DIRE Seminar Series

Dr Harriet Elizabeth Moore is a lecturer in Human Geography specialising in Economic Geography and Geographies of Health and Wellbeing. She is a founding member of the EDGE Consortium, a Canadian and UK collaboration focusing on the spatial epidemiology of acute physical and mental health conditions in the East Midlands of the UK. Moore is also a member of the Health and Wellbeing Research Group Steering Committee and leads the DIRE Research Group at the University of Lincoln. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore has worked closely with the East Midlands Ambulance NHS Trust exploring the changing role of emergency medical services, the spatial dynamics of severe illness from COVID-19, and the social, economic, and geographical factors that explain vulnerability.

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Dr Tim Moore is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He heads a small team with responsibility for monitoring, reviewing and synthesising research literature on a wide range of topics relating to child development, family functioning and service systems. He has been the principal writer on numerous Centre for Community Child Health reviews, reports and policy briefs, many of which have had a significant impact on policy and practice, nationally and internationally. Tim trained as a teacher and psychologist at the University of Melbourne, subsequently completing his Doctoral studies at the University of Surrey on self esteem and self-concept in children.

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Dr Andrew Kythreotis is a Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Geography at the School of Geography. His research interests span human and physical geography, political science, and environmental science, specifically around how climate policy and governance is organised and contested across territorial space. He is a Senior Researcher with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. He has previously advised the Bruneian Prime Minister’s Office on Nationally Determined Contributions for the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, has been a member of the adaptation sub-group of the Climate Change Commission for Wales, has acted as an external reviewer on the 2017 and 2022 UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Reports, and is a co-founding member and Commissioner of the Lincoln Climate Commission.

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Dr Jen Manne-Goehler is a physician-scientist and faculty member at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She conducts research on the epidemiology and health systems performance for obesity and diabetes globally, as well as the intersection of HIV and diabetes. She is the co-founder of the Global Health and Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases. She also conducts research funded by the NIH on the metabolic complications of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy including the design of health systems interventions to prevent weight gain and diabetes in people with HIV. In a third area of research, she applies computer vision algorithms to radiologic images to better understand the intersections of metabolic disease and infectious conditions such as COVID-19 and HIV.

Dr Julian Clifton is currently at the University of Western Australia in Perth and is very excited to be joining the University of Lincoln in 2022. Julian gained his doctorate from the University of Liverpool and has taught in universities in the UK, Southeast Asia and Australia. His teaching areas include the design and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to climate change, environmental management, conservation and development. His research interests centre on communities, resources and livelihoods in peripheral coastal regions, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia, Australia and the western Indian Ocean.

Professor Ian works within the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He has worked for 25 years in the water sector as an academic, consultant and in policy. Ian’s research interests relate to processes of erosion and sedimentation in river channels. Specific areas of research are human impacts on river channels, interactions between vegetation and rivers, and the dynamics of fine and coarse sediment pulses in rivers. Currently, he is a Chief Investigator in four major Australian Research Council research grants including the ‘Rivers-of-gold’ project investigating impacts of historical gold mining on rivers, threats to water supplies from debris-flows, the role of vegetation in trapping sediment and nutrients in SE Queensland, and the consequences of China’s South-North Water Transfer project.