Faculty

M. Rodwan Abouharb’s research examines the domestic effects of international regimes in a broad range of areas often described as human security. More specifically how international regimes affect states respect for physical integrity rights, economic and social rights and the likelihood of rebellion. His work stresses that international financial institutions may have strong effects in domestic political areas that are not directly related to their mandate including the repression of human rights. His book Human Rights and Structural Adjustment co-authored with David Cingranelli published by Cambridge University Press received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 and examines the impact of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment agreements on government respect for a variety of human rights. His current research, co authored with David Cingranelli, examines how the World Bank and IMF policies affect the promotion of economic and social rights and, with Susan Aaronson, how membership in the World Trade Organization affects respect for democratic rights. His work has been published in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Review of International Organizations, and World Affairs.. 

Kathy Adler obtained her first degree in South Africa and then studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She took early retirement from her position as Director of Education at the National Gallery, London, after eleven years in that role. Before that, she ran the Art and Architecture program in the Department of Continuing Education at Brikbeck College. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century art, and has curated several exhibitions, including 'Americans in Paris' which opened at the National Gallery before travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and last year, a major Renoir exhibition in Rome. 

John did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Emmanuel College Cambridge and then a MSc and PhD in Management Science at Imperial College, London. He then joined the faculty at Imperial College, working in the Management School (latterly the Tanaka Business School) for over 25 years. 

Dr. Jane Beckett teaches contemporary British art at NYU in London, on other programs at London University; at the University of East Anglia where she was Senior Lecturer in Art History. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art on Dutch twentieth-century art and color theory and is completing a book on the cultural history of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on European and British modern and contemporary art, photography and film, most recently Henry Moore (2003) and in Difference and Excess (2004), written the catalogue on Art and Film (2005) for the British Film Institute and acted as a curator for exhibitions in the UK and the USA. 

Currently at Oxford Brookes University. Rank - Mathematics Lecturer and Upgrade (Maths and Statistics) Tutor.  Important publications: "Singularly perturbed Volterra integral equations with weakly singular kernels", International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (IJMMS), 2002, 30(3), 129--143. "Error bound analysis & singularly perturbed Abel-Volterra equations", Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2004, 2004(6), 479--494. "Initial-layer theory and model equations of Volterra type", IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 2006, 71(3), 315--331. 

Neil Bingham, BA (Hons), PhD FSA, is an author, historian and curator. He specialises in the history of architectural representation, British architecture and post-war modern design. His undergraduate degree was taken at the University of Winnipeg (1977) in his native Canada, where he still maintains a home and a lake-side cottage. His holds a PhD (1985) from the University of London on aspects of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and town planning. For nearly twenty years he was an architectural curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects drawings collection, London and then served as curator of the Melnikov House Museum, Moscow. Presently, he is consultant curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London. His books includeMasterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy (2010); Wright to Gehry: Drawings from the Collection of Barbara Pine (2005); The New Boutique: Fashion and Design (2005); Fantasy Architecture (2004); Modern Retro: Living with Mid-Century Modern Style (2000); Christopher Nicholson (1996) and C.A.Busby: Architect of Regency Brighton and Hove (1991). Forthcoming is100 Years of Architectural Drawing (2012). He lives in a Span house designed by Eric Lyons in Blackheath, South London. 

Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies, Middlesex University. Clive Bloom was born in London and educated at Essex and Southampton Universities. He lives and works in East London and is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism. His recent books include Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 and Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, all of which have enjoyed international recognition. He is also an occasional feature writier for a number of national newspapers, regularly appears on television and radio and is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations. His latest book, Riot City will be published in Summer 2012.

An expert on street violence and political demonstrations, you can follow Clive on twitter or contact him via his website:

www.clivebloom.com

 Monica Bohm-Duchen (MA Courtauld Institute) is a London-based freelance lecturer, writer & exhibition organizer. She has worked for the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Courtauld Institute of Art; and contributed to magazines such as Flash Art, RA Magazine, Art Monthly, Modern Painters, and The Jewish Quarterly & Jewish Renaissance. She curated After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art(1995) and co-curated Rubies and Rebels: Jewish Female Identity in Contemporary British Art(1996-7) and Life? or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon (1998). Books she has written include Understanding Modern Art (1991); Chagall (1998) and The Private Life of a Masterpiece(2001). Reading Charlotte Salomon, co-edited by her, has recently been published by Cornell University Press.

Keith Bothwell is a senior lecturer at Kent School of Architecture, an architect with over 30 years experience and an ecological consultant. He developed his interest in environment and sustainability while a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, visiting pioneering autonomous houses and working as a volunteer at the fledgling Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. In 1996 he completed an MSc in Bio-Climatic Architectural Design, undertaking research for the Building Research Establishment on the pedagogy of sustainable design.

Keith’s research interests focus on the passive environmental design of buildings, and he has recently worked on enterprise projects to retrofit existing buildings to meet very low carbon standards. His research has been published in Canterbury School of Architecture Review, the Proceedings of the Florence International Conference for Teachers in Architecture, and he has just completed a chapter for the forthcoming book: Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture. 

Dorota Bourne is a lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary College, University of London. She holds a PhD in management. Her past research projects addressed international knowledge transfer, the idea of the built-in quality and a difference between organizational image and identity. She is a member of the European Personal Construct Association (EPCA) committee where she actively promotes the application of the Personal Construct Psychology in business. Her current research interests include cross-cultural reverse knowledge transfer and the notion of creativity in organisations. 

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in personality profiling and psychometric testing. He is currently Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL) and has previously taught at the London School of Economics. Do Tomas has published 6 books and over 100 scientific papers, making him one of the most prolific social scientists of his generation. His work has received awards by the American Psychological Association and the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, to which he is now director. Dr Tomas is also the director of the MSc in Industrial-Organisational and Business Psychology at UCL, and has previously co-directed the MSc in Occupational Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Over the past two decades, Dr Tomas has provided consultancy services to a wide range of organisations, both in the private and public sector. His clients have included: JP Morgan, HSBC, the JLT group, Prudential, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, the British Army, the BBC, Hogan Assessment Systems, and Harvard's Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. Dr Tomas frequently appears in the media to offer psychological expertise to a wide audience. His broadcasting career includes more than 200 media appearances and over 70 tv appearances for the BBC, CNN, and Sky News. Dr Tomas is also a regular keynote speaker for the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Dr Geraldine Cohen is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Brunel Business School, Brunel University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Member of the British Academy of Management, has been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing since 1986 and Chartered Marketer since 1998. Geraldine has more than 25 years of International Business and Marketing experience acquired at Fairchild Semiconductors in Germany, Cummins Engine Company in the USA and Rank Xerox and ECI Ventures in the UK. In the 80s and 90s she ran her own Marketing consultancy advising industrial and commercial clients as well as non-profit organisations. Geraldine has been Non-Executive Director of the Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals NHS Trust (1998 – 2000) and is a former Member of the Brunel University Senate (2004 – 2006). She has published on topics related to her research interests, namely on Perceptions and Practice of Marketing within Professional Service Firms, Organization Theories in the Professional Context, Brand Loyalty, Employer Branding, and Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Geraldine is currently Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Marketing (CREAM) and Member of the Centre for the Study of Expertise (CSE) at Brunel University. 

