Senior Research Associate in Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Vikki Thompson is a researcher in the Geography department of Bristol University. Her work focuses on heat extremes, and their impacts on human health. She currently works in the Climate Dynamics Group. Previously, she has worked for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and prior to that the Met Office Hadley Centre. She researches the emergence of climate extremes in models, focusing on human health related extremes such as temperature and humidity related events.
Professor in Drama Studies, University College Dublin Eamonn Jordan is Professor in Drama Studies and former Subject Head (2011-2014) at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. His book The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997) is the first full-length study on McGuinness's work. In 2000, he edited Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. He co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories (2006). His book Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre was published in 2010 by Irish Academic Press. In 2012, he co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Conor McPherson:' Right beside the Beyond'. In 2014 his monograph From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh was published by Irish Academic Press. In 2016 he introduced and selected with Finola Cronin The Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader for Carysfort Press, a publication with over 70 essays. September 2018 saw the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, a work he co-edited with Eric Weitz. The Theatre and Film of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities has been published by Methuen Bloomsbury in February 2019. In 2020, Justice and the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh was published by Palgrave as part of its Pivot series of publications.
Research Fellow, University of Sussex Yohannes Ayele is a Research Fellow in the Economics of Brexit at the University of Sussex. He holds a PhD in Economics from Aarhus University and an MSc in Economics from Copenhagen University.
Assistant Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University I am an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) of Fudan University. I am also a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the TOChina Hub and the Head of Research for the TOChina Hub’s ChinaMed Project. I am also a member of the Editorial Team of OrizzonteCina. With a focus on China and Sino-Middle Eastern relations, my research seeks to explain how a rising power’s foreign and security policy is shaped by its own domestic politics as well as that of other countries. At SIRPA, the subjects that I teach include foreign policy analysis, Chinese diplomacy, as well as academic publishing. I am also a reviewer for International Security, International Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asia Policy, Asian Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Politics, The International Spectator, Italian Political Science Review, Armed Forces & Society, and The China Review. I also review book manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press and Australia National University Press.
Lecturer, Political Science, Duke Kunshan University I am a Lecturer in Political Science at Duke Kunshan University. My research focuses on the political economy of China’s foreign economic relations, Chinese foreign aid, foreign direct investment, and China-Africa relations. More broadly, I am interested in combining quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how history influences contemporary political economy and international relations, and in how political and sociological factors impact prospects for economic development. My teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include global governance, political economy of institutions, and China and the Global South.
