Chris Grover

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University. I am also a member of the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR). My research interests include social security, income maintenance and labour market policy and their implications for disabled people.

My main current research interests are concerned with analysing contemporary and historical changes in income maintenance and labour market policy. I am interested in the ways in which such policies are shaped by concerns with groups in the population that are deemed to be 'problematic', such as lone mothers and young people, and the ways in which income maintenance and labour market policies are held to be more important because of their macro-economic benefits, rather than their social benefits.

I am currently engaged in research at the National Archives which is focusing upon the introduction of Family Income Supplement in 1971 and how one of the guiding principles - that market wages should not be subsidised by the state - which had shaped social security policy making from the introduction of the Poor Law Amendment Act, was overcome by policy makers in the 1970s.

More directly related to criminology, I am interested in the press reporting of crime, particularly the reporting of sexual offences and the ways in which groups in the population (most notably black and working class men) are constructed as sex offenders.

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Chris Hann

Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
I was born and brought up in Wales, but my university education is from Oxford (BA 1974 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and Cambridge (PhD, Social Anthropology, 1979). I stayed on in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and was appointed to a lectureship (with tenure) at the Department of Social Anthropology. Between 1992 and joining the Max Planck Society in 1999 I was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Later I became Honorary Professor at Kent, and also at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig.

My main research interests date back to my undergraduate days and my first fieldwork projects in rural Hungary and Poland. I followed up with a comparative investigation of smallholders in a capitalist context on the Black Sea coast of Turkey (a later, more comprehensive project in the same region was a joint enterprise with Ildikó Bellér-Hann). My work on religion derives primarily from my encounter with the Greek Catholic minority in Poland, an interest that later expanded to eastern Christians in general. After 2006 I resumed fieldwork in Xinjiang in the form of a contribution to the departmental Focus Group investigating social support and kinship in China and Vietnam (again jointly with Ildikó Bellér-Hann). I maintain strong interests in comparative economic organization, in part through collaborative projects with Catherine Alexander, Stephen Gudeman, Keith Hart, Deborah James, Don Kalb and Jonathan Parry. My intention over many decades has been to contribute to social anthropology, in particular economic anthropology, whilst simultaneously questioning and breaking down disciplinary boundaries across the social sciences and history. The department’s programmes were underpinned by a conception of the unity in diversity of the Eurasian landmass, and of the contributions made by Eurasian civilizations to world history.

I am a Former Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, an Ordentliches Mitglied of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and a member of Academia Europaea (committee member, Social Thought and Social Change). In 2015 I was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2019 I was presented with the Huxley Medal by the same Institute. In 2020 I became a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Chris Hann is an active Emeritus who continues to do fieldwork in provincial Hungary and to publish on a wide range of subjects (including topical concerns such as populism in Hungary, repression in Xinjiang and warfare in Ukraine). Since retirement in August 2021, he is no longer resident in Halle. He regrets that he is now unable to take on students or to offer advice to prospective applicants.

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Chris Head

Associate lecturer in Comedy, Bath Spa University
I teach comedy writing for BBC Writersroom, Bath Spa University and the British Library. I also run online and in person comedy writing classes that anyone can join. I coach sitcom, comedy drama, sketch and stand-up writing. And if you are performing your work, I can coach you in the delivery and performance.

My speaking training also has an unusual focus on getting the content and the words right before looking at the delivery. Speaking coaching clients include PwC, Allen & Overy and Superheroes ad agency (Amsterdam). I also work with individuals.

And I direct shows of original material, from stand-up to comedy plays, for the stage. I work with original material as again I have a sharp focus on the writing as well as the performance. My live directing work has been seen at Soho Theatre, Bloomsbury Theatre (London), Pleasance, Assembly and Underbelly (Edinburgh) as well as internationally including Melbourne Comedy Festival.

I am the author of Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen and A Director's Guide to the Art of Stand-up both published by Bloomsbury Methuen.

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Chris Impey

University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 180 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has won eleven teaching awards, and has taught three massive open online classes with over 180,000 enrolled. Impey is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and most recently, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 70 popular articles on cosmology and astrobiology, two introductory textbooks, a novel called Shadow World, and eight popular science books: The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, Talking About Life, How It Began, Dreams of Other Worlds, Humble Before the Void, Beyond: The Future of Space Travel, and Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes.

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Chris Langmead

Professor, Monash University
Chris Langmead is Professor, Deputy Director, and Better Medicines Theme Leader of the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), a collaborative venture targeting new medicines development for poorly-treated mental health disorders. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Phrenix Therapeutics, which is developing next-generation therapeutics for schizophrenia.

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Chris Lituma

Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University
Chris Lituma’s research interests focus on grassland and early-successional bird population ecology, landscape conservation ecology, and how conservation practices affect bird populations. He is also interested in understanding how continued human population expansion and the wildland-urban interface will affect the significance of private lands in avian conservation, as well as the full life-cycle conservation and understating avian population dynamics during migration and on wintering grounds. He earned his bachelor’s in biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in natural resources from the University of Tennessee.

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Chris Mackenzie

Lecturer and Programme Leader, New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland
Over 30 years experience in the visual arts industries and education.
Fellow of Advance HE.

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Chris McCahill

Managing Director, State Smart Transportation Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chris McCahill, PhD, is the Managing Director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative. He is national expert on the use of data analytics in transportation and land use policy decisions and he leads many of SSTI’s technical assistance and research projects. He has written and co-authored numerous studies on urban transportation policy, including a chapter in Parking and the City, and co-edited a special issue of Research in Transportation Business and Management. Prior to joining SSTI, Chris worked on the Project for Transportation Reform at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Chicago. Before that, he was a researcher at the Center for Transportation and Livable Systems and a civil engineering course instructor at the University of Connecticut.

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Chris McCarthy

Dr Chris McCarthy received his BSc(Hons) (1999) and Masters (2005) degrees in computer science from The University of Melbourne, and PhD from the Australian National University in 2010. Chris has worked both domestically and internationally as an academic lecturer and researcher in computer vision and robotics, having held positions in Singapore (1999-2001), Italy (2007) and most recently with NICTA's Computer Vision Research Group in Canberra (2009-2015), and is a member of the Bionic Vision Australia consortium. In 2015 he took up a lecturing position with Swinburne University of Technology.

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Chris McManus

Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, University of Essex
Dr Chris McManus is a lecturer at the School of Sports Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences and is Cluster Lead for the Human Performance Research Group at the University of Essex. In these roles, he is responsible for designing and delivering courses in sports nutrition, exercise physiology, and exercise testing. He also conducts research, secures external research funding, and provides sports science and nutrition services to athletes.

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Chris McMillan

Professional Teaching Fellow in Sociology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
hris McMillan has a particular interest in the cultural logics of capitalism, especially in relation to cities, social policy and sport. He has published three books¸ Žižek and Communist Strategy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), The London Dream (Zero Books, 2020) and Cricket, Capitalism and Class (Routledge, 2023) and The Cool City (Springer, 2024).

Having completed a doctorate at Massey University in 2010, Chris moved to London where he worked at Brunel University, New York University’s London Centre, and finished as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Experiential Education at Arcadia University, where he taught courses on sociology, cities, sport, and work. He was the recipient of Arcadia University’s College of Global Studies’ 2018 Award for Teaching Excellence and the Albany Students' Association Lecture of the Year (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) Award

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Chris Meyers

Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University
My main area of research is in empirically informed moral psychology, moral theory, and applied ethics/public policy. My most recent book is on drug legalization.

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Chris Murphy

Visiting Fellow, Economics (modelling), Australian National University
Chris specialises in economy-wide modelling of tax policy and macroeconomic policy.

