Contributors

Charles Livingstone

Charles is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. His principal research interests are in gambling as a public health issue, social theory of gambling, ethics of gambling research and reform of gambling regulation.

Catherine Harris

Catherine studied Geography (MA Hons) at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2005. She completed a MA in International Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2007, which was awarded with distinction. She gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2012. Her PhD investigated the experiences of Polish migrant entrepreneurs in the West Midlands region of the UK and is the first large-scale study of its kind. Her research has attracted interest internationally and has been disseminated in both the print and broadcast media. Catherine's expertises lie in the fields of entrepreneurship and enterprise, ethnic entrepreneurship, social difference, EU enlargement, EU migration, Polish migration and the Polish community in the UK. Methodologically, Catherine’s interest is in qualitative and ethnographic research.

Carolyn Whitzman

Carolyn Whitzman is Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. She is the lead researcher for Transforming Housing and lead editor of 'Melbourne: What Next? A discussion on creating a better future for Melbourne' (Research Monograph No. 1, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, 2014), 'Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and the Right to the City' (Earthscan, 2013), author of 'Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in a Toronto Neighbourhood 1875-2002' (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and 'The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical planning tools' (Earthscan, 2008), and the co-author of 'Safe Cities: guidelines for planning, design, and management' (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995). She has also published numerous peer-reviewed scholarly publications, book chapters, and reports on partnerships for social justice in the city, with particular emphasis on the supporting the rights of women, children and people with disabilities to access affordable housing, public transportation, social services, and public space.

Christos Kotsogiannis

Christos Kotsogiannis is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter and a Research Fellow at CESifo, Germany. He was born in Athens and studied for his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Essex. His research is primarily in the field of public economics, political economics, environmental economics and international trade, with publications in journals such as,American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory,International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Urban Economics and Economics Letters. He has been the guest co-editor for a special issue on climate change issues for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics and International Tax and Public Finance. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Tax Administration and he is one of the three editors of CESifo Economic Studies. Kotsogiannis has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, and a consultant for the World Bank on issues of fuel subsidies. He was Head of the Economics Department at University of Exeter Business School from 2011-2014 and held a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2009-2011. In 2015 Kotsogiannis was awarded the Copernicus International Fellowship from the University IUSS-Ferrara 1391.

Claire Molloy

Claire Molloy is Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, Director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) and Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS). Her research interests focus on the critical junctures between media, film and Animal Studies; (un)sustainable consumption; eco-media; American cinema; activism; and, film and politics. Her recent publications include the books Memento (2010), Popular Media and Animals (2011), Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism (2012) and American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond (2013). She is currently co-editing The Routledge Companion to Film and Politics. In addition, her recent work on popular depictions of animal cruelty, industrial-economic analysis of commercial wildlife films, a history of independent nature films, news coverage of dangerous dogs, representations of nature in commercial feature films, farmed animals product advertising, and neoliberal aesthetics have been published in various edited collections and journals. Her research on news media discourses and the UK coastline forms one of four case studies on non-monetary valuations of nature (WP5) for the National Ecosystem Assessment (2013) and she is a contributing author to a guide on deliberative methods for non-monetary valuations of nature for policy-makers and key decision-makers (2014). She is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, serves on the Vegan Society Academic Advisory Committee and the Minding Animals International Programme Committee, and is an advisor to the Animal History Museum. In addition to reviewing for fourteen different publishers and journals and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Claire is Consultant Editor for the Journal of Animal Ethics and on the Advisory Board for the Palgrave Macmillan Book Series on Animal Ethics. Her current research examines various aspects of sustainable ethical food production, particularly where these relate to media regulation, meat and dairy consumption, and the tensions between sustainable consumption and neoliberal constructions of consumer pleasure. She is involved in research on women and wildlife filmmaking, media discourses on animal sentience and she continues to write about Christopher Nolan’s films.

Craig Speelman

I graduated from UWA in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology, followed by a PhD in Psychology from UWA in 1992. In both degrees I completed research projects in Cognitive Psychology, the study of processes underlying thought. The focus of my PhD project was cognitive skill acquisition, which is my main area of expertise today.