Faculty

Prof Nick Andrews is deputy head of the Statistics Unit at Public Health England in the UK and the Statistician responsible for work in the Immunisation Department. In this role he has worked extensively on post licensure vaccine safety, impact and effectiveness assessment, clinical trials and correlates of protection. He is currently a partner in European projects on vaccine safety and effectiveness and was a member of the World Health Organization Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety from 2012-2018. Recently he assisted WHO in determining the best way to implement any licensed Ebola vaccines and is currently on the advisory group for pilot implementation of RTS,S malaria vaccine in Africa. He is also a project lead on a research collaboration on using electronic health records for vaccine assessment with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He lectures at the LSHTM, New York University in London and on vaccine courses internationally. He has over 350 publications with more than half of these in the vaccine field. 

Clare Bayley is an award-winning UK writer for stage and radio. Plays include The Container (Fringe First Award and Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award winner); The Enchantment (National Theatre); Blue Sky (Hampstead Theatre and Cardiff Sherman Theatre); On The March (an Oxford Playhouse commission). Forthcoming projects include After The Peace showcase at the Criterion Theatre in December 2018.

Clare mentors on the playwriting MA at Central School of Speech and Drama and teaches Creative Writing at London South Bank University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society and former Theatre Editor of The Independent newspaper.

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. 

Described by The Times as “a polymath”, Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. In 2011, Clive was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, regularly appearing on television and radio and quoted in the Washington Post and Pravda. Clive also has an entry in the Columbia Book of World Quotations. His numerous books include Riot City, Victoria’s Madmen, Gothic Histories, Restless Revolutionaries, Violent London, Bestsellers, Cult Fiction and many more, all of which have enjoyed international recognition

www.clivebloom.com

Monica Bohm-Duchen (MA Courtauld Institute) is an independent lecturer, writer & exhibition curator, who has lectured on a part-time basis at NYU London since 2007. She also teaches for Birkbeck College, University of London. The other institutions for which she has worked include Tate, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, Sotheby's Institute of Art and the Courtauld Institute; the journals to which she has contributed include RA Magazine, Art Monthly and Modern Painters. She curated After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art (1995) and co-curated Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945 (1986), and Life? or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon (1998). Her many publications include Understanding Modern Art (1991),Chagall (1998), The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001) and The Art and Life of Josef Herman (2009). Her latest book, Art and the Second World War, was published in November 2013 by Lund Humphries in association with Princeton University Press.

Dorota Bourne works as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Her expertise includes change management, international knowledge transfer, innovation and management development. In her past projects she worked in Total Quality Management in car manufacture, change management in the pharmaceutical sector, competency framework designand new business model development for the not-for-profit organizations.

Dr Nicky Busch is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research and teaching cover migration and migration policy, low-paid work in urban environments, transnational labour flows and the study of gendered and racialised work. She is currently working on a book about migrant domestic workers.

Peter Cave read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge. He has held lectureships in philosophy at University College London, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and City University London; he has been attached for many years to the Open University – and, more recently, to New York University (London).

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, sits on the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and chairs the Humanist Philosophers of Great Britain – and is Patron of the British Humanist Association. He is also keen supporter of London’s Wigmore Hall and English National Opera.

Author of numerous philosophical papers, both serious and humorous, Peter’s particular interests are paradoxes, ethical matters and life and death dilemmas. He has given guest philosophy lectures at, for example, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Bucharest and has edited collections and written articles for various publications. In previous decades, he was columnist on taxation and money myths for The Investor magazine.

Peter has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes – from a series on the Paradox Fair to more serious ones on John Stuart Mill. He often takes part in public debates on religion, ethics and socio-political matters.  

His philosophy books include This Sentence is False: an introduction to philosophical paradoxes and Humanism. He is author of the light trilogy, Can a Robot Be Human?, What’s Wrong with Eating People? and Do Llamas Fall in Love? each one of which is subtitled 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles. He also authored How to think like a bat – and 34 other really interesting uses of philosophy, reissued and revised as How to outwit Aristotle. In 2012 his Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide appeared; and 2015 saw his Ethics: A Beginner’s Guide – both introductions being highly recommended – ‘lucid, witty, erudite, and wise’, ‘with his signature sharp style’. As well as 2015 seeing publication of his book, Ethics, at the end of that year appeared his The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy through 99 Perplexities.

