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This exhibition celebrates the career journeys of a selectionof our women researchers. The women in the photographsrepresent just a small selection of the fantastic women

researchers who work across different disciplines atvarious levels across QMU.

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Queen Margaret University is committed to the principles

of the Charter and values equality and diversity across its workforce. To support these principles and to

promote the role o f women in SET, the University has

undertaken an internal self-assessment process and hasbeen successful in gaining a Bronze SWAN Award.

The University sees membership o f the Charter, with

its bronze, silver and gold SWAN recognition awards,as working towards sustaining equitable working

environments enabling QMU to identify itself as an

employer of choice, not only to its staff, but to students,stakeholders, research councils and industry.

The Athena SWAN

Charter is a recognition

scheme for UK universities

and their science,

engineering and technology(SET) departments. It aims

to assist the recruitment,

retention and progression

of women in SET.

In 2013, Queen Margaret University was delighted to receive

 the Bronze Athena SWAN Award in light of its commitmentto assisting the recruitment and retention of women 

in science, engineering and technology (SET).

QMU Athena SwanBronze Award

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I’m Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk, and I do research on how and

why sounds of language change. Sound change is something

we’re not normally aware of , yet somehow we sound slightly

differently from our parents or our grandparents.

RESEARCH FELLOW, SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES

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I am Dr Maria Paola Bissiri, I hold a PhD in Phonetics from the

Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in Germany. In my research

work I compare native with non-native speech productions andinvestigate speech perception in different languages.

RESEARCH FELLOW, SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES

I have worked as a Research Fellow in several institutions

across Europe: the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich,

the Charles University in Prague, the University of the BasqueCountry in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), the University of Bristol,

and the Technical University of Dresden (Germany).

I am happy to work as a researcher, because this allows me to

learn something new every day.

I have always been fascinated by language. I rememberlistening to foreign languages as a child and wondering how it

would feel to be able to recognise words in such mysterious

languages. I grew up in Sardinia from Sardinian-Italian bilingualparents. Sardinian, an archaic Romance language, is a UNESCO

endangered language.

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Examples of our research arePilates for people with MSwho use a wheelchair and acommunity exercise programmefor young people with CerebralPalsy. Exercise can be a way ofself-management, i.e. peoplecan take care of their conditionthemselves, instead of relying on

drugs or surgical interventions.

I am Dr Marietta van der Linden and I am doing research on

how exercise and assistive technology can improve the abilityto perform activities of daily living in people with a neurological

condition such as Multiple Sclerosis or Cerebral Palsy.

 Assistive technologies to aid walking suchas splints allow people to walk further and

more easily which can positively impact theirparticipation and general health.

Finding out from study participants how

they feel a certain inter vention has positivelyimpacted their function and then showing

these benets through objectively measured

outcomes is probably the most rewardingaspect of my area of research.

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I am passionate aboutimproving the patient journey through strokeservices and aftercompleting my PhD I

plan to continue myresearch into variousaspects of stroke care.

My past work has examined the value of engagingin purposeful activities, which is another area which

I am passionate about - particularly the eld of

physical activities as contributors to the quality of

life of various groups of people .

I’m fortunate to have been able to work with

Professor Gillian Mead, a UK expert on life afterstroke. She has inspired me to pursue my areas ofresearch and to widen my research portfolio, so that

I have gained invaluable experience utilising a wide

variety of research methodologies.

I’m an Occupational Therapy Lecturer currently in the

closing stretches of a part time PhD. I am interested

in researching various aspects of life after stroke,currently my main focus is on the process of identifying

a delirium in the acute stages of stroke.

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My recent research focused oninvestigating the involvement ofcerebrovascular dysfunction in thepathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease,

and potential therapeutic strategiesfor the disease. In particular I focusedon the role of hypertension in thepathophysiology of Alzheimer’sdisease, and the mechanisms by whichanti-hypertensive drugs may conferprotection against cognitive decline.

 I also have interests in the impact of stress-inducedmetabolic d isease upon Alzheimer’s disease. This

experience is invaluable in my current teaching on

a wide range of courses within Dietetics, Nutritionand Biological Sciences.

