Senior Lecturer Media and Film, University of Huddersfield Richard McCulloch is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film, and joined the University of Huddersfield in January 2016. He has held previous appointments at five other UK universities, most notably Regent’s University London, where he was responsible for overseeing the design of a new Film Studies degree pathway in 2015. He studied Film and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he later went on to complete his MA and PhD. His doctoral research looked at reputation and discourses of quality in relation to Pixar Animation Studios, and he is in currently updating and expanding on his ideas for a forthcoming monograph. Richard is co-director of The World Star Wars Project – a five-year study of the post-Disney Star Wars franchise and its audiences – and he is also on the board of the Fan Studies Network. Research Expertise and Interests Media audiences and reception Fandom and fan cultures Post-Classical Hollywood Branding, Reputation, and Promotional Culture Cult film and television
Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College Richard studies labor markets and housing markets in the US as well as "skilled" migration and some immigration topics. Segregation and Diversity in US and UK Housing Markets 2022 "Making Metros White? The Effects of U.S. Metropolitan Reclassification on Racial Compositional Change," The Professional Geographer, with Mark Ellis and Nicole Tiao. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.2018660 2021 "Rethinking the 'Buffering' Theory of Neighborhood Racial Transition," Sociology Compass, with Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12880 2021 "Mixed Measures: Different Definitions of Racially Diverse Neighborhoods Compared," Urban Geography, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Mehrnush Golriz. 42, 8, 1147-1169. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1756056 2020 "The Evolution and Stability of Multi-Ethnic Residential Neighbourhoods in England," Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 46, 2, 330-346, with Gemma Catney and Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12416 2020 "The Instability of Highly Racially Diverse Residential Neighborhoods in the United States," Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 6, 3, 365-381, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Gemma Catney, https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218819168. 2018 "Predicting neighborhood racial change in US metropolitan areas," Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317744558, with Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio, and Steven Holloway. 2017 "Remaking White Residential Segregation: Neighborhood Succession and Metropolitan Diversity in the United States," Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2017.1360039, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Lee Fiorio. Skilled Migration Research 2019 "Where STEM Graduates Move: Human Capital, Employment Growth, and Interstate Migration in the United States," Population, Space and Place, 25, 4, with Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2224. 2017 "The matching of STEM degree holders with STEM jobs in large US labor markets" Economic Geography, 93, 2, 185-201, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1220803, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley. Migration Regulation 2022 "Occupational Licensing and Interstate Migration in the United States," Monthly Labor Review, with Thomas Cooke and Mark Ellis. https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2022.22 2018 "A Prospective on Zelinsky's 'Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition'," Geographical Review, doi: 10.1111/gere.12310, with Thomas Cooke and Mark Ellis. Great Recession/Anti-immigrant Legislation Research 2016 "State-scale Immigration Enforcement and Latino Interstate Migration in the United States," Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 106, 4, 891-908. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2015.1135725, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley. 2015 "The Great Recession and the Migration Redistribution of Blacks and Whites in the US South," Growth and Change, 46, 4, 611-630. DOI: 10.1111/grow.12107, with Natasha Rivers and Mark Ellis. 2014 "The migration response to the Legal Arizona Workers Act," Political Geography, 42, 46-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.06.001, with Mark Ellis, Kristy Copeland, and Matt Townley. 2014 "The Allure of New Immigrant Destinations and the Great Recession in the United States," International Migration Review, 48, 1, 3-33. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12058, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University I joined Purdue University’s Human Development and Family Studies Department in Fall 2021. I earned my PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno and completed a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Ohio State University’s Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research. As a social-health psychologist with specialized training in psychoneuroimmunology and quantitative methods, I study how couples’ stress affects their relationships and health. My work focuses on the underlying psychological, behavioral, and biological pathways connecting stress to people’s own and their partners’ relational and physical health across adulthood and later life.
Postdoctoral researcher in the Animal Evolutionary Ecology, University of Tübingen I was an ENVISION DTP NERC funded PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre. Rachel’s research focused on the behavioural ecology, specifically individual differences in behaviour/personality in response to climate change, and macroecology, considering how distributions of reef fish may change under future climatic conditions.
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Landscape Studies, Dalhousie University Robert France is a leading environmental and landscape scholar and professor at Dalhousie University who has written on pilgrimage and sacred landscapes and had commentaries about the Great War read on CBC Radio. In June 2018, he organized a memorial service held on the Halifax waterfront on the centenary day of the departure of the hospital ship, the Llandovery Castle, which would go one to be torpedoed and result in the largest loss of lives of nurses in the Great War, and be regarded as the most serious war crime of that conflict. He is currently at work on a book derived from his walk along the Western Front. Robert has published research on animals from bacteria to whales, in locations from the High Arctic to the tropics, much dealing with their relationships to anthropogenic stress. His humanities research concerns landscape architecture and the history of sacred landscapes, pilgrimage, and environmental history and ethnobiology. Robert has published more than twenty books and over two hundred journal articles in four decades of research. While a faculty member at Harvard University, Dr. France's work received awards of international distinction. A native of Manitoba, he was the recipient of the province's highest honour in 1992.