Peter cannot resist writing grumpy, challenging or sceptical letters to newspapers, often published, often pointing out fallacies in the reasoning of political leaders, frequently critical of the current Zeitgeist. He has occasionally dabbled in life drawing, is keen on opera, lieder and string quartets, lives in dust and in Soho – and is often seen with a glass of wine…or two.

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Dr Sarah Clement is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of Liverpool. Her PhD is in Environmental Science at Murdoch University in Australia and focuses on biodiversity conservation governance at a landscape scale. As an interdisciplinary researcher, a strong theme throughout her work is how governance, as well as planning and policy, can enable better ecological, socio-economic, and democratic outcomes, particularly during periods of rapid environmental and social change. Her current research projects focus on 1) “governing the Anthropocene”, especially with respect to how we manage novel and transforming ecosystems, which are emerging due to climate change, land use change, and other large-scale drivers of environmental change, 2) the use of nature-based solutions to solve environmental and social challenges in urban areas, and 3) building adaptive capacity and climate resilience in fisheries management. Before working in academia, Dr Clement worked as a practitioner for 10 years in the USA and Australia, with roles as an environmental consultant, researcher, and environmental policy advisor.

Dr. Andrew Crozier was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London, and The London School of Economics, where he completed his Ph.D. He was Lecturer in Modern European History at the University College of North Wales for 20 years when he returned to the University of London to teach Modern German History at Queen Mary and Westfield College. He also has an interest in the History of the European Union and in this respect was appointed Jean Monnet Chairholder in the History of Contemporary Europe. In this capacity he was on several occasions Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He has published widely on the relationship between the European Union and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and has written a pioneering study of the history of the latter organization. His principal publications are Appeasement and Germany’s Last Bid for Colonies and The Causes of the Second World War, a pioneering study of the origins of the Second World War in both Europe and the Pacific. He is currently completing a biography of Neville Chamberlain and writing a study of post-war Europe.

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 faculty member of the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Janet Dickinson specializes in the history of early modern England and Europe, with particular interests in cultural and political history. Her first book, Court Politics and the Earl of Essex was published in 2011 by Pickering and Chatto and she has also contributed to a number of works on Elizabethan and early modern European history. Current projects include work on the Tudor nobility and the last years of Elizabeth I’s life as well as court history in general. She has held lectureships at a number of English universities and spends her summers teaching programmes for several American universities in association with the University of Oxford. She is currently Conference Secretary for the Society for Court Studies, which runs a seminar series at NYU in London.

Maria de Gracia Dominguez Barrera, MD. PhD, graduated in Medicine (University of Navarra, Spain), completed her specialist clinical training in psychiatry and began her academic career in Neuroscience (University of the Basque Country) in Spain. In 2006, Dr. Dominguez obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to Maastricht University (Netherlands), where she developed her research interest in psychiatric epidemiology studying environmental and social determinants of psychosis in adolescence. After obtaining her PhD 'A Dynamic Model of the Onset of Clinical Psychosis from an Epidemiological Perspective', she continued to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University. In 2010, Dr. Dominguez obtained an Alicia Koplowitz Fellowship (combined clinical and research fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) at Imperial College London (UK), where she worked as Clinical Lecturer and continued her research work in adolescent clinical psychosis. In 2012, Dr. Dominguez completed PGCert in University Learning and Teaching at Imperial College (2012 Rees Rawling Prize). In 2014, Dr. Dominguez completed the PGDip at Applied Systemic Theory/Systemic Therapy at the Tavistock Centre (University of East London). In 2016, she completed her CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Dominguez currently works as Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead of the Neurodevelopmental Service at Ealing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Dr. Dominguez was awarded the European Psychiatry Association research prize in child and adolescent psychiatry in 2014. Since 2014, she has been the president of the Association of Scientists in Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Alicia Koplowitz Foundation.

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 

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. 

Dr. Stephanie Echols earned her doctorate degree from the University of Chicago in 2012 with a specialty in Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research uses a combination of neuroimaging (i.e., fMRI, EEG) and behavioral measures to explore how pain perception, empathy and helping behavior is different for in- and out-group members. She has previously taught Psychology at the University of Chicago and the University College of London, and was awarded the Starkey Duncan Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for her work at the University of Chicago.

