Emeritus professors

Richard Batley is Emeritus Professor of Development Administration at the International Development Department, School of Government, University of Birmingham. His research interests are in government, service delivery, public accounting, non-state service provision, public-private partnership, regulation, urban policy, and aid management.

He has experience in Britain, Latin America, Africa and ...

Tony Bovaird is a leading authority on public sector strategic management, performance management and user and community co-production. In addition to being Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham he is a Visiting Professor at the National School of Public Administration, Brazil, a member of the Scientific Board of the German Public Administration Research Foundation and ...

Julian Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham and was Director of the Centre from 1990 to 2001 and again during 2007-08.

It is with great sadness that the University of Birmingham sadly notes the passing away of Professor Philip Hanson OBE, a long serving colleague in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies. Phil was an outstanding authority and one of the foremost Western scholars on the Soviet, Russian and East European economies.

Author of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy (2003); The Consumer in ...

Author of a number of publications on Russian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, her books include: The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (1976), The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore (1987), Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia (1995), The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (2001) and (with Andrei Pavlov) ...

Research and teaching has revolved around the issue of complex change and this has been pursued in the areas of development theory, comparative politics of East Asia and the political culture of Britain.

John has been an academic member of staff at the Institute of Local Government Studies since 1979, during which time he has served two terms as Director (from 1995-2001 and from 2009-2011) as well as Director of Postgraduate Research, and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He was founder director of the University's brand-leading Public Service MBA programme and of the MSc in Public ...

Professor Carole Rakodi, International Development Department, Emeritus Professor, Director, Religions and Development Research Programme.

Catherine Staite provides consultancy support and CPD programmes on leadership and governance, organisational development and managing relationships between politicians and managers. Catherine is also a qualified coach, specialising in coaching both political and managerial leaders.

Colin Thain is a political scientist and political economist who has been researching on the role of economic institutions and economic policy making for thirty years.