Mary Condé, MA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon.), MA, MSc, Dip TCDHE (London) is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Queen Mary, University of London. She is co-editor with Thorunn Lonsdale of Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English (Palgrave Macmillan). Her special research interests are the short story and fiction about London. 

Richard Coulton, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (London), completed his doctoral studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London.  Since then he has lectured in English Literature at a number of institutions, including Queen Mary.  Dr Coulton's principal research interests lie in the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and more particularly in discourses of landscape, knowledge, science, and horticulture.  He has recently completed a journal article on the early-eighteenth-century satirist William King; whilst current research projects include an essay on early-modern nursery gardens, and another on John Philips's georgic poem Cyder (1708). 

Dr. Andrew Crozier was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London; The School of Oriental and African Studies; and The London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1969 until 1989 he was Lecturer in Modern European History at Bangor University, North Wales. Thereafter he was Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair holder in the History of Contemporary Europe at Queen Mary, University of London, until his retirement in 2005. He has published the groundbreaking Appeasement and Germany's Last Bid for Colonies, which threw a completely new light on the premiership of Neville Chamberlain and The Causes of the Second World Warwhich was the first book to cover the origins of the Second World War in both European and Pacific theatres in one volume. He is currently finishing a biography of Neville Chamberlain and a History of the European Union. Since 1994 he has been Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and has written extensively on the history of Britain's involvement in South East Asia and on the History of the Association of South East Asian Nations. 

Emily Crump studied history at University College London and creative writing (prose fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She has held positions lecturing in writing with, amongst others, the University of Cambridge and the Open University. From the academic year 2012/13, she will be taking up a post at City University.

Emily is an award-winning writer, who has seen her work published in various UK journals and collections, including Aesthetica, Myslexia and the UEA anthology Otherwheres. She is a visiting writer for Circle of Missé and was a recent judge for their 2012 Writing Competition. She is represented as an author by the literary agency United Agents. To find out more about Emily's writing and teaching work, visit www.emilymidorikawa.com

Sadhvi Dar's research interests include postmodern organizational theory, discourse analysis, subjectivity and identity in the workplace and international development NGOs. Her most recent work explores the relationship between textual artefacts (e.g. annual reports), subjectivity and resistence in development NGOs. She has recently co-edited a book with Professor Bill Cooke entitled, The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization, which looks at the trajectory of development as a modern idea, and about the continuing encroachment of managerialism into social life. 

I am a cognitive psychologist, and my main research interest is human visual selective attention. I use a range of selective attention paradigms to investigate to what extent the attention system of the human brain is capable of selective processing of to-be-attended information. I am specifically interested in the control of selective attention by frontal areas of the human brain, which I investigate using behavioural measures, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electro-encephalography (EEG). After studying at the University of Amsterdam and King’s College London, I received my PhD from the University of Essex, and was then a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London. Since 2002, I am a lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Edward Diestelkamp, Building Design Adviser to the National Trust, London, 2002-present; Assistant to the Director of Historic Buildings of The National Trust, London, 1986-2002; Historic Buildings Representativeof The National Trust, North Wales, 1984-1986;  Architectural Assistant with the Louis de Soissons partnership, London, 1973-1976; PhD in Art History, University College London, 1983; BSc in Architecture, University of Southern California, 1973. 

Michael Douglas-Scott has lectured in the History of Art at Birbeck College, University of London, since obtaining his PhD there in 1996. His special field of interest is Venetian renaissance painting, a subject on which he has published articles and essays both in the United Kingdom and in Italy. He also teaches American undergraduates at Birkbeck College about British art and architecture c. 1600 - c. 1850 

Phillip Drummond teaches film, media and communications on the London programs of NYU, the University of California and the USC Annenberg School. He studied at St. John's College Oxford, where he held an Open Scholarship in English and French, founded the 2,000 member New Cinema Club, and did graduate research in Comparative Literature. He founded and ran the MA in Film and Television Studies at the Institute of Education 1980-2000. He is a past chair of national and international organizations in Media Studies. His book publications include High Noon (1997), Culture, Media and Curriculum (ed; 1995), National Identity and Europe: The TV Revolution, Television and Its Audiences: International Research Perspectives and Television in Transition (all co-ed, 1993, 1988, 1986). 

Ben East studied English at the University of Bristol, Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, and EFL/EAP teaching at International House, London. He has taught English in Spain (Valladolid and Castellò de la Plana), Australia (Adelaide and Perth) and various UK further and higher institutions. Most recently he has taught EAP courses at Coventry University and the University of Hertfordshire. Ben is also Academic Director of an annual summer school residential programme, run in conjunction with the Liceo Scientifico Carlo Livi, Prato, Italy. 

David Edelshain is Senior Lecturer in International Business and Course Director of the BSc in Business Studies at Cass Business School, City University, London. David was awarded his doctorate on corporate exchange risk at London Business School where he also completed his MBA. Professionally he is a chartered management accountant and a qualified barrister-at-law. He has directed the Executive MBA and the International and Strategic streams of the full-time MBA at City following some twenty years as a manager in the electronics industry, as a management consultant, as an executive educator, and as a senior manager both in the ceramics industry and as a civil servant in HM Treasury. 

Miranda El-Rayess completed her doctorate at University College London. Her main research interests are nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. She has published articles on Henry James, and is currently preparing a monograph on James and Consumer Culture. She teaches at Goldsmiths and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. 

Yara holds a first degree in History (Brazil) and Geography (London).She obtained her PhD in Wales (UK), researching environmental conflicts in Brazil. Between 2004 and the summer of 2007 she worked as a researcher in the Department of Geography, at Queen Mary, University of London, investigating first the restructuring of the clothing industry in London, and subsequently, the lives and work experiences of low-paid migrants in London. Her research interests are specific disciplines in Human Geography (Economic, Cultural, Urban Geography and Development Geography), as well as Political Ecology, and International Migration.

She is also a keen enthusiast of London's history, having in recent years explored its important role in globalisation.. 

