Professor in Physical Geography, University of Southampton David is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton. He has over 28 years research experience in the areas of sediment transport and siltation in rivers, lakes and floodplains as well as flood risk management and river restoration. He has led projects looking at the impacts of agriculture on river ecology, impacts of sediments on salmon spawning habitats, the effectiveness of river maintenance including dredging, and the impacts of exterme flooding on river channels and infrastructure. David also works in the coastal zone and has led a major survey of the largest lost medieval port in the world at Dunwich (Britains Atlantis, www.dunwich.org.uk) where he has examined long term drivers of cliff eosion and coastal change. Most recently, David has focussed his research on the use of sediment archives in lakes for reconstructing the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards including flood records (e.g. following storm Desmond in 2015), Tropical Cyclones (e.g. Pam in Vanuatu in 2015), coastal storms (from marsh sediments). He leads a research programme in the tropical South Pacific where he uses lake sediments to reconstruct changes in El-Nino (ENSO) and the timing of arrival and ecosystem impacts of the first humans. David advises Defra, Environment Agency, Natural England and RGS among other organisations on River restoration, Natural Flood Managment and channel dynamics. He has worked all over the world and his research has been published in leading Journals. His work has featured in a wide range of media outlets including six TV documentaries.
Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Anglia Ruskin University I have a degree in Movement Studies (with Qualified Teacher Status), a Masters in Research (UK Sprint Coaches and Black/White Stereotypes), and an Educational Doctorate (Coaching Expertise Development). I have a number of coaching and fitness instruction awards, including a UEFA B football coaching licence. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests are around the development of expertise, and learning journeys, in Sports Coaching, and beyond.
Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Leicester I am an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology based at Leicester Diabetes Centre. I have completed my PhD on gut hormone changes after sleeve gastrectomy the most commonly performed bariatric procedure worldwide. My main interests include how to best combine lifestyle pharmacological and surgical treatments for management of obesity and type 2 diabetes. I am also interested in the mechanisms of weight loss weight maintenance and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery and identifying potential treatments for postprandial hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia.
Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University David Yamane earned his BA (’91) in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and his MS (’94) and Ph.D. (’98) in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. After teaching at the University of Notre Dame and holding a post-doc at the University of Virginia’s Center on Religion and Democracy, he joined the sociology faculty at Wake Forest in 2005. He served as department chair from 2009 to 2011 and is currently an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Religion and School of Divinity. For the first 20 years of his academic career, Professor Yamane specialized in the sociology of religion, a field in which he authored, co-authored or edited 6 books and 2 major scholarly journals. Since 2011, Professor Yamane has studied guns, especially the new self-defense-oriented core of American gun culture that Michael Bane calls Gun Culture 2.0. Among his publications in this area is a short history of concealed carry in the US, Concealed Carry Revolution: Liberalizing the Right to Bear Arms in America, and a review essay on “The Sociology of US Gun Culture.” As he continues to work on a book combining his personal experiences and sociological observations of Gun Culture 2.0, Professor Yamane shares his thoughts on two blogs, gunculture2point0.com and guncurious.com, and on Twitter at @davidyamane and @gunculture2pt0. In 2022, he launched a YouTube channel, “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane,” on which he posts weekly short videos about issues related to his scholarship. Professional headshots and a full biography are available on Professor Yamane’s personal website davidyamane.com.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Laurentian University In the broadest sense, I am interested in theoretical and applied questions about the evolution and ecology of amphibian species and communities. For the past 6 years my research program centred on population genetics in human dominated landscapes, focussing on gene flow interruption and its consequences for amphibian populations. Part of this research also investigated the fitness consequences of phenotypic and genetic variation. Amphibian populations are facing various threats in Northern Ontario such as habitat removal, connectivity disruption and EIDs and my research ultimately integrate all these aspects to understand the declines of populations. In general, my work integrates intense field work coupled with molecular approaches for the analysis of parentage and population genetics, and laboratory experiment to estimate measures of fitness. Currently, I work as a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Professor of Cyber Security, Lancaster University Daniel Prince a Professor of Cyber Security at Lancaster University. His research focus is on cyber security risk management and threat intelligence and understanding new forms of offensive cyber attack. He works closely with businesses and the public to support increasing awareness of cyber security issues and what can be done about it. He has been involved in multiple, large scale projects working with SMEs to help them to embed cyber innovation within their organisations - regardless of their sector. He is the programme director for the NCSC certified MSc in Cybersecurity and the new Cyber Security Executive MBA programme.
