Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago I am an assistant professor of marketing in the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University of Chicago. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in digital marketing and digital marketing analytics. My research is centered on the textual and visual information processing and decision-making behavior across different digital platforms, with emphasis on the role of individual differences. My current research examines linguistics of online reviews and their impacts on consumers’ decision making.
Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal, University of Stirling I am Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. I was a geography undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and completed my Ph.D (on retail employment) at the University of Wales. I have been professor of retail studies at Stirling since 1992. I was a Visiting Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee from July 2000 to July 2001, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from June to December 2006. I undertake research into aspects of retailing, mainly for personal curiosity, but also on behalf of public and private clients and for the research councils and other funding bodies, as well as for major retailers. I have authored and edited a number of books, have published over 125 refereed journal articles as well as many practitioner, trade and newspaper pieces. In 2012-2013 I was a member of the External Advisory Group for the Scottish Government’s National Review of Town Centres and also on the Expert Advisory Group reporting to the Scottish Government on the lessons to be learned from the horsemeat scandal. My recent policy work has been as the Chair (and Author) of the Review of the Town Centre Action Plan (2020-21) for the Scottish Government (review published as A New Future for Scotland’s Town Centres). I was also a member of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Social Renewal Advisory Board (report published as If Not Now, When?) and was a member and workstream leader of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Ministerial Retail Strategy Steering Group (published as Getting the Right Change – a Retail Strategy for Scotland). I am currently a member of Economic Impact and Price Expert Advisory Group on Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol for Public Health Scotland (2018-2023) and a Steering Board member of the Scottish Grocer Federation’s “Go Local” project (with Scotland Food and Drink, the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland). He is one (of three) University of Stirling members on the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Region Deal Joint Committee and a member of the High Streets Task Force Professional, Research and Data Group. I am currently Chair of the Scotland’s Towns Partnership. I run a blog on things retail, typically Scottish: www.stirlingretail.com
Reader, Aberystwyth University I am a historian of early modern Wales, with special interests in religion, culture and society. I have published extensively on eighteenth-century Wales in particular, but have also worked on print culture in Wales more broadly and on early Welsh Nonconformity. Other interests include the history of crime and of landownership, especially in south-west Wales. I am the editor of Ceredigion, the journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society. I am also a member of a number of editorial boards, including for 'Studies in Welsh History' for the University of Wales Press.
Fellow, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies & Assistant Lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University John Szabo is a Fellow at the Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies as well as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Eötvös Loránd University International Relations and European Studies, Eötvös Loránd University. His research focuses on the energy-society nexus, especially in the context of the energy transition.
Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Justin's track record as a clinician scientist has led to more than 650 peer-reviewed papers, more than 50 of which have appeared in journals with an impact factor exceeding 10, the vast majority as first or last author (current H-score on Google Scholar = 84). He originally studied medicine at Trinity College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree before moving to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA then returning to complete training at the Royal Marsden and St Barts Hospitals. In 2007 he was appointed a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London and a Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, then a Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology in 2009 (he is now a Visiting Professor there). The nature of Justin's scientific contributions and international leadership in translational research were recognised by being awarded the NIHR’s first research translational professorship, becoming Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene - Springer Nature’s cancer journal - and elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was also Chair of the Irish Cancer Society and a national charity, Action Against Cancer, was set up to support his research.
Lecturer in Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London My research sits broadly within 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, sociology of time, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, trans theory, body theory, humanism, posthumanism, antihumanism, materialisms, narratives of disobedience and deviance. Generally interested in relations between normativity and various forms of individual, social, legal, corporeal disobedience. A lot of my work focuses on trans embodiment and gender recognition and I have published widely on these topics.
