Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford, University of Oxford Anne E Bailey is an associate member of the History Faculty at Oxford University, and teaches courses on medieval and modern pilgrimage at the University’s Department for Continuing Education. She has published widely on a range of pilgrimage topics including medieval saints’ cults and relics, medieval hagiography, female pilgrimage and contemporary pilgrimage phenomena. Recent publications include a paper on micro pilgrimages as a new post-secular trend and another on how the pandemic has impacted pilgrimages.
Research Associate in Energy Systems Modelling, Imperial College London Ariane Millot is a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on energy system modelling and the analysis of the economic and social impacts of the energy transition. She is supporting the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme, which aims to help low and middle-income countries achieve low-carbon development pathways while meeting their sustainable development goals. She has a PhD in energy modelling from Mines Paris – PSL, where she developed scenarios for the French energy transition using a bottom-up optimization model (TIMES). She also has experience working at the International Energy Agency on the buildings sector for the World Energy Outlook, where she contributed to several reports including the special Net Zero report.
Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Aulo Gelli works as a senior research fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His main interests and experience intersect food policy and nutrition, with a particular focus on evaluating the impact of child health and nutrition interventions. Aulo trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, then gained a MSc degree in information processing and neural networks at Kings College London working on semantic memory models, and then studied human perception and cognition at the Laboratory of Neurobiology at University College London. He transitioned his career towards food policy, gaining a MA in development economics and food security at the University of Rome, and a DPhil from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. Prior to working at IFPRI, Aulo worked as a research fellow at Imperial College (2009-2013), as policy analyst at the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (2007-2009), and as a statistician at the World Food Programme (2004-2007).
Professor of Drama, Theatre and Film Studies, University of Jos I worked as a journalist with the defunct Sketch Press Limited, Ibadan between 1993 and 2001 as production editor while pursuing my postgraduate studies. Moved over to Fountain Newspapers Limited, Ado-Ekiti as news editor and bureau chief, before leaving in 2002 to complete my PhD programme at the University of Ibadan. I eventually bagged the PhD in 2005 while working with the Nigerian Film Corporation, NFC, Jos, Nigeria. I left the NFC in 2010 as head of industry support services and registrar, Motion Picture Council of Nigeria, MOPICON, working on the agency for the professionalisation of the burgeoning film Industry, and joined the University of Jos as a lecturer. I was announced Professor of Theatre and Film Studies in March 2021 with effect from 1 October 2019. I run a book publishing outfit, Dynastygold Impact Publishers, as a division of Dynastygold Global Impact Communications.
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of St Andrews I am cognitive psychologist who is interested in memory decision-making and subjective experiences of memory (e.g. deja vu and jamais vu). I have used a range of methods to conduct my research, including paper and pencil tasks, computerised tasks, pupilometry, and fMRI.