Reader in Renaissance Drama, University of Huddersfield
I am a reader in Renaissance Drama at the University of Huddersfield. Before coming to the UK, I taught at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and the University of Washington in Seattle, where I completed my PhD in 2008.
My research focuses on Shakespeare and on the long history of environmentalism, going back to its origins in ancient mythology, magic, and the pastoral. I have published over 30 articles and three books, the most recent of which is entitled Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain (OUP, 2023). Forthcoming projects include a new edition of Shakespeare's As You Like It and an edited collection on The Winter's Tale.
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Associate Professor of Public Administration; Director, Center for Local Government, University of Colorado Denver
Todd L. Ely is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver where he directs the Center for Local Government Research and Training. Driven by the desire to improve financial stewardship, his research and teaching focus on the financing of state and local public services, municipal debt, education finance and policy, and public and nonprofit financial management. He is the co-author of "Essentials of Public Service," an introductory public administration textbook. Todd received his PhD in public administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Prior to academia, Todd worked in management consulting and higher education administration.
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Professor and Associate Head of Psychology, University of Tennessee
Animal behavior researcher for over 30 years, 2016-2022 Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and the Association of Psychological Sciences.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Landscape History, Oxford Brookes University
Dr Tom Breen is a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University, with a passion for uncovering the hidden histories of our urban and rural landscapes. He is currently leading the archival research for the AHRC-funded project 'In All Our Footsteps: Tracking, Mapping and Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain'. This project seeks to bring better awareness and understanding to the complex ways in which rights of way have been mapped, developed, used, and experienced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
As a Landscape Historian, Dr Breen brings a unique perspective to the project, delving into the fascinating ways the development of the public rights of way network has shaped our English and Welsh landscapes over time, revealing a wealth of insights that will inform future policies and decision-making. Through this project, Dr Breen is charting a new course in the study of our land and its history, and he is passionate about sharing his findings with anyone who cares about the places we call home.
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Research Associate in Public Policy, University of Liverpool
Tom joined the Heseltine Institute in 2020 after completing his PhD at the Department for Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on central-local relations and sub-national governance, with a particular focus on the scalar politics of infrastructure planning and development. He has published on regional policy and the ‘levelling up’ agenda and led research projects on topics such as social infrastructure and place-based policy. Alongside his research Tom is also the editor of the Heseltine Institute’s policy briefings. Tom was part of the research team in the UK2070 Commission inquiry into regional inequalities and, before entering academia, spent almost a decade in public affairs and policy roles across Northern England.
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Lecturer in Kinesiology, Strength and Conditioning, Loughborough University
Tom Balshaw graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Exercise Science from the University of Cumbria (2006-09) before pursuing a Neuromuscular Physiology-focused PhD (2009-13) at the University of Stirling. He was appointed as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Loughborough University in 2014 and worked on numerous research projects supported by charity and industry funding prior to accepting his current lectureship role at Loughborough University (2021).
Tom’s research aims to examine the efficacy of novel resistance training-based interventions, and investigate the underpinning nervous system, skeletal musculature, and tendinous tissue adaptations following such interventions for the purposes of enhancing function, informing exercise prescription/rehabilitation practices, and injury prevention.
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Reading
My research is highly interdisciplinary, mixing ecology, economics and social sciences to explore ways of integrating biodiversity into human systems and decision making by quantifying and recognising the many values associated with ecosystems. Within this sphere, in am particularly interested in:
– How do biodiversity and ecosystem services influence food systems?
– How do we integrate biodiversity monitoring into decision making?
– How will changes to landscapes and land management affect the interplay between biodiversity and ecosystem services?
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Professor of Psychology, University of Westminster
Much of my research over the past two decades has centred on how people behave while they are online, as well as considering what the internet has to offer for psychologists in research and teaching contexts. Some of it has been methodological in nature, for example focusing on web-based psychological measurement, validity of online research techniques, and ethics of online data collection. Other work has focused on the application of these techniques to topics including online self-disclosure, self-presentation, privacy concern, effects of recreational drug use, and online fraud and deception. My current focus is generally on factors affecting how people engage with online technologies, potential influences of online stimuli on our behaviour, and questionnaire based measurement of cognitive problems.
