Emeritus Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University By background Lionel is a physicist; his doctoral thesis was concerned with the load-bearing properties of the surface of the Moon just prior to the Apollo landings. When ancient lava flows were detected on the Moon in images taken by the astronauts he was amazed to find that there was essentially no literature on the physics of volcanic eruptions that he could use to analyse these flows; as a result he has spent the last 50 years developing mathematical physical models of all types of volcanic eruption. Spacecraft data have shown that all of the silicate planets - Venus, Mars, Mercury, our Moon, Jupiter's satellite Io, and even some asteroids - have been volcanically active at some point in their lives. Comparing eruption deposits on these bodies, which differ as a result of differences in the acceleration due to gravity and the presence or absence of an atmosphere, has been a major spur to Lionel's research. He has been involved in the analysis of data from virtually all of the spacecraft that have visited the inner planets and asteroids, as a Principal Investigator in the Nasa Planetology Program, and as a Visiting Professor at two U.S. institutions, Brown University and the University of Hawai'i. His contributions to planetary volcanology have been recognized by the American Geophysical Union, with the N.I. Bowen Award in 1983, and by the Geological Society of America, with the G K Gilbert Award in 2005.
Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of Liverpool Lilian Otaye-Ebede (PhD) is a Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, holding a PhD in Management from Aston University. She is the Programme Director for the on-campus MSc in HRM and the Online MSc IHRM Programmes. Her research interests are in the areas of diversity management (race/ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity), strategic Human Resource Management (HRM), work/life interface and employee well-being. She has published academic papers in world leading journals, co-authored book chapters, authored and co-authored a number of practitioner articles, and has extensively presented her research at national and international conferences and workshops. Lilian is an Associate Member of the Higher Education Academy and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (FCIPD). She also currently serves as an Associate Editor of Personnel Review Journal and as an editorial board member on the International Journal of HRM; the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance and the African Journal of Management. Additionally, she serves as a Representative-at-large of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion division executive committee of the Academy of Management and is on the Board of Directors for the Open Eye Gallery UK, advising on HR & race related matters. She is the Race Equality Charter (REC) Community Visibility and Staff sub-group Chair for the University of Liverpool. Professor Otaye-Ebede continues to work on many aspects of employee race equality, including previously working with colleagues to run an international seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); one of the outcomes of this is the website - https://workplaceedi.com/, which she and her colleagues continue to run as part of a group that includes members of the WRES team at NHS England and the NHS Race and Health Observatory Team. Her research has been funded by a number of institutions including the Leverhulme/British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), GCRF (LJMU Internal) and the CIPD. Lilian is interested in sharing her research findings with the world of work and conducting impactful and world-changing research. Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, she worked at LJMU as a lecturer progressing to Reader (Associate Professor), at Lancaster University as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Centre for Performance-Led HR, and at Aston University, Birmingham as a Research Associate on a project sponsored by the British Safety Council with the Aston Centre for Human Resources. She has also worked with the University of Sheffield as a Honorary Senior Research Fellow, and at the University of Manchester. Lilian has also gained experience in the commercial world having worked in industry undertaking various HR practitioner roles joining academia.
Ph.D. student and Research Assistant in Sociology, Oklahoma State University Lara Gonçalves is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. Her previous research has centred around food insecurity- particularly among young people. Lara is interested in further exploring how inequality impacts access to resources and how those experiences affect quality of life. She is also interested in issues pertaining to climate change, such as the impact on already marginalized communities, key factors that contribute to social resilience, and sustainable practices that can help communities to adapt.
Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Aberystwyth University Luke is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, whose teaching covers mainly Victorian and modernist literature, as well as literary theory. He is an internationally-recognized scholar who has been writing on psychoanalysis and literature for more than two decades, and whose more recent work on the ghost story has contributed to significant new developments in literary studies. Luke worked as a postgraduate student in Paris, and has translated several important books by French psychoanalysts, including André Green and Jean Laplanche. Luke's main research interests are in modernist literature, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, the ghost story, literature and war, Welsh and Irish writing in English. He has published on Dickens, M. R. James, Joyce, Henry James, May Sinclair, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones, Beckett, Pessoa, Elizabeth Bowen, Margaret Oliphant, Freud, Lacan and Laplanche. He is a member of the Editorial Committee for a new edition of the works of May Sinclair, currently in production with Edinburgh University Press. Luke is the translator of several works by Jean Laplanche, including most recently The Unfinished Copernican Revolution (2020) and is Director of the David Jones Centre In 2010 Luke took part in a film about Joyce, psychoanalysis and Trieste, made by an Italian television company. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4zk3UmV54
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMass Amherst A dynamic genome with high plasticity contributes directly to the success of the organism to adapt to changing environments. My lab studies genetic mechanisms that sustain structural and functional flexibility while maintaining the integrity of the organism using the model fungal system Fusarium oxysporum.
Bilingual Trauma Therapist, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus I am currently working as a Bilingual Trauma Therapist and Senior Instructor with the Stress, Trauma, Adversity Research, and Treatment (START) clinic at the CU School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. I hold a BA in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Denver and a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Denver - Graduate School of Social Work. My professional background comes from years of service as both direct care staff and a therapist in residential treatment, as well as community-based and school-based services. I specialize in working with adolescents and folks who have experienced all types of trauma. I also serve as an expert witness for criminal and civil cases regarding trauma and domestic violence.
