Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University I received my Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton in 2021, after which I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton before beginning as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in 2022. I study biased beliefs that contribute to inequality, including stereotypes people hold about individuals in poverty and about individuals who experience gender-based violence. I also study decision-making, especially related to how context shapes people's judgments and choices.
Senior Fellow, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Please see: http://www.neilseeman.com Neil Seeman is a Canadian writer, Internet entrepreneur and mental health advocate. He is the author of the 2023 book, "Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain" (Sutherland House Books). At the University of Toronto, he teaches at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and is a senior fellow in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Massey College, the HIVE Lab, and the Investigative Journalism Bureau. Neil is a regular contributor to Nikkei Asia, The Toronto Star, and Healthcare Quarterly. He has published his research on mental health topics in Nature, Synapse, and in other leading academic journals. He is the co-author of three books on mental health, including XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame, which was a finalist for the Donner Book Prize and was selected as an “outstanding” title by the University Press Books Committee.
Professor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin I came to UCD in 2005 as Chair of Modern English and American Literature, having taught for ten years at Trinity College Dublin. I have also taught at Wesleyan University, CT (Spring, 1994/5), and Dartmouth College (Fall 2003/4). Most of my work has been on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and drama, though I have also written about early cinema and visual culture, and I have a strong interest in popular literature and culture. I would be happy to supervise graduate research in Victorian and twentieth-century popular literature in particular. I am or have been on the advisory boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, Cusp, and the Irish University Review. My most recent monograph, Ruritania: A Cultural History appeared from Oxford University Press in 2020; Oxford World's Classics published my linked edition of Anthony Hope's bestseller, The Prisoner of Zenda the same year. In 2023 I published a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, for Oxford World's Classics. Current projects include a collaborative AHRC project with Aoife Monks on Dion Boucicault, and with Thomas Keymer the planning of a three-volume Cambridge History of London in literature. Research: Victorian and twentieth-century literature and culture, popular culture. Recent Projects: Ruritania: A Cultural History, a book-length project on imaginary European territories, from The Prisoner of Zenda to The Princess Diaries; an edition of The Prisoner of Zenda. An essay on Victorian popular fiction for the Routledge Handbook of Victorian Literature. Current Projects: an edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, A Study in Scarlet, for Oxford World's Classics. One of the editors of the planned 3-volume Cambridge History of London in Literature.
Professor of New Infrastructure Development, University of Manchester Nuno is a Professor of New Infrastructure Development. Nuno was born in Lisbon, Portugal, where he trained as a civil engineer and worked as a project manager. Nuno joined The University of Manchester in 2002, after earning a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California at Berkeley; he moved to the Manchester Business School in 2004. Nuno focuses his research on the design of structures and processes can bring the best of people in consensus-oriented (pluralistic) settings, and make the world a better place to live and share with future generations. Nuno has worked or done research with various organizations including CH2M HILL, Intel, Rolls Royce, BAA (now Heathrow Ltd), BP, Manchester City Council, Network Rail, London2012, Crossrail, High speed 2, Thames Water, and the UK Cabinet; Larsen &Toubro and DFCCIL (India), World Bank, UNHabitat (Egypt), JICA (Japan); Lamata (Nigeria); and UNRA and KCCA (Uganda). In 2009, Nuno was the lead editor of the special issue of California Management Review Infrastructure meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones in 2009. Nuno co-founded and acted as research director of the MBS Centre for Infrastructure Development between 2013 and 2016. Nuno is the leading author of two books published with the Project Management Institute - Building Options at Project Front-end Strategizing (2014, with Guilherme Biesek) and Megaproject Organization and Performance: The Myth and Political Reality (2017, with Colm Lundrigan, Jeff Pinto, and Phanish Puranam). In 2013, Nuno co-founded the annual workshop series, Megaprojects Workshop: Theory meets Practice
Associate Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University Naomi Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University, a faculty affiliate at the Possibility Lab, and is a member of the Everyday Peace Indicators board of directors. Dr. Levy’s research centers on the relationships between ordinary citizens and the state. She employs community-based participatory methods to understand how the state can legitimize itself vis-à-vis the people and what might interrupt this process. With her work, she seeks to facilitate government responsiveness to community needs by amplifying the voices that are best placed to guide public servants. Levy received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds an MA in Social Sciences of Education from Stanford University School of Education. Her scholarship has been published in a broad range of academic journals, and she has received funding for her work from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Minerva Initiative, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the California Community Foundation / California 100 Initiative.
PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney I am a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. I study the behavioural ecology of macropods, focusing on how kangaroo behaviour is affected by various environmental and social pressures.
