Molly Fox
Dr Molly Fox is a Biological Anthropologist whose research focuses on Alzheimer's Disease and the role of the elderly in human societies both past and present. Her work with elderly British women considers how environmental, societal, and behavioural factors influence Alzheimer's risk, and how Alzheimer's affects the role of the elderly in families and the larger community. Her previous study on the evolutionary forces that led to our species' long lifespans, utilizing data from populations that ranged across 4 continents and 5 centuries, was one of the top-ten most downloaded articles from the Royal Society in 2009 and received worldwide media attention.
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Peter Guthrie
Professor Peter Guthrie is the United Kingdom’s first Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development. He researches large scale engineering projects and sustainable infrastructure in developing countries, including waste management and recycling, and engineering Earth roads. Professor Guthrie has an extremely wide range of experience (hartowanie indukcyjne) , and was awarded an OBE in 1994.
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Lisa Halpern
Senior Counsellor, Cambridge University Counselling Service, has worked with young adults in various settings for over 35 years. Her earliest experience was as a youth worker, and later as a support worker to young homeless. She then joined the developing field of youth counselling, to set up a new walk-in service for young people. The Service operated for many years, providing free and confidential advice, information, and counselling to 18-25 year-olds in south London. Lisa has worked therapeutically with students since 1989, initially in the USA and later at the University of Nottingham and the University of Sussex. At Sussex, she worked as a therapist and supervisor, and taught on the University of Brighton Diploma in Counselling. She then relocated to Devon in 1996, taking up the post of Head of Counselling at the University of Exeter, where she remained for eleven years. In her current role as Senior Counsellor, Lisa has responsibility for overseeing the delivery of individual counselling within the student service at Cambridge. She is also the Training Placement Coordinator for both the staff and student counselling services within the University Counselling Service.
Sam Lucy
Dr Sam Lucy is Admissions Tutor, Financial Tutor and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She is an academic archaeologist, specialising in the study of later Roman and Anglo-Saxon archaeology, with a particular interest in burial rites and identities. She is the author of 'The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death' and several other monographs.
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Krishnaa Mahbubani
Krishnaa Mahbubani has recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge where she engineered platforms for oral vaccine delivery. She is interested in understanding the mechanisms behind temperature stabilisation of cells (bacterial and mammalian) with a goal to removing the need for cold-chain during storage and transport. This interest led her into the field of biotechnology, despite her background as a process engineer. She is currently doing her post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology to explore methods for manufacturing sustainable biological feedstocks for use in healthcare.
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Chris Mannerings
Mr Mannerings teaches geography at Brighton College, a leading independent school. After his undergraduate degree in Geography, he earned MA degrees from Durham in International Relations and Middle Eastern Politics, and from Oxford in Education. Academic interests include climate change and economic development, energy and resources, and population growth. A particular passion of his is exploring what truly makes an educated human.
June Massey
June Massey is a Disability Adviser for Specific Learning Difficulties at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the university, she worked as an independent Specific Learning Difficulties Consultant, assessing and teaching students of all ages. June has extensive experience in assessing and training dyslexic and dyspraxic individuals in the workplace and in acting in an advisory capacity to employers. June is Chair of the Council of Management of the charity Epilepsy Action and the author of 'Meeting the Needs of Students with Dyslexia '
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