September 2025

Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf

Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf (they/them) is Lecturer in Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh. They are an active interdisciplinary research working with a focus on contemporary art criticism and expanded usage of writerly methods within research. Their work investigates the impact and possibilities of so-called invisible labour particularly within the art institutional context, and especially in relation to anti-capitalist artistic practice which resists exhibitable formats. 

Dr Tommaso Zerbi

Dr Tommaso Zerbi is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. He is an architectural historian who specialises in responses to the past — with an emphasis on responses to the Middle Ages (medievalism) — in the modern world.

Dr Marion Boulicault

Marion Boulicault is a Lecturer in philosophy and the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. In her research she examines how social norms and values are entangled in scientific measurement practices. 

Dr Yifang Xu

Dr Yifang Xu is an Associate Tutor and dissertation supervisor at the Institute for Language Education and the Institute for Education, Community and Society, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. She has extensive experience in postgraduate teaching across MSc TESOL, MSc Language Education, MSc Intercultural Communication, and MSc Education programmes, and also supervises MSc dissertations on topics related to language education, intercultural communication, and applied linguistics.

Dr Katie Harling-Lee

Dr Katie Harling-Lee is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-28) based at the School of Divinity. She is working on a research project titled ‘Quiet Literary Listening: Quaker Silence in the Novels of Dorothy Canfield Fisher’ which proposes that listening to the Quaker-influenced literary silence in Canfield Fisher’s novels offers new insights into how silence can be creatively perceived as a positive force both within literature and wider society.

Dr Beth Cloughton

Dr Beth Cloughton is a Grassroots and Community Research Fellow within an interdisciplinary, Wellcome-funded project, the Living Good Food Nation Lab. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, Beth received her MSc in Global Health and PhD at the University of Glasgow, and BA in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.