Lecturer in Publishing, University of East Anglia Dr Jasmin Kirkbride is a Lecturer in Publishing at City, University of London, and Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at UEA. Her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA, which she completed with no corrections in 2023, explored radical hope in dystopian climate fiction. As well as being an academic, Jasmin is a science fiction author and poet. Her short fiction has appeared in places including Reactor, Fictive Dream, and on the cover of Open Pen, and her story ‘Sand’ was featured in Some of the Best from Tor.com 2021. She is represented by Alex Cochran at C&W. Her poetry has appeared in Presence, Frogpond, and Blithe Spirit, and been shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature Award 2019, and the Snapshots Press Haiku Calendar 2021 Competition. Jasmin was the Researcher-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society 2022, producing the archival research paper 'Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis', and presenting it as Keynote at the Society’s Winter Gathering. Jasmin's role as a Lecturer in Publishing at City, University of London sees her teaching Publishing, Creative Writing, and English Literature at UG and PG levels. Her research interests include hope in climate fiction, dystopian and utopian instincts in genre fiction, and intercultural concepts of time in the environmental novel. Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in journals including The Cormac McCarthy Journal and LOGOS, and she is currently co-editing 'Epochs, Ages, and Cycles', a Special Edition of the ASLE-UKI Journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. She has presented at several conferences, including the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2022 and 2023, and UEA/EACWP CW50 Futures for Creative Writing International Conference 2021. She is currently the Secretary and Podcast Co-Host for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI). In 2019, Jasmin graduated from an MA Creative Writing: Prose Fiction at UEA. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Failight Books, and as the cover-story of Open Pen. Her ecocritical poetry has been published in magazines including Presence, Blithe Spirit and Frogpond, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Museum of Haiku Literature Award. She was the 2022 Research-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society, working on a creative archival project called Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis, which featured as the Keynote for the Society's Winter Gathering 2023. Previously, Jasmin worked in publishing, notably as a book trade journalist for industry magazine BookBrunch and as the Publishing Director at Endeavour Media. As an novel editor, she has worked with publishing houses from indie literary presses such as Boiler House Press and Weatherglass Books to commercial genre imprints such as Rebellion. This has included work on a Pulitzer-winner, a Booker-longlistee, BBC Books of the Week, and Amazon top ten bestsellers. She's worked with authors who’ve won the Caine Prize for African Writing and been shortlisted for the Booker International. Her journalistic work has appeared in Time Out and Publisher's Weekly amongst others, and she is the author of a four-book self-help series (Summersdale, 2016-2017), which is internationally available in multiple languages. She continued engaging with the publishing industry throughout her PhD, for instance via her CHASE-funded placement at the journal English.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town Qualifications: PhD Stanford Anthropology, MSc Oxford Forced Migration, BSocSci Hons-UCT Expertise: Angola, Mauritius, contemporary ethnography, inclusive innovation, higher education
Research Associate, Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Dr Jim Taylor is the coordinator of the KwaZulu-Natal Regional Centre of Expertise. He is passionate about citizen science and his key interest areas are education for sustainable development (ESD), indigenous knowledge practices. social change and sustainability, evaluation, learning and transformation. He is a former president of the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa and founder member of the Southern African Development Community Regional Environmental Education Programme. This programme supported ESD course development in 15 southern African countries. He is an honorary life member of the Wildlife & Environment Society of South Africa. Jim is active in the work of Unesco, where he is an advisor to the ASPNet teacher capacity building programme. He is also with the United Nations University Regional Center of Expertise in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Academic qualifications: 2015-2018: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Anatomical Sciences. 2013-2015: Master of Science (Medicine) by dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand within the School of Anatomical Sciences. 2012: Bachelor of Health Science with Honours, Human Biology, University of the Witwatersrand. 2008- 2011: Bachelor of Science, medical cell biology and applied and experimental physiology, University of the Witwatersrand. Work experience: 2021-Current: senior lecturer (School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand) 2019-2021: full time lecturer (University of the Witwatersrand) 2016-2017: part time lecturer (University of Johannesburg) 2015-2019: table doctor (Human Dissection, University of the Witwatersrand)
Senior lecturer, Rhodes University Dr Jonathan Davy is a senior lecturer in the Human Kinetics and Ergonomics Department at Rhodes University. His research interests focus on understanding how sleep-wake behaviour is affected by various systemic demands in different contexts, including aviation, healthcare, adolescents at school, and the railway industry, and how to optimise sleep-wake behaviour to limit the effects of fatigue and sleep loss. Apart from his roles within the academic part of the university, Dr Davy is the immediate president of the Ergonomics Society of South Africa and the editor of the society's journal, Ergonomics SA, while also fulfilling the role of chair for communications and public relations for the International Ergonomics Association. He is also a member of the scientific committee for the South African Society for Sleep and Health.
Research Associate, School of Nursing, Western University Completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at University of Guelph. Currently Research Associate in the School of Nursing at Western University, with a focus on gender-based violence.
