Professor of Gynaecology/Consultant Gynaecological Surgeon, University of Liverpool Dharani K Hapangama is Professor of Gynaecology and the deputy head of the department of Women’s & Children’s health, with an interest in translational endometrial research. She is a Consultant Gynaecologist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and her research group works on normal regeneration of the human endometrium, endometrial epithelial stem cells and telomerase/telomere biology in the context of endometrial disease such as 'endometriosis', peri-conceptional pathology and 'endometrial cancer'. The human endometrium is a major theme underpinning my research. My group focuses on the understanding of three dimensional organisation, function, and regeneration of the human endometrium in order to address major unmet clinical needs in gynaecology. We therefore centre our research on pathologies related to menstrual related symptoms, fertility/ early pregnancy and endometrial cancer. Our research is funded by MRC, Wellbeing of Women’s, NIHR and North West Cancer Research. Our research utilises a wide range of research methodology that has been established in our labs and supported by our expert national and international collaborators including; complex 3D in vitro tissue culturing; endometrial histology, immunohistochemistry, immuno-fluorescence, in situ hybridisation, laser capture micro-dissection, NMR, mass-spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, microarrays, RNA sequencing, imaging mass-spectroscopy as well as non-laboratory methods including systematic reviews and system biology.
Doctor Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, University of Liverpool Speciality Trainee Doctor and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at University of Liverpool, researching the endometrium at the cellular level. Dania graduated Medicine with distinction from Imperial College London, where she also completed a BSc in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences. She has worked on projects with the NIHR Global Surgery Unit, UPBEAT consortium and Tokyo Medical University.
Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University Alison was awarded her doctorate in 2015 which drew upon mental patient files to investigate mothers committed into Victorian mental institutions in the early twentieth century. Currently working in collaboration with the Beechworth Research Team investigating the former Mayday Hills asylum. The former Beechworth Lunatic Asylum built in 1867 still retains a 'sense of place.' The project includes arts-based research, concerning history, genealogy, women, returned soldiers, mental health, and emotional geography. The research group have been funded to create a virtual tour website of Mayday Hills and Beechworth Cemetery https://maydayhills.org.au/
Professor of English, John Carroll University Debby Rosenthal is a widely published specialist in 19th-century American literature and in 21st-century climate change literature. She teaches American literature at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
