is a Cultural Historian, a Professor of English and Cultural Studies and the Research Director in the College of Humanities and Education at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan. She is the Chair of the Environmental Research Association and the General Editor of Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: a Natural and Cultural Environmental History (Routledge, 2023-25). She is an Honorary Adjunct Professor in Human Sciences and English and Cultural Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oceans Institute, the University of Western Australia. She is a Senior Research Fellow in Life Sciences at La Trobe University and Research Associate at the University of Sussex. She is also a member of the British Psychological Society and Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge.