Contributors

Pablo Rodríguez Lozano

Investigador Postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Investigador Postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Paul (Mac) McDermott

Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, University of Sydney

Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, University of Sydney Dr Paul (Mac) McDermott teaches into the Bachelor of Music Studies (Contemporary Music Practice) program. In 2021, he was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts which focussed on creating a unique compositional voice fusing Electronic Dance Music traditions with experimental practice. His research interest focuses on Australian dance music history, building on his practice history as a participant in the EDM scene. As a solo artist, he has been awarded a Best Dance Release ARIA for “Just the Thing” (2021), and as half of rave pioneers Itch-E & Scratch-E, he was awarded the same for their track “Sweetness & Light” (1995). He has collaborated with silverchair frontman Daniel Johns onThe Dissociatives(2004). As one half of Stereogamous he has been commissioned to remix artists including Kylie Minogue, Sia, George Michael, and Rufus du Sol. His most recent work,The Rise & Fall of St. Georgehas been performed at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall (2020) and the Sydney Festival (2021).

Pedro Tabensky

Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University

Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University Pedro Tabensky was born in Santiago, Chile, to refugee parents. His mother is a Holocaust survivor born in Hungary two weeks before the final stage of the final solution. His father, of Polish Jewish ancestry, is a refugee of the Chinese revolution. He has lived a peripatetic life since the age of three, ending up in South Africa in 2001 and meeting his wife, with whom he has two children. Tabensky is the founding director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGLE), Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University (South Africa). He is the author of Happiness: Personhood, Community, Purpose and of several articles and book chapters. Tabensky is also the editor of and contributor to Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation; The Positive Function of Evil; and, coedited with Sally Matthews (his wife), Being at Home: Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions. He has a book, published in 2023 by Routledge, titled Fanon and Camus on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion. He is commencing work on another book provisionally titled Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom, coming out with Lexington, probably in 2026.

Patrick G. Watson

Adjunct Professor of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University

I am the principal investigator of three SSHRC-funded projects studying policing and police oversight. I am currently writing a book based on the first of these projects, a study of eight criminal trials in Canada and the United States where police officers were tried for on-duty shooting incidents and where video evidence played a key role in the trial. My current studies are of special investigations units decisions of officer "reasonablenss" for cases that do not proceed to trial. I am the first Canadian scholar to be the successful principal applicant of the SSHRC/DFG/ESRC/ARN Open Research Area grant (2022 competition).

Pierre Stallforth

Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Pierre studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. He obtained his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Peter H. Seeberger at ETH Zurich. He then moved to Harvard Medical School where he did his postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. J. Clardy. In December 2013, he moved to the Leibniz-HKI as an independent Junior Research Group Leader. In January 2020 he was promoted to head of the Department of Paleobiotechnology. Since December 2021 he is a Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Pedro Mendonça

Associate Professor of Work and Employment, Heriot-Watt University

Associate Professor of Work and Employment, Heriot-Watt University Associate Professor of Work and Employment at Heriot-Watt University, with keen interest in the impact of Artificial Intelligence on work and workers. PhD in Human Resource Management, University of Strathclyde. From 2013 to 2016 I was Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher for The Changing Employment Network. I am a member of the British Sociological Association and part of Editorial Board of the journal Work, Employment and Society. My research focuses on trade unions, European employment regulation, and platform work and the changes it produces on labour and the labour process. My work has been published in British Journal of Industrial Relation, British Journal of Management, New Technology, Work and Employment, Work, Employment and Society.