Key Staff in the School of Government

Head of School

Head of School

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

Deputy Head of School

Danielle Beswick 
Email: d.beswick@bham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 0121 414 7976

PA to Head of School

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

Department and  Institute Leads

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

Head of International Development Department (IDD Academic Staff)
David Hudson

Head of the Department of Public Administration and Policy (DPAP Academic Staff)
Jason Lowther

Director of the Institute for German Studies (IGS Academic Staff)
Thomas Brodie

 

Academic Leads

Martin Ottmann, Head of Research

Louise Reardon, Deputy Head of Research (Impact lead)

Julian Pänke, Head of Education

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

Peter Kerr, Head of Postgraduate Research

May Chu, Head of Global Engagement

Professional Services Staff

Head of Operations

Julie McLynn
Email: j.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 

Executive Officers

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

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

Senior School Administrators

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

Project Administrator

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

School Administrators

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

Education support office

Undergraduate Deputy Education Support Manager

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

Undergraduate Senior Education Support Administrators

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

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

Jasmin Begum
Email: j.begum.6@bham.ac.uk

Undergraduate Education Support Administrator

Julianne Gascoyne
Email: j.e.gascoyne@bham.ac.uk

 Postgraduate Deputy Education Support Manager

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

Postgraduate Senior Education Support Administrators

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

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

Postgraduate Education Support Administrators

Debra Beard (leaving in July)
Email: D.L.Beard@bham.ac.uk

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