Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia
Tiffany Atkinson is a poet and literary critic. Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second, Catulla et al (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and her third collection, So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize. Her most recent, Lumen (Bloodaxe, 2021) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and winner of the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize. In 2022 she received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Tiffany is a Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently working on a collection of essays about poetry and embarrassment.
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Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received my BA in economics from Florida A&M University. As an economist and population health scientist, my goal is to understand the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in health, particularly among maternal, child, and immigrant populations. The biggest problem that keeps me up at night? The fact that black women, regardless of how much income or education they have, are the racial/ethnic group most likely to die from childbirth-related complications and give birth to babies who die before the age of 1 year. I apply methods from economics, demography, and health services research to document and unpack the sources of these disparities, and have published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Women’s Health and the American Journal of Public Health. I believe strongly that these problems have to be tackled from an interdisciplinary perspective—even if leaving your disciplinary silo makes you a little uncomfortable along the way. I am also committed to training the next generation of researchers to become better critical thinkers, better scientists, and more informed, engaged citizens.
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Co-Researcher on Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives, University of East Anglia
Tiffany Hore is a co-researcher on the University of East Anglia's project 'Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives'. She is the Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and its attached archive at the English Folk Dance and Song Society. As custodian of England's national folk archive, she has written on Vaughan Williams and spoken at conferences in the UK, Ireland and Italy. She has also organised international conferences on diversity in folk, re-inventing tradition in folk dance, song collecting, and Vaughan Williams and folk.
After studying History at Cambridge University and Library and information Studies at UCL, Tiffany worked in medical libraries for some years, before managing the library and learning resources at London Contemporary Dance School, and working on projects at UCL and King's College London. She has been at the VWML since 2020. She is also a flautist and singer.
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Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Dr. Tijl Grootswagers is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University. He is a computational cognitive neuroscientist who combines neuroimaging, AI, and behaviour experiments to understand how the brain perceives and processes information, particularly in the areas of visual perception and decision-making. He is known for his contributions to understanding the neural basis of visual perception, linking neuroimaging results to behaviour, and developing advanced neuroimaging methods.
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Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
Dame Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and is head of the School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences.
Professor Wykes has a wide-ranging portfolio of research into treatment developments and evaluation including digital technology solutions like RADAR-CNS and CONNECT which use technology to identify mental health relapses before they have devastating consequences for an individual. She also developed an effective cognitive remediation for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, CIRCuiTS. She founded the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), which employs expert researchers with experience of using mental health services. She is a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.
She edits the Journal of Mental Health. She was awarded a Damehood for her work in mental health.
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Professor, University of Heidelberg
MD (History of Medicine), Heidelberg University
ScD (Population and International Health), Harvard University
MSc (Health Systems Management), LSH&TM
MSc (Financial Economics), SOAS
MSc (Innovation & Entrepreneurship), HEC Paris
MSc (Analytics), Georgia Tech
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Lecturer in Asian Studies, University College Cork
I lecture in Japanese Studies with a specialisation in film and comedy. I have also been an active stand-up comedian in Japan and perform rakugo storytelling in Japanese, English and German. Most recently, my research on Japanese cinema has been funded by the Japan Foundation, while I was based at Tokyo University.
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Professor of Law, United States Military Academy West Point
Tim Bakken is Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point. He has practiced law in New York City, including as a homicide prosecutor in Brooklyn. He has been a visiting professor at Ural State Law University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and he started the department of law at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (Kabul). He has been a visiting scholar or researcher at Columbia Law School, the Australian National University College of Law, the University of Sydney Law School, and the University of Cambridge. His views are his own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. He can be reached at (845) 938-5544 or [email protected].
Publications
Books
Bakken, T. The Plea of Innocence: Restoring Truth to the American Legal System (New York University Press, 2022).
Bakken, T. The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Bakken, T. & Ramsey, W. Criminal Justice and the 2004 Elections (pamphlet) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005).
Bakken, T., Stock, M., & Welton, M. Guide to Criminal Law in New York (Second Edition) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).
