Contributors

Victor Channell

Murramarang and Walbunga Elder, Indigenous Knowledge

Murramarang and Walbunga Elder, Indigenous Knowledge Murramarang and Walbunga Elder and Knowledge Holder. Dhurga Language group.

Valentina Signorelli

Associate Professor in Film and TV, University of Greenwich

Associate Professor in Film and TV, University of Greenwich I am a British-Italian creative producer and academic based in London. I hold a PhD Film from the University of Westminster focusing on transmedia practices in the digital era. I am the co-founder of the production studio Daitona and its advertising division, DOGODOT. We make films, documentaries, commercials, TV projects, docu-mapping and VR experiences with a transmedia approach. My works as a writer, director and producer have been distributed internationally and showcased in A-list festivals around the world, including the prestigious Venice Film Festival. I joined the University of Greenwich in January 2024 as an Associate Professor in Film and TV. Before that, I served as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader BA Media and Communication at the University of East London for four years and worked as an Associate Lecturer with many academic institutions, including the University of Westminster, the University for the Creative Arts, Bucks New University, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Sapienza - University of Rome.

Vikki McLeod

PhD Graduate, Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices, Queensland University of Technology

PhD Graduate, Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices, Queensland University of Technology Areas of Interest: Energy Transitions, energy and environmental markets, Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration, demand flexibility trading, non-traditional energy business models, creating investment environments for technology and business model innovation, carbon abatement strategy, energy affordability and energy security. Tertiary qualified in Engineering with higher degrees in energy policy, business, management and corporate governance.

Veronica Escobar Olivo

Research Associate, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research Associate, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University Veronica Escobar Olivo is a Research Associate in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her current body of research explores the experiences of othering of Latin American and Caribbean youth, specifically in the education, judicial, immigration, and child protection systems, violence against women and children, coloniality, and epistemologies of the South. She has authored and co-authored several articles and chapters, including the co-authored chapter “Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada” (in Youth, Education, and Wellbeing in the Americas; Routledge, 2022).

Vincenzo Bove

Professor in Political Science, University of Warwick

Professor in Political Science, University of Warwick I am Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) of the University of Warwick. I am currenty the Principal Investigator for an ESRC funded project on "The Effect of Terrorism on Public Attitudes and Individual Well-being in Great Britain". My research has been funded by the AXA Research Fund, the British Academy, the ESRC, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Swedish Research Council, UNU-WIDER and the World Bank. I have held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, the University of Naples "Federico II", Ca' Foscari University of Venice, IMT Lucca and Sciences Po, Paris. In my pre-academic life, I served as an officer in the Italian Navy, principally working in anti-submarine warfare. Fields: Civil-Military Relations, Defence Economics, International Migration, Military Interventions, Terrorism.

Victoria Cooper2

Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University

Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University I joined the Open University in 2015 as a Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology. I am the Co-director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR), which is an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research centre concerned with developing and supporting research projects and papers that think critically about problems of crime and justice. The ICCCR works in partnership with the Centre of Criminal Justice Studies (CCJS). My research focuses on homelessness in relation to: housing, hostels, the criminal justice system, community punishment and geographical displacement. I am interested in how society contains and manages homeless groups through these various institutions. Currently, I am looking at the relationship between welfare reforms, the rise in evictions and homelessness. I have led on research projects commissioned by homeless charities and local authorities. Prior to working in Universities, I worked as a practitioner in housing and homelessness.