Lecturer in Classical Languages and Culture, Leiden University My research focuses on the Platonic tradition, from Plato down to the Neoplatonists of late antiquity (Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus etc.). I am especially interested in such topics as Platonic mythology and its afterlife, Neoplatonic ethics, religious practice & theology, linguistic theories & literary criticism and their intersections. My current project is The Neoplatonists on Moral Education. This project studies the theory and practice of moral education in the (Neo)Platonic tradition, i.e. the issue of how to render the young into virtuous people. I am especially interested in the way in which Neoplatonists appropriate existing moralizing literature (Hesiod’s Works and Days, Prodicus’ Choice of Hercules, the Pythagorean Golden Verses) and genres (history, rhetoric) and adapt it to fit their own psychological and ethical ideas.
Professor of History, University of Sydney I am a historian interested in histories of feminism and in questions about history and the individual life. My publications include: Biography and History, Forthcoming April 2010, Palgrave Macmillan (History and Theory series) "Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb", Oxford University Press, 1986, "Victorian Feminists", Oxford University Press, 1992," English Feminism, c1780-1970, Oxford University Press", 1997, Bombay to Bloomsbury: the Stracheys, c 1850-1950, Oxford University Press, 2005, Biography and History, Bloomsbury 2012, Women and the Autobiographical Impulse, Bloomsbury 2023. I was one of the editors of the Companion to Australian Feminism, Oxford 1998.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Ben Beaglehole is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychological Medicine, UOC and psychiatrist at the Anxiety Disorders Service for the Canterbury District Health Board. Ben participates in the Departmental research projects examining the longer-term outcome of mood disorders and interventions to increase the likelihood of response and remission. Ben also researches the psychological effects of natural disasters, ketamine for treatment resistant mood and anxiety disorders, and the use of large databases to explore the impacts of compulsory treatment.
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University After obtaining his Laurea Magistrale (Master's degree) in Architecture in 2010 from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Bernardino worked as an architectural engineer on various research-driven projects, such as gridshell.it, where he was responsible for the structural design of a series of prototypes, including ReSonant String Shell, a timber acoustic shell for outdoor chamber music concerts. He was also involved in a joint research collaboration between the department of Construction and Mathematical Methods in Architecture (University of Naples Federico II) and the department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (University of Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio, Italy) where he carried out theoretical and laboratory test-based investigations on a novel lightweight cold-formed steel beam. In October 2012, he joined the School of Engineering and the Built Environment of Edinburgh Napier University, as a PhD candidate, to develop computer-aided methods for the design of free-form grid-shell structural systems. Bernardino's research interests lie in the general realm of design, analysis and fabrication of sustainable buildings and structures with focus on Computational Structural Design and Optimisation.
PhD Candidate, Department of English Language and Literatures, Queen's University, Ontario Basmah Rahman is a Ph.D. Candidate at Queen’s University in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She completed her MA in English at McMaster University, and did her BAH and B. ED at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on Canadian Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) literature and intersections of identity representation within public education systems. Basmah is interested in anti-racist and anti-oppressive teaching pedagogies that centre community engagement.
Associate Professor, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Bettina Grün is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology and a Venia Docendi in Statistics from the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. She is interested in improving model-based clustering methodology and implementing statistical software packages for R, an open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. In addition she enjoys applying statistical methods in a wide area of applications including economics and business to help extract useful information from data.
