Eva Krumhuber

Associate professor, UCL
My research interests lie in the domain of emotion/affective science and nonverbal behaviour. Much of my work is concerned with the empirical investigation of the socio-cognitive and affective processes in human perception and behaviour. This includes research on facial expressions, especially morphological and dynamic features and their role in emotion interpretation. More recently, I started to explore commonalities and differences in human and machine classification of emotions, with a particular focus on how various elicitation methods (i.e., posed, spontaneous, naturalistic) influence recognition accuracy. Other research interests relate to the general area of social perception and attribution, particularly aspects of face perception and various factors (i.e., social context, face realism, ethnicity) that moderate people’s judgements.

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Eva Murillo Sanz

Departamento de Psicología Básica. Coordinadora del Máster en Especialización en Desarrollo Comunicativo y Lingüístico en a Etapa de 0 a 6 años, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Eva Petersen

Lecturer in music, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Eva was lead singer of The Little Flames, a band that also featured Miles Kane. They toured extensively and supported Arctic Monkeys, The Coral and The Zutons. As a solo artist she’s written and recorded with Guy Chambers and Echo and the Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant on her album Emerald Green Eyes. Her latest work, Voices of Winter Palace, was recorded with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Eva is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD and believes the best way to understand popular music contexts is for students to apply the relevant academic theories to their experiences as practitioners.

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Eva Skillgate

Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
I am an Associate Professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and a Professor of Care Science at Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden. I perform large cohort studies and randomised controlled trials mainly about musculoskeletal and mental health.

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Eva Surawy Stepney

PhD Candidate in History, University of Sheffield
I am a PhD researcher in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. My research looks at the history of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and its intersection with the development of British clinical psychology between 1948 and 1990. It focuses on the way in which distinct, and changing, conceptions of ‘science’ and ‘evidence’ underpin the conceptual components of this important psychological category. More broadly, my research is about the way in which particular scientific reasoning and methodology operates in clinical and therapeutic spaces and the implications this has for conceptions of psychological
distress.

I have spoken about my research on OCD, as well as my own experience, on The OCD Stories podcast, and have contributed to (and organised) The OCD in Society Conferences (2019, 2021, 2022). I also work as an editor at the https://thepolyphony.org/

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Eva V. Monsma

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Eva A Sprecher

Research Fellow in Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, UCL
I am a Research Fellow at UCL with an interest in how we can support better mental health in people who have experienced early adversity, including those who have spent time in the care system living in foster care or children's homes. I am especially interested in how we can use relationships with other people as a way to support positive mental health outcomes after trauma or adversity. In 2022, I took up a post as a post-doctoral Research Fellow on the ReThink study, a project focused on understanding what makes a difference to the mental health of care-experienced young people moving to secondary school or turning 18, under the Principle Investigator, Professor Rachel Hiller (UCL) and Professor Lisa Holmes (University of Sussex).

I completed my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology at Jesus College Oxford before training as a secondary school science teacher with a specialism in Physics. During this time I became involved in the project that has become Lighthouse Pedagogical Trust, a not-for-profit children's residential care provider and innovator in the sector. Through this and my teaching experience became increasingly focused on trying to better understand what can be done to better support care-experienced young people. I completed my MSc in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice at the Anna Freud Centre and UCL in 2018. I completed my PhD entitled 'Understanding long-term fostering relationships: phenomenological and contemporary attachment theory perspectives' in 2023 at UCL. I have worked on several collaborative projects with care-experienced collaborators including the co-developed children's book 'Where Did My Dinosaur Go?' published with Coram BAAF.

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Eva Angelyna (Evalyna) Bogdan

Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
Dr. Eva (Evalyna) Bogdan is an Assistant Professor in the Disaster and Emergency Management Program at York University. Her main disciplinary background is environmental and disaster sociology. Her research is on disasters with a focus on perceptions, policies, practices, power dynamics, and participation of stakeholders. To examine complex socio-environmental problems, she applies an interdisciplinary lens and innovative stakeholder engagement approaches. Examples include the We’re Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Workshops (wereready.org) and training social work students to facilitate these workshops during her Postdoctoral Associate position at the University of Calgary, and the Flood Resilience Challenge Serious Role-Playing Game (frcgame.com) which she co-developed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo.

