Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Lund University I hold a Ph.D. in sociology and am currently employed as assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Media, where I teach at all levels of undergraduate education in media and communication studies. Since spring of 2012 I am course leader for the course Critical Animals Studies. Animals in Society, Culture and the Media. During 2013 and 2014 I was coordinator for the research theme “Exploring ‘the Animal Turn’: Changing perspectives on human-animal relations in science, society and culture”, funded by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University. I spring 2016 I co-founded the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network.
Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster Dr Oliver qualified from Durham University with a master's in mathematics (MMath) before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Nottingham. He has held research fellowships at the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham. He has also held the position of lecturer at Teeside University. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Researcher, University of Southern Queensland Tait is a researcher at the University of Southern Queensland whose interest focuses on gender detransition and the processes and practices through which trans* becomes uncomfortably recognizable. As a transqueer thinker, Tait’s research engages critical trans studies and trans feminist theory within the areas of trans incarceration and detransition narratives. As an accredited counsellor, Tait works with adults and young people around gender and sexuality, and bereavement due to suicide.
Lecturer in the department for Economics and Related Studies, University of York Before I became a lecturer at the department for Economics and Related Studies at the University of York, I received a B.Sc. in Business Computing from the Universität Paderborn, an M.Sc. in Information Systems from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a PhD in economics with my advisor Nikolaus Wolf at Humboldt. My main research focuses on long-run growth, especially market integration and institutions, and its geographic determinants. My academic background provides me with a solid range of empirical methods, especially concerning very large datasets, calculation-intensive modeling, and geographic information.
Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University Ulf Torbjörn Harald Tännsjö is a Swedish professor of philosophy and public intellectual. He has held a chair in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University since 2002 and he is Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics at Karolinska Institute. Tännsjö was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University from 1976 to 1993 and Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at the Swedish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences between 1993 and 1995. Thereafter, he was a professor of Practical Philosophy at Göteborg University 1995–2001. Tännsjö has been a member of the medical ethics board of the faculty of medicine at Göteborg University and the ethical committee of Karolinska Institute. He is a member of the medical ethics committee of The National Board of Health and Welfare (the Swedish Government agency responsible for the supervision, evaluation and monitoring of social services, health care and medical services, dental care, environmental health, and control of communicable diseases). Furthermore, he is a member of the editorial board of Monash Bioethics Review, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi (Journal for Political Philosophy), Philosophical Papers, the ethics section of the web psychiatric journal Psychomedia, Bioethics and the Journal of Controversial Ideas. Tännsjö is one of the few Swedish philosophers who is frequently heard in the public debate. His distinctly utilitarian ethical views have made him a controversial figure, notably within the medical establishment and for the Swedish Christian Democrats.[1] Tännsjö has been a member of the Left Party since 1970, and was involved in writing the first party programme after the party dropped the communist label in 1990. In 2001, he debated analytic philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig on the subject, "If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?".[2] Tännsjö is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which advocates for democratic reformation of the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system.[3] Recently, Tännsjö has published, in Swedish, an intellectual autobiography in two volumes.[4][5] A review of the second volume by conservative historian of ideas Svante Nordin calls Tännsjö’s views on abortion, euthanasia and other issues in medical ethics “consistently crazy”. Nonetheless, Nordin praises Tännsjö's intellectual honesty and integrity, noting that he is “not primarily looking to show that [his] opponents are bad people, but rather that they are wrong. This means that he endeavors to present even the opponent's argument relatively clearly.”[6]