Bakken, T., Bickers, J., & Goldstein, R. Guide to Criminal Procedure in New York (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).
Bakken, T. Guide to Criminal Law in New York (Wadsworth, 2001).
Articles
Bakken, T. “The Defendant’s Plea of Innocent in Sexual Abuse Cases,” in Wrongful Allegations of Sexualand Child Abuse, 271, Oxford University Press (Ros Burnett, ed.) (chapter) (2016).
Bakken, T. "Legal Takeovers of Nations: The Value and Risks of Foreign Direct Investment in a Global Marketplace,” 40 University of Dayton Law Review 259 (2016).
Bakken, T., “Dodd-Frank’s Extension of Criminal Corporate Liability through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Enabling Whistleblowers and Monitoring Conflict Minerals,” 36 Pace Law Review 1 (2015).
Bakken, T. “India's Constitutional Restraint: Less Expression in a Large Democracy,” 5 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 155 (2014).
Bakken, T. “Constitutional Rights and Political Power of Corporations after Citizens United: the Decline of Citizens and the Rise of Foreign Corporations and Super PACs,” 12 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 119 (2014).
Bakken, T. “A Woman’s Right to Combat: Equal Protection in the Military,” 20 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 271 (2014).
Bakken, T. "Dodd-Frank's Caveat Emptor: New Criminal Liability for Individuals and Corporations," 48 Wake Forest Law Review 1173 (2013).
Bakken, T. “The Prosecution of Newspapers, Reporters, and Sources for Disclosing Classified Information: The Government’s Softening of the First Amendment,” 45 University of Toledo Law Review 1 (2013).
Bakken, T. “Models of Justice to Protect Innocent Persons,” 56 New York Law School Law Review 867 (2012).
Bakken, T. & Steel, L. “Exonerating the Innocent: Pre-trial Innocence Procedures,” 56 New York Law School Law Review 855 (2012).
Bakken, T.“Nations’ use of Force outside Self-defense,” 8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 451 (2010).
Bakken, T. “Truth and Innocence Procedures to Free Innocent Persons: Beyond the Adversarial System,” 41 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 547 (2008).
Bakken, T. “Averting Catastrophe: Combating Iran’s Nuclear Threat,” 29 (2) Harvard International Review 84 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Prosecution of War Crimes: Military Commissions and the Procedural and Substantive Protections Beyond International Law,” 30 Fordham International Law Journal 533 (2007).
Bakken, T. “What Does Lawrence v. Texas Mean for the Future of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’” 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1218 (symposium) (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Contours of Judicial Deference to Military Personnel Policies,” 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (symposium) 1231 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Preemption of Nuclear Weapons,” 87 (6) Military Review 30 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Absence of Spiritual Awakening and Understanding in Religious Conversion,” 59 The Journal of Religious Thought 101 (2006-07).
Casey-Acevedo, K., Bakken, T., & Karle, A. “Children Visiting Mothers in Prison: The Effects on Mothers’ Behavior and Disciplinary Adjustment,” 37 (3) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 418 (2004).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “Women Adjusting to Prison: Disciplinary Behavior and the Characteristics of Adjustment,” 17 (4) Journal of Health and Social Policy Review 37 (2003).
Bakken, T. “The Effects of Hate Crime Legislation: Unproven Benefits and Unintended Consequences,” 5 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law (4) 231 (2002).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “Visiting Women in Prison: Who Visits and Who Cares?,” 43(3) Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 67 (2002).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “The Evolution of Mental Health Care Policy and the Implications for Social Work,” 1 Social Work and Mental Health 1 (2002).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “Reflections of Authority in Psychotherapy: From Freud to Post-Modernism,” 9 Psychoanalytic Social Work 57 (2002).
Bakken, T. & Bransford, C. “The Role of Human Agency in the Creation of Normative Influences within Individuals and Groups,” 5 Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 89 (2002).
Casey-Acevedo, K., Bakken, T., & Welton, M. “Women as Offenders,” 4 Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 1722 (D. Levinson, ed.) (Sage) (2002).