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Professor in Theatre, University of York
I am a Professor in Theatre and Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students in the Arts and Humanities Faculty. As Associate Dean I lead on the management, strategic initiatives and development of learning and teaching across the faculty. Within the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, I teach on the BA in Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance and the MA in Theatre-Making as well as supervising doctoral research students.
My research addresses questions of performance, approaches to theatre-making and acting processes. To date, I have published four books on acting. I am currently co-editing The Theatre-Maker’s R&D Sourcebook for Bloomsbury and researching the work of the National Theatre Studio. My recent publications have explored acting processes for television, including Acting in British Television and Exploring Television Acting, both written with Christopher Hogg, and documentary theatre, including Acting in Documentary Theatre and Playing for Real, alongside a number of articles.
I have held visiting professorships at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and Concordia University, Montreal, where I was scholar-in-residence at the Acts of Listening Lab.
My research interests include: acting theory and practice, television performance, verbatim and documentary theatre and television, modern British political theatre, and approaches to research and development in theatre-making.
My research addresses questions of performance and, in particular, acting processes. To date, I have published four books on acting. Recently, I have been researching acting processes for television with Christopher Hogg (University of Westminster), and have published a number of articles on this theme. Our work is the first detailed research into how actors approach the specific demands of television. Most research views performance via textual analysis of the finished product. By contrast, we use interviews with celebrated television actors to focus on their process, and how they bring their skills to bear on this particular medium. We have recently published Acting in British Television (Palgrave, 2017) and an edited collection, Exploring Television Acting, for Bloomsbury (2018).
My previous research has focused on how actors approach playing real people. I co-edited Playing for Real with Mary Luckhurst (Palgrave, 2010), which is a collection of interviews with high-profile actors who have portrayed real people on stage and screen. Interviewees included Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey and Joseph Mydell. I continued to pursue my interest in the challenges of playing real people in my monograph, Acting in Documentary Theatre, which was published by Palgrave in 2013. Including new interview material with over forty actors, directors and writers, my book was the first to explore the challenges of acting in documentary theatre.
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Co-president, Australian Science Communicators, and Adjunct Lecturer, Science Communication, The University of Western Australia
Dr Tom J Carruthers is a science communicator, thinker and creative based in Canberra, Australia. He passionately advocates for diversity and equity, the need for science engagement that goes beyond scientific literacy, and to increase the community’s value of specialist expertise across all sectors.
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PhD Candidate, English literature, University of Glasgow
The Rev. Tom Emanuel is a progressive Christian minister and theologian and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His current research explores the reception of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings among twenty-first century audiences and is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) doctoral partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). His writing on Tolkien has appeared in journals including Mythlore and Tolkien Studies and he serves on the editorial board of Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society.
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Galway
Tom Felle is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Galway, Ireland. He has a diverse background in journalism, having worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent for various media organisations in Ireland, the UK, Brussels, Sydney and Beirut for more than a decade before transitioning into academia. He was formerly based at City, University of London, and from 2018 to 2023 was Head of the Department of Media at the University of Galway.
His research interests encompass digital news, verification, data-driven journalism, so-called “fake news” and disinformation, and democracy-related topics such as trust, transparency, and accountability. He has provided advice and testimony to national governments and the EU, and collaborated with the United Nations migration agency, IOM, as the lead academic partner for the Global Migration Media Academy from 2020-2022. He has authored or edited five books on journalism and democracy issues.
He is currently a Fulbright Scholar based in Los Angeles for the 2023/24 academic year.
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Tom is a lecturer in New and Digital Journalism at City University London. He is a former career journalist and worked for a decade as a reporter covering politics and as a regional correspondent at the Independent (Dublin); as Bureau Chief of the Leb News Agency (Beirut); and as Deputy Editor of the Irish Echo (Sydney).
He has contributed to a number of books on local newspapers; press regulation; digital journalism; and has co-edited two books on FOI; FOI 10 years on: freedom fighting or lazy journalism (2015, Abramis) and Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act (2015, MUP).
