Contributors

Lauren Sudeall Lucas

Lauren Sudeall Lucas is assistant Professor of Law at the Georgia State University. She joined faculty of GSU College of Law in 2012, where she teaches Constitutional Law and Capital Punishment. Soros Justice Fellow/Staff Attorney, Southern Center for Human Rights (2007-12) Clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court (2006-07) Clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2005-06)

Lisa Wood

Lisa Wood is Associate Professor Population Health at University of Western Australia and has PhD in public health coupled with over 20 years experience in health promotion and public health, working across policy and practice, and with government and non-government sectors. Passionate about research that can make a difference to reducing health and social inequalities.

Lauren Rea

Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield

Liam Burke

Dr. Liam Burke is a senior media studies lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, where he also serves as the Course Director of Media. His research interests include Comic Books, Cinema, Adaptation Studies, and Irish Culture. His most recent book, The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre, was published in April 2015. Past publications include articles in the journals Participations, Adaptation, and Estudios Irlandeses, as well as the book Superhero Movies and the edited collection Fan Phenomena Batman. His current research project, “New Media, Aging, and Migration”, considers how older Irish people in Melbourne make use of social media. Prior to earning a PhD in film studies from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Liam worked for a number of arts organisations and festivals, including the Irish Film & Television Academy. He was the lead researcher and programmer of the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium. Liam is a regular media commentator in Ireland and Australia.

Lesley Russell

Dr Russell returned to Australia in October 2012 after three years in Washington DC where she worked on a range of issues around the enactment and implementation of health care reform, initially as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress (known as the 'Obama think tank') and later as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Surgeon General in the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr Russell has substantial experience working in health policy in the United States and Australia. both in and out of government. She was previously the inaugural Menzies Foundation Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) and a Research Associate at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal ALP. She worked for seven years as health policy advisor on the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatuves. Dr Russell is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the MCHP and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD in biochemistry from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU.

Lee Sweetlove

Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford.