Symbiotic Futures: Health, Well-being and Care in the Post-Covid World

Nicol is Professor of Molecular Oncology and the Institute of Cancer Sciences Director of Research Impact at the University of Glasgow. Nicol is interested in how human-centric approaches to research that are transdisciplinary (post-discipline) and intergenerational can shape societal impact.

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Jude is a social anthropologist researching in the field of critical public health. She is a Professor of Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Head of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Jude is Lead for the International Development theme in the Advancer Research Centre (ARC). Her research centres on developing understandings of how people can develop and sustain their health and wellbeing outside conventional health care settings, with a particular interest in the health of women and their children living on low income.

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Chris is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and an Honorary NHS Consultant Paediatric Haematologist. She carries out her NHS clinical duties at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, where she cares for children with a wide range of malignant and non-malignant blood disorders. Her research laboratory is based in the Institute of Cancer Sciences.

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Rob is Professor of Clinical Cancer Research at the University of Glasgow and a medical oncologist consultant at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. He is the Director of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit at Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.

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Tiziana is a veterinary scientist with an interest in applied infectious disease epidemiology in complex multi-host environments. Tiziana focuses primarily on pathogens affecting the health and livelihoods of marginalised communities in low- and middle-income countries, as well as diseases of conservation concern.

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Tina is an epidemiologist and Visiting Research Fellow at IARC/WHO Lyon. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations. Tina is from Nigeria where she is a health researcher working in Global Health.

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Cary is CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The UICC unites and supports the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to ensure that cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and development agenda. It is the largest international cancer NGO of its kind, with some 1,200 member organisations represented in over 170 countries.

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Olivia is Professor of Health Technology Assessment and Director of the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) Research Unit at University of Glasgow. She is also Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Complex Reviews Support Unit (CRSU) – a national methods support unit for evidence synthesis.

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As a researcher and a video maker, Azadeh Emadi is deeply invested in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches that cross over diverse cultural forms of knowledge and digital media arts. She is also interested to develop new pedagogies by integrating different cultural knowledge forms, and to develop curricula that bring together academic, creative practice and community engagement.

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Manon’s research broadly examines the literary, visual, medical and scientific culture of nineteenth-century France. Recent work includes an examination of the cultural impact of bacteriology on attitudes towards dirt and hygiene in the second half of the nineteenth century. Manon is a member of the University of Glasgow Medical Humanities Network.

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Leigh is an Early Career Researcher in the Institute for Cancer Sciences . She is Project lead on Promoting and Supporting Neurodiversity in the workplace. This is a Wellcome Trust ISSF Project to enhance awareness of Neurodiversity in Higher Education.

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Elisabeth is Professor of Medical Oncology at the University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. She is involved in patient care, teaching and research. Elisabeth is member of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (MCBS) working group and chair of the ESMO Cancer Medicines Committee and was member of expert committee for the composition of the essential medicine list 2019 and 2021 of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Sara is a primary care based medical sociologist. Sara’s research focuses on the public understanding of cancer and cancer risk and considers sources of information that help us make decisions about health and lifestyles. She has expertise in understandings of cancer risk, perceptions of screening, experiences of treatment burden and long term condition management and health of marginalised groups.

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Harper is President of BioClavis based at The Teaching and Learning Centre at The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. BioClavis is a molecular diagnostics company. During the Covid pandemic Harper took on the vital role of Site Director for the Glasgow Lighthouse Lab (Govt Covid testing site).

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Nigel Jamieson is a surgeon-scientist and Clinical Lead of the Glasgow Precision Oncology Laboratory’s (GPOL) Clinical Implementation group. Nigel is a clinical senior lecturer with the Institute of Cancer Sciences and honorary consultant pancreatic surgeon Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

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Katie is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She sits on the National Advisory Committee for Stroke and the UK Stroke Forum Steering Committee. Katie works as GP partner 50% of her time and therefore has good insight into how research translates into clinical settings. She uses mixed methods research to conduct research focussed at improving the lives of older people and those with long-term conditions.

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Mia is a Senior Lecturer in Community Development and Adult Education. She is the co-Director of Sustainable Futures. Mia is Deputy Lead for the International Development theme in the Advancer Research Centre (ARC). Mia works across many spaces of difference — disciplines, geographies, sectors, cultures. Mia is particularly interested in the interplay of humans and environments, the role of cultural practice and play in learning, and perspectives in research that account for plural views and ways of making meaning. She is co-director of the Sustainable Futures Global Network.

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Jeff is Professor of Translational Cancer Research and Clinical Director for the Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, and Lead of the Glasgow Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC). His research interests are in the pre-clinical and clinical development of novel anti-cancer agents, and his clinical interests are in Upper GI Cancers and Melanoma. Jeff leads the Phase I clinical trials and drug development team in Glasgow.

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Kirsty Ross, Irene Bell, Bob McCaffrey, Rachael Sleight, Mil Stricevic, Sneha Raman, Zoë Prosser

Jay Bradley, Gordon Hush, Marianne McAra, Lynn-Sayers McHattie, Paul Smith, Bruce Tharp

Santini Basra and Freya Harris (Studio Andthen), Brian Proudfoot (GOODD Design Consultancy), Lewis Just (Pawprint), Will Brown (Return to Nature), John Thorne (GSA Sustainability Coordinator)