Society
Lancaster academics can share their expertise on topics as varied as the British monarchy, migration, gambling and religion.
Charlotte Baker
Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies
Professor Baker can discuss disability inclusion in African contexts, the impact of various understandings of disability, witchcraft accusations and associated harmful practices. She can also discuss albinism, including sociocultural realities, cultural representations and human rights abuses against people with albinism.
Michaela Benson
Professor in Public Sociology
Professor Benson is an expert on migration and citizenship, with a portfolio that includes research on Brexit, the UK’s post-Brexit migration regime, British emigration and British citizenship past and present. She is available to talk on all of the issues above.
Laura Clancy
Lecturer in Media
Dr Clancy is available for media interviews on the contemporary British monarchy and issues of inequality, media representation, elite wealth, and global power.
Benjamin Dalton
Lecturer in French Studies
Dr Dalton is available to speak about LGBTQIA+ and queer cultures, rights and healthcare; LGBTQIA+ inequalities in healthcare; the place of arts and culture within healthcare and medicine; hospitals and the need for interdisciplinary research in hospital design to design the hospitals of the future.
Carolyn Downs
Senior Lecturer
Dr Downs is available to share her expertise on gambling-related issues. She can also comment on social care workforce issues, as well as arts and crafts-based careers and education.
Nonhlanhla Dube
Lecturer in Operations Management
Dr Dube can discuss topics including humanitarian operations, logistics, and supply chain management in protracted crises, such as conflicts and political crises. She is able to comment on insecurity, access to affected populations, response efforts at the onset of a disaster and in the longer term, refugees, and host governments.
Suzanne Ost
Professor of Law
Professor Ost can discuss legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted dying and abortion. She can also talk about legal and ethical issues regarding abusive images of children and unknowing victims of crime.
Elena Semino
Professor of Linguistics and English Language
Professor Semino can discuss communication about illness – including cancer, chronic pain, schizophrenia, autism, Covid 19, and vaccinations – especially through metaphors and narratives.
Edward Simpson
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Simpson is available to speak about the value of studying arts and humanities subjects and the broader benefits of these fields to society.
Emmanuel Tsekleves
Professor in Global Health Design Innovation
Professor Tsekleves uses design to address public health challenges, particularly in developing countries. He can discuss topics related to improving sanitation, preventing disease, and designing environments for healthy ageing, from homes to public spaces.
Stephen Wilkinson
Distinguished Professor of Bioethics
Professor Wilkinson can discuss ethical issues raised by new and emerging biotechnologies, especially in the context of human reproduction and human augmentation or enhancement.
Nicola Williams
Wellcome Lecturer in the Ethics of Human Reproduction
Dr Williams can discuss the ethics and policy questions raised by advances in medicine. She has particular expertise in the areas of reproductive and transplantation ethics, where she has published widely on practical and conceptual questions related to medically assisted reproduction, novel organ and tissue transplants, and organ donation policy.
