Humanity space
Associate Fellows
Below is a list of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space's valued Associate Fellows, whose expertise, collaboration, and shared vision play a vital role in advancing the Centre’s mission to explore the intersections of humanity and space.
For more information on how to become an Associate Fellow please contact Humanityandspace@le.ac.uk.
Deden Habibi Ali Alfathimy
Mr Deden Habibi Ali Alfathimy is an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space.Mr Alfathimy is a postgraduate researcher in Politics and International Relations, focusing on outer space politics (astropolitics). He is the recipient of a Future 100 PhD studentship from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Space Park Leicester Institute, under the supervision of Prof Andrew Futter and Dr Sally Horrocks (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), and Dr Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University). His doctoral project studies Indonesian satellite communication development to better understand space policy in the Global Space Age.
Mr Alfathimy is currently on study leave from his role as a space policy researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Government of Indonesia. He joined the Indonesian space agency (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space/LAPAN) in 2018, which was eventually merged into BRIN in 2021. Since then, he has been working on the international dimensions of Indonesian space policies and programmes by closely informing policymakers, conducting academic research, and advocating for space issues.
Dallas Campbell
Dallas Campbell is a broadcaster and author who has presented some of television’s highest-profile factual programmes for the BBC and beyond, including: The Gadget Show, Bang Goes the Theory, Supersized Earth, Stargazing Live, The Sky at Night, City in the Sky, Britain Beneath your Feet, Egypt’s Lost Cities and The Science of Stupid. His television work has taken him around the world giving audiences a backstage pass into the hidden workings of the human made world. He’s filmed in some extraordinary locations: rocket launches in Kazakhstan, on top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, secret chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza, Area-51 in Nevada, the bottom of a Mexico City mega-sewer and everywhere in between. Anuradha Damale-Day
Anuradha Damale-Day is a practitioner and researcher whose work bridges space policy, governance, and innovation delivery. Professionally, she works across complex stakeholder environments to align technical ambition with public value outcomes, with experience spanning government engagement, industry partnerships, and ecosystem strategy.Alongside her practitioner work, Anuradha is a PhD researcher at Â鶹ÊÓƵ examining responsible behaviour in space and how incentives, institutions, and governance frameworks shape sustainable futures in orbit and on Earth. Her wider interests include industrial strategy, dual-use technologies, international governance, and the role of space-enabled systems in national resilience. Her research draws on science and technology studies, governance, and systems thinking. She is an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space.
Dr Francesca Faedi
Dr Francesca Faedi is an interdisciplinary space leader working at the intersection of space science, society, and innovation, with a focus on the human dimensions of living and working in space.
Based at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Space Park Leicester, she operates across research, policy, and commercialisation to translate space-enabled knowledge into societal and economic impact.
With a background in astrophysics and over fifteen years of research experience spanning exoplanets, stellar systems, and gravitational wave science, she has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and major international collaborations.
Her current work focuses on the socio-technical systems underpinning human life beyond Earth, integrating space science with life sciences, bio-engineering, and human performance research.
She has developed interdisciplinary programmes exploring human adaptation to extreme environments, including collaborations with industry partners such as Spacewear to design wearable systems supporting human activity in space.
Alongside this, she contributes to the development of policy and governance frameworks for the evolving space ecosystem, including work on the equitable use of space resources and responsible innovation in emerging space industries.
Her research also connects space systems to terrestrial challenges, leading policy-oriented work on sustainability, land use, and food systems, demonstrating how space-enabled knowledge can inform societal resilience on Earth.
As Academic Liaison for Commercial and Innovation Activities at Space Park Leicester and Research Lead for the Institute for Space, she leads the development of cross-sector partnerships across academia, industry, and government, translating emerging research into applications, policy frameworks, and future space ecosystems.
Her work aligns closely with the Centre, contributing to understanding human performance, work systems, and inclusivity in space environments, while addressing broader questions of governance, sustainability, and the role of space in shaping future societies on Earth and beyond.
Professor John Goodwin
John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ who, in the mid 2010s developed the first undergraduate ‘cosmic sociology’ module at Leicester.
His orientation to academic work is rooted in creative practice and incorporates biographical methods, archival research, autoethnography, collaborative autoethnography, visual studies, data reanimation, and poetic inquiry.
He aims to examine space via this sociological lens to enable detailed critical analysis, interpretation, and exploration of space’s everydayness.
In 2019 John wrote a thought piece on the sociological story of space for the University. This can be read here.
Dan Kendall
Dan Kendall is Curator and Exhibition Manager at the National Space Centre. His work spans spaceflight, space history, and astronomy, with a particular focus on the human stories that make the subject relevant to visitors.
He curates and manages the Space Centre’s internationally significant artefact collection and contributes to the development of content for the Exhibition, including the delivery of major gallery redevelopments.
He holds a BA (Hons) in History and Archaeology, and an MA in History, from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, where he was awarded the Dr D T Williams Prize for Medieval Scholarship. His work has appeared in the Sunday Times, and he has featured on various television and radio programmes.
Dr Jack Lampkin
Jack is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at York St John University. He earned his PhD in Law from the University of Lincoln in 2018 and teaches across criminology, law, policing, and sociology.
His research focuses on how outer space is socially understood, particularly in relation to crime and its regulation beyond Earth. He has played a key role in shaping the emerging fields of space criminology and astro-green criminology.
Jack also examines the environmental consequences of space development and expansion, with particular attention to the effects of satellites and orbital debris on observational amateur astronomy.
He has authored and co-authored several works in this area, including Space Criminology (2023), written with Professor Rob White of the University of Tasmania, and Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space: International Perspectives (2024), which he co-edited with Dr Yarin Eski from VU Amsterdam.
Dr Charlotte May
Dr Charlotte May is Impact and Outreach Officer at Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. Charlotte’s role is centred around making the 3.5 million items in the University’s collections more accessible and discoverable to researchers. These collections encompass the history of the East Midlands as well as global histories and include regional archaeology, literary works of international significance, and educational collections.