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Alice Baldock

Alice Baldock

Alice Baldock is the Nissan Institute as the Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her research interests include 20th century Japanese history, g...

Amanda Garrie

Amanda Garrie

Amanda Garrie has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of Portsmouth where, until recently, she lectured on the Degree and MA programmes. She was awarded an Arts Council funded position...

Becky Jerams

Becky Jerams

Becky Jerams is a singer/songwriter/author from Portsmouth. Her songs have been used on TV shows, movie trailers, adverts and have been placed with numerous charting acts across the world, including w...

Chris Pattison

Chris Pattison

Chris Pattison is a researcher at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, currently working on code and data analysis for the upcoming Euclid Space Telescope. He complet...

Christopher Hood

Christopher Hood

Christopher Hood is a Reader in Japanese Studies. His books include Japan: The Basics, Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss in the World’s Largest Single Plane Crash, Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses...

Claudia Maraston

Claudia Maraston

Claudia Maraston is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation of the University of Portsmouth. Her field of research is the formation and evolution of galaxies. She obt...

Dan McCabe

Dan McCabe

Dan McCabe has over 22 years’ experience as a creative practitioner within the fields of branding and packaging. He has 15 years experience as a design educator, during which time he has been at the ...

Daniel Alexander

Daniel Alexander

Daniel Alexander is a Reader in Expanded Photographic Practice at London College of Communication, and Programme Director of Photography. Daniel’s practice based research uses photography, moving imag...

David Basiru Amuneni

David Basiru Amuneni

David Basiru Amuneni is a Third year PhD student at the School of Creative Technologies and his research is focused on the use of creative technology tools such as game engines and Virtual Reality sys...

Emma Austin

Emma Austin

Dr Emma Austin teaches and researches across a wide variety of popular culture and film history, but has a special interest in how some horror allows a space for expressing contemporaneous fears. Her ...

Gleb Redko

Gleb Redko

Gleb Redko is a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth, exploring the intersections of Brutalist architecture, punk subculture, and psychogeography. With a background in computer...

Helen Salsbury

Helen Salsbury

Helen Salsbury is the author of coming-of-age novel Sometimes When I Sleep, along with many published short stories. Her forthcoming novel The Worry Bottles explores how landscape and history shape us...

Jack CT Adams

Jack CT Adams

I’m Jack C-T Adams, a music composer in the Portsmouth area. I am also a current PhD student at the University of Portsmouth, and one-half of the musical duo KONKRT. My main area of research is Contem...

Jackson Davies

Jackson Davies

Jackson Davies has been performing spoken word for around five years, veering from humorous honest observations about his marriage, to rhyming rants about the state of the nation. You can find him on ...

Jennifer Levasseur

Jennifer Levasseur

Dr. Jennifer Levasseur received her BA in history from the University of Michigan in 1999, an MA in American Studies from The George Washington University in 2002, and a PhD in history at George Mason...

Jenny Walden

Jenny Walden

Dr Jenny Walden is an Associate Dean in Education at the University of Portsmouth and co-secretary for the National Association for Fine Art Education. She has a long-term teaching interest in and has...

Jodi Burkett

Jodi Burkett

Jodi is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth. Her work focuses on late twentieth century British and European history. She is particularly interested in social movements and has ...

John Caro

John Caro

John Caro is a principal lecturer in the School of Film, Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth, teaching on modules that combine film practice and theory. He is currently dev...

Karen McNally

Karen McNally

Karen McNally is Professor of Film, Television and Cultural History at London Metropolitan University. She has published widely on themes related to Hollywood stardom, genre, American identity and US ...

Kit Danowski

Kit Danowski

Kit Danowski, Senior Lecturer in Performance, is a playwright, director, and performer. Xe has presented performance work and spoken word in Phoenix, Brooklyn, Berlin, Krakow, Seattle, Minneapolis, an...

Kremena Dimitrova

Kremena Dimitrova

Dr Kremena Dimitrova is a socially engaged and interdisciplinary London based illustrator-as-historian. Her research, residencies, and interventions in the heritage sector often focus on co-creatively...

Lincoln Geraghty

Lincoln Geraghty

Lincoln Geraghty is Professor of Media Cultures in the School of Film, Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth. Major publications include Living with Star Trek: American Cultu...