I was taught at undergraduate level by severalinspiring lecturers, who sparked my interest in

undertaking research, and introduced me to a team

of enthusiastic researchers. I enjoyed the laboratoryexperience I obtained at undergraduate level and

was lucky to be able to embark on a PhD which

cemented my interests.

Following completion of my BSc (Hons) in Biological and Health Sciences at Queen Margaret University, I undertook a PhD in neuroscience at

Queen Margaret University, in collaboration with researchers in Cognitive

and Neural Systems at the University of Edinburgh.

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I completed my ProfessionalDoctorate last year exploringthe theme of partnershipbetween young “expert”patients and health careproviders. As a maturestudent I value education andhave extended my researchinterests into this area.

I am passionate about the student experience.

My own experiences as a mature learner at Queen

Margaret University through the Masters andDoctorate programmes have been positive ones

and I want to ensure this continues in both our

undergraduate and post graduate programmes.

My inspiration was predominantly the client group

with whom I worked and a motivation to enhanceservice delivery. I was hugely supported by Dr

Shona Cameron my Director of Studies and my

academic colleagues.

I’m Dr Kath MacDonald. I’m a Senior Lecturer and a registered

Nurse. I worked for many years in the Health Service as a Clinical

Nurse Specialist with young people with a long term condition 

and it is this work that has inspired my research.

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I’m Dr Alison Strang, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for

International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University.

I hate seeing people excludedand marginalised. This is reected

in my work with communitiesaffected by conict and disaster,

as well as refugees and asylumseekers. I use qualitative methodsto explore the ways people makesense of their own lives, andcommunicate ndings with service

providers and policymakers.

Sometimes this involves developing a conceptual model,

other times a practical tool. I get most satisfaction when

I see that research leads to changes in practice! I amclosely involved in policy and practice through leading

the humanitarian online ‘Mental Health and Psychosocial

Support Network’, and ‘New Scots: Integrating Refugees inScotland’s Communities’ strategy.

I was rst inspired by Dr Eunice Belbin, my rst employer,

who was a pioneer woman researcher in the 1950s. She

and her husband developed the inuential ‘Belbin Team

Roles’ management model. She taught me to believe inmyself, trust my instincts and keep going until I could see

the impact of my efforts.

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I am Dr Pelagia Koufaki and I am research trained (PhD)

as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist.

For the last 15 years I havebeen conducting clinicalresearch focusing on theeffectiveness of exerciseand physical activityinterventions as therapeuticmodalities for optimizing

functional independenceand reducing cardiovascularhealth risks in people withlong term cardiometabolicconditions such as kidney

and cardiac disease.

My ultimate aim is to develop and evaluate approaches that

people are more likely to implement in their daily lives eitherin clinical or community based settings. Exercise during

renal dialysis, is an example of effective implementation of

a therapeutic treatment, that brings about multiple health

benets for people who need them the most.

I was trained to become a PE teacher or a sports coach.However, as a 3rd year student, I attended a week-long seminar

on Cardiac Rehabilitation, which although not a novel idea,

was not a widely recommended/known practice. When I grewup, a common piece of doctor’s advice for people with health

conditions was to “rest”, “slow down” or “take it easy” and I

was therefore inspired by the clinical application of the idea,that you do not have to be in perfect health to safely perform

physical exercise. That was the beginning of my interest in

health enhancing exercise applications and has been sustainedby interacting with the actual people who need it the most.

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This research questioned theassumption that young children were

sufciently active for health andhighlighted that there were severalquestions regarding how we accuratelymeasure physical activity behaviour inthis population. My research thereforestemmed from an interest to try andaddress these questions and propose aprotocol for accurately measuring thephysical activity behaviour ofyoung children at a population level,using accelerometers.

This research is important for understanding

physical activity behaviour of young children. Inaddition, it is only through accurate quantifcation of

physical activity behaviour that the effectiveness ofinterventions to change physical activity behaviourcan be determined.

