Management Board
The Management Board support MICRA's co-directors and institute manager in setting strategic direction.
Board members represent some of the many disciplines involved in research on ageing and The University of Manchester.
Members also include key partner organisations such as Valuing Older People (Manchester City Council/ NHS Manchester) and Age UK:
- Professor James Banks - Professor of Economics
- Professor Alistair Burns - (co-lead) Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
- Professor David Challis - Professor of Community Care Research/Director PSSRU
- Professor Tarani Chandola - Professor of Medical Sociology
- Dr Fumie Costen - Lecturer in Electronic Engineering
- Dr Elaine Dewhurst - Lecturer in Employment Law
- John Fox - Area Head of Partner Relations, Age UK
- David French - Professor of Health Psychology
- Viv Gee - North West Age Action Alliance Coordinator
- Professor Nigel Hooper - Professor, Cell Biology
- Professor Dean Jackson - (co-lead) Professor, Faculty of Life sciences
- Mr Simon Katzenellenbogen - Lay representative - Valuing Older People Board
- Dr Sheena Johnson - Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
- Professor Ian Kimber - Professor of Toxicology
- Dr Parthasarathi Mandal - (co-lead) Lecturer, Programme Director (UG Civil Engineering), Theme Leader (Bio - Engineering)
- Paul McGarry - Strategy Manager, Valuing Older People Team, Manchester City Council
- Dr Jamie McPhee - Reader in Muscle and Exercise Physiology
- Professor Daniela Montaldi - Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience
- Professor James Nazroo - (co-lead) Professor of Sociology
- Dr Terence O'Neill - Reader in Rheumatology and Epidemiology
- Dr Neil Pendleton - (co-lead) Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine
- Professor Chris Phillipson - Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology
- Professor Debora Price - (Executive Director) Professor of Social Gerontology
- Dr Michael Sherratt - Lecturer, Molecular Biochemistry
- Professor Josey Tetley - Professor, Nursing (Ageing and Long-Term Conditions)
- Professor Chris Todd - Professor of Primary Care and Community Health / Director of Research
- Mr Bhim Virmani - Lay Representative, Valuing Older People Board
- Dr Rachel Watson - Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer in Aesthetic Dermatology
- Professor Fred Wu - Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology
MICRA management board chair:
- Professor Colette Fagan - Professor, Deputy Dean and Vice Dean Research
MICRA's Institute Manager is Jo Garsden: