Indigenous Health Faculty Lead, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. Shoush is a Black/Indigenous physician (St'atl'imx/Sudanese) physician and lecturer in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, as well as the Indigenous Health Faculty Lead with the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She has Degrees in both Engineering and Medicine, and is currently a Master's Candidate at the University of Toronto IHPME. She practices as a Family Physician in Toronto.
Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East, University of Leicester Selena is a lecturer in the heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Her research centres on the languages, literature and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, with a particular emphasis on poetry and divination. She is the author of a book titled "Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry", and has another being published by Penguin in 2025 called "The Library of Ancient Wisdom", which is available for pre-order now. Alongside her research, Selena has also written a trilogy of plays set in ancient Assyria
Lecturer in psychology, Edith Cowan University Shan has a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours and PhD from Curtin University. Shan’s mixed-methods PhD thesis explored the framing, predictors, and associated consequences of online shaming. She is experienced in designing and carrying out various quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research projects, and has conducted research in both academic and industry settings. Shan has also worked in higher education in a teaching capacity for the past six years, mainly teaching research methods and general psychology units. Her primary research interests relate to crime and justice related issues, but Shan is also interested in various social psychology topics, behaviour in online spaces, and the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. Example research topics of past projects Shan has been involved in include: identifying early warning signs of intimate partner violence, non-fatal strangulation, public attitudes towards sex offenders, online shaming, and wellbeing and healthcare access for young people in out-of-home-care during COVID-19. Shan works full time in a combined lecturing and research role in the School of Arts and Humanities at the ECU Joondalup campus.
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee I am interested in the intersection of behavioral and disease ecology. More specifically, how animals change their behavior in response to infection and how these changes affect them and others around them.
Senior Scientist, Marine Ecosystem Services, Plymouth Marine Laboratory I am a senior marine ecologist specialising in ecosystem services research and have been working in this field for the last 10 years. I use and develop methods that improve our understanding of this fascinating interdisciplinary field. I aim to link my work to Sustainable Development Goals and Aichi Targets to ensure that I do not only create interesting new research but also that this provides real-life application potential to marine managers, policy makers and users of the marine environment.
Reader in Cultural History, Newcastle University I am a Reader in Cultural History at Newcastle University. I am an interdisciplinary historian with interests in what I call the 'night side' of modern experience - namely social attitudes toward death, dreams, ghosts, hallucinations, and the 'more than rational'. My research argues that, far from being peripheral, these aspects of life were central in making people (especially in western societies) feel modern. In looking at these topics I draw on a variety of approaches and literatures from cultural history, human geography, environmental humanities, and medical humanities. Born in Dublin, Ireland, I was educated at University College Dublin where I received my PhD in History in 2008. I have been a Marie Curie Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Leicester where I worked on the 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' project. You can visit our online exhibition here. Before this I held research fellowships at Maynooth University, the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), and the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. I was also a research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, for five years.
