Dr Siobhan T. O’Dwyer is Associate Professor of Social Care at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School. She specialises in research on the needs and experiences of unpaid carers (also known as family carers or caregivers), with a particular focus on suicide and homicide. She also collaborates on research on other aspects of care, as well as ageing, dementia, and social media. She regularly collaborates with artists and playwrights to ensure her research reaches a wider audience. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland (2009) and has previously worked in the not-for-profit sector.
Dr. Rachel Gimson is a Lecturer at the Law School, University of Exeter. Prior to starting at the University of Exeter, she was a Lecturer in Law at the Mauritius branch of the University of Aberystwyth. She completed her LLB at the University of Sussex. She also completed her LLM at Sussex, specialising in International Criminal Law. She earned her PhD from the University of Sussex in 2017. Her research considers the impact of social media on the criminal justice system. She is particularly interested in how eyewitness footage can alter perceptions of guilt and the role of the defendant, both for domestic trials and trials at the international criminal law level. She also researches crime news and the trial by media phenomenon.
Prof. Dr. G.J. Melendez-Torres is a Professor of Clinical and Social Epidemiology at the University of Exeter Medical School. He holds a DPhil in Social Intervention (Social Policy and Intervention) from the University of Oxford in 2014. He is the Associate Director for Involvement and Engagement for the NIHR School for Public Health Research, Associate Dean for Researcher Inclusion for the NIHR Academy, and the Deputy Director of the Exeter NIHR Policy Research Programme Evidence Reviews Facility. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, American Academy of Nursing and the Faculty of Public Health. His work spans health technology assessment (HTA), public health of child and adolescent social development (particularly as regards public mental health and health in schools), and intimate partner violence.
