Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pretoria I obtained my PhD in Veterinary Tropical diseases in 2018 and am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria responsible for the development and evaluation of novel diagnostic assays to diagnose various diseases of Veterinary Importance. I have a keen interest in the One Health approach of research and recognise the importance of human, animal, insect, plant and environmental interactions
Vanguard Fellow, University of Birmingham Adenike Akinsemolu is a Vanguard Fellow at the University of Birmingham, a Senior Research Fellow at Afe Babalola University, and the founder of the Green Institute. She is an expert in the field of environmental sustainability with over 10 years of experience in education and research. Adenike is a National Geographic Educator and a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. She is committed to finding bold and effective solutions to complex challenges, including the fight against climate change. Adenike has a deep passion for promoting sustainable practices and solutions for organisations and communities, and she has a strong track record of success in developing and implementing sustainable initiatives. In addition to her work as an educator and researcher, Adenike is also the author of several books on sustainability, including "Principles of Green and Sustainability Science (Springer 2020)," "Biological Science, A Concise Introduction (The Green Institute, 2022)," and "An Introduction to Green Education (National Geographic, 2022)." She is always looking for opportunities to collaborate and share her knowledge and expertise with others who are committed to protecting the environment. She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Conservation Leaders in Africa by the WWF. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
Geoscientist, The University of Queensland Completed BSc (Hons - 1st class), MS by research (1st class) and PhD in Geology. PhD completed in Dec 2022 studying the eastern Australia hotspot volcanic chain. Currently working as a Geoscientist at the Geological Survey of Queensland.
Senior Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project, Lancaster University I am Senior Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project (Arts and Humanities Research Council funded). I joined the Department in 2014 as Senior Research Associate (Modern Humanities Research Association funded) on the Davy Letters Project (http://www.davy-letters.org.uk). Between 2015-18, I continued to work on the Davy Letters Project in posts funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. I studied at Durham University (2004-07) and Newcastle University (2007-08; 2009-12). After completing my PhD (Arts and Humanities Research Council funded) on the philosophy of death in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, I worked as Research Assistant on two projects in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University: The Letters of William Godwin (Oxford University Press), gen. ed. Pamela Clemit, volume III, ed. by M. O. Grenby (forthcoming), and The Poems of Shelley (Longman Annotated English Poets), volume IV, ed. by Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest (London: Routledge, 2013). I am Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts. I currently serve as the Postdoctoral Representative on the Departmental Research Committee. I also serve on the Project Board of Prosper (project led by the University of Liverpool; project partners the University of Manchester and Lancaster University; funded by the UKRI Research England Development Fund). My current research interests include Romantic-period literature, 1798-1822 (especially poetry, and especially the writings of Shelley and Wordsworth); philosophy (especially of death) in Romantic-period literature; the writings of Humphry Davy (especially his letters), John Davy, and the relationships between literature and science in the early nineteenth century; and the theory and practice of scholarly editing. I have published articles on Crabbe, Davy, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth. I am currently completing my first monograph, on Shelley and death.
Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project, Lancaster University I am a Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project. I obtained my PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2018. I joined the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster in 2021 from the University of Leeds, where I was a Research Associate on the Sheridan Project (Leverhulme-funded). I have lectured at Birkbeck, Canterbury Christ Church University and City, University of London. I was awarded a Birkbeck / Wellcome Trust ISSF doctoral extension grant in 2018/19 for research on women’s participation in medicine in the early nineteenth century. I have been awarded visiting fellowships at Yale University’s Lewis Walpole Library, the Wordsworth Trust and Chawton House Library. My research focuses on Romantic manuscript practices, women’s literary history, and travel writing. I am currently working on my first book, entitled Manuscript Geographies: Women Writers and Transnational Networks: 1798-1840. My research has been published in European Romantic Review. I have forthcoming articles in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Studies in Romanticism (both 2021). I have secondary interests in the medical humanities and the history of science, particularly women’s midwifery writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I have written a book chapter on Lady Mount Cashell’s medical life, forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science: History, Cultures and Practice since 1660 (2021), of which I am also Co-editor.
Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health, UCL Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla is professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London. He is also a consultant infectious diseases at UCLH, honorary consultant at Royal Free Hospital, and holds a UK NIHR senior Investigator award. His London and overseas research activities span the interface between clinical investigation and biomedical science, with the long-term goals of understanding the pathogenesis of respiratory tract infections, and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases with epidemic potential, afflicting adults and children, and developing methods for rapid diagnosis, better treatment and control.
