journal articles, conference papers and professional articles in the areas of marketing strategy, purchasing, management development, branding, innovation and technology transfer.

Alan White: Professor of Men’s Health

Alan White is the world’s first Professor of Men’s Health. His research includes the Scoping Study on Men’s Health for the Department of Health in 2001, and the Report on the State of Men’s Health across 17 European Countries. A founder member of the Men’s Health Forum (England and Wales) and the Chair of the Board of Trustees since 2000, he also took part in setting up the European Men’s Health Forum and is currently on the Executive Board. He sat on the executive of the Gender and Health Partnership from its inception in 2001 to the first Gender and Health Summit in 2003 and was a member of the Reference Group for Men’s Health at the Government’s Health Development Agency.

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 2006

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