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Addisalem B. Abebe is a third-year PhD student at the Business School of Wolverhampton University and holds an MA degree in HRM with a distinction. Her research is on the journey of Ethiopian migrants to the UK through migrant smuggling practice. Her choice to do research in the migration field emerges from Her Christian faith and belief that despite the enormous challenges the world is passing through, human lives matter the most and the quality of one life depends on the positive impact the person made on others. Currently, she lives in Birmingham with her husband and four kids. In addition to her PhD, She is an approved VL at the business department of Wolverhampton University through her expertise in human resource management and leadership courses.  Her professional goal is to contribute to the betterment of society through the expansion of her research work on the practice of migrant smuggling and pursue a career in teaching in the higher education sector.  

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton. I am the lead researcher on a QR-funded project developed under the title Who repairs what and why? Community labour after the riots. This research explores how communities, local organisations, and grassroots groups interpret and respond to the social unrest that took place across England in summer 2024, using an in-depth case study approach. It examines how these events are narrated and understood by different civil society actors, and how practices of 'repair' are negotiated in their aftermath through ethnographic research and qualitative interviews.

Prior to this, my research explored the emotional politics of fossil fuel transition, with a particular focus on coal and industrial far-right populism in Central and Eastern Europe. For my PhD, I conducted year-long ethnographic fieldwork within a coal mining community in Upper Silesia, Poland, examining how the changing meanings and materialities of coal are being renegotiated amid postcolonial, postsocialist, and climate-driven transformations, and how these processes intersect with growing support for far-right political narratives and worldviews from below.

In addition to my role at Wolverhampton, I am also an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Geography at UCL, where I teach on the MSc Environment, Politics and Society programme.

Change lies at the heart of Euripides Altintzoglou's artistic practice, serving as both a subject and a force that continually reshapes the world we inhabit. Euripides delves beyond the visible expressions of political discourse, exploring the nuanced and often unacknowledged gestures of resistance and resilience that permeate everyday life.

In a world increasingly defined by division and discord, his work positions art as a powerful tool for fostering understanding and bridging divides. Through objects, videos, images, and installations, Euripides harnesses the iconic and transformative potential of imagery, using it as a catalyst to provoke reflection and engage with the pressing concerns of our time.

His work has been exhibited internationally in both private and public galleries, as well as in major international exhibitions. Noteworthy theoretical contributions include his monograph Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being (Routledge, New York, 2018) and the co-edited essay collection Revolt and Revolution: The Protester in the 21st Century (with Martin Fredriksson, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, 2016).

Professor and Chair of Additive Manufacturing

Director of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research (CEIR)

External/Honorary Appointments
Appointed Member of the ‘AMT/8 Additive Manufacturing’ BSI Standards Development Committee

Industry upskilling Training and CPD

Prof Arjunan delivers a range of Skills Training and CPD in Additive Manufacturing, Metamaterials, Metallurgy, Numerical Modelling and Design of Experiments through the Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills (ECMS). See further information and book courses here https://theecms.co.uk/

Short Biography

Prof Dr Arun Arjunan is the Professor and Chair of Additive Manufacturing and Director of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research (CEIR) at the University of Wolverhampton. He led major national initiatives including the £11.6 million Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills (ECMS) and the £20 million National Centre for Green Electric Materials Manufacturing (GEMM), helping to shape the future of sustainable and high-value manufacturing in the UK.

The University of Wolverhampton was the first UK university to pioneer Laser-Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Additive Manufacturing through its collaboration with EOS in 1999, a programme now in its 26th year under the leadership of Prof Arun Arjunan. Building on early breakthroughs in processing titanium, steel, aluminium and cobalt–chromium, his Additive Manufacturing Group now advances high thermal gradient materials, developing novel alloys, metalloids, cermets, semiconductors and metamaterials.

By pushing Additive Manufacturing beyond conventional limits by printing of highly reflective and traditionally hard-to-process systems such as copper, copper-silver and diamond-copper Prof Arjunan’s Group has positioned Wolverhampton at the forefront of next-generation additive manufacturing of semiconductors and microelectronic devices. In 2024, Prof Arjunan also established the Centre of Excellence for Shaped Laser Additive Manufacturing at the University of Wolverhampton in collaboration with EOS and AMCM, which is the first institute dedicated to exploring beam shaping technologies. Alongside these experimental advances, he has made significant theoretical contributions through the Arjunan Defect Severity Model linking manufacturing defect to effective thermal conductivity in AM materials, Herschel-Quincke-Arjunan (HQA) model and the Robinson-Arjunan (RA) scaling law providing a predictive framework for self-organised porous metamaterial lattices in LPBF by linking thin-film instability physics with melt-pool kinetics to accurately describe sub-micron length scales in advanced systems such as copper-diamond composites.

