Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Nottingham Trent University My training is in twentieth-century Italian history, cultural studies, and film studies. I research the public and political use of history and the integration of cinematic texts into historical research. I am the author of "Italy Through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946-79)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and "Storia della Brigata ebraica (A History of the Jewish Brigade)" (Turin, Einaudi, 2022). This work explores both the wartime history and the postwar political use of the history of the Jewish Brigade, a British military unit composed of Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine. An English version of the book is due in the fall of 2024, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. I serve as General Editor of "Modern Italy" (Cambridge University Press). Currently, I am collaborating with the Matteotti Foundation to study documents brought by Gaetano Salvemini to the LSE concerning the Matteotti murder.
Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, The University of Edinburgh Professor Grant Jarvie MA, PhD, PhD (Honorary) is Chair of Sport at the University of Edinburgh where he is linked to the School of Education, the Academy of Government and the Centre for Cultural Relations. He is Head of Edinburgh's Academy of Sport [AcademyofSport@ed.ac.uk] He has served as Vice- Principal and Acting Principal (for 9 months) within a Scottish University holding key portfolio’s, leading on key strategies, attracting significant income and managing organisational change. Grant has held visiting appointments at the University of Illinois, Warsaw University and the University of Toronto. He is an associate member of the Centre for Candian Studies. He has experience of leading in large international higher education institutions. He is currently Chair of the Sportscotland Trust Company with responsibility for thee National Centres.
Casual Academic, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney Dr Giuliana Murfet, a Bullwinkel Scholar, has a Visiting Fellow appointment in the School of Public Health and works clinically as a nurse practitioner (diabetes/bariatrics). Her research has included the co-design and evaluation of rural regional models of care for diabetes in pregnancy, paediatrics diabetes, obesity management in type 2 diabetes, and high-risk foot clinic. Also, evaluating the value of the nurse practitioner role to build workforce capacity. Her current research focuses on developing capacity in the healthcare workforce for future diabetes care needs, and she has identified a capability framework to be launched nationally to guide health professional curricula on diabetes. Giuliana is a Fellow of the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) and certified as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator. Giuliana is a past President of the ADEA and Chairs the Medical Educational and Scientific Advisory Council, and Co-Chairs the Health Professional Advisory Council for Diabetes Australia and is a Steering Committee member of the Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium (https://diabetessociety.com.au/living-guidelines.asp). Her last sabbatical leave included diabetes clinical placements at the Joslin Diabetes Centre, USA, and Glasgow Hospital and Ayr Medical Group, Scotland, and bariatrics clinical placement at Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan – Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Wales. Further, she was invited to support the development of a curriculum for the first diabetes nursing postgraduate qualification by the Faculty of Medicine at Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Her research and expertise have supported quality improvement and advised national policy and practice in diabetes and obesity management.
Professor of Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London My research interests are firmly in the area of comparative and interdisciplinary studies, especially the intersection of the verbal and the visual, and the role of Italian visual culture in the construction of Italian identity both in Italy and abroad. I am very interested in curatorial practice and, in 2010, I co-curated the exhibition Against Mussolini. Art and the Fall of a Dictator (London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art) as part of the AHRC funded research grant The Cult of the Duce (www.mussolinicult.com). I am currently co-investigator of the AHRC funded project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia (http://www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org/). The project will run until 2018. My contribution focuses on Italian Modernism and the intersection between the fine arts, design (pre- and postwar) and Italian culture as part of the project’s collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, official partner of the project. My teaching is closely related to my research, and it includes courses on Italian Fascism, its history, culture and legacy; Italian crime fiction; Italian Renaissance art and its reappropriation in the 19th century; and postwar Italian fashion and design. I am currently the Head of the School of Modern Languages, Literature and Culture and I am responsible for the many degree programmes which the School runs: Comparative LIterature and Culture; LIberal Arts; and degrees in the four major European lanaguges that we teach in the department: French, German, Italian and Spanish. I am also the Director of Royal Holloway's Languages for All programme which is open to all students and staff on campus. Language for All allows our students to study the following languages outside of the their degree programmes: French, German, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish.
Teaching Fellow, Political Science and International Security, University of Strathclyde Gavin E L Hall is a Teaching Fellow in Political Science and International Security at the University of Strathclyde. He explored NATO's post-Cold War transformation in his doctoral thesis, and maintains a research focus on the evolution of conflict in the digital age, and military transformation. You can follow him on twitter @GavinELHall.