Bakken, T. “A Foundation for Practical and Successful Career Intervention,” 25 The Journal (Institute of Guidance Counsellors), 63 (2001).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “The Effects of Visitation on Women in Prison,” 25 International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (1) (2001).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “The Effect of Time on the Disciplinary Adjustment of Women in Prison,” 45 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 489 (2001).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “Organization Theory and the Utilization of Authority in Social Work,” 9(1) Social Work and Social Sciences Review 5 (2001).
Bakken, T., Becker, E., & Welton, M. “Institutional Acceptance and Legal Equality,” 27 Journal of Intergroup Relations 16 (2001).
Bakken, T. “The Efficacy of Reinforcement Schedules and Knowledge of Results in Effecting Behavioral Change,” 6(2) Current Research in Social Psychology 22 (2001).
Bakken, T. “The Incorporation of Values into the Counseling Relationship,” 23 American Journal of Pastoral Counseling 1 (2000).
Bakken, T. “Liberty and Equality through Freedom of Expression: The Human Rights Questions Behind Hate Crime Laws,” 4(2) International Journal of Human Rights 1 (2000).
Bakken, T. “Constitutional and Social Equality: Legacies and Limits of Law, Politics, and Culture,” 7:1 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 71 (2000).
Bakken, T. “The Use of Criminal Law to Punish Individual Motivations: Determining the Limits of Freedom of Conscience,” Sentencing & Society Conference/University of Strathclyde (on-line: out of print and available from author) (2000).
Bakken, T. & Kortering, L. “The Constitutional and Statutory Obligations of Schools to Prevent Special Education Students from Dropping Out,” 20 Remedial and Special Education 6 (1999).
Bakken, T. “A Rationale for Maximizing Freedom of Expression at Colleges and Universities,” 4 Journal of Civil Liberties 102 (1999).
Bakken, T. “Liberty, Obscenity, and Majoritarian Institutions: Who Determines the Value of Expression?” 16 Glendale Law Review 1 (1998).
Klepper, W. M. & Bakken, T. “Hate Speech: A Call to Principles,” 35 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Journal 38 (1997).
Bakken, T. “The Continued Failure of Modern Law to Create Fairness and Efficiency: The Presentence Investigation Report,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 363 (1996).
Bakken, T. “The Grand Jury” (synopsis) American Justice 352 (J. M. Bessette, ed.) (Salem) (1996).
Bakken, T. “The Infiltration of a Motorcycle Gang and the Codification of Its Social Norms and Psychological Processes,” VI Popular Culture Review 29 (1996).
Bakken, T. “Law Enforcement,” Survey of Social Science: Government and Politics Series 1059 (synopsis) (F. N. Magill & J. M. Bessette, eds.) (Salem) (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Quest of Law Enforcement for the Principled Interpretation of State Constitutions,” 5(2) State Constitutional Commentaries and Notes 1 (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Utility of Using Case Studies to Confront Ethical Dilemmas,” Teaching and Interactive Methods 399 (H. E. Klein, ed.) (World Association for Case Method Research and Application) (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Responsibility of Schools and Colleges to Monitor Pornography to Prevent Sexual Harassment,” 45 Labor Law Journal 762 (1994).
Bakken, T. “Cultivating Civilization: The Age of the English Coffeehouse,” 58 Social Education 345 (1994).
Bakken, T. “International Law and Human Rights for Defendants in Criminal Trials,” 25 Indian Journal of International Law 411 (1985).
Bakken, T. “Religious Conversion and Social Evolution Clarified,” 16 Small Group Behavior 157 (1985).
Bakken, T. “Dispute Resolution under the Trading with the Enemy Act: A Cooperative Approach between Corporations and the United States,” 7 Commercial Law Gazette (29) 3 & (30) 6 (1984).
Bakken, T. “Recognizing the Dilemma of Psychological Religious Converts,” 27 Counseling and Values 99 (1983).
