The Reimagining Research Practices Team

The Reimagining Research Practices Team at Brockholes in 2025
Professor Phil Barker

Prof. Phil Barker

Phil, a Professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre, is a co-investigator on the project and lead on the sustainability pillar.

p.barker@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Daniel Craddock

Dr. Dan Craddock

Dan, an Education Fellow, has contributed across all project pillars, and has had a particular interest in cuppa conundrums and creating podcast episodes, which can be found as part of the This is Lancaster podcast series.

d.craddock1@lancaster.ac.uk

Glen Dobson

Glen Dobson

Glen is a Senior Developer who has worked on software outputs of the project including the Community REsearch Digital Toolkit (CREDIT)

g.dobson@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Samuel Finnerty

Dr. Samuel Finnerty

Samuel is a Senior Research Associate in Psychology with an interest in how social and moral psychological factors affect individual and collective pro-environmental actions. He has been particularly involved in the ethics pillar of the project as well as the evaluation of cultural change.

s.finnerty@lancaster.ac.uk

Cat Gold

Cat Gold

Cat is the project manager and is based in Research and Enterprise Services.

c.gold@lancaster.ac.uk

Becky Gordon

Becky Gordon

Becky is the Head of Research Quality and Policy, based in Research and Enterprise Services, and is a co-investigator on the project.

b.gordon@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Nuri Kwon

Dr. Nuri Kwon

Nuri is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Arts, with a focus on inclusive and community-based research practices. She is central to the Inclusion pillar of the project.

n.kwon1@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof. Mark Levine

Prof. Mark Levine

Mark is a Professor in Psychology with an interest in the role of social identity and group processes in prosocial and anti-social behaviour. He is a co-investigator on the project with a focus on the Ethics pillar.

mark.levine@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof. Carlos Lopez-Galviz

Prof. Carlos Lopez-Galviz

Carlos is a Professor in the School of Arts with an interest in understanding how we can and should connect history to social futures. He is a co-investigator on the project with a focus on the Inclusion pillar.

c.lopez-galviz@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Richard Philpot

Dr. Richard Philpot

Richard is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology with research interests in the intersection of psychology, criminology, law and technology. He is a Co-Investigator on the project with a focus on the Ethics pillar, the evaluation of culture change, and the development of micro:bits for use in community research.

r.philpot@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Seth Robinson

Dr. Seth Robinson

Seth is a Senior Research Associate in Lancaster Environment Centre and has had a particular focus on the sustainability pillar of the project.

s.robinson19@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Heather Shaw

Dr. Heather Shaw

Heather is a lecturer in Psychology with an interest in understanding the situational and individual factors that influence people's behaviours, through analysing digital behavioural signatures. She is a co-investigator on the project with a particular focus on the ethics pillar and the the development of micro:bits for use in community research.

h.shaw5@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Valerie Seymour

Dr. Valerie Seymour

Valerie is an Education Fellow on the project, who has contributed across all project pillars, and has been instrumental in producing a sustainability training package for researchers, and a community research toolkit.

v.seymour@lancaster.ac.uk

Elaine Sykes

Elaine Sykes

Elaine was the Head of Open Research at the Library and co-investigator on the project. Sadly, Elaine passed away in June 2025. Her energy and drive around the inclusion pillar in particular were key to the project. We, as a project, fondly remember her.

Dr. Yingnian Tao

Dr. Yingnian Tao

Yingnian is a Senior Research Associate in Psychology, with a background in linguistics. She has employed her expertise in corpus linguistics analysis with particular relevance to the sustainability pillar of the project.

y.tao4@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. John Vidler

Dr. John Vidler

John is a Senior Research Associate in Psychology, with a background in Computing. He is a Senior Developer on the project, working on extending micro:bit technology to work with a range on sensors, further improving their ease of uptake for community research.

j.vidler@lancaster.ac.uk

Louise Zambianchi

Louise Zambianchi

Louise is Open Access Manager in the library and co-investigator on the project, with a particular interest in the Inclusion pillar.

louise.zambianchi@lancaster.ac.uk