PhD Candidate, Low-Carbon Energy Transitions, Manchester University Ami is a PhD Researcher in Geography. Her research is funded by the EPSRC through the University of Manchester Power Networks CDT. Ami's research focuses on low-carbon energy transitions, considering the actors, infrastructures and institutions involved. Her PhD research draws upon a case study of Greater Manchester, identifying the actors engaging with the city region's low-carbon ambitions and critically exploring their interconnectedness with others. She is particularly interested in the multi-scalar relationships embedded within low-carbon transitions and the impact that they have.
Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, Liverpool John Moores University I am a Biological Anthropologist from Japan, speciliased in genetics. My research is to look at genetic variations that are responsible for phenotypic variations, to understand human adaptation and evolution, especially about externally visible traits including pigmentation and cranifofacial morphology.
Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores University I am an Evolutionary Anthropologist interested in what determines variation in skeletal shape. In my past research I have focused on skeletal plasticity, the adaptive and neutral influences on hominin crania, and climatic adaptation in human and non-human primates. Currently, my main research employs non-human primate models to investigate the morphological consequences of hybridisation between closely related taxa. These will be used to better understand the effects of human interbreeding with extinct hominins (e.g., Neanderthals). The methods I employ include computed tomography, 3D laser scanning, manipulation of digital data (e.g., segmentation and virtual measurement), geometric morphometric methods and traditional morphometrics.
Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle I hold a PhD in Sociology and Criminology (2021) from Northumbria University, an MSc in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2016) and a BA in Area Studies from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2015).
Associate professor in human geography, University of Oxford My research explores the history of geopolitics. My first book, 'Cryptic Concrete' (2018, Wiley), examines West Germany's military landscapes, designed in the 1950s and 60s to protect and take life in nuclear war. 'Life, earth, colony' (University of Michigan Press, 2023) surveys the life, ideas and reception of Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), the controversial theorist of living space.
Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies, The University of Western Australia Ned Curthoys is a senior lecturer in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include historical fiction, the Bildungsroman or coming of age narrative, and the work of Hannah Arendt. With Isabelle Hesse he is the co-editor of Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