He was appointed by the Irish Government to sit on a national expert committee examining the Freedom of Information Act in Ireland in 2013, and gave evidence to a committee examining the UK's legislation at the House of Commons in 2015.
He continues to write on media issues, contributes to radio regularly and is an active conference speaker.
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Professor of Social Philosophy, University of Cumbria
I am a Professor of Social Philosophy and Head of the Graduate School at the University of Cumbria. My research explores the intersection between professional practices and philosophy, looking at specific sites where intellectual pursuit and its material conditions are placed in tension with one another: whether in applied service delivery (such as the concepts underlying health provision or social work practice), or in cultural discussions (such as irony, cliche, silence and ignorance). I work mainly in the hermeneutic tradition, drawing together philosophy with contemporary art, video games, film and public debate.
I also lead Health and Society Knowledge Exchange (HASKE), which is a contract research and evaluation centre that has a particular focus on cultural change in health and care provision, exploring new intervention pathways, allied health role change and training, and regional health determinants.
My main research interests are:
- Philosophical and political issues in social work, social care and health
- Cultural and Philosophical Hermeneutics
- Critical and Post-Critical Theory
- Rhetoric, Contemporary Applications of Rhetoric, particularly in Visual and Gaming Culture
- Social and Applied Ethics
- Philosophy of Research Methodologies, particularly Evaluation
- Gender and Feminist Philosophy
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
Tom chaired the Western Australian EPA from 2015 to 2020.
He is on the Board of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, the Western Australia Parks Foundation, and the UWA Oceans Institute, where he is Adjunct Professor.
He previously served on a numerous board and government appointments including the Australian Government’s Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development, the WA Conservation Commission, the Chair of the Western Australian Marine Parks and Reserves Authority, and the Chair of the 2011 Australian State of the Environment Committee .
Dr Hatton retired as CSIRO’s Group Executive for Energy in 2014, where he previously directed national water and marine research programs. In 2008, Tom received the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Public Service Medal for his contributions to the management of Australia’s water resources. Tom completed his BSc and MSc degrees at Humboldt State University and his PhD at Utah State University, followed by a post-doctoral appointment in the Mathematics Department of the UNSW (ADFA). He is a native of San Benito County, California.
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Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
Tom Hemingway is a Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies. He holds a BA in Film and Literature (2016) and an MA (2017) and PhD (2021) in Film and Television Studies, all completed at the University of Warwick. His PhD thesis, ‘The Aesthetics of Post-Broadcast Comedy Television’ explores questions regarding style, authorship, and temporality in the original comedy programming for two of the largest subscription-based streaming services - Netflix and Amazon Video. He leads BA and MA classes on Television Criticism, Television Analysis, and US Comedy Television at University of Warwick.
His publications include:
'Autofictional Authenticity: Bo Burnham's Inside, Netflix Comedy, and YouTube Aesthetics' (co-authored with James MacDowell), The Lesser Feat (YouTube), March 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_CocjBaaM.
‘“Next Episode in 5…” Binge-Watching and Narrative in Streaming Television Comedy’ in Mareike Jenner (ed.) Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) pp. 224 – 235.
'On the Beach: The 400 Blows', South Atlantic Review, 85:4 (Winter 2020), pp. 51 - 67.
'Irony, Control, and Distance in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', Offscreen, 22:5 (May 2018), https://offscreen.com/view/irony-control-and-distance-in-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou.
'The Objectification of Jennifer Lawrence in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema', Offscreen, 21:4-5 (May 2017), https://offscreen.com/view/the-objectification-of-jennifer-lawrence-in-contemporary-hollywood-cinema.
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Honorary Researcher, Lancaster Environment Centre; Consultant, Small World Consulting, Lancaster University
Tom Higgs is an Honorary Researcher at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, and a consultant at Small World Consulting. His role involves modelling carbon footprints of companies or organisations, including those responsible for large land areas in the UK, and helping them plan for and implement large footprint reductions.
Tom's research interests include long-term societal sustainability, the global food system, and the implications of degrowth on planetary boundaries.
