Contributors

Catherine Barnard

Professor of EU law and employment law, University of Cambridge MA (Cantab), LLM (EUI), PhD (Cantab)

Caroline Isaksson

Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Biology, Evolutionary Ecology unit, Lund University Caroline is the Senior Lecturer in Biology at Lund University. Her main research interests lie in the interface between ecology, evolution, toxicology and physiology and her current research focuses on the impacts of urbanization on avian populations. Before her permanent position at Lund University, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University/UK and at the University of Groningen/the Netherlands. Her PhD-degree was awarded in 2007 at Gothenburg University/Sweden.

Christian Hampel

PhD candidate, University of Cambridge Christian is a doctoral candidate in Management on the Innovation, Strategy & Organisation pathway. His research explores how organizations manage reputations with a particular focus on fighting stigmatisation, reviving legitimacy, and altering institutions. Christian joined the PhD programme in 2012 after having undertaken a bachelor degree at Warwick, a research master degree at Cambridge and work experience in consulting. At Cambridge Judge Business School he initiated the "Methods Forum", a platform for the School's faculty and students to discuss the use of research methods. Christian's PhD research is funded by a scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Christian was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the Management & Organizations Department of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) from September to December 2015. Christian's teaching experience includes roles as seminar lecturer and teaching assistant in a variety of courses (research masters, MBA, EMBA), covering the domains of organisational behaviour, organisation theory, social entrepreneurship and strategy.

Carly Sawatzki

Dr Carly Sawatzki is a teacher-educator with expertise in curriculum and pedagogy across the Victorian and Australian curricula (VCE, Victorian Curriculum, Australian Curriculum). Carly's subject areas include upper primary Mathematics, middle school Economics & Business, senior school Business Management and senior school Psychology. Being an interdisciplinarian is critical to her key area of interest, contextual learning. Carly's PhD explored the role of social and mathematical understandings in children's financial problem-solving and decision-making. Her ongoing research focuses on the 'Money and financial mathematics'​ strand of the Australian Curriculum - Mathematics in upper primary school, and has involved developing, trialling, studying, and refining unique financial dilemmas and associated pedagogies to enhance financial literacy teaching and learning. Some of her tasks have been included in the Encouraging Persistence, Maintaining Challenge (EPMC) project. Before switching careers to teaching and academia, Carly worked in marketing and business development roles in the finance industry.

Camilla Nelson

Camilla Nelson lectures in Media and Communications at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and specialises in fiction and non fiction writing, adaptation and history in popular culture. Previously she was a lecturer in the Creative Practices Group at UTS. In addition to a range of scholarly and other essays, she is also a published novelist. Her work includes, Perverse Acts, for which she was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and Crooked, which was shortlisted in the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards. She is also a former journalist, and has a Walkley Award Best All Media Online News (2001) for her work at the Sydney Morning Herald. Camilla's work has been recognised through the award of grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Commission. She has served as a judge of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2008 and 2012), the Kathleen Mitchell Award (2008 to 2014), the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists (2015), and on the governing board of the NSW Writers' Centre (2008-2011). Her most recent book is a co-edited collection of essays On Happiness, UWA Press, 2015.

Carla Figueira

Carla Figueira, BA MA PhD FHEA FRSA, is an academic in the field of international cultural relations and cultural and linguistic policies. She is the Director of the MA in Cultural Policy, Relations and Diplomacy and of the MA in Tourism and Cultural Policy at the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London. Carla is an international relations graduate of the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal), she moved to London after a career in arts management. In the UK, she went on to gain an MA in Arts Management (City University, UK, Chevening Scholar) and a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management (City University, UK, Praxis XXI Scholar). Carla is interested in international cultural relations as a transdisciplinary field, as well as being interested in the areas of cultural policy and arts management and in language policy. Her research interests encompass several academic disciplines, including international studies, history, cultural studies, sociology, linguistics and psychology. Keywords she has used to describe her work include: cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, sociolinguistics, language-spread policies, international cultural policy, international organisations, hegemony, soft power. Carla is a member of ENCATC, the leading European network on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy education and a member of the British International Studies Association. She is a Chevening Alumna and Buddy.