Associate professor, Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Veronica Hutchings is a registered psychologist and associate professor at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University, located in Corner Brook, N where she provides clinical services to the campus' 1300 students. She has a small private practice where she sees exclusively health psychology referrals. Previously she worked in Halifax, NS in seniors' health/geriatric medicine where the bulk of her caseload comprised of individuals living with dementia and their family members.
Lecturer in Healthcare Sciences, University of Manchester I completed my undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 2002, my clinical medical degree (MD) at Yale School of Medicine in 2009, and my PhD in anthropology at Durham University, UK in January 2019. My PhD research and subsequent book focussed on women's experiences of endometriosis, a chronic gynecological disease, and the reasons for long delays in diagnosis and experiences of endometriosis in the clinic. I currently teach in public health with a focus on health protection, applied epidemiology, and participatory research methodologies, among other topics. I have broad research interests within public health including how health technologies in hospitals impact on therapeutic practices. My main research focus lies in the fluidity of diagnostic categories and how this ultimately affects therapeutic practices and access to care by disadvantaged communities. I am particularly interested in ontologies of chronic diseases primarily in women and minority populations, with an emphasis on media and online visual representations of menstruation, childlessness, chronic illness, and pain.
Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto Valerie Tarasuk is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and leads PROOF, a research program funded by CIHR to investigate policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada.
Maîtresse de conférences de sociologie, URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et Société), CNRS, IRD, Université Côte d’Azur Valérie Erlich est maîtresse de conférences au Département de Sociologie de l’Université Côte d’Azur et chercheure à l’URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et sociétés, CNRS 6, UMR 8245), Membre du comité scientifique de l’Observatoire National de la Vie Etudiante de 2007 à 2012, Directrice de l’Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante de l’Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis de 2003 à 2007. Depuis les années 1990, ses recherches portent sur le monde étudiant, sur la socialisation des étudiants et la construction des identités étudiantes dans le contexte de massification de l’enseignement supérieur. A partir de 2005, elle s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux mobilités pour études, à l’analyse statistique des flux des étudiants en mobilité et à l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur. Elle a publié sur ces thématiques : - Les nouveaux étudiants. Un groupe social en mutation, Préface de Roger Establet, Paris, Armand Colin, « Références » Sociologie, 1998. - Les mobilités étudiantes, Panorama des savoirs, Paris, La Documentation française, 2012, 219 p.
Senior Research Associate, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Vanessa is a researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), focusing on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course. Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies. She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life-course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.
Fellow in Economic History, University of Cambridge Victoria is author of the book “Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty”, published in March 2023. She has published extensively on economics, economic history and feminism, has written for Bloomberg, has appeared on the BBC and ITV, and has spoken at the Hay Festival, the Bradford Literary Festival, The Festival of Ideas, and The House of Literature (Oslo). Her previous books include “The Sex Factor: How Women made the West Rich”, and she is the resident economic historian on the BBC Radio 4 series “Understand: the economy”. Aside from her writing and public speaking, Victoria is also known for using her body in art and protest to challenge the assumptions and stigma surrounding women’s bodies. Her naked portraits have been displayed at the Mall Galleries in London (2014 & 2019) and at Girton College, Cambridge, and she has delivered live naked performances on stage at Dartington Literary Festival, at the Cambridge Junction theatre and at Chester Diversity Festival - as well as making appearances on the topic of feminist economics at DEFRA and the ONS in nothing more than a handful of banknotes. For further information on Victoria, see her website vnbateman.com