Research interests: Disaster governance, flood risk management, community-based research and engagement, serious games and simulations/trainings, and resilience (individual, community, societal, and environmental).

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Eva Willaert Jiménez-Pajarero

Profesora asociada de Prótesis y Disfunción Craneomandibular, Universitat de Barcelona
Doctora en Odontología. Universidad de Barcelona (UB).
Diploma de Postgrado de Oclusión y Rehabilitación Oral. UB.
Profesora Asociada de Prótesis Dental, Oclusión y Disfunción Craneomandibular. UB.
Profesora del Máster de Oclusión y Rehabilitación Oral. UB.
Profesora del Máster de Clínica en Implantología y Prótesis. UB.
Diploma de Competencia en Diseño y Análisis de Investigaciones Clínicas. UB.
Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: Training and
Calibration Course (Orofacial Pain Unit- Malmö University).
Investigadora del equipo científico Salud Oral y Sistema Masticatorio del IDIBELL-Bellvitge
Biomedical Research Institut
Experta en Medicina Dental del Sueño certificado por la Federación Española de Sociedades de Medicina del Sueño (FESMES).

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Evan Jones

Associate professor, University of Bristol
Evan Jones is an Associate Professor in Economic History at the University of Bristol. He specialises in the history of Bristol and its region in the medieval and early modern period, with a particular interest in maritime history. This includes the history of smuggling, piracy, shipping, trade and exploration. He has more general interests in environmental history and historical epidemiology.

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Evan Stark

Professeur émérite, sociologue, Rutgers University
Evan Stark est un sociologue, un travailleur social médico-légal et un chercheur primé qui jouit d'une réputation internationale pour ses travaux novateurs sur les dimensions juridiques, politiques et sanitaires de la violence interpersonnelle, y compris ses effets sur les enfants. Il est professeur émérite à l'université Rutgers, où il a enseigné les affaires publiques, la santé publique et les études sur les femmes et le genre.

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Evan Williams

Postdoctoral Researcher in Respiratory and Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Newcastle
Dr Evan Williams is an early career nutritional biochemistry and immunology researcher within the Nutrition team of the Immune Health Research Programme at the Hunter Medical Research Institute. Since 2015, Dr Williams has performed laboratory based translational research alongside a clinically focused team working in the areas of nutrition, respiratory diseases, obesity and inflammation. Dr Williams current research is focused on investigating how obesity worsens outcomes in asthma and respiratory viral disease with a particular interest in nutrition, inflammation and the role of sex hormones. His current postdoctoral role includes design, data collection, analysis and publication of basic and translation research projects.

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Evan Throop Robinson

Associate Professor, School of Education, St. Francis Xavier University
I am an elementary mathematics educator at St. Francis Xavier University in the BEd and MEd programs as well as the Certificate in Elementary Mathematics Pedagogy program.

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Evangeline Gardiner

PhD Candidate in Public Health, The University of Queensland
I am a PhD candidate in public health at the University of Queensland, dedicated to advancing equitable access to health for all, with a particular focus on weight-inclusive approaches to health. My work is driven by both my academic background and personal experiences, including lived experience of weight stigma, disordered eating, and body image concerns. I aim to contribute to a public health system that supports individuals of all sizes in achieving health and well-being.

I hold a Master of Public Health from the University of Sydney, completed in 2021, and have extensive experience in public health research. My contributions include work on the COVID-19 response in NSW and research roles at the University of New South Wales and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). Currently, I apply my research expertise and lived experience at the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC), where I focus on improving the system of care for people affected by eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns.

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Evangelos Seretis

Lecturer in accounting, University of Glasgow
Evangelos Seretis is a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Glasgow. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Macedonia (BSc in Accounting and Finance) in 2014, he obtained his master degree in Banking and Finance from the International Hellenic University in 2016. In 2017, Evangelos joined the Adam Smith Business School to undertake his PhD in the area of financial reporting and disclosures of insurance firms. In parallel, he worked as graduate teaching assistant for a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Before joining academia, Evangelos practised accountancy for insurance firms in Greece.

