Lecturer of Business Management and Psychology (University of the West of Scotland) : Doctoral Researcher, University of Glasgow MA(Hons) – Philosophy MSc – Psychological Studies MSc(by Research) – Research Methods of Psychological Science PhD - Psychology (Forensic specialism) Worked in the private sector (20 years) in various roles covering capital procurement, project management and technical bid writing – Dew Construction Ltd, Dew Pitchmastic PLC, before acting as business development manager and data analysis within the aerospace sector - Craft Prospect Ltd University of the West of Scotland - Lecturer and module coordinator (BA Business Management) West Lothian College – Programme Lead (Accelerated HNC/HND Social Science) University of West of Scotland - Lecturer Psychology University of the Highlands and Island - Lecturer Psychology Elaine is interested in examining bias within legal decision-making and the criminal justice system. Her main research interest and specialism is jury decision-making, most recently within rape trials. She is eager to advance this research by examining the attitudes that underpin gender-based violence.
Associate Professor of Exercise Science, University of Tennessee Dr. Kip Webster’s research interests are focused on assessment, interventions, and policies related to fundamental motor skills and physical activity behaviors in pediatric populations. Her research involves school or early childhood education-based programs that target positive health-related outcomes, such as reducing childhood obesity and increasing physical activity, fitness, motor skill competency, and psychological variables related to health. Her recent research has examined the relationship between physical activity/ motor skill competency to screen-time behaviors, academic achievement, as well as early childhood education center policies that directly relate to improving pediatric health. She has received over $9.5 million in external and internal funding to support her work in pediatric health.
Postdoctoral Researcher in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London Elizabeth is a Postdoctoral Researcher in British Politics, based in the Mile End Institute and QMUL's School of Politics and International Relations. She has recently completed her PhD at the University of Southampton. Elizabeth's research explores how education attainment - and a range of other life experiences and socio-demographic characteristics - shape public opinion, electoral behaviour, and wider society, in modern Britain. Her research interests extend broadly across the topic of political behaviour and she is currently working on a number of projects that relate to issues of identity formation and inequality. Her research has been cited in the Financial Times, The Guardian, as well as the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Meskell Poet in Residence, University of Limerick Dr. Emily Cullen is the UL Meskell Poet in Residence and a lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing programme. Emily devised and oversees the regular ‘Espresso Shot of Thought’ poetry series in collaboration with the MA students. Emily has published three collections: Conditional Perfect (Doire Press, 2019), In Between Angels and Animals (Arlen House, 2013) and No Vague Utopia (Ainnir Publishing, 2003). Conditional Perfect was included in The Irish Times round-up of “the best new poetry of 2019.” Emily is also a cultural producer and harper who has performed throughout Europe, Australia and the United States. She was awarded an IRC fellowship for her doctoral research on the Irish harp and gained a PhD in English in 2008. Emily frequently publishes essays on Irish music and cultural history, as well as on modernist and contemporary poetry. Emily has served as Arts Officer of the University of Galway (1999-2002), Director of the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary (2004) and Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature (2017-2019). Her eco-poem about the River Shannon, "I Am Sionann," has just been realised as a poem film by Luke Morgan with the support of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award.
Lecturer in Corporate and Insolvency Law, The University of Edinburgh Dr Emilie Ghio is a lecturer in corporate and insolvency law at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a PhD, LLM, and LLB from University College Cork (Ireland) and an LLB from the University of Strasbourg (France). Emilie his an established and active corporate insolvency and rescue law scholar with an expansive domestic and international research portfolio, which includes numerous and varied publications (monographs, textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, expert technical magazine articles). She has recently published: Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory: Perspectives for the 21st Century (2023); Redefining Harmonisation. Lessons from EU Insolvency Law (2022); English Corporate Insolvency Law. A primer (2022, with E. Vaccari).
Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of the Western Cape I've spent most of my academic career using telescopes such as MeerKAT to study the kinematics and evolutionary processes of nearby galaxies.