Marius Palz

Marius Palz

Marius Palz got his B.A. from Tübingen University and his M.A. from the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, both in Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies. Since his early studies he tried to c...

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Dr. Matt Smith has thirty years experience, working in landscapes, prisons, with environmental agencies, health, youth arts, disability arts groups and with the homeless. Smith’s practice is interdisc...

Mick Broderick

Mick Broderick

Dr Mick Broderick has very kindly shared some of his work for the upcoming Trinity events. Mick is a world authority on nuclear culture, publishing numerous books and articles on the topic, including...

Milena Metalkova-Markova

Milena Metalkova-Markova

Milena Metalkova-Markova is a Bulgarian architect who specialized in heritage preservation and citizen participation in Japan (PhD from Kyoto Institute of Technology). Her research there was focused o...

Neil M. Maher

Neil M. Maher

Neil M. Maher is a Professor of History in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches environmental history, politica...

Nick Pepin

Nick Pepin

Dr Nick Pepin is Reader in Climate Science in the School of Environment, Geography and Geosciences in the University of Portsmouth. He is an expert in mountain climate change, leading the global effor...

Nik Wakefield

Nik Wakefield

Dr Nik Wakefield is Senior Lecturer in the School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies at University of Portsmouth. He is a researcher, artist and writer working in performance as well as dance, ...

Olly Gruner

Olly Gruner

Olly Gruner is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Portsmouth. His research has a particular focus on visual histories and representations of the 1960s and 1970s. He is the author...

Paul Newland

Paul Newland

Paul Newland is a retired academic seeking negotiations with the sacred from a perspective of interface design, biosemiotics, 4-fold typologies and a cheeky cherub naughtiness! Newly acquired skill as...

Peter Krämer

Peter Krämer

Peter Krämer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema & TV at De Montfort University in Leicester. He also is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Media, Language and Communication Studies at the Universi...

Phevos Kallitsis

Phevos Kallitsis

Phevos Kallitsis is an Architect (National Technical University of Athens) and Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. He teaches architecture and interior design. His research focuses on cin...

Rachael Brown

Rachael Brown

Rachael Brown is a Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth School of Architecture. She currently coordinates the third-year Interior Architecture and Design programme and has also acted as Course Leader for the...

Rebecca Janicker

Rebecca Janicker

Rebecca Janicker is Associate Professor in Horror Media at the University of Portsmouth. She has published numerous chapters and articles on horror and her most recent edited collection, The Scientist...

Richard Peirce

Richard Peirce

Richard Peirce was born in Gosport one month before the birth of the NHS. A former teacher of mathematics, activist and poet, he has travelled in Western Europe, Russia, Turkey, Thailand, the Philippi...

Richard Salsbury

Richard Salsbury

Richard Salsbury is an award-winning writer from the south of England. His debut novel, the darkly comic thriller Mute, was published in 2023 and followed in 2025 by Gifts of Anger. His shorter work h...

Robert Poole

Robert Poole

Robert Poole is Professor of History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and lives in Greater Manchester. He is the author of Earthrise: how Man First Saw the Earth (Yale, 2008) and he has wr...

Simone Gumtau

Simone Gumtau

Simone Gumtau is a visual communication designer, academic researcher and lecturer. For her research, Simone has designed haptic interfaces, responsive environments, complex adaptive interaction and m...

Sue Harper

Sue Harper

Sue Harper is Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth. She has published many books and articles on British cinema, but since 2020 has been working exclusively on creative w...

Tarek Teba

Tarek Teba

Dr. Teba is an Associate Professor in Architectural Heritage at University of Portsmouth and the Chair for ICOMOS UK Digital Technology Committee. Tarek leads MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Co...

Tim Lenton

Tim Lenton

Professor Tim Lenton is the Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. Tim’s research focuses on understanding the behav...

Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes is the author of seven books including The Realm of the Punisher, a collection of reportage on the Philippines that received good reviews in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Maga...

Ziggy Kolker

Ziggy Kolker

Ziggy Kolker is an artist and full-time senior lecturer on the BA(Hons) Photography and the MA Photography programmes at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests lie in the evolving ontolo...