Professor of English and Irish Literature concentration coordinator, University of Connecticut Mary M. Burke is an English Professor at UConn and Director of its Irish Literature Concentration. Her book, "Race, Politics, and Irish-America: A Gothic History" was published by Oxford UP in 2022 (UK) / 2023 (US). She has also published a cultural history of Irish Travellers with OUP and collaborated with Tramp Press on the 2022 Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" reissue. Her public-facing and creative work has placed with NPR, the Irish Times, Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, and Faber. Burke has held the NEH Keough-Naughton Fellowship at Notre Dame and a Boston College Ireland Visiting Research Fellowship, and is former chair of the MLA Irish Literature Committee. She was a 2022 Long Room Hub Fellow. at her alma mater, Trinity College Dublin. https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burke/
Lecturer in English, University College Cork I lecture in the School of English and Digital Humanities in University College Cork. I am an Irish Studies scholar, specializing in women's writing, from the late nineteenth century to today. Much of my work is ecofeminist analysis, including my first book, The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing.
I am an archaeologist with over 15 years of field and research experience in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Australia. As part of my postgraduate studies at The University of Sydney, I analysed the Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, mid-to-late third millennium BC occupational sequence, which included comprehensive ceramic analysis and full stratigraphic phasing of the site. My post-doctoral work has focused upon the final publication of the later phases of occupation at Tell Um Hammad, Jordan, specifically the Early Bronze Age IV and Iron Age levels, as well as the publication of the third and early second millennia BC sequence at Tell Nebi Mend. I was a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia on the project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Project (AAKSA). I am now a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Prehistoric AlUla and Khaybar Excavation Project (PAKEP).
Programme Leader for MA International Journalism, University of Salford Two decades in overseas media development training and consultancy after 15 years with BBC Global News and World Service in London as broadcast journalist and editor. Expertise and experience in FSU, Eastern Europe and international affairs, media regulation and public service broadcasting.
MSc student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, University of Calgary I am a Master of Science student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Calgary, working under the supervision of Dr. Joshua Bourdage in the Organizational Behaviour and Interpersonal Influence Lab. My master's thesis focuses on asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) and socioeconomic status, specifically how those with lower SES may be more negatively perceived by hiring managers evaluating an AVI. I am a Certified Human Resources Professional, and plan on pursuing my PhD in I/O at U of C following the completion of my Master's. Outside of school and work, I enjoy hiking, biking, skiing, and rock climbing!
Professor of Planning, Newcastle University, Newcastle University Mark Shucksmith is a rural sociologist and Professor of Planning at Newcastle University. He was Director of Newcastle University’s Institute for Social Renewal from 2012-18, and is also Visiting Professor in Ruralis at the University of Trondheim (NTNU). Before he joined Newcastle University he was Professor of Land Economy at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Trustee of Carnegie UK, Macaulay Development Trust and European Rural Communities Alliance. In recent years he chaired the Scottish Government’s Committee of Inquiry into Crofting, acted as specialist advisor to two House of Lords select committees, and was a Board member of the Countryside Agency, Commission for Rural Communities and Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE). Professor Shucksmith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. Research interests include: poverty and social exclusion in rural areas, sustainable ruralism, rural development, agricultural policy, and affordable rural housing. He is author of numerous books.
