Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney Dr. Natalie Krikowa (she/they) is a media scholar and practice-led researcher at the University of Technology Sydney. Natalie holds a Doctor of Creative Arts in media and cultural studies and currently teaches in digital media and screenwriting. Natalie's research focuses on issues surrounding LGBTIQA+ representation in screen studies, popular culture, and transmedia; and the use of digital and social media in disaster risk communication, particularly in improving communication and community engagement using new technologies. Natalie’s queer-focused creative practice works include The Newtown Girls (2012), All Our Lesbians Are Dead! (2017), and Queer Representation Matters (2023), underscoring her commitment to amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices and narratives through storytelling.
Research Fellow in History, University of Southampton Nathan earned his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from UCL in 2022, is a Research Associate at the London Science Museum, and a Research Fellow in History at Southampton University. In broad terms his research situates around the intersecting themes of empire, race, and religion as entangled operations in the historical production and transmission of science, medicine and museums. A core component of his work explores the ways in which African knowledge and practice, as well as European perceptions of Africanness, influenced and shaped numerous historical developments in science, medicine, and Western museums. His main period of interest is roughly 1750 to the present, and regionally he focuses on Britain and West Africa but has secondary interests in modern Japan as well. Nathan utilises postcolonial, decolonial, and material cultural approaches, and as an applied historian engaged in interdisciplinary research he actively draws on perspectives gathered from a range of fields including science and religion; science and technology studies; environmental humanities; African studies; and museum studies.
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Group Leader, Glycobiology of Host-Microbe Interactions in the Gut, Quadram Institute I am a Group Leader at the Quadram Institute and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia on the Norwich Research Park. I have over 25 year expertise in the molecular studies of carbohydrate-protein recognition in relation to gut biology, microbiology and food biotechnology. My previous research focused on the structure-function relationships of plant and microbial glycoenzymes and their potential biotechnological application stemming from my PhD project at Marseille University and postdoctoral position at the Carlsberg Research Institute in Copenhagen and as a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich. After obtaining a lectureship position in Marseille University in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, I led a research Group on Glycosidases in Marseille and in Norwich working on plant-cell wall degrading enzymes while on secondment at the Institute of Food Research. I put together and coordinated a large multicentre EU project on glycosidases and glycosidase inhibitors in food processing. Another strand of my research during this period was on the characterisation of intestinal glycosidases involved in dietary flavonoid metabolism in humans. Since joining the Quadram Institute in 2007, I lead a Research Group focusing on the glycobiology of host-microbe interactions in health and diseases. I have been deputy leader of two Institute Strategic Programmes and am currently the Institute Deputy Chief Scientific Officer. My research spans plant carbohydrate biochemistry, gut microbiome and human health. I am an elected Fellow of Royal Society of Biology since 2020. Today my team studies the role of glycans (microbial cell-surface polysaccharides, dietary fibres and prebiotics, and host mucin glycans) in the interaction between the gut microbiota and the host. I am also actively engaged in training of next generation glycoscientists at the European level through networking initiatives and Innovative Training Programmes.
Professor of History, Michigan State University I am a historian of gender, sexuality, and illness in the 20th century United States and the Pacific Rim. I am intrigued by the ever-present tension between objectivity and subjectivity in medical and cultural practices, and by the historically changing ways in which sufferers, caregivers, and physicians have grappled with such tension. I have written on the history of psychiatric and psychoanalytic approaches to homosexuality in my first book "Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism" (Rutgers, 2011). My second monograph concerns Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, titled "American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (Cambridge, 2021). In this work, I have explored gender, racial, cross-national identities that emerged in Asia and Asian America in post-colonial contexts, and a range of grass-roots activism that took shape in response to the nuclear destruction: patient rights, civil rights, anti-war and -nuclear activism. I continue to be fascinated by personal experiences and memories of trauma, pain, and illness, and how they coexist and collide with social and cultural institutions. My current project is about the history of disability among Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans. I work with graduate students in the US modern history, history of gender and sexuality, Asian American history, history of medicine, and history of nuclear weaponry.
Lecturer, History and Sociology, Australian National University Dr Natasha Szuhan lectures in History and Sociology at the Australian National University. She holds a BA (Hons) and Graduate Diploma in the Humanities and Social Sciences, an MA (Research) and PhD (University of Melbourne). Natasha has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the medical humanities with the University of Strathclyde and Shanghai University and researched and lectured at the Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide, University of New South Wales, and Shanghai University. She has published two manuscripts: 'The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain' and 'Prahran and the Dismal Swamp'. She is currently undertaking an oral history of oral contraceptives in Australia.
Lecturer, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University Dr. Natalie Goulter is a Lecturer at Flinders University, an Adjunct Associate Lecturer within the Salivary Bioscience Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and an Adjunct Professor within the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Natalie is a consortium member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, and a member of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. She is also an editorial board member for the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. Natalie’s research program aims to advance the understanding, prediction, and prevention of externalising psychopathology in young people.
