ECF October 24/25 Cohort

Hannah Ayres

Hannah Ayres (she/her) is a PhD researcher and IAS Early Career Fellow based in the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on how queer and trans* individuals create, critique, and internalise re/presentation in museums.

Hannah is currently the co-host of Theoryish, a podcast that aims to bring academic theory to a wider audience in relevant, interesting, and accessible ways. She previously co-founded and co-convened (2019-2022) queer/disrupt, a research collective that focused on making queer knowledge, topics, and histories accessible to a wider audience. Hannah has previously contributed toThe LGBTQ+ History Book(2023) published by DK.

Mouli Banerjee

Mouli Banerjee is a PhD candidate at department of Politics and International Studies. With an interdisciplinary background in politics, legal humanities, and literature, she currently researches the intersections of politics, law, and performance/performativity in understanding political parties and parliamentary politics in India.

Mouli holds an MA in Development and Governance from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, an MA in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Before joining the University of Warwick, Mouli has been a DAAD Helmut Schmidt Scholar in Germany, and a Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament (LAMP) Fellow in New Delhi, India.

Ilaria Puliti

Ilaria is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant in Film and Television Studies.

Ilaria's PhD was funded by the Wolfson Foundation and is entitled ‘Rural Modernities: The Politics and Aesthetics of Extra-Urban Experiences in Italian Cinema’. My research challenges existing cultural and critical paradigms to conceptualise the rural space in film and media, reassessing it as a critical site of modernity by combining aesthetic and political readings of contemporary and historical Italian cinema to illuminate deeper understandings of the complexities of Italian ruralities on screen.

Ilaria is currently working on a book proposal to turn her thesis into a monograph, and developing a new research project related to the area of her PhD with a focus on global filmmaking in natural locations.

Daniel Sutherland

Daniel Sutherland is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Warwick. His PhD research focused on evaluating interventions aiming to improve mental health and family relationships in families of children with developmental disabilities using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Beyond his PhD, Daniel has been involved with a range of research related to people with developmental disabilities and their families, such as co-production with family carers, issues related to medication use, sleep, reading interventions, and developmental outcomes of children born preterm.

Yangzi Zhou

Yangzi Zhou is an IATL/IAS Early Career Teaching Fellow who recently completed her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Central to her research is how different modes of mediums and artistic forms work with and against each other to shape our cultural life. Her doctoral project concerns the intermedial strategies of National Theatre Live which reconstruct encounters with theatre for the screen. Other fields of interest include affect theory (especially the cultural representation and politics of negative affects), diaspora narratives on stage and screen, intermediality, and adaptation studies. She has taught in Theatre and Performance Studies and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick. This year she will be part of the team working on interdisciplinary modules at the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning.

Daniel Gettings

Daniel Gettings is an Early Career Fellow based in the department of History. His PhD research focused on the relationship between people and water in early modern England, highlighting the degree to which this substance and reactions to it can inform us about both the complexities of early modern thought while also highlighting realities of the early modern lived experience. He has taught modules on early modern history, academic skills and research.

Beyond the specifics of his PhD, Daniel has research interest in the blue humanities and water more generally and is seeking to develop a further research project on drowning.

Noha Khamis

Peter Lewin-Jones

Peter Lewin-Jones is an IAS Early Career Fellow based in the Mathematics Institute. His research is in fluid dynamics, at the intersection of applied maths, engineering and physics.

Peter’s PhD and ongoing research looks at the collision of liquid drops, aiming to predict, using computational modelling, whether the drops will merge together or bounce apart. A thin layer of the surrounding air gets trapped in between the drops, and the nano-scale physics that describe this film must be incorporated into the models.

This research has led to several international collaborations with experimental researchers, and has recently been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Lucy Crompton

Lucy has had a 25-year career in Family Law, first as a solicitor, then as a University lecturer. She initially taught on PG vocational courses, before turning to academic Family Law and completing an LLM.

In order to progress her research, Lucy took a 'leap of faith' aged 48, embarking on a full-time PhD to investigate gender bias in the law of divorce, funded by the ESRC. Her thesis employed a novel methodology, using critical discourse analysis as an analytic framework for doctrinal legal analysis. She is currently working on disseminating her findings and planning a project to employ her methodology more widely as a means to monitor judges' (mis)use of their agency in the development of the law.

Hatice Gundeslioglu

Hatice recently defended her doctoral thesis in Education and Psychology, focusing on sex/gender differences and their implications for mental health problems among autistic undergraduate students in the UK.

Hatice is dedicated to publishing her thesis studies and sharing research insights through impactful academic publications. Her work aims to enhance awareness and understanding of mental health problems affecting both autistic and non-autistic university students, advocating for inclusive and supportive educational environments.

Johan Heemskerk

I am an early career research fellow for the IAS at Warwick, currently awaiting the viva for my PhD in Philosophy, also undertaken at Warwick.

In my research, I investigate the role of representation in cognitive neuroscience. In short, I attempt to discover whether cognitive neuroscience can help us understand how the thoughts in our heads relate to objects in the external world. (I think it can!) I am also interested in aesthetics, specifically how our experience of literature relates to neuropsychological processing and acquisition of knowledge.

In my personal time I like to hike, climb, and read literature.

Madeleine Sinclair

Madeleine Sinclair is an IATL/IAS Early Career Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. She has recently submitted her Wolfson Foundation funded doctoral thesis in English and Comparative Literary Studies, which focused on world literature and the politics of the short story in the twenty-first century. Her primary research interests include: world literature, the short story form, feminist studies, and the environmental humanities. In the spring term, she is teaching on the IATL module Reinventing Education.