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Fiona Carroll

Fiona Carroll Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2019 Fiona received a PhD degree in Computing from Edinburgh Napier University in 2008. She is currently a senior lecturer with the School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales. Her research focuses on the fast-changing relations between humans and digital technologies and shows a substantial contribution to scholarship

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Elizabeth English

Elizabeth English Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2019 Elizabeth gained her BA, MA, and PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London and is now a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on modernist and early twentieth-century popular fiction with a particular interest in women’s writing. Her first monograph, Lesbian

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Jac Fennell

Jac Fennell Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2019 Jac is an Interaction and Product Designer, passionate about research that helps to design a better world for people. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jac gained real-world industry experience working in the R&D labs for Hewlett-Packard and Philips, and as design consultant for IDEO

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David Aldous

David Aldous Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2018 David is a sociologist based in the School of Sport and Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His main research interests use forms of sociological and education theory to address issues related to the socio-political reform of education, pedagogy, social equality and embodiment. David’s previous research focused

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Carmen Casaliggi

Carmen Casaliggi Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2018 Carmen completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Milan and her PhD at the University of Kent. She is now working as a Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University with research and teaching expertise in the Romantic period. Her most current research focuses on

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Taslima Begum

 Taslima Begum Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2017 Taslima is a Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems at Cardiff Metropolitan University and a User Centred Design Researcher with PDR – a world leading design research consultancy. She is also a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Industries (Art, Media and Design) at the University of South

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Esyin Chew

Esyin Chew Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2017 Esyin is an interdisciplinary academic with a doctoral degree in IT and Education. She is a creative academic developing humanoid robot and mobile programs for seamless assessment and feedback. Specialising in educational technologies and data visualisation, Esyin provides academic consultancy and training workshops such as data scrapping,

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Isabel Moore

Isabel Moore Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2016 Isabel is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Medicine, specialising in lower limb biomechanics at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She obtained her BSc degree in Sport and Exercise Science at Exeter University, where she then went on to complete her award winning PhD research examining running technique and

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Andrew Walters

Andrew Walters Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2015 Andrew is Director of Research and Reader in Product Design at PDR, an international centre for design research at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Andrew leads the academic research strategy for the Centre and supervises a broad range of design research projects and doctoral students. Such projects cover, inter

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Kate North

Kate North Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2014 Kate writes fiction and poetry. Her novel, Eva Shell, came out in 2008 and her poetry collection, Bistro, was published in 2012. Kate gained a BA in English from Aberystwyth University, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Creative

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