Adam Fagan is a Political Scientist who has written extensively on civil society development in post-communist states. He is the author of Europe’s Balkan Dilemma: Paths to Civil Society or State-Building (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic (Elgar, 2004) as well as numerous scholarly articles on aspects of democratic transition in the Czech Republic and more recently Bosnia-Herzegovina. His recent articles include ‘Taking stock of civil society development in post-communist Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic'. Democratization 12(5) (Autumn 2005) and ‘Neither North nor South: Environmental Issues and Civil Society in Post-conflict Bosnia’ Environmental Politics, 15(4), 2006. Dr Fagan is Reader in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Innovation, Knowledge and Development Research Centre, the Open University, UK. His research has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the British Academy. 

Dr Nicholas Falk, BA (Oxon), MBA (Stanford), PhD (London) is an economist, strategic planner and urbanist. He founded The Urban and Economic Development Group, Ltd. (URBED) in 1976 to offer practical solutions to urban regeneration and local economic development. Over the last five years he has focused on new communities, the future of the suburbs, visions for historic town centres, and the reuse of old buildings. He has a particular interest in drawing lessons from European good practice. He is co-author of the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: Building the 21st Century Home (Architectural Press, 2009). Other recent publications include theRegeneration of European Cities, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation;  The Cambridgeshire Quality Charter for Growth for Cambridgeshire Horizons;  and Beyond Eco-Towns with PRP and Design for Homes. 

He has been involved in a number of major new housing schemes, including the new town of Northstowe in Cambridge, the urban extension of Houghton Regis North in Bedfordshire, and an urban village in the centre of Yeovil. He has been appointed a Visiting Professor at the School of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, and also an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. He is an active member of the Urban Design Group and the Town and Country Planning Association. Much of his research has focused on the reuse of buildings, including a report on Re-using Redundant Buildings (HMSO), and advising English Heritage and others on the transfer of heritage assets to community groups; these make use of involvement in a number of pioneering adaptive reuse projects. Research reports on the suburbs include City of Villages and the follow up good practice toolkit, Tomorrow's Suburbs, for the Greater London Authority, as well as Attitudes to Higher Density Housing and Neighbourhood Revival: Towards More Sustainable Suburbs in the South East, for the South East England Regional Assembly.  He has also published numerous articles in journals and chapters in books dealing with regeneration, and has edited Built Environment's special edition ‘Towards Sustainable Suburbs’. 

David Feldman is Professor of History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture 1840-1914 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994) and coeditor of Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe 1880-2004 (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2006). He is currently completing a book called The Rights of Strangers: Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare in England from 1600 to the present. Together with colleagues in Paris he is writing a comparative study of migration policies in  Britian, France and Italy in the inter-war period. 

Moira Ferguson was born in Glasgow and received her B.A. from Birkbeck College, University of London, and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Washington, Seattle. She taught in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for many years where she was also the Founding Chair of Women's Studies. Her publications include Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery 1670-1834 (Routledge) and Gender and Colonial Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid (Columbia U.P.). In 2012, A Human Necklace: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Paule Marshall's Fiction is due to appear.

James Fox studied Philosophy at Leeds University (BA Hons), Design and Technology at Sheffield Hallam University (PGDip), Design Education at Sheffield Hallam Univeristy (PGCE), and Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University (DipLA). He has worked as a furniture designer-maker, teacher, and Landscape Architect. James began his career as a Landscape Architect with Jinny Blom and then Todd Longstaffe-Gowan landscape design, where is now the Associate Director. With Jinny Blom he was Project Landscape Architect for the 2006 Chelsea Flower Show Laurent Perrier Garden (Gold) and for the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre interior landscape (BALI award). He has worked with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan since 2006 and has been Project Landscape Architect for Selfridges Hotel; Selfridges Shoe Galleries; Marylebone Garden of Rest (RIBA Award); The Artists House, Kensington (Stephen Lauwrence Prize); Boudouris Mansion, Greece; Hampton Court Palace Trophy Gate, Barge Walk, Chapel Court, Clore Studio Courtyard; and Kensington Palace East Garden, Cradle walk. 

David Ganz was Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel  Hill from 1980-1997 and then Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London.  He has published books and articles on early medieval manuscripts and intellectual history, and most recently he translated and introduced  Einhard and Notker the Stammerer Two Lives of Charlemagne(Penguin Classics 2008). 

Emily Gee has worked at English Heritage since 2011 and is now Head of Designation, responsible for advice to the government on the national protection of historic buildings and sites. She has an undergraduate degree from Smith College, Massachusetts, an MA in Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association. Emily is a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and the Society of Architectural Historians and is currently restoring a Grade II listed, early Victorian terraced house in Camden Town.

Dr. Yannis Georgellis is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Brunel University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from West Virginia University and his main research interests are in labor economics, human resource management and behavioral economics. He has published numerous articles in leading economics and psychology journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economica, Journal of Population Economics, Psychological Science and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Yannis has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and he is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Work and Labor Market Studies at Auckland University of Technology, NZ. 

Tony Greener has worked in management, PR, communications and marketing since 1972 having been a board director of  Land Rover, BL Cars Europe, Dunlop Slazenger International, the Saudi Arabian National Guard Medical Service and Saatchi & Saatchi where he was Deputy Managing Director of the UK PR agency. 

He and his wife formed their own management training, marketing and communications business, Positive Images, in 1988 and they have since worked for a wide variety of clients in the UK and overseas.

Clients include BT, the Corporation of London, Nestle, Abbey National, Tower Bridge, Taylor Woodrow, Royal Bank of Scotland, the English Tourist Council, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a number of health services and local government bodies and the Institutes of Management in both Singapore and Malaysia. He is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton University Business School and a lecturer at New York University in London.

Tony is the author of The Secrets of Successful PR, published by Butterworth Heinemann in 1990, Internal Communications published by Blackhall in 2000 and Introduction to Business Management published by ICSA in 2008. 

Eve Grubin’s book of poems, Morning Prayer, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary journals and magazines including Agenda, Poetry Review, Poetry International, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and Conjunctions, where her chapbook-size group of poems was featured and introduced by Fanny Howe. Her essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History Lore and Politics (University of California Press, 2009). She received her BA in English Literature from Smith College, her MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. A former Yaddo fellow, Eve was the Programs Director at the Poetry Society of America for five years and has taught poetry at The New School University, creative writing and essay writing at The City College of New York, and poetry in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at The City College of New York. She is the Poet in Residence at the London School of Jewish Studies, and she is a poetry tutor at The Poetry School. Website: www.evegrubin.com. 

During a 30-year career with the BBC World Service radio, double award-winning journalist Teresa Guerreiro worked on all aspects of news production, as a writer, broadcaster, news/current affaris editor and documentary/feature maker. She also played a prominent role in training younger colleagues at the BBC. Originally from Portugal, she was London correspondent for the main Portuguese weekend newspaper, Expresso, in the 1980s and 1990s. She holds an MA in English Studies from the Classic University in Lisbon.

