Contributors

Christopher Mallan

Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia

Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia C.T. Mallan teaches Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. In 2024 he was appointed ACIS Cassamarca Chair in Latin Humanism.

Chia-Yu Chen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand) and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). My research is currently focused on using molecular methods to control mosquitoes that transmit malaria.

Christopher Bridges

Reader in Onboard Data Handling, University of Surrey

Reader in Onboard Data Handling, University of Surrey

Christopher Whitehead

Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology

Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology Christopher Whitehead is a Lecturer in Law. He is interested in the law of the English- and French-speaking worlds and of the Pacific, particularly as it relates to the financial services. He is currently researching various questions of insurance law, such as how insurers may transfer business to one another and to what extent insurers may cover penalties for regulatory and criminal liability. Before joining AUT Law School, he practised for 10 years in Paris, France, as legal counsel to a French-headquartered banking group and then to a United States-headquartered insurance group. In these roles, he advised on the law of several countries (including France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom) as applying to his employers’ business — on questions of insurance law, as well as of banking and general business law. More recently, he worked in Montreal, Canada, as a data-protection consultant for a Japanese conglomerate. In 2020, he received an AUT Excellence in Teaching Award. Also, from 2001 to 2004, he worked at AUT as a Lecturer in French.

Ceridwen Dovey

Research fellow, Macquarie University

Research fellow, Macquarie University Ceridwen Dovey is a fiction writer, science writer, filmmaker and Macquarie University Research Fellow. Her most recent book is Only the Astronauts (Penguin Random House, 2024).

Carrie Paechter

Professor of Childhood, Youth and Family Life, Nottingham Trent University

Professor of Childhood, Youth and Family Life, Nottingham Trent University Role Carrie is the Director of the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families. Working with people in the School of Social Sciences and across NTU, she is seeking to devise new ways of working with local communities to improve people’s lives in Nottingham and beyond. Career overview Carrie began her career as a mathematics teacher and worked in various London comprehensive schools before moving to King’s College London to research interdisciplinary coursework. She subsequently taught at King’s and the Open University, before moving to Goldsmiths, University of London. At Goldsmiths her roles included being the inaugural Dean of Goldsmiths Graduate School and then Head of Educational Studies. She joined Nottingham Trent University in July 2017. Research areas Carrie’s research is focused around questions of identity and childhood. She is particularly interested in what it means to be a gendered, embodied child and how this is understood by children themselves. Other research foci include: LGBTQI+ parented families and schools; spatiality and schooling; power/knowledge, gender and curriculum; ideas about legitimacy, especially within communities of practice; online learning in divorce and similar life events.