Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University Dr Stephanie Brookes is senior lecturer in journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She researches media, journalism and politics, focusing on election campaigns, political journalism and journalistic identity, and fact-checking. She has a particular interest in questions of identity and belonging in news media and political discourse. She has published widely in journal articles and book chapters, including co-editing the May 2018 special edition of Media International Australia on press gallery and political journalism in Australia, and is the author of Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia's Identity Anxiety (Anthem Press, 2017).
Research Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Stephen Lezak is a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Scott Polar Research Institute and Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Associate professor, University of Wollongong Associate Professor in Mental Health and Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong. Clinical Psychologist and Fellow of the College of Clinical Psychology (FCCLP).
Chair of Department of Music, Royal Holloway University of London Steve Downes is a musicologist and pianist whose interests lie in the broad area of analysis, history and aesthetics of music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His work on the music of Central and Eastern Europe (Mahler, Weill, Hans Werner Henze, Scriabin, and especially Poland - Chopin, Karlowicz, Szymanowski and Gorecki) has won several awards and grants. He has also published on Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten, and Frank Bridge. Steve's work characteristically addresses repertory or topics marginalised or devalued by dominant historical and critical discourses. He was a founding member of the editorial board of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2002-9), an editor of Music & Letters (2013-20), a member of the AHRC Peer Review Panel (2012-15), and Director of the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) (2017-20). Previously Head of Music and Sound Recording and Deputy Head of the School of Arts at the University of Surrey he has twice served as Head of Department of Music at Royal Holloway. His seven monographs include major studies of eroticism, decadence, romantic ideas of redemption, and sentimentalism. In his most recent book the significance and meaning of the sentimental is examined in music from the Victorian salon and concert hall, early twentieth-century European modernism, and songs by Burt Bacharach, Tom Jobim, Barry Manilow, Carole King and Jimmy Webb. He is currently working on a critical biography of Mahler.
Lecturer in Religion, York St John University Having gained my PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York I am now full time lecturer in Religion at York St. John University. My PhD focused on female clergy in the Church of England, and how women are negotiating and influencing the androcentric nature of the structure of the Church and its language and symbols. My current research interests are around women's spirituality, particularly with reference to the feminine divine. As a feminist researcher, and have worked on other research projects including women in the music industry, and gender and performance. As a long-standing professional performer, with an interest in research as practice, I write, in a number of formats, about cultural discourses and gender representation. I am currently researching the experiences of working-class clergy and in a separate project, laywomen's experience of parishes that do not support women's leadership or ordination.
Research Fellow in Emission and Trade Analysis, UCL Socioeconomic activities are driving forces of environmental problems. In the context of globalisation, our daily life, whether related to diet, housing, energy use or other basic services, not only has local effects, but can also significantly influence the development and environment of distant regions through global supply chains. Therefore, my research focuses on the impacts of socioeconomic factors (e.g., international trade, consumption, bioenergy policy, urbanization, poverty eradication) on local and global environment (e.g., land use and land cover change (LULCC), carbon emissions and biodiversity loss) from an interdisciplinary perspective.