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Eve Patten

Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
Eve Patten is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at Trinity. She is co-editor, with Paul Delaney, of Dublin Tales (OUP, 2023) and author of Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination (OUP, 2022).

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My research covers nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish literary studies, twentieth-century British fiction and cultural history, and the literature of war. Recent publications related to Irish writing include a monograph, Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination (Oxford UP, 2022), and as editor, Irish Literature in Transition, 1940--1980 (Cambridge UP, 2020). Since publishing my first book, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts, 2004) I have written frequently on civic institutions, reading communities, and the professional middle class in Victorian Dublin. I have also published widely on modern and contemporary Irish fiction, including most recently ‘The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist’, for the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction (2020), and (with Paul Delaney) a co-edited volume of short stories, Dublin Tales, to be published by Oxford UP in 2023.

I am also interested in writing that crosses Irish, British, and European identities in the long twentieth century. My monograph Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s Fictions of War was published in 2011, and in related work I have co-edited Literatures of War (2008), proceedings of the International Lawrence Durrell School of Corfu, and a volume of essays on Irish cultural and literary connections to Central and Eastern Europe, Ireland, West to East (2014). I am now researching a book on the twentieth-century novelist, political activist and travel writer Ethel Mannin, based on her correspondence with contemporaries including W.B. Yeats, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Read and Emma Goldman.

You can view my full list of publications at http://people.tcd.ie/epatten

My previous roles in the School of English have included Head of School, Head of Discipline, and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre. I have recently supervised postgraduate and postdoctoral research across several areas, including nineteenth-century print and publishing history; Virginia Woolf; Elizabeth Bowen; Irish literature and the Spanish Civil War; Wyndham Lewis; T.H. White’s literary biography; Northern Irish culture and the Second World War; German/Irish literary connections; suicidal motifs in twentieth-century British fiction; modern Irish poetry and allegory. Past research collaborations include, with Dr Connor Linnie, ‘The Poetics of Print: the Private Press Tradition and Irish Poetry’ https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/poetics/ and current projects include Ireland’s Border Culture: A Digital Archive, funded by the HEA North-South Shared Island initiative, and, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, the Publish.OA feasibility study on open access Irish scholarly publishing, funded under the National Open Research Forum.

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Evelien Adriaenssens

Group Leader, Gut viruses & Viromics, Quadram Institute
I am a Group Leader at the Quadram Institute Bioscience in Norwich (UK) where my group investigates bacteriophages, viruses of bacteria. I'm interested in how bacteriophages contribute to a healthy gut microbiome, and how we can exploit them to improve our health and treat diseases.

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Evelyn Encalada Grez

Assistant Professor, Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez (she, her, ella) is a Latinx Assistant Professor in Labour Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at SFU. As a community engaged scholar and Public Sociologist, Dr. Encalada Grez has mobilized her migrant-labour research through various media including documentaries and given talks in venues such as Parliament Hill, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and at the United Nations in New York.

Currently Dr. Encalada is working on mobilizing research findings from community-engaged research she led on the systemic discrimination of Internationally Trained Physicians in British Columbia. She is also conducting research on the invisible labour undertaken by community workers and organizers who support migrant farmworkers, particularly during the height of he pandemic.

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Evelyn Namakula Mayanja

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University
Dr. Evelyn Namakula Mayanja is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She teaches courses on Political repression and Human Rights. Her research focuses on natural resource extraction, peace, security and development in Africa. She received the SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Fund and the Insight Development Grant (2021-2025).

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Evgenii Krestianinov

PhD candidate, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

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Evodius Waziri Rutta

Sustainability Researcher, Queen's University, Ontario
I am Sustainability Researcher with other 15 years of work experience. Over the years, I have worked with several international development agencies including the Government of Tanzania and international development organizations including The World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), German Development Agency (GIZ), and Pathfinder International and others where I was engaged in programs management, monitoring and evaluation, research, policy advisory for the development of forestry, agriculture and renewable energy sectors in Tanzania.

