Author Archives: Isla Watton

Catherine Atherton (@cat_atherton), Bangor University, is taking part in Soapbox Science Bristol on Saturday 15th July 2017 where she will be giving a talk called: “Storing images in the Brain: How we remember faces, objects and brands differently”        … Continue reading →

Dr Caroline Sullivan is a High Nature Value farmland researcher. She currently works as the Assistant Manager and Project Scientist on the Hen Harrier Project in Ireland. She enjoys communicating the importance of High Nature Value farmland and the need … Continue reading →

Dr Heather Lally is a lecturer in Freshwater Ecology and Biology at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Galway, Ireland. Heather’s areas of expertise are micro and macro freshwater algae, aquatic and riparian plants, and aquatic animals in particular macroinvertebrates which … Continue reading →

Katie Togher is currently a fourth year PhD student at University College Cork working with the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT, www.infantcentre.ie/) and APC Microbiome Institute (APC, www.apc.ucc.ie). Her current research is investigating the mechanisms by … Continue reading →

Fiona Malone (@miona_falone) is a biomedical engineer studying for her PhD as part of the GMedTech research group at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Fiona’s research focuses on the behaviour of cardiac source blood clots and their role in the occurrence of acute ischaemic stroke. She has won several awards … Continue reading →

        Natasha Zielazinski (right), a Composer, has been working with Dr Helen Barron (left)(@HelenCBarron), University of Oxford, towards Soapbox Art & Science Oxford 2017. Their topic is:  “Your story: how does your brain remember?”  You can catch them … Continue reading →

Kate Davis (left), an Art student at Oxford Brookes University & Dr Ayoe Buus Hansen (right), who is based at the MetOffice, conducting research into improving the use of dispersion models, have been working together towards their presentation at Soapbox Art … Continue reading →

Rebecca Short (@BeccaEShort) is a Marine Biologist researching mosquito net fishing. She is taking part in Soapbox Art & Science Oxford on Saturday 1st July 2017 alongside Suzanne Vanezis, an artist from Oxford. Their project is called:  “Got bigger fish to fry?: why … Continue reading →

Professor Gillian Greenway is Professor of Analytical Science and Chemistry Head of Subject Group at the University of Hull. Her research career has focused on developing simple methods to measure very low levels of different chemicals in complex mixtures with … Continue reading →