Contributors

Marta-Marika Urbanik

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta I am an urban ethnographer, specializing in gangs, neighbourhood redevelopment, and inner-city policing in the Canadian context. My research interests include issues pertaining to harm reduction, neighbourhood violence, gangs, neighbourhood revitalization, and police-community relations (including police misconduct).

Carolyn Greene

Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University

Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University Dr. Carolyn Greene is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Athabasca University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Criminal Justice and Public Policy) from the University of Guelph, a Master of Arts degree (Criminology) from the University of Toronto and completed her Ph.D. (Criminology) at the University of Toronto. Currently, her research is focussed on three SSHRC-funded studies examining immigrant perceptions of police in Canada; experiences of invasive policing practices in Toronto; and community perceptions of and experiences with safe consumption services in Edmonton, Calgary., and Lethbridge. Her research interests are broadly focused within policing, youth justice operations/policy, reintegration, and perceptions of and experiences with criminal justice institutions, including those who work within them. Dr. Greene's research has been published in national and international journals, including Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Drug Policy, the British Journal of Criminology, Feminist Criminology, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Bridget Backhaus

Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, Griffith University

Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, Griffith University Dr Bridget Backhaus is media studies scholar interested in the role of community and alternative media in social and environmental change. A former community radio journalist and producer, her research explores the intersections of voice, listening, identity, and participation within community media.

Luzita Fereday

Lecturer in Voice at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts., Edith Cowan University

Lecturer in Voice at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts., Edith Cowan University Luzita Fereday is a voice and dialect coach who has been working in the Theatre and TV industry for over 20 years. For the past 12 years she has worked as a Lecturer in Voice teaching accents to Acting and Music Theatre Students at WAAPA (West Australian Academy of Performing Arts) in Perth. She also teaches internationally on the Shakespeare Summer School at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) in London. Luzita's latest work includes dialect coaching on: "BALI 2002" a four part TV Series on STAN/9 Network and her theatrical credits include: "Mary Stuart" with Kate Walsh for a Perth Festival production. Other recent theatre work includes: Hecate with Yirra Yaakin, Once- The Musical, The Tempest, Oklahoma, The Torrents, Fully Sikh, Water, In the Next Room, HIR, I Am My Own Wife with BSSTC (Black Swan State Theatre Company) and Mimma The Musical coaching the celebrated Australian Soprano Mirusia Louwerse.

Peter Matanle

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield PhD in 2001 in Social Sciences and Japanese Area Studies. Researching the social and cultural geography of Japan and East Asia. Demography, depopulation, regional studies, Japan, popular culture, employment. Occasional publications in online media such as Guardian Online, Prospect etc. Currently researching the relationship between depopulation and resource consumption trends (energy) in Japan and East Asia, as well as popular culture and employment (manga and gender segregation in employment). Publications and talks can be found at Academia.edu [https://sheffield.academia.edu/PeterMatanle].

Sylvia Bell

Senior Instructor of Educational Leadership, Thompson Rivers University

Senior Instructor of Educational Leadership, Thompson Rivers University I hold a Doctorate of Education, specialising in Educational Leadership from the University of Calgary (2014), a Master of Arts in Leadership and Administration from Gonzaga University (2007), a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University (2002) and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Thompson Rivers University (1996). I had years of elementary classroom experience before going into administration. I was the principal at Don Titus from 2012-2016; prior to that I was the principal of Windrem Elementary. As a teaching principal, I taught a variety of things from Music prep to Learning Assistance. But most of my teaching was helping our most vulnerable students learn literacy. Currently I am on faculty at TRU where I teach in the masters program and serve as an Assessor and researcher in the Prior Learning and Recognition department.