In research, I have a passion for and interest in agriculture-food related research with a focus on small-scale farming systems in Africa. My broad areas of interest are to explore how policies can propel agriculture innovations (technologies) and their adoption, acceptance, and use among under-resourced farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa. As a researcher, I employ qualitative techniques to explore and understand socially and economically sound solutions addressing day to day livelihood and environmental challenges of rural communities.

I am also a Founder of MAVUNO LAB, one of the first post-harvest innovation centers based in Morogoro, Tanzania, with a mission to develop low cost and affordable technologies, products, and services to mitigate post-harvest food losses in Tanzania. We work with young graduate engineers to design and come up with affordable solution to prevent and reduce food loss and waste in Tanzania.

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Ewan Ewan Wright

PhD candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia
Ewan Wright is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he researches issues related to the sustainability of the outer space environment through both the Astrophysics and Political Science Departments. He is also a Junior Fellow of the Outer Space Institute, an interdisciplinary group of experts working on emerging space sustainability issues.

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Ewan Mackenzie

Lecturer in Work and Employment, Newcastle University
Dr Ewan Mackenzie is a Lecturer in Work and Employment at Newcastle University. He is interested in the socio-political aspects of work and applies sociological and critical approaches to the realities of work, employment and society. He is interested in the convergence between how work is governed and everyday work and labour, and the possibilities and necessity for alternative ways in which to understand and organise work. He has published on creative and cultural work, the politics of austerity in public and healthcare sectors, and community organising. These publications have appeared in international peer reviewed journals including Human Relations, Organization Studies, Social Science and Medicine: Qualitative Research in Health, and Spatial Justice.

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Ewan D. Barr

Project scientist for the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
My primary research interests are pulsars, radio telescopes and high-performance computing. At the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, I lead a team of scientists, software engineers and systems architects who specialise in the development of high-performance instrumentation for radio telescopes around the world. Our instruments aim to provide universal processing systems, capable of handling the myriad use cases for radio telescopes, from pulsar observations to spectroscopy and very long baseline interferometry. We work with cutting-edge, commodity off-the-shelf GPU and FPGA accelerators to push the limits of what our telescopes can do.

I also serve as the project scientist for the both the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration and the MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (MMGPS). The TRAPUM collaboration uses the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa to hunt for radio pulsars in places of special interest throughout the Galaxy and beyond. Through observations of supernova remnants, gamma-ray sources, globular clusters and nearby galaxies we have discovered more than 100 new pulsars, including exotic systems that probe fundamental physics. The MMGPS is a unique pulsar and imaging survey that uses MeerKAT to observe the Galactic plane at multiple frequencies. Its goals are to discover new pulsar systems and probe the galactic magnetic field. To enable the TRAPUM and MMGPS projects, as well as the ERC-funded MeerTRAP project, which searches for fast transients with MeerKAT, my team and I at the MPIfR built and operate two powerful computing clusters located on the MeerKAT site. One of these clusters provides MeerKAT with the ability to perform high-time resolution observations in may hundreds of different directions at the same time. The other provides the means to analyse the data, to search for extreme relativistic pulsar binary systems.

My team and I work on several other instrumentation projects. These include the ERC-funded, Crete-based ARGOS telescope, the joint Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) - Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) funded cryogenically-cooled phase array feed programme and the pan-European ERC-funded radio technology programme RADIOBLOCKS. We also operate the SARAO and MPG-funded, SKA-MPG telescope, the first dish of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

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Ewan Gordon Jenkins

PhD in Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
Most recently, I have completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the School of Geography and Sustainable Development with the University of St Andrews (Nov 22 - Aug 23), conducting field work in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, to understand how peatland restoration is perceived by rural crofting communities beset with pressures and opportunities from policy and private finance. The outputs from this project include a short Correspondence piece for Nature (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03539-9), and a website, a public-facing output targeted at the researched community, comprising a booklet, FAQ, Glossary, executive summary in Gáidhlig and English, to assist with decision-making on peatland restoration (https://peatland-restoration-guide.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk). I hope to write a Conversation piece highlighting our research and outputs regarding these.

