Contributors

Chris Mackenzie

Lecturer and Programme Leader, New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland

Lecturer and Programme Leader, New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland Over 30 years experience in the visual arts industries and education. Fellow of Advance HE.

Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat

Catedrático de Ciencia Política, Universitat de Barcelona

Catedrático de Ciencia Política, Universitat de Barcelona Autor de una amplia obra dedicada a cuestiones de política comparada y teoría política. Investigaciones actuales centradas en integración europea y partidos políticos.

Christine Kinealy

Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University

Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University Christine Kinealy is the founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Christine has published extensively on Ireland’s Great Hunger and, more recently, the Irish Abolition movement. This includes the award-winning This Great Calamity. The Great Hunger in Ireland, and a graphic novel entitled, ‘The Bad Times’, or ‘An Drochshaol’. In 1997, she spoke in the British Houses of Parliament and in the American Congress on the Famine. Christine is a Director of the African American Irish Diaspora Network. In 2018, she published Frederick Douglass and Ireland. In his own words. In 2020, Black Abolitionists in Ireland was published and a second volume is planned. This research led to the creation of Frederick Douglass Walking Trails in Belfast, Cork and Dublin. Christine has been named one of the top educators in Irish America. In 2014, she was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame and, in 2017, received an Emmy for ‘The Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora’ documentary. In 2019, she was one of five historians who walked 100-miles from Roscommon to Dublin, following in the footsteps of tenants sent to Canada in 1847. This route now forms The National Famine Way.

Chao Chen

Deputy Director, Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub, RMIT Univeristy, RMIT University

Deputy Director, Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub, RMIT Univeristy, RMIT University Dr Chao Chen is currently a Senior Lecturer in AI and Data Analytics at RMIT University. He received his PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Data Scientist at Telstra to create customer value from huge and heterogeneous data sources using advanced analytics and big data techniques. He is conducting interdisciplinary research between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), such as AI for cybersecurity and security issues in AI models. He has published more than 60 research papers in high quality journals and conferences, such as IJCAI, ESORICS, PETS and ASIACCS. One of his papers was the featured article of that issue (IT Professional Mar.-Apr. 2016). His work has been cited more than 2100 times with h-index 22 from Google Scholar.

Christopher Amaral

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Bath

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Bath Dr. Christopher Amaral is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Bath as a faculty member, Christopher earned his PhD in Marketing (2020) from Queen’s University in Canada. In addition to holding a PhD, Christopher also completed an MBA (2014) at the University of Toronto and a BComm (2010) at Ryerson University in Canada. While completing his PhD, Christopher was distinguished as an AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2020) and was awarded by national and provincial government agencies in Canada, earning the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Award (2019) and Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award (2018). As a quantitative marketing researcher, Christopher’s main research interests fall into the area of marketing analytics. Particularly, he adopts empirical approaches (e.g. econometric modeling, machine learning) to investigate opportunities and challenges within various marketing domains including pricing, sales incentives, and marketing communication. Moreover, he develops novel models and approaches to aid marketing managers with strategic marketing decisions with the goal of increasing marketing effectiveness and firm profitability. He has applied his knowledge to industry over the years, working with companies such as The Bank of Nova Scotia and The Kraft Heinz Company. Christopher’s scholarly research has been published at the European Journal of Marketing and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services and has been presented at various academic conferences, including Marketing Science, Marketing Dynamics, and INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section. He has also been invited to present his research at academic institutions such as University of Sydney, Erasmus University, Bilkent University, Oakland University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and University of Prince Edward Island.

Clare Pastore

Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Southern California

Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Southern California Clare Pastore is an expert on poverty, civil rights, access to justice, and lawyers' professional responsibility. She teaches numerous classes related to her long practice experience in anti-poverty and civil rights organizations, while continuing to practice as a leading member of the California public interest community. She is co-author of the leading Poverty Law textbook and is a regular speaker on poverty, access to justice, and public interest law. Pastore has received frequent state and national recognition as an outstanding advocate and teacher. In 2020, she won USC Gould School of Law’s Rutter Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2019, she was honored with the Earl Johnson Equal Justice Award by the Western Center on Law and Poverty for her achievements and leadership in access to justice throughout her career. In 2013, she was one of ten educators nationwide to receive the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, which recognizes educators “who have inspired their former students to make a significant contribution to society.” In prior years, she was selected as a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School as part of its program recognizing outstanding public interest lawyers (2005), named one of the nation’s 45 most outstanding public interest attorneys under age 45 (American Lawyer magazine, 1997), one of California’s top lawyers under 40 years old (California Law Business, 1999), and one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers” (2006-09). She was commended by an official State Assembly resolution in 2004 for her work on behalf of the poor in California. Pastore serves on the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the Steering Committee of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. She is a member of USC’s Center for the Changing Family and the Los Angeles County Bar’s Amicus Briefs and Professional Responsibility & Ethics committees. She is a past member of the American Bar Association’s Homelessness and Poverty Commission, a former co-chair of the California Access to Justice Commission’s Right to Counsel Task Force, and a former longtime board member of the Wage Justice Center. Pastore served for 15 years as a staff attorney at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, where she litigated many state and federal class action cases involving poverty law and disability rights. She received one of the nation’s first Skadden Fellowships to begin her work there in 1989. She was also affiliated with the ACLU of Southern California as Senior Counsel from 2004 til 2007, and Of Counsel from 2007 until 2011. Pastore holds a BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from Colgate University and a JD from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, she was a Fulbright-sponsored teaching assistant in a Paris public school.