Professor of Economics, University of York I am an academic economist at the University of York. I hold a BSc in Economics from METU, Ankara Turkey and MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick. I completed my PhD at York and have taught at various institutions, including University of Durham, METU, and University of York where I currently hold a Chair in Economics. My main research interests are macroeconomics, political economy and international finance. More specifically my research has focussed on currency and financial crises, monetary policy, politics and policy making and more recently macroprudential policy and fiscal austerity.
Pro-Vice Chancellor (Future Manufacturing), Swinburne University of Technology Geoff Brooks is responsible for co-ordinating and developing manufacturing related research and education across Swinburne University of Technology. His own expertise is in the field of process metallurgy and he has published over 150 papers on various aspects of steelmaking, aluminium and magnesium production. Geoff has held senior positions at University of Wollongong, McMaster University in Canada, CSIRO and is now Head of the High Temperature Processing group at Swinburne University of Technology. He received his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1994; he has a Degree in Chemical Engineering at RMIT and a Bachelor of Arts (HPS, Media) from Swinburne. In 2013, Geoff was awarded the John Elliott Lectureship by the AIST, acknowledging his contribution to process metallurgy. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers.
Lecturer in Film Studies, Bangor University I am Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University, from January 2016. Previously I taught Film, Television and Media Studies at University of Warwick (where I completed by PhD in December 2012), University of York, Leeds Beckett University and Manchester Metropolitan University. My book, The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation, was published by Peter Lang in 2014. It recently achieved runner-up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies' 2016 Best Monograph award.
Senior Lecturer in Politics, The Open University I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. I have two main areas of research. One area covers various aspects of Spanish politics including historical memory, citizen participation, social movements and electoral politics. Another area covers governance and citizen participation and draws on case-studies in Spain and the UK.
Ph.D. Student in History, Energy and Foreign Relations, Georgetown University Gregory Brew is a PhD candidate in the History Department of Georgetown University. He previously completed a BA in History at the University of Chicago and an MA in Global, International and Comparative History at Georgetown University. His work focuses on US history, the history of the international oil industry and the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran. His current project concerns Anglo-American modernization projects in Iran from 1925 to 1963, the relationship between oil revenues and economic development, and the ways in which modernization was meant to integrate Iran into a global oil system, before and after the 1953 Anglo-American coup d'etat. Gregory reads Persian and regularly contributes to on-line publications on topics such as Iranian oil, US foreign policy, the international energy industry and Middle Eastern politics. He is also a contributing analyst for Wikistrat and a contributing writer for OilPrice.com. In 2016 Gregory was awarded the Edwin J. Beinecke Jr. Scholarship by the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Foundation. He has received grants from the Cosmos Club Foundation, the Rockefeller Archive Center and from Georgetown University, including the Evan Armstrong North Graduate Student Scholarship in 2013.
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University Geoff Robinson is a political historian and lecturer in History and Politics at Deakin University. Before taking up an academic position he worked in higher education management and policy development and as a tutor at Monash University. His doctoral research examined the NSW Labor government of 1930-32, led by Premier Jack Lang, as an example of the limits of reformism under a capitalist economy. He has published several articles and book chapters on Australian labour history and politics and a book based on his PhD When the Labor Party Dreams was published in 2009.
