PhD Candidate, University of South Australia Elizabeth Wells is a PhD candidate with the University of South Australia. She left working in libraries in central Victoria to come to South Australia and undertake research around restoring the therapeutic benefits of reading to people undergoing cancer treatment. She holds a BSc in Computer Science and History & Philosophy of Science from The University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) from LaTrobe University, a Graduate Diploma and Master of Library and Information Management from the University of South Australia. Her main area of interest is reading for wellbeing, particularly for people affected by cancer and people in palliative care. She is also passionate about the role of libraries in our communities and pre-literacy and literacy programs. Elizabeth can be reached at elizabeth.wells@mymail.unisa.edu.au
Professor of Geography, Michigan State University Elizabeth Mack is a Professor in the Department of Geography, the Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University where she teaches courses in economic geography. Dr. Mack’s research utilizes mixed methods to understand the evolution of the economy in the face of rapid technological change and climate change. Research on technological change evaluates the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on the development trajectory of regional economies and everyday work. Her work on the environment and climate change evaluates household responses to changing environmental contexts, as well as uses and the ability to pay for water services. Dr. Mack’s research has been funded by a variety of agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Kauffman Foundation for entrepreneurship research.
Senior Lecturer in Planning and Development, Cardiff University My professional background is in planning and development consultancy and I hold professional qualifications from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Town Planning Institute. I also hold a PhD in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge.
Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin Eve Patten is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at Trinity. She is co-editor, with Paul Delaney, of Dublin Tales (OUP, 2023) and author of Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination (OUP, 2022). ___ My research covers nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish literary studies, twentieth-century British fiction and cultural history, and the literature of war. Recent publications related to Irish writing include a monograph, Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination (Oxford UP, 2022), and as editor, Irish Literature in Transition, 1940--1980 (Cambridge UP, 2020). Since publishing my first book, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts, 2004) I have written frequently on civic institutions, reading communities, and the professional middle class in Victorian Dublin. I have also published widely on modern and contemporary Irish fiction, including most recently ‘The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist’, for the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction (2020), and (with Paul Delaney) a co-edited volume of short stories, Dublin Tales, to be published by Oxford UP in 2023. I am also interested in writing that crosses Irish, British, and European identities in the long twentieth century. My monograph Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s Fictions of War was published in 2011, and in related work I have co-edited Literatures of War (2008), proceedings of the International Lawrence Durrell School of Corfu, and a volume of essays on Irish cultural and literary connections to Central and Eastern Europe, Ireland, West to East (2014). I am now researching a book on the twentieth-century novelist, political activist and travel writer Ethel Mannin, based on her correspondence with contemporaries including W.B. Yeats, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Read and Emma Goldman. You can view my full list of publications at http://people.tcd.ie/epatten My previous roles in the School of English have included Head of School, Head of Discipline, and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre. I have recently supervised postgraduate and postdoctoral research across several areas, including nineteenth-century print and publishing history; Virginia Woolf; Elizabeth Bowen; Irish literature and the Spanish Civil War; Wyndham Lewis; T.H. White’s literary biography; Northern Irish culture and the Second World War; German/Irish literary connections; suicidal motifs in twentieth-century British fiction; modern Irish poetry and allegory. Past research collaborations include, with Dr Connor Linnie, ‘The Poetics of Print: the Private Press Tradition and Irish Poetry’ https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/poetics/ and current projects include Ireland’s Border Culture: A Digital Archive, funded by the HEA North-South Shared Island initiative, and, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, the Publish.OA feasibility study on open access Irish scholarly publishing, funded under the National Open Research Forum.
Senior Lecturer In Media and Communication, University of Sussex Eleftheria is a senior lecturer in media and communications whose research interests grow from the intersection of politics, economy and culture. Prior to joining Sussex, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She holds degrees in political science (BA, University of Crete) and media and communications (MSc, London School of Economics and PhD, Goldsmiths College), while she also has a PGCertHE (University of Sussex). Eleftheria is the author of Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North (Palgrave, 2013) and Consumer Activism (Sage, 2022), as well as co-editor of Art, Law and Power (Counterpress, 2020). Eleftheria has been superivising doctoral projects in humanitarian communication, markets and culture, anti-consumerism as well as advertising and the climate crisis. She is interested in supervising projects in consumer activism, communication for social change, branding and anti-branding, media activism and anti-austerity, popular communication and cultural politics.
