MASI Fellows

Chris Marshall is the University's Head of Policy and Strategy. He has a sound understanding of the University, having spent 16 years promoting its culture, history and heritage, developing its research strengths, and helping to set its strategic direction. He has a good knowledge of the UK funding landscape and has helped colleagues to win more than £100m in research funding since 2012, including for infrastructure, capacity building programmes and interdisciplinary initiatives. He has supported the development and introduction of innovative degree programmes, and led the delivery of the three-day, Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Summit in November 2021.

Lella Nouri is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Programme Director of the MA in Cyber Crime and Terrorism at Swansea University. Lella is also part of Swansea University’s Cyber Threats Intelligence Centre (CYTREC).

Lella’s work is at its heart interdisciplinary with a focus on collaboration across the Social and Computer Sciences. Lella has strong links with local stakeholders including Counter-Terrorism police, local councils, governments as well as interested community groups.

For more information on Dr Nouri or to get in touch please visit her University staff profile.

Kelly James is a Research Development Officer primarily supporting colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science with research and bid development, and is the institutional lead for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Kelly is passionate about cross-disciplinary research and comes from a multidisciplinary research background, having obtained her PhD on the Physics-Life Science interface.

Karl is a Professor at Swansea University Medical School and a Director of the Centre for NanoHealth. His interests focus on translational aspects of biomedical engineering. Karl brings experience in interdisciplinary research, working at the interface between Engineering and Life Sciences, and has established collaborations with clinicians at Swansea Bay University Health Board.

Kimberly A. Dienes is a Lecturer in Clinical and Health Psychology at Swansea University.  She researches biological and psychological stress sensitivity and how stress can lead to negative clinical and health outcomes.  She collaborates nationally and internationally on research projects including topics such as: risk for depression (University of Rochester, USA), allostatic load, precarity in the workplace, and relational communication (University of Manchester), the impact of engagement in nature on wellbeing (Down to Earth), visual impairment, multiple sclerosis and public views of the coronavirus pandemic (Swansea University).  She has received funding from the MRC and Public Health Wales and has published numerous articles.  She sits on the Risk Communication and Behavioural Insights (RCBI) Subgroup of the Welsh Government’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for COVID-19.

I am a Post-Doctoral Research Officer for UnMute, an interdisciplinary, EPSRC funded research project that creates novel, spoken language interaction opportunities with communities of minority language speakers who are currently digitally ‘unheard’. I work at the beautiful Computational Foundry at Swansea University with amazing colleagues and collaborators.

I also lead on the MASI-funded international lablets programme that innovates ways of co-creating with marginalized communities in a world that has been profoundly shaped by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Throughout my career I draw on the skill-sets and sensibilities I developed during my PhD at the Centre in ICT for Development at the University of Cape Town: designing, developing, and evaluating new technologies that give everyday people better access, awareness, and control over the stuff that matters to them.

More information and most of my publications are available on my website.

Krijn Peters is a Professor in international development in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations. He specialises in post-war reconstruction, transport services and rural development. His research is applied and transdisciplinary, mainly focusing on the role of improved access and appropriate technologies to reduce rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.   

Ian is a professor in Chemistry and is Enterprise, Partnerships & Innovation lead for the Faculty of Science & Engineering. Ian’s research interests started in coatings at SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre, sanitation with BMGF and have evolved into transdisciplinary research and systems approaches to unpick global challenges including climate change.

Ian has managed major projects at the University including centres of doctoral training, the reintroduction of a chemistry department and the formation of the SUNRISE network, a global challenges research fund project creating energy positive buildings with partners across India and the Global South. SUNRISE was a case study in OECD report ‘addressing societal challenges using transdisciplinary research’ in 2020.