Contributors

Sally-Anne Wherry

Senior Lecturer In Advanced Practice, University of Gloucestershire

Senior Lecturer In Advanced Practice, University of Gloucestershire Sally-Anne Wherry (she/her) is a senior lecturer in Gloucestershire, teaching Advanced Practice to healthcare staff. A specialist Parkinson and Movement Disorder nurse, she is currently working on a PhD around intergenerational trauma from the Contaminated Blood Scandal, of which her family are a part.

Shelley Galpin

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education, King's College London

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education, King's College London I currently teach a range a modules in the field of digital humanities, as well as supervising UG and PG dissertations on a range of subjects. I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2020, and since this time I have taught at numerous UK HE institutions in the fields of Screen Studies, Media and Communications and the Creative Industries. Prior to this, I worked for several years in the FE sector, where I taught English and Media Studies. Areas of interest Period drama Screen adaptations of literature Screen audiences Young people and screen texts Selected publications Teenage Audiences and British Period Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) Bridgerton: The Progressive Period Pastiche, Screen Storytelling: The Works of Shonda Rhimes, ed. by Anna Weinstein (forthcoming) Leaning In or Opting Out? Women’s Choices in Little Women and Mary Queen of Scots, Feminist Media Studies (September 2021) Harry Potter and the Hidden Heritage Film: Genre Hybridity and the Power of the Past in the Harry Potter Film Cycle, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 13, issue 3, 2016. Auteurs and Authenticity: Adapting the Brontës in the Twenty-First Century, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 11, issue 1, 2014.

Selene M. Gomez

Ph.D. Student in Applied Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Ph.D. Student in Applied Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio Selene is the daughter of Mexican Immigrants who was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. After moving to Texas, she became an activist during college. Her advocacy areas include immigration, education, racial equity, criminal justice, voting and voter ID rights, housing, environment, LGBTQIA+, identification accessibility for non-citizens and foster youth. Across fourteen years, and counting, Selene has held different leadership and senior level positions in VoteRiders, Mi Familia Vota, and the U.S. House of Representatives District 23 (TX), among others. She is also co-founder of Nitlapiani Consulting LLC. Selene obtained her Bachelor's of Science from Texas A&M at College Station, her Master’s in Public Administration and Nonprofit Administration and Leadership Management certification from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is currently working on obtaining her PhD in Applied Demography from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Sally Sheldon

Professor of Law, University of Bristol

Professor of Law, University of Bristol Sally Sheldon is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She has published widely in this field, including two books on abortion law: 'Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion law' (Pluto 1997) and 'The Abortion Act 1967: a Biography of a UK Law' (CUP, 2022, co-authored with Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill and Clare Parker, and funded by the AHRC, AH/N00213X/1).

Smith Ouma

Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Manchester

Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Manchester I am currently a Leverhulme early career researcher at the Global Development Institute. Prior to this role, I was a post-doctoral research fellow with the FCDO-funded African Cities Research Consortium. With a background in law, my research is inherently interdisciplinary, spanning legal geography, urban politics, urban health, and development studies. My primary focus lies in understanding the political economy of informal settlements and systems failings in cities, particularly in Africa. As part of this interest, I have engaged with multiple actors to understand how power is performed and how interests emerge and compete in informal settlements contexts. I also look at the everyday practices of marginalised urban residents to understand how agency is exercised, and the different strategies and tools that are employed to realise rights in the city. Additionally, I have strong research and professional interest in the field of land law.

Sandra van der Laan

Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney

Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney Sandra van der Laan joined Sydney University from Wollongong in 2001 after a career change in the 1990s. She has formal qualifications in accounting, finance and education. Sandra's research interests lie in accounting in two broad strands of research. The first centres on accounting as a social discourse and accounting as a mechanism to discharge accountability. As such, she has been researching in the areas of social accounting and ethical investment. Sandra's second strand of research is centred on her PhD research. Her thesis, entitled 'An Ineffective (De)regulatory Initiative: The Australian Class Order Deed of Cross Guarantee' examines the economic consequences of the financial reporting regulation that was first introduced in 1986. This has led to an interest in the regulation and reporting for corporate groups more generally. She has published her research in a number of top ranking international journals such as Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Journal of Business Ethics and Critical Perspectives on Accounting.