Stephen Hannah studied economics at Sussex and University College, London. Following a lectureship at the University of Keele - publishing research on macroeconomic theory and labour markets - Stephen joined HM Treasury during the turbulent 1980s to advise the UK Chancellor on monetary and exchange rate policy. He then moved to the City of London, in the wake of the UK financial sector's "Big Bang", enjoying a long career as Chief Economist and independent consultant, advising on financial market strategy to a wide variety of clients.

Stephen has now returned to the academic sector and, as well as teaching the NYUL Intermediate Macroeconomics course, he is currently teaching Global Economics to MBA students in London on a joint Anglia Ruskin-LCA programme. 

Brian Hanson has advised HRH The Prince of Wales on architecture and urbanism since 1988. He is a Senior Fellow of The Prince’s Foundation. In his Architects and the 'building world’ from Chambers to Ruskin: constructing authority (Cambridge University Press, 2003) he traced how and why the practical form- and structure-making abilities of building artisans have given way to the intellectual pretensions of designers. He also teaches at Birkbeck, University of London. 

Nigar completed her PhD in Economics at Cornell in 2003. From 2003 to 2008 she worked at the University of Exeter, first as a Lecturer and then as an Associate Professor. In 2008 she moved to the University of Reading where she holds a Chair in Economics and is currently the Head of the Department of Economics. Nigar undertakes research in economics and econometrics. She has papers in various economics journals and is one of the co-authors, with John Black and Gareth Myles, of the the Oxford Dictionary of Economics.

Michael Hattaway was born and educated in New Zealand before taking a PhD at Cambridge.  He taught at the Universities of Kent, British Columbia, Massachusetts (Amherst), and Sheffield, in the latter of which he is Professor Emeritus.  He is the author or editor of some fifteen books, most recently Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature(2005) and A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2 vols, 2010).  His particular interests are in drama in performance and the interface between theatre and cultural history.  He is a Fellow of the English Association, and in 2010 was invited to give the Annual British Academy Lecture on Shakespeare – on ‘Shakespeare and the Fairies’. 

Richard Hill studied architecture at Cambridge University and has worked as a manager of construction projects in both the public and private sectors. He has taught widely in universities in Britain, the United States and Italy, and is the author of Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics (Yale University Press, 1999). He is now an associate in Richard Griffiths Architects, one of Britain's foremost practices specialising in the conservation and re-use of historic buildings. He has played a key role in major regeneration projects at St Pancras and Kings Cross, London, and has prepared numerous conservation plans for historic buildings and their settings. 

Konrad Hirschler studied History and Islamic Studies in Hamburg, Bir-Zeit (Palestinian Territories) and London where he also completed his PhD. After fours years at the University of Kiel (Germany) he joined the History Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2007 and is currently Senior Lecturer. His research focuses on Egypt and Syria in the medieval period with a special interest in social history, intellectual history and the Crusades. He is the author of Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006) and The Written Word in the the Medieval Arabic Lands (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) as well as editor of collected volumes such as Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources (Ergon, 2011). He has worked as academic consultant for media programs on topics such as the Crusades.

Dr Stephen Inwood was born in London in 1947. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and St Antony’s College, Oxford, and completed his D.Phil. in 1971. For 26 years he taught history in Thames Valley University and its component colleges, and between 2000 and 2008 he was a research Fellow at Kingston University. He became an almost full-time writer in 1999. His main publications are A History of London (1998), The Man Who Knew Too Much (a life of the scientist Robert Hooke) (Macmillan, 2001), City of Cities (a study of London in the thirty years before the First World War) (Macmillan, 2005), and Historic London: an Explorer's Companion(Macmillan, 2008). 

Dolores Iorizzo has a joint appointment at Imperial College London in the Centre for the History of Science and the Department of Computing. She is Co-editor of Newton's Theological Manuscripts at the Newton Project and and is also Head of Unit for Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the London e-Science Centre (www.lesc.imperial.ac.uk). Projects include creating open-source multimedia electronic editions in the history of science, philosophy and history, and cross-repository semantic interoperability for e-research in the humantities and sciences.  Her current project is 'Origins of the Calculus: Cultures of Science in Leibniz and Newton'. 

As well as teaching at NYU in London, Nesta is Director of Research at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, an affiliate of the University of Manchester, UK. Formerly, she was Reader in Theatre Arts and Head of Drama for many years at Goldsmiths University of London. She has published on JM Synge, Sean O’Casey and David Mamet (all Methuen) and Brian Friel (Faber & Faber), and acting and production processes in a number of theatre journals; organized projects for and with the British Council, the National Museum for the Performing Arts, Trinity College Dublin, the Council of Europe Cultural Networks, the European Commission, the European Cultural Foundation, Arts Council England, the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and London Weekend Television; has been a consultant/adviser to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wales, University of Surrey, Leeds Metropolitan University, the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute, International Women Playwrights, the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, the Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts, the Centre for Performance Research, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and University of the Arts London; and given papers at international conferences, directed theatre productions of English classics and revivals of modern European plays, and conducted acting, directing and playwriting workshops, at venues across Europe (east and west) and North America. Moreover, she has researched in the USA (mainly Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York) and was a Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont and Visiting Director for the Potomac Theatre Project. She is currently a Contributing Editor of New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) and the Artistic Director of NXT (New Cross Theatre), a company committed to promoting new writing for theatre. 

Professor Denis Judd is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, a PhD of London University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor Emeritus of History at London Metropolitan University. He has published over 20 books including the biographies of Joseph Chamberlain, Prince Philip, George VI and Alison Uttley, historical and military subjects, stories for children and two novels. Some of his most recent books are the highly praised and best selling Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present, The Boer War and The Lion and the Tiger; the rise and fall of the British Raj. He has reviewed and written extensively in the national and international press, and in journals, has written several programs for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and is an advisor to the BBC History Magazine. He is often interviewed for national and international television and radio and his most recent book is his edited edition of the Diaries of Alison Uttley (2009). His books Empire:The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present and his biography of George VI have recently been reissued in revised paperback editions.

www.denisjudd.com 

Dr Kelly lectures on British Politics and works as a policy adviser in Westminster. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2000 and subsequently published his thesis under the title ‘The Myth of Mr. Butskell’. He has been published in academic journals and lectured at both British and American Universities. He has also advised political parties in Eastern European and Africa about policy development. 

Dr. Kirkham completed undergraduate degrees in english literature and psychology at the University of Toronto and went on to obtain a PhD in psychology from Cornell University in 2003. She worked as an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Stanford University until 2007 and currently works at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London. 