He has a background in physics, having completed a PhD at Cambridge, and undergraduate studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario
Dr. Tom Hollenstein is a developmental scientist who studies adolescent emotional development, particularly how adolescents regulate their emotions - in both digital and non-digital contexts - and patterns of emotional dynamics while interacting with parents and peers across the second decade of life.
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Sessional Assistant Professor in Critical Human Rights, Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
I am a historian of queer communities and protest movements in Canada.
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Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Stirling
I am a research-active lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Data-Science and Business Information Systems. My primary research area is in the artificial intelligence of artificial persons and interactions between artificial persons and natural persons. The oncoming fourth industrial revolution which will blur the distinction between human and machine interactions is inevitable, and will bring disruptive business opportunities for organisations who manage to harness the new business potential of social bots, communicative medical devices, deep data-mining, cognitive and near-cognitive systems and robotic, autonomous systems. Alongside the challenge of innovating hardware and software systems that can mimic or impersonate human capabilities come fascinating and complex ethical questions of their place in the Information Society. Clear, logical AI models that maintain contractual obligations and ethical responsibilities; and that are comprehensible and testable by technologists and civic society alike are my major interest. My background is both academic and business focused. The rollout of implementations of AI systems while addressing the ethical questions these systems raise are of interest both to my Artificial Intelligence training and my business background.
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Newcastle University
I joined Newcastle University Business School in September 2023 as a senior lecturer specialising mostly in behavioural and experimental economics. Previously, I was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China from 2018-2023. I was awarded a PhD in behavioural economics in 2017 by the University of Nottingham, where I conducted my research within the world-leading behavioural economics research centre CeDEx, of which I also became local director for its China branch from 2019-2023. I maintain a position as an external Senior Fellow at CeDEx China.
My research has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economics and Oxford Economic Papers. I use a variety of experimental and non-experimental methods to study a range of topics across economics and touching upon related social sciences. Findings have been covered by media organisations, including the BBC, the Independent and the Daily Mirror.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bournemouth University
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bournemouth University. My research focuses on investigating the movement behaviour of free-ranging animals using GPS and radio technology, to understand their behaviour. I am currently working on various animals including snakes, birds, and cattle. I am particularly interested in invasive species, all things reptilian, and conservation. I co-host a weekly science podcast about reptiles and amphibians called Herpetological Highlights.
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Associate Professor of Social Justice & Peace Studies, Western University
I am Associate Professor in the Social Justice and Peace Studies Department at King’s University College at Western University (territory of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron).
My research interests are interdisciplinary, crisscrossing contemporary political theory, feminist theory, political economy, philosophy, and sociology. Since the passing of my mentor, Erik Olin Wright, I have taken over as Coordinator of the Real Utopias Project.
My latest book is "Against Inequality: The Practical and Ethical Case for Abolishing the Superrich" published by Oxford University Press in April 2023.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
Dr Tom McClean is Head of Research and Social Policy at Uniting NSW/ACT. He leads a team which conducts primary social research, service evaluations of Uniting’s services, and social policy analysis. They support Uniting to disrupt entrenched disadvantage through practice excellence, innovation and advocacy. Before joining Uniting, Tom worked in social policy for the NSW Government, in roles that included policy, evaluation, and investigations. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics, and is an adjunct associate professor at Western Sydney University and at UTS. His personal research interests include how institutions shape social and political outcomes, and the role of secrecy and transparency in politics.
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Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick, Manchester and Glasgow and studied at the universities of Sussex, York and Cambridge. My research covers a range of overlapping topics in philosophy of cognitive science, metaphysics, aesthetics and applied ethics. My introductory book What is Philosophy of Mind? is available from Polity Press. For HPS I'll be leading Part II modules on the Ethics and Politics of Technology; Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I'm also DoS in HPS at Selwyn College and College Research Associate at Clare College. I'm partial to comics, cats and a good pot of tea.
Research interests
I'm currently focussing on the concept of affordances for mental action. Long-standing work in philosophy and psychology suggests that we see our environment in terms of the bodily actions we can perform in it e.g. you might perceive a teapot as affording gripping. I suggest we also see our environment in terms of the mental actions available to us. That is, you might perceive affordances to attend, to imagine, to deliberate etc. I've been exploring how findings in psychology and psychiatry can be helpfully reframed in terms of mental affordances and identifying avenues for future empirical research.
