Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Swansea University Dr. Lisa Smithstead is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Swansea University. Her work looks at women's experiences as filmmakers and cinema-goers in Hollywood and Britain from the interwar period to the present day. Her research has explored the archives of film star Vivien Leigh, representations of cinema-going in modernist and middlebrow literature, and early cinema fandom. Lisa is currently researching the experience of older women in Hollywood in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
PhD Candidate in Chemistry, Clemson University Lucas earned his bachelor in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and has already worked with Drs. Do Lago and Gutz on analytical Instrumentation, specifically by developing chemical instruments based on open-source technologies (e.g. Arduino, 3D printers and Android). He is currently pursuing his PhD in Chemistry and is interested in continuing working with low-cost sensors, instrumentation, and automation.
Associate Professor in Education, University of Bristol Associate Professor in Education; PGCE English Coordinator, University of Bristol. Lorna is the co-Convenor of the BERA English in Education SIG and former chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) ITE working group. Her latest book, Creativity in the English Curriculum: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions, is published by Routledge.
Pesquisador Vinculado ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) Lucas Ferrante possui formação em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL), Mestrado e Doutorado em Biologia (Ecologia) pelo Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), onde em sua tese avaliou as mudanças contemporâneas da Amazônia, dinâmicas epidemiológicas, impactos sobre os povos indígenas e mudanças climáticas e seus efeitos sobre a biodiversidade e pessoas. Foi ganhador do “The Chico Mendes Courage Award” em 2023 pelo Sierra Club, um dos mais importantes prêmios em ecologia no mundo, devido aos seus estudos sobre a rodovia BR-319. Atualmente, é Pesquisador Vinculado ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM).
Professor in Environment and Society, University of Leeds Prof. Lucie Middlemiss is Professor of Environment and Society in the Sustainability Research Institute, at the University of Leeds in the UK. She wrote the first textbook on Sustainable Consumption (Routledge, 2018), and has research interests in sustainable consumption, energy poverty and participation in sustainable development. Her research on energy poverty brings together qualitative insights into the lived experience (including the first paper to use this term in 2015), with critical policy analysis (notably a critique of English policy in this area in 2017). She is motivated by connecting deep understandings of energy consumption in daily life, with planning, measuring, monitoring and decision-making by policy-makers and practitioners. In more recent work, she has led a team conducting secondary qualitative analysis of lived experience data (2019 and 2020), resulting in insights into the importance of social relations in energy consumption (see also 2020 in Nature Energy). She was also part of a team which produced a white paper on energy poverty for the Netherlands in 2020: translating state of the art academic thinking on this topic into concrete policy recommendations. She is currently working on three projects: Wellbased, a EU project on health and energy poverty, Whole Person Whole Place, looking at the role of social relations in energy renovation, and Understanding Family and Community vulnerability in the transition to Net Zero.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Ithaca College Luke Keller is an award-winning Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ithaca College. He is author or co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies of star formation, planet formation, optics, and development of instrumentation for large astronomical observatories. He has gathered over a million dollars in funding for his research from NASA, the NSF, and the Research Corporation for the Advancement of Science. He served on the team that designed and built an infrared camera for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy for which he received a NASA Group Achievement Award. In parallel with his scientific research and engineering work he has written articles and essays for science communication to the general public and has worked on several projects integrating science with art and performance. His current such project is The Effects of Gravity, a stage performance combining equal parts astrophysics, poetry, and music.