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford
I work on the evolutionary biology of species diversity. Why does life evolve into distinct species? What processes shape speciation, adaptive divergence and diversity patterns? How does diversity affect the evolution of species living in complex ecosystems? In order to tackle these questions, I combine theory and statistical analysis with molecular, genomic, experimental and field data across a wide range of animals, plants, fungi and bacteria. Current projects include comparative genomics to understand the bizarre asexual life-style of bdelloid rotifers – microscopic animals living in moss and freshwater – evolutionary time-series of pathogenic fungi from cryopreserved living samples, and ‘evolution and speciation in action’ in complex microbial communities.
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Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
I am a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, with a particular interest in the nature of consciousness. I am currently Professor of Philosophy at Monash University (Melbourne), having taught previously at Macquarie University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. I am the author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010) and Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013), and an editor of Delusion and Self-Deception(2008), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009) and Cognitive Phenomenology (2011).
My current research concerns the measurement of consciousness, and whether it is possible to build a consciousness meter. Other research interests include the nature of conscious thought, disorders of consciousness and taxonomy in psychiatry. I am a member of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.
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Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, La Trobe University
Tim Cronin (he/him) is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Counselling, and Therapy at La Trobe University and a Research Psychologist at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His research interests include: LGBTIQA+ mental health and well-being, determinants of mental health (e.g., minority stress) for marginalised communities, and the development and evaluation of mental health interventions targeted to the needs of specific communities, such as trans, gender diverse, and non-binary populations. Tim's research and teaching are informed by his experience as a Clinical Psychologist working with people across the lifespan.
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International Media Law and Ethics, Dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction, Propaganda and use of Information in War, All aspects of Radio and Journalism Practice and History, Practice and History of Radio Drama, and prose/scriptwriting for stage, film and television.
Education
Professional training in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing, Law at the University of London, Literature, Film & Television, History, Crime & Social Policy at the Open University, Postgraduate Research in Performance Studies at Roehampton University and researching audio drama and modernism, Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Grants & awards
More than 60 professional awards for drama, journalism and production: UK Sony, US International Radio Festivals, Prix Italia, and Writers Guild of Great Britain
Radio Reporter of the Year 1985
Campaign for Freedom of Information Award 1988
Grand Award for Entertainment 1994
Professional activities
Membership of professional organisations & advisory groups
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Board of Distinguished Advisors to the International Radio Festival of New York
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures
Member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and its Professional Practices Board
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors
Member of the Institute of Communication Ethics
Member of the Orwell Society
Member of the Society of Authors
Member of the City if London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
Judge in the radio play category of the Koestler Trust Awards- arts by offenders
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Energy Advisor, Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne
Tim has 35 years of industrial experience (electricity, oil and gas, petrochemicals) with focus on energy production, transmission and consumption. Former employers include Exxon Mobil, BHP Billiton, Jemena, and the Australian Energy Market Operator. Tim also works part-time as a home energy consultant with the Moreland Energy Foundation - Positive Charge.
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Tim Highfield is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, where he is a member of the Digital Media Research Centre. His fellowship project is 'Visual Cultures of Social Media'. His research covers social and digital media, politics, activism, popular culture, sport, identity, humour, digital cultures, and more. His first book, Social Media and Everyday Politics, was published by Polity in April 2016. For more information, see http://timhighfield.net or @timhighfield on Twitter.
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
Educator supporting emerging talent for the entertainment industries at the Australian Institute of Music. Former record label executive (Inertia, Universal, Sony, Rough Trade, One Little Indian Records), tour manager and artist. PhD candidate at UTS researching music industries.
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Tim manages an Oxford Martin School programme at the University of Oxford which explores ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The programme assesses a wide range of proposed techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to determine which if any of them are technically feasible, environmentally safe and socially acceptable.
He has a broad interest in the potential of proposed geoengineering techniques as a response to climate change, and in the governance issues associated with them.
