Lecturer in Digital Culture, Socety and Economy, King's College London Mike works in the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London. He holds a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, working in partnership with the Ordnance Survey on studying everyday digital mapping practices. His research is primarily interested in the tensions and contradictions that emerge when we examine how digital society and technology is theorised alongside how everyday life is lived. This has manifested in research about digital mapping practices, the lived experiences of the sharing economy and video conferencing during the pandemic. He is the editor-in-chief of the Livingmaps Review, a bi-annual journal for radical and critical cartography, which welcomes a range of submission styles from academics, artists, activists and others interested in maps and mapping practices.
Senior Lecturer of Sociology, University of Essex Before joining Essex, I did my PhD from the Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan and have spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milan, working on the research project P2PValue, funded by the European Commission's FP7 program. My research is in the area of Economic Sociology, STS, Consumer Cultures and Social Theory. I am interested in looking at alternative systems to global capitalism to frame them as a distinct analytical and political category. Part of this interest emerges from examining global bazaar economies as a popular economic system based on my ethnography in Delhi's Electronic Bazaars and developed as a monograph, Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy, published with Stanford University Press. I am currently researching the Whitechapel market in East London to investigate bazaars as intellectual places drawing from the literature on public space, and Autonomist Marxism. The other strand of my research focuses on marginal cultural spaces, particularly young adults' social media use in the Global South, to see how they engage with global platforms in unique ways. Overall, I am interested in building a more embedded social theory through observations and practices often ignored in the dominant academic framework.
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy, Aston University I am currently working as a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at Aston University. Before joining Aston, I completed my PhD from The University of Sydney, Australia. My research focuses on medicine optimisation. My work in this area has made a significant impact across various clinical domains such as ADHD, depression, diabetes, and polio. Currently, I am investigating how we can improve the use of ADHD medicines and the role of community pharmacies in supporting children with ADHD and their families. I have published several research articles in this area, particularly on adherence to ADHD medications and the decision-making that goes around the use of ADHD medications. A complete list of my research articles is available at: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1284-5929
Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics Dr. Marta Pachocka is the Head of the Migration Policies Research Unit at the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) of the University of Warsaw, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, and the Institute of International Studies of the Collegium of Socio-Economics of SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics in 2013, but her academic profile is truly interdisciplinary, also including political science and migration studies. She has considerable experience as both a team leader and member in implementing cross-sector and multi-stakeholder projects co-funded by the National Science Centre, National Bank of Poland, Capital City of Warsaw, various ministries, EU Programmes (Horizon 2020, Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus+, Creative Europe), and others. She is on the Board of the PECSA and the Research Committee RC46 ‘Migration and Citizenship’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She supports the European Commission Representation in Poland as an EU expert member of the Team Europe network. She is also a member of the International Steering Committee of the Metropolis Project, focused on international migration and migration policies. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of the Sciences.
La Trobe University Maree Patsouras is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) at La Trobe University. She completed her honours Psychology degree on digital and media alcohol exposure. Her other research interests include emerging technologies and women’s alcohol use.
Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University Dr Söderberg has spent his career studying the essential services (electricity, district heating, water and sewerage and municipal solid waste), using an economic lens.