Presently I am pursuing a PhD with the school of Geography and SD at the University of St Andrews, which focuses on the commune-form as the newly emergent, pre-figurative Event for ecological futures, analysed spatially and temporally using case studies in North America and Europe.

I'm also editor-in-chief for the interdisciplinary journal INTER-, published by the Graduate School in St Andrews, with our first issue forthcoming May 2024.

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Eyal Mayroz

Dr Eyal Mayroz is a Senior Lecturer on human rights and international peace and security in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. Formerly a counterterrorism specialist (Captain, retired), he is the author of Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur, which was named one of Choice magazine’s outstanding academic titles of 2020.

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Eyleen Jorgelina O'Rourke

Associate Professor of Biology and Cell Biology, University of Virginia
Through evolutionary history the human genome was optimized to promote survival in environments where food is mostly scarce. These survivor-genomes clash with an environment where calorie-rich foods are readily available. Based on the premise that the genes networks that allow animals to endure starvation are under strong selective pressure and consequently conserved, we use a combination of cutting-edge functional genomics, biochemical, cell biology, genetic, and physiological approaches to identify and characterize the conserved gene networks that allow the animal model Caenorhabditis elegans to adapt to changes in food availability. Ultimately, our research would contribute to better understanding of how dysfunctional gene networks affect or cause obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, and accelerate aging.

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Ezekiel Stear

Assistant Professor of Spanish World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University
Ezekiel Stear teaches Spanish and Colonial Latin American Literature at Auburn University and researches Indigenous texts from colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes. His book, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2025) examines the key roles the Nahua texts from Central Mexico have played in shaping culture. His articles and book chapters similarly question the notion that the Spanish erased Native cultures in the Americas.

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Ezgi Merdin Uygur

Lecturer in Digital Marketing, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences, Brunel University of London
Ezgi (PhD, MBA, BA (Hons), FHEA) is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing within the Marketing Division within Brunel Business School.

Her primary research interest has focused on the contexts of robotic services, virtual experiences, and the social influence effects in those settings. Ezgi published in international academic journals, such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and Behaviour & Information Technology. She is the recipient of prestigious funds such as the British Academy/Leverhulme and Marketing Trust and the Best Paper Award in the AMA Winter Conference.

She currently serves in the Editorial Review Board of Psychology & Marketing.

Mainly trained in consumer psychology using experimental methodology, Ezgi is interested in examining how various experiences (such as together-alone experiences, and virtual experiences) affect individual consumers. Her recent works look at the role of algorithmic and robotic services` impact on consumers and desired marketing outcomes.

Over the years, she has established several fruitful research partnerships with co-authors from other countries, including Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey. She frequently collaborates across disciplines, serves in external boards and currently serves as RDA in two PhD student committees and co-supervising an external PhD student.

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Fabian Battaglini

Professeur assistant en économie, EDC Paris Business School
Fabian Battaglini est professeur assistant en économie à l'EDC Paris Business School. Ses recherches portent sur l'économie politique historique et sur l'économie des conflits.

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Fabian Braesemann

Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work, University of Oxford
Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the OII.

Fabian uses social data science methods to study the digital economy. Before Fabian became a Departmental Research Lecturer at the OII, he worked as a Research Fellow & Data Scientist in the Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and as a Data Scientist at the OII on projects that applied data science to understand human development and labour markets.

His research has been published in leading academic journals and it was covered in national and international media. Fabian has been presenting the results and implications of his research in keynote talks at academic conferences as well as policy and industry events.

Having worked as a data scientist in industry and academia, Fabian has investigated social processes with a multitude of different online data sets in numerous domains. These experiences make him confident about the prospects and value of social data science as a key discipline in the 21st century – in academic research as well as in policymaking and industry.

Besides his role at Oxford University, he runs a social data startup company – DWG Datenwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Berlin. The DWG aims to bridge academic knowledge generation and social data science innovation. The company applies data science to generate insights into the digital transformation of markets and it works mainly with the public sector and international development organisations.

