Professor Carol Adams is an internationally recognised researcher in corporate accounting and reporting and its role in the relationships between business, society and the environment. Her research has been published in Accounting Organizations and Society, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, British Accounting Review, European Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Abacus, Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal, Financial Accountability and Management, Accounting Forum, Business Strategy and Environment.
Carol’s research, engagement and impact work focusses on policy development in corporate reporting and its implications for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
Adebola is Assistant Professor at Durham Law School. He holds a PhD in Law with a focus on sustainable project finance. His research interest includes sustainable finance, renewable energy, and the role of technology in climate change adaptation strategies.
Amir Atapour-Abarghouei is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science within the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in the UK. He has previously worked as a Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University in the UK. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Durham University (UK). His research interests span across the areas of machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision, including semantic analysis, language modelling, anomaly detection and deep learning for semantic and geometric scene understanding. His work includes the generalised high-impact GANomaly anomaly detection approach, which is now a part of Intel’s AI product line and used as the underlying method for anomaly detection in numerous international patents. Amir has Co-organised the CVPR-NAS2022, CVPR-NAS2023, and CVPR-NAS2021 workshops as well as workshops at BigData (BDA4CID and BDA4HM (2017-2023).
Smith I Azubuike is Assistant Professor in Energy Law at Durham Law School and a qualified Lawyer in Nigeria. He previously taught at Queen's University Belfast. Smith's teaching and research focus on energy law and sustainability, risk allocation in the energy sector and renewable energy law. He also researches how the energy transition can be just in the drive for a net-zero economy. Smith holds an LLB from Rivers State University in Nigeria and an LLM and PhD from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee. He practised as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria since 2007 and was Head of Litigations in the law firm of Samuel C. Dike & Co. in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 2013. Smith is the Book Reviews Editor of Edinburgh University Press’ Global Energy Law and Sustainability journal.
Nelly Bencomo is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Durham University (UK). Her expertise is on quantification of uncertainty quantification of uncertainty to support decision-making for autonomous and self-adaptive systems, in domains such as networking systems and Digital Health. In doing so, she also exploits the interdisciplinary aspects of Computer Science and Software Engineering, comprising both technical and human concerns, while developing techniques for intelligent, autonomous, socio-technical systems, which can be highly distributed. She has been the PI of research projects and fellowships (e.g. EPSRC Twenty20Insight Project, Leverhulme (QuantUn Fellowship, 2019), and EU (Marie-Curie Fellow in Inria, France).
Dr Kim Bouwer joined Durham Law School in 2021. Her research interests lie in energy and climate change law and private law. She is particularly interested in litigation in the context of climate change, the regulation and governance of energy efficiency and low carbon technologies, and climate finance. At present her research focuses on climate litigation and its relationship with activism.
Ming Du is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law and Policy at Durham Law School. His works in environmental law have appeared in Journal of Environmental Law and Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. His Monograph the Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law was published by Hart in 2020.
Dr Can Eken is an assistant professor and co-director of the Master of Laws (LLM) programmes at Durham Law School, and a deputy director of the Durham International Dispute Resolution Institute. He researches and gives consultancy to law firms mainly on international commercial arbitration, investment law, contracts, third-party funding, commercial mediation and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods. He is an award-winning international legal scholar, and arbitration consultant. He is a triple-qualified attorney, admitted to practice law in England and Wales as a solicitor, an Attorney and Counselor at the Law in California, and Turkiye; a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB). He holds a PhD in Laws degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and two LLM degrees, one from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and another from Dokuz Eylül University, where he also obtained his bachelor’s degree in law with a high honour degree. He spent the 2019/20 academic year at Stanford University and two months in 2021 at Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg as a visiting scholar.
Professor Kieran Jude Fernandes is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Development and Engagement) and Professor of Operations Management at the Durham University Business School. Prior to this role, he held the roles of Executive Dean (Interim), Associate Dean and Head of Department (Management & Marketing) at the Durham University Business School. Professor Fernandes is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Executive Director of the Northern Powerhouse Innovation Observatory, Fellow of University College Durham, and the Wolfson Research Institute.
Cameron Harrington is an Assistant Professor in International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs. He is Deputy Director of the Global Policy Institute, Durham University and a non-resident Fellow of the Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town. Prior to coming to Durham, he held Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the University of Cape Town and Université de Montréal. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Harrington has published widely on issues of global environmental politics. His research draws from multiple academic disciplines, including international relations, political philosophy, criminology, and human geography to focus on the theory and practice of environmental security, particularly water conflict and cooperation in the Anthropocene.
Aileen McHarg has been Professor of Public Law and Human Rights at Durham Law School since September 2019. Her main teaching and research interests lie in UK and Scottish constitutional and administrative law. She also researches in energy law and regulation, where her publications focus on questions of energy governance and the promotion and regulation of sustainable energy.
Ashraf Osman is a Professor at the Department of Engineering. His research focuses on ensuring resilience and sustainability of geo-infrastructure. Professor Osman has demonstrated leadership of successful research projects as Principal investigator of a number of GCRF, Newton Fund and Directed International grants in the fields of geohazards and the resilience of infrastructure from several UK funding bodies, including the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Engineering Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This has given him considerable experience in managing multi-disciplinary research projects which involve collaboration with various stakeholders, government agencies and policymakers.
Dr Jane Rooney is Assistant Professor in International Law at Durham Law School, United Kingdom. She is CI on a project entitled, The Extractive Industry and Foreign Security Network which aims to establish an international, multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary research network to investigate adverse humans rights impacts arising from the securitisation of natural resources. She researches the intersections between international, human rights, public, and private law, focusing on the UK, in the context of multinational corporations and human rights. She is an Academic Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute, Member of the Centre for Sustainable Development, Law and Policy, Law and Global Justice at Durham, Member of Public Interests in Private Relationships Network, and Associate of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Robert Schütze is Professor of European and Global Law. Outside the Law School, he co-founded the Global Policy Institute with the political scientist Professor David Held. Dr Schütze is a constitutional scholar with a particular expertise in the law of the European Union and comparative federalism.
Robert Song is Professor of Theological Ethics in the Department of Theology and Religion, and a former President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. He is programme director of the MA in Environmental Humanities.
Christopher Szabla joined Durham Law School as Assistant Professor in International Law in September 2022. His main teaching and research focuses lie in international law, legal history, and migration, and his works and interests have included the relationship between migration and development and on climate migration.
Dr Angelia (Jia) Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Law School, Durham University. Prior to joining Durham Law School in 2020, she taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has been a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (now the Berkman Klein Centre), Harvard University and a Postdoc Fellow at the Law School, Singapore Management University. She teaches Intellectual Property Law and Contract Law.
Dr Olivia Woolley joined the Durham Law School in January 2020. She researches and teaches in the fields of environmental law, law and ecology, and energy law. Her research in these areas considers law's role in facilitating and securing socio-economic transition towards ecological sustainability. She also focuses in her energy research on renewable energy law, particularly law relating to the production of energy from renewable sources offshore.
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