Yulia Kovas received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry. Her thesis in Generalist Genes and Mathematics explored the origins of the individual differences in school mathematics. She received a degree in Literature and Linguistics as well as teaching qualifications from the University of St Petersburg, Russia in 1996 and taught children of all ages for 6 years. She received a B.Sc in Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2003 and MSc in Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry from the SGDP Centre, King's College. This eclectic - interdisciplinary and international - education background has ultimately led to the formation of the InLab, conducting international, interdisciplinary research into the individual differences in learning, with paticular focus on numerical ability and other STEM fields. Dr Kovas is a Reader at Goldsmiths College and a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck, UCL, and King's as well as New York Universities.  Dr Kovas is also leading the genetically-sensitive mathematics research in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) ad the SGDP Centre, King's College. For further information on research and publications visit:

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/psychology/staff/kovas.php

 www.inlab.co.uk

Leya Landau’s main research interests lie in the field of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing and culture, and in the relationship between literature and the city. She has published articles on Romanticism and London, eighteenth-century opera and women poets of the period. She is currently writing a book on the female urban imagination in eighteenth-century literature. She has taught at both American and British universities, and most recently at University College London. 

Harkness Fellow, University of Washington 1967-68. Berwick Prize, London Math Soc 1973. Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki 1978. Professor of Mathematics, University College London, 1975 – present, Dean 1981-1984, Head of Department. 1991-2006. Renyi Prize, Hungarian Academy of Science 1988. Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Science, Austrian Academy of Science 2006. Vice President, London Math Society (U.K.’s National Organization for Mathematics) 2006-present. Has published over one-hundred research articles in learned journals. Many invited lectures including NYU (Courant Institue) in 2007. 

Dr Carl Levy (BA SUNY at Buffalo, MA, PhD at LSE) is Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, and University of London. He was the inaugural Head of Department of Politics from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of 6 single authored and edited books. He has written, researched and taught in the field of comparative European politics and history (1800 to the present), the history of ideas and ideologies, the government, politics and policies of the European Union. He has a special interest in Italian history and politics. Dr Levy has been a visiting Professor/Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, LUISS (Rome), and in Oxford at Nuffield College, Magdalen College, and the Centre for Modern European History, Faculty of History and the Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations. 

Kate taught psychology at Royal Holloway (formerly Bedford College) for over thirty years, and has also taught in the University of Wales at Bangor, the City University, and Kings College London. Her research has focused on mental health in minority groups in the UK. She is interested in how religious factors can affect mental health. She has been involved in providing and evaluating culture-sensitive mental health services, and is involved in mental health charity and other community work. She has published several books (the last to appear was Religion, Culture and Mental Health: Cambridge) and numerous articles, and edits the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture. 

Recent invited plenary lectures include lectures to the British Sociological Association (Manchester, 2006), the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship Programme (Cambridge, 2006), the City and East London Primary Care Trust, (London, 2008), the World Federation for Mental Health (Athens, 2009), the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London, 2009), the All North Wales Psychiatry Conference, St Asaph, 2010), the Sinai Scholars Conference, (Dartmouth College, 2010 and Philadelphia University, 2011), the Ethnic Health Initiative (London, 2012), and the South London and Maudsley Trust (London 2012). 

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect and historian, who takes on a range of projects in Britain and abroad, many with a conservation slant. ‘My work reflects my interest in the dramatic and sculptural potential of landscape, and is imbued with whimsical, historical eclecticism', he says. 'I like to think that my gardens are intelligent as well as beautiful, as they are informed by my training as an architect, landscape architect, geographer and historian’. Current projects range from the creation of a new garden within the old walls of a fortified house on the island of Hydra in Greece to the preparation of a conservation strategy for the gardens at Kensington Palace. Todd is President of the London Parks and Gardens Trust and Gardens Adviser to Hampton Court Palace. He is also the author of several books including The Gardens at Hampton Court Palace (Frances Lincoln) and The London Town Garden (Yale University Press).  He holds a Bachelors in Environmental Studies (BES) from the University of Manitoba; a Masters of Landscape Architecture (MLA) from Harvard University; and a PhD in Historical Geography from University College London. 

Colin is Teaching Fellow (Strategy & Marketing) and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Imperial College, London, with which he has been associated as a Visiting Fellow since 1995 along his commercial interests.

Colin holds a BSc from University of Leicester (1969) and a MBA from Imperial College Business School (1994). Colin has worked extensively with international companies holding senior management directorships with Avon Cosmetics, Croda Chemicals, Betterware and Great Universal stores. In addition in the past 10 years he has taken an entrepreneurial role with ‘dot com’ start ups and provided consultancy services to Venture Capital companies for investment turnarounds.

Colin's teaching interests lie in Marketing, Business Strategy and International Business. 

Prof. Javed Majeed read English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, University of Oxford from 1981 to 1984. He was awarded First Class Honours. After completing his doctorate at Magdalen, he held Research Fellowships at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and the Centre of South Asian Studies, also at Cambridge. His publications include Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism (Clarendon Press, 1992),Hali's Musaddas. The Ebb and Flow of Islam (OUP, 1997, with Christopher Shackle), Autobiography, Travel, and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics, and Postcolonialism (2008). Prof. Majeed currently teaches at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. 

David Margolies taught in a number of British and American universities before settling into the English Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London, from which he is now retired Professor Emeritus of Renaissance literature and Shakespeare's theatre and popular culture. He is widely published internationally on Shakespeare, Elizabethan prose fiction and the development of Marxist criticism in the 1930s. 

John Mark M.A.(Hons) Cantab. M.Sc in Economics (London) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at King’s College, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. His major publications include the 800 page volume on The Food Industries, Reviews of the Statistical Sources of the United Kingdom Vol XXVIII, Chapman and Hall, London, further work on statistical sources and recent papers on the semi-conductor industry. He read history at St. Catharine’s College Cambridge and did his postgraduate studies in economics at University College London and the London School of Economics. 

Matthew Mauger, BA (Warwick), MA (Queensland), PhD (London), researches extensively in the literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries; in particular, he focuses on how Enlightenment legal debate forms an important context for artistic production in the period. He completed a PhD entitled 'Prophetic Legislation: William Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the Law' in 2005, and has published an article about legal architecture in Blake's 1790s epic The Four Zoas. He has recently completed an article examining harassment of dissenters in the City of London in the mid-eighteenth century, and continues to work on the writing of legal theorists including William Blackstone, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham. 

I was initially interested in economics and finance. I had first a master degree in econometrics from La Sorbonne and a finance degree from the IEP in Paris. After six years as a risk analyst for a future and commodities broker at the city in London, I decided to change my career. I wanted to teach and I had a real love for philosophy. I did my PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics and I have been teaching there ever since I graduated. My fields of reasearch are primarily moral and political philosophy as well as philosophy of economics. 

