Leadership Team and Core Staff

Work across the Institute of Global Sustainable Development is managed day-to-day by the leadership team and overseen by an advisory board.

Leadership team

Dorothea Kleine portrait smiling into camera

Professor Dorothea Kleine

Professor of Human Geography and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development

I am Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Data and Digital Innovation. My research investigates sustainable human development and global justice.

Email address: D.J.Kleine@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 7954

Professor Simon Rushton

Professor of International Politics and Co-Director of the Insitute for Global Sustainable Development
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Global health politics
Global health governance
Health systems
Health equity
Post-conflict peacebuilding
Participatory Action Research
Nepal
Colombia

Email address: simon.rushton@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Juan Miguel Kanai

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

I am Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Cities. My work engages the urbanisation of the world under contemporary globalised capitalism.

Email address: miguel.kanai@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 7940

Dr Emma Heywood

Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Radio and Communication

Email address: e.heywood@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 2541

Brian Rice

Senior Lecturer
School of Medicine and Population Health

Email address: b.rice@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 0771

Dr Philipp Horn

Senior Lecturer

My research interests include urban indigeneity; diversity and the right to the city; citizen-led and participatory planning with a focus on Latin American and African cities.

Email address: p.horn@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6938