He has investigated in detail one potential geoengineering technique, that of adding alkalinity to the ocean as a way of enhancing its capacity to act as a carbon sink and to counteract the effects of ocean acidification. He is also interested in how proper governance can ensure that any research in this field is undertaken in a responsible way.
Tim is one of the authors of the Oxford Principles - a set of draft guidelines for the conduct of geoengineering research which have been adopted as policy by the UK Government.
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Research Fellow, Lancaster University
Tim is a marine biologist at Lancaster Environment Centre, with research interests in coral reef ecology and restoration. He aims to understand the processes at work on healthy reefs, in order to guide efforts to restore degraded ecosystems. Tim studied has carried out research on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific region, and completed a PhD in reef bioacoustics at the University of Exeter in 2020. He started his current research fellowship at Lancaster in 2022, funded by the Royal Commission of 1851 and in collaboration with the Mars Coral Reef Restoration Programme.
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Professor of Food Policy, City University London
Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy since 2002. After a PhD in social psychology at Leeds University, he became a hill farmer in the 1970s which shifted his attention to food policy, where it has been ever since. For years, he's engaged in academic and public research and debate about its direction, locally to globally. His abiding interest is how policy addresses the environment, health, social justice, and citizens. What is a good food system? How is ours measured and measuring up?
He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation (eg auditing the Global Top 25 Food Companies on food and health), FAO (eg co-chairing the definition of sustainable diets) and UNEP (eg co-writing its 2012 Avoiding Future Famines report). He has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries (food standards x 2, globalisation and obesity), and a consultant on food security to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He was a Commissioner on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission (2006-11), reviewing progress on food sustainability. He was on the Council of Food Policy Advisors to the Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (2008-10), and was appointed to the Mayor of London's Food Board in 2010. He helped launch the 100 World Cities Urban Food Policy Pact in Milan 2015.
He and the Centre for Food Policy at City University London work closely with civil society organisations, through Sustain the UK NGO alliance (which he chaired in the past) and the UK Food Group. He has been a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (since 1999) and President of Garden Organic (since 2008). He currently chairs the Food Research Collaboration, an inter-University, inter-disciplinary academic collaboration with UK civil society (www.foodresearch.org.uk), and leads his University's involvement in the 5 University IFSTAL partnership (www.ifstal.ac.uk) which shares food systems thinking for post-graduates in a wide range of disciplines.
He has written and co-written many articles, reports, chapters and books. His most recent books are Food Wars (with Michael Heasman, Routledge, 2015), Unmanageable Consumer (with Yiannis Gabriel, Sage, 2015), Ecological Public Health (with Geof Rayner, Routedge Earthscan, 2012), Food Policy (with D Barling and M Caraher, Oxford University Press, 2009) and the Atlas of Food (with E Millstone, Earthscan 2003/2008). He writes frequently in the media and wrote a monthly column in The Grocer 2000-15.
He was elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2001, and Fellow by Distinction in 2014; is an Hon Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Cooks (City of London); and won the Agri-Bagri Award of the Australia-New Zealand AgriFoodNetwork. He rides a bicycle to work, doesn't own a car and grows vegetables and fruit in his London garden.
His current research interests include:
- The political and policy battles over sustainable diets and the meaning of food security;
- Institutional failure to create coherent food policies;
- Food democracy and the growth of democratic experimentalism about the future of food;
- The shape and status of EU, UK and global food policies
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Guest lecturer and Practice Lead — Building Sciences, at Restoration Industry Consultants
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Research Program Coordinator, University of Toronto
Tim Li is the research program coordinator of PROOF, a research program studying effective policy interventions for household food insecurity in Canada at the University of Toronto. PROOF's work shines a spotlight on the size and seriousness of food insecurity in Canada, the inability for charitable assistance to resolve it, and how it can be remedied through public policies supporting adequate incomes. Over the past decade, PROOF has helped establish food insecurity as a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy.
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Graduate Research Assistant, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
I am currently a graduate research assistant at the University of British Columbia's Sustainability Hub. My research primarily revolves around equity and justice in climate adaptation. Alongside this, I am a current masters student in public policy and global affairs with a concentration on the intersection of climate and human rights policy.
