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Dr Aakanksha Virkar Yates

I am a literary scholar working on late 19th-century and 20th-century British literature. I have always worked in interdisciplinary ways, looking at intersections between literature and visual culture, music, philosophy and aesthetics. I was attracted to 麻豆果冻传媒 particularly because of its reputation for interdisciplinary work of this kind. Since joining, I have found my work increasingly shifting in a more political direction, influenced by the research culture and Centres of Research and Knowledge Exchange Excellence here. My most recent work looks at the idea of Beethoven in British modernism, in the context of inter-war politics.

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Dr Katherine Staines

My research focuses on understanding what happens to our skeleton in disease and in ageing. I am particularly interested in the disease osteoarthritis which causes significant pain and disability and yet, there is still no effective personalised treatment. I was attracted to 麻豆果冻传媒 for the growing musculoskeletal research taking place here and have been awarded internal Rising Stars funding to enable me to investigate new mechanisms which may contribute to osteoarthritis pre-disposition.

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Dr Samantha Lynch

The main focus of my research has been on the role of time and prediction in architecture drawing. In practice, drawing is key to conjuring the future; sets of plans and sections describe what a building is to become. Many architects use drawing as the way to imagine out a future architecture, and to make connections with the future site. Yet this intimate relationship between drawing and prediction is often overlooked. My research intensifies this very rich temporal territory, offering new perspectives on future thinking. As part of an architecture programme that is innovative in re-imagining notions of site in contemporary practice, the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 has been the perfect place to pursue this creative research.

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Dr Francesco Magaletti

My research focuses on the understanding of the detailed mechanism of bubble formation during boiling and cavitation. Despite our common experience with water boiling in a pot, a fully predictive mathematical model is still lacking. The effect of surface roughness, surface wettability, and gas content dissolved in the liquid, still needs to be investigated. University of 麻豆果冻传媒, and in particular the group led by Professor Marco Marengo with his well-regarded experience, is the perfect place to carry out this analysis.

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Dr Roxana Cavalcanti

My research and teaching focus on examining questions around intersecting inequalities, violence and social justice activism. I joined the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2018, after completing my PhD at King’s College London (2017) and after taking my second career break for maternity leave. Prior to that, I was a lecturer at the University of Westminster and a research fellow at the Kluge Centre, Library of Congress, US.

Since then, I have been an active member of various networks and professional societies, including the Urban Violence Research Network, the Feminist Urban Violence Research Collective (which I co-founded), British Society of Criminology and European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. In addition, I acted as Early Career Ambassador at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 in 2021–2022.

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