Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan Shirli Kopelman is a negotiation researcher and educator at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Kopelman has been featured in media outlets such as Businessweek, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review and honored with outstanding teaching and prestigious research awards for work published in distinguished academic journals. Kopelman’s framework, introduced in the book Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business, enables drawing on personal strengths to be simultaneously collaborative and assertive, lead with emotions, enhance creativity, and align with one’s moral compass to achieve goals and maximize economic profits in an environmentally sustainable way, while fostering well-being. Kopelman holds a PhD in Management and Organizations and an MS in Organization Behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management, and former Faculty Director of Research and Practice at the Center for Positive Organizations.
Senior Lecturer in Games Development, Cardiff Metropolitan University I have a diverse research career publishing papers on defects in semi-conductors, thin film delamination, ion motion in polymer hosts, Berne-Gay potential/boids model link and electro-cardio dynamics, before going to work for the Game Developer, Rare Ltd, part of Microsoft Games Studios. There I was the main programmer of a GPU-based particle effects system. I then went on to be a Senior Programmer for a Serious Games Project at the International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick, which was developing a motion-controlled game to teach children good nutrition and the worth of exercise. After that I was the Principal Technical Developer at the Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, where I was also the main technical advisor on the games industry and games development. I am interested in the bringing together of computer games technology and research science, a kind of applied games technology. My novel paper, Scarle, S. (2009) Implications of the Turing Completeness of Reaction-Diffusion Models, informed by GPGPU simulations on an XBox 360: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Re-entry and the Halting Problem, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 33, 253, was the first journal paper published to use an Xbox 360 to carry out research simulations. I am particularly interested in the application of the Game Asset Pipeline to data visualisation, research computing and technical design for 3D printing.
Professor in Gender Studies in Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Sophie Fuller is a musicologist and writer on music. Her research interests centre around gender, sexuality and music in Britain in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and she has published widely on women’s engagement with music and music making. Author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers (1994), Sophie has recently edited, with Jenny Doctor, Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77 (2020) as well as contributing to The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (2021), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music (2022) and The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (2023). Sophie studied music at King’s College, London University where she completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Women Composers during the British Musical Renaissance, 1880-1918’. Her teaching experience includes ten years of lecturing at the University of Reading. Creative output Author, The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-present (1994) Co-editor / contributor, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (2002) with Lloyd Whitesell Co-editor / contributor, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (2004) with Nicky Losseff Co-editor, Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77 (2020) with Jenny Doctor Contributor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Contributor, The Oxford Companion to Music Contributor, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Contributor, Women Composers: Music through the Ages Contributor, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart She has been a frequent contributor to various television and radio programmes as well as giving conference papers in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Australia.
Lecturer in Psychology Education, King's College London Samuel is a cognitive neuroscientist and Lecturer in Psychology Education at King's College London. His research interests focus on investigating treatments in psychiatry, particularly in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as ADHD. His work also includes disseminating guidance on how research can move toward more transparent and reproducible research practices. Some of this work includes founding and leading the RIOT Science Club (www.riotscience.co.uk), a popular seminar series franchised to several universities in the UK and Europe and supported by the UK Reproducibility Network. You can find Samuel on Twitter (@westwoodsam1), where he tweets mainly about his miniature sausage dog, Stanley.
Sydney Lines holds a B.A. English Literature, B.A. Museum Studies, M.A. English Literature, and M.A. Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership from Arizona State University. She is Project Manager of the Winnifred Eaton Archive and Project Manager for the UBC Public Humanities Hub. Her work has appeared in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature and is forthcoming in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. She is currently writing a dissertation on Winnifred Eaton and Icelandic Canadian author Laura Goodman Salverson.
I am an M. Sc graduate from the Department of Integrative Biology of the University of Guelph. During my M.Sc I engaged in projects related to molecular and chemical fingerprinting-based authentication of food matrices, namely, sushi, maple syrup, and fish species sold in retail stores in North America.