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museum Victoria
Dr Timothy O'Hara uses museum collections to answer large-scale questions about the distribution of seafloor animals around the globe. This research includes aspects of biogeography, macroecology, phylogeny, and phylogeography. His taxonomic speciality is the Ophiurodea (brittle-stars), a class of echinoderms that are a dominant component of the seafloor fauna.
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Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs online events about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software”, “web 2.0”, “the Maker movement”, “government as a platform”, or “algorithmic rents”, he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas.
He is a visiting professor of practice at University College London's Institute For Innovation and Public Purpose, where he has been doing research on how big tech firms use their algorithms to extract economic rents.
Tim is also a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the board of Code for America. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).
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Research Fellow, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham
Tim Podlogar has a PhD from exercise metabolism from the University of Birmingham. After his PhD completion he held a postdoctoral position at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, where he investigated ketone body and menthol supplementation in extreme environments. At a similar time, he also become an Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology at the University of Primorska, Slovenia. In late 2021 he returned to the University of Birmingham as a Research Fellow to work under Dr Gareth Wallis on a project looking at effects of heat acclimation on exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates.
He remains a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Primorska. In 2022 Tim joined professional cycling team BORA hansgrohe as of of their performance nutritionists. In spare time he is a keen cycling covering more than 20.000 km yearly.
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Haslam Chair in Business and Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Tennessee
Tim Pollock is the Haslam Chair in Business and Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business. He is an international research fellow with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and a research fellow with Haslam’s Neel Corporate Governance Center. Prior to joining Haslam, he held faculty positions at Penn State University, the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Broadly defined, Pollock’s research focuses on the social construction of value in uncertain and ambiguous circumstances, particularly the contexts of corporate governance, executive compensation and entrepreneurial market environments, with a focus on the initial public offerings (IPO) market. He considers how social and political factors such as reputation, celebrity, social capital, impression management activities, media accounts and the power of different actors influence firm performance, survival, alliance formation activities, and executive recruitment and compensation. He is also interested in how entrepreneurs’ experiences and organizational resource endowments influence their strategic decision making.
His research has won the 1997 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, the 2000 Lou Pondy Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, the 2009 IDEA Thought Leader Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for the best recent entrepreneurship research, the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Published Paper Award for 2010 and the 2013 Bright Idea Award from Seton Hall University and the New Jersey Policy Research Organization. Tim also won Haslam’s 2020 Vallett Family Outstanding Researcher Award. Tim’s research has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award and the 2022 Academy of Management Review Managerial Practice Award. He has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Communication Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organizational Dynamics, Academy of Management Executive, British Journal of Management and Corporate Reputation Review.
Pollock served as associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2010-2013 and is a member, or has been a member, of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science and Strategic Organization. He received outstanding reviewer awards for his reviewing activities from the Academy of Management Journal in 2004 and 2010 and from the Journal of Business Venturing in 2010. He also co-edited “The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation” and “Corporate Reputation: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management,” and authored the book “How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing.” He served on the executive committee of the organization science division of INFORMS from 2006-2010, and served as representative-at-large on the executive committee of the organization and management theory division of the Academy of Management from 2006-2009.
At Haslam, Pollock teaches an undergraduate elective on managing startups and doctoral seminars on organization theory and academic writing. He has previously taught courses on strategy at the undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA and doctoral levels, and on power and influence in full-time and executive MBA programs. In 2002 he won the Mabel C. Chipman Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, and in 2000 he was named one of the Top Five MBA professors by the Wisconsin MBA Graduate Students Association.
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Research fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia
From a political science perspective, my research has focused on various aspects of the interface between knowledge and policy, including the role of policy appraisal and evaluation in environmental and climate policy processes. Since 2006 most of my research has been EU-funded, and has centred on the development of European Union climate policy (both mitigation and adaptation), and the UK's role therein. I have co-written various books and book chapters, journal articles, blogs and press articles on related issues. I hold a PhD from the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
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PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Bath
I am a PhD student at the University of Bath, based in the Milner Centre for Evolution. With an academic background in Anthropology and Palaeobiology (at the University of Bristol), I am now researching if- and how- the process of evolution leads to predictable patterns in biological complexity, focussing primarily on arthropod groups as a model system.
