Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York Research Associate at the University of York, UK, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. My qualifications include a PhD from the University of York and Masters degrees in African Studies (University of Oxford), Creative Writing (Royal Holloway, University of London), English Literature (University of Cape Town) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Publishing (Oxford Brookes University). I was lead editor of the 2018 NIHSS award-winning volume 'Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present' (Wits Press, 2016), together with Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson. My book in progress is on Black South African Travel, Textual Cultures, and the Politics of Mobility. I have published in a wide range of journals and books on literary and intellectual history of South Africa and African travel studies. My research is complemented by my work as an editorial director in academic publishing with a keen interest in the humanities and Africa.
Lecturer in War Studies, University of Hull James R. Pritchett teaches War Studies at the University of Hull, including classes on airpower, strategic theory and history, small wars, intelligence studies and defensc policy. He is also the university's program director for Politics and International Relations.
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California Jonathan May is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Insitute, where he directs the Center for Useful Techniques Enhancing Language Applications Based on Natural And Meaningful Evidence. His research areas include natural language processing, specifically machine translation, dialogue, semantic parsing, and formal language theory. Jonathan May received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC in 2010. Prior to re-joining USC and the Information Sciences institute in 2014, he was a research scientist at SDL Language Weaver.
Senior Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University I am a researcher on place, space and public policy, working with the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. My PhD examined sustainability transitions and institutional change, and I worked with the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield on green space and wellbeing. Outside academia, I have been a journalist and consultant, specialising in UK community regeneration. I am the author of How to Save Our Town Centres (Policy Press, 2015) and co-editor of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope (Anthem, 2020) and Naturally Challenged (Springer Nature, 2020).
Honorary Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Deakin University Julie is a recently retired academic having worked for over 35 years in public health nutrition, teaching and research. She is a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia, having been instrumental in setting up and convening the Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group and advocating on a range of food regulatory matters since their inception. Her current research interests are in ultra-processed foods, the food environment and it's impact of consumer food choice and healthy and sustainable diets. Qualifications: PhD Bachelor of Science Grad Dip Dietetics Grad Dip Health Education Grad Cert Higher Education
Adjunct Research Fellow, Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia Janet completed her B.Sc (Hons) at UWA in 1972 with a research project looking at the role of banded iron formation in the genesis of nickel sulphide mineralisation at Mt Windarra, W.A. After four years working for industry and GSWA she returned to UWA to undertake post-graduate studies of high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Narryer Terrane of the northern Yilgarn Craton. Extensive experience of electron probe microanalysis as part of her PhD project led to a post-doctoral fellowship in the Electron Microscopy Centre (now CMCA) on completion of her post-graduate studies. Janet returned to consulting and contracting work in the mineral exploration industry in 1991 before returning to UWA and CMCA as a Research Associate in 2005 and retiring in 2016. She has been an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences since 2016.
