Interim Director, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington As Interim Director and Deputy Director of the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, Dr. Vogel provides leadership, oversight and continuity of operations for the organization, including external relations, fundraising, government and University relations, budgeting, strategic planning, and technical excellence in applied interdisciplinary climate impacts and adaptation research and engagement. He serves as the lead principal investigator for the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, a five-year multi-institution collaboration with other universities and community-facing non-governmental organizations funded as a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership program (formerly known as RISA). The Resilience Collaborative was envisioned as an effort to center Tribes and frontline communities in the implementation of a climate resilience research and engagement program. We continue to evolve through ongoing engagement with community partners and by adopting an approach of reciprocity, where communities benefit tangibly from engaging with our program. Dr. Vogel is committed to systemic change in social-environmental systems to ensure the most sustainable and equitable possible future for human and non-human beings. He is a fierce skeptic, always questioning how to achieve the greatest impact, and committed to his team and their success.
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, University of Worcester Jessica is a Lecturer and Applied Sport Scientist who has research interests aligned to optimising athlete and occupational workers for competing and working in hot climates using novel, sustainable, accessible and effective strategies. She has a particular interest in understanding the additional challenges female endurance athletes may face associated with hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle. Jessica is a British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) accredited Sport Scientist has a range of experiences working with and preparing national and international level athletes for competition.
Researcher, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO James is a climatologist who has worked and published on climate variability and climate change issues in the US, the Netherlands, and Australia. His research is broadly concerned with the development and use of climate information for societal applications.
Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London Jeremy Hicks is a historian of Russian culture and film at QMUL. His research interests are in the history of documentary film in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has also published on Soviet film during World War Two, representations of the Holocaust in Russian and Soviet film, the documentary film pioneer, Dziga Vertov and connections between Soviet film and humanitarian film He received a PhD from SSEES-UCL in 2000, and has been teaching at Queen Mary since 1998.
Phd Candidate Criminology, University of Plymouth PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth. My thesis focuses on the experiences of unwanted sexual attention between lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals in the LGBTQ+ night time economy. My previous research focused on why men perpetrate unwanted sexual attention in the night time economy. This research explored the strains of consumer culture and masculinity on men, in order to define the motives for unwanted sexual attention.
Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Manchester I specialise in Anglo-Caribbean relations over the past two hundred years. My first monograph details intellectual, political and diplomatic exchanges between Britain and the Black sovereign state of Haiti in Victorian period. More recently, I have been working on the Caribbean presence in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century, especially processes of settlement, community and neighbourhood formation and local Black print cultures.
