Contributors

Christopher W. Callahan

Ph.D. Student in Climate Science, Dartmouth College

Chris Callahan is a Ph.D. student in Justin Mankin's Climate Modeling and Impacts Group. His research focuses on the economic impacts of climate change. He uses a variety of methods from both the physical and social sciences to understand the relationship between climate change, extreme events like heat waves and El Niño events, and outcomes like economic growth.

Cameron Robert Jones

Doctoral Student in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Cameron Jones is a PhD Student in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. His work focuses on how human beings use their embodied experience with the world to understand language and whether artificial models could understand language in a human-like way. He runs experiments that compare the way in which humans and language models respond to sentences that are theorised to require embodied experience to understand: for example, sentences about physical events, affordances, or social interactions. To the extent that human responses can't be predicted by text-only language models, these experiments suggests that human comprehenders are drawing on experience that goes beyond language alone.

Christine Batchelor

Lecturer in Physical Geography, Newcastle University

I am a physical geographer with a broad research interest in reconstructing the past extent and behaviour of ice sheets. I am interested in all temporal scales of ice-sheet and climatic change, ranging from annual ice-margin fluctuations, to large-scale advances and retreats of ice sheets during the last ~3 million years. I mainly use marine geophysical techniques to analyse the glacial landforms and sediments that are preserved on and beneath the seafloor.

Christopher Vandome

Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House and PhD candidate, International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand

Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House and PhD candidate, International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand Christopher Vandome is a research fellow with the Chatham House Africa Programme. His research focuses on the political economy and international relations of Southern Africa, as well as regional peace and security, environmental issues and extractive industries. He has written several multi-author and single author peer reviewed book chapters, reports, articles and papers. He has significant experience project managing research on African political-economy issues, including coordinating inclusive multi-stakeholder research processes, conducting extensive field work, and organizing international events and conferences as well as events with senior international political figures. Christopher writes and comments regularly on political issues in southern Africa including for Africa Report, Al Jazeera, BBC, SABC, Huffington Post, Mail and Guardian, Newsweek and the Telegraph. Christopher previously lived in South Africa, and has a Master’s Degree from the University of Cape Town.

Christopher Adam

Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford

Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford Christopher Adam's current research focuses on the macroeconomics of low-income countries, in particular those of Africa; monetary economics and public finance; and growth and structural change in low-income countries. His work uses methods of quantitative macroeconomics including stochastic and deterministic general equilibrium techniques. Christopher Adam is Lead Academic for the International Growth Centre (IGC) programme in Tanzania. He is also an occasional Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as member of the DFID-IMF research programme on the macroeconomics of low-income countries. He is currently a co-editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and is a member of the editorial board of Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Development Studies and the Tanzania Economic Review.

Celia Edell

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia Celia Edell is a Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from McGill University where she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of feminist theory, social epistemology, and ethics with a special focus on guilt, blame, and group oppression.