Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, University of Birmingham Shaun Thein is a Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Research Fellow in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, currently completing a PhD in Neutrophil Function in COVID-19. Shaun is currently completing clinical training in Respiratory Medicine in the West Midlands. He is finishing a PhD investigating the effect of COVID-19 on neutrophil function. In addition to research, Shaun also has an interest in teaching, and is aiming to complete a Masters in Medical Education. He currently teaches regularly at Christ Church, Oxford as well as ward based teaching for clinical medical students at the University of Birmingham.
Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre Associate Director and IFAR Research Fellow, Monash University I am currently based at Monash University, Indonesia. My research interests include democratization, political institutions, social movements, and gender politics in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Previously, I was an Arryman Scholar and received my doctoral training in comparative politics (primary subfield) and international relations (secondary subfield) from Northwestern University in the United States. I was also Policy Analyst for addressing sexual violence in schools and higher education institutions at the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (2020-2021).
Lecturer School of Business and Creative Industries, filmmaker, University of the West of Scotland Sam Firth is a practicing filmmaker and lecturer with an interest in both documentary and fiction filmmaking. Her work explores documentary form, the construction of personal narrative, notions of truth and objectivity and our relationship to place. Her fiction films have focussed specifically on the experience of young women. She has won awards internationally. She has also worked extensively as a community film practitioner. Sam has been as a script consultant for a number of organisations including Film Four, Screen Yorkshire and the Welsh Arts Council. For many years Sam ran her own film production company Tiny Spark Productions where, she developed and delivered educational film programmes in primary and secondary schools across Scotland. Sam has also delivered programmes for the BFI Young Filmmakers Academy and taught at the Met Film School and has won awards for her work in this area. Sam Firth's primary area of expertise is in filmmaking practice, but also the pedagogy of teaching filmmaking. Sam's first three films use first person filmmaking to explore notions of self identity and the constuction of personal narrative. Her film Stay the Same which explored our relationship to time (2012) won International Competition in 2013 at Videoex Experimental film festival in Zurich and a special mention at Stuttgart Filmwinter. Her first film I.D. won the DepicT! Award at Encounters Film Festival and the Human Condition Competition at Chicago International Film Festival in 2010 and has been screened at the Tate Modern in Liverpool. In 2012 Sam won a special commendation in the Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Award and an award of £10,000 for her work. Her fiction film Creeling explored the depiction of teenage female sexuality and sexual desire in cinema. Creeling screened at the Edinburgh Film International film festival and is now used as a teaching tool in Germany and Austria . Sam's most recent film The Wolf Suit premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. It explores reconstruction both in personal memory and in documentary and it's relationship to truth and reality, specifically in the context of families histories and 'gaslighting'. Sam has evaluated, developed, facilitated and delivered community film projects with children and young people since 2001 and has won awards for her work in this area. Over this time Sam developed innovative ways of working with children and young people to explore their creativity through film. This interest in teaching creativity and encouraging creativity in teaching has continued in her role in HE and she has delivered workshops for academics on the subject.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet My main research area is within nutritional epidemiology. I am interested in the role of nutritional factors such as dietary fatty acids for the development of asthma and other allergic diseases. I am also interested in consequences of living with an allergic disease as a young adult in relation to working life and lifestyle factors. My research is based on the Swedish BAMSE birth cohort, which includes around 4000 participants followed from birth until adulthood. Currently, we are performing a COVID-19 targeted follow-up in BAMSE where we study risk factors and consequences of COVID-19 in young adults.
Professor, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University Sally is Professor of Disability and Community Inclusion in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. Her interests and expertise centre on the use of creative methods to engage people with cognitive disability in research to express their perspectives on key issues. Sally has contributed to a wide range of research and evaluation in the social policy arena over the past decade, focusing particularly on safety and harm, accommodation and social exclusion concerns of people with disability. She is actively engaged in community and government policy debates, frequently advising on the development of policy and practice on abuse and abuse prevention, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and community inclusion for children and young people. Prior to life as a researcher, Sally has a long history of advocacy and support work with people with intellectual disability. She has worked with people with intellectual disability for over 30 years.
