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Notes on Contributors
JASON BALZARANO is a second year PhD student and GTA at Keele University
researching the American jazz-rock fusion movement of the 1970s.

He has presented

papers on his research topic for Keele’s Postgraduate Research Symposium in 2015, and
the BFE/RMA Students’ Conference at Bangor University in 2016. Jason also enjoys
working as a freelance album reviewer for Jazz Journal magazine and has previously written
an album review of Fun Home: The Musical for Under Construction @ Keele.
ANGELA BLANCHARD is a PhD candidate in Psychology at Keele University. Her research
takes an autoethnographic approach, a combination of autobiography and ethnography, to
study childhood emotional neglect. She aims to create an evocative representation of
childhood emotional neglect by drawing on literary and creative writing styles, and examining
the experience in its social and historical contexts.

The central question, “What is the

experience of childhood emotional neglect?” is deliberately broad to allow for openness to
new learning from the data. She has completed two bracketing interviews, in which she
explores her own story, as well as examining her bias; eight individual unstructured
interviews, and a focus group. She is using a combination of thematic analysis and narrative
analysis to explore the data.
GRANT BOSWORTH is a PhD candidate in the Psychology department at Keele University.
His research focuses on how environmental psychologists can help design effective
campaigns to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. The majority of Grant’s research has
focused on increasing recycling rates. His work has investigated how an individual’s
recycling behaviour is influenced by their values and morals. As part of his PhD, Grant has
collected data from UK based participants, and this summer he will be attempting to replicate
some of his work with a team of researchers at a University in Brazil.
CLAIRE MELIA completed her BSc in Psychology and Criminology at Keele University.
Currently, she is completing her MSc at Keele in Psychology of Health and Wellbeing, her
dissertation focuses on the communication practices of Keele MSc Counselling students. In
October she will be starting her PhD at Keele University. Her PhD will include video record
clinician’s consultations with Alcohol Use Disorder patients to understand the effect of
communication upon treatment engagement and compliance.
GEMMA SCOTT is a third year AHRC funded PhD candidate in History at Keele. Her
research examines women's engagements with the State of Emergency in India (1975-1977)