Theme: Our Mark on Sustainability

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Brookes Union Hall
Oxford Brookes University, Headington
Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 0BP
United Kingdom

Allan Hutchinson

Allan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Sustainable Vehicle Engineering Centre, which is part of the School of Engineering, Computing and Maths at Oxford Brookes University. His teaching and research interests include all aspects of design, materials engineering, joining technology, automotive engineering and sustainability. He has been the investigator/co-investigator for about £10m of research and consultancy at Oxford Brookes. Recent research projects include MINI E, E-Mobility, Lightweight vehicles, Recycled Carbon Fibre, Life Cycle Analysis. Allan is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry. He served on the Board of Directors of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership 2014-16.

Dalena Van Heugten

In my work, I wear a variety of ‘professional hats’, and I love to combine my passion for research with my passions for teaching and clinical work. I have studied the link between dissociative symptoms and sleep disturbances, and I found that sleep experiences precede dissociative symptoms; that both sleep loss and recreational drugs can induce dissociative symptoms; and that normalizing sleep reduces dissociative symptoms. Clinically, I have worked as a therapist treating substance abuse disorders, sexual disorders, and mood disorders in adults, as well as developmental issues in young persons from deprived backgrounds. I am not only experienced in delivering cognitive behavioural therapy but also in teaching these therapeutic skills through courses and clinical workshops.

Fridolin Wild

Dr Fridolin Wild is a Senior Research Fellow, leading the Performance Augmentation Lab (PAL) of Oxford Brookes University, located in the Department of Computing and Communications Technologies. With the research and development of the lab, Fridolin seeks to close the dissociative gap between abstract knowledge and its practical application, researching radically new forms of linking directly from knowing something ‘in principle’ to applying that knowledge ‘in practice’ and speeding its refinement and integration into polished performance. Fridolin is and has been leading numerous EU, European Space Agency, and nationally funded research projects, including WEKIT, TCBL, ARPASS, Tellme, TELmap, cRunch, Stellar, Role, LTfLL, iCamp, and Prolearn. Fridolin is the voted treasurer of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL) and leads its Special Interest Group on Wearable-Enhanced Learning (SIG WELL). He chairs the working group on Augmented Reality Learning Experience Models (ARLEM) of the IEEE Standards Association as well as the Natural Language Processing task view of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). From 2009 to 2016, Fridolin was with the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University of the UK. Fridolin also worked as a researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria from 2004 to 2009. He studied at the University of Regensburg, Germany, with extra-murals at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Hildesheim.

Janine Dermody

Professor Janine Dermody is a Marketing & Consumer Psychologist at Oxford Brookes University Business School. Janine’s academic research examines consumer behaviour that is problematic, poorly understood or undergoing significant change. She is leading international research to explore the complex psychology of consumers and their sustainable consumption behaviours to inform policy-making and innovation in the future.

Jeremy MacClancy

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology, OBU. He has done fieldwork in the South Pacific, the Basque Country, and the West of Ireland. His present fieldsite is rural Alicante, southeast Spain. He has written on the anthropologies of nationalism, sport, art, food, as well as popular anthropology, the history of the discipline, and the overlap between anthropology and literature. He has produced over 15 books. His latest edited books are 'Alternative countrysides: anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today', and 'Anthropology and public service: the UK experience'.

John Runions

John is a cell biologist who uses microscopy to study living cells. The principal technique used in John's lab is laser microscopy. Confocal microscopes enable the study of living cells in a non-invasive way and, when combined with fluorescent protein technology, allow visualisation of incredible details of the way that organelles and proteins interact as cells go about the business of life.