Visiting Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University I am currently a visiting fellow at the School of Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University. My PhD was on the discursive legitimation of asylum policies in Greece and Ireland. My research interests include the political discourse of migration and migration policy in Greece and the European Union; migration, racism and exclusion; state power and sovereignty; national identity, citizenship and nationalism; human rights; ethnicity; race and racism; critical discourse analysis qualitative research software.
Lecturer in Law, City University London Dr Luke McDonagh is Lecturer in Law at City University. Before taking up this position in September 2015 he was a Lecturer at Cardiff University Law School from 2013-2015 and LSE Fellow in the Law Department at the London School of Economics (LSE) for the period 2011-2013. For the academic year 2014-15 he was a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University Law School, Tokyo, Japan. Luke holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London (2011), an LLM from the London School of Economics (LSE) (2006-7) and a BCL degree from NUI, Galway (2002-05). Luke's research primarily involves using empirical and theoretical insights to shed light on interesting (and sometimes controversial) aspects of intellectual property law, such as the interplay between property owners and users in free-sharing creative environments (such as those of theatre, open-source software and traditional music). His PhD research (2007-11) focused on the empirical analysis of the relationship between Irish traditional music and copyright using interviews and survey data gathered from traditional musicians. He recently completed an article - now published in The Modern Law Review - investigating copyright in the world of theatre, whereby I interviewed playwrights, directors and actors about the relationship between their theatrical practices and the norms of copyright. He also conducts quantitative and qualitative empirical research in the area of patent litigation. His latest article - on trade marks, brands and anthropological marketing - will be published in the Journal of Law and Society in December 2015. In the past he has written comment pieces for The Guardian and Dissent Magazine, as well as a number of law blogs. His research into the issue of patent troll litigation in the UK was cited in a House of Commons debate in March 2014: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140320/text/140320w0002.htm#14032098000031 He was also quoted in this February 2014 BBC article concerning copyright and piracy of satellite TV broadcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26052012 He tweets at https://twitter.com/DrLukeMcDonagh
Director of Broadcasting, City University London Lis Howell is Director of Broadcasting and head of the MA courses in Broadcast and Television Journalism. She is also Deputy Head of the Department of Journalism. Lis is a major award-winning journalist and broadcasting executive who has worked for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky News. She was Senior Vice-President at Flextech Television (later Virgin Media) where she founded Living TV, now a key channel on Sky. Prior to that she was Managing Editor of Sky News where she produced their coverage of the first Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. She won a Royal Television Society Award for coverage of the Lockerbie disaster from ITV Border when she was the first female Head of News at ITV. She was a television reporter and presenter at Granada and Tyne Tees and began her career in journalism as a producer and reporter at BBC Radio Leeds. In 1999 she chaired the Guardian International Edinburgh Television Festival. In 2001 she attended the prestigious Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme. Currently Lis is a member of the Royal Television Society where she regularly chairs the News Programme of the Year Awards. She is also a judge for the Broadcast Magazine television Awards. She is a member of BAFTA and a regular contributor to Broadcast Magazine, openDemocracy and OurBeeb. She has appeared several times on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and on BBC One's Newswatch and is a respected commentator on broadcasting.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology; Founder and Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leo moved to the US from the Philippines after medical school to pursue specialty training in internal medicine (Cleveland Clinic), infectious diseases (Harvard) and critical care medicine (Stanford). He has practiced medicine in three continents (Philippines, US and New Zealand) and has worked in both industry (Philips Visicu) and academe (faculty positions at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and University of Otago), rendering him with broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. He has a strong interest in systems re-design for quality improvement, and became the New Zealand representative to the Quality and Safety Committee of the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society in 2006. Feeling he needed more skills to tackle the healthcare inefficiencies he faced wherever he practiced, he went back to the US to pursue graduate studies in biomedical informatics at MIT and public health at Harvard. While attending both schools and working part-time as an emergency department physician, he co-founded Sana, personally recruiting most of the current members, and was instrumental in shaping the mission and vision of the young organization. His other research interest is in data mining and the application of machine learning on large databases. As a research scientist at the Laboratory of Computational Physiology at MIT, he works with MIMIC, a publicly-available de-identified ICU database from BIDMC. He is working on a data-driven decision support system known as Collective Experience that (1) allows a clinician to draw on the experience of other clinicians who have taken care of similar patients as recorded in a clinical database, and (2) uses models performed on relatively homogeneous patient subsets.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University Laura K. Gee received her PhD in Economics from UC San Diego in 2013. Her research is in behavioral economics — with a particular focus on how individual decision making is influenced by group dynamics. She currently has two main lines of research. One line is about the provision of public goods including charitable contributions. The second is about the relationship between social networks and labor markets. Her studies rely on both lab and field experiments, as well as observational data.
Lecturer and PhD Candidate in International Relations and Environmental Policy, Australian National University Luke is a lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU) for both International Climate Change Economics and Policy, as well as Climate Change Science and Policy. He is a finishing, third year PhD candidate at the ANU, Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and Research Associate with the Free University of Berlin. He holds a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Honours- First Class) from the ANU. He is regularly involved with international negotiations on climate change and other environmental issues.
