Barrister & Honorary Lecturer in Emergency Medical Law, Queen Mary University of London A criminal defence and inquest practitioner, with a reputation for looking at cases differently, and her focus on each client as an individual. Chaynee practises predominantly in crime and inquests. Her further sub-specialisms include forensic science, maritime criminal law, maritime inquests, Higher Education inquests, and medical and mental health inquests. She currently accepts instructions nationally, with a focus on London and North Wales. Chaynee is an Honorary Lecturer in Emergency Medical Law at QMUL and the Blizard Institute – and has been involved with providing legal teaching on their MSc Emergency & Resuscitation Medicine since 2019. Chaynee is also Honorary Lecturer in Criminal Law (Department of Law), and Honorary Lecturer in Medicine: Medical Law (Department of Medicine) at Bangor University. She was the second contributor to the 5th edition of the leading national Undergraduate textbook in Criminal Law – Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law – assisting the principal author, Professor David Ormerod CBE KC. Prior to practice, Chaynee spent over a decade as a University Law Lecturer and academic, teaching Criminal Law, Evidence, and Media Law, working as Head of Admissions for Law (Law Admissions Tutor), and as Director of an Innocence Casework Unit. As a member of Middle Temple since 2012, she was Called to the Bar in 2019, and qualified as a Pupil Supervisor with Middle Temple in 2024. She is the Adviser (Lay Non-Medic) in Teaching & Learning and Examinations for the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), and Full Member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences (BAFS). She is also a member of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), the Inquest Lawyers’ Group (ILG), the Female Fraud Forum, the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Women In Criminal Law (WICL), the Peer Review Panel of the International Journal of Emergency Services (IJES), and a Fast-Track Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Before lecturing, she was a Deck Rating in the Merchant Navy, and, as a member of the Cruising Association, Young Cruisers’ Association, Royal Burnham Yacht Club, and Bar Yacht Club, she maintains a keen interest in getting afloat whenever possible. Her seagoing qualifications and experience also provides useful insight in trials or inquests in maritime cases. Chaynee also has a keen interest in pre-hospital care and pre-hospital emergency medicine. In addition to her legal work in this area, she successfully completed the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Course, and is now an Associate Instructor on the PHEC. She is also a First Responder with GoodSAM for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Again, her qualifications and experience in pre-hospital care also provide valuable additional insight in trials or inquests of a medical nature.
Research Associate, Sleep Health, Flinders University Claire Dunbar is a Research Associate and psychologist at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute - Sleep Health. Her primary interests include the behavioural treatment of sleep disorders and improving the health of the rural and wider community through high quality research and accessible community education opportunities. Her current research focuses on performance impairment as a result of sleep deprivation, improving the understanding and treatment of circadian and phase disorders in clinical and shift work personal and treating sleep difficulties in individuals living with chronic pain.
Professor in Coastal Science, University of Waikato Chris Battershill became the inaugural Professor and Chair of Coastal Science with the University of Waikato in January 2011. He has returned to New Zealand following twelve years as leader of the Marine Resources and Biodiversity Teams at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), focusing on coral reef biodiversity conservation, coastal processes, oil and gas industry development in the north and west of Australia, new species aquaculture, and medicinal biodiscovery. He is currently the Director of the Coastal Marine Research Station in Tauranga and the Tauranga Director for the Division of Health Engineering Computing and Science. He maintains positions on the MPI Governance, Biosecurity Committees and the Oil Pollution Advisory Committee for Maritime NZ. He is passionate about Mātauranga research led education across all levels, strongly promoting regional outreach. Current research focus as PI on a 5 year MBIE program, examines effects of land runoff on coastal reef systems and food webs linking land and sea productivity and resilience in a changing climate. He is championing a 'nexus' between marine biophysical sciences, AI and robotics engineering.
Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina Cary Mock is a climatologist with research interests in historical climatology and environments, synoptic climatology, and extreme weather events such as hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, and snowstorms. He is also interested on how historical data supplement high resolution paleoclimatology records for the past several centuries. His historical weather and climatology research covers most of North America and is particularly strong for the Southeast USA, the West Coast, and Utah. But his research has also expanded internationally and includes typhoons in East Asia, storms and sea ice in the Western Arctic, weather and climate of Belize and Bermuda, and Kona storms and hurricanes in Hawaii.
Professor do Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) Professora Adjunta do Departamento de nutrição da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Professora Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação Nutrição e Saúde (UFMG). Professora na Residência Multiprofissional do Hospital das Clínicas da UFMG, na área de Saúde Cardiovascular. Graduada em nutrição pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Doutora em Endocrinologia pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Médicas: Endocrinologia (UFRGS).
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth Clare Walsh is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Her main interests are in understanding how people imagine alternatives to reality, a skill which is known as Counterfactual Thinking. She studies how these thoughts impact emotions, where we attribute cause and blame and even how we tell lies.
