Contributors

Professor of Finance, Dublin City University I specialise in financial technology research. My research tends to fuse technology advances with behavioural understanding applied to finance.

Caroline Summers

Assistant Professor of Translation & Transcultural Studies, University of Warwick

Assistant Professor of Translation & Transcultural Studies, University of Warwick Caroline Summers is Assistant Professor of Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick in 2022, she worked at the University of Leeds (2012-2022). Caroline’s research explores translation in the literature of German Reunification (1989/90) and its aftermath. More broadly, she is interested in literary translation and how it links to ideas about authorship, and also in the power of narratives to shape our identities and our lives.

Søren Faurby

Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Gothenburg

Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Gothenburg

David Grummitt

Staff Tutor in History, The Open University

Staff Tutor in History, The Open University I am military historian who has published extensively on warfare in the late Middle Ages (particularly on the Wars of the Roses) but also on modern armoured warfare. I am the author of books on both the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2 tanks.

Brendan Skip Mark

Professor of political science, University of Rhode Island

Professor of political science, University of Rhode Island Brendan Skip Mark joined the URI political science department in 2018. His research explores the intersections between human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. He tries to unpack the determinants and consequences of: compliance with International Organization agreements, repression, labor rights, violent and non-violent protest, migration and remittances, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights. He is particularly interested in how measurement and modeling choices affect what we know about these relationships and how an understanding of history and other disciplines can improve our knowledge of them.

David Cingranelli

Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, Binghamton University, State University of New York David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, SUNY. He has written widely on human rights, democracy, conflict, and ethics and foreign policy. His 2007 book with Rodwan Abouharb, "Human Rights and Structural Adjustment," (Cambridge University Press) demonstrated the negative human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF program lending in developing countries. He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Until 2012, he served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, the largest and most widely used human rights data set in the world. Presently, he his colleagues are working in collaboration with the United States Political Instability Task Force on a successor to the CIRI project, which will be called the “C-RIGHTS” data project. He currently serves as the Co-director of the Binghamton University Human Rights Institute.