David graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1998. He undertook postgraduate Anatomical Pathology training in Wellington, New Zealand, qualifying FRCPA in 2005.After working as a consultant pathologist for a period with Capital and Coast District Health Board, he joined Western Diagnostic Pathology developing broad skills in surgical pathology. These areas include breast pathology, as pathologist for the breast multidisciplinary meeting, as well as dermatopathology, gastrointestinal pathology, head and neck, thoracic and lymphoma pathology. He was also involved in the Perth Breast Clinic Fine Needle Aspiration service. He became Head of Histopathology at Western Diagnostic Pathology in 2011, and joined Clinipath Pathology in 2015.

Professor Page has worked in education since 2000. He began his career as a lecturer of English in further education and he was also a manager in a number of subject areas including humanities, finance and construction. While in FE, Professor Page focused on the development of e-learning, working as a consultant for the Learning and Skills Network, creating the Academy of e-Business and winning the JISC e-Learning Practitioner Award in 2005. After six year in FE, he was appointed as Curriculum and Learning Manager for Linking London Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London, one of the largest lifelong learning networks in the country, forging links between further education colleges and universities. Prior to joining Leeds Beckett, Damien worked at the University of Greenwich, firstly as a Senior Lecturer on the post-compulsory PGCE, the MA in Education and the Doctorate in Education. He was then appointed as Head of Department of Education and Community Studies, an interdisciplinary department that housed research and courses in a range of areas including education studies, childhood and youth studies and early years, from undergraduate to doctoral level. He was concurrently Director of Employability and led the development of social enterprise.As Dean, Professor Page is responsible for the leadership of all education, childhood and social innovation courses within the School as well as our research and enterprise activity. He also leads on a number of key projects including the Carnegie Multi Academy Trust, the collaboration with Lloyds Banking Group, the Microsoft Initial Teacher Education Partnership and the Leeds Creative Digital University Technical College proposal.

Catharine has been a news and web content writer for 10 years. In 2008, she was awarded a Ph.D. from Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom after completing her own research culminating in a thesis on psychosocial factors in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Before taking up news writing, Catharine’s career spanned technical writing, training, human resource management, psychotherapy, stress counselling, and small business mentoring. She has a Joint Hons Bachelor of Science in Physics with Chemistry from the University of Manchester (1975).

Frank Otto was a staff writer and later a news officer at Drexel from 2014-2018.

Professor Wendy Oddy is a nutritional epidemiologist and investigates the impact of diet and nutrition, particularly during the first few years of a child’s life, on various diseases in the population. ‘If you put poor quality fuel in your car, it won’t go very well,’ she says. ‘This is just common sense. But what is striking is how nutrition in early infancy affects a person’s health throughout the life-course.’Professor Oddy draws upon data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study, also known as the Raine Study. This study was established between 1989 and 1991 to determine how events during pregnancy and childhood influence health in later life. It involved nearly 3,000 pregnant women with regular follow-ups to track the health of the infants through childhood and into adulthood.