Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University Jerry McManus is a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and a paleoceanographer. His research includes using deep-sea sediments to reconstruct past changes in the Earth’s climate and the large-scale ocean circulation, with a special focus on the role that the ocean plays in abrupt climate change. He has spent nearly a year of his life at sea and is involved in research projects in far-flung locales in every ocean basin. After 10 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he returned to Columbia and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 2008.
Research Fellow in Education Equity, University of Birmingham Dr Jodie Pennacchia is a Research Fellow in the Education Equity Initiative at The University of Birmingham. Jodie’s research focuses on the educational offer for learners excluded from/not following ‘traditional’, high-status or linear academic trajectories. This has led to a particular interest in how educational inequalities can be created and ameliorated through schools, alternative provision and the further education sector. Jodie has undertaken research funded by The Prince’s Trust, The Department for Education, The Economic and Social Research Council and Teach First.
Lecturer, Human Services, School of Language Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury My present research focuses on the intersection between colonialism and capitalism. I am lecturing within the Human Services programme in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury.
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director Youth and Community Work, Cardiff Metropolitan University Dr Jo Aubrey is a qualified youth and community worker with significant experience work of with young people both in the UK and in central and eastern Europe as a senior manager, consultant and academic. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Youth and Community Work at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She teaches at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and her specialism include the sociology of childhood and youth, safeguarding and the global dimensions of youth work. Her research interests include social action and youth work, research methods with children and young people and community-based participatory action research.
Profesor, Emprendedor e Investigador en economía y empresa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Licenciado en ADE (2007) con Matrícula de Honor. Máster en Marketing por la University College Dublin (2008) y Máster en Dirección Internacional por la University College Dublin y The Univeristy of Sydney (2014). Actualmente realizando el doctorado en la USC con la investigación de la internacionalización del emprendimiento gallego. Con experiencia profesional en 4 continentes, entre mis logros destaco liderar la apertura de la primera oficina en Latinoamérica de una de las empresas de e-learning más importantes de Europa, ayudar a la internacionalización de una pequeña empresa familiar, firmar un contrato de distribución con el mayor distribuidor mundial de materiales de construcción en menos de un año de vida de la primera empresa que puse en marcha y haber formado a más de 1.500 alumnos en los campos de tecnologías de la información, economía, negocios internacionales y dirección de operaciones.
Chancellor's Fellow, Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences Usher Institute Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the interface between sexuality, health, memory and online/offline practices. I am currently working on a variety of projects focused on how gay men negotiate HIV risk and COVID-19 risk, people experience memories of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and use the internet for wellbeing during COVID-19. I have authored reports and papers on the impact of COVID-19 on LGBT+ people's lives and health and provided evidence to the UK Parliament on PrEP delivery nationwide.
