Contributors

Meghan Casey

Senior Lecturer, Exercise Sport Sciences, Federation University Australia

Senior Lecturer, Exercise Sport Sciences, Federation University Australia Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Federation University in the Collaborative Evaluation Research Centre and Physical Activity and Sport Insights (PASI). Promoting sport participation and gender equality

Marcia Brennan

Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University

Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University Marcia Brennan’s research engages clinical aesthetics and the medical humanities, spirituality and comparative mysticism, and modern art and museum studies. She is the author of several books, including Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum, Modernism’s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, The New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction, and Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics. She is the winner of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize, and the recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Office of Research, Rice University, and Rice’s Humanities Research Center. She has served as a Fellow at Rice’s Center for Teaching Excellence, and she has been awarded the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. Since 2009, she has also served as an Artist In Residence in the Department of Palliative Medicine at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Her experiences in this setting represent the subject of her books The Heart of the Hereafter: Love Stories from the End of Life, Life at the End of Life: Finding Words Beyond Words, and A Rose From Two Gardens: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and Images of the End of Life.

Matthew Gilmour

Research Scientist; Director, Food Safety Research Network, Quadram Institute

Research Scientist; Director, Food Safety Research Network, Quadram Institute Dr Matthew Gilmour leads the ‘Listeria and other Invasive Pathogens’ research group and directs the Food Safety Research Network at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, England. Matthew is also co-lead of Quadram’s ‘Microbes and Food Safety’ strategic programme which has a focus on translating the Institute’s key microbiology findings and genomic technologies with partners in food industry and government. Matthew was previously based in Canada where his group was a pioneer in using bacterial genomics to study outbreaks, including the large Canadian listeriosis outbreak in 2008 and then the Haitian cholera outbreak of 2010. With this experience in public health, from 2015 to 2020 Matthew was the Scientific Director of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory. At the NML, Matthew had significant leadership roles for pandemic preparedness and response, as he was also co-chair of the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network and the Global Health Security Action Group Laboratory Network. Matthew has also clinical laboratory expertise, as he previously served as a Clinical Microbiologist at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, where he was the laboratory lead for Infection Prevention & Control, and he remains interested in the evolution and transmissibility of antibiotic resistant organisms. As a culmination of these experiences, Matthew is also now Director of the Food Safety Research Network, based at the Quadram Institute. This network has the goal of brokering collaborative research projects between food businesses and academic research groups that will make UK foods safer from microbial risks.

Mary Neal

Reader in Law, University of Strathclyde

Reader in Law, University of Strathclyde Dr Mary Neal is an expert in medical law and ethics. Her general areas of interest are in Healthcare Law, Bioethics, Legal Theory, and theories of property. Her current research focuses particularly on the law and ethics of abortion and assisted dying, conscientious objection in healthcare, and maternal-fetal issues. Dr Neal is a former member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee (2016-22), and a member of the editorial board of the journal The New Bioethics.

Martin Jakobsson

Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Stockholm University

Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Stockholm University After completing a PhD in 2000 at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Martin Jakobsson joined the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA, for a research scientist position. The PhD thesis was titled "Mapping the Arctic Ocean: Bathymetry and Pleistocene Paleoceanography". Martin returned to Stockholm University from USA in April 2004 for an Associate Professor position at the Department of Geological Sciences. From November 2004, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him five years to devote full time for research as an Academy Fellow through support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He was promoted to full Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics at Stockholm University in September 2009 and has served as Head of the Department of Geological Sciences since 2012. His current research interests include the Arctic Ocean glacial history, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, submarine glacial landforms and geophysical seafloor mapping using acoustic methods. Martin has spent more than one year of ship time onboard open ocean research vessels and he has been Co-Chief Scientist on eight international ocean expeditions. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Class V for Geoscience elected Martin as a member in 2012, and he is acting as the 1st Vice President of the Academy since 2016.

Matt Burke

WTW Research Fellow, University of Oxford

WTW Research Fellow, University of Oxford Matt Burke is the WTW Research Fellow in the University of Oxford's Sustainable Finance Group. His research focuses on pricing climate and environmental risks.