He has consulted to the Australian Treasury modelling tax polices for the Henry Tax Review, the Business Tax Working Group and the more recent tax review process.

In other consulting work for Treasury, he undertook a department-wide review of its economic modelling capabilities (2016-2017) and was modelling adviser (2019-2021) when Treasury developed its new macroeconomic forecasting model known as EMMA.

Since 2018 he has served as macroeconomic modelling adviser to the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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Chris Myhr

Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts, McMaster University
Chris Myhr is a media artist based in Hamilton, Ontario whose studio practice engages with photography, the moving image, sound, and media installation. Myhr’s work seeks intersections between art, science, philosophy, and ecology. He was awarded the inaugural Prefix Prize in 2021, and is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies & Media Arts.

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Chris Nowotarski

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University
My research is geared toward developing a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of convective storms in midlatitudes with the ultimate goal of improving prediction of such events and their attendant hazards. Though I am interested in severe convection of all forms, my current research is focused on supercell thunderstorms, particularly the development of low-level rotation in these storms as it relates to tornado genesis. Our principal tools for these investigations are idealized simulations using cloud-resolving computer models compared with analyses of observed data collected both operationally and through research field experiments. My research group has other active research in areas including: Southeastern United States tornado environments, tropical cyclone tornadoes, teleconnection signals and large-scale influences of severe weather events, machine learning techniques for probabilistic forecasting, data assimilation in convection-allowing forecast models, and collaborative research in modeling effects of permafrost changes on Arctic meteorology.

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Chris Organ

Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
Life on planet earth evolved over billions of years. Of all the species produced in that time, 99% are now extinct. A major challenge in biology is to understand how life works when 99% of our data is missing. I am part of a dynamic research group at the University of Reading who aim to meet this challenge by integrating paleontological and biological data using evolutionary models.

I am broadly interested in the macroevolutionary patterns and processes of vertebrate genome biology, physiology, functional morphology, and ecology. Computational modeling allows my team to integrate data from fossils with extant species to understand how these systems evolve. With this approach, we can now, in the post-genome era, tackle new questions about genotypes and phenotypes in long-extinct species and their evolution across deep time. My research seizes this opportunity to study major evolutionary transformations across levels of biological organization, from genes and genomes to morphology and behavior.

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Chris Pearson

Astronomy Group Lead, Space Operations Division at RAL Space and visiting fellow, The Open University
Chris is the astronomy group lead in the space operations division at RAL Space.

He combines astrophysics research with the development and operation of space missions.

My PhD was in “Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology" at Imperial College London.

After working in Japan for seven years on infrared space telescopes, he moved back to the UK to work for RAL Space, working on the SPIRE instrument that flew on the Herschel Space Observatory.

He also works on the Ariel exoplanet mission and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

The SKA is the largest scientific facility ever to be built. It consists of a giant array of radio telescopes built in the deserts of South Africa and Australia.

On SKA, Chris manages two of the software teams that are developing something called the science data processor. This software will process the vast amounts of data that will come in once the telescope array becomes operational.

The job at RAL Space allows Chris to participate in both astronomy research and the development of spacecraft missions.

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Chris Ponting

Chair of Medical Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh
Professor Chris Ponting is Chair of Medical Bioinformatics and a Principal Investigator at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer. Chris started his research in particle physics before moving via biophysics to bioinformatics and genomics. Aside from one year at the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NIH, Bethesda, MD), he pursued his research at the University of Oxford before moving to Edinburgh in 2016. His research group has made substantial contributions to protein science, evolutionary biology, genetics and genomics. Early in his career he discovered many important protein domain families. He then provided the first evolutionary analyses for mammalian genomes whilst leading protein analysis teams for the human and mouse genome sequencing projects. His research established that 8.2% of the human genome is constrained, and thus is likely functional.

