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Katherine Algar-Skaife

Katherine Algar-Skaife Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2019 Kat graduated with a BSc in Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology and an MSc Foundations of Clinical Psychology from Bangor University and has worked at the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) Wales since 2009. She has a PhD in Ageing and Dementia Studies for which she explored

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Kat Ford

Kat Ford Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2019 Kat is currently a Research Officer in the Public Health Collaborating Unit, School of Health Sciences at Bangor University. Kat obtained her BA Hons degree in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool and went on to achieve an MA in Research Methodology and her PhD at the

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Karin Koehler

Karin Koehler Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2019 Karin holds an MA (Hons) in English and French as well as a PhD in Victorian Literature from St Andrews University. She now works as a lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Bangor University. Karin’s research explores how literature interacts with media, technologies, and networks of communication. Her current

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Patricia Masterson-Algar

Patricia Masterson-Algar Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2019 Patricia completed a BSc and a Research Master’s degree in Marine Sciences before making a career change and training as an Occupational Therapist in 2009. She then went on to complete a PhD in Health Sciences. As part of her PhD, she carried out the process evaluation of

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Isabel Rosa

Isabel Rosa Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2019 Isabel obtained a PhD in Computational Ecology from Imperial College London and is now a Lecturer in Environmental Data Analysis at Bangor University, after completing a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Isabel is interested in developing and applying novel tools

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Richard Binney

Richard Binney Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2018 Richard is a neuroscientist who researches the way the human brain stores and uses our knowledge of people, objects, and words.  Further, he tries to understand how these abilities break down following brain injury or disease (e.g., in dementia). To do so, he uses behavioural measures such as reaction

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Hayley Roberts

Hayley Roberts Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2018 Hayley is a Lecturer in Public International Law at Bangor University, specialising in the law of the sea. She is interested in the legal protection of historic shipwrecks, immunity of wrecked warships, and dispute resolution procedures in the law of the sea more generally. Hayley is also interested in

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Catrin Plumpton

Catrin Plumpton Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2018 Catrin is a Research Fellow in Pharmacoeconomics at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University. Catrin has a background in Mathematics and Computing, and joined CHEME in 2010 on completion of her PhD. Her current research focus and interests include cost effectiveness modelling and methodology, in

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Becki Law

Becki Law Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2018 Becki is currently a Research Officer within the School of Health Sciences at Bangor University and is passionate about working towards a more functional, less medicalised approach to health. Becki’s background is in exercise rehabilitation and she has worked in a range of areas including musculoskeletal health and early

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Amy Ellison

Amy Ellison Bangor University (formerly Cardiff University) Welsh Crucible 2018 Amy is a molecular parasitologist, based at Cardiff University School of Biosciences. Amy’s research interests broadly encompass host-pathogen interactions with a specific focus on the role of circadian rhythms in the health and welfare of managed animals. After obtaining a PhD in 2012 from Aberystwyth

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