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WISERD Civil Society Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiff University
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Professor in Climate Change Impacts, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies , Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Climate Risk, Cardiff University
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Cardiff University
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Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
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Reader in Political Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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Reader in Marketing, Cardiff University
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Chair Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Marketing, Cardiff University