Chris has been on Editorial Boards of Genome Research, Genome Biology, Human Molecular Genetics, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, and Trends in Genetics, and was a Senior Editor of eLife until 2015. He served as Program Committee member for the CSHL Biology of Genomes, American Society of Human Genetics and Genome Science conferences. He was Head of the UK Node of ELIXIR and Chair of EMBL-EBI’s External Training Advisory Group and founded CGAT (www.cgat.org), an MRC-funded training centre. Professor Ponting is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.

He leads the DecodeME study which is a £3.2m NIHR and MRC-funded strategic grant running until August 2025. With 18,000 DNA participants, this is the world’s largest genetic study into ME/CFS. An initial genome-wide association analysis (using matched UK Biobank individuals as controls) will occur late in 2024. DecodeME is a co-production with people with lived experience of ME/CFS that adheres to UK PPI Standards.

PhD students also work in the group on ME/CFS genetics funded by Action for ME or by ME Research UK. We support Action for ME’s vision to establish the UK’s first Genetics Centre of Excellence, a virtual network of ME researchers who, with the ME community, will build on the genetic insights gained through DecodeME and other studies.

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Chris Rees

Postgraduate Researcher of Space Risk Engineering, University of Surrey
Chris is a highly experienced Radiation Safety / Assurance Engineer with over 16 years of experience. Chris holds a Masters in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, he is a Chartered Engineer and Physicist with the UK Institute of Physics.

Chris started his professional career in 2007 with British Nuclear Group. Since then, he has worked with various industries in the UK, Australia, and Canada, including space, oil and gas, automotive, nuclear and academic research. His expertise focuses in conducting risk / safety assessments for high hazard facilities and safety critical systems, including nuclear reactors, decommissioning activities, waste storage facilities, spacecraft, oil pipelines, autonomous vehicles, and nuclear research.

Chris has also spent over a decade lecturing in universities on nuclear disasters, safety cases, and, atomic and nuclear physics. He is currently finishing a part-time PhD in ‘near space’ flight risk engineering focusing on radiation risks from space weather effects.

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Chris Sanderson

PhD Candidate, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University
Chris is a PhD student at Lancaster University. His thesis involves investigating how dementia is spoken about on social media, and how awareness campaigns might be effective in the digital age. He has also been involved in other projects such as with the Questioning Vaccination Discourse (QuoVadis) Project Team.

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Chris Shannahan

Research Fellow in Faith and Peaceful Relations, Coventry University

Prior to joining the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in 2015 Dr Chris Shannahan was Lecturer in Religion and Theology at the University of Manchester (2013-2015). His Doctorate (2008, University of Birmingham) developed the first critical analysis of urban theology in the UK and led to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Theology and then a Teaching Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Birmingham (2009-2012) where he developed a major ethnographic project working alongside unemployed young men on a large Birmingham housing estate.

His first monograph, 'Voices from the Borderland' (2010) was described as a ‘ground-breaking’ example of cross-cultural urban theology and is a set text at Universities and Theological Colleges in the UK, the USA and Australia. His second monograph, 'A Theology of Community Organizing' (2013) provided the first systematic theological analysis of broad-based community organising. His research also utilises Hip-Hop culture as a discourse of meaning, as seen in his 2012 partnership with the street artist Mohammed ‘aerosol’ Ali on his ‘Bromford Dreams – Graffiti Spiritualities’ action research project.

Chris Shannahan's research arises from more than 20 years grassroots experience as the head of Religious Education in a large East London Secondary school; a youth worker in the East End of London and Trenchtown, Jamaica; a Methodist Minister in inner-city London and Birmingham and a community organiser. This diverse background informs and influences his commitment to researching, teaching and writing for progressive social change.

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Chris Smith4

Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Reading
Dr Smith's research is directed towards new applications of synthetic chemistry.

The group has a great deal of experience in continuous flow, with a particular interest in photochemistry. This includes FP-HM (Flow Photochemical – Heterocyclic Metamorphosis), providing unusual routes to heterocycles; synthesis of beta-lactams; and new photochemical approaches to natural products such as aphidicolin.

