Director of Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Professor Johan Schot joined the University of Sussex as the Director of SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit - in January 2014. He is a Professor in the History of Technology and Sustainability Transitions Studies. His research is wide ranging but has always focused on integrating social science and historical perspectives for a better understanding of the nature and governance of radical socio-technical change. Prior to coming to Sussex, he held academic posts at the Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Twente, Netherlands. Under Johan’s directorship, SPRU is embarking on an ambitious, new strategy to expand and build on its impressive track record across research, teaching, impact and engagement. The strategy, designed in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary in 2016, will draw on SPRU’s extensive activities and capture the best thinking within and beyond SPRU.
As part of this new strategy, Johan and SPRU colleagues aim to develop a new innovation theory which will address the current crisis of capitalism and a number of key challenges our world is facing: inequality, climate change, the democratic deficit, and the need to develop new system of provision for security, food, water, energy, healthcare and mobility. Necessarily the program will theorize the nature, scale and scope of long-term transformative change, and ways of providing directionality to economic growth. The new theory will synthesize insights from economics of innovation, science & technology studies, history of technology, and other relevant fields.
Johan is in an excellent position to nurture the development of such a programme in SPRU. His work has always been at the junction of various academic fields and disciplines. In 2009, Johan Schot was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for the genuine interdisciplinarity of his work. He has been heavily involved in the development of innovative new concepts and interpretations, and has co-produced highly cited and influential academic contributions. In 2002 he was awarded a VICI grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a personal award for top-scholars comparable with the ERC Advance Investigator Grant.
His ability to create and pioneer large scale, creative, academic collaborations has helped to transform policy practices, broaden academic understandings, and develop new innovative outputs in the form of programmes, book series and networks.
Johan has always been keen to support and invest in PhD students and early career scholars. He was the founder and director of several doctoral programmes as well as a string of summer schools and master classes. A passionate teacher, Johan has been heavily involved in designing and developing undergraduate and graduate programmes that incorporate social science and humanities perspectives into the education of future business leaders, policy makers, engineers and scientist.
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I am a professor of experimental phonetics at City, University of London. My research focuses on understand the process of human speech production and the distribution of speech sounds in the languages of the world. My research has been funded by a.o. the Leverhulme Foundation for studying asymmetries in the articulation of the English speech sounds.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Oceanography, University of Exeter
I am a researcher in Biological Oceanography and Marine Biogeochemistry, with a particular interest in the interactions between marine phytoplankton and nutrients. My current work focuses on how phytoplankton dynamics are changing in response to ocean warming, and how this might affect global biogeochemical cycles.
I completed my PhD at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where I studied the role of micronutrients in shaping phytoplankton communities in the Southern Ocean. I gained extensive sea-going research experience during multiple expeditions to the Southern Ocean.
Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter and a BioGeoSCAPES Fellow. I contribute to the UKRI-funded Phytoplankton Response to Climate Change (PRIME) project, studying how climate change impacts phytoplankton communities and broader marine biogeochemistry.
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Toxicologue reglementaire, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses)
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Professor in Psychology, Carleton University
Dr. Johanna Peetz is a professor at the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Her research includes a range of topics broadly connected to time perception, financial decisions, and interpersonal relationships. Across different topics her research aims to foster better everyday decisions and goal-consistent actions.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
I specialize in the anthropology of religion and psychological and medical anthropology, with expertise in evangelical Christianity in the U.S. and Brazil, U.S. migration, studies of affect and emotion, and gender, health and society.
My first research project explored the impact of U.S. migration experience on the varied religious beliefs, choices, and sentiments of Brazilian migrants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. From this body of research, I published a research article in Current Anthropology, entitled “The Affective Therapeutics of Migrant Faith: Evangelical Christianity among Brazilians in Greater Washington, D.C” (2019), and completed my first book, In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience In the United States (Princeton University Press, 2022). My research was reviewed in The Economist (“Religion and Vulnerability: Why Charismatic Christianity is Popular with Migrants” (2019)) and featured on The Chris Voss Show (2022).