Loukas Mistelis is the Clive Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration and the Director of the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He teaches on the University of London LLM program the courses in International Trade & Investment Dispute Settlement, International Commercial Law, International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration and International Commercial Litigation. He is also the Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the UN Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods www.cisg-ac.org) and the coordinator of the Queen Mary Case Translation Program for the award winning Database: www.cisg.law.pace.edu. He has been listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45, amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list, and one of the 25 academics (the only in England and the youngest overall) listed in the International Who’s Who in Commercial Arbitration (2007). His publications (in English, German, Greek and Russian) include the books Charakterisierungen und Qualifikation im IPR. Zur Lehre einer parteispezifischen Qualifikation im Kollisionsrecht der privaten Wirtschaft (1999); Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law (2001); Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (2003); Commercial Law: Perspectives and Practice (2006); Pervasive Issues in International Arbitration (2006); Arbitration Insights (2006). He is also member of the Editorial Board of Arbitration International and of Global Arbitration Review. LL.B. (Hons) (University of Athens, Greece, 1991); Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights (IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990); M.L.E. (magna cum laude, 1992), Dr. iuris (summa cum laude) (Law School, Hanover, Germany, 1998); Certificate in Japanese International Trade Law (Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998); Member of the Athens Bar (since 1993). Besides English he is fluent in German and Greek, has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian. 

Vincent-Wayne Mitchell is Professor of Consumer Marketing CASS Business School, City University London. He has done extensive research into marketing and consumer behaviour, with particular focus on consumer decision making, complaining behaviour and risk taking. He has won 8 Best Paper Awards and has published over 200 academic and practitioner papers in journals such as Journal of Business Research, British Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Consumer Affairs, International Journal of Advertising, Services Industries Journal, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Consumer Marketing, as well as numerous conference papers. He has worked with companies such as Coca Cola, Safeway, Tesco and the Cooperative Bank as well as completing a major study on consumer usage of quantity indicators for the DTI. He sits on the Editorial Boards of six international journals, is an Expert Adviser for the Office of Fair Trading and is Head of Marketing at CASS. 

Educated at the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics, and Nuffield College, Oxford, Gareth completed his D.Phil under the supervision of Professor James Mirrlees in 1987. His first academic position was at the University of Warwick, after which he moved to the University of Exeter in 1992 and became Professor of Economics in 1995. Gareth has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 1998 and is also Managing Editor of Fiscal Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory. His major research interest is in public economics and his publications include Public Economics (1995) and numerous papers in International Tax and Public Finance, the Journal of Public Economic Theory and the Journal of Public Economics. 

Dr Dirk Nitzsche is a Senior Lecturer at Cass Business School (City University, London). He is also a visiting lecturer at New York University (in London) - Stern School since 2001 and has links with Olin Business School at Washington University in St Louis. After completing his PhD in 1996 he worked in the economics department at the University of Newcastle before joining City University Business School in 1997 and the Management School at Imperial College in 1998. In 2004 Dirk rejoined Cass Business School (City University) where he is the course director for MSc Financial Mathematics and MSc Quantitative Finance. Dirk has written a number of articles in refereed journals and recently co-authored three textbooks in finance: Investments: Spot and Derivative Markets (2001, 2008), Financial Engineering: Derivatives and Risk Management (2001) and Quantitative Financial Economics (2nd edition) (2004). He has presented his work at international conferences in Europe, the US and Australia. His research interests includes the wider areas of asset pricing as well as fund management and portfolio theory.

Dirk's current research focuses on the perfomance of the mutual fund industry where he uses sophisticated statistical techniques in alalysing the industry. Key questions which are addressed here are persistence of fund performance, ability of market timing and whether the fund performance can be explained by luck or skill.

Mike Newman is an Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University (attached to the Institute for the Study of European Transformations). He had previously been the Course Leader for the BA Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Politics, while also holding a Jean Monnet Personal Chair in European Studies. His most recent work is Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009) and he is also the author of Socialism - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005), Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left  (Merlin 2002), Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union (Hurst, 1996), Harold Laski - A Political Biography (Macmillan, 1993), John Strachey (Manchester University Press, 1989), and Socialism and European Unity (Hurst, 1983). He is currently working on the topic of transitional justice and also acting as an adviser to International Alert, a peacebuilding NGO.

Charles C. Noel, an American, has lived and taught in London, for British and American Universities, since the early 1970s. Before that he earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Columbia University. His research speciality is eighteenth-century Spanish culture and politics, including the changing role of Bourbon court. He has published a number of articles and essays which have appeared in British, American, French and Spanish journals and collections. 

Benedict O’Looney M.Arch (Yale) is an architect and a lecturer at the Canterbury School of Architecture. He taught from 1994-2004 in the history and theory programme at the Architectural Association, and from 2004-2007 at the University of Kent. As a practitioner he has worked as a project architect at Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners contributing to their renovation of Paddington Station and the Bath Spa Project. The re-use of historic buildings is a particular focus of his work and that continues in his own practice Morris + O’Looney architects. Benedict is chair of Southwark’s Conservation Areas Advisory Group and the vice-president of the London Sketch Club. 

Dr. Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts for Goldsmiths, University of London. Research and publications embrace late-Victorian literature (focusing on motherhood, maternity and colonial ideology), women and espionage in World War II France and contemporary Black British writing. She recently edited Hidden Gems (Oberon Books) and a Special Issue on Black British Women's Writing for Women: A Cultural Review. Other publications include essays and interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams, Lemn Sissay, debbie tucker green, Andrea Levy and SuAndi. Her next book is Critically Black: Contemporary Black British Dramatists and Theatre in the New Millennium (Manchester University Press). 

Julia Pascal is an award-winning playwright and theatre director. Her plays; which include The Holocaust Trilogy, Crossing Jerusalem, The Golem, The Yiddish Queen Lear and Woman in the Moon; are published by Oberon Books. These have been produced widely in Britain, mainland Europe and the USA. She has been Writer in Residence at the University of York and The Wiener Library as well as a NESTA Dreamtime Fellow.  A regular broadcaster for the BBC she also writes for The Independent, The Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times. She teaches theatre and writing at City University, Birkbeck College, St Lawrence University and AHA. As Director of Pascal Theatre Company she produces new stage work. Most recently the Company premiered a radical version of The Merchant of Venice and developed a DVD archive called Jewish Mothers and Daughters as a major educational resource. Julia's play The Dybbuk will be at the Theater for the New City in New York in August 2010. 

Anthony Price was educated at Oxford, and has taught at Oxford, the University of York, Brown University, and Birkbeck College London (where he is presently attached).  He has published two books, both on Greek philosophy, and many papers.  He is currently enjoying two years’ research leave, funded by the Leverhulme Foundation. 

