Professor of Finance, City, University of London Ian Marsh is Professor of Finance at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He has been at Bayes since 1998, during which time he has directed the suite of undergraduate finance degrees, the flagship MSc in Finance, and the Finance PhD program. Until recently, he was the Head of the Faculty of Finance. His research interests centre on the foreign exchange market and asset pricing, and he has published in leading finance journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. However, his research interests are broad and he has also written papers on the impact of gender in the market for financial advice, economic conditions in the inter-war period and economic productivity. Beside his time in academia, Ian has worked in the City of London as an international banker and financial market economist, for the IMF and at the Bank of England.
Professor in accounting and finance, University of Glasgow After completing his undergraduate studies at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (BSc in Business Administration), Yannis undertook the MBA Programme at the University of Stirling with specialisation in Corporate Finance. In November 2009, he completed his PhD in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh. Yannis' work experience includes positions as an accounting assistant (in Greece) and as a financial accounting and reporting analyst at Company Reporting Ltd in Edinburgh. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in January 2015, Yannis was a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Stirling.
Associate Professor of American Literature, University of North Georgia I have 10 years of experience teaching, speaking, and writing on American cultural politics. Whatever the venue, I try to get my audience to think about the places where our major concerns as citizens and as readers overlap – whether those concerns are "color blind" racism, debates over reproductive rights, or presidential character. We can learn about the big questions in our lives through literature, and learn about literature by spending time understanding political and philosophical writers. My first book, "Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition," was recently published by Johns Hopkins UP in 2021, and illustrates my methods as a scholar. I'm currently writing a book entitled "Sellouts! The Story of an American Insult." My research has also appeared in flagship journals for literary history (PMLA, English Literary History), American Literature (Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Novel), and periodical studies (American Periodicals, Amerikastudien). Before arriving at the University of North Georgia, I taught courses in digital archival work and science fiction periodicals at Georgia Tech, seminars in critical theory at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and survey courses in Anglophone literature at UC Davis. At UNG, I regularly teach our African American Literature course, as well as our Introduction to Literary Studies, and our survey of modern American Literature.
Ph.D. Candidate in Folklore, Indiana University Iryna Voloshyna is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the founding artistic director of the Indiana Slavic Choir.
Professor of Society and Environmental Change, University of East Anglia I am interested in how individuals, groups and collectives perceive the challenges of global environmental change, how they engage and respond to them. As an environmental social scientist, my research focuses on the relationships between individual perceptions and understandings of environmental issues - specifically climate change - and behaviours. An important component to my work is understanding how and why such responses are enabled or hindered, with a focus on societal and political processes shaping climate futures. Therefore my work also encompasses governance of climate change at various societal and geographical levels, both in relation to mitigating climate change and adapting to its effects. I pursue these strands drawing from a variety of social science disciplines in an interdisciplinary manner. My current research includes societal transformations and low carbon futures (see ESRC-funded CAST centre), deep decarbonisation (see ERC-funded 'DeepDCarb' - Deep Decarbonisation: the Democratic Challenge of Navigating Governance Traps’ project), communication and accessibility of climate data in visual form (including work in collaboration with the IPCC), coastal adaptation and resilience. I serves on the editorial board of the academic journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. I am also member of the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group at UEA and and of the Tyndall Centre.
Professor of Psychology, University of Washington Over the last few years my laboratory has been focusing on the effects of long term visual deprivation on human visual processing. Long term visual deprivation results in deficits in high level visual processing (such as face and object recognition) that cannot be explained by low level amblyopic deficits, and suggest that the role of visual experience differs widely across different types of processing. As well as characterizing the behavioral effects of deprivation, we have been examining the neural effects, using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