My current research investigates U.S. healthcare experience and vaccine beliefs, behaviors, and solidarities among diverse demographics. The first publication related to this project, “From Iatrogenesis to Vaccine Skepticism: U.S. Mothers’ Negative Vaccine Perceptions and Non-vaccination Practices as Reverberations of Medical Harm,” was published last spring (2023) in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
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Professor Comparative Politics, University of Maryland
Jóhanna Kristín Birnir is a Professor in the department of Government and Politics and the director of GVPT Global Learning. Jóhanna studies the effect of identity (ethnicity, religion, gender) on contentious political outcomes (elections and violence), and has done extensive fieldwork in the Andes, South-East Europe and Indonesia. Jóhanna´s first book "Ethnic Electoral Politics" (Cambridge University Press) examines the relationship between political access and minority strategic choice of peaceful electoral participation, protest or violence against the state. Her most recent book (with Nil Satana) "Alternatives in Mobilization: Ethnicity, Religion and Political Conflict" (Cambridge University Press in 2022), examines the relationship between identity (ethnicity and religion) and minority peaceful and violent political mobilization. Jóhanna´s articles on identity and politics are published in numerous academic journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Party Politics, Latin American Research Review , Studies in Comparative International Development, and Journal of Global Security Studies. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Global Religion Research Initiative among others.
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Research fellow, RMIT University
Johanne Trippas is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT University, specializing in intelligent systems, focusing on digital assistants and conversational information seeking. Her research aims to enhance information accessibility through conversational systems, interactive information retrieval, and
human-computer interaction.
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Honorary Lecturer, Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia
Johannes C. Laube works at the Institute for Energy and Climate 7: Stratosphere, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.
Laube's research spans meteorology, environmental chemistry and analytical chemistry.
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John Affleck, a journalist and leader at The Associated Press who has served most recently as sports enterprise editor/interim deputy sports editor for the news organization that produces content seen by half the world’s population on a given day, was named the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State on Aug. 6, 2013.
Affleck served as a reporter, editor and national manager at the AP, working regularly with all of the organization’s major editorial departments during his 22-year career. In his most recent role before joining the University faculty, he helped manage day-to-day operations for the roughly 70-member domestic sports team. He directed coverage of the Lance Armstrong saga, coordinated efforts with the news department as the Jerry Sandusky case unfolded and guided the U.S. sports report last summer when the AP’s sports team was split between Olympic and non-Olympic coverage.
Affleck has directed coverage of college football and the last five Bowl Championship Series national title games. He also oversaw the wire service’s 2013 Final Four coverage and was a key editor at the World Cup in South Africa. He also represented the AP at the 2012 Associated Press Sports Editors convention and at APSE’s sessions this year with commissioners from major pro sports leagues. He has also covered the Super Bowl and the World Series.
Reporters and projects under Affleck’s direct supervision have been honored in dozens of regional and national contests, and have earned awards from a wide array of groups, including the nation’s education writers, religion reporters and the lesbian and gay journalists association. Work under his guidance has captured the AP’s top internal prizes for news enterprise, sports enterprise and sports features.
As the Knight Chair, Affleck will serve as director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, housed in the College of Communications. The Curley Center, a first-of-its-kind academic endeavor in U.S. higher education when founded in 2003, explores issues and trends in sports journalism through instruction, programming and research.
As Affleck transitions to higher education, he brings a lifelong passion for education and sports journalism to the position. He worked for the AP in Albany, N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y., and Cleveland before moving to the organization’s main office in New York. Along with his leadership and mentoring young reporters, Affleck also has earned writing awards himself. He brings an appreciation of journalism fundamentals and an understanding of the need for innovation in the changing multimedia journalism environment to the position.