Dr Ranka Primorac has degrees from the universities of Zagreb, Zimbabwe and Nottingham Trent and has taught Africa-related courses in several institutions of higher learning in Britain, including the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in the African postcolony, cultural constructions of identity and the social functioning of literary fictions. She has co-editedZimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence (Routledge, 2006) and authored The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (I. B. Tauris, 2006). 

Ms Anjanette (Angie) H. Raymond, B.A. (St. Ambrose University, Iowa); M.S. Ed. (Western Illinois University); JD (Loyola University School of Law); LLM. (London); PhD Candidate (CCLS); Attorney at Law (New York).

Angie Raymond is a Lecturer in International Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. She lectures on the University of London's LLM courses in International Commercial Law, Comparative Commercial Law, and on the LLB in International Commercial Transactions. She has previously lectured on the LLM in International Commercial Litigation and International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration as well as teaching distance learning courses in International Trade Law. In addition, Angie lectures at Pace Law School's Semester in London in International Commercial Transactions, and at The University of Navarra School of Law, International Business Law Program in International Commercial and Corporate Law. She has lectured at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany and Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, School of Law in its Budapest Summer Legal Studies Program.

In 2006, she coached the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, School of International Arbitration Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team that claimed the Frédéric Eisemann Award as the prevailing team in the oral rounds, as well as honorable mention for both the claimant and respondent briefs. 

Dr. Rectenwald is a Master Teacher of Writing and Cultural Foundations in the Liberal Studies and the Global Liberal Studies Programs at NYU. His research interests include nineteenth-century science and culture, secularism, intellectual property, the future(s) of science and technology, and composition history and pedagogy.His book entitled Academic Writing, Real World Topics is forthcoming from Pearson Longman Publishers in 2011. This book introduces and discusses academic writing from numerous disciplinary quarters and addresses several complex and controversial topics.  His essay “George Eliot and Secularism” will appear in George Eliot in Context (Cambridge UP, 2011). “Craig on God and Morality” is scheduled to appear in the International Philosophical Quarterly in September 2011. He has published articles in College Communication and Composition, and in several anthologies. He is also an author of a book of poetry entitled The Eros of the Baby Boom Eras (1991).He did archival research at the Imperial College Science Museum Library for his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “The Publics of Science: Periodicals and the Making of British Science, 1820-1860.”Statement of teaching philosophy:“Over the course of fifteen years of teaching, I have found that working with students has proven to be the key to my own scholarship and intellectual life. I also believe that I serve students as a conduit, not merely to their disciplinary futures, but more importantly to their development as critically engaged and culturally literate citizens and human beings. I see the classroom as a forum for students to practice the communicative and interpretive skills necessary for life and work in evolving, complex societies. My class meetings are scheduled conversations in which all are invited participants expected to contribute.”

Website:  https://files.nyu.edu/mr185/public/index.html

Eliya Ribak graduated from Reading University in 2006 with a PhD in the archaeology of religion entitled: Religious Communities in Byzantine Palestina: the Relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, AD 400 – 700. The thesis was subsequently published as a BAR. She is currently lecturing at Oxford University, Open University and Birkbeck College. Her research interests focus on Byzantine Palestina and the Byzantine Empire. She has published papers on art historical and architectural aspects of churches and synagogues in Byzantine Palestina and their implications to the rest of Byzantium and is presently writing an article on purity and water in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 

 I am interested in the way that someone's thoughts and behaviour are linked to those around them.  In my lab at University College London (www.eyethink.org), we use gaze, speech and motion tracking technology to investigate how perception and cognition are embedded in the social world. We present pictures, speech and movies to participants. They watch the displays, recall information, form opinions, talk to each other and play games. We explore how the identity, beliefs and simply the presence of other people can influence individuals’ cognitive and perceptual processing. Before coming to UCL, I was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, a graduate student at Cornell, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Stanford University, and an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was fleetingly on the television as part of a BBC documentary, and recently received the Early Career Provost's Teaching Award at UCL..

Constantine Sandis was educated at Oxford University and has taught philosophy at the University of Bath, the University of Reading, the Open University, the Florida Institute of Technology, Oxford Brookes University (where he is presently a senior lecturer), and for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Constantine has published papers in numerous journals and collections and is the editor of New Essays on Action Explanation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is currently completing a book on the explanation of human action and in the final stages of co-editing (with Tim O’ Connor) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Wiley-Blackwell). For further details relating to his research and teaching please visit: http://oxfordbrookes.academia.edu/ConstantineSandis 

Dr Jyoti Saraswati is Assistant Professor in International Political Economy on the Business and Political Economy Program at the Stern School of Business, New York City. He is also Director of the Beyond the Developmental State Working Group for the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy. His research is focused on the political economy of emerging markets in Asia, paticularly as it pertains to capital formation in and the emergence of transnational corporations from India and China. Prior to joining the Business and Political Economy Program, Dr Saraswati taught at the Departments of International Development, Oxford University and the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Machester, a Masters in Political Economy (with special reference to East Asia) from the University of Sheffield and a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Prior to entering academia, Dr Saraswati worked across public and private sectors in both the UK and Japan and continutes to provide consultancy to a number of major international organisations, including the European Commission and World Bank. He is author of Dot.compradors:Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry and co-editor of the forthcoming Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century

Hagai M. Segal is an academic, consultant and analyst, specialising in Middle Eastern affairs, geo-strategic issues, and modern terrorism/militancy. An analyst, consultant and advisor for numerous companies, private bodies, business groups, security agencies and politicians - advising them on these same issues - Hagai has taught and guest lectured at Universities across the globe. A regular guest on national + international television and radio stations/channels (including the BBC, Sky News and CNN), Hagai also writes for a number of newspapers and publications around the world, including regular Insight contributions for the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Hagai is the recipient of the NYU in London Annual Teaching Award for 2007-8. You can find further information on his work on his website at www.hagaisegal.com

Hagai has recently been commended for outstanding teaching evaluations on the Liberal Studies Program, by the Dean of Liberal Studies, Dean Schwarzbach. 

David Shepherd is a macroeconomist. He holds a PhD from the University of London and has extensive international teaching experience. He was a senior faculty member at Imperial College London and has held visiting professorial positions at the University of California, the University of Melbourne, and the Brisbane Graduate School of Business. David’s research interests are in macroeconomics, international finance and applied statistics. He is particularly interested in the statistical analysis of the business cycle and factors affecting regional, national and international economic performance. 