We also work on ligands such as CyMe4-BTPhen for element separations – such as the separation of actinides from lanthindes – which are of importance to the Nuclear Industry for clean-up and recycling.

Finally, in collaboration with Dr Kevin Lovelock we are characterising the speciation zinc reagents such as diethylzinc or phenylzinc bromide (used in Negishi cross coupling), trying understand the reactivity and effect of additives on these important reagents.

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Chris Speldewinde

Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
My PhD was conferred by Deakin University in February 2023. My research looks at how STEM teaching and learning occurs in bush kinders. My PhD was 'by publication' and included
10 academic articles. I also have contributed to a number of book chapters and practitioner publications. Bush kinders are a nature-based early childhood education context where 3 to 5 year old spend time in nature.

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Chris Thomas1

Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University
I completed my degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience in 2002 from Cardiff University before moving to the School of Pharmacy to undertake a PhD in transdermal delivery. Following this I completed a postdoctoral position in Cardiff University School of Medicine before being awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2010 to study at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. In 2013 I was awarded a NISHCR/Wellcome Trust fellowship before acting as co-investigator and Research Fellow on an MRC Research Award. I started my current position as Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Nov 2016.

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Chris Thompson

Chris is a lecturer in chemistry at Monash University, specialising in chemistry education, while moonlighting in high resolution spectroscopy using the Australian Synchrotron. Chris originally studied Bachelor degrees in both Science and Arts at the Australian National University before completing his PhD at Monash University, and spending time as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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Chris Thorogood

Head of Science and Public Engagement for Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, University of Oxford
I research the evolutionary genetics of plants, plant taxonomy and biodiversity hotspots. Specifically, I am interested in speciation and adaptive radiations in poorly known parasitic and carnivorous plant groups, and also in taxonomic diversity in biodiversity hotspots including the Mediterranean Basin region and Japan. I am based at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and work in close collaboration with other scientists at University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences. I am also interested in identifying novel and effective routes to public engagement with research, as Head of Science & Public Engagement at the Botanic Garden.

Instagram: @illustratingbotanist

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Chris Toronyi

PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Loughborough University
PhD Candidate and Lecturer at Loughborough University London in the Institute for Sport Business (ISB). Research focused on the intersection of nation branding, sport, diplomacy and supporter responses to state football ownership structures. Additionally, lecturer on nation branding through the lens of the Sport PR and Communications master's course, featuring guest speakers in sport media, communications and branding, and academia.

Also, have taught in the Department of Marketing Communication and Department of Communication Studies at Emerson College (Boston and Los Angeles). Courses grounded in branding and consumer behaviour theories and models, as well as social empathy to provide a base for students to become not only culturally conscience brand marketers, but globally-responsible-citizens. Courses include guest speakers from various global perspectives that add real world context to consumerism and evolving brand archetypes.

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Chris Turney

I am a Professor of Earth Sciences and Climate Change at the University of New South Wales where my team and I are focusing our efforts on using the past to better understand the causes and impacts of future environmental change. As part of this I set up and now direct the Earth's Past Future Project (www.earthspastfuture.com), an international, multidisciplinary programme dedicated to exploiting records of past change to help reduce the uncertainties surrounding future projections; within this I co-lead the Ellsworth Mountains Project (http://ellsworthmountains.com/) and the Ancient Kauri Project (http://ancientkauriproject.com/). To do something positive about climate change, I am working with a wonderful group of people at CarbonScape (http://carbonscape.com/), a carbon refining company that has developed microwave technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, including activated carbon, sustainable fuels and biochar.

Communicating science is more critical than ever. As a scientist I believe we need to show why science is such a wonderful tool for understanding the world around us; not just the headline discoveries but how science actually works. I have written several books, the most recent of which is 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica which looked at the dawn of a new age in understanding the natural world, and how we might reawaken the public's excitement for exploration and discovery.

