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St David's Hall
The Hayes
Cardiff, Cardiff, CF10 1AH
United Kingdom

Ivy Kelly

Artist and Producer

Ivy Kelly is a co-director of the community interest company, Lone Worlds. Lone Worlds formed to facilitate safer, alternative experiences for the queer community in South Wales, as well as to support creative development for LGBTQ+ artists locally.

James Gough

Dr. James Gough is COO of a multi-national technology scale-up, McCain Institute fellow and the Founder of One Shot Immersive, a Virtual Reality social venture providing trauma training for humanitarian crises, conflict and disaster. He is a former military and aid doctor having served with the British Army and the ICRC in Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia and Bangladesh. James is a social entrepreneur. He uses his humanitarian, medical, business, and technological experience to bring change for good.

Jaspal Singh

Dr Jaspal Naveel Singh is a lecturer in linguistics at the Open University. His research is about how language shapes our understandings of gender, sexuality and race. Jaspal’s first book “Transcultural Voices” traces the beginnings of hip hop culture in urban India. Jaspal lives in Cardiff and has recently become a father to a small baby.

Jenifer Millard

Astrophysicist turned Editor for Fifth Star Labs, Dr. Jenifer Millard is a passionate science communicator, often appearing on BBC radio and TV to lend her expertise. She hosts the popular podcast Awesome Astronomy, and is one of Cardiff University’s 30ish Award winners for 2022.

Liz Bagshaw

Dr Liz Bagshaw has interests in glaciology, biogeochemistry and microbiology – that is, how life exists in extreme cold environments, what impact it has, and how we can measure it. After a PhD in Antarctic Biogeochemistry and postdoctoral training in Glaciology and Engineering, Liz moved to Cardiff University to take up a lectureship in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2014. Now a Reader, she will take up an Associate Professorship in Glaciology at the University of Bristol in April 2023.

Mike Dennis

Mike Dennis is a classically-trained violinist whose boyhood love of Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Gangstarr led him to create a unique kind of string-heavy hip hop music he half-seriously refers to as Violinica.

Nicky Trevorrow

Nicky is passionate about cats and is Cats Protection’s Behaviour Manager, promoting feline behaviour and welfare. She holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Animal Behaviour and a Postgraduate Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling. Nicky is a registered veterinary nurse. She represents CP on the Animal Behaviour and Training Council.