Dr Simon Kaner, Director
Archaeology
Simon Kaner (MA, PhD Cantab, 2004) is Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies. He is an archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of Japan.
Before joining the Sainsbury Institute he was Senior Archaeologist at Cambridgeshire County Council and retains his interest in the management of cultural heritage. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 2005, he has taught and published on many aspects of East Asian and European archaeology and has undertaken archaeological research in Japan, the UK and elsewhere. His recent publications include The Power of Dogu: ceramic figures from ancient Japan (2009), which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Museum. Other works include Jomon Reflections: Forager Life and Culture in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago by Kobayashi Tatsuo (2005) which he adapted and edited with Nakamura Oki. He is also currently completing an edited volume Envisioning Medieval Towns in Japan and Europe, to be published in 2011.
Current Research
His research interests include: Japanese prehistory and the history of archaeology in Japan; Japanese cultural heritage and the international role of Japanese heritage management.Further details about Simon including publications can be found on the Sainsbury Institute website.
Dr Gibson D'Cruz
Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Gibson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Nursing Sciences at the University of East Anglia and he has a role in the School to develop and maintain educational links with international universities. The School of Nursing Sciences now has a collaborative link with the Department of Nursing at the Niigata University of Health and Welfare, which is located in the Niigata Prefecture and his role is to coordinate exchange visits by staff and students between the two universities. In March 2012, UEA hosted a visit by six student nurses and two lecturers from Niigata University of Health and Welfare and a further visit is due to take place in March 2013. With funding from the United Kingdom Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, Gibson had recently completed work with two universities in Cameroon, West Africa to develop their nursing curricula and their lecturers. Current Research
Gibson is currently engaged in a multi-country project to develop a curriculum on Migrant Health and this work is being funded by the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program.Dr Mayumi Hayashi
Research Fellow in social policy and history at UEA
Mayumi Hayashi is a Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of East Anglia and from May 2012 will take up a Leverhulme Fellowship in the Institute of Gerontology at King's College London, researching voluntary sector social care for older people in Britain and Japan, 1945-2010. Her doctoral research at UEA examined the contemporary history of the care of older people in Britain and Japan.Her research on Japan's care pattern featured in 'The Guardian' and in 'History & Policy'.
Current Research
Outreach projects on informal care and social engagement for older people (Community University Engagement East-funded), and on Japan's pioneering "time-banking" scheme of mutual help in social care. On the latter, she is advising the Cabinet Office, London and Windsor and Maidenhead Council's Big Society time-bank scheme CareBank.Please visit also her webpage at www.mayumihayashi.net
Dr Ulrich Heinze
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media
Ulrich Heinze (PhD 1991, Free University Berlin) is the Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media. He is a sociologist specialising in Japanese media studies, intercultural communication and visual arts. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a journalist and broadcasting editor at North German Radio (NDR) in Hamburg. From 1999 to 2005, he was teaching and doing research as a postdoctorate fellow and assistant professor the University of Tokyo. In 2004, he was awarded the venia legendi (habilitatio) in Sociology from the University of Freiburg. Ulrich is teaching the UG Module “Mangamania” on Japanese manga and the MA Module “Japanese Visual Media” on Japanese mass media and society.Current Research and Publications
His research include: Japanese popular culture, manga, television and film, especially Japanese advertisement and television ratings.Further details about Ulrich including publications can be found on the Sainsbury Institute website.
Ulrich Heinze's latest article on Japanese media can be viewed here.
Dr Valerie Henitiuk
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Translation and Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at UEA
Valerie Henitiuk (PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada, 2005) conducted research at Columbia University, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellowship, before she took up her lectureship at UEA.
Current Research and Publications
Translation Studies, World Literature, Japanese Literature, and Women's Writing.Valerie Henitiuk's publications can be viewed here.
Her latest book: Shonagon Sei, The Pillow Book
Dr Akira Matsuda
Lecturer in Japanese Artistic Heritage
Akira Matsuda (BA University of Tokyo, MA and PhD UCL) has just been appointed as the Lecturer in Japanese Artistic Heritage. Before that, he worked as a Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute and as a consultant in UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage. Akira is teaching the MA Module “Culture Heritage and Museum Studies (with a Japanese strand)” at the School of World Art and Museology.Current Research
His research interest include: The relationship between archaeology - and more broadly cultural heritage - and the general public.Professor Nicole C. Rousmanière
Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute
Nicole C. Rousmanière is currently on a two-year secondment to the British Museum. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and spent three years on secondment as a Visiting Professor in Cultural Resource Studies at Tokyo University (2006-2009).Current Research
Interests include Japanese contemporary craft expression, Japanese manga, early modern to contemporary ceramics in East Asia and trade networks, the history of archaeology and collecting things Japan in Asia and in Europe.Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
Yakult Lecturer in Japanese Language
Nana Sato-Rossberg obtained her PhD in Translation Studies from Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University Kyoto in 2007. She then taught Japanese Studies at the Tsinghua University in Beijing and also worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the University College London and as a researcher at the University of East Anglia. In 2011, she has joined the School of Language and Communication Studies and the Centre for Japanese Studies.Current Research and Publications
Research interests cover intergeneric translations (Japanese manga to film), translations of oral narratives, intercultural translations, and the relationship between translation and power.Nana Sato-Rossberg's publications can be viewed here.
Nana's new book on translation studies is coming out in English.
Dr Barry Witcher
Reader Emeritus in Strategic and General Management
Dr Barry Witcher BA, PhD, is Reader Emeritus in Strategic and General Management at Norwich Business School, UEA. He joined the new Norwich Business School as Deputy Dean in 1995. He has held the posts of Director of Research, and the Directorships of two of UEA’s largest masters and undergraduate programmes (the MSc, and BSc, in Business Management).Current Research and Publications
As holder of research council and BAM grants, his pioneering work on hoshin kanri has led Toyota to recommend him as the leading European source. He has pushed back the conventional boundaries of strategy to take account of delivery and performance management and a major international text was published in 2010, Strategic Management: Principles and Practice (Cengage).He has previously worked in banking in the City of London, trout farming, community cooperatives in the Western Isles, and was director of the Centre for Quality and Change at the Durham University Business School. He has held posts at Strathclyde, Stirling, Teesside, Durham and Griffith Universities.
