About Us

Team Members

Our team of both academic and practice-based experts bring a variety of organisational, technological and innovation competences to the project.

Many members of the team are specialists in the professions, especially accounting and law. We are also working with professional bodies such as the Law Society and ACCA, to assist in designing what we do and reaching the wider professional communities.

  • Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) and Hyperscale
  • Oxford Brookes Business School
  • Partners and Advisors
Martin Spring
Martin Spring

Professor of Operations Management (LUMS)

James Faulconbridge
James Faulconbridge

Professor of Transnational Management (LUMS)

Katy Mason
Katy Mason

Professor of Markets and Management (LUMS)

Derek Southall
Derek Southall

Founder and CEO (Hyperscale Group Ltd)

Dr Cara Molyneux
Dr Cara Molyneux

Senior Research Associate

Steph Knowles
Steph Knowles

Project Manager

Professor Tim Vorley
Professor Tim Vorley

Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean

Dr Tzameret Rubin
Dr Tzameret Rubin

Senior Lecturer in Innovation Management

Dr Francisco Trincado-Munoz
Dr Francisco Trincado-Munoz

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Hilary Smyth-Allen
Hilary Smyth-Allen

Senior Research Fellow

Hannah Tornow
Hannah Tornow

Postdoc Researcher

Key organisations working with TiPS include:

The Law Society
ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
Law South
SuperTech West Midlands
JBI Training
Jeremy Hyman Associates
Advisory Board

TiPS is guided by an Advisory Board, whose members are:

Alistair Brisbourne, Head of Technology Research, ACCA

Tara Chittenden, Foresight Manager, The Law Society

Kevin Hart, CEO and Executive Chairperson, BASDA (Business Application Software Developers’ Association)

Caroline Hobden, Portfolio Director, Accountex

Paul Nightingale, Professor of Strategy, University of Sussex /SPRU

TiPS builds on a previous project

‘Innovating Next Generation Services through Collaborative Design’
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TiPS is part of the

Next Generation Professional and Financial Services programme, run by Innovate UK and the ESRC.
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TiPS is independent of any technology vendor, consultancy provider, or other commercial interest. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Grant number ES/X014428/1.