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Fabian Cannizzo

Research Fellow, Monash University
Fabian has a PhD in Sociology from Monash University. His thesis explored the governance of academic workers in Australian universities and the career narratives that they develop through their work. He has published on the political economy of higher education, work/life balance in academia and the culture of creative workers. He has also conducted research into the broader production of culture and heritage in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and co-convenor of the Work, Labour & Economy Thematic Group.

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Fabian Klenner

Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
Fabian Klenner is a planetary scientist and astrobiologist at the University of Washington (UW). His research focus lies on the exploration of icy moons in the Solar System, in particular Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. He is interested in geochemical processes happening on these moons as well as the detection of potential life beyond Earth.

Fabian is an affiliate of NASA's Europa Clipper mission and involved in the planning and design of a potential future Enceladus mission. He is Co-Investigator of BioSigN, an ESA-led experiment to be performed on the International Space Station. Fabian's work is also relevant to the past Cassini mission and he is involved in ESA's CALICO, a potential mission to dwarf planet Ceres. He is member of various learned societies, including his co-leadership of the Ocean Worlds and Icy Moons working group of the German Astrobiology Society.

Before accepting his current position at UW in 2023, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, the same university from where he received his Ph.D. in 2021. He studied Earth Sciences at Heidelberg University (M.Sc. and B.Sc.).

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Fabien Frenzel

Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, University of Leicester

I joined the School of Management in February 2012. Between 2012-2014 I left Leicester to work at the University of Potsdam, Germany, on a two-year Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. The research grant enabled me to conduct a comparative case study of three global destinations of tourism in areas of urban poverty. I came back to Leicester on a full-time lectureship in September 2014 where I am teaching on the undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and PhD programmes with a focus on qualitative research methods and the sociology of organisation.

Previously I was a lecturer at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England (UWE), where I taught on the tourism and enterprise undergraduate programmes and on the MBA. I am a Senior Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan University. I have an MSc in Political Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University.

My research interests converge at the intersections of mobility, organisation and politics. In this context I consider the role of transnational mobilities, from activists to tourists, in the formation of a global social question with a focus on the way slums are becoming destinations of a range of better-off travellers, in solidarity and volunteer travel and in slum tourism. This is also the topic of most recent book ‚Slumming It‘ (Zed Books 2016).

In 2012 I received a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellowship from the EU for a two-year research project on slum tourism, conducted at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The project website is www.qualpot.eu. Prior to this I won an early career grant from the University of the West of England to study tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and to initiate the foundation of a slum tourism research network. I co-organised the first conference in this field of research in December 2010 at UWE. This led to the publication of a special issue on slum tourism in the journal tourism geographies and a book I edited on the same topic. In May 2014 I hosted the second slum tourism network conference in Potsdam and I am co-editor of two special issues emerging from the conference publications. More information on the slum tourism research network can be found on its webpage www.slumtourism.net

In my second empirical research field I study the ways in which social movements organise themselves in response to place and space with a particular interest in the organisational form of the protest camp. In 2013 I published a book on protest camps as an organisational form (with Zed books) in collaboration with Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University) and Patrick McCurdy (Ottawa University). I have taken part in the foundation of the protest camp research network. In the framework of the network, I am currently co-editing a book on case studies of protest camps across the world (forthcoming with Policy Press in 2017). I am also one of the founders of the protest camp research collective.

I have previously worked in an ESRC research project on Alternative Media Organisation in the 'Global South' (RES-155-25-0029).

Earlier work includes the foundation in 2003 of a research think tank, the Institute of Nomadology (InNo) in Berlin.

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Fabien Medvecky

Associate Professor in Science Communication, Australian National University
Fabien a science communication academic with a background in philosophy (PhD) and economics (PG Dip). He brings these fields into his work on how knowledge, and especially scientific knowledge, is discussed, considered, and shaped in conversations between experts and non-experts. He is especially interested in questions about social epistemology and on the ethics of science communication.
Fabien has worked in Australia and New Zealand, and have collaborations all over the world. He is currently the Secretary of PCST, the global network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology, and from 2016 to 2018 was the president of the Science Communicators' Association of New Zealand.

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