Staff in IMS

Dr Ragupathy Venkatachalam

Head of Department
r.venkatachalam (@gold.ac.uk)

Ragupathy’s research areas include Endogenous Business Cycle Theory, Computable Economics and Behavioural Economics.

Dr Ariane Agunsoye

Lecturer in Economics
A.Agunsoye (@gold.ac.uk)

Ariane's research focusses on how financialisation takes place in daily life, exploring the construction of household financial identity within society.

Dr Ada Maria Barone

Lecturer in Marketing
A.Barone (@gold.ac.uk)

Ada Maria’s research focuses on the psychological mechanisms underlying consumers’ sustainable choices and behaviour

Professor Frank Bond

Professor in Occupational Psychology
f.bond (@gold.ac.uk)

Frank focuses on predicting and influencing human behaviour in organisations ranging from the BBC, to the European Space Agency and the UK Olympic team

Dr Chris Brauer

Programme Director, MSc Management of Innovation Senior Lecturer
brauer (@gold.ac.uk)

Chris applies academic research to emerging technologies, with interests in AI, consumer behaviour and smart energy.

Dr Ivano Cardinale

Reader; Director, Undergraduate Economics Programmes
i.cardinale (@gold.ac.uk)

Ivano is developing a structural approach to political economy, drawing on economic and social theory.

Brian Cepparulo

Associate Lecturer
b.cepparulo (@gold.ac.uk)

Applied economic policy, Macroeconomics

Dr Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

Senior Lecturer in Economics
m.desmarais-tremblay (@gold.ac.uk)

The theory of public finance, its recent history and philosophical foundations, is central to Maxime’s research.

Dr Rachel Doern

Reader in Entrepreneurship
r.doern (@gold.ac.uk)

Much of Rachel’s research examines the cognitions, emotions and behaviours of entrepreneurs in adverse conditions.

Dr Jonathan Dowling

Associate Lecturer
jonathan.dowling (@gold.ac.uk)

Jonathan's research aims to maximise people's performance and vitality through understanding their everyday emotions in order to act as the person they wish to be.

Dr Christian Eichert

Lecturer in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
c.eichert (@gold.ac.uk)

Christian studies stigma, sexuality, gender, and consumption from a socio-cultural perspective.

Dr Tiziana Foresti

Lecturer in Economics
T.Foresti (@gold.ac.uk)

Tiziana's research focuses on history of economic thought and economic history.

Cassie Gilbert

Lecturer, Applied Business (Careers & Employability)
C.Gilbert (@gold.ac.uk)

Cassie's focus is making employability an integral part of all IMS programmes. Working to ensure all students are career

Dr Nigel Guenole

Senior Lecturer
n.guenole (@gold.ac.uk)

Nigel specializes in talent management, applied statistics and the way businesses utilise psychology and analytics.

Dr Christine A. Hemingway

Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour
C.hemingway (@gold.ac.uk)

Corporate social entrepreneurship, Micro-CSR

Dr Shaheen Hosany

Lecturer in Marketing
S.Hosany (@gold.ac.uk)

Shaheen Hosany researches children, families, resource scarcity and sustainability.

Lin Jiang

Lecturer in Finance
L.Jiang (@gold.ac.uk)

Lin’s research focuses on corporate finance and corporate governance issues.

Dr Vikram Kapoor

Lecturer in Marketing
v.kapoor (@gold.ac.uk)

Vikram’s research focuses on consumer identity projects, stigmatized subpopulations, and religion and consumption

Ratna Khanijou

Lecturer in Marketing
R.Khanijou (@gold.ac.uk)

Ratna studies collective consumption behaviour, family and food practices, display work and couple identity emergence from a consumer culture perspective.

Dr Andrés Lazzarini

Lecturer in Economics
A.Lazzarini (@gold.ac.uk)

Andrés’ research areas include the History of Economic Thought, Epistemology of Economics (Classical, Marginalist, Post-Keynesian and Evolutionary Theories) and Economic Development.

Franziska Kiki Leutner

Lecturer, Director MSc Occupational Psychology
F.Leutner (@gold.ac.uk)

Kiki specialises in Individual Differences and Computational Psychometrics, and their application in industry.

Dr Annemijn Loermans

Lecturer in Marketing and Graduate Careers Coordinator for Marketing
a.loermans (@gold.ac.uk)

Annemijn studies differences in the cognitive representation of abstract concepts (e.g. time, future selves, brands) and explores how these differences drive our (consumer) behaviour, motivation, well-being and emotions.