Lecturer in History, The Open University I was awarded a PhD in Modern History from the University of St Andrews in July 2021, graduating in June 2022. My area of specialism is 18th-century European history, focussing on popular culture and questions of identity (gender, social, national). I was awarded an MA (Hons) in History from Queen's University Belfast in 2016 and a BA (Hons) in English and History from Queen's University Belfast in 2015. At present, my research is focussed on the British monarchy in the 18th century, and I am currently writing a biography of Queen Charlotte for Routledge's Queens of England monograph series.
Professor of English and Associate Dean (McGill Library), McGill University Currently Associate Dean of McGill University Library with oversight of ROAAr, a group of rare and special collections units. I have previously served as Associate Dean of Arts, and Associate Provost of the University. My research and teaching focuses on the evolution of literary and culinary tastes in Canada. My most recent project involves scrutiny of a forgotten food-related practice involving riddles, which has extended my focus to Britain and America of the nineteenth century. I am a full professor in the Department of English.
Lecturer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Dr Nooshin Torabi is an interdisciplinary social scientist with experience in undertaking both quantitative and qualitative research in RMIT since 2011. Nooshin has been involved with various interdisciplinary research projects that included multi stakeholders’ engagement. Her research and teaching focus is environmental policy and governance, climate change responses, communicating sustainability and energy justice.
Lecturer, International Relations, Defence, and Security, Brunel University London Dr Abdalla is a lecturer of International Relations, Defence, and Security at Brunel University, London. She is a member of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, focusing on the Requirements and Priorities process that are integral to intelligence mandates. Dr Abdalla is also a senior intelligence analyst for MS Risk, with a focus on the Middle East, and north and West Africa.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford I am a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University, having recently completed my PhD as part of the Environmental Research Doctoral Training Partnership there. I reside in the Predictability of Weather and Climate research group, supervised by Antje Weisheimer and Myles Allen. My research explores the use of operational weather forecasting models within the field of extreme event attribution, with a particular focus on heat events and storms. This work touches on themes of numerical weather prediction, attribution of climate change, meteorological drivers of extreme weather and extreme value statistics. I started out in climate change research during a summer research project (that I would later develop into my masters thesis) investigating a simple method for estimating the remaining global carbon budget. While this particular field is no longer my focus, I still remain involved, especially in the use and development of reduced complexity climate models. I am also a climate scientist at Climate X, specialising in the quantifying the impact of climate change on storm systems globally. My role involves both assessing how to apply state-of-the art academic research to provide the detailed information on climate risk required by the financial industry, and coming up with novel ways that can improve upon more traditional ways of quantifying extreme weather risk from storm systems. I combine a variety of statistical methods and models with observational data and state-of-the-art physical climate and weather model simulations in my work, and am always interested in new approaches in this space, so if you’re an academic researching physical extreme weather risk and interested in working with industry, please get in touch!
Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong Dr Nicole Cook is an urban geographer with research interests in urban restructuring, urban governance, power and participation, social movement and resident activism, housing and home. She specialises in theoretically-driven urban case studies and qualitative research methods.