Inspired by the events surrounding 1912 I led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014, a privately-funded multidisciplinary scientific expedition, that set out to discover the environmental changes taking place in the south. A major part of the AAE 2013-2014 was communicating our scientific findings – from the deep field and in real time.

You can follow my team in the lab and the field using the full range manner of social media as Intrepid Science (www.intrepidscience.com), reporting discoveries when they happen, where they happen.

I'm passionate about science, adventure and leadership. Please feel free to contact me.

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Chris Vagasky

Meteorologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chris Vagasky is a meteorologist and manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet, a network of weather and soil monitoring stations across Wisconsin. His primary research focus includes lightning and lightning safety. He is a frequent guest of The Weather Channel, The Washington Post, and other media to speak on topics related to lightning, lightning safety, and weather measurements.

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Chris Walkinshaw

PhD Candidate, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Chris is a PhD student based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, funded by the EnvEast DTP and affiliated with UEA (University of East Anglia). Chris has an MSc in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Monitoring from Ulster University, which he completed part-time whilst working full-time as a senior research and development scientist for a contract development company based in Cardiff.

His PhD project, entitled ‘Does microplastic pollution pose a risk to marine life and food security’ is supervised by Dr Matthew Cole (PML), Dr Trevor Tolhurst (UEA), Dr Pennie Lindeque (PML) and Professor Richard Thompson (University of Plymouth). This project aims to investigate the effects of microplastic pollution on marine organisms in the environment, and whether microplastic pollution may pose a risk to food security and human health through the marine organisms that we consume.

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Chris Wilson3

Lecturer in Biology, University of Oxford
I am interested in a longstanding evolutionary puzzle: why does sex exist? In theory, a lineage of asexual females can reproduce twice as efficiently as a competing sexual population, whose resources are diverted into males that cannot produce eggs. Why does natural selection maintain sex so widely despite this and other costs, and why do most asexual lineages rapidly go extinct? To address these questions, I study a group of animals that have succeeded despite lacking males. Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic invertebrates that live in almost every pond, stream, puddle and patch of moss in the world. Hundreds of species have been described and thousands of individuals examined, but all of them so far have been female, and reproduction is known only via asexual eggs.

My collaborators and I are investigating genetic and ecological aspects of the unusual reproductive behaviour of bdelloid rotifers. We are trying to understand how they deal with rapidly changing selection pressures, particularly infectious disease, by studying how species, populations and individuals interact with pathogens. We use a range of molecular and experimental approaches, including long-term field studies, population genetics, experimental evolution, comparative genomics, resistance bioassays, metagenomics and transcriptomics. I am also interested in fungal systematics, through my work with rotifer pathogens belonging to neglected fungal taxa.

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Chris Zomer

Associate Research Fellow at the Centre of the Digital Child, Deakin University
Chris is a former teacher of French and now works as a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. His research interests include the datafication of learning, gamified learning platforms and the use of technology in education more broadly. Chris completed his doctoral thesis in 2023. In his thesis he investigates how gamified learning applications reshape ideas, understandings and enactments of student engagement in a competitive private girls' school.

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Chris N. H. Street

Senior lecturer in in Cognitive Psychology, Keele University
I joined Keele University in 2021 as a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, having worked previously at the University of Huddersfield for six years. I carried out my PhD work at University College London (UCL) and went on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

My work explores the cognition of how people make a lie or truth judgment. This work has culminated in the Adaptive Lie Detector account (Street, 2015). My research has included working with national organisations to create evidence-based interventions to reduce susceptibility to phishing and smishing scams. I make use of a combination of behavioural, eye tracking and modelling techniques. This work has been recognised through funded projects and an APS Rising Stars award. I am the author of the textbook An Introduction to the Science of Deception and Lie Detection.

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Chris R. Pavey

Principal Scientist in Ecology, CSIRO
I am an ecologist passionate about understanding how organisms function in nature and developing approaches to conserve them.

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