Dr Miranda El-Rayess is a lecturer in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her main area of research is late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture, particularly the work of Henry James. She is the author of Henry James and the Culture of Consumption (Cambridge UP, 2014), and several articles. She is currently co-editing a volume of short stories for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, and working on two articles inspired by her research for this scholarly edition.

I am a political scientist working in the areas of African history and politics, state-society relations and international development. I use these frameworks to explore a number of related issues pertinent to the study of international relations and politics:

 Forms of knowledge production and maintenance in the area of International Development;

The relationship between modes of global governance and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa;

Post-colonial state formation in sub-Saharan Africa

African political thought, and the historical antecedents of contemporary discourses on Africa.

In terms of the first two of these interests, I have interrogated the power relations which construct a significant alter-globalisationist actor, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (www.whiteband.org), in order to understand its impact, actual and potential, on discourses and actors in IR. This research appeared in a book published in 2012. I am also co-editing a book with Dr Carl Death at the University of Manchester due out in 2014 on neoliberal governmentality and civil society in Africa. My other research interests are reflected in papers I have published and ongoing research projects, including a study of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their socio-cutural-spatial implications; a project exploring the discursive relationship between the MDGs and civil society organisations in East Africa (funded by the British Academy); and a historical (genealogical) study of Afro-optimism.

Emily Gee has worked at Historic England (formerly English Heritage) since 2001, and is Head of Designation, advising the government on the listing of buildings, sites and landscapes. Emily studied in the US (Smith College, BA; University of Virginia, MA Architectural History) and has a Diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association in London. She has published on the history of purpose-built housing for working women in Victorian and Edwardian London, and regularly gives talks and writes about listing. Emily also leads Historic England’s activity on twentieth century architecture. Emily has taught at NYU in London since Spring 2011. Her 'Seeing London's Architecture' integrates study of a wide range of listed buildings and conservation issues.

Professor Georgellis specializes in labor economics and behavioral economics. He is known for his work on happiness, adaptation, and employee well-being. Spanning across several disciplines, his research explores psychological aspects of decision-making processes within the general context of employee happiness, well-being, and engagement, and their impact on organizational performance. His work has appeared in leading journals such as, Economic Journal, Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Economica, Regional Studies, British Journal of Management, Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others.

His work has attracted several thousand citations in Google Scholar, and he is a top 5% author in the REPEC worldwide citation rankings. Professor Georgellis is a Distinguished Associate of the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES).

Matt Gobel received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University College London. He is the recipient of multiple prestigious research fellowships including from the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Matt Gobel’s research focuses on the study of social hierarchies across different levels of analysis from broad cultural differences to low-level cognitive mechanisms using diverse methodologies including eye tracking technology and electroencephalography. Before joining NYU London, Matt Gobel has studied and worked in France, Canada, the U.S., and Japan. 

Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press) and The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary journals and magazines including PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry International, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and Conjunctions, which featured her chapbook-size group of poems with an introduction 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) and Jean Valentine: This-World Company (U of Mich Press, 2012). 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 at The New School University and 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. She won a scholarship from the TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership and is writing a PhD (Kingston University) on “Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Reticence.”  

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 returned to the academic sector a few years ago, teaching postgraduate programmes in economics, quantitative methods and research techniques. At NYU London, he lectures on Intermediate Macroeconomics and Money & Banking. His research interests focus on macroeconomic models, financial markets and fiscal policy.

Nigar Hashimzade is Professor of Economics at Durham University and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her previous academic posts were at the University of Reading and University of Exeter. She earned her PhD in Economics from Cornell University in 2003. Her research articles in economic theory and econometric theory have been published in leading international journals. She regularly presents at the major international conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Economics Association, the annual conferences of the Royal Economic Society, and the annual meetings of the Econometric Society.

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Courtney received her PhD in English from the University of California, Davis, and has been teaching writing and literature at the university level for ten years. She is a full time staff member at NYUL, teaching Writing and English courses while also working administratively as the Liberal Studies Coordinator. Courtney specialises in 20th and 21st Century literature, and her research focuses on mass collaborations - large groups of people writing narratives together. She has published essays on the author David Mitchell, collaborative Internet storytelling, and social media and memory.

