Associate Professor of Oceanography, Texas A&M University Dr. Shamberger is a chemical oceanographer whose research focuses on the ocean carbon cycle, its alteration by anthropogenic ocean acidification, and the impacts of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms and ecosystems, namely tropical and deep-sea coral reefs, and oyster reefs. Her research involves investigating the natural cycling of carbon dioxide in coral reef and coastal ecosystems, the sensitivity of these systems to ocean acidification and other anthropogenic stressors, and controls on marine calcification. Dr. Shamberger's research is largely field based and she has worked on reefs in the Caribbean, main Hawaiian islands, northwest Hawaiian islands, Emperor Seamount Chain, American Samoa, Palau, the Great Barrier Reef, Taiwan, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Senior Research Associate in Behavioural Medicine, Loughborough University Kajal obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Aston University, and her PhD from Loughborough University which focused on the implementation of a self-managed, physical activity intervention among breast cancer patients during active chemotherapy treatment. Following the completion of her PhD, Kajal took up a Research Associate position at Coventry University where she worked on a number of NIHR, MRC and CRUK funded projects developing and evaluating digital health interventions. Kajal joined Loughborough as a Senior Research Associate in September 2019. Kajal’s research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of health-related behaviour change interventions, and providing individuals with the resources to make positive changes to their health and well-being. Kajal has a strong interest in digital behaviour change interventions and self-managed physical activity interventions for the prevention and management of cancer.
Research Fellow in Criminology, The University of Edinburgh Dr Murray is a criminal justice researcher, with a background in policy-based research, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She completed her doctoral research on police use of stop and search in 2014, for which she received the Economic and Social Research (ESRC) Outstanding Early Career Impact prize. She has since undertaken a range of projects, including research on children’s experiences of offending and victimization, public confidence in Scottish policing, the devolution of railway policing and the age of criminal responsibility. She has also worked on the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey. She also writes on the formulation of policy and legislation relating to sex and gender identity in Scotland, as part of the MurrayBlackburnMackenzie Policy Analysis Collective.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Clemson University Kimberly Paul received her B.S. in Biology from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA), and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA). At a host-pathogen interactions symposium at a national cell biology conference, she was inspired to continue her post-doctoral research on the host-microbe interactions. After receiving her PhD, she attended the prestigious Biology of Parasitism summer course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA, USA) before starting her post-doctoral research in molecular parasitology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD, USA). Since 2005, Dr. Paul has been a faculty member at Clemson University (Clemson, SC, USA), where she is currently an Assoc. Professor in the Dept. of Genetics & Biochemistry and a Founding Member, Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center (EPIC) Her research centers on fatty acid metabolism and drug discovery in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness.
MA Sociology Student, Carleton University Kai Jacobsen (they/them) is a Master’s student in the department of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. They hold a BA with Honours in Sociology from the University of Victoria, and have previously published research on a variety of queer and trans health topics, including gender euphoria and transnormativity.
