Key Staff in the School of Government

Head of School

René Lindstädt
Email: r.lindstaedt@bham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 0121 414 6060

PA to Head of School

Dee Pettifer
Email: govsocpahos@contacts.bham.ac.uk 
Tel: +44 0121 414 8227

Head of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS)
Stefan Wolff

Head of International Development Department (IDD)
David Hudson

Head of Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV)
Jason Lowther

Academic Director, Developmental Leadership Programme (DLP)
David Hudson

Centre Manager, GSDRC
Zenobia Ismail

Deputy Director, Institute for German Studies (IGS)
Jost Morgenstren-Pomoroski

Dr Martin Ottmann, Head of Research

Louise Reardon, Deputy Head of Research (Impact lead)

Richard North, Head of Education

Eleni Vezirgiannidou, Deputy Head of Education (Quality Assurance Lead)

Danielle Beswick, Head of Postgraduate Research

Head of Operations

Julie McLynn
Email: j.m.mcLynn@bham.ac.uk

Deputy Head of Operations

Heather Cooper
Email: h.white.1@bnham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Manager 

Ben Clarke
Email: b.j.clarke@bham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Manager 

Tim Suffield
Email: T.M.Suffield@bham.ac.uk

Executive Officer

Dee Pettifer
Email: d.j.pettifer@bham.ac.uk 

Executive Officer

Sobia Baig
Email: s.baig.2@bham.ac.uk

Senior School Administrator

Sonia Arshad 
Email: s.arshad.1@bham.ac.uk

Project Administrator

Indi Shambi
Email: I.Shambi.2@bham.ac.uk 

School Administrator

Kieran Folan
Email: k.p.folan@bham.ac.uk

Marcela Avila Soler
Email: m.d.p.avilasoler@bham.ac.uk

Student Experience Officer

Kerrie Myers
Email: K.L.Myers@bham.ac.uk

Journal Administrator

Gemma Banks
Email: g.m.banks@bham.ac.uk

 

Undergraduate Deputy Learning and Teaching Manager 

Andrew Howell
Email: A.Howell@bham.ac.uk

Undergraduate Projects Manager

Michelle Dennant
Email: M.J.French@bham.ac.uk

Programme Administrators

Chereece Ebanks
Email: C.A.Ebanks@bham.ac.uk

Habibah Amin
Email: h.amin@bham.ac.uk

Postgraduate Deputy Learning and Teaching Manager

Sarah Smith 
Email: S.E.Smith.2@bham.ac.uk

Senior Programme Administrators

Emma Steadman
Email: E.P.Steadman@bham.ac.uk

Johanne Ingram
Email: j.e.ingram.1@bham.ac.uk

School PGR Administrator

Tricia Thomas
Email: P.A.Carr@bham.ac.uk

Programme Administrators

Debra Beard
Email: D.L.Beard@bham.ac.uk

Habiba Begum
Email: h.begum.7@bham.ac.uk