Principal Lecturer, University of Portsmouth John Caro is a principal lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. In 2001, supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship, he completed a Film and Video MFA at Toronto’s York University. He has screened his short films at the Raindance and International Tel-Aviv Film Festivals and was a set decorator at Pinewood Studios, working on "Aliens" and "Full Metal Jacket". More recently he has contributed an article about British comic books to Henry Jenkins' Pop Junctions Website. In 2023 he enrolled on the Portsmouth PhD programme, developing a project on British Comics.
Deputy Director, Centre for Energy Policy, University of Strathclyde Jamie Speirs is Reader and Deputy Director in the Centre for Energy Policy at Strathclyde University where he investigates the social, technical and economic issues affecting energy systems and emissions reduction in the UK, Europe and globally. He has 17 years’ experience in energy techno-economic research. Jamie currently works in a number of areas, including the decarbonisation of domestic heat and related energy networks, use of hydrogen in existing gas infrastructure, and the future of critical materials for the energy sector. Jamie previously worked at Imperial College London, where he led the Sustainable Gas Institute White Paper Series, using systematic review methods to gather evidence and address contentious topics in energy. Jamie led the SGI’s most recent White Paper “The best uses of natural gas within Paris climate agreements”. Jamie regularly provides expert evidence and analysis to a range of non-academic stakeholders including government, industry and the third sector.
Professor of Law, UCL Jeff King joined the UCL Laws as a Senior Lecturer in 2011, and has been Professor of Law since 2016. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and was between 2019-2021 a Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. He sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Law, the General Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON Society), and is a member of the Study of Parliament Group . He was previously the Co-Editor of Current Legal Problems and the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Fellow and Tutor in law at Balliol College, and CUF Lecturer for the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (2008-2011), a Research Fellow and Tutor law at Keble College, Oxford (2007-08), and an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City (2003-04). In addition to Oxford, he has held visiting posts at the University of Toronto (2013, 2020), Renmin University (Beijing), the University of New South Wales, and in 2014-15 was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His book Judging Social Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the Society of Legal Scholars 2014 Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and in 2017 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law. He Chaired the UCL Academic Board's Working Group on the Definition of Antisemitism, which reported here (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/governance-compliance/sites/governance_compliance/files/paper_3-02_wgdas_report_3.pdf) He is currently on secondment to the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, where he serves as Director of Research from 2022-2024.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior, University of Virginia I earned my PhD in Social Psychology from Ohio State working with Dr. Richard Petty in the Attitudes and Persuasion Lab (APL), and wrote a dissertation titled, "Attitudinal Ambivalence and Behavioral Extremism." I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in marketing at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Professor of Architecture and Interior Design and Interim Dean, College of Creative Arts, Miami University Educational Credentials Master of Architecture, University of Illinois BA of Environmental Design, Miami University Teaching Experience 32 years at Miami University, including Interior Design Program Director, Chair, Associate Dean, Dean Professional Experience/Licenses/Registration Registered Architect in Ohio, Illinois + NCARB 12 years of full-time professional experience in Chicago
Senior Policy Analyst (IfM Engage), University of Cambridge Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete is a Feminist Economist with 15 years' experience in policy analysis in developing and developed contexts. She has collaborated international organisations, including: Asian Development Bank, ASEAN Secretariat, Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Jennifer currently works as Senior Policy Analyst at Policy Links, the knowledge exchange unit of the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (CSTI), University of Cambridge. Before joining the Policy Links unit, Jennifer worked in academia and in a regional ministry for industrial development in Mexico. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Sussex, UK.