Gary Slapper is Professor of Law, and Director of the Centre for Law, at The Open University. He is a door tenant at the London barrister chambers 36 Bedford Row, a Law columnist for The Times, and a legal consultant to BBC television documentary and drama. He read Law as an undergraduate and postgraduate at University College London, and gained his doctorate from the LSE. His recent books include The English Legal System (11th edition, 2010), English Law, (3rd edition, 2009), How the Law Works (2007), Weird Cases (2010). He is an Opinion writer forThe Journal of Criminal Law, and a co-founder and editor of The Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education. 

Dr Gavin Stamp, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.), born 1948, educated Cambridge University. Architectural historian and writer. From 1990 until 2003 he taught at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, and was made a personal professor by the University of Glasgow. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cambridge. In 2003-4 he was a Bye-Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and a Mellon Senior Research Fellow. Since then he has reverted to being an independent scholar, also involved with journalism and television. Author of books on Edwin Lutyens, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, George Gilbert Scott junior and other architectural subjects. His most recent books are The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Britain's Lost Cities, and Lost Victorian Britain.

Emma Sweeney studied English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her teaching and writing career has taken her as far a field as South East Asia, Japan and India. As well as her position as Writer-in-Residence at NYU in London, she also runs creative writing programs at Cambridge University, the Open University and Foundation for International Education. Emma has won various prizes for her first novel, including an Arts Council Writer’s Award, a Royal Literary Fund Bursary, and writer’s residencies in Cambridge, Dublin and Barcelona. She is also an award-winning short story writer, recently being awarded a Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence fellowship as well as being shortlisted for both the prestigious International Fish Prize and the Asham Award (Britain’s foremost short story prize for women writers). Emma is currently working on her second novel and is represented by Greene and Heaton Literary Agency. 

Dr Eiko R. Thielemann is a Senior Lecturer in European Politics & Policy in the Department of Government and the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Since completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2000, he has held academic positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Southampton and LSE, as well as visiting posts at the Australian National University (ANU), the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Victoria. He has also worked as a consultant for the European Commission. His research focuses on EU- and comparative policy making in particular on issues such as: international co-operation (burden-sharing); asylum & immigration; multi-level governance, federalism, regionalism and devolution; redistribution, regional and state aid policy. He has been a guest-editor for the Journal of Common Market Studies and the Journal of Refugee Studies and is currently completing a research monograph on 'Burden-Sharing: The International Politics of Unwanted Migration'. 

Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of the India Media Centre of the University of Westminster in London. His research interests include political economy of global communication; global news flow; media and mediated culture in India and among South Asian diaspora. He is the Founder and Managaing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication. Among his main publications are: Contra-Flow in Global News (1992); Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (1998); International Communication - Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003) and Media on the Move - Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2006); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009) and Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (2012)

BSc (Hons.) [Rhodes], MSc [Natal], PhD [Cantab.] FRSC.

Retired Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Queen Mary College, London University.

Major research interests: Pyrrolylpolyene fungal pigments, carotenoids, spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry.

Most recent publication: R Keese, M P Braendle & T P Toube, Practical Organic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2006. 

Basic education:- Tollington Grammar School London N10 - State & Drapers'Co. scholar at Queen Mary College, London University, B.Sc (1st)-1954, Ph.D 1957. Academic posts:-Yale University ( Fulbright Travel scholarship) Post-doctoral research fellowship 1957-59. Lecturer Birmingham Univ., 1960, Lecturer (1961 - 72) Reader (1972-1998), physical chemistry Queen Mary College-London University, Snr.Lecturer (physical chem.) Brunel University (1998-2000), Lecturer (organic chemistry) New York Univ. (London) (2000- present). Other appointments:- Internation Atomic Energy Agency "expert" Buenos Aires (1954) Athens (1967 & 1972). Associate Prof - Univ. of Hawai'i (1978). Research interests:- Radiochemistry, Electronic structure of molecules, X-ray spectroscopy. Book 'Orbitals & Symmetry' 1970 , reprint 1979. Over 210 articles in the scientific literature (+conference reports, book reviews etc). Research grants received from EPSRC, Royal Society, Univ. of London, European Commission (DG XII). 

Dr. Donald Verry is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, where he teaches economic principles, labour economics and public economics. His research and publication areas are labour economics, human capital and development economics. He has acted advisor and consulatant to international organisations the OCED, ILO and UNDP.

Valerie Wells is research scientist in the Pharmaceutical Science Research Division at King’s College London. Her research is focused on defining differences in the signalling pathways which operate in normal and cancer cells, in order to exploit differences in their genetic makeup which can be targeted to selectively activate programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. A novel cytokine, βGBP, has been identified and cloned and has been found to selectively induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Valeries Wells is currently investigating the molecular signalling pathways activated by βGBP leading to programmed cell death. 

Katharine Whitehead was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Sheffield where she completed an undergraduate degree in Physics and a doctorate in Experimental Solid State Physics. She then went on to work in Professor Donal Bradley’s Molecular Electronic Materials group at Imperial College, London specialising in Liquid Crystalline and Inorganic Semiconducting Polymers. 

Professor Guy Wilson graduated in 1955 with a Double First in Natural Sciences, with Part 2 in Physics, at the University of Cambridge. After obtaining a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge he spent three years as a Researcher in the University of Chicago. The rest of his academic life was spent in the Physics Department Queen Mary University of London.

His main research was in use of molecules to create electronic devices. This pursuit evolved through polymer physics, into molecular electronics and biomimetics, and is now in nanotechnology. He retired as Full Professor and Head of the Molecular and Materials Physics Group in 2002, and was given the title Emeritus Professor. He remains an occasional visitor to that Group.

At this time he set up and subsequently runs the Physics Laboratory component of the NYU in London General Physics I and II courses. 

Matt Wolf is London theatre critic of The International Herald Tribune and London editor of the broadway.com website; he is also chief critic of the new theaternewsonline.com website, for which he covers productions in New York as well as London. For 13 years Matt was London theatre critic of Variety, and he spent over 20 years as the London-based arts and theatre writer for The Associated Press. A graduate of Yale, Matt moved to London in 1983, since which time he has written for most major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Times and Sunday Times of London and The New York Times, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. Matt is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Sam Mendes At the Donmar: Stepping Into Freedom. He has lectured frequently on many university programs in London and now teaches regularly for Syracuse University in London and the University of California at Berkeley's summer abroad program as well as NYU in London. 

Dr Philip Woods teaches Cultures and Contexts: Contesting British National Identity and the  Britain and Slavery course at NYU in London. He teaches at Kingston University, London where he is Academic Advisor in the Study Abroad Office. He studied History at the London School of Economics and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His doctorate, which was published, was on British-Indian politics after the First World War. His current research is on the British use of film propaganda in India and he has published in a number of academic journals including Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, South Asia and Indian Horizons.