Contributors

Laura Muncey

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Anglia Ruskin University

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Anglia Ruskin University Laura's background is in Investment Banking before moving in to the Higher Education sector. Her primary interests are based around financial economics and Women in HE. She is also leading on the departments Outreach.

Lawrence Conyers

Professor of Anthropology, University of Denver

Professor of Anthropology, University of Denver Lawrence Conyers is an anthropologist with expertise in exploring and mapping ancient burial sites using ground-penetrating radar technology.

Louise Overton

Associate Professor in Social Policy Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham

Associate Professor in Social Policy Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham Louise is an Associate Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM). Her research interests focus on older people and personal finance (and personal finance-related issues), including financial security, financial advice, and the regulation of consumer financial services. Louise’s research is strongly empirical, but against a backdrop of welfare privatisation and the individualisation of economic risk, she is also interested in more normative questions concerning the role of, and balance of responsibility between, the state, the market, and the individual for later life financial well-being. Louise has carried out extensive research on the role and relevance of housing wealth as a source of retirement finance, with a particular emphasis on equity release. Her published work in this area has gained widespread press coverage, and has been used by the Financial Conduct Authority, the equity release industry and its trade body, as well as in the development of Age UK’s Equity Release Advice Service. Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, Louise worked as a Research Fellow on a major, multi-disciplinary, Leverhulme-funded project: Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap: Intergenerational Justice and Family Welfare ’at the Universities of Durham and Essex.

Lee Kellingray

Researcher, Translational Microbiome, Quadram Institute

Researcher, Translational Microbiome, Quadram Institute I obtained a first class degree in Microbiology at the University of East Anglia in 2011, and joined the Quadram Institute Science in the same year to do a PhD looking at the effects of Brassica vegetables on the human gut microbiota. Following my PhD I joined the Translational Microbiome group as a research scientist to work with Professor Arjan Narbad to examine how pathogenic bacteria interact with the human gut microbiota, and investigate the potential of next generation sequencing as a clinical diagnostic tool. I am currently involved in a successful collaboration with the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital providing bacteriotherapy to patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. In addition to this I am using in vitro colon models and 1H NMR to examine the effects of gut pathogens, such as Salmonella typhimurium, on the gut microbiota through metagenomic and metabolomic analyses. My current interests are focused on the role of the gut microbiota in health, specifically host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions, and how this research can be translated to improved health outcomes for the general public.

Liam Harte

Professor of Irish Literature, University of Manchester

Professor of Irish Literature, University of Manchester Liam Harte is Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Manchester. His research interests span the fields of modern Irish fiction and autobiography, as well as the literature and culture of the Irish diaspora. His publications include Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel: 1987-2007 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), A History of Irish Autobiography (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2020), the paperback edition of which appeared in 2023. He was the principal investigator on a three-year oral history project entitled Conflict, Memory and Migration: Northern Irish Migrants and the Troubles in Great Britain, which ran from 2019 to 2022 and was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Leslie Salgado Arzuaga

PhD Candidate, Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary

PhD Candidate, Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary As a doctoral student at the University of Calgary, she specializes in the intersection of Responsible AI, policymaking, and communication of science and technology. Leslie graduated from the AI Ethics program at the London School of Economics, was part of the inaugural cohort of the University of Montreal-MILA Responsible AI and Human Rights summer course and completed the Alberta Machine Learning Institute (Amii) Kickstart Program. She served as a research consultant at MILA – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, contributing to a project dedicated to promoting gender equality and inclusion in AI. Due to her interests on AI policy she is pursuing the AI Policy Clinic certificate with CAIDP.