Professor of Middle Eastern and Caucasian Christianities, University of Exeter Emma studied for a BA in History and History of Art at the University of York (1991-1994), where she specialised in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. She then worked back in time and took an MA (1994-1995) in Classical and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. It was during her MA that she discovered Late Antique Syria, which became the subject of her PhD thesis at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. After graduating from SOAS in February 2001 she spent three years living and working as an archaeologist, fund-raiser, secretary and potato-peeler for the Community of Al-Khalil at Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi in Syria. The Community is dedicated to hospitality and Christian-Islamic dialogue and she spent the summers directing an archaeological excavation for the Community at their other monastery, Deir Mar Elian in Qaryatayn, and the rest of the year dealing with all English correspondence, greeting guests and helping with general chores (hence potato-peeling). During this period she was a visiting lecturer at SOAS and at the Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik in Lebanon. She also worked for the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Information as an archaeologist studying the artefacts found at a sixth-century monastery on the island of Sir Bani Yas. In January 2004 she took up a position teaching Oriental Christian and Islamic Art at the University of Manchester and in 2010 she was appointed Senior Lecturer. During this time she was also a visiting lecturer at the Art University of Isfahan, Iran, the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, the University of Tehran, the Teacher Training University of Tehran and the Amirkabir Polytechnic College, Tehran, Iran She joined the University of Exeter in April 2013 and from 2012-2017 she worked on a five-year European Research Council funded project entitled Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity exploring the purported Syrian evangelisation of Georgia in the fifth century and which sought to answer why the Georgians left the Oriental Orthodox fold to join with the Constantinopolitan Church in the early seventh century. Since 2017 she has worked with the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi on an initiative to widen participation in Heritage Education amongst children from ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities across Georgia.
Senior Lecturer, Private and Commercial Law / Researcher in International Law and Trade, Brunel University London Dr Ezeani is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial and Private Law at Brunel Law School. A highly skilled and experienced legal and academic professional with over 20 years’ experience in a variety of corporate, management and administrative positions including in teaching, administration, and research in UKHE, Dr Ezeani has convened and tutored on a wide variety of law courses and programmes including in international law, contracts, international business law, company and commercial law, dispute resolution, and international trade. She is research active and has over 50 academic-related publications with an inter-disciplinary focus on law, international trade, economic growth, sustainable development, political economy and governance available in print and online media. Inter-disciplinarity is a strong feature in much of my research work and I am interested in projects that go beyond academic contemplations. I lean towards research that has relevance to, and that can make positive impact on, people, the economy, and society. My latest research project, Adapting to a Changing World is a cross disciplinary collaborative output of online research seminars, an innovative and sustainable approach to research dissemination and impact. The objective was to address emerging concerns with a world post-Covid, post-Brexit, and considering the threats of de-globalisation. The aim of the project was to enable a cross section of experts share their knowledge on: Brexit/UK-Nigeria Trade & Immigration; Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property; Health & Regional Economic Recovery post-Covid; Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture; Research Impact on Construction and Energy sectors in Africa, Ethical Corporations & Public Security, respectively, with those directly impacted by this research – i.e. students, academics, researchers, governments and policy makers, in real time, online. The project ran from June 2021-September 2022 and featured 12 experts from across academia and industry. Publicity was via online and social media. Video recordings and storage of the proceedings including presenter’s slides, audience questions and feedback, are retained in an accessible digital format in keeping with current Open Access requirements for research.
Assistant Professor of History, Alfred University Eben Levey completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to Alfred University, he taught at Boise State University. Western Washington University, American University and University of Maryland, College Park. Levey’s dissertation, “From Liberation Theology to Teologia India: The Progressive Catholic Church in Southern Mexico, 1954-1994,” expanded the scope of histories of Liberation Theology (a progressive Catholic movement that emerged in the late 1960s) by centering a focus on Indigenous Mexico. He asked two parallel questions: How did Liberation Theology change the fabric of Indigenous Mexico? And, how did Indigenous Mexico change Liberation Theology? Levey shows how Indigenous Catholics pushed progressive liberationists to move beyond mere class-based analysis and incorporate Indigenous demands for multiculturalism, self-determination, and local autonomy in ways that would both open the Roman Catholic Church to indigenous ways of being Catholic and later become the framework for official multiculturalism in Mexican government policy of the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. Levey is currently working on transforming his dissertation into a book manuscript and he recently published two articles that grew out of his dissertation research: “Making Liberation Theology Indigenous: The Seminario Regional del Sureste (SERESURE) and Indigenous Mexico, 1969-1990,” in Christian Bueschges, ed., Liberation Theology and the Other(s): Contextualizing Latin American Catholic Activism in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. “‘A New Type of Priest:’ The Regional Seminary of the Southeast (SERESURE) and Indigenous Ministry in Mexico, 1969-1990,” Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture, Vol. 32, 2021.
PhD Candidate, Bangor University PhD researcher interested in injury risk in female athletes. I am currently working on the Welsh Injury Surveillance in Girls' Youth Rugby (WISGYR) Project assessing injury risk in grassroots girls' rugby.
Científica titular del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS - CSIC), Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS - CSIC) Científica Titular del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) de España. Coordinadora de la Plataforma Temática Interdisciplinar ES CIENCIA Directora del Grupo de investigación sobre Libro Académico (ILIA). Doctora y Licenciada en Documentación por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
PhD Candidate, Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast I am a current third year PhD candidate at Queen's University, Belfast. For my PhD I am studying the impact of electoral systems in the devolved areas of the UK and have studied politics and governance across Western Europe. I am a guest lecturer in contemporary Irish politics and a teaching assistant on a number of modules including political theory, statistics and European politics. My work has been published in the Party Politics journal, and I have worked for three years in the UK's education industry.
