Lecturer at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast I am a lecturer at Queen’s Management School. My PhD and subsequent research focus on taxation, including windfall taxes and domestic and non-domestic property taxation. It also extends to how policy decisions impact businesses, in particular small and medium sized enterprises.
Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia Tiffany Atkinson is a poet and literary critic. Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second, Catulla et al (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and her third collection, So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize. Her most recent, Lumen (Bloodaxe, 2021) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and winner of the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize. In 2022 she received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Tiffany is a Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently working on a collection of essays about poetry and embarrassment.
Professor, University of Pretoria I am a clinician scientist working as a consultant HIV clinician and heading the HIV Immunopathology laboratory in the Department of Immunology at the University of Pretoria. After obtaining a medical degree (MBChB), I completed a Masters degree in Biomedical Ethics and a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I have two PhDs, one in Philosophy (Ethics) and one in Immunology. I am currently the president of the South African Immunology Society (SAIS).
Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst Debbie Felton has a B.A. in English & Latin from UCLA, and an M.A. in Greek and Ph.D. in Classics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at UMass since 1999. The interdisciplinary nature of her research interests has led to her focus on folklore in classical literature, especially anything about the supernatural and monstrous. She has been Editor of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural since 2015, and has served as Associate Review Editor for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts for many years. Professor Felton is currently working on two edited volumes: The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, which includes forty chapters addressing various classical monsters, their interpretations, and their cultural afterlives, and A Cultural History of Monsters in Antiquity (Bloomsbury), a thematically organized volume with chapters covering monsters from the ancient world with regard to cosmologies, geographies, environments, behaviors, and identities. Professor Felton enjoys bringing research on classical antiquity into the public sphere. Dozens of interviews about her work have appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts) in the U.S. and Europe, including Peopling the Past, Coast to Coast AM, The Monster Professor, Weird Tales, CBS Mornings, Classical Wisdom, New Books Network, and Ancient History Fangirl. Professor Felton has also presented webinars for ETC (Excellence through Classics) and a master class on ancient ghosts for SASA (Save Ancient Studies Alliance).
Research Director at the UNH Sales Center and Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of New Hampshire Dr. Cinthia B. Satornino is the Research Director for UNH Sales Center and an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. After earning an MBA at the University of Florida and spending more than a decade in corporate and institutional settings as a business professional and consultant, she attended Florida State University and earned her Ph.D. She has coauthored several publications, including award-winning articles in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and the Journal of Marketing Education. Most recently, she and her coauthors earned the Marvin Jolson Award for Best Contribution to Selling and Sales Management Practice from JPSSM. Her work has been cited by media outlets including Fast Company and Fortune. She was invited to serve as a panelist for the Fulfilling America's Future: Latinas in the U.S. summit held at the White House in Washington, D.C., and was recognized as one of the Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants in 2017. Cinthia is a frequent speaker and panelist at practitioner and academic conferences, continues to be an active consultant, and conducts marketing management and strategy workshops for both private and public organizations.
Postdoctoral Scholar of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of California, San Diego Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego investigating molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial quality control. My work is focused on the role of mitochondrial import and autophagy (i.e. mitophagy) in cardiovascular disease models of protein aggregation. These studies integrate protein/gene expression analyses and high resolution microscopy with physiological evaluation of mitochondrial and cardiac function in both cell and pre-clinical animal models