Lecturer in History of Japanese art and architecture, Trinity College Dublin I am primarily an historian of Japanese art (including Japanese crafts) from the earliest times to the 20th century. My current research seeks to untangle the web of connections linking Japanese art and European art, following the common thread of lacquerware. My major interest is how these links were manifest in Ireland during the Japonisme movement of the late 19th Century, particularly the Japanese influence on Eileen Gray, (1878- 1976); also Japonisme in 19th and 20th century Ireland and lacquerware in Japan and Europe. Most of my teaching is on the Arts of Japan. I devised and instigated a non-western art course for second year History of Art Students. I have taught structured support sessions for extra-mural students complimenting these Art of Japan lectures. I also lecture in Japanese ceramics. I taught in the Board of Education, Matsue, Japan, for a number of years. I have been closely associated with the Chester Beatty Library and Gallery of Oriental Art, the primary Irish resource for Asian art; and I have been guest lecturer at major cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Ireland and National College of Art and Design.
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Calgary I am Associate Professor in University of Calgary’s Department of Geography, a Fellow with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation's National AI Research Institutes. My research interests are in the social, institutional, and urban transformations of big and open data, smart cities, digital humanitarianism, and related digital spatial phenomena. My research program interrogates the social and institutional struggles around knowledge production emerging in the context of these new spatial-technological developments.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University Rachel McKane is an environmental sociologist with research and teaching interests in environmental justice, spatial inequality, urban political economy, and mutual aid. Their primary research agenda explores the connection between environmental justice and processes of urban change rooted in racial capitalism, city development, and present and historic housing inequality. This research agenda is driven by a broad set of questions, including: What are the spatial and temporal scales of urban environmental justice struggles? How can multiscalar analyses guide cities towards centering justice in their sustainability efforts? This work applies a critical environmental justice (CEJ) lens to interconnected ecological and urban crises by deepening our understanding of the spatial and temporal scales of environmental justice struggles. Their most recent project explores the environmental legacy of redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and residential segregation. Professor McKane’s secondary research agenda explores community-based approaches to environmental justice through networks of solidarity and mutual aid. One manuscript, forthcoming at Environmental Justice, brings critical environmental justice into closer conversation with critical disability studies by exploring how disabled communities, predominantly queer, trans, and BIPOC, leverage mutual aid as adaptive strategy to climate change. After obtaining their PhD from Vanderbilt University, they worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University in the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) in the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) program on projects pertaining to redlining, housing inequality, and residential segregation. They also contributed to the Longitudinal Tract Data Base (LTDB), a public-use tool that harmonizes spatial boundaries of historic and contemporary data from the U.S. Census. Professor McKane’s articles appear in Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sociology, Local Environment, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Cities, Environmental Politics, Energy Research and Social Science, Social Science History, and Mobilization.
Research fellow of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, Goldsmiths, University of London Richard McNeill Douglas is research fellow of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey, and an associate fellow of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London. He specialises in using interpretive social science to make sense of our social commitment to indefinite growth in the face of environmental limits. He has
Research Associate of the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Department Practical Theology and Mission Studies, University of Pretoria Rev Dr Rachel Mash is a researcher in the area of faith communities. For her Masters and PhD she studied the work of churches in the area of HIV and Aids work. Now she is a practitioner and researcher in the area of eco-theology and mobilising of churches in action around climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. She is a member of UNEP's Faith for Earth task team on pollution.
Postgraduate Researcher in Human Geography, UCL Rob Davidson is a PhD candidate in the UCL Department of Geography, co-funded by the ESRC and The Health Foundation. He is also a research assistant at the UCL Centre on US Politics. He previously worked as a visual and data journalism intern at the Financial Times and a consultant for the Inter American Development Bank. His research focuses on the use of data visualisation to communicate health and social inequalities in the UK.
