Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford Diarmaid MacCulloch holds a Cambridge doctorate in History, an Oxford Postgraduate Diploma in Theology and an Oxford Doctorate of Divinity. He is a Fellow and current Vice-President of the British Academy. His new book All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation is being published in July. He has written extensively on Tudor England; his biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (Yale UP, 1996) won the Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. More recent publications from Penguin/Allen Lane have included Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (appearing in the USA as The Reformation: a History), and A History of Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years (in the USA, Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years), which won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his latest book is Silence: a Christian History. He was the presenter on BBC4 and BBC2 of "A History of Christianity - the first 3,000 years", which won the Radio Times Listeners' Award in 2010, "How God made the English" (BBC2, 2012) and "Henry VIII's fixer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell" (BBC2, 2013); his BBC2 series Sex and the West aired in spring 2015. He received a knighthood in January 2012 for services to scholarship.
Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University David is a political analyst, social theorist and media scholar. He completed a major in Media Studies at Swinburne University, a BA (Hons) in Politics and Social Theory and a PhD in Social Theory (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science) from the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded the Dwight prize for political science. He is author or editor of four books in the sociology of communications including: Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace (Sage 1997) and Virtual Globalisation: Virtual Spaces, Tourist Spaces (Routledge 2001), Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society (Sage 2005) and a Key Concepts in Media and Communications (Sage 2011) co-authored with Paul Jones (UNSW) Over eleven years, he has also co-authored four editions of an analysis of Australian society: Australian sociology (2003, 2007 and 2011, 2014) with Roberta Julian and Katie Hughes. For the last two editions he has written a new chapter on the sociology of climate change.
PhD Student - Sensory Marketing and Consumer Psychology / Sessional Lecturer in Marketing, CQUniversity Australia David P. Harris is a PhD Student and Sessional Lecturer in Marketing at CQUniversity Australia's School of Business and Law. David's research focuses on sensory marketing and consumer psychology, with particular emphasis on perception, judgment and decision making in online contexts. David also researches touch-screen devices and the role they play in our choice behaviour.
Principal Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University Having had an enjoyable 27 year police career I have now established a new career in academia where I am a principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University's Law School teaching and researching terrorism, security, policing, human rights, criminal law and public law. I have a number of books, journal articles and book chapters on terrorism and policing already published, with other research due to be published soon. As a result of my research and experience in policing, my services to provide expert commentary for local, national and international media is frequently requested. I have appeared on the BBC radio and TV, Sky news, Al Jazeera, France 24, DW Germany, Russia Today, TRT World (Turkey) and Al Arabyia television LBC and Voice of Russia. I have also provided commentary for UK's press including The Guardian and Daily Mirror as well as Slovakia's Pravda Austria's Der Presse and the US's Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times amongst others. These have been on issues on terrorism, security, human rights and European Arrest Warrants. I regularly review the newspapers for City Talk. I am currently an external examiner at Teeside University on their police foundation programmes, Coventry University's undergraduate law degree programme and the University of Central Lancashire's MSc programme on terrorism studies. I am a member of the Liverpool Law Society's Criminal Practice Committee and an academic fellow of the Inner Temple. I am currently assisting Merseyside Police's Prevent team on issues related to radicalisation to extremist causes.
Environmental Scientist, La Trobe University I am a Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO, based at the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, La Trobe University, Wodonga. I am interested in how natural and human perturbations change the way energy and material move through aquatic ecosystems.
Dinesh Sharma is an author, consultant, and social scientist with a doctorate in psychology and human development from Harvard University. He is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, SUNY Binghamton, where he teaches in Harpur College, Psychology and the Department of Human Development. His current teaching work is focused on Human Rights, Globalization, Leadership and the United Nations. Sharma also teaches about global leadership and the UN at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He is the author of "Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President"and "The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century." He is currently editing a book on Hillary Clinton’s global image, "The Global Hillary: Women's Political Development in Cultural Contexts," due out in June 2016.
