Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Dr. Blaine teaches in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies where she also serves as Director of Undergradute Studies. Her research and publications examine representations of death in media, including analysis of corpses in advertising, literature, news, films and television. Besides thanatology, Blaine studies other representations of gender and the body, including abortion, yoga, and celebrity. For better or worse, she sees everything through the lens of mortality.
Professor of Biotechnology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington I am a microbiologist and enzyme engineer, and my primary research focus is on discovery, characterisation, engineering and application of useful bacterial enzymes, and of novel antibiotics to counter the spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria. I have a particular interest in tailoring enzyme activities by directed evolution - a powerful engineering approach that applies Darwinian evolutionary principles at a single-gene level, using iterative rounds of focused mutagenesis followed by artificial selection of enhanced enzyme variants to improve desirable activities. I am also excited by the discovery of “unknown unknown” enzymes from soil-dwelling bacteria – enzymes we don’t presently know about that can catalyse useful chemical reactions, such as degradation of recalcitrant environmental pollutants. This approach tends to uncover enzymes that are relatively weak and ineffectual to begin with, but which can prove to be excellent start points for directed evolution, seeking to create practical solutions to major problems.
Chair in Entrepreneurship, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds Diane Holt is a Professor at Leeds University Business School and holds the Chair in Entrepreneurship. Her research is particularly focused on social purpose ventures, the informal economy and the communities they benefit within sub-Saharan Africa. She also explores values chains in informal and rural communities with recent work set in the sustainable development reserves of the Brazilian Amazon.
Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Sheffield I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield working in the Management School. I research issues of business and society and particularly social innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa.
