Lecturer in Design Cultures, De Montfort University Dr Elisabeth Gernerd is a historian of fashion, art, and material culture in the eighteenth century. Her first book, The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th Century Atlantic World, was published by Bloomsbury in November, 2023. She has published articles and chapters on stockings, banyans, and feathers in Textile History (2015), Appearance(s) (2022), Eighteenth-Century Studies (2023), and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers, ed. Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith (2020). Her current research interests center on eighteenth-century dress and its relationship to politics, gender, graphic satire and global trade, as well as women's networks and correspondence. Lis is Lecturer in Design Cultures at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, and she also has previously taught at the London College of Fashion, London Metropolitan University, the University of Westminster, and Queen Mary University London. She was the inaugural Deidre Murphy Postdoctoral Fellow at Historic Royal Palaces, and has held fellowships with the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, UCLA, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Colonial Williamsburg and Yale University. She is a founding member of the Sartorial Society Series.
Senior Lecturer, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews I work on transnational and multilingual interactions between English, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish and Russian language cultures. In addition to teaching in the Department of Russian, I was the founding convenor of the degree in Comparative Literature which brings together all the languages and cultures taught in the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews. I currently hold a St Andrews / Emory Collaborative Grant for a project researching multilingual children’s print culture of Ukraine and am joint PI on the Ostroh Academy/University of St Andrews Partnership for Advancing the Public Humanities funded by UUKi. My second research focus is on intersections between global science fiction, exoplanet science, and space policy. I am PI for a STAIRS grant ‘Forecasting Reproduction in Space’ which asks whether science fiction and scientific papers address similar issues around reproduction and agency and investigates the techniques used in literary and scientific writing to communicate complex ethical issues. This follows my earlier research and monograph on Viktor Shklovskii, a literary theorist who aimed to make literary analysis more scientific. I am Co-Director of an interdisciplinary research centre: St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science and content advisor to the exhibition Alien Worlds at the Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews. I have been an interviewee and researcher on The Cultural Front (BBC Radio 4), The Sunday Feature (BBC Radio 3), the Red Mars Series (BBC Radio 4), and In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4).
Research Scientist, Space and Astronomy, CSIRO Emil is a senior research scientist at CSIRO Space and Astronomy. He has been involved in the commissioning of radio telescopes such as the Murchison Widefield Array and ASKAP and is currently working with two ASKAP survey projects: the Variable and Slow Transients project (VAST) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS).
Professor of Statistics, University of Canterbury I am the head of the statistics consulting unit and my research interests include applied Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling, epidemiology and modelling of extreme events.
Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Plymouth Dr Eric Taylor Woods is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Plymouth. His research examines the relationships between culture, media, and politics - with a particular focus on nationalism. His most recent book on this topic (co-authored with Robert Schertzer) is entitled, 'The New Nationalism in America and Beyond: The Deep Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in the West' (Oxford University Press, 2022). Eric has also carried out research on the cultural politics of Britain's imperial past, and has published extensively on Christian-Indigenous relations in Canada, including the 2016 book, 'A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada' (Palgrave, 2016). In addition, Eric serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, and he is a member of the editorial teams of several leading journals in his fields of study, including: 'American Journal of Cultural Sociology;' 'Cultural Sociology;' and 'Nations and Nationalism.' Eric is also a founding editor of 'The State of Nationalism: An International Review,' which is an open-access portal for research on nationalism. Prior to joining the University of Plymouth University, Eric was based at the University of East London. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Experience
