Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York Nick researches and teaches in the areas of international relations and international security at the University of York. His particular focus is on nuclear disarmament, proliferation and arms control and US and UK national security. After completing his PhD thesis at the University of Bradford in 2007 on the evolution of US nuclear weapons policy after the Cold War, he spent four years researching and teaching at Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies before joining York in 2011. He previously worked for five years at the Oxford Research Group, an independent Non-Governmental Organisation working with policy-makers and independent experts on the challenges of global security and nuclear disarmament.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College I am an anthropologist interested in questions of politics and mediation, particularly in the entanglement of popular sovereignty and political communication. My recent interests are in political affect, populism, rumor, infrastructural development and democracy. I received my PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and have been a Member at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 2020-21. My first book, Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh (Stanford University Press 2019) is an ethnography of the crowd. My current book project explores the entanglements of sovereignty and sacrifice in the lived materiality of populist authoritarianism, or what I loosely describe as ''infrastructural populism'. I am the book review editor (South Asia) of Journal of Asian Studies and am on the editorial board of Journal of Bangladesh Studies. During 2020-23, I served as an elected member of the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
Professor, Conservation Biology, Zoological Society of London I am a conservation biologist interested in biodiversity monitoring, climate change ecology and nature recovery. I did my PhD in France and then worked in Norway and Canada before starting at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, in 2006.
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham I have recently finished my doctoral research at the University of Nottingham, funded by the AHRC and the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. I previously attained a BA (Hons) in Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History and an MA in Cultural Heritage at the University of East Anglia. I am currently employed as a Research Fellow on the AHRC/EPSRC funded Caistor Immersive Experience project, developing an Augmented Reality app for the Roman town. I have recently completed the Associate Teacher Programme to become an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and work as a Teaching Affiliate at the University of Nottingham. I am also a Reviews co-editor for the Britannia archaeology journal. My professional career, including a strong museums background and work with Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) data, has given me an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the collection and interpretation of small finds. Working with local archaeological groups has provided me with an excellent knowledge of regional material culture. I have also volunteered with the PASt Explorers and Nottingham Young Archaeologists' Club, as well as running schools' outreach in Norfolk and Nottinghamshire. I have taken an active role in fieldwalking, excavation and finds processing at the civitas capital of Venta Icenorum (Caistor St Edmund) with the Caistor Roman Project (CRP) over the past twelve years. Since 2010, I have been investigating the 1929-35 excavations of Donald Atkinson at Caistor, in partnership with Norfolk Museums Service (NMS) and CRP. Oral history interviews are another project which I have been carrying out over the past several years with key figures in the archaeology of Norfolk. I have extended this to explore the personal stories, opinions and behaviour of metal-detectorists, who play an important role in recovering many of the objects in my study.
Associate Professor, Management and Information Systems, University of Maine Dr. Nadège Levallet is an Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems in the Maine Business School (University of Maine, USA). She earned her Ph.D. in management information systems at the Smith School of Business (Queen’s University, Canada). Her research lies at the intersection of digital technologies, strategy and innovation in small and medium organizations. She is especially interested in examining organizational responses to discontinuity events using digital resources. Nadège also studies research approaches, and especially qualitative comparative analysis. Her work has been published in internationally renowned outlets, including journals such as Information Systems Research, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, and MIS Quarterly Executive. Prior to joining academia, she spent more than a decade in progressive management positions in various private and public organizations in Canada and France.
Associate professor, University of Warsaw I have trained as a sociologist, but my research falls at the intersection of sociology, political science and psychology, as I research attitudes and behaviour towards public goods, including tax and pro-environmental behaviour and co-production, as well as policy preferences, discriminatory behaviour, social capital, social trust and corruption. I have an extensive experience in research on ethnic minorities, and party policy and electoral strategy in post-Communist countries. I am particularly interested in the conditioning effect of social and spatial context. Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative survey research, including survey experiments. I am widely experienced in working with cross-national survey data, including survey design and implementation.
