Contributors

Sabrina Gaertner

I am a researcher in Laboratory Astrochemistry. While the focus of my PhD project was on gas-phase ion-neutral reactions and spectroscopy, I no switched fields to solid state astrochemistry. Currently I am investigating planet forming collisions (using microgravity environments) and the strucutral properties of interstellar water ices (using neutron scattering facilities).

Samuel Alexander

Dr Samuel Alexander is a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, teaching a course called ‘Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ in the Masters of Environment. He is also a research fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and co-director of the Simplicity Institute. In 2015 he published two books of collected essays, 'Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits' and 'Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever' both available from the Simplicity Institute publications page. His other books include 'Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future', 'Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation', and 'Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture.'

Steven Hirschler

Steven is an associate lecturer of criminology and sociology at the University of York. He attained his BA in Political Science at UCLA in 2007. Following the completion of an MA in Comparative Politics at the University of York in 2009, he received his PhD in Politics from the University of York in 2016. His research interests include UK asylum housing, EU and non-EU migration and state responses to immigration trends.

Scott L Montgomery

Scott L. Montgomery is a university lecturer and author. His research and publications include areas in both the humanities and sciences, in particular history of science, intellectual history, language studies, and energy resources, technology, and security. He is the author, most recently, of Does Science Need a Global Language? (2013) and The Powers That Be: Global Energy for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond (2010). Forthcoming in 2015 are two works: Shape of the New: Four Ideas that Built the Modern World (with Daniel Chirot) and also A History of Science in World Cultures (with Alok Kumar).

Stewart Lansley

Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow at the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, The University of Bristol, and has written on inequality, wealth and poverty for academic and specialist journals as well as several newspapers. He is the author of a number of books including The Sharing Economy, (Policy Press, 2016); Breadline Britain, The Return of Mass Poverty (Oneworld, 2015 - with Joanna Mack ) ; The Cost of Inequality (2011); Rich Britain (2006) and Poor Britain (with Joanna Mack, 1985). His previous academic posts include the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Universities of Brunel and Reading. He is also a former executive producer in the current affairs department of the BBC.

Stephen Pudney

Stephen Pudney is Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. His research interests include: - Microeconometrics - Poverty and the welfare benefit system - Health and disability - Survey measurement error - The economics of crime and illicit drugs - The measurement of wellbeing