Contributors

Leah Hollstein

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati

Lauren A. Siegel

Lecturer, University of Greenwich

Lecturer, University of Greenwich Dr. Lauren Siegel is a Lecturer in Tourism & Events at the University of Greenwich in London. Lauren's research focuses on how social media have transformed experiences into objects of collectible consumption and visitor impacts to destinations considered 'Instagrammable'. Lauren earned her MSc from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hons) and her PhD from the University of Surrey. Her research is centred on all things leisure and technology, and is published widely in both academic and industry journals. Personally, Lauren is a keen traveller and considers local and authentic experiences very precious. Lauren also considers herself pretty witty, but not all will agree.

Lucy Nicholas

Associate professor Sexualities and Genders / Sociology, Western Sydney University

Associate professor Sexualities and Genders / Sociology, Western Sydney University I am a researcher and university lecturer in gender, sexuality, sociology and politics. I work at Western Sydney University in the School of Social Sciences, and am director of Sexualities and Genders Research. I did my MPhil at Griffith University, QLD, Australia, and my PhD at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, before working at Portsmouth University, UK, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia, and finally to WSU in 2019. My research is interested in diversity broadly, focusing on genders and sexualities, social theory, feminisms, and whiteness. I am committed to research that improves the lives of those who are othered and subordinated.

Lise Lafferty

Senior research fellow, UNSW Sydney

Senior research fellow, UNSW Sydney Dr Lise Lafferty is a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney with positions at the Centre for Social Research in Health and The Kirby Institute. She is a qualitative social health researcher with a focus on infectious diseases in priority populations.

Louise Dorignon

Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University

Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University Louise Dorignon is a geographer and a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research in the School of Global, RMIT University. She specialises in the production, lived experience and urban outcomes of apartment housing in Australia and Europe. Louise’s VC Fellowship project focuses on modular apartment prefabrication to analyse how it can enable the production of more sustainable and affordable homes and support everyday experiences of post-carbon housing. Louise has collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders, from material manufacturers and builders, to architects, developers, policymakers, regulators and householders in Australia and internationally, especially in Europe.

Leidy Klotz

Associate Professor of Engineering and Co-Director, Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, University of Virginia

Associate Professor of Engineering and Co-Director, Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, University of Virginia Leidy's scholarship merging engineering and social science for a more sustainable and resilient built environment has been consistently funded, including through an NSF CAREER award and through one of the first awards through NSF’s interdisciplinary INSPIRE program. He also played a lead role in programs, funded by grants from NSF and the Department of Education, which support cohorts of graduate students on interdisciplinary research in a more resilient and sustainable built environment. Since 2012, he has advised 11 Ph.D. graduates (ten from groups underrepresented in engineering) and eight graduates of his research team have secured faculty positions. Leidy has twice been selected by students as top teacher in his department and twice recognized for individual mentoring of top undergraduates. Before becoming an academic, Leidy worked managing the design and construction of building projects in New Jersey and before that he played professional soccer for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.