I've also been exploring how social inequalities might shape our perception. With Paulina Sliwa I've been working on the hypothesis that gender inequalities in the performance of domestic tasks may be underwritten by socially-mediated differences in how affordances for domestic tasks are perceived. More generally, I'm interested in the idea that perceptual experiences (or patterns of perceptual experience) are ethically evaluable.
Other topics I've worked on include: the contents of perception; mental action; cognitive phenomenology; self-consciousness; self-hood; artificial consciousness and artificial creativity; the metaphysics of consciousness; salience and attention; the limits of scientific enquiry; pathologies of agency and ownership; and the philosophy of film.
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Professor of Demography, University of Cape Town
Tom Moultrie is professor of demography, and Director of the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe) at the University of Cape Town. His interests lie in the technical measurement and sociology of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, and the sociology of demographic measurement. He holds a BBusSc (Actuarial Science) from UCT, a MSc (Development Studies) from the LSE, and a PhD from LSHTM.
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Artist, writer and academic, Indigenous Knowledge
Dr. Tom Munro-Harrison is a Wiradjuri Artist, Writer and Academic with a diverse professional background, spanning academia, graphic design, community engagement and service. Driven by a passion to celebrate and elevate First Peoples' voices and cultures through Indigenous Cultural Practices, his work explores themes of Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Representation.
This passion is expressed through his own Cultural Practice, in the form of visual storytelling and Graphic Novels, curating compelling narratives that amplify underrepresented voices in the arts in collaboration with organisations including Indigenous X, Australia Council for the Arts, Welcome to Country, Activism@theMargins, Wiradjuri Digital Nation's "Being Wiradjuri Together" (Good Design Award Winner) and more.
In 2024 Tom published his Doctoral Thesis and accompanying Graphic Novel "Artistic Perspectives on Indigenous Standpoint Theory: A Visual Practice of Cultural Activism".
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Researcher, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
TOM NANCE is the Manager, Strategy and Delivery with Western Sydney University. He is a leading contributor to the Centre for Western Sydney’s research, partnership and activation platforms, shaping regional narrative and conversation in a way that prioritises equity and opportunity.
Tom has an extensive track record of cultivating partnerships and delivering results for government, business and community stakeholders in a way that addresses a range of complex social, economic and systemic issues. He has been sought after to comment on a broad range of issues that affect the region, including gambling-related harm, urban planning and development, education and politics.
Previously, Tom held senior leadership roles in the not-for-profit sector, where he co-authored a range of reports that have shaped policy development and service delivery in Western Sydney, including Communities of Change, Home in Western Sydney and The Culturally Responsive Framework to Address Gambling Related Harm.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Leiden University
With my research I aim to obtain reliable estimates of environmental hazards associated with chemicals and nanomaterials. The majority of my work revolves around freshwater ecosystems.
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Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster
Dr Oliver qualified from Durham University with a master's in mathematics (MMath) before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Nottingham. He has held research fellowships at the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham. He has also held the position of lecturer at Teeside University. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Research Associate, Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University
Tom Saxton is a research associate at the RMIT’s Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation. Tom specialises in open-source intelligence and is interested in its ability to
generate advantages in conflicts.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
My expertise is in heat transfer, HVAC and solar energy. I am currently researching advanced windows. My PhD was in mechanical engineering.
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I study learning and decision making. My main focus is the movement system – the idea being that if we can understand the intelligence of simple actions we will have an excellent handle on intelligence more generally. My research looks at simple decision making, and simple skill learning, using measures of behaviour informed by the computational, robotics and neuroscience work done in the wider group.
Academic website here: http://www.tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/
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Reader in Rhetoric, University of Sussex
I research the ways that people argued about ideas and politics in the past.
A cultural historian of nineteenth century Britain and America, I am interested in how debates about speaking and education from this period can inform contemporary policy issues.
You can read my publications at www.tomfwright.academia.edu.
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