As director of the Center, Affleck will: teach several courses, including sports writing; serve as a voice about sports journalism issues and trends; and coordinate the Center’s programming, which includes a variety of partnerships at Penn State and off campus for guest lectures and special events. Guests for Center programming have included Christine Brennan, Bob Costas, John Feinstein, Brent Musburger, Bob Ryan and more.
Affleck grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., and has been a competitive runner for most of his life, once finishing in the Top 500 at the Boston Marathon. He was ranked nationally as a master’s competitor by USATF in four events (800 meters, 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and the mile) as recently as 2005. He is married to Jessica Ancker, an assistant professor at the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
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Senior lecturer, Sport & Exercise Biomechanics, University of South Australia
John is a Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Biomechanics. His research focuses on clinical and sports biomechanics for improving health and human performance.
His main streams of research broadly relate to sports and clinical biomechanics for improving health and human performance. He uses different types of measurement, modelling and simulation to understand how forces and motion interact so we can enhance performance and reduce injury. His research is cross-disciplinary, spanning engineering, sport science and medicine.
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Reader in Fine Art, Loughborough University
Henry Moore OM CH personally funded Atkin throughout his MA sculpture course at the RCA in London. Since then, he has exhibited his work worldwide: e.g., the Guggenheim Museum in Italy, Museum of Modern Art Melbourne and New Orleans Museum of Art - are three such examples of high-profile venues worldwide. Recent publications on Atkins’ public art output focus on references to cultural heritage within urban design.
Atkin has been invited to present keynote papers at a number of conferences worldwide including, 16th China Sculpture Forum. DIAOSU- National Sculpture Magazine of China: Sculpture by the Sea Symposium -Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia: Understanding the Post-Industrial City: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Bauhaus – Lisbon, Portugal: International Sculpture Centre Conference, Pittsburgh USA: Curating in Action – Art as Social Practice, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China.
Atkin is Reader in Fine Art and Director of Internationalisation at Loughborough University, and has lectured at numerous institutions worldwide, including Boston University: Tsinghua University, Beijing: Virginia Commonwealth University: Kansas City Art Institute: Hartford University, CT.: Sydney College of the Arts: Victoria College Melbourne: The Curtin Institute, Perth.
He is Honorary Fellow, National Academy of Sculpture, Beijing, and Fellow at the Royal Society of Sculptors, London.
John Atkin has developed a substantial body of work over the past 40 years which has been exhibited worldwide in the form of solo and group exhibitions, as well as public art. His research interests have evolved from the use of the found object as a metaphor for human identity into how outcomes from such research can be embedded into the public realm via regeneration projects worldwide.
His early work is characterised by a series of figurative artworks which explore his own identity through the examination of family relationships, principally his father. The resulting artworks, sculpture, installation, tableaux, painting, film, screenplay formed the basis of a series of exhibitions, Juda Rowan Gallery London, Hatton Gallery, Ceolfrith Gallery.
Themes of conflict permeated his output, which led to the development of further works influenced by study visits to, the Imperial War Museum, Wallace Collection, First World War poetry. Outcomes have been exhibited widely, from the Peggy Guggenheim Museum Italy, to Olympic Park Beijing.
His output has straddled the digital-divide, where one half of his career is characterised by traditional making processes, and since 2003 has become an increasing synthesis of digital and traditional methods of making. Drawing has been the central plank of this extensive activity, recognised by significant awards from, the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, Royal College of Art, and Loughborough University.
Atkin continues to work with Interdisciplinary Design Teams, where the role of art in urban regeneration projects and urban design are key factors in shaping public space. To this end, he collaborates with Architects, Urban Designers, Landscape Architects, City Planners, Highway Engineers, Environmental Designers, Civil & Building Engineers, and other Design groups.
Although his studio is the discreet environment for developing ideas, his work takes place worldwide, often working as an embedded component in fabrication team’s, as well as community groups, where history and heritage are prerequisites of a projects aims and objectives.
