Lecturer in Research Evaluation and Student Engagement, Sheffield Hallam University Nathaniel Pickering is a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, Evaluation and Research at Sheffield Hallam University. Nathaniel works on internal and external research and evaluation projects that examine what works to improve student outcomes across access, attainment, retention, and progression, with a particular focus on widening participation. Much of his work is focused on using theory-based evaluation to improve programmes of change and impact, and he has recently launched a game-based resource, ChangeBusters, to support university staff in developing a theory of change. Nathaniel is in the final stages of undertaking a PhD at Lancaster University that examines the impact of crisis events on English higher education policy.
Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia Dr Nelly Liyanagamage is a Sessional Lecturer in the School of Business and Law, Notre Dame University Australia, and a Visiting Research Associate in the School of Business, University of Wollongong, Australia. Nelly has a PhD in Management. Her current research focuses on relational leadership theory, Machiavellian leadership, qualitative methodologies, and emotions in the workplace.
Lecturer in applied economics, Bocconi University Nicoletta Corrocher is a Lecturer in Applied Economics at Bocconi University and Research Fellow at ICRIOS (Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Bocconi University. Her main research interests concern the diffusion of innovations and industrial dynamics - particularly in ICT industries and service sectors – and the emergence of eco-innovations in the framework of sustainable development.
Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina Nicole A. Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina. Cooke is a 2012 graduate from Rutgers University with a PhD in communication, information, and library studies, where she was one of the first 12 American Library Association Spectrum Doctoral Fellows. She holds the MLS degree from Rutgers University, and a M.Ed. in Adult Education from Pennsylvania State University. Previously, Dr. Cooke was a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cooke is professionally active in ALA, ACRL, the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE), and several other professional library organizations. Cooke was awarded the 2017 ALA Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award, presented by the Office for Diversity and Literacy Outreach Services, and the 2016 ALA Equality Award. She has also been honored as the University of Illinois YWCA’s 2015 Leadership Award in Education winner in recognition of her work in social justice and higher education, and she was selected as the University’s 2016 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Teaching and Mentoring in Diversity. She was the 2013 Recipient of the Norman Horrocks Leadership Award given by ALISE, and Library Journal named her a Mover & Shaker in 2007. Cooke’s research and teaching interests include human information behavior (particularly in the online context), critical cultural information studies, and diversity and social justice in librarianship (with an emphasis on infusing them into LIS education and pedagogy). She has published articles in journals including JASIST, The Library Quarterly, InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information, Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, Library and Information Science Research, Information Research, and New Review of Academic Librarianship. Cooke coauthored Instructional Strategies and Techniques for Information Professionals (Chandos Press, 2012), co-edited Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom (Library Juice Press, 2017), and her latest books are Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Libraries Unlimited / ABC-CLIO, 2016), and Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ALA Editions. 2018).
Subject Lead in Social Sciences & Law, University of Sussex Nick is a researcher and teacher of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex International Study Centre. His book, 'Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse: The Island Race', is published with Routledge in July 2023. His research interests include critical geopolitics, British politics, foreign policy, national identity and discourse. He has written for the major academic journals 'Political Geography' and 'Geopolitics' and the 'Strategy in the Contemporary World' textbook. As a speaker, he has recently addressed a Labour Party branch meeting and a conference of Geography teachers on what Brexit means for British foreign policy and identity.
Assistant Researcher in Climate Policy, Tufts University Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton is an Assistant Researcher for the Climate Policy Lab in The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He completed his graduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at the universities of Cambridge (MPhil Geographical Research) and Oxford (MSt Critical Translation), and his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley (BS Environmental Science, Policy, & Management). From 2021–22, he served as a Blakemore Freeman Fellow in National Taiwan University’s International Chinese Language Program. Other relevant experiences include collaboration with Dr. Elia Apostolopoulou, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow at the University of Cambridge, on an edited volume on the social and environmental impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative; research assistance at the California-China Climate Institute; coding for the Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker; and work as an environmental journalist. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, Orion, and elsewhere. At the Climate Policy Lab, Nathaniel’s research centers on China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the role of critical minerals in the energy transition. He also collaborates with climate policy experts and government officials in several countries in Latin America and Southeast Asia to conduct climate policy gap analyses.
