Research Group Leader, physical oceanographer, CSIRO Chaojiao is a senior researcher at CSIRO who studies how the movement of the ocean affects the climate and the environment. Chaojiao has a wide range of research interests including understanding how ocean currents and tides could potentially protect the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs under climate change, providing science-based solutions to support the blue economy through ecological predictions about the environment, deriving detailed climate projections using dynamical downscaling and machine learning approaches, and developing decision support tool for forecasting of harmful algal blooms.
Associate Professor Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter My research interests lie in Roman social and economic history, particularly urban economies, the experience of living in the ancient city, and migration and mobility. I am especially interested in Rome itself, and have published work on the city's retail trade, demography, and street life, as well as editing A Companion to the City of Rome with Amanda Claridge (please see publications for more details). Over the last few years I have been working on human mobility in Roman Hispania in the imperial period, exploring and mapping population movement within the region on the basis of its rich epigraphic data. The first part of this project was generously funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust and the results are now available in an open-access digital resource. I am currently writing a book analysing this inscriptional evidence to consider who moved, where, when, and why. The book is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic as Migration and Mobillity in Roman Hispania: Origins, Inscriptions, and Economics, and I have a period of research leave funded by a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship in 2024-2025 to enable the completion of this work. I am also interested in Roman work and labour, and am working on a project exploring the ways in which the inhabitants of Rome earned their livelihoods, and the structure and organisation of the labour market in the city. This intersects with my work on human mobility and I have also published in the area of economic mobility. Other current strands of research are female work and labour. female social and economic networks, and Roman food and diet. I am one of the series editors for Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies and am on the editorial board of The Journal of Applied History. Biography: Originally from Lancashire, I studied for my BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Manchester (1997-2005), before taking up a fixed-term lectureship at King’s College London (2005-2008). Following a Rome Award at the British School of Rome, I returned to the North West where I held a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Liverpool (2009-2012), interspersed with a Tytus summer residency at the University of Cincinnati and a research scholarship at the Fondation Hardt in Geneva, before coming to Exeter in 2012.
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.
Assistant Professor of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Chris Knoepke is an Instructor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Colorado, having joined ACCORDS and the Shared Decision Making Core in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His research investigates means by which to improve the inclusion of patient values and voice in medical decisions, especially those which are technologically complex, emotionally burdensome, or for stigmatized conditions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Monmouth College, a Masters of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in Social Work from the University of Denver. His work is currently supported by three NIH-funded trials of decision support materials (two from NHLBI and one from NIMH), pilot project funding from both the Palliative Care Research Collaborative and the Colorado Center for Women’s Health Research, and a career development award from the American Heart Association. As a Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research seed grantee, Dr. Knoepke works in collaboration with Drs. Prateeti Khazanie and Sarah Perman to better understand seeming structural disparities in the reception of lifesaving care, including why women make up only 15-20% of patients in the US who receive ventricular assist devices (VADs), and why women are less likely to receive bystander CPR during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Knoepke has also published on extreme risk protection orders.
Reader in the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University I contribute to language and literature modules for beginners, intermediate and fluent speakers across all undergraduate and postgraduate schemes in the department. I have also developed modules in my own areas of expertise encompassing modern and contemporary literature as well as the literary culture of the early modern period (1500–1800). Traddodiad Benywaidd? Merched a Barddoniaeth yng Nghymru cyn 1800 (A Female Tradition? Women and Poetry in Wales before 1800) Y Golygydd a Diwydiant Cyhoeddi Cymru (The Editor and Wales’s Publishing Industry). Testunau'r Enfys: Llunio Profiadau LHDT+ (Rainbow-coloured Texts: constructing LGBT+ experiences; co-delivered with colleagues from TFTS). Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800. My research into early modern and contemporary literature includes critical evaluation, editorial scholarship, and literary translation in the following intersecting areas: Women’s literature and literary culture: Honno’s Welsh-language Classics; women’s poetry in a Welsh and pan-Celtic context. Literary negotiations of identity: gender, self-identity, regional and national identity, and Britishness in a ‘four nations’ context. Literary culture: networks and the burgeoning public sphere in eighteenth-century Wales and beyond. Environmental Humanities / Ecocriticism: weather literature and historical meteorology. Eschatology: literary negotiations of death and dying. Publications on women’s literature include the first comprehensive anthology of Welsh-language women’s poetry up to 1800, Beirdd Ceridwen (2005) and new editions of forgotten works by women in Honno’s Welsh Classics series, e.g. Pererinion & Storïau Hen Ferch (2008). Work in progress includes edited texts, translations, notes and critical evaluation for an anthology (CUP, 2025) and critical companion (CUP, 2026) that will present work undertaken for the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400–1800’ (2013–17). I have written about identity and literary culture more broadly in Bardic Circles (2007), Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution (2012), ‘Networking the nation…’ (2013), ‘Perfformio’r genedl…’ (2017) and ‘Brawdgarwch cenedlgarol…’ (2020). A handful of articles, listed below, engage with weather literature, and I am currently completing an anthology of Welsh-language weather literature for Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, Trysorfa’r Tywydd (2025).
Professor of History and Political Economy, University of Botswana Christian John Makgala is a professor of history and political economy at the University of Botswana, where he teaches African diaspora, international relations, southern African history, public health history, historical military strategy for entrepreneurship, and Africa’s history on film. His publications are on colonial administration and public opinion, democracy, governance and development, industrial relations, liberation struggle in southern Africa, work ethic, motor sport, and even recently the impact of Covid-19 on Botswana. He is also a writer of historical fiction. He has been the chief editor of Botswana Notes and Records journal for about 15 years now.