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The long term goal of my research is to advance our mechanistic understanding of the interacting effects of neurological injury and chronic stress on the brain, particularly as they relate to autonomic functions. Further, we seek to develop strategies and methods to optimize cognitive function and regulate neurophysiological state to ameliorate the effects of chronic stress on negative cascade effects such as in maladaptive aging.
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Lecturer in Applied Geomorphology (Geography), University of Sussex
John Barlow completed his BSc (hons) and MES at Wilfrid Laurier University. His honours and masters theses focused on mass movements along the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario. John received his PhD from the University of Calgary for research into the automated detection of rapid mass movements using digital data. Upon completion of his doctoral research, John did post doctoral work at both the University of Saskatchewan and Durham University. He joined the University of Sussex as Lecturer in Applied Geomorphology in 2011.
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Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds
I joined the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) in February, 2011 as a Chair in Sustainability Research. My research interests include sustainable consumption and production (SCP) modelling, carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low carbon pathway. I have an extensive knowledge of the use of Multi-Regional Environmental Input-Output modelling to understand the effectiveness of strategies and policies to deliver a low carbon economy.
My research is predominately funded by the UK Government (Defra) and the UK Energy Research Centre. These key areas of research have involved the building of global trade models to understand the embedded carbon emissions in goods and services and estimating the upstream carbon emissions from emerging energy technologies. The techniques that I developed as part of my research are now used by numerous government departments to understand the consumer emissions of the UK as well as the carbon emissions embedded in products.
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Associate Professor of Accountancy, Brigham Young University
John Barrick is an Associate Professor of Accountancy at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he has worked since 2009. He is a Certified Professional Accountant (Washington State Board of Accountancy 1994) and worked as a tax policy accountant on the Joint Committee on Taxation (2007-2009). He is the author of Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities (2010). John holds a PhD in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
John has been an academic at the University of Winchester since January 2008. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology and the Subject Group Lead Sport and Exercise Sciences in the Department Sport, Exercise and Health.
John completed a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and MSc in Psychology of Sport and Exercise at the University of Chichester. He then later completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and a PhD in Expectancy Effects in Higher Education at the University of Winchester.
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Originally a chemical engineer, I followed my first degree with a doctorate which allowed me to study how innovation was managed in a particular organization over an extended period of time. Since then I have written, researched and consulted extensively in the area. My recent interest in some of the psychological aspects of innovation led me to take another degree in that field.
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Professor of History, Boise State University
Dr. John Bieter came to Boise State University as a member of the faculty in 2004 after earning his Ph.D. in History from Boston College. His major doctoral concentration was Nineteenth Century United States History, Immigration, The American West, and American Catholicism. He also has an M.A. in History from Boise State University where his thesis was “Basque-Americans, American-Basques: Three Generations in Boise, Idaho”, and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of St. Thomas where his studies concentrated on economics. Before teaching at the university level, Dr. Bieter taught history at Bishop Kelly High School, and was the International Tour Director and Studies Abroad Coordinator at Boise State. He has spent three years living, working, and studying in the Basque region of Northern Spain, and is proficient in Basque and Spanish.
Dr. Bieter’s research interests continue to center around immigration, secondary education social studies methods, and Basque studies, including teaching workshops on arborglyphs — tree carvings left behind by Basque sheepherders in Idaho’s high country.
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Bristol
I am an AHRC-funded English Literature PhD student working with the University of Exeter and University of Bristol.
I completed my Undergraduate Degree in English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick in 2012. I completed my Master's Degree in Education at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, in 2017, while working full-time in schools.
I have seven years experience teaching English in rural comprehensive secondary schools in Somerset - with three years as Head of Department for English and Drama.
I am a singer-songwriter and poet drawing inspiration from rural life and experience past and present. I was a semi-finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2011. I contributed to the BBC Radio 4 Documentary 'Dorset Rewritten' in 2014.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsility in Mining, The University of Queensland
John Burton has been working in Australia and the countries of the Western Pacific region for over 40 years, including a decade in Papua New Guinea universities. He has also practised as a Native Title anthropologist, contributing to a range of successful Native Title determinations in Torres Strait and North Queensland since 2001. He is a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society and his current position is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland.
