Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Winchester Matthew Leggatt is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature. He is author of the monograph Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror (Routledge, 2018) and editor of the collection Was it Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television (SUNY Press, 2022). He has also published a number of journal articles and book chapters and is the editor of the forthcoming collection Wastelands and Wonderlands: Essays on Utopian and Dystopian Film and Literature (SUNY Press, 2025) and Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2026). Matthew teaches primarily in the fields of 20th and 21st century culture, specialising in popular American literature, film, and television. He received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2013 and has experience teaching English as a foreign language and English for Academic Purposes at the University of Southampton before he joined Winchester.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London Matthew joined Queen Mary University of London as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in October 2023, supported by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He previously held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Essex. He holds a BA in Modern Languages and European Studies and an MRes in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bath, and was awarded his PhD at Queen Mary University of London in 2021. Matthew’s research is in the field of political psychology and political behaviour. His British Academy project addresses the role of the future in democratic politics: how we think about the political future, what we want it to be like, and how that shapes the choices we make together. His PhD focused on closely related questions about how voters form expectations about election outcomes and how those expectations relate to their voting behaviour.
Research Associate, Lucy Cavendish College & Centre Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Property Law, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge Dr. Maria Antonieta "Nestor" is an academic lawyer with a background in Public Interest Law, Community Economic Development Law and Policy, and Climate Change Law. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin specialising in public interest law, access to justice and community economic development, LLM from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA David J Epstein Programme in Public Interest Law & Policy), and Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Dublin. She is also a trained legal interpreter and translator, with a diploma in journalism. Currently a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Bye-Fellow, Research Associate and Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish College, Centre Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Property Law (CCPL), Associate Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Secretariat member at the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) and member of IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law). Her main research interests are the intersection between public interest law, access to justice, community economic development, sustainability and the environment, and linking private law, planning, environmental/climate change and international law to combat urban poverty and to redress social exclusion.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University I am a behavioral ecologist interested in the intersection of animal acoustic communication, animal cognition, and the evolution of language. I use a combination of observation and non-invasive experiments with wild animals in their natural habitat to gain a window into the minds of my subjects and the intricacies of their social lives. I am also passionate about conservation biology and the use of bioacoustics as a tool for biodiversity conservation. I am currently an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. George Wittemyer at Colorado State University, where I study vocal communication in African savannah elephants. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, studying social cognition and vocal communication in the cooperatively breeding Acorn Woodpecker with Dr. Walt Koenig and Dr. Mike Webster. I received my B.S. degree in Environmental Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where I completed an Honors thesis on visual communication in Eastern gray squirrels under the supervision of Dr. Bill Shields.
Professor of Environmental Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Mark Hay is an experimental marine ecologist known for his work on community, marine, and chemical ecology. He holds the Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology and is a Regents Professor. His research has heightened our understanding of marine ecosystems, helped found the field of marine chemical ecology, provided key insights regarding the conservation and restoration of coral reefs, and challenged how scientists view ecological and evolutionary processes affecting the establishment and impact of invasive species. Hay commonly works with media outlets (NY Times, National Geographic, NPR, BBC, Animal Planet, etc.) to assure that basic findings from his group are made accessible to the general public. He has participated in dozens of ship-based expeditions but more commonly works at remote field stations to conduct longer-term experiments. He has conducted 5,000+ scuba dives and four saturation diving missions (using both Hydrolab and Aquarius) – where scientists live and work at depth on a coral reef for periods of 10 days. He is identified by ISI’s Web-of-Sciences as one of the world’s most cited researchers in the area of Ecology and the Environment.