Dr Hubbert is a senior lecturer in mathematics and mathematical finance at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Essential Mathematics for Market Risk Management (Wiley Finance) and also a former practitioner in financial risk management at the Debt Management Office (a branch of HM-treasury). His major research interests lie in approximation theory and applications where he has published on a variety of themes.

Anne Hultzsch is an architectural historian specialising in architectural print cultures and the history of perception. She has written widely on architecture and representation since the early modern period with a recent focus on the 19th-century illustrated press, including the beginnings of the architectural magazine. Author of Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 (Legenda, 2014), Anne is also the co-editor of The Printed and the Built (with Mari Hvattum, Bloomsbury, 2018) and of Building Word Image: Printing Architecture 1800-1950, a special collection of Architectural Histories (with Catalina Mejía Moreno, 2016). Besides at NYU, Anne also teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She trained as an architect at TU Munich, holds a masters and a PhD from University College London, and has recently completed a postdoc at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. 

Dr Stephen Inwood was born in 1947, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he gained a D.Phil (Ph.D) in Modern History. He was a university lecturer in history for about thirty years, and then became an almost full-time writer, continuing to teach only at NYU in London. The four books he published (all with Macmillan) in those years are A History of London; The Man Who Knew Too Much (a biography of Robert Hooke); City of Cities (a study of London between 1883 and 1914); and Historic London: an Explorer’s Companion. He assisted Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, with his book, Johnson’s Life of London, and he was praised by the Mayor as the best historian of London. He is married to a head teacher, and has three sons.

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'. 

Dr. Veronica Isaac has a background in the museum sector and worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum for ten years. She has also carried out freelance projects for museums and private collections around Britain and lectures widely. She currently works as a freelance curator, lecturer and writer, and, alongside her work for NYU London, teaches at the University of Brighton and Rose Bruford University.

An interdisciplinary dress historian, her BA was in English Literature and History whilst her MA focused on Museum and Gallery Studies with a specialist pathway in Historic Textiles and Dress. In September 2016 she completed a PhD thesis investigating the personal and theatrical dress of the actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928).

Her particular specialism is the history of dress and theatre costume and dress from the late 18th century to the mid-20th century, but her interests and publications extend beyond this.

Jennifer's research offers a critical engagement with discourses of nationalism, security and democracy from the perspective of minorities and migrants. Jennifer is the author of two leading academic monographs, both of which have been translated into foreign languages (Turkish and Polish), and more than twenty articles and book chapters. Jennifer also regularly advises international and non-governmental organizations working in this policy area, including the OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities, the Council of Europe, the European Centre for Minority Issues (Germany), the Tom Lantos Institute (Hungary), and Minority Rights Group International (United Kingdom).

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, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor Emeritus of History at London Metropolitan University. He has published over 25 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.  Among his most recent books is his edited edition of the Diaries of Alison Uttley (2009). His books Empire:The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present, The Boer War and his biography of George VI have recently been reissued in revised paperback editions. His two novels, The Adventures of Long John Silver and Return to Treasure Island have been translated into several languages and are about to appear in Russian.

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. 

Nathalie Khan is a cultural historian with an academic background in performance and film theory. She teaches fashion history and theory at Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion. She is a unit leader on the Executive MBA at London College of Fashion and a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, the University of Bologna and The Conde Nast School of Fashion and Design. Khan is a leading theorist and writer on contemporary fashion media and the impact of new technology on the traditional catwalk show and fashion photography. She is a regular contributor to the fashion media platform SHOWstudio. Recent curatorial practice includes a project titled I know simply that the sky will last longer than I, with the Belgian visual artist Pierre Debusschere during the 28th International Festival of Fashion and Photography (Hyeres, 2013). Before pursuing a career in academia she worked as a brand consultant for Kurt Geiger and as a sales and distribution manager for global brands such as Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Pollini and Prada.

Usman teaches Health and Society in a Global Context at NYU London.

Usman is Managing Director of Modus Europe a European Public Policy Consultancy and is Interim Director at the European Health Management Association.

