Senior lecturer in History and History of Art, University of Bristol I work within and between the disciplines of History and History of Art, specialising in visual and material culture. My research interests lie in medieval perceptions of place, with particular reference to Italy and its relationships with the wider Mediterranean region and transalpine Europe. My previous research primarily focused on sacred space, especially the creation, use, and decoration of holy ground. My book Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press / Combined Academic Publishers) examines themes such as the phenomenon of holy footprints, the liturgical shaping of consecrated space, and the design and function of ecclesiastical floor decoration. I have a related interest in medieval cartography and co-edited with Dr Hanna Vorholt (University of York) a volume of essays on maps of Jerusalem: Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West. I have also published on the representation of subterranean environments in religious art from regions specialising in mining and have been involved in collaborative research on cultural responses to seismic activity. My current research explores the materiality and portability of place as this was exemplified by the symbolic movement of soil. The main project explores spiritual, political, and environmental connotations of moving earth to and from the city of Rome during the Middle Ages and early modern period. I am also interested in understandings of soil and the environment within the medieval Islamic world and in modern uses of earth in contexts of commemoration and migration. I am a member of the University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies, the Centre for Environmental Humanities, and Migration Mobilities Bristol. My research interests inform my teaching for the History and History of Art departments. I contribute to a number of team-taught units including Episodes in Global Visual Culture, The Medieval World, Crusading Cultures, and Wild Things. I teach History of Art units on Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean and Vision, and a History unit on Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages. I also co-teach an interdisciplinary unit on The Italian City with colleagues from History of Art and the Department of Italian.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas development to monitor their air for contaminants. She also serves on the coordinating committee of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, envisioning and building digital tools and research infrastructures for environmental data justice. Her interdisciplinary work spans environmental science, social science, and critical theory with articles appearing in Atmospheric Environment, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, and Mobilization.
Associate Professor and Academic Director Executive Education, Griffith University Luke is actively engaged in research in management problem solving with over 80 publications in this field. His research follows three key streams. The first stream looks at how framing and sensemaking influence problem-solving in messy management environments. The second stream is the feral information systems project which looks at the social, technical, and organisation impacts of workarounds. The third stream involves a study of communities of practice and technology use as well as the practices of blended learning in higher education contexts. His main passion is thinking about how cognitive models (thinking patterns) affect the way we solve problems and make decisions.
Senior Lecturer Humanities, Griffith University LINDA HASSALL: is Deputy Convenor BA in Humanities and Field Study Coordinator Drama. She has held roles as Program Director for Creative Industries, School Humanities and Program Director Contemporary and Applied Theatre School Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University. Her practice research focuses on devising and producing contemporary performance and explores the relationship between theatre and climate change. She further explores developing sustainable production technologies in response to theatre’s carbon footprint. She is author of Theatres of Dust: Climate Gothic Analysis in contemporary Australian drama and performance landscapes (2021). She is an award-winning playwright Post Office Rose (2008) and director Salvation (2012). In association with Dr Tanja Beer and Dr Natalie Lazaroo, she is a co-chair of the Performing and Ecologies Research Lab (P+ERL) associated with the Climate Action Beacon (CAB) and Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) Griffith University. Links
Profesora Ayudante Doctora. Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Universidad de Málaga. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga En 2005 me uní al grupo de investigación de la Dra. Gutiérrez, como alumna interna, en el Departamento de Biología Celular de la Universidad de Málaga (UMA), perteneciendo al CTS-950 de la Junta de Andalucía (NeuroAD), al CIBER de enfermedades neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED) y al Instituto de investigación biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA). En 2009 obtuve la Licenciatura en Biología consiguiendo el premio extraordinario de licenciatura de la Facultad de Ciencias (UMA) y el primer premio de los premios nacionales a la excelencia en el rendimiento académico universitario (Ministerio de Educación). En octubre de 2010 conseguí una beca predoctoral FPU (Ministerio de Educación) para la realización de mi Tesis doctoral y en 2015 obtuve el título de doctor con mención internacional por la UMA. Mi tesis doctoral trató sobre la caracterización de modelos transgénicos de la enfermedad de Alzheimer para la búsqueda de biomarcadores de la enfermedad. Fruto de uno de los trabajos publicados de mi tesis recibí el áccesit a los IX Premios de investigación de la Fundación General de la UMA. En 2016 empecé mi etapa postdoctoral con un contrato en el Institute for memory impairments and neurological disorders de la Universidad de California (Irvine, EEUU), donde centré mi investigación en el impacto de enfermedades comórbidas (diabetes y obesidad) sobre la enfermedad de Alzheimer. En noviembre de 2019 me incorporé al Departamento de Biología Celular de la UMA como profesora sustituta interina donde en enero de 2021 conseguí un contrato como profesora ayudante doctora. He sido miembro de sociedades científicas como la Sociedad Española de Biología Celular o la Society for Neuroscience. He participado en 24 proyectos de investigación nacionales e internacionales y cuento con un total de 24 publicaciones científicas y más de 100 comunicaciones a congresos. Por último, he participado como ponentes en varias actividades de divulgación científica como los proyectos “COMO TU” y ScienceIES, tertulias Uciencia y Café con ciencia entre otras.
Lecturer in Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Newcastle I am a neuroscience researcher and was recently appointed as a lecturer in the teaching discipline of physiology at the University of Newcastle. My research interest is understanding the change in brain function associated with mental illness, with a particular focus on disturbances in flexible behaviour that occur across different mental illnesses including obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction. My research uses cutting-edge neuroscience approaches to understand the cell types and pathways in the brain that underlie pathological changes in flexible behaviour in disease. Outside the lab, I'm passionate about increasing awareness and understanding about mental illness to reduce stigma, and improving equity in academia including creating new culturally safe opportunities for research training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/lizzie-manning
