Senior Lecturer in American Law and Associate Director of the Centre for American Legal Studies, Birmingham City University Dr. Ilaria Di Gioia is an academic with expertise in the American Constitution, American federalism and intergovernmental relations. She is the Inaugural Philip Davies Fellow of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and she is affiliated to the Centre for Constitutional Design at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). Her research currently focuses on local government and is aimed at exploring solutions to intergovernmental conflicts at federal and state level. She uses mixed research methods from political science and law to study constitutional change. She has published and disseminated her research at international conferences in Europe, the United States and South America. She is editor of the British Journal of American Legal Studies. She studied Public Administration at Sapienza University in Rome, followed by a PhD in American Constitutional Law at Birmingham City University. She previously worked at the United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy and at the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC.
Professor of political science, University of North Texas I am a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, Executive Director of the Peace Science Society (International), and the co-Director of the Social Conflict Analysis Database project. In addition, I am a Senior Fellow for Immigration Policy at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC and an Fellow of the the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. My research interests are diverse, but most of the time I focus on topics related to international & civil conflict, international migration, and refugee studies. My policy work centers on developing pragmatic, sensible approaches to managing forced migration. I am the author of, Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2009). My articles appear in journals such as: the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics.
Research Fellow, Psychology, University of Nottingham I am a postdoctoral research fellow working with Daniel Jolley (University of Nottingham) and Lee Curley (Glasgow Caledonian University) on a three-year Leverhulme funded project investigating whether a conspiracy mindset may bias juror decision-making. This project aims to uncover the direction of this bias, to detail why it is present, and explore when such a bias comes to the fore (or fades into the background). Prior to my postdoc, I completed my PhD at Keele University which sought to refine our understanding of intergroup conflict. As part of this research, I paid particular attention to the impact of identity, collective victimhood, and conflict type on group members' decision to forgive.
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University Iain grew up in Canada where he completed his BSc (Mount Allison University), MSc (Dalhousie University), and a PhD focused on “Habitat use, movement, and vulnerability of sedentary fishes in a dynamic world” (The University of British Columbia). He then spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States, associated with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (University of Hawaii), University of California Santa Barbara, and Stanford University. Iain then joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University as a Quantitative Social-Ecological Research Associate. Iain is affiliated with James Cook University as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow and is also the Lead Analyst for MERMAID (datamermaid.org) at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Iain is broadly interested in why fish and other marine organisms end up where they do and what that can mean for their future, and the future of people that depend on those organisms, given changes in global climate and increasing human impacts to many of the world’s coastal ecosystems. Trained as a quantitative ecologist and interested in intersections between ecology and social sciences, Iain uses a variety of analytical approaches to (1) understand what drives distribution and movement of organisms across time and space, (2) predict how changes in those drivers could impact biodiversity and food security, and (3) improve management and conservation strategies to minimize negative effects on ecosystems and the people that depend on them. As the Lead Analyst at MERMAID, Iain helps turn coral reef data into useful stories and meaningful information that can guide evidence-based decision making.
Associate Professor in International Relations, Nottingham Trent University Dr Imad El-Anis is an Associate Professor in International Relations and the Director of the Centre for Policy, Citizenship, and Society. He has teaching responsibilities at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, and also supervises and examines PhD candidates. Dr El-Anis' work is most closely associated with critical versions of liberal institutionalism and uses mixed methodological approaches. He has previously supervised two PhD candidates to completion and is currently supervising ten candidates working on the following projects: Crisis Management in Darfur, Globalisation and Central Bank Policy in Libya, US Security Policy in the Persian Gulf, Foreign Aid and Governmental Policy in Jordan, Migration and EU-North Africa Policy, Libyan-British Relations Between 1969-1979, Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy Towards Israel, The UN Special Tribunal and Lebanon, Iranian-Chinese Relations Since 2000, Globalisation and the Political Economy of Hydrocarbons in Libya. His current research focuses examining economic integration and political cooperation in the MENA. This work explores the phenomena associated with regional economic integration which has long been a policy objective of governments in the MENA and has led to the development of a number of bilateral, multilateral and region-wide projects. In particular the creation of preferential trade agreements in the form of free trade agreements (FTAs) and economic unions have sought to facilitate intra-regional trade and promote economic productivity in member states (in other words trade creation and not trade diversion). Many existing studies have sought to analyse the effectiveness of these policies in terms of their impact on economic development (which has been widely seen as the driving force behind these agreements) by using various methodological approaches that have favoured quantitative methods and positivist analysis. Imad's research seeks to develop our understanding of the interests driving these policies, as well as their effectiveness in both economic and political terms. Using a mixed methodology and institutionalist theoretical assumptions this project explores the integrative impacts of various agreements, such as the Greater Arab Free Trade Area, on political and economic relationships.
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Liverpool John Moores University I am a theoretical astrophysicist interested in: -Massive galaxy groups and clusters -Galaxy formation and evolution -Cosmology
