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Callum Roberts

Professor of Marine Conservation

My research focuses on threats to marine ecosystems and species and on finding the means to protect them. My team provided the scientific underpinning for the world’s first network of high seas protected areas in the north Atlantic, and for a new ocean protection target – 30% by 2030 – adopted as a global goal in 2022. I lead the Convex Seascape Survey, a multinational effort to understand and sustain the carbon capturing capacity of the world’s coastal seas. I was chief scientific advisor for the BBC’s Blue Planet II and advise Blue Marine Foundation and the Maldives Coral Institute.

Fiona Charnley

Professor of Circular Innovation

Fiona Charnley is Professor of Circular Innovation in the Business School at the University of Exeter. She is Co-Director of the UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub, with the aim to develop interdisciplinary capability and accelerate the transition towards a UK circular economy.

She leads multiple government and industry-funded research projects covering topics such as the use of digital technology to inform decisions surrounding the implementation of circular economy strategies and the development and application of self-healing materials to enable product life extension.

Fiona has an extensive publication track record across the areas of design, manufacture and business modelling for a Circular Economy. Additionally, she is editor of the ‘Handbook of the Circular Economy’ published last year. She has extensive experience of working with organisations from across sectors to identify new approaches to design, innovation, manufacture and business modelling to transform resource use and value creation.

Professor William Gaze

Professor of Microbiology at The European Centre for Environment and Human Health

Professor William Gaze is a Professor of Microbiology at The European Centre for Environment and Human Health, part of the University of Exeter Medical School. He leads a large research group focusing on the environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) with recent and current funding of £4M with over 20 group members. His group researches the evolution of resistance in complex microbial communities found in human, animal and environmental microbiomes. They also study the dissemination of AMR at a landscape scale and human exposure and transmission in aquatic environments.

Professor Gaze’s expertise is recognised globally, as evidenced by his numerous invited presentations across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Africa over the past few years. He gives particular focus to interactions with stakeholders from government, regulators, and industry through two NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowships awarded to him in 2019 and 2021. He advises the United Nations, World Health Organisation, UK, and overseas governments on AMR.

Professor Gaze also plays a significant role in academic leadership. He is a member of the University Senate, departmental leadership team, and the GW4 AMR Alliance Steering Committee. He is a co-lead of the Exeter Microbes & Society network of over 300 researchers across all three faculties.

Helen Dodd

Professor of Child Psychology

Helen is an expert in children's mental health and focuses on better understanding why mental health problems develop. She is particularly interested in the development of anxiety in children and has conducted longitudinal research exploring how factors present in the child and in their environment early in life might affect their risk for anxiety problems into middle childhood and beyond.

Helen's most recent work focuses on the role of adventurous play in preventing mental health problems in children. This research is funded by a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and brings together the fields of psychology, public health and education.  

Stefano Pascucci

Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy

Stefano Pascucci is a social scientist interested in sustainability and circular economy as a context to develop evidence-based theories and impacts for societal change. He is particularly focused on understanding the role of businesses, communities and other forms of organizing to ensure transitions into a more fair and sustainable society. His research includes food community organising, agribusiness management, and regenerative agriculture.

He has published in various academic journals, amongst others, in the Organization Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Supply Chain Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. 

Rebecca Helm

Professor of Law and Empirical Legal Studies

Rebecca Helm is Professor of Law and Empirical Legal Studies, and a UK Research and Innovation Fellow. She is recognised as one of the leading experts in the UK and internationally in applying behavioural science to the legal system, most notably in the area of guilty plea decision-making. She founded and directs the Evidence-Based Justice Lab, whose miscarriages of justice registry has been utilised by hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world since its formation in 2021.  Her research has been published in leading outlets in both law and psychology, and has been widely cited internationally by academics and courts, and she has recently published a monograph, How Juries Work, with Oxford University Press. 

She is currently working on a UKRI-funded project examining testimony evaluation, as well as collaborative projects focused on examining the Post Office Scandal (with Richard Moorhead, Karen Nokes, and Sally Day), developing more effective models of evidence synthesis and evaluation (with Jon Williamson and Trish Greenhalgh), and utilising compulational modelling techniques to examine guilty plea decision-making (with Tina Zottoli, Vanessa Edkins, and Mike Bixter).