Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism, University of the Arts London Carol Tulloch is a writer, curator and Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London based in the School of Design at Chelsea, Camberwell, Wimbledon (CCW). She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a Trustee of Autograph, and sits on the Paul Mellon Publications Committee, and the Museum of London Academic Board. Her books include Black Style (V&A, 2004), The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (Routledge, 2018). Carol has contributed to publications, most recently: ‘Style Activism: The Everyday Activist Wardrobe of the Black Panther Party and Rock Against Racism Movement' in Fashion and Politics (Yale, 2019), ‘Long Time Gyal Me Never See You’ in Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test, (Kaleidoscope 38, 2021), ‘Snap!: Photography as a Monument to Anti-Racism in Britain’ in Art & the Public Sphere (Intellect, 2021), ‘Epiphanies of Dress’ in Lubaina Himid (Tate, 2021), ‘T-Shirt Matters’ in Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics (Intellect, 2022), ‘We haven’t got here just on our own. It’s a conversation: An interview with Carol Tulloch’, in The European Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage, 2022). Her curated and co-curated exhibitions include Tools of the Trade: Memories of Black British Hairdressing (Black Cultural Archives, 2001), Grow Up! Advice and the Teenage Girl (The Women’s Library, 2002), The March of the Women: Suffragettes and the State (National Archives, 2003), Black British Style (V&A, 2004), A Riot of Our Own (Chelsea Space, 2008), Handmade Tales: Women and Domestic Crafts (The Women’s Library, 2010), Rock Against Racism (Autograph, 2015), Jessica Ogden: Still (Marylebone, 2017). Carol’s media contributions include: interviewee Art of Now: Race and Fashion, BBC Radio 4 (2019), profile portrait in Maria Grazia Chiuri’s portfolio edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly Magazine (2019), contributor to Cool: Sunglasses, Style and American Counter Culture, BBC World Service (2018), ‘Dressing well is almost part of the DNA of the black community’,The Observer (2016).
Doctoranda en Psicología clínica y de la salud, con contrato FPI-UAM en el departamento de Psiquiatría (Facultad de Medicina), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Se graduó y obtuvo su máster en la Universitá degli Studi di Pavia (Italia). Se especializó en la terapia con niños con diferentes trastornos, en particular con el Trastorno del Espectro Autista. Trabajó como técnico de investigación en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Actualmente trabaja como investigadora predoctoral, con una beca FPI, en el departamento de Psiquiatría de la Facultad de Medicina de la UAM y está desarrollando su tesis doctoral.
Catedrático de Geografía Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears Doctor en Geografia por la Universitat de Barcelona (1997). Estancia postdoctoral en la Loughborough University (UK) el año 1998. He realizado estancias de investigación en la Ben Gurion University (Israel), el USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (EEUU), la Universidad de Glasgow (Escocia) y la Universidad de California en Berkeley (EEUU). Profesor de Geografía Física en el Departament de Geografia (antes Ciències de la Terra) de la Universitat de las Illes Balears desde Octubre de 1998. Su investigación se centra en: i) geomorfología fluvial (efectos del hydropeaking en el inicio del movimiento en ríos de grava, transporte de sedimentos, evolución de la red fluvial), ii) la hidrología en cursos de agua temporales mediterráneos (análisis de series temporales, hidrología de caudales cero y ecología fluvial), iii) los recursos hídricos en medio insulares (gestión del agua, consumo de agua en zonas urbanas y turísticas, tarifas del agua) y iv) la fotografía aérea histórica para evaluar los cambios en el paisaje a largo plazo.
Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Crystal E. Garcia, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research examines the mechanisms by which minoritized college students experience campus environments. Dr. Garcia is Associate Editor of the Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice and a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of College Student Development and the College Student Affairs Journal. Prior to her role at Nebraska, Dr. Garcia served as an Assistant Professor of Administration of Higher Education at Auburn University. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Studies specializing in Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also completed an M.S. in Higher Education Administration and a B.S. in Speech Communications at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Assistant professor, Lusófona University Carla Sousa is a PhD in Communication Sciences from Lusófona University, where she also took her Bachelors Degree in Psychology, her Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, and a Postgraduate degree in Applied Neuropsychology. Her PhD thesis approached game accessibility as a path to empower and promote well-being in individuals with intellectual disability, which illustrates her main research targets - the different intersections between media, with a particular focus on games, inclusion, behavior, and human diversity. Also in Lusófona University, Carla is part of the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT) and is an assistant professor in the Bachelor's Degrees in Psychology and Videogames. She published several papers as an author and co-author in peer-reviewed journals, and has done communications at national and international conferences in the fields of media studies, media psychology, games, accessibility, disability, social inclusion, learning, and education. Carla has been part of several national and internationally funded projects, both in research and management roles, including: GameIN (2022.07939.PTDC); TEGA (2020-1-UK01-KA203-079248); ID-Games (2019-1-EL01-KA204-062517); Youth for Youth (2020-2-HU01-KA205-079126); ASDigital (2020-1-PT01-KA226-SCH-094961); or GamiLearning (UTAP-ICDT/IVC-ESCT/0020/2014). Carla has also been involved in the organization of scientific events and scientific networks, being the chair of Working Group 2 in COST Action (CA 19104) - advancing Social inclusion through Technology and EmPowerment (a-Step), which aims to map the best practices and define a research agenda for the future of assistive technologies for individuals with intellectual disability and autism. Since 2022, Carla has been an individual ambassador for the non-profit Women in Games and, since 2023, a member of the advisory board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide Dr Cynthia Barlow is a researcher at the Australian Centre for Housing Research. Her research will determine just how cold Australian homes are, who is most at risk and why.
