Professor of Anthropology, San José State University Roberto J. González is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of science and technology, militarization, environmental anthropology, and the history of anthropological thought. He has written several books including "Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca" (2001), "American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain" (2009), "Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State" (2010), "Militarization: A Reader" (co-edited, 2019), "Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network" (2020), and "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Date, and Predict the Future" (2022).
Research Fellow in African Studies, The University of Edinburgh Robert Macdonald is a research fellow working on the 'Local Perceptions and Media Representations of Election Observation in Africa' project. The project investigates the perceptions of observation missions and the ways in which information about these missions circulates in countries hosting observation missions. His broader research interests are in African politics and elections, with a particular focus on Tanzania. He has also been working on the UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund 'African Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic' project, which looks at ways of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on African elections.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Project Coordinator, Aberystwyth University I am an experienced researcher and project officer with a particular interest in Welsh writing in English, historical fiction, literary geographies and the history of tourism in Wales. I have taught several seminars in English Literature and Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Welsh history and culture. I have published several research articles on European travellers in Wales, historical visitors' books, and historical fiction from and about Wales. I have also edited new editions of works by Welsh authors that had fallen out of print. Among them are Twm Shôn Catti (1828) by T. J. Llewelyn Prichard, Gladys of Harlech (1858) by Louisa Matilda Spooner and Rob the Red-Hand, a collection of short stories and novellas by the late Romantic author Thomas Richards, Dolgellau.
Senior Lecturer in Housing and Planning, University of Liverpool Richard works at the interface of housing delivery and planning. Drawing from behavioural economics, his research focuses on explaining human decision making in the built environment. Richard's research freqeuntly considers: calculations of housing need; the relationship between public outcomes and land value capture; and cycling infrastructures.
Senior Lecturer in Physiology, The University of Queensland I am a lecturer in physiology at the School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland. Originally from Ireland, I obtained my BSc (Honours) degree in Environmental Biology and my PhD in fish neuroethology from The Queen’s University of Belfast. I then moved to Australia and completed a post-doc in humpback whale social communication.
Associate Professor in Management, Northumbria University, Newcastle Russell is an Associate Professor in Management at Northumbria University and Adjunct professor with Aalto University in Finland Russell is a Chartered Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Doctoral degree in Leadership and Professional Development In addition to University research and teaching, Russell leads on business consultancy projects across a range of organisations from SMEs to MNCs and in the public and not-for-profit sectors