He was appointed to the ‘AMT/8 Additive Manufacturing’ BSI standards development committee in 2020, contributing to ISO standards that support UK and international additive manufacturing industries. His contributions have been widely recognised and has been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists for five consecutive years (2021-2025). His awards include the GKN Award (2011), the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research (2020), the UK Engineering Innovation Award (2021), the Emerald Literati Award (2022), and the Research Impact Award (2024). He was also nominated for the Blavatnik Awards in the United Kingdom and was a finalist in The Engineer UK Collaborate to Innovate Awards for 3D-printing smart swabs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through research, standards leadership, and skills development, Professor Arjunan is helping to position additive manufacturing as a reliable, scalable and sustainable technology to democratise compound semiconductor, on-chip heat exchangers and micro-electronic manufacturing for the industries of the future.

Original Models and Laws

Arjunan Defect Severity Model

Predictive framework linking manufacturing defect severity to effective thermal conductivity, connecting metal additive manufacturing process quality and defect formation directly to functional thermal performance. 

Robinson-Arjunan Scaling Law

Scaling law linking LPBF melt-pool physics and thin-film instability to the formation of self-organised sub-micron architectures, establishing additive manufacturing as a platform for process-driven microstructural design. 

Herschel-Quincke-Arjunan model

Acoustic interference model enabling frequency targeted, geometry-controlled waveguides realised through additive manufacturing, linking analytical design directly to manufacturable acoustic metamaterials. 

Selected Accolades

UK Engineering Innovation Awards

Emerald Literati Award

University of Wolverhampton Research Impact Award

Vice chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research
THE ENGINEER UK Collaborate to Innovate

World's Top 2% Scientist (Stanford list)

Recently in media
COVID-19 resistant metal: https://www.metal-am.com/university-of-wolverhampton-researchers-additively-manufacture-covid-19-resistant-metal/
3D printed smart swab could alleviate COVID-19 test concerns: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/3d-printed-smart-swab-covid-19-tests/
3D printed silver implants help tackle infections: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/2020/november-2020/3d-printed-silver-implants-help-tackle-infections.php

External links: ORCID, Twitter, Linkedin, Researchgate

Dr. Nadia Asghar is a dedicated academic and practitioner currently serving as a faculty member in the Department of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at the University of Wolverhampton, where she has been affiliated since 2018. With nearly two decades of experience spanning UK and international higher education institutions, she combines scholarly rigor with extensive professional expertise gained through roles in both local and multinational corporate environments.

Her research and teaching specializations lie at the intersection of Empirical Finance, Corporate Finance, and Behavioural Finance, through which she delivers innovative instruction across undergraduate, postgraduate, and apprenticeship programmes. Dr. Asghar’s pedagogical approach is anchored in demystifying the complexities of financial markets and institutions, emphasizing dynamic market trends, theoretical applications, and the cultivation of analytical skills essential for contemporary finance professionals.

Committed to advancing academic excellence, she fosters intellectually stimulating environments that prioritize critical inquiry, collaborative learning, and the integration of empirical research with practical industry insights. By bridging theoretical frameworks with real-world challenges, Dr. Asghar equips students with adaptable competencies to thrive in evolving global financial landscapes, while maintaining an active engagement with cutting-edge scholarship and pedagogical innovation.

My first degree was in Applied Biological Sciences, followed by a PhD in Botany at the University of Reading. During my PhD, I developed an interest in the role of the plant cell wall in plant growth and development. Upon completion of my PhD, I was appointed as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Cell Biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. During my time at Norwich, I performed research on the biochemistry, molecular structure and molecular biology of arabinogalactan-proteins. At this time I also developed a research interest in plant gum exudates used in the food industry (i.e. gum Arabic). Subsequent to which, I took up a temporary post as a University Lecturer in the Botany Department at Universiti Sains Malaysia where I taught Botany and Biotechnology and continued my research on aspects of plant cell wall biology. In 1999 I returned to the U.K. and was appointed as a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, I carried out research on nucleotide sugar transporters involved in plant cell wall biosynthesis in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. In 2001 I joined the academic staff here at the University of Wolverhampton, as a Senior Lecturer in Plant Sciences and was appointed to my current post as Reader in Plant Cell Biology in 2013. During my time at Wolverhampton, I have continued my research on the structure and function of the plant cell wall in a number of developmental processes and have broadened my research in to a variety of aspects of plant biology and agriculture.

I have been a full-time BSL/English sign language interpreter since 2001 and love working with the Deaf and hearing communities.

