Contributors

Sarah Maessen

Research Associate, Auckland University of Technology

Research Associate, Auckland University of Technology Dr Sarah Maessen is a Research Fellow in the Clinical Audit and Research team at Hato Hone St John. Her research spans a wide range of topics related to pre-hospital medicine with support from the Paramedicine department at AUT. She is particularly interested in how health practices can improve health equity.

Scott Spillias

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO

Sean Gouglas

Professor, Digital Humanities, University of Alberta

Professor, Digital Humanities, University of Alberta Sean Gouglas is a Professor in Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Arts. Dr. Gouglas' research focuses on the relationship between universities and the computer game industry in Canada, especially as it relates to curriculum and technology transfer.

Sandi Dumanski

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary Dr Dumanski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr Dumanski is a nephrologist (kidney doctor) and scientist whose program of research endeavors to understand the complex relationships between reproductive health, sex hormones, and cardiovascular risk. Dr Dumanski sits on the Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance and is the Central Physician Lead for ‘Wear Red Canada’, celebrated annually to raise awareness of women’s heart health.

Shannon McHugh

Associate Professor of French and Italian, UMass Boston

Associate Professor of French and Italian, UMass Boston Shannon McHugh is the Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences at The Huntington and Associate Professor of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on early modern literature and gender, with emphases including lyric poetry, the Counter-Reformation, and the history of participatory fan culture. Her new book, 'Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy' (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), examines how men and women of the Italian Renaissance used poetry to construct new, fluid, and sometimes radical gendered possibilities. At The Huntington, she is researching her second book, studying the history of women’s reproductive bodies by comparing early modern medical texts’ depictions of childbearing, pregnancy loss, birth, and nursing with those found in poetry by men and women from Italy and France. Her research has taken her to places ranging from the Vatican Secret Archives to the Walt Disney Imagineering Library.

Sebastian Schornack

Senior research group leader in the Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project, University of Cambridge

Senior research group leader in the Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project, University of Cambridge Sebastian Schornack is a Senior Group Leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) and with the Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project. Sebastian's research aims at the elucidation of plant and microbial molecular mechanisms underlying the colonisation of plants by filamentous pathogens and symbiotic fungi. His team has adopted and become experts in diverse plant systems from bryophytes to angiosperms. This enables them to pursue comparative and evolutionary approaches. Their work has provided novel insights into plant processes supporting and limiting plant-microbe interactions, providing inroads for crop protection and crop improvement.