My PhD supervisor Professor John Reilly wasan inspiration, with his research into childhood

obesity and the development of physical activity

behaviour in children. John’s research has focusedon interventions for the prevention of child and

adolescent obesity and the consequences of obesity

and low levels of physical activity in children andadolescents globally. This research highlighted that

from an early age children were at risk of health

problems as a consequence of low levels of physicalactivity and high levels of sedentary behaviour.

I’m Dr Jane Hislop, I’m a Physiotherapy Lecturer who has a researchinterest in measurement of physical activity. When I star ted my part-timePhD research I was interested in the factors which were contributing to

 the childhood obesity epidemic and I came across Professor John Reilly’s

research in the area of physical activity of preschool children.

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My work examines how healthsystems and health workersrespond to the demands of globalhealth initiatives in tuberculosis(TB) and HIV care. Often, clinicaleffectiveness of new diagnostictechnologies or treatmentregimens may not translate intotheir ‘workability’ in settingswhere health workers face severeshortages of resources, and alack of training, supervision, andadequate incentives. 

I’m a Medical Anthropologist who has been working in

international public health settings for nearly 15 years

 – most recently in India and South Africa.

As an anthropologist working on strengtheninghealth systems with government and non-

governmental organizations, my aims are to

analyse, document, and ensure that local healthworkers’ experiences and voices are heard

and adequately taken account of in TB and HIV

programming.

I have experienced the challenges of delivering

health care in resource-poor countries rst-hand;

my parents worked in international public health

in diverse settings and I retain vivid impressionsfrom these formative years. Additionally, excellent

guidance received later from Professors MargaretLock and Barbara McPake inspired me to pursue a

critical yet humane path of public health research,grounded in the subjective experiences of health

providers and communities.

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My projects have included work on

articulatory settings in bilingual

speakers, speech planning and verbal

reaction time protocols.

I’ve been curious about language and

speech for as long as I can think, and

the equipment we have available here at

Queen Margaret University takes things

one step further. Not only can I nd out

how things work when we speak, I can

investigate aspects of speech productionthat are normally hidden from view (for

example movements of the tongue).

When I rst started studying in Munich leading roles

were mostly occupied by men, and looking at the

few research active women it very much seemed an

academic career was not compatible with having any

(family) life to speak of . An exchange semester at UCL

London drastically changed my view of things.

Here I encountered women who had managed the lot:

be a successful researcher, a brilliant teacher, a mum...

Professor Valerie Hazan was one of those inspirational

gures. Somewhat more optimistic about a career

in academia I applied for a PhD at Stirling University.

My supervisor, Professor Vera Kempe, turned out to

be yet another stellar example of this ‘new’ breed of

academic women. She was adamant that you could

and should do it all (she had her second baby a fewweeks after my viva, just to prove a point I think!).

And so I try.

I’m a Speech Scientist. I have degrees in both Phonetics and Psychology,

and my research takes place in the borderland between these twodisciplines. I use phonetic methodology and instrumentation (most

notably Ultrasound Tongue Imaging) to explore psycholinguistic topics.

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I am Carol Brennan. My role is Reader in Consumer Policy

and Director of the Consumer Insight Centre.

READER, BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND MANAGEMENT

I regularly conduct commissioned research. I enjoy

working with research teams in the Consumer Insight

Centre and engaging with policy and research staffin external organisations. The research is presented

to colleagues at all levels of organisations and shapes

service improvements. I appreciate researching areaswhere I have the opportunity to inuence policy which

will enhance the consumer experience.

The eld of consumer policy is very dynamic and

complex with a wide range o f research opportunities.

I regularly participate in conferences and nd many of

the speakers inspiring. The opportunity to learn fromcolleagues in this area has inspired me to conduct

research which will make a difference.

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I am passionate aboutculture and diasporatourism. Now editing thebook, ‘Carnival, Culture, andTourism’ which addressesdisplaced carnivals and howthe diaspora utilises and

merges space and identity.I am the founder of the‘Waitukubuli Culture andTourism Initiative’ launched

in October 2014.

I am Dr Violet V Cuffy, Lecturer in Tourism Management.

