Professor Emma Carmel Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Carmel is responsible for developing the University's Research Strategy, working with the Faculties, School, and colleagues across the University.
Contact details
PA: Annabelle Deakin ad2638@bath.ac.uk +44 (0)1225 387880
Role
Professor Carmel works with the Faculties, School, and colleagues across the University to support the development of challenging, actionable research at the highest standards of excellence, to generate real-world change for public benefit.
Related posts
- Board member of the Journal of Social Policy and Administration
- Board member of the Italian Journal of Social Policy
- Board member of the AI Governance Association
Research
Professor Carmel works at the intersection of sociology, politics and political economy to investigate how we imagine, produce and contest political order.
Projects
- Governance analysis: theorising governance, statehood and public policy as 'regimes of governing practices'
- Political economy of AI and digital automation: the drivers, design, and effects of AI technologies in governance
- Migration: governance and socio-political order in the EU and beyond
Career
Before taking up her current role, Professor Carmel was Associate Dean for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath, and she continues her role as Professor of Governance and Public Policy. She is the author and editor of five books and numerous other academic publications. Developed through a series of international collaborations, her empirical work has examined social and labour market policies; migration; and in the last decade, focused on the relationship of AI technologies and the state. She has a leading position on two inter-disciplinary doctoral training entities and supervised more than 25 doctoral students. Professor Carmel regularly contributes her expertise on governance and AI technologies to policymaking and in the media.
Education
Professor Carmel studied History and German at undergraduate level at the University of Oxford, and after a brief time away from academia, studied for an MA and DPhil in Social Policy at the University of York UK, before joining the University of Bath full time in 2003.