Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of American University’s Center for Israel Studies and Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He received his PhD at Columbia University and taught previously at Indiana and Brandeis Universities. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He had visiting appointments at numerous universities, including Haifa, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Stanford, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins. Professor Brenner is an elected fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantua. He is the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and serves on many academic boards, including the Jewish Museum of Berlin, the Israel Institute, the Center for European Studies of the University of Haifa and is board chair of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His nine books have been translated into ten languages and include In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea; A Short History of the Jews; Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History; Zionism: A Brief History; The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany, After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany and, most recently, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. He is co-author of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times, for which he was awarded a National Jewish Book Award, and editor of nineteen books. Professor Brenner was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. In 2020 he was the first recipient of the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience. Michael Brenner publishes widely in international media, including the Washington Post, the Times of Israel, and the Spiegel. His voice is heard frequently on PBS and international radio and TV stations.
PhD Candidate in Criminal Law & Criminology; Lecturer of Criminology, University of Chester, Liverpool John Moores University I am currently a School of Law research student at LJMU investigating Moral Panic of Islamist Terrorism, Conspiracy theories, and the impact of support for British values. A former lecturer at The Brilliant Club Scholars Programme Current Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Chester Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) Modules I teach: -Offender Management -Theories of Crime & Justice -State Crime & Resistance -International (In)Justices & the Death Penalty -Undergraduate dissertation supervisor Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-french-msc-fhea-782927a5/
Lecturer in Ecology & Conservation, Nottingham Trent University I am a lecturer in Ecology and Conservation at Nottingham Trent University. I am interested in plant ecology and soil science especially in agricultural habitats.
Associate Professor of Sustainability Science, University of Nottingham Dr. Chris Ives is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in urban social-ecological systems and the human dimensions of environmental management. He joined the School of Geography in 2016 after holding research positions at universities in Australia and Germany. Chris' research interests are broad and typically bring together different disciplinary approaches and types of knowledge to tackle real-world sustainability challenges, especially in urban settings. In particular, he is interested in understanding how people relate to and interact with the natural environments, and the dynamics of sustainability transformations. Increasingly his work is focussed on the 'deeper' dimensions of sustainability such as values, beliefs, worldviews, and the potential for religion to offer new perspectives on sustainability challenges.
I am a chartered psychologist with more than 10 years experience in public health research. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. My research expertise is around patient experience and access to care. My particular interest is around antipsychotic withdrawal and people being offered the support they need. As a qualitative researcher, I am interested in the use of qualitative methods and the role they can play to explore ways of improving the patient experience and outcomes and patient involvement in the care process.
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of New England Susan Feez is a member of the English, Literacies and Languages Education (ELLE) team in the School of Education at UNE. Within this group, she specialises in English language and literacy education and educational lingustics. She is a member of the Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies Education (CREME). Susan also has expertise in the field of Montessori education.
