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Dimitrios Xenias

Dimitrios Xenias Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2012 Dimitrios studied Psychology in Crete and continued his studies in Durham, where he trained for an MA in Counselling. He then obtained his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Hull. He moved to Cardiff in 2005 to work as a postdoctoral researcher. His most recent projects

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Clare Wood

Clare Wood Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2012 Clare studied a MEng in Civil Engineering with Architecture at Glasgow University and then went on to complete a postgraduate MRes and PhD in Computational Modelling for Engineering at Swansea University. Clare continued her research at Swansea University as a Research Officer, working on a variety of projects

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Rhiannon Whitaker

Rhiannon Whitaker Whitaker Research Ltd (formerly Bangor University) Welsh Crucible 2012 Rhiannon is a Chartered Statistician and Scientist who after graduating with a Mathematics degree from Bangor trained as a secondary school teacher at Cambridge University. After a career break to raise a family, a change of direction found her developing an interest in medical

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Pamela Ugwudike

Pamela Ugwudike Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2012 Pamela is a Lecturer in Criminology and is based in the Department of Criminology at Swansea University. She originally trained as a Lawyer. Added to her Law degree, has a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and Applied Criminology (with Distinction) and a PhD in Criminal Justice and Criminology.

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Emma Tonkin

Emma Tonkin University of South Wales Welsh Crucible 2012 Emma followed her degree in Applied Biology from the University of the West of England and a PhD in Human Molecular Genetics from the University of Aberdeen, with a substantial period of laboratory based postdoctoral research at Newcastle University. In 2005 she joined the Genomics Policy

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Enlli Thomas

Enlli Thomas Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2012 Enlli is currently a Senior Lecturer in Education at Bangor University, and a core member of the executive of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice. She graduated with a degree in Psychology, but went on to pursue her interests in language, gaining a

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Vincent Teng

Vincent Teng Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2012 Vincent obtained his BEng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Swansea University and subsequently completed his PhD at the same institution investigating nanoscale electronic materials using scanning probe microscopy techniques. Presently, he is a lecturer at Swansea University and heads the Nanoelectronics Research Group within the Multidisciplinary

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Hongyun Tai

Hongyun Tai Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2012 Hongyun Tai obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Polymer Science and Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. She obtained a PhD from the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2005 to 2007 in the School of

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Elen Stokes

Elen Stokes Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2012 Elen studied for her LLB in Law at Bristol University, and for her PhD at Cardiff University. She went on to work at Manchester University where she held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, in conjunction with a Simon Research Fellowship and a Fellowship in Regulation. Elen is

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Richard Stanton

Richard Stanton Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2012 Richard obtained a degree in Microbiology from the University of Wales College of Cardiff, before completing a PhD. in virology at the University of Wales College of Medicine. Following 6 years of post-doctoral research, he is now a lecturer in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. He

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