Adjunct professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina Simon Enoch holds a Masters Degree in Work & Society from McMaster University and a PhD in Communication & Culture from Ryerson and York University. He is the Director of the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Simon has written extensively on labour issues in the province. He is currently writing a book on Saskatchewan politics with Professor Charles Smith.
PhD Candidate, School of History, Australian National University Saskia is a PhD Candidate in History at the Australian National University. She researches Australian teenage girls, intimate knowledge and print culture between 1970 and 2010. She is also a member of the Lilith: A Feminist History Journal editorial collective.
Reader in Music Business, University of Westminster Sally Anne Gross is both a music industry practitioner and an academic. In 1993 she was the first women to work as a director of Artist and Repertoire at Mercury Records UK, and in the same year she chaired the first ever panel on women in the music industries at ‘In The City’ music conference in Manchester. Sally Anne has been working in the music industry for nearly three decades, as an artist manager, record label director and international business affairs consultant. In her current role at the University of Westminster, she is the program director of the MA Music Business Management where she teaches Intellectual Property and Copyright Management, Artist & Repertoire and Music Development. In 2016 she founded ‘Let’s Change the Record’ a project that focuses on bridging the gender divide in music production by running inclusive audio engineering and song-writing workshops for people identifying as women or non-binary. Sally-Anne is the co-author of ‘Can Music Make You Sick’ the largest ever study into mental health in the music industry that was funded by the charity Help Musicians UK and published in November 2017. She is interested in working practices in the music industries and the conditions of digital labour and specifically how they impact on questions of diversity and equality. Sally-Anne has four grown up children all of whom work one way or another with music, and although she always identifies as a ‘native’ Londoner, she actually lives in North Hertfordshire. Research Labour relations in the music industry - in sickness and in health. Gender inequality in the business of music and music production. Big data - what do the numbers really tell us? The politics of cultural production.
Senior Lecturer in Law, Western Sydney University Researching at the intersections of law and literary theory, Dr Hook's research centres on authors and artists and creative freedom. Her research looks at romanticism, postmodernism, and contemporary modes of textual production and how these ideologies intersect with legal contexts such as moral rights, defamation, copyright, regulation of the press, and other impediments to the free exchange of ideas and expression. Her current book on Moral Rights is available from Routledge. Dr Hook is a Senior lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and Media Law at Western Sydney University.
Professor of Global Affairs, University of East London Stephen Barber is Professor of Global Affairs at the University of East London. With academic interests at the intersection of political economy, public policy, government, business environment and public leadership. He has published widely on topics including the fourth industrial revolution, Brexit, governance and leadership. His latest book is Reclaiming the Revolution: extraordinary adventures in politics and leadership at the inflection point of industry 4.0 http://tinyurl.com/dz84fkr7
University Teaching Fellow, Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut Sally Reis is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, and a Teaching Fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. She currently holds the Letitia Neag Chair in Educational Psychology. She was a public school teacher and administrator for 15 years, prior to her work at UConn. She has authored more than 250 articles, books, book chapters, monographs and technical reports. She has traveled extensively across the country conducting workshops and providing professional development for school districts on enrichment programs and gender equity programs. Sally serves on the editorial board of the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past-president of The National Association for Gifted Children. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and was named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Association for Gifted Children.
