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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 [email protected]
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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