Current and former staff of the University and its former entities include novelists Jim Crace[88] and Stephen Booth,[89] nurse-author Bethann Siviter, journalist Paul Bradshaw, David Hallam Member of the European Parliament, Nigerian researcher and pollster Bell Ihua, scientist Kevin Warwick,[90] environmentalist Chris Baines, politicians Khalid Mahmood (MP for Perry Barr) and Lynne Jones (former MP for Selly Oak), and former Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales Paul McDowell.