Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance, Keele University Dr Rosa M. Fernandez Martin is an applied economist specialised in sustainability related topics, including renewable energies economics and policies, food security and food sustainability, education for sustainable development, or corporate social responsibility, among others. She has wide teaching and research experience in Economics, having worked at UNED (Spain), the University of Birmingham and the University of Chester, where she was Programme Leader in Economics and Deputy Head of Department in Social and Political Science. She joined Keele Business School in June 2023 from the University of Warwick, where she was Associate Professor in Global Sustainable Development in charge of distance learning provision. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in her main areas of research expertise and has taught a wide range of modules in Economics both at undergraduate and graduate levels (including micro and macroeconomics, economic thought, international trade, public sector economics and development economics), with specialisation in Environmental Economics. She is associate editor of several international peer reviewed journals and regular reviewer for transdomain projects for the COST initiative of the European Commission.
Senior Research Fellow, Health Practice and Management; Head, Centre for Health Communication and Participation, La Trobe University Rebecca's background is in pharmacology and neuroscience. She has been a Research Fellow with the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group since 2004, an Editor with the group since 2011, Deputy Coordinating Editor since 2013 and Coordinating Editor since January 2019. Her role currently includes writing and editing Cochrane reviews and developing guidance to support authors of Cochrane reviews. She is also Head of the Centre for Health Communication and Participation. Rebecca is also involved in research on methods of evidence synthesis and is currently leading reviews on communication at the end of life and communication to promote and support physical distancing measures for prevention and control of COVID-19.
Independent midwife & PhD-candidate Care Ethics, Universiteit Voor Humanistiek Rodante van der Waal (she/they) is a PhD-candidate in Care Ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, a lecturer in care ethics, and an independent midwife in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They have a BA in midwifery, and a BA and MA in Philosophy (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam. Their research focus is on obstetric violence and reproductive justice from feminist, postcolonial and abolitionist perspectives. Their academic papers have been published in Violence Against Women, Feminist Theory, Social Text, Angelaki, Frontiers, Agenda, Feminist Anthropology, Technophany, Birth, PLOS ONE and Nursing Ethics. They are a founding member of the Critical Midwifery Studies Collective, the editor of Contractions, a political podcast on midwifery, and part of the Abortion Network Amsterdam.
Professor of Medical Biophysics, Western University I direct the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Canada's national ultra-high field MRI facility. My training is in biophysics and neuroscience and I also co-direct Western's $66M Canada First Research Excellence Fund Award known as BrainsCAN. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. My research lies at the nexus of physics and neuroscience. We develop and apply new MRI techniques to answer challenging questions in fundamental and clinical neuroscience.
Lecturer Learning Sciences and Development, The Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia First class Honours in Psychology (graduated 2016) PhD in STEM (graduated 2020)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Toxicology, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London Rosie's research focusses on assessing the health of marine predators in relation to anthropogenic stressors (such as chemical pollution and bycatch). Rosie uses information, collected from stranded animals during post-mortem investigations, to better understand drivers of mortality and whether appropriate conservation measures are in place.
