Contributors

Raj Sharma

Lecturer, Civil Engineering, CQUniversity Australia

Lecturer, Civil Engineering, CQUniversity Australia Dr R is a Senior Lecturer at CQUniversity. His PhD research was in hillslope hydrology and landslides, and he has contributed through several publications focusing on shallow landslides and hillslope hydrology.

Rodrigo Duarte

Research Fellow, King's College London

Research Fellow, King's College London After completing my PhD in Neuroscience at King’s in 2017, I began a postdoctoral research position at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre. I research the genetics of psychiatric phenotypes and heritable diseases by analysing genomic and transcriptomic data, and by characterising the function of genes and human endogenous retroviruses in relation to complex traits. I have experience in molecular biology, biochemistry, transcriptomics, tissue culture, and confocal microscopy.

Ray O'Neill

Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, Dublin City University

Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, Dublin City University Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. He also is a registered practitioner as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with both APPI and the ICP. His research work and clinical practice has been around male sexual abuse survivors, EDI intersectional concerns in Mental Health systems, education and individual's lives, the LGBTQ community, and transgenerational trauma within an Irish context. Ray has written extensively on the gay minoritised position for both services users and service providers within mental health discourses and practices with his doctoral research with DCU exploring the subjectivities involved and imposed on men in being called ‘homosexual’. As one of Ireland’s few male Agony Aunts, Ray works significantly (and sometimes with significance) with the media in discoursing love, relationships, and desire in the twenty-first century, as a regular contributor to The Ray Darcy Show, and his co-fronting of the RTE television show Then Comes Marriage. Current research explores the relationships between shame and personal and cultural identities; and the individual and collective transmission of trauma across generations, with particular emphasis on impacts of the Irish Famine experience.

Rachel Wahl

Associate professor of education, University of Virginia

Associate professor of education, University of Virginia Rachel Wahl is an associate professor in the Social Foundations Program, Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. She also serves as Faculty Lead for Education and Democracy at the UVa Karsh Institute of Democracy. Her research focuses on learning through public deliberation between people on opposing sides of political divides. Her prior research focused on efforts by community activists to change police officers’ beliefs and behavior through activism and education, which is the subject of her first book, Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police (Stanford University Press, 2017). Her research has been funded by donors such as the Spencer Foundation and National Academy of Education, the Carnegie Corporation, and the federal Institute of International Education.

Rebecca McGirr

Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University

Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University My current research involves using satellite gravity data to measure the temporal and spatial variations of the solid Earth and it’s fluid envelope. I have particular interest in using space gravity analysis, along with other geodetic techniques, to measure changes in the mass balance of polar ice caps and glaciers, and how their decreasing volume is contributing to global sea level rise.

Robbie Morgan

Lecturer and Consultant in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds

Lecturer and Consultant in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds I joined the IDEA Centre as a Teaching Fellow in September 2021 and became a Lecturer and Consultant in August 2022. Prior to this, I worked as a University Teacher in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Sheffield and as a Hearings Support Officer in the fitness to practise directorate of a professional regulator. Additionally, I have experience in pastoral support and governance within higher education. In 2019, I completed my PhD at The University of Sheffield under the supervision of Christopher Bennett and Jennifer Saul. Before this, I completed a BA and MA in Philosophy, also at The University of Sheffield. Research interests My research focuses on issues in the philosophy of sex, particularly as this intersects with feminist philosophy. I am currently writing on language change, conscientious objection in medicine, the metaphysics of touch, and the value of consensual sex.