People and expertise

Dr Simon Pardoe  |  Director

Simon Pardoe specialises in distilling and communicating academic research findings to engage wider policy, professional and public debate.  He manages and jointly carries out each project.

Simon Pardoe was previously a Teaching Fellow and Honorary Research Fellow in Applied Linguistics, and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC), at Lancaster University.   He has a PhD in Applied Linguistics with Science Studies, analysing issues in Environmental Assessment.  His cross-disciplinary focus built on experience in agriculture, a first degree in Geography, and an MA in Applied Linguistics specialising in the research and teaching of academic and professional writing.  He was a tutor in academic writing for post-graduate students in law, social science, environmental science and management at Lancaster University, and visiting consultant with the British Council in Ethiopia.  He was previously a lecturer and senior lecturer in communication for business studies, and an advisory lecturer for the development of learning materials for Further Education in inner London.  He studied the directing and editing of documentary video with Signal Films in Barrow and with the Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG) in London.

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor  |  Director

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor reviews and advises on each project.

Sherilyn MacGregor is senior lecturer in Environmental Politics at Keele University, joint course director of the BSc in Environment and Sustainability, and departmental director of recruitment and marketing.  She has previously lectured in Sociology and Environmental Politics in Canada and the US.  She has a BA and MA in Urban and Regional Planning from Queen’s University, Canada, and a PhD in Environmental Studies at York University, Canada.  She is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, and in 2009 received a Keele University Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

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Lisa Cazzato Vieyra  |  Associate

Lisa Cazzato Vieyra specialises in cinematography, direction and editing. 

Lisa Cazzato Vieyra is a director, editor and cinematographer of documentary and experimental film.  She has directed and shot several series of short documentaries for Channel 4 and prime time features for Al Jazeera International, based with the Native Voice Films Production collective.  She has worked on collaborations with Amnesty International, Action Aid, British Council, Mind, Women without Borders/SAVE and others.  Her long format projects include the award winning “As Old as My Tongue, the Myth and Life of Bi Kidude” set in Zanzibar and the Sundance and Berlinale lauded “The Bengali Detective” set in India.  She speaks Italian, Spanish and French, works on video art projects at the Tate, and teaches documentary editing with the Documentary Filmmakers Group in London. 

Alan Golding  |  Associate

Alan Golding specialises in video production.

Alan Golding is a television and multi-media producer, writer and researcher with a experience of television and radio commissioning.  He entered the industry in 1995 as the originator of the BBC Wales BAFTA nominated Best Light Entertainment programme, Route 96 Moldova.  In 2001, he co-produced ‘Built to Last: The Story of the Brynmawr Rubber Factory’, described by the Chairman of BBC Wales’ Board of Governors as the ‘future of broadcasting in Wales’.  In 2002 he was Assistant Producer on the first series of ‘Restoration’ presented by Griff Rhys Jones, the centrepiece of BBC2 Network’s summer schedule.  He has since managed a range of multi-media projects, producing short films, documentaries and infomercials for DVD and online, providing copy and website content, training young people in music video production, and advising on interpretation media.

Dr Kathleen Cross  |  Associate

Dr Kathleen Cross specialises in writing, editing and facilitation.

Kathleen Cross is an experienced facilitator of professional communication, including as a facilitator-interpreter in German-English dialogue.  She has a commitment to facilitating public participation in policy-making.  While working at Lancaster University, she was lead facilitator in the 2005 UK Citizen Panels for the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management, jointly facilitating (with colleagues from Lancaster University and PublicSpace) the interactions between citizens and experts on technical, societal and moral issues of risk and the management of nuclear waste.

She now specialises in translating and proof-reading academic journal articles, research papers and other texts in the social sciences, including environmental economics, the politics of climate change and global development.  Her translations include Ulrich Beck’s ‘Power in the Global Age’ and Niklas Luhmann’s ‘The Reality of the Mass Media’.  Her PhD from Lancaster University is in Science Studies, with training in cultural studies and social sciences.  She lives in Germany and the UK, and writes, sings and plays for the ‘Kathleen Cross Band’.

Dr Wallace Heim  |  Associate

Dr Wallace Heim specialises in public engagement through the arts.

Originally from Colorado, Wallace Heim has 20 years experience of production in theatre, film and television in the UK.  She now specialises in researching and enabling public engagement through the arts, and undertaking evaluations and feasibility studies.  She is: Co-editor of the Ashden Directory of Environment and Performance (a project of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts); a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Research fellow for the Social Sculpture Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University; a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, Scotland, and a Trustee for the social practice collective PLATFORM.  She has a PhD in Philosophy from Lancaster University and an MSc in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University.