People

People

Armadillo sculptureStaff Details

General inquiries can be directed towards the contact details at the bottom of this page. If you wish to get in touch with a specific member of staff please see below for further details.

Key Contacts

School Management and Directors

Name Position Email Address
Professor Chris Collins Head of School chris.collins@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Shona Potts Director of Education s.potts@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Syrithe Pugh Director of Research s.m.pugh@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Johannes Heim Director of Postgraduate Research Studies johannes.heim@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Agni Connor Head of Cluster A (Celtic, English, Gaelic, Linguistics) agni.connor@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Trevor Stack Head of Cluster B (Modern Languages) t.stack@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Christopher Gray Head of Cluster C (Ethnology, Film & Visual Cutlure, Music) chris.gray@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Will Barras Student Recruitment Lead w.s.barras@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Zhu Zhu Internationalisation Lead

zhu.zhu@abdn.ac.uk

 

Engagement, Equality, Health and Wellbeing

Professor Tim Baker Student Engagement Officer t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Macpherson Employability and Entrepreneurship Officer alan.macpherson1@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Elliott Decolonised Curriculum Lead elizabethelliott@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Roger Ravet Disabilities Coordinator r.ravet@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Tim Baker Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Aideen O'Leary Race Equality Champion a.oleary@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Bárbara Barreiro León Deputy Race Equality Champion barbara.leon@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Dan Wall Ethics Officer d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Dan Wall Health and Safety Officer d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk
  Senior Personal Tutor Please contact s.potts@abdn.ac.uk

 

Year Abroad Coordinators

Dr Tara Beaney Year Abroad Coordinator (German) tara.beaney@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Maria Fernandez Year Abroad Coordinator (Spanish) m.fernandez@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Clemence O'Connor Year Abroad Coordinator (French) clemence.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Undergraduate Programme Coordinators

Undergraduate Programme Coordinators

Name Position Email Address
Dr Aideen O'Leary Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies a.oleary@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Anderson English sarahelizabeth.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Macpherson Film & Visual Culture alan.macpherson1@abdn.ac.uk 
Professor Nadia Kiwan French & Francophone Studies n.kiwan@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Ralph O'Connor Gaelic Studies r.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Tara Beaney German Studies tara.beaney@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Dawn Leslie Language & Linguistics dawn.leslie@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Jo Hicks Music and Music Ed. jonathan.hicks@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Marian Fernandez Spanish & Latin American Studies m.fernandez@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Zhu Zhu Translation and Interpreting zhu.zhu@abdn.ac.uk
Postgraduate Programme Coordinators

Postgraduate Programme Coordinators

Name PGT Programme Email Address
Dr Tara Beaney Comparative Literature tara.beaney@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Bárbara Barreiro León Creative and Cultural Communication barbara.leon@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Warner Creative Writing alan.warner@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Gordon Literatures, Environments and Places a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Nicolas Le Bigre Ethnology & Folklore n.lebigre@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Macpherson Film, Visual Culture and Arts Management alan.macpherson1@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Sharp English Language and Literature sarah.sharp@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Aaron McGregor Music aaron.mcgregor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Rowan MacKay Global Business Communication rowan.mackay@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Agni Connor TESOL - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages agni.connor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Maria Sanchez-Ortiz Translation and Interpreting m.t.sanchez@abdn.ac.uk
Administrative Office

Permanent Staff

Name Position Email Address
Dr Jon Cameron School Administration Manager jon.cameron@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Julia Kotzur Senior School Administrator (Postgraduate Taught and Research, Lead Cluster A) julia.kotzur@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Thomas Connolly School Administrator (German, MLTI, and Sustained Studies, Lead Cluster B) thomas.connolly2@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Lyndsey Scott School Administrator (Music, Lead Cluster C) lyndsey.scott@abdn.ac.uk
Mx Kit Dunster School Administration Coordinator (Gaelic, Spanish and French) kit.dunster@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Roy Macqueen School Administration Coordinator (Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies, Linguistics and TESOL) roy.macqueen@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Xavier Lo School Technician xavier.lo@abdn.ac.uk
Mrs Elena Sinclair School Administration Assistant (Film and Visual Culture) elena.sinclair@abdn.ac.uk 
Ms Alison Sharman School Administrator (Elphinstone Institute) a.sharman@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Simon Gall Public Engagement Officer (Elphinstone Institute) simon.gall@abdn.ac.uk

 

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Daniel Cutts Teaching Fellow daniel.cutts3@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Aideen O'Leary Lecturer a.oleary@abdn.ac.uk
Professor David Wheatley Personal Chair d.wheatley@abdn.ac.uk

 

EmeritusStaff

Name Position Email Address
Professor Patrick Crotty Emeritus Professor p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk
English

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Professor Shane Alcobia-Murphy Personal Chair/ Professor in English sam@abdn.ac.uk
Dr S Elizabeth Anderson Senior Lecturer sarahelizabeth.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Timothy Baker Personal Chair t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Sukla Chatterjee Lecturer sukla.chatterjee@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Elliott Senior Lecturer elizabethelliott@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Gordon Personal Chair / Professor in English andrew.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Natalie Harries Research Fellow natalie.harries@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Helena Ifill Senior Lecturer helena.ifill@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Catherine Jones Personal Chair / Professor in English c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Alison Lumsden Regius Chair of English a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Helen Lynch Reader h.lynch@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Macpherson Teaching Fellow alan.macpherson1@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Macklin Early Career Fellow rebecca.macklin@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Alan Marcus Chair in Creative and Culture Practice a.marcus@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Ralph O'Connor Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland r.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Syrithe Pugh Reader /
LLMVC Director of Research
s.pugh@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Rist Senior Lecturer t.rist@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Sharp Lecturer sarah.sharp@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Shane Strachan Lecturer shane.strachan@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Tim Tricker Teaching Fellow tim.tricker@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Dan Wall Teaching Fellow d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Warner Senior Lecturer alan.warner@abdn.ac.uk
Professor David Wheatley Personal Chair d.wheatley@abdn.ac.uk