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Professor and Head of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; Director, The Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland
With over 25 years of experience in research, consulting, and education, John is a leading expert in sport, physical literacy and child health, and an accomplished leader in higher education. He is currently the Professor and Head of School in Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland (UQ), where he oversees the strategic direction, academic and research performance, and operational management of the school. He is also the Deputy Executive Director of the UQ 2032 Office of Games Engagement and the Director of the Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies.
John has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering exceptional outcomes for partners and funders. He has successfully led multiple multi-million dollar projects in Canada and Australia. He has also held senior leadership roles in prestigious institutions, such as the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Additionally, he has served as the President of two professional associations and provided valuable consultancy to governmental initiatives. John's extensive leadership experience and expertise underscore his reputation as a respected figure in his field.
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PhD Student in Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut
As a graduate research assistant in plant science, specializing in native plants of New England, their co-evolution with pollinators, and the ecosystem services they provide, I have had to learn and develop a wide range of skills. I have formulated rigorous methodological models for testing scientific hypotheses. I have planned and supervised the growth of tens of thousands of plants for the establishment of scientific experiments that required extensive record keeping. I have led a team of researchers for the publication of a 283 page manual adopted by New England Departments of Transportation to transition to more sustainable methods for re-vegetating roadsides. I have worked closely with and built a reputation among other experts and practitioners in the fields of native plants and pollinator health. Together we have created organizations and advocated for policies that inform legislators and the general public of the role native plants play in maintaining the health of our environment and ecology.
As a teaching assistant for our department’s cannabis production class, I became familiar with the extensive spectrum of knowledge required for cannabis production, including plant physiology, breeding techniques, growing equipment and practices, industry specific pests and diseases, and areas for further research in the field.
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Principal Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
John Caro is a principal lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. In 2001, supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship, he completed a Film and Video MFA at Toronto’s York University. He has screened his short films at the Raindance and International Tel-Aviv Film Festivals and was a set decorator at Pinewood Studios, working on "Aliens" and "Full Metal Jacket". More recently he has contributed an article about British comic books to Henry Jenkins' Pop Junctions Website. In 2023 he enrolled on the Portsmouth PhD programme, developing a project on British Comics.
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Professor of Criminal Law, University of Birmingham
Professor John Child specialises in criminal law, doctrine and theory, and the relationship between criminal law and neuroscience.
John co-authors two leading criminal law textbooks: Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law and Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law.
John is also the founder and co-Director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. Launched in 2017, its mission is to facilitate collaboration between academics and other legal experts to gather and disseminate comprehensible proposals for criminal law reform to the wider community. We include members of the public and mainstream media as well as legal professionals, police, policymakers and politicians. Our proposals might require legislation but we do not restrict ourselves to such projects. Reforms which public bodies such as the Home Office, Police or CPS can bring about by internal policies interest us, as do reforms which require the support of some of the judiciary, bearing in mind the proper judicial constraints on law making. We are ready to consult with and make suggestions to anyone who has the power to bring about reform.
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
John Ciorciari focuses on international politics and law, particularly in the Global South. His current research focuses primarily on hedging and alignment politics in the Indo-Pacific region and Middle East. He also works on international interventions and international criminal law.
He is the author of "Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States" (Stanford, 2021) and "The Limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975" (Georgetown, 2010), the co-author of "Hybrid Justice: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" (Michigan, 2014), and co-editor of "The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era" (Michigan, 2021), among other works.
He is currently a visiting scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Asia Society Fellow, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2004-07, he served as a policy official in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs. Since 1999, he has been a legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which promotes historical memory and justice for the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime. He has an AB and JD from Harvard and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
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Prof. John Colley is Professor of Practice at Warwick Business School.