Modus Europe provides strategic public policy advice and undertakes related economic and policy studies with a particular focus on health and social care.

Usman was previously Managing Director of Matrix (TMKG Ltd) and has over twenty years public policy and management experience. He has held Board Director positions in public, private and not for profit organisations and has experience of leading significant change management projects in a number of countries.

Core roles include strategy development, analysis, stakeholder engagement, business development and leadership.

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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. 

In 2000, Dr. Aga Kosinska graduated from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland with MSc engineer degree in Chemical Technology. In 2001, she started her international adventure across countries and educational systems around the world. In 2003, she began her research in the area of analytical chemistry at the University of San Francisco (USF) where she received: The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award Certificate as an Outstanding Student Majoring in Chemistry and The Department of Chemistry Graduate Award for Achievement in Teaching. Then, Dr Kosinska moved to the University of St Andrews where she did her PhD studies in the area of organic and medicinal chemistry. In 2010, she started working as a Chemistry Teaching Fellow at UCL’s Centre for Preparatory Studies in Astana, Kazakhstan. She came back to the UK in 2013, and started working as a Lecturer in Extended Science at Plymouth University. In 2014, she completed Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and become a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. Currently, she is working at the UCL CLIE as the UPCSE Senior Chemistry Teaching Fellow and Chemistry Coordinator where she has been sharing her innovative learning and teaching approaches to international students.

Dr Kovas is Professor of Genetics and Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London and a visiting Professor at UCL, King’s, Tomsk and New York Universities. Professor Kovas is the Director of InLab - International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning at Goldsmiths; the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics at Tomsk State University; and co-director of the Russian-British Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education. She is the Director of the Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR) and also leads the genetically-sensitive mathematics research in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) at the SGDP Centre, King’s College, London. Professor Kovas teaches Genetics and Psychology and supervises many BSc, MSc, PhD, and Post-graduate students’ research in the UK and abroad. She uses multiple approaches, including quantitative and molecular genetics, psychology, neuroscience and cross-cultural studies. The aim of this interdisciplinary research is to gain insights into complex processes through which genetic and environmental factors work together to influence learning.Better understanding of the origins of individual differences in learning abilities and disabilities will lead to the development of personalised educational methods and approaches that will benefit all learners.

For further information on research and publications visit:

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

and

www.inlab.co.uk

Educational Background
Yulia Kovas received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University of London. Her thesis on 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 an MSc in Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry from the SGDP Centre, King’s College. This eclectic – interdisciplinary and international - educational background has ultimately led to the formation of the InLab, conducting international, interdisciplinary research into the individual differences in learning, with particular focus on numerical ability and other STEM fields.

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. 

Dr. Ole Birk Laursen holds a PhD from the Open University, UK, (2012), and has taught at Queen Mary, University of London, and held research fellowships at universities across Britain and Europe. Interdisciplinary by training, his research concerns the literature and history of South Asia, and Black and South Asian people in Britain and Europe, with a particular focus on anti-imperialism and anarchism, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. He is co-editor of Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour, and Rights (Palgrave 2015), Networking the Globe: New Technologies and the Postcolonial (Routledge 2016), a special issue of SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism (2017) on comics and anarchism, and editor of M. P. T. Acharya, We Are Anarchists: Essays on Anarchism, Pacifism, and the Indian Independence Movement, 1923-1953 (AK Press 2019).

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. She is currently Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Visiting Professor at NYU in London, Glydwr University, Wales, and Heythrop College, University of 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 including Religion, Culture and Mental Health, 2007, and co-edited Aspects of Terrorism and Martyrdom: Dying for Good, Dying for God, 2012. She is working on a 3rd edition of her popular textbook Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales. She has published numerous articles, and edits the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture.

Recent invited and plenary lectures include lectures to 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), the South London and Maudsley Trust (London 2012), the World Psychiatric Association (Tel Aviv 2012), the Ethnic Health Initiative (EHI) (London 2012), the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum (London 2013), The University of Gothenburg (Sweden, 2015).

