Contributors

John Jewell

Dr John Jewell is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Cardiff BA in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Research and teaching interests include the representation of asylum seekers and refugees in the British media and the history and development of the popular press. I am also interested in advertising, propaganda and political communication.

Emma Boyland

Dr Emma Boyland is a Lecturer in Appetite and Obesity at the University of Liverpool. Her PhD research examined food promotion to children in the UK and its effects on their eating behaviours. Her specific research expertise lies in quantifying the extent and nature of food advertising via television, new media and other sources (e.g. supermarket and point of sale promotions) and elucidating the impact of branding activity (e.g. use of promotional characters), and both situational factors (e.g. hunger state), and intrinsic factors (e.g. tendency to eat in the absence of hunger, cue responsiveness) on children’s food preference and intake responses to food marketing. She has published 25 experimental papers, 11 review articles, and 6 book chapters to date, as well as over 30 published conference abstracts. She is a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Network for World Obesity and is a Trustee of the UK Association for the Study of Obesity.

Alejandro Milcíades Peña

PhD (City University London), M.A. (University of Lancaster), M.Sc. (FLACSO Argentina), M.Eng. (ITBA)

Nick Dunn

Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design at Imagination, an open and exploratory research lab at Lancaster University where he is also Research Director for the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. He is Associate Director of the Institute for Social Futures, leading research on the Future of Cities and Urbanism. His work responds to the contemporary city as a series of systems, flows and processes, and is explored through experimentation and discourse addressing the nature of urban space: its perception, demarcation and appropriation. His papers have been published and presented internationally and collaborative creative work exhibited across the UK, China and the Ukraine. His forthcoming book, Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City will be published by Zero Books in 2016.

Kenneth Amaeshi

Kenneth Amaeshi, PhD . Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business, Head of Strategy Group, and Director of the Sustainable Business Initiative, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK Dr Kenneth Amaeshi is an Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business, Head of the Strategy Group, and the Director of the Sustainable Business Initiative (http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/sbi) at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He researches, teaches and consults in the broad area of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Strategy, and Policy Innovation. He is currently leading an international research project on Africapitalism, which explores the role of the private sector in Africa's development. He holds a PhD in International Business and Political Economy from the University of Warwick, UK, where he is also a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization. Dr. Amaeshi is a Visiting Faculty of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. More general information on Dr. Amaeshi can be found on this website: http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/people/738/Kenneth/Amaeshi

Jonathan Tapson

Jonathan Tapson is the Director of the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development. His research area is in electronic sensors and systems, and particularly bio-inspired sensors. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and holds 11 patents. His research has led to the founding of three spin-out companies, and he remains very interested in start-up entrepreneurship. His current research activity focuses on networks which can learn to make decisions in the same way that the human brain preforms this task.