Trudie Holland 
Tru Holland is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Worcester. She currently studies a PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on gendered approaches to comic fantasy writing and pedagogical accessibility models in creative writing. 


Jack Flinders
Jack Flinders has recently completed a Masters by Research in Sociology at Worcester University, passing with distinction. His research concerns the changing racial politics and constructions of race found within international non-governmental aid campaigns, focussing particularly on how language, imagery and narrative form racialised hierarchies between aid’s beneficiaries and benefactors.


Cameron Clifford 
CC is a PhD researcher exploring how participation in Ballroom culture aids young people experiencing eating distress. Combining ethnography with queer, feminist, and embodiment theory, his work foregrounds Houses, kinship, and performative affirmation as community care. CC centres youth voices to map resilience, belonging, and new possibilities for healing through performance.


India Denton 
I am a recent graduate from the University of Worcester, where I gained a Sociology (BA) and a Cultural Studies (MA) degree. My main research interests are identity, digital femininities and fandom. I am currently writing a book chapter about Taylor Swift and her fandom, titled “On the Hunt: Swiftie Scholars, Easter Eggs and the Co-Creation of Swiftian Mythology”.


Aditi Basu 
Aditi Basu is an India-based independent researcher. She holds her Master in Political Science from Jamshedpur Women’s College and a Diploma in International Law and Governance from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). She has pursued an online PhD course titled “Animals and Society” from the Department of Sociology, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Her research interests include Indian foreign policy, international relations, feminist power politics, soft power diplomacy and climate diplomacy. Other than India, she has presented papers in conferences and workshops in leading universities across the world such as the LMU, UCDavis, UCL, Waseda University and Indiana University, to name a few and published articles and book chapters in publications of global repute.


Laura Piccione 
My name is Laura Piccione, I am a recently graduated MA student in Philosophy at the University of Turin. My PhD research reconstructs the treatment of sexual violence in Classical Athenian law and theatre, intertwining my Classics background with a feminist approach. Other issues I am interested in regarding Women and Gender Studies include: speciesism, animal liberation and veganism as a feminist practice; domestic female labour and weaponized male incompetence; undiagnosed and misdiagnosed neurodivergence in adult women.


Nam Huh 
Nam Huh is a UK-based curator and researcher working at the intersection of media art, diasporic identity, and postcolonial theory. Their practice explores experimental and community-driven forms of storytelling, often involving immersive technologies, sound, and socially engaged processes.


Robyn Platt 
Robyn Platt is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Worcester and a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. Robyn’s research interests are in the Sociology of the Body and Health, with a focus on the embodiment of ‘contested’ and stigmatised bodies.


Srijani Dutta
Srijani Dutta, a writer and independent researcher hails from India. She has published her academic and creative writings in the journals like Cut to cinema, Yearly Shakespeare, Critical Imprint (upcoming) Setu, Parcham, Contemporary Literary Review India, Story Mirror, EKL review journal, Plato’s cave online journal, The Antonym, RIC, Atunis poetry, Das Literarisch, Saaranga magazine, literary cognizance, Borderless journal, Creative chromosomes, Rappahannock review, Fourth river journal, Synchronized Chaos, Beatnik Cowboy journal, Literary Yard, Langlit, Ritvi journal, SLC, Culture Matters, and New Literaria Etc. She has worked as a resource person/ guest lecturer of English literature in a university.

 
Ben Williams 
Ben Williams is a current MA Cultural Student at the University of Worcester. Ben’s research interests focus on housing and environmental discourse: deconstructing what we consider a home to be through Queer theory and posthumanism, specifically within a UK context.


Our In House Speakers
Bethany Jones 
Bethany Jones has been a Masters student at the University of Worcester, studying English Literature, since 2025. She previously studied her undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and History, from 2022 until 2025. Her research interests include early modern women’s sexual identities and early modern perceptions of women’s sexual chastity as well as issues of conception and childbirth.​

Katie Dodds
A postgraduate student on the MA English course at the University of Worcester. I am interested in 19th century literature and gender studies. ​

Kyra Harrison 
Kyra completed her Undergraduate degree in Creative Writing and Media and Culture(joint honours) at the University of Worcester in 2024. She is currently a Masters English Student at the same University. In her spare time she works on her novel The Boleyn Witches, which sees the blending of historical fiction with fantasy to create a reimagination of the life and death of Anne Boleyn, King Henry Viii’s second wife, if she were to be a witch. 

Matthew Gilani-Dowson 
Matt is a secondary school English teacher, specialising in working with students with SEND. Currently enrolled as a MA English student at Worcester University, he is able to pursue his literary interests in science fiction and folklore. His other research interests include post-humanism and post-colonial studies. ​

Claire Macintosh
I am Currently a part time MA student at University of Worcester after choosing to continue my studies after gaining my BA as a mature student last year. Some of my areas of interest are Gothic Literature and the representation of women in early 20th century texts.​

Ellie Simcox
I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Worcester, studying a joint honour degree In English literature & digital media and culture. I then graduated and decided to pursue a masters in culture studies, my area of research is predominantly media focused. My main area of research is crime, true or fictional and how it is represented by the media and consumed by the public. I have written many essays about the glamourisation and sexualisation of these killers and how this recent society is being conditioned by drama media to either feel attraction towards, or sorry for these killers. Another area of interest is how the victims are often forgotten about or put in the shadows of their perpetrators. When I graduate, I would like to pursue this field further and maybe study psychology.​

Rowan Yarnall 
Rowan Yarnall, 22, He/Him, currently a postgraduate student at the University of Worcester as part of the MA media and culture studies course. Previously attended as an undergraduate with a joint film studies and media and culture course, with an interest in analysing film and media in relation to topics such as LGBTQ, gender and disability representation.


Tommy Bjørheim 
My undergraduate degree was in film studies and Media and Culture at University of Worcester. Throughout my life, I have had a passion for film, which was the reason I decided to do film studies. Film has become my main research interest, and I want to pursue a PhD in film studies in the future.