Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, Auburn University Myoung-Gi Chon, Ph.D., serves as an associate professor and the graduate program officer (GPO) in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University. He holds the position of associated editor at Asian Journal of Public Relations (AJPR). Previously, he was a co-advisor for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), and since 2019, he has been an advisor for the Korean Student Association (KSA) at Auburn University. Moreover, he actively contributes as one of the board members of Korea Corner, an organization dedicated to fostering mutual understanding and bridging the gap between the Korean community and non-Korean communities. Chon's primary research interests center around risk-crisis management, health communication, and science communication, particularly concerning infectious diseases and environmental issues. His research has evolved to explore communicative behaviors of the public, addressing social and political challenges in the digital age. Throughout his academic journey, Dr. Chon, along with co-authors, has contributed to the development of various measurements, including social media activism, issues-crisis principles (RAPIDS) and allegiant communication behavior (ACB). Recently, he has extended his research interests to include the application of public relations theories in public diplomacy. Moreover, as a committee member in Auburn University's AI@AU initiative, his ongoing research centers on applying AI in public relations education and addressing health-science communication issues.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Margaret (Maggie) Lowenstein, MD, MPhil, MSHP is a general internist, addiction medicine physician, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Lowenstein’s research focuses on novel strategies for implementing evidence-based treatment and harm reduction interventions for opioid and other substance use disorders. She is interested in the delivery of substance use care in general medical settings as well as developing and studying low-barrier treatment models for substance use disorder. Dr. Lowenstein also co-chairs the Opioid Use Disorder Workgroup of the Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force and collaborates with partners in Philadelphia to disseminate best practices for opioid use disorder care. She currently practices integrated addiction medicine and primary care at the University of Pennsylvania and attends on Penn’s inpatient addiction medicine consult service. Dr. Lowenstein received her undergraduate degree at Williams College, a Master’s degree in Biology and Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge as a Herchel Smith Fellow, and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in the UCSF primary care program and then a fellowship in health policy with the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Penn.
Research Fellow with the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation, University of Birmingham Manoel Gehrke is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). He specialises in comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on Latin America. His research interests include political corruption, contemporary threats to democracy, and the political economy of environmental degradation. Gehrke's current book project investigates how political elites' reactions influence the effectiveness of anticorruption policies in Brazil. He is also working on cross-national projects that examine the political consequences of corrupt politicians being convicted and the use of nepotism in public employment as a tool for political bargaining in Brazilian municipalities. In addition, Gehrke has studied the ways in which political parties in Colombia evade controls to prevent electoral fraud. Gehrke's research on the political economy of environmental degradation includes examining the effects of political favoritism and law enforcement tools on environmental crimes.
PhD Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia working climate adaptation. Previous experience as a municipal engineer working on drainage masterplans.
Senior Lecturer and Course leader of the Humanities Foundation Degree, Kingston University I graduated in 2001 at the University of Aberdeen (Joint MA Hons English-Lit / History of Art) and was awarded my PhD from Kingston University ('Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet') in 2007. I currently teach across film, media and English Literature and I am the Course leader for the Humanities Foundation degree My current and ongoing research concentrates on the work of both Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell. I co-edited The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the classic Summer Blockbuster (Bloomsbury); Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange (Palgrave, 2023 ); 'Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange' (Special edition of Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television) and edited ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell (EUP, 2023 ). I am currently working on a monograph about Ken Russell's 1986 film Gothic. Forthcoming publications include an edited collection for Bloomsbury, The Jurassic Park Book (2023), a special edition of the journal Cinergie Il Cine e le Altre Arti, 'Franchising Jurassic Park' (2023) . My research (and teaching) is archive focused and I have a particular research interest in the both study of archives themselves and in the phenomena of the unmade and abandoned project. I am co-convener of the Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Archives and Archival Methods' (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies). I have taught modules on British cinema and cult and transgressive film and literature and am interested in the tension between analogue and digital media as well as dead technology.
Professor, Management Strategy & Organisation, University of Bath Dr Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard & Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation. She is the author of six books. Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better”. She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co, mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organisations.