He was formerly the director of MBA and executive programmes at Nottingham University Business School,
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John Cook is the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He also runs skepticalscience.com, a website that makes climate science accessible to the general public and examines the arguments of global warming skeptics. He co-authored the book "Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand" with environmental scientist Haydn Washington and the university textbook "Climate Change Science: a Modern Synthesis" with geologist Tom Farmer. He completed a First Class Honours degree in Physics at the University of Queensland and is currently completing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Western Australia.
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Reader in History, University of York
My immersion in the sixteenth century began at Merton College, Oxford, where I was taught by Steven Gunn and Blair Worden, and attended lectures by Christopher Haigh and Penry Williams. I studied for an MA as a Thouron Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Oxford to research my doctorate on Tudor royal propaganda. I came to York in 2005, having worked on the Tudor desk at the Dictionary of National Biography and as a teaching fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford.
My research focuses on the political, religious and cultural history of sixteenth-century England, and I am also interested in the history of early colonial America and Ireland. I write for the Times Literary Supplement and give regular public lectures – see ‘External Activity’ for more details.
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Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
Corvino's research mainly focuses on controversial "culture war" issues surrounding sexuality and marriage. He is the author or co-author of three books from Oxford University Press: Debating Same-Sex Marriage (with Maggie Gallagher), What’s Wrong with Homosexuality?, and, most recently, Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, with Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis.
In addition to his books and scholarly articles, Corvino has contributed to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Huffington Post, The New Republic, Slate, Commonweal, and other popular venues. He is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Wayne State University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2012 Distinguished Professor of the Year Award from the Presidents Council of the State Universities of Michigan. In the last 25 years, he has spoken at over 250 campuses on issues of sexuality, ethics, and marriage. His online videos have received over two million views.
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Professor of Policing, Crime prevention, Learning & Innovation, University of East London
As a leading pracademic, Professor Coxhead has worked across professional policing practice and higher education for the last 30 years. His professional experience in policing has involved a number of specialist roles: working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU, Vienna) within the Organisation for Security in Europe (OSCE) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
Dr Coxhead works with several universities, police and security agencies in the UK and internationally and is external examiner in policing and criminology at the Universities of Wales and Manchester Metropolitan, having held professorial positions in policing at Keele and Loughborough Universities, and is founder of the Innovation in Policing national competition (hosted by Police Professional journal).
His primary research interests surround policing, particularly around enabling innovation and learning environments and has published widely, often directly for Government use, on serious organised crime and performance improvement within policing.
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Senior Research Fellow, NatCen Social Research
John Curtice is a Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Research Consultant to the Scottish Centre for Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour, electoral systems, and political and social attitudes.
A regular broadcaster and contributor to newspapers, John is also president of the British Polling Council and vice chair of the Economic and Social Data Service’s Advisory Committee.
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John Daley is the CEO of Grattan Institute, which conducts independent, rigorous and practical analysis of Australian public policy.
John Daley has 20 years experience at the intersection of the public sector, private enterprise, and academia. His diverse background includes law, finance, education, and workers compensation.
Previous roles include the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, consulting firm McKinsey and Co, and most recently ANZ where he was Managing Director of the online stockbroker, E*TRADE Australia.
John has a DPhil in Public Law from the University of Oxford, and degrees in Law and Science from the University of Melbourne.
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My research addresses energy and transportation with a focus on environmental challenges especially oil use, CO2 emissions and climate mitigation options. I also address energy and climate policy more broadly and direct the University of Michigan Energy Survey. My teaching and advising work has addressed transportation energy policy and sustainable energy systems as well as student research in other energy and environmental topics.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2009, I was senior fellow for automotive strategies at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF; 2001-2009), transportation director at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE; 1990-2000) and a staff scientist at the National Audubon Society (1988-1990).
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Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
John Dinan's research focuses on state constitutions and federalism. He is the author of several books, including The American State Constitutional Tradition (University Press of Kansas) and State Constitutional Politics: Governing by Amendment in the American States (University of Chicago Press), and he writes an annual review of state constitutional amendments for The Book of the States. He is editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism and received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
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