Staff in IMS

Dr Ariane Agunsoye

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

Ariane’s research focuses on the impact of financialization on everyday life.

Dr Ada Maria Barone

Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Programme Co-Director, BSc Management with Pathways; BSc Business Management
A.Barone (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Chris Brauer

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

Dr Chris is a practitioner-first public academic focused on AI, lean and green economy, and human behaviour

Professor Ivano Cardinale

Head of Department, Professor
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)

Brian's research focuses on the economic consequences of Covid-19 government policies.

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 Tiziana Foresti

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

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

Dr Cassie Gilbert

Lecturer in Applied Business, Head of Careers and Employability
C.Gilbert (@gold.ac.uk)

Cassie's focus is making employability an integral part of all IMS programmes.

Dr Nigel Guenole

Reader in Management and Psychology
n.guenole (@gold.ac.uk)

Nigel specialises in strategic leadership assessment and people analytics.

Dr Shaheen Hosany

Lecturer in Marketing, Programme Director MSc Marketing and Technology
S.Hosany (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr 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.

Dr 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

Senior 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.

Dr Franziska Kiki Leutner

Lecturer in 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, Programme Director, MSc Consumer Behaviour
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.

Austin Milne

Lecturer in Creative Entrepreneurship
a.milne (@gold.ac.uk)

A practice-based researcher, Austin investigates the practical and ethical implications of new business models in the arts.

Dr Tomás Rotta

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

Tomás specialises in theoretical and applied Political Economy, with expertise in coding and quantitative methods.

Luciana Velloso

Lecturer in Marketing
l.velloso (@gold.ac.uk)

Luciana studies how actors and institutions shape and are shaped by our current media landscape.

Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam

Professor of Economics
r.venkatachalam (@gold.ac.uk)

Ragupathy's research focuses on the interface between computation and economics, economic dynamics, discrimination, causal inference, history and methodology of economics.