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Corrado Macchiarelli is a Lecturer in Economics and Finance at Brunel University London and a visiting Research Fellow in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, where he was previously a Postdoc. Beyond his academic endeavors, he is a member of an LSE-based team of Monetary Policy Experts for the European Parliament. In the past, he worked for the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund; he consulted for the European Central Bank and the Swedish Riksbank. His interests mainly lie in the fields of macroeconomics, financial economics, business cycles, and European economic governance. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Torino (Collegio Carlo Alberto). At NYU London, he lectures on Introductory Macroeconomics.

Royce Mahawatte (DPhil. University of Oxford) is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins. Selected academic publications are the monograph George Eliot and the Gothic Novel (University of Wales Press, 2013), chapters in the collections Queering the Gothic (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2009), Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion (Oxford: Berg 2008) and More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power (2003). He has chapters forthcoming in Horror: A Literary History (British Library, 2016) and Fashion and Fiction (Intellect Books, 2016). His research interests are Victorian fiction and cultures of fashion and the
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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. 

Chris McMillan teaches at Arcadia University London and New York University London, where he specialises in courses that explore the social, political and economic dynamics of London. After obtaining his PhD. from Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand) in 2010, Chris published Žižek and Communist Strategy with Edinburgh University Press in 2012. He has also been published in Subjectivity, Educational Theory, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and has a paper in press with The British Journal of the Sociology of Education.  He can be found on Twitter @criticalcook.

Emily Midorikawa studied history at University College London and creative writing (MA, prose fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of A Secret Sisterhood: The literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (co-authored with Emma Claire Sweeney and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood). It was published by Aurum Press in the UK and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the USA in 2017. Emma and Emily run Something Rhymed – a blog that celebrates female literary friendship. Emily's work has been published in, among others, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Paris Review and the Washington Post. She is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. You can find out more about Emily’s writing by visiting her website.

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. 

Azadeh Moaveni is a writer, academic, and journalist with two decades' experience reporting on the Middle East. As correspondent for Time magazine and The Los Angeles Times she has reported from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Tunisia. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author of Iran Awakening, with Nobal Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi. She was a Fulbright fellow in Egypt, Senior Lecturer in journalism at Kingston University, and is presently a Future of War fellow at New America in Washington, DC. Her work focuses on youth culture in the Middle East, the interplay between Islamism and women's rights, and how women and girls are impacted by political instability and conflict. Her front-page piece on ISIS women defectors for The New York Times was a Pulitzer finalist in International Reporting, and she is currently at work on a book about gender and ISIS. Her work appears in The Financial Times, The New York Times, NewYorker.com, and The Guardian.

Mike Newman is an Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University, where he was previously the Course Leader for the BA Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Politics, and held a Jean Monnet Personal Chair in European Studies. His latest book is Six Authors in Search of Justice: Engaging with Political Transitions (Hurst and Oxford University Press [US], forthcoming 2016). He is also the author of Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009), 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 an adviser with the peacebuilding NGO, International Alert.

Trino-Manuel Ñíguez is a Reader in Economics at the University of Westminster, Westminster Business School, London. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics (1998) and a master in quantitative economics (1999) at the University of Alicante. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Alicante in 2004. He was a research fellow at the Bank of Spain in 2015 and has held visiting positions at the University of Alicante and New York University in London. Prior to joining the University of Westminster, Dr Ñíguez was a teaching assistant at the University of Alicante from 1999-2003 and a research scholar and graduate teaching assistant at the London School of Economics in 2003-2004. He also worked for the Spanish government as a professional clarinetist (1987 to 1991), obtaining a degree as a teacher of clarinet from the Superior Conservatory of Music "Oscar Espla" of Alicante in 1994.

His research interests are in the areas of econometric theory, financial econometrics, time series econometrics, optimal portfolio choice, and forecasting. He has published his work in Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Forecasting, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Finance, and Spanish Economic Review, among other journals. He currently studies: (1) the importance of higher-order statistical moments and risk attitudes in optimal portfolio choice, with applications to economic modelling and forecasting under high levels of uncertainty, and (2) multivariate semi-nonparametric densities as a feasibly parameterized way to represent conditional volatility and asymmetric correlation, skewness and heavy tails observed in asset return distributions.

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.

