Contributors

Penny Payne

Social Scientist, University of Waikato

Social Scientist, University of Waikato I am passionate about creating and facilitating research which generates impact for next and end users. My work has focused on biodiversity, biosecurity, rural resilience and agriculture more generally.

Philip D Parker

Pro-vice-chancellor Research, Australian Catholic University

Pro-vice-chancellor Research, Australian Catholic University Professor Philip Parker is the Pro-vice-chancellor - Research at the Australian Catholic University. He received his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Sydney. His major research interest includes educational inequality, developmental transitions, and educational attainment.

Paula Corcoran

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, City, University of London

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, City, University of London I completed my PhD in 2009. I am also a fellow of the Higher Education Authority. I previously worked in the third sector with homeless persons who have drug and alcohol addictions. I teach health psychology, qualitative research methods and addiction.

Paul Felton

Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics in the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University

Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics in the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University Paul Felton is a Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics in the School of Science and Technology. He has authored or co-authored world-leading, peer-reviewed research, has contributed to written-press and media features, and is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for multiple PhD researchers. Paul is one of cricket's most prominent applied researchers focusing on the technical characteristics linked to performance and injury. His main research interest lay within optimising individual sporting performance and has utilised predictive computer simulation models with industry collaborations including the England & Wales Cricket Board and the English Institute of Sport. Paul also contributes to the teaching on the Sport and Exercise Science, Sport Science and Coaching, and Sport Science and Mathematics courses. He is the module leader of Applied Human Movement Science for Sport, and contributes to the following modules: Introduction to Human Movement Science, Analysis of Human Movement, Applied Sport Science, as well as supervising undergraduate and postgraduate projects.

Poppy Cullen

Lecturer in International History, Loughborough University

Lecturer in International History, Loughborough University Poppy is a historian of decolonisation and post-colonial relationships between Britain and Africa. She is interested in the transition from colonial to independent states in the 1960s and how organisations and individuals in a variety of fields – military, political, economic, humanitarian – adapted to this transition. Her book 'Kenya and Britain after Independence Beyond Neo-Colonialism' focused on the political relationship between Britain and Kenya in the decades after independence, the 1960s to 1980s. She examined how political elites in both countries re-thought their relationships after Kenyan independence, and how the different forms of diplomacy practiced by the two states shaped the foreign policies they followed. She argued that British diplomats encouraged personalised rather than bureaucratic policy-making in Kenya. At the same time, they naturalised this kind of personalised politics, often termed neo-patrimonialism, as something inherently ‘African’. Poppy has published on various aspects of Anglo-Kenyan relations in a number of journals. Her current research is focused on two areas. Firstly, military decolonisation and Africanisation in East Africa. Here, Poppy explores the precarious transformation of colonial armies intended to secure imperial rule to independent African militaries. Secondly, the history of humanitarianism and NGOs in Africa during the period of decolonisation. This includes work on ‘The Big Survey’ of NGOs carried out in the 1960s, and research into the Mau Mau Emergency.

Phyllis Awor

Lecturer in Public Health, Makerere University

Lecturer in Public Health, Makerere University I am a medical doctor (MBChB) with also an MSc. in International Health and a PhD in International Health