We're pleased to welcome more scholars to the NCIS fold. They have all been awarded Full Membership of NCIS in the last month. Welcome one and all!
FULL MEMBERSHIP
Dr Malika Bouchez-Zacria (FRANCE) graduated in veterinary medicine but her enduring interest in ecosystems, wildlife and global health led her to take a PhD in epidemiology. A desire to understand the links between all living things (including pathogens) and transmission are the driving forces behind her work. She has recently focused on Usutu virus and its transmission among bird populations (more specifically blackbirds) in France. For this project, she is collaborating with the ecologists and statisticians who carried out the analysis, as well as several other scientists and veterinarians. She is also involved in coordinating a report on the surveillance programme for bovine tuberculosis in wildlife in France.
Dr Pen Lister (MALTA) is a former Lecturer in Multimedia and Senior Lecturer in e-Learning (2006-2015), returning as Associate Lecturer in Digital Media (2019-2020) at London Metropolitan University, UK. Since 2020 she has been an invited presenter in the Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions track at the HCI Conference. She has a PhD in emerging technologies and informal urban learning, an MA in Learning & Teaching in HE, an MSc in Multimedia Systems, and is FHEA and MBCS (UK). After working on an Erasmus+ project, she now visit-lectures in TEL at the University of Malta and supervises Masters dissertations at the Institute for Education, Malta. Her research interests include smart learning, civic learning, semantic web and UX in digital contexts.
Dr Anna Weissman (USA) is a social historian with a doctorate from the University of Florida, and 12 years of experience in advanced curriculum development as an instructor through the University of Florida and Santa Fe College. Weissman has published with OUP, Routledge, and in several peer-reviewed academic journals on reproductive rights, sexuality, gender, and nationalism. Her research interests also include the history of the home and domestic technologies, American decorative arts, and the politics of menstruation. Anna has spent the last six years in public history, and has worked in a variety of institutions including historic houses, special collections at the University of Florida, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She is currently the Associate Curator of Domestic Life at the State History Museum of Colorado (History Colorado) in Denver.
Dr Daniel Wise (USA) received his PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2021. His dissertation focused on 21st-century American ghost hunters with the central goal of offering insight into the types of alternative spiritual or "paranormal" beliefs that have managed to thrive during the recent period of rapid religious disaffiliation. His research interests are paranormal belief in America, contemporary American religious landscape, history of psychical research, religious liberalism, and religion in modernity. Daniel currently lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two cats.
Dr Emmanuela Yeo (FRANCE) earned a PhD in Home Economics & Nutrition Sciences from the University of Giessen (Germany). Her research at the Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) focused on the nutritional and social impact of microfinancial loans among displaced populations. She also worked on infant feeding in the context of HIV. Her research interests range across the fields of nutrition, impact evaluation, family studies, resilience, sustainable finance, education, environment, culture and history.