Honorary Staff

Name Position Email Address
Professor Cairns Craig Emeritus Professor cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Patrick Crotty Emeritus Professor p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk
Professor David Hewitt Emeritus Professor d.s.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Derek Hughes Emeritus Professor d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Jeannette King Emeritus Professor j.m.king@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Derrick McClure Honorary Senior Lecturer j.d.mcclure@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Isobel Murray Emeritus Professor imurray@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Paul Schlicke Honorary Senior Lecturer p.schlicke@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Alan Spence Emeritus Professor a.spence@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Janet Todd Emeritus Professor j.todd@abdn.ac.uk
Ethnology & Folklore - Elphinstone Institute

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Mr Nicolas Le Bigre Teaching Fellow, Archives n.lebigre@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Thomas A McKean Lecturer / Director of Elphinstone Institute t.a.mckean@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Frances Wilkins Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology frances.wilkins@abdn.ac.uk
Film & Visual Culture

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Silvia Casini Reader silvia.casini@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Katya Krylova Senior Lecturer katya.krylova@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Bárbara Barreiro León Lecturer barbara.leon@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Alan Macpherson Teaching Fellow alan.macpherson1@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi Lecturer alejandra.rodriguez@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Calum Waddell Lecturer calum.waddell@abdn.ac.uk
French & Francophone Studies

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Fransiska Louwagie Senior Lecturer fransiska.louwagie@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Nadia Kiwan Chair in French n.kiwan@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Clemence O'Connor Lecturer clemence.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Shona Potts Senior Lecturer s.potts@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Roger Ravet Senior Lecturer r.ravet@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Bruno Tribout Personal Chair b.tribout@abdn.ac.uk

Honorary Staff

Name Position Email Address
Dr Glynn Hesketh Emeritus Senior Lecturer g.hesketh@abdn.ac.uk    
Dr Margaret Jubb Emeritus Senior Lecturer m.jubb@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Alison Saunders Emeritus Professor a.m.saunders@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Edward Welch Emeritus Professor edward.welch@abdn.ac.uk
Gaelic Studies

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Susan Ross Teaching Fellow susan.ross@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Michelle Macleod Personal Chair / Professor of Gaelic / Dean for Impact and Engagement m.macleod@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Ralph O'Connor Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland r.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Moray Watson Personal Chair / Professor of Gaelic and Translation m.watson@abdn.ac.uk

Honorary Staff

Name Position Email Address
Professor Colm O'Boyle Emeritus Professor c.oboyle@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Kirstie MacLeod Emeritus Lecturer kirstie.macleod@abdn.ac.uk
German Studies

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Tara Beaney  Lecturer tara.beaney@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Sara Heim Teaching Fellow sara.heim@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Katya Krylova Senior Lecturer katya.krylova@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Julia Roeder Lektorin julia.roeder@abdn.ac.uk

Honorary Staff

Name Position Email Address
Professor Gordon Burgess Emeritus Professor g.burgess@abdn.ac.uk
Language & Linguistics

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr William Barras Lecturer w.s.barras@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Agni Connor Senior Lecturer agni.connor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Elspeth Edelstein Senior Lecturer elspeth.edelstein@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Johannes Heim Lecturer johannes.heim@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Rowan Mackay Lecturer rowan.mackay@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Robert McColl Millar Personal Chair / Professor in Linguistics r.millar@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Dawn Leslie Lecturer dawn.leslie@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Ishrat Rehman-Feltell Teaching Fellow ishrat.rehman-feltell@abdn.ac.uk
Music

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Christina Ballico Lecturer christina.ballico@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Chris Collins Chair in Music chris.collins@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Phillip Cooke Chair in Composition p.cooke@abdn.ac.uk
Mr Christopher Gray Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) chris.gray@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Amin Hashemi Research Fellow amin.hashemi@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Hicks Lecturer in Music jonathan.hicks@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Suk-Jun Kim Chair in Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Arts s.kim@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth Lecturer in Ethnomusicology matthew.machin-autenrieth@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Aaron McGregor Lecturer aaron.mcgregor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr John De Simone Senior Lecturer in Composition john.desimone@abdn.ac.uk

Honorary Staff 

Name Position Email Address
Professor Edward Campbell Emeritus Professor of Music e.campbell@abdn.ac.uk
Spanish & Latin American Studies

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Jesse Barker Senior Lecturer jbarker@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Sonia Domingo Lecturer s.domingo@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Marian Fernandez Lecturer m.fernandez@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Bárbara Barreiro León Teaching Fellow barbara.leon@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Lourdes Parra Teaching Fellow lourdes.parralazcano@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Patience Schell Chair in Hispanic Studies p.schell@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Trevor Stack Personal Chair t.stack@abdn.ac.uk
Sustained Studies: Arabic and Mandarin

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Khaled Bashir Lecturer khaled.bashir@abdn.ac.uk
Ms Fen Glover Lecturer f.glover@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Lindsay Sullivan Deputy Director of Confucius Institute / 
Lecturer
lindsay.sullivan@abdn.ac.uk


 

Translation and Interpreting

Permanent Staff

For details of undergraduate or postgraduate programme coordinators please see above.

Name Position Email Address
Dr Maria Sanchez-Ortiz Senior Lecturer m.t.sanchez@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Moray Watson Personal Chair / Professor of Gaelic and Translation m.watson@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Zhu Zhu Lecturer zhu.zhu@abdn.ac.uk

 

The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3UB

Email: llmvc.enquiries@abdn.ac.uk