My research focus has been on tourism education and training

from a destination perspective, with emphasis on lifelongeducation, collaboration, and co-creation of the curriculum.

The main objective is to educate, engage, and entertain UK born

‘young’ descendants of the Commonwealth of Dominica (myhomeland) on core aspects of the Dominican heritage and culture.

Related research involves ethnographic studies and exploration ofdeveloping theories on culture and diaspora tourism among this

second, third and fourth generation niche market.

Waitukubuli Culture and Tourism Initiative Documentary:https://youtu.be/ru8DZhFKa1g

Most of my siblings were teachers; so unsurprisingly my career

began as a high school teacher. Thus, formal education and trainingin teaching and learning at an earlier stage of my professional life

has shaped my philosophy and continued interest in the principles

and practice of education and training. My background and personalinvolvement in the rich carnival and creole culture of the Caribbean

married to my love for travel and tourism drives my research in the

area of carnival, culture, and diaspora tourism.

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Dr Rebecca Finkel is a critical Events Geographer. As part

of the University’s “commitment to relevance, sustainability

and championing of social change”, my research centres onidentity, social justice and events management.

This is a shift in focus from

my PhD exploring the role ofcultural festivals in the creativeeconomy. Events Managementis an emerging research eld,

so I was able to identify anarea under-represented in theliterature to conduct impactfulresearch and produceinnovative outputs.

New research is framed within conceptualisations

of gender identity, cultural events and resistance

to globalisation, as well as mapping human rightsand special events, currently focusing on the

links between sex work, human trafcking and

international sporting events.

My inspiration is my mother, Dr Madelon Lubin

Finkel, Professor of Clinical Public Health and

Director of the Ofce of Global Health Education

at Weill Cornell Medical College. A champion for

women’s health, she has inspired me to believe inthe importance of education for achieving equality

and making the world a better place.

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I am Dr Marion Ellison, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queen

Margaret University. As the leader of a major European

Employment Research Study in Scotland (INSPIRES) my

aspiration is to make a difference to the lives of young people

across Europe by anticipating the future challenges they face.INSPIRES (InnovativeSocial and EmploymentPolicies for Inclusive andResilient Labour Marketsin Europe project) isa partnership of 12other leading Europeanuniversities. Contributingto this work is of great

personal signicance.

I am currently co-ordinating the work of my European

colleagues as we identify and closely evaluate innovative

knowledge, technology and policy approaches thatimprove the resilience and active inclusion of labour

markets for young people and other vulnerable groups

across Europe. For more information about INSPIRESplease visit the website: http://www.inspires-research.eu

or contact me at mellison@qmu.ac.uk 

Throughout my research career I have been stronglymotivated by an ambition to improve the lives of

vulnerable groups in society. In contributing to andexpanding knowledge in social policy, sociology and

professional practice I have always been inspired by the

belief that ‘The past we inherit, the future we build’.

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Starting my academic careerin a positivist discipline in apositivist marketing departmentforced me to question thestatus quo and to articulatealternative perspectives,however uncomfortable. Amajor part of my work has beenconcerned with the histories,herstories and historiographiesof the public relations eld, and

the role of communications insocietal change.

I have written and co-edited several books, the most

recent are: a collected volume of historical essays

(2014), a text on sports public relations (2013) and acollection of more than 30 monographical essays on

critical public relations (2015, in press).

Although I was not taught by any women during

my rst degree in English & American History at

the University of East Anglia in the mid 1970s,

subsequently I interviewed feminist academics,Cora Kaplan and Jacqueline Rose (while working

at The British Council); social psychologist Hilda

Himmelweit and sociologist Eileen Barker (while

working at the London School of Economics)

 – they were my main role models and inspirationsfor moving into an academic career. It was their

independence of mind and autonomy that I admired.

Along with my colleague Dr Magda Pieczka my work since

 the early 1990s has been concerned with stimulating andextending critical perspectives in public relations andopposing the dominant functional agenda in the eld.

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We make recognition decisionsabout faces every day — andof course we are sometimessuccessful, sometimes not.It is especially critical thateyewitnesses to crime

make accurate recognitiondecisions. The police often askeyewitnesses to look at a faceor faces and indicate whetherthey see the perpetrator of the

crime they witnessed.