I feel very privileged to be an interpreter and love the challenges and experiences I get from my job :-)

I am a part II architecture graduate. Architecture, for me, is a mission to change and improve the quality of people’s lives through good-quality design. I have worked with local councils on several projects during the time spent on education and practice. Over the years, I have developed a keen eye for design and am well-versed in the technical aspects of architecture. I am especially passionate about the social aspect of the discipline with a particular interest in, residential, urban design, commercial, master planning and mixed-use. I am keen and willing to learn about other sectors and develop new skills. I am currently seeking new opportunities within the construction industry, with my long-term goal to pursue a career as an architect

Dr Pete Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education at the University of Wolverhampton, where he runs a top-up degree and jointly leads the MA in Professional Practice and Lifelong Education. He writes textbooks and is involved as writer and editor in the fields of media, education and culture including Barthes’ Mythologies Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture (Routledge 2013), Doing Text: Media after the Subject (2016) and Identity and Resistance in Further Education (2018). He is co- editor of the new Routledge Research in Media Education and Literacy research series (with Julian McDougall).

I joined the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) in November 2021. Prior to that, I was Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Liverpool Hope University and then Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

My background is in Human Geography. My PhD examined anti-austerity activism and alternatives to austerity in Liverpool during 2014-17. I explored how austerity was being experienced, managed, and contested by different groups including grassroots ‘anti-austerity’ campaigns, communities, third sector organisations, and the city council.

My work explores how individuals and communities in different places respond to social and political processes and transformation. I am interested in how people experience those issues in relation to their own everyday lives and diverse identities and senses of belonging, and with respect to their broader attitudes towards social and political polarisation and inequality, working alongside media and government narratives. Some recent topics of study are austerity; Brexit; COVID-19; heritage; community-led housing retrofit; health, wellbeing and place; food inequalities.

I work with a wide range of stakeholders including neighbourhood, community and voluntary organisations, charities, political parties, third sector organisations and local authorities. I have recently been working with Walsall Council, City of Wolverhampton Council, Bolton Council, Historic England, Geese Theatre Company, Homebaked Community Land Trust, Arts Connect, and several local authority-based virtual schools and cultural organisations in the West Midlands.

I have expertise in participatory community research, and have trained and supported a number of organisations to develop their own research capacity. Please get in touch if you’d like to learn more!

I also lead the ICRD theme 'Tackling Inequalities through Heritage and the Arts':
https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-centres/icrd/our-themes/tackling-inequalities-through-heritage-and-the-arts/

Jane is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Wolverhampton.
Her teaching interests bridge the disciplines of sociology and social policy, namely the politics of welfare, community engagement, death and dying, social change. However she is also interested in curriculum development in HE, with a particular focus on community-based learning and critical pedagogy. She is module leader for a number of community-based learning modules at University of Wolverhampton. She has lead 2 teams of students who participated in the SHAPE programme in 2023 and 2024 - a joint Students Organising for Sustainability (SoS) and The British Academy programme. The team in 2023 designed a website to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Wolverhampton, coproduced with Base 25 (a Wolverhampton based charity that works with children, young people and families). In 2024 the students worked with the University of Wolverhampton Catering services to promote a more plant-based diet. She set up the University of Wolverhampton Death Cafes. She also is module leader (and the designer) of the module Advocacy in Action, where social science students work with graphic design students to produce campaigns to raise awareness of social issues, such as Domestic Abuse and Nighttime Safety which have been promoted widely across the University. She has recently set up the Social Purpose Hub (Social Purpose Hub - University of Wolverhampton), a space for local community and voluntary organisations to enlist student support to help them deliver their services to enhance the wellbeing of local people. 
In a previous role at University of Bradford she developed the IMPACT project, creating a volunteer ‘bank’ for social science students wishing to support the local community, drawing on their learning of social issues. Supported by the voluntary organisations, Equality Together and Hidden Voices, students worked with service user groups to co-produce collaborative events for people with Mental Health Issues. This project resulted in being awarded the 2017 Teaching Award at University of Bradford for her contribution to student learning.
In University of Wales Jane was a lecturer in Social Policy, and was project lead for the evaluation of a project in South Wales, engaging disadvantaged groups in co-creating improved health and wellbeing outcomes. This project presented the opportunity to investigate the opportunities and barriers to shared decision-making.
Jane worked in the voluntary sector for a number of years post PhD, including managing the project "Women in Governance" in South West London (2002-2007), which provided training and mentoring for women from disadvantaged backgrounds to get involved in decision-making. She also managed a parent participation project for a national autism charity, TreeHouse, supporting parent carer forums to work with Local Authorities to ensure better outcomes for children with disabilities (2008-2010).