A few at random (No selective picking. These are all the ones I looked at)
Prof David Andress, University of Portsmouth
Biography
I am a historian of the French Revolution, and of the social and cultural history of conflicts in Europe and the Atlantic world more generally in the period between the 1760s and 1840s.
Dr John McCallum, Nottingham Trent University
Role
Dr McCallum is a senior lecturer in History, and a specialist in early modern British religious history. They teach on a range of modules in this area including Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Age of Reformations, and Living and Dying in Reformation Britain, and they are also the module leader for the History Dissertation at BA and MA level.
Professor Megan Povey University of Leeds
Position: Professor of Food Physics
Profile
Over the last three decades, I have developed novel ultrasound/acoustic methods for food characterization and processing. Most recently, in collaboration with colleague Jianshe Chen, our work has highlighted the importance of sound in the human appreciation of food
Dr Charlotte Beyer University of Gloucestershire
Senior Lecturer in English Studies
Biography
I am a contemporary literature specialist, with a background in gender and women’s studies. My teaching and module tutor responsibilities include crime fiction, postcolonial writing, and contemporary British and American literature. I am also an active researcher and have published widely, and I regularly present papers at conferences in Britain and abroad. My research informs my module design and teaching, and I am keen to introduce students to the most recent literary texts and discuss current issues in my teaching.
Alice Pember University of Warwick
Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies
About
I hold a BA in English Literature from the University of Cardiff, a PGCE in Education from Canterbury Christ Church University, an MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Film Studies from Queen Mary, University of London. My doctoral thesis interrogated the relationship between dance, music, film and girlhood in the contemporary neoliberal landscape, focusing particularly on dance performances by vulnerable and marginalised girls in recent independent films. My forthcoming monograph, based on this doctoral research, is entitled The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema and will interweave political philosophy and film theory with dance and music scholarship in order to account for the political meanings constructed by the dancing girls in four contemporary films. I have joined the University of Warwick from Queen Mary, University of London, where I worked from 2018-2022, first as a Teaching Associate then as a Teaching Fellow.
Dr Monique Botha University of Stirling
About me
I am currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Stirling for a project entitled "Fragile Knowledge: Dehumanisation and Interpretation Bias in Autism Research". In this project I will use computational textual analysis to examine the overall field of autism research, what topics are published about, and how autistic peope are constructed within the literature. This adds to my increasing body of work on the theoretical and ethical implications of how autistic people are shaped in knowledge production and the incluence of societal and research-based ableism.
Aside from, and prior to this, my research tends to revolve around minority stress, mental health, and community connectedness in the autistic community. I also am particularly interested in the social determinents of wellbeing and quality of life for autistic people, including at the intersections of also being minority genders or sexualities.
I did my PhD in Psychology at the University of Surrey (2016-2020) on the role of autistic community connectedness in buffering against the effects of minority stress on mental health in the autsitic community. This was a multi-method research project involving both qualitative (interviewing) and quantitative methods (scale development, cross-sectional, and longituindal surveys). I also completed my MSc in Psychology (conversion) at the University of Surrey (2015-2016). My dissertation investigated the utility of the minority stress model for understanding the high prevelance of mental health problems in the autistic community.
Raf Benato City, University London
Overview
Since joining City, University of London in 2005, Raf has developed and led numerous educational initiatives at a School and university level.
Raf is the Lead for Teaching Excellence (LTE) for the Health Services Research and Management Division in the School of Health Sciences. This is a substantive role where they work with the other three LTEs and the Associate Dean for Education on developing and implementing the School's Learning and Teaching Strategy as well as promoting and enhancing excellent teaching and learning practice in their division through training, mentoring and supporting divisional colleagues.
Raf is the School lead for Erasmus partnerships and activities, playing a key role in developing international partnerships and raising the profile of the School's international activities.
Raf has been Co-Chair of the Staff LGBTQI+ Network since September 2019, and is also part of the Trans Intersex and Gender Non Conforming (TIGNC) Working group, forming part of the team which developed the university's policy and guidance on working with TIGNC staff and students. This work fits into Raf's broader work on EDI across the University as well as in the School of Health Sciences.
Dr Jay Vickers, University of Salford
Biography
Dr. Jay Vickers is a Lecturer at the University of Salford's Institute of Health and Society. They are a registered occupational therapist and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
After completing their research training (PhD), they have collaborated on numerous research projects focusing on how individuals shape meaning within their lived contexts and how such meaning influences actions and behaviour. Jay's current research concentrates on intersectional research methods and how social systems influence sense-making, meaning creation, and health behaviours. Jay is committed to research-led education and teaches qualitative approaches, grounded theory, and participatory methods within the field of health and social care.
Dr Rachel Sumner, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow with the Health & Human Performance Global Academy. As a psychobiologist, she is an interdisciplinary researcher who incorporates psychology and biology in her work to make sense of the mechanisms that underlie how our health is affected by our lived experiences. She has broad research interests, but is principally interested in how our health is affected by the things we do and experience, both positive and negative. Her background is in understanding the cellular processes that are involved in the experience of chronic stress, and how this impacts our immune system and hormonal health. Her prime focus throughout her varied work is concentrating on the impact of injustices, and how these reach through to the various levels of our health, and how it then echoes up through individuals, groups, and societies. She is also interested in understanding more about the health and welfare of heroes and other exceptional individuals that provide critical services to society. She has published internationally in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, psychoneuroendocrinology, occupational stress and burnout, in social prescribing programme evaluation (particularly arts for health and nature for health), and in theoretical work ranging from developing a psychological understanding of solidarity, exploring the importance of meaning in burnout, and a bioavailability model of the impact of nature on health.
Dr Sarah Godfrey, University of East Anglia
Biography
Sarah’s research and teaching focuses on feminism and gender cultures in popular film and television culture with a specific emphasis on Anglo-American media cultures. Her monograph Masculinity in British Cinema: 1990-2010 was published in 2022 by Edinburgh University Press and she is co-editor of Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (with Martin Fradley and Melanie Williams). She is co-convenor of the BAFTTS LGBTQIA+ special interest group, a trustee of Norwich Pride, and a co-founder of Norwich Queer International Film Festival (NQIFF).
Sarah joined the School of Art, Media and American Studies in 2011 shortly after completing her PhD on the representations of masculinity in 90s British cinema. Her interests in feminist approaches to film, television and media cultures continue to underpin her research, teaching and external scholarly activities.