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 Reader in English Literature and Drama at Goldsmiths University of London. She co-convenes the MA Black British Writing and teaches modules on Shakespeare, Feminism, Modernism and Postmodernism. Her research interests span late-Victorian literature and maternity, Landmark Poetics, mixedness, and adoption aesthetics. Publications include: editor of the first Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) (2016), guest-editor Special Issue, ‘Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing’ for Women: a Cultural Review (2009) and co-editor, Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (Palgrave 2014). She is Associate Editor of the literary journal Women’s Writing: Early Modern to 1918 (Taylor and Francis).

Dr. Mehrnoosh Ostovar obtained her PhD in organic chemisty from UCL, where she worked on “Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Ether-Containing Natural Products, Acutiphycin and Zaragozic acid (A)” under supervision of Prof. Karl Hale and Prof. Charles Marson (2005-09).

In September 2009, she joined Prof. Varinder Aggarwal as a post.doc in the School of Chemistry at University of Bristol. In this period, she worked on two research projects: “Asymmetric Aziridinations Using Readily Available Chiral Sulfide Isothiocineole” and also “Palladium-Mediated Annulation of Vinyl Aziridines with Michael Acceptors, Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Substituted Pyrrolidines and Application to a Formal Synthesis of (–)-α-Kainic Acid”.

Since October 2012, Mehrnoosh has been working as a posdoctoral research officer for Prof. Stephen Husbands in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at University of Bath. The title of her project is “Discovery and development of new opioid ligands as relapse prevention agents for the treatment of opioid abuse and as analgesics with low abuse potential”

Dr Varsha Panjwani has a PhD from the University of York and was subsequently a lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television there from 2009-13. Currently, she teaches Shakespeare courses at Boston University (London), Fordham University (London), and NYU (London). Varsha’s research focuses on the way in which Shakespeare is deployed in the service of diversity in theatre and films. As well as publishing widely in leading international journals and collections such as Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas, and Shakespeare Race and Performance, she has co-edited special issues of Multicultural Shakespeare. She has also won prestigious research grants from the Society of Theatre Research and Folger Shakespeare Library. In addition to her individual research, she was one of the principal investigators of the multi-grant-winning project ‘Indian Shakespeares on Screen’ (2016) and is currently co-editing a special issue on the topic. Varsha is also an academic consultant for theatre and film companies and is a regular reviewer for specialized journals and blogs.  

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Dr. Alan Powers studied History of Art at Cambridge and took his PhD there on Architectural Education in Britain 1880-1914. He has combined teaching (mainly at the University of Greenwich) with writing, exhibition curating, and voluntary conservation work with the Twentieth Century Society. This work has been on subjects relating to British art, architecture and design. Books include Britain in the series Modern Architectures in History, and Eric Ravilious, artist and designer, published in 2013. He began teaching for NYU in 2013.

Anthony Price is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also taught at the University of York, the University of Oxford, and Brown University. He has enjoyed two research fellowships: one at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, another funded by the Leverhulme Foundation. He has published four books: three of these are published by Oxford University Press, one by Routledge; three are on Greek philosophy (largely Plato and Aristotle), one on practical reasoning and reasons for action.

Hana Qugana received her PhD in History from University College London in 2017. She has held a visiting fellowship at Yale University, and also teaches Global History at Queen Mary University of London.

Hana’s research explores themes of empire, ethnogenesis and globalisation in the context of youth and civic education initiatives from the nineteenth century to the present. She has published articles on British scouting and imperial masculinities during the First World War, and liberal appeals to ‘the primitive’ by the Kibbo Kift. Her latest project looks at educational publishers, teachers and students in the Philippines and its diaspora since 1935.

Her teaching covers a wide range of topics, from social foundations and historical methodology, to global encounters and the history of race. Current lectures on team-taught courses (at Queen Mary) include ‘The “Hispanisation” of the Philippines’, and ‘Sex and Ethnogenesis in maritime Southeast Asia’. Her teaching was recognised at the 2019 Queen Mary Students’ Union Teaching Awards (‘Assessment Feedback Champion’ runner-up and nominated in the ‘Academic Support’ category).
 

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Dr. Ribak has a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading. She published a book on inter-communal relations in Byzantine Palestina and papers on the architecture and art of religious structures in Byzantine Palestina. Her latest paper: ‘Archaeological Evidence from the Byzantine Holy Land on the Origins of the Iconoclastic Movement’ has recently been published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association‏. She is currently interested in the relations between Jews and Christians in Medieval Britain. She teaches at the Open University and IES, London, as well as New York University London.