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Associate Professor in Media History, University of East Anglia
Tim Snelson studied for an AHRC funded MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in Film Studies at UEA. From 2008 he was a lecturer in media and culture in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at UEA, before moving into his current role as associate professor in media history in the School of Art, Media and American Studies in 2011.
Tim’s research addresses the relationships between media, cultural and social histories, focusing particularly on popular film and media genres (horror, true crime, psychological thrillers); media and mental health; crime and media; audiences and cinemagoing; gender and popular media; material culture and screen heritage; and youth (sub)cultures.
He has published articles on media, cultural and medical history in journals including Cultural Studies, Journal of British Cinema and Television and the History of the Human Sciences, and a number of edited collections. He has monographs titled Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (Rutgers: 2015) and Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long-1960s (Edinburgh University Press: 2024).
Tim is a trustee of Film Archives UK and member and regular contributor to the international research network of The History of Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception (HoMER).
He is currently co-investigating a research council-funded project on the intersecting material cultures of media and mental health with the Science Museum Group. See the Demons of the Mind project webiste here.
Key Research Interests
Hollywood and British Cinema
Film and television genres, cycles and trends
Material culture, archives and screen heritage
Crime and media
Media and mental health
Audiences, reception studies and cinemagoing
Youth (sub)culture and media
Popular media and gender
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Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London & Director of the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Professor Spector graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, London. After working in General Medicine, he completed a MSc in Epidemiology, and his MD thesis at the University of London.
He founded the UK Twins Registry of 11,000 twins in 1993, which is one of the largest collections of genotype and phenotype information on twins worldwide. Its breadth of research has expanded to cover a wide range of common complex traits many of which were previously thought to be mainly due to ageing and environment. He has published over 700 research articles on common diseases and is ranked in the top 1% of world scientists.
He has written several original articles on the heritability of a wide range of diseases and traits including back pain, acne, inflammation, obesity, memory, musical ability and sexuality. He has published widely on obesity, food and nutrition. He also is interested in new areas of biology such as epigenetics and recently our gut microbiome and is director of the British Gut project
He has written several books, He is also author of - The Diet Myth: The real science behind what we eat by W&N 2015 and Identically different: Why you can change your genes, by W&N in 2012 and Your Genes Unzipped in 2003.
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Professor of Microbiology, The University of Melbourne
Principal Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne
ORCID: 0000-0003-0150-123X
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I am a mathematician specialising in number theory, a field of mathematics focussing on the distribution of prime numbers.
I graduated from the ANU in 2005 with BSc (Hons). I won a John Monash Scholarship to Oxford where I completed my DPhil in number theory in 2010.
After two years as a post-doctoral researcher in Canada I returned to Australian as an Australian Research Council Early Career Research Fellow in mathematics.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London
I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Management at Imperial College. My research has a strong focus on working on meaningful societal topics, which can contribute to the advancement of scholarship and inform policy. I leverage qualitative methods (extensive fieldwork, ethnography, and archival work) to study phenomena such as colocating, identical car repair firms in Kenya; experimentation on gig workers; and fraud court cases against Silicon Valley start-ups, among other areas of interest.
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Professor, Director, Generations Research Initiative, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University
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Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
I am a palaeontologist at Museums Victoria, Australia, and responsible for the care of the State Palaeontology Collection of Victoria.
I investigate Victoria's fossil heritage in museum collections and field expeditions and have a strong interest in protecting and promoting palaeontological and geological heritage in Australia.
My current focus is to expand the diversity and distribution of Pleistocene megafauna, by investigating fossil deposits in southeastern Australian caves and karst.
I am experienced in the excavation, identification, preparation, and management of vertebrate fossils.
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