Contributors

Stephanie A. Rivest

Researcher, Department of Biology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Researcher, Department of Biology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa I'm an ecologist with a research background in species interactions, conservation biology, and insects!

Scott Stephenson

Associate Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne Dr Scott Stephenson is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. After receiving his BA and LLB(Hons) with the University Medal in Law from the Australian National University, he worked at the High Court of Australia for two years, first as the Court’s Legal Research Officer and subsequently as Associate to Justice Virginia Bell AC. He then obtained his LLM and JSD from Yale University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, King’s College London and University of Oxford. He is the Treasurer and a Council Member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. His research focuses on topics of Australian and comparative constitutional law and theory, including federalism, models of rights protection, the separation of powers, and the use of comparative materials. His book on the bills of rights in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, From Dialogue to Disagreement in Comparative Rights Constitutionalism, was awarded the Holt Prize in 2015. He has published in a number of leading Australian, Irish, UK, US and international journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Dublin University Law Journal, Federal Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Melbourne University Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Sydney Law Review.

Steven James Jackson

Professor and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics, University of Otago

Professor and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics, University of Otago Steve Jackson is a Professor specialising in the socio-cultural analysis of sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his post at Otago Steve has served as a Visiting Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), the University of British Columbia and Wilfred Laurier University (Canada), Federal University of Parana (Brazil), Waseda University (Japan), Shanghai University (China), the National Taiwan Normal University and was recently appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Steve has been honoured with a New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence. Professionally, he is a past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and Research Committee 27 of the International Sociology Association (ISA), 2008-2015.

Simon Mckeown

Professor of Art, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Teesside University, Teesside University

Professor of Art, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Teesside University, Teesside University Professor Simon McKeown is an interdisciplinary artist, an academic and a disabled researcher with significant digital experience and knowledge of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. He holds a research post within the School of Arts & Creative Industries/MIMA at Teesside University specialising in public art, collaborative practice, disability art and digital production. With an emphasis on combining state-of-the-art light technology with a justice-based disability inquiry and working with People with Learning Disabilities, McKeown has created landmark outdoor large-scale collaborative projects including Prometheus Awakes (GDIF and London 2012); Cork Ignite (Culture Night Ireland 2015) and We Are Still Here (St Helens 100th Year Anniversary 2018). Further digital productions include Motion Disabled (Wellcome Trust 2009 and London 2012); All for Claire (BBC 2010); Ghosts (14-18 NOW 2014); Preserved Memories (DOX 2015) and Trace Elements (FACT 2016). Please see www.simon-mckeown.com and www.corkignite.com McKeown has a professional background in computer games and VFX production, which he has utilised at Teesside University to design curriculum along with facilities including green screen and motion capture studios, 3D printing, 3D scanning and sound and foley studios. Previous roles include: Head of 3D and Animation (Senior Creative Manager) at Reflections Interactive, (GT Interactive; Infogrames; Atari; Ubisoft) makers of the worldwide No 1 Driver franchise and Stuntman 1997 to 2006

Stuart Rennie

Associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stuart Rennie (PhD, Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium) is Associate Professor in Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and core faculty at the UNC Bioethics Center. He is currently Principal Investigator of a NIH/Fogarty International Center bioethics training projects in South Africa, and also co-Principal Investigator of a NIH-funded project on the ethical, legal and social implications big data research for health in Africa. Dr. Rennie was Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, and is Extraordinary Associate Professor in Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. At UNC, he teaches bioethics in the School of Medicine and at the School of Public Health. He has published on a variety of bioethics themes, including informed consent, HIV testing policies, medical rationing, implementation ethics, research involving children and adolescents, health surveillance, health inequality and social justice.

Steven Cammiss

Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham

Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham I am an Associate Professor at Birmingham Law School and previously worked at Leicester Law School. I teach criminal law, criminal justice and policing and write on courtroom processes, law and language and policing.