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Melissa Carr

Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development, Bournemouth University

Elelia Ferro

Postgraduate Research Student, University of Essex

Elelia Ferro is currently completing her Creative Writing PhD research examining ‘How We Live in Essex'. She is a poet from Wivenhoe in Essex who has made an impact in the county with her innovative writing methods where she uses interviews and workshops with local people as the basis for narratives which challenge the ‘Essex Girl’ and ‘Essex Boy’ stereotypes. She was previously Writer in Residence for Colchester’s Firstsite Gallery, where she worked with Colchester and Ipswich Museums and a broad range of the community in order to bring to life artefacts from the museum archives. She was also Poet in Residence for Essex County Council’s project, ‘Snapping The Stiletto’ where she worked with communities and the museums to retell the stories of Essex women from over the past 100 years.

Emma Stanley

MA Curating 2024 student, University of Essex

Peter Fussey

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex

Lisa Belabed

Lisa was a student on our Democracy in Action module in our Interdisciplinary Studies Centre

Dr Claire Wicks

Research Officer, University of Essex

Claire has worked alongside University colleagues to evaluate various nature-based initiatives at local and national level.

Dr Elaine Yerby

Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management, Essex Business School, University of Essex

Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management, Essex Business School

Leila Moeeni

MSc Human Rights and Research Methods, 2015, University of Essex

Dr Abigail Webb

University of Suffolk, University of Suffok

Dr Muhammad Akram

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Digital Marketing & Strategy