Contributors

Calum Webb

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science, University of Sheffield

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science, University of Sheffield Dr. Calum Webb is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at the Sheffield Methods Institute, the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on applying advanced quantitative methods to better understand the links between poverty, public service funding, and the children's social care system.

Céline Delacroix

Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, School of Health Sciences, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, School of Health Sciences, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Dr. Céline Delacroix is adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Health Sciences. She is the Director of the FP/Earth project with the Population Institute. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on analyzing how family planning, population size, and environmental sustainability intersect and are perceived. She is looking for ways to harness these linkages to benefit reproductive rights and improve environmental sustainability. She earned a PhD from the University of Ottawa, a Master’s in Science from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and an LLB in Law from Cardiff University (Wales, UK). Dr. Delacroix also served as Executive Director of several human rights and environmental civil-society organizations, including the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Ethiopiaid Canada.

Cathy Creswell

Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford

Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford My research mainly focuses on the development, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and young people. My team in The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and adolescents (TOPIC) research group apply a broad range of methods (including experimental, longitudinal, clinical trial and qualitative methods and systematic reviews) with children, young people and families in both community and clinical settings, with the ultimate aim of improving access to and outcomes from psychological treatments for these common conditions. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/catharine-creswell

Christian Henderson

Professor of International Law, University of Sussex

Professor of International Law, University of Sussex Chris Henderson joined the University of Sussex as Chair of International Law in 2015. Prior to coming to Sussex he was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham. His research and teaching interests are in public international law, in particular international law governing the use of force, collective security, human rights and international humanitarian law. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, a general editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Hague Justice Journal, a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force, and on the Advisory Council for the Institute for International Peace and Security Law (University of Cologne, Germany).

Cüneyt Çakırlar

Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University

Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University My current research practice focuses on gender/sexuality studies, global visual cultures, and transnational horror studies. I have taught on queer arts and film theory at University College London (UK), Boğaziçi University (Turkey), Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey), and Koç University. My articles appeared in various peer-reviewed academic journals including Critical Arts, Cineaction, New Review of Film and Television Studies, [in]Transition, and Screen. I co-edited a volume about cultures of sexual dissidence in contemporary Turkey, namely Cinsellik Muamması: Türkiye’de Queer Kültür ve Muhalefet /The Sexuality Conundrum: Queer Culture and Dissidence in Turkey (Metis, 2012), co-translated Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter (1993) into Turkish (Pinhan Press, 2014), and co-authored Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (Routledge, 2023). Having authored exhibition catalogues for internationally acclaimed LGBTQ artists (e.g. Soufiane Ababri and Erinç Seymen), I have also worked with various arts institutions in Turkey (Arter, The PILL, and Zilberman Gallery), USA (Paul Kasmin Gallery), UK (Nottingham Contemporary), and Germany. I am the principal investigator for the project Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics, funded by the British Academy Small Research Grants scheme.

Chuanyi Ji

Associate Professor of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Associate Professor of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Chuanyi Ji's research lies in both basic and applied areas of networking and machine learning. Her research interests include investigating fundamental properties and deriving engineering solutions for modeling and managing heterogeneous large networks, developing learning algorithms and their applications in networks, and seeking knowledge and insights from large-scale network data. Research she has been involved with includes resilience of the energy grid and communication networks, proactive anomaly detection, scalability of measurement-based network monitoring, and performance and efficiency issues of learning algorithms.