Contributors

Gioele Figus

Senior lecturer in economics, University of Strathclyde

Senior lecturer in economics, University of Strathclyde Gioele is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is interested in regional economics, international and interregional trade and economics of energy and climate change.

Geoffroy Duparc-Portier

Research Assistant in economics, University of Strathclyde

Research Assistant in economics, University of Strathclyde I am a 3rd-year ESRC-funded (1+3) Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Strathclyde. My research interests are in applied and theoretical computable general equilibrium modelling, monetary union theory, economic convergence and fiscal policy modelling.

Glenn Williams

Principal Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University

Principal Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University Dr Williams teaches on 'The Psychology of Positive Human Functioning' NTU Global Summer School course: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/international/study-and-courses/global-summer-school/courses-and-activities/online-courses He is currently Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. His main role is overseeing all developments in the Psychology Department relating to Internationalisation (e.g. staff and student exchange, international student recruitment and support, and developing courses and research with a global outlook). He has worked at NTU Psychology from 2005 to 2015 and then from September 2017 onwards. Dr Williams has experience of working in the National Health Service as a Research Officer and also a Research & Development and Clinical Audit Deputy Manager. He has been involved in provision of training & education of qualified and trainee health professionals for many years; for 3 years he was at the University of Nottingham’s School of Nursing as a Lecturer in Behavioural Science. He has worked for 2-and-a-half years as Principal Lecturer and as Head of Subject for the Psychological Therapies and Mental Health Subject Group at Leeds Beckett University. Research areas Community Psychology (e.g. community arts initiatives and mental health; addressing inequalities in health and well-being; poverty and well-being; stigma & discrimination); Psychology of well-being, health, and health care (e.g. positive psychological experiences, including flow and happiness; health professional education; health care delivery and decision-making; personality and mental health; addiction; spirituality and well-being; commuting stress). External activity British Psychological Society - Chair Elect, Chair, Past Chair for Community Psychology Section (2014-2017); Associate Fellow; Chartered Psychologist. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - Associate Editor. The Royal Society of Arts - Fellow. American Psychological Association – International Affiliate. Society for Community Research and Action – Member. International Association of Applied Psychology – Member. External Examiner for MPhil/PhD examinations with University of Leicester, University of Wolverhampton, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan). External Examiner for Undergraduate provision with Bradford College (formerly validated by Leeds Metropolitan University) and Belfast College (validated by Ulster University). Sponsors and collaborators Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Warwickshire County Council Derbyshire Arts Development Group (Derbyshire County Council) CASQ (ADQ), Nottingham Trent University (Spur 2 Success funding) West London Research Network (Primary Care Research Network) East London and Essex Network for Research (Primary Care Research Network) North Central Thames Network (NoCTen) for primary care research National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) Leeds Beckett University’s internal funding such as the Mid-Career Prize (£15,000) and Research Cluster funding (£30,000); Rugby League Cares and Big Lottery Fund; Leeds Community Foundation Mental Health fund.

Geoff Bird

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

My PhD work (which was supervised by Professor Cecilia Heyes at UCL), was on the mechanisms by which we imitate the actions of others. After this I moved to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) at UCL, where I worked with Professors Chris and Uta Frith on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This work primarily utilised functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and investigated a number of processes in adults with ASD. These included: attentional modulation of social and non-social stimuli, executive functions, empathy, decision making, and emotional awareness. While at the ICN I also looked at the development of theory of mind and social emotions across adolescence with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, and studied the neural basis of empathy and fairness with Professor Tania Singer. Following the ICN, I moved to the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) as a Postdoctoral Fellow where I continued to work with Professor Heyes on studies of imitation and decision making in typically-developing adults and adults with ASD. From October 2007 I took a year's position as an advisor on science policy to the UK government before joining the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck in October 2008. I moved to the MRC SGDP Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London in January 2013 where I continued to work on social cognition in typical individuals and those with ASD. At the IoPPN I developed a keen interest in interoception (our ability to perceive the internal state of our body) and alexithymia (a sub-clinical condition characterised by an inability to identify and describe one's own emotions). In January 2017 I moved to the Dept of Experimental Psychology at Oxford where I hope to continue this work.

Gary Reisfield

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Florida

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Florida After receiving his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Reisfield completed an anesthesiology residency at the University of Florida and a pain medicine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University. Dr. Reisfield subsequently served as a hospice medical director and a pain and palliative medicine division chief at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. As a part of his transition to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Dr. Reisfield completed an addiction medicine fellowship in the department of psychiatry. Dr. Reisfield is board certified in anesthesiology, addiction medicine, and pain medicine. He is a clinician-researcher and has authored more than 75 articles and book chapters. He currently serves as a forensic expert in the UF Forensic Psychiatry Division. Dr. Reisfield’s forensic expertise includes pain management, substance use disorders, diminished capacity due to intoxication and other impairment issues.

Gabriel Zucman

Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Gabriel Zucman is the Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Paris School of Economics and taught at the London School of Economics before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2015. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and analyzes the macro-distributional implications of globalization. He was awarded the Bernácer Prize and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2019.