An incorrect decision can lead to a criminal

remaining free to commit further crimes or an

innocent person going to jail. Eyewitnesses play a

key role in our criminal justice system; I strive to

ensure the criminal justice system can obtain asaccurate and reliable eyewitness evidence

as possible.

A third-year undergraduate class on memory

inspired me. I felt my memory worked prettywell but was startled to learn how often we

remember events and people incorrectly— and shocked to learn the consequences of

some memory errors. For example, eyewitness

identication errors are a primary cause of

wrongful convictions.

My research concerns how people recognise faces and the cognitive and social factors that affect

memory for faces.

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First, the consumption of cultural events,specically audience perceptions of

authenticity, consumer motivations and

spiritual attitudes, and the relationshipbetween consumer satisfaction andevent quality. Second, the meaningand signicance of event-led urban

regeneration. Finally, social justice andits connection to mega-events, namelyperceptions of human trafcking for

sexual exploitation and the associated

preventative measures.

My work has taken place in a

variety of national and international

contexts and has both, a practicalapplication to events, as well

as implications for the ongoingdevelopment of policy.

A number of people have inspired

me in my research career,namely research supervisors

and colleagues, including George

Hughes, Professor Richard Prenticeand Professor Russell Rimmer. The

work of Dr Beatriz García has also

been a source of inspiration.

I am Dr Cathy Matheson, Senior Lecturer in Events Management.

My work centres on three broad themes.

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The development of

theory within the elds ofentrepreneurship and strategythat accommodates thesemultiple rationalities of familyand business is a key part ofmy current research, linking tothe management, sharing andcreation of knowledge in

a family business context.

My research also considers the manner in which familiesact as a platform for entrepreneurial individuals and families

who develop lots of different businesses over the years.

My inspiration has been sheer curiosity about the subject!My initial research was in agri-business, but farms are often

run by families. Later work involved small business, but

again one factor was the family. Families were the drivingforce behind business but overlooked in research where

family were regarded as something to be ‘professionalised’out of the business, despite family businesses forming the

economic bedrock of Scotland.

I’m Dr Claire Seaman and I’m a Reader in Enterprise and Family

Business. I’m interested in the way in which family businesses developparallel strategies for the business, the family and the individual familymembers. This is par ticularly apparent in smaller businesses which are

under-represented in research but economically impor tant.

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I am specically interested in

representation of food and cookingin television cooking shows andcookbooks today and in the past andways in which these change.In particular, I look at the connectionbetween identity, taste and socialgroups, such as class, whichdemonstrate how one group createsdistinction as opposed to the otherthrough what we eat. To me, this isfascinating, especially as it can helpunderstand why changing food habits

can be quite a difcult task!

Even though I decided to study socialanthropology and on a postgraduatelevel, linguistics, food has always beenin the background of my and myfamily’s interest. I had an excellent(female) doctoral supervisor, withwhom I had a chance to discuss my“cooking” research but also, how it isto be a woman in academia.

I’m Dr Ana Tominc, and I’m a Lecturer in Gastronomy

at Queen Margaret University. In this role, I teach and

research about food, culture and communication.

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It matters to me because I caredeeply about the impact thatexcessive drinking is having onScotland (costing around £3.6 bn ayear to manage).I hate the fact that the healthservice has to devote massiveresources to dealing withdrunkenness and that people endup in prison because they behaveviolently when they’re drunk. And,on a more positive note, it mattersbecause I want young people tospend their youth developing as

people, building their knowledge,friendships and self esteem andcreating memories they’ll cherish.

Seeing the difference our work canmean for young people inspiresme – it’s great to be part of aprocess that develops (and values)their ability to make condent,

positive choices. And teamwork isinspiring – I love working in such afocussed way with colleagues likeDr Magda Pieczka.

The AlcoLOLs project has enabled thousands of youngpeople to challenge Scotland’s drinking culture.  It helps

 them realise that they don’t have to get drunk to t in and

develops the skills necessary for making condent choices.

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