 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 television as part of a BBC documentary, and recently received the Early Career Provost's Teaching Award at UCL, where I am senior lecturer.

Dr Mark Roberts is departmental Tutor and lecturer in the Mathematics Department at UCL. He currently teaches first year algebra and Galois Theory to undergraduates at UCL. Research interests are in abstract algebra, in particular non-commutative ring theory.

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In addition to teaching on the Business and Political Economy (BPE) Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Dr. Jyoti Saraswati is Director of the Beyond the Developmental State Working Group for the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE). His research is primarily focused on the political economy of emerging markets in Asia, particularly as it pertains to capital formation in, and the emergence of transnational corporations from, India and China. He is author of Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 2013) and publishes regularly in prominent academic journals and news outlets including China Report, Economic and Political Weekly, Third World Quarterly, Development Viewpoint, Queries and Open Democracy. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Saraswati worked across public and private sectors in both the UK and Japan, and continues to provide consultancy to a number of major international organisations and private corporations, including the European Commission and the World Bank. He is currently working with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) on a project evaluating the prospects of industrial catch-up in several sectors across four major emerging economies. Dr. Saraswati has also taught at the Department of International Development, Oxford University, and the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He is currently writing an international economics textbook centred on presenting a practical, rather than theoretical, guide to the structures of, and systems within, the global economy.

Laurence received his PhD in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. He is the author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (2015), which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award, and was named ‘Thought Book of the Year’ by the Sunday Times. His writing has been published in the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the New Statesman, the Guardian, Wired, the Boston Globe, and the London Review of Books, among others. He regularly contributes to BBC Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme, Free Thinking, as both a guest and presenter. He teaches first-year Writing courses at NYUL. 

Hagai M. Segal is an academic, consultant and analyst, specialising in Middle Eastern affairs, geo-strategic issues, and modern terrorism/militancy. A United Nations Alliance of Civilizations recognised ‘Global Expert’, Hagai serves on the London First Security & Policing Advisory Board and the Executive Advisory Committee of the Global Risk Network. 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 Hagai also writes for a number of newspapers and publications around the world. He is a recipient of the NYU in London Annual Teaching Award. You can find further information on his work on his website at www.hagaisegal.com

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

Dr Jo Southern (MSc PhD MFPH) is a Clinical Scientist (Epidemiologist) based in the Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department of Public Health England (www.phe.gov.uk) as Clinical Research Lead. She has two decades of experience in conducting large programmes clinical research funded by the UK Department of Health, in specific areas of interest including paediatric vaccines and infectious diseases.

Emma Claire Sweeney has won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards, and has been shortlisted for several others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish.

As well as teaching at NYU-London, she also lectures at City University; co-runs SomethingRhymed.com – a website on female literary friendship; and publishes literary journalism in the likes of the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and The Times.

Inspired by her autistic sister, Emma's novel, Owl Song at Dawn, is the story of an eccentric spinster who spends her lifetime in Morecambe Bay, trying to unlock the secrets of her exuberant yet inexplicable twin (Legend Press, 2016).

A Secret Sisterhood – a non-fiction book on the hidden literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, which she is co-writing with her own friend and NYU-L colleague, Emily Midorikawa, will come out in 2017 with Aurum Press in the UK and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the USA.

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'. 

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.

Dr Vizard CBE is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Practice. She assesses child defendants in criminal proceedings and children and families for family proceedings. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Child Health, UCL, London and a Visiting Professor at New York University in London (NYUL).

Dr Vizard has worked for over 35 years with children and families where serious abuse and violence has occurred. In 1986 she set up a treatment service in the east end of London for convicted adult sex offenders. In 1988 she founded a service for children and young people who sexually abuse, in which she was clinical director for 25 years until her NHS retirement in 2014.

Dr Vizard has published extensively and has over 100 publications, mostly in the area of child abuse, notably child sexual abuse. She has researched into the origins of child maltreatment by adults and by other children and has taught extensively on child care and child abuse nationally and internationally.

Dr Lisa Weber has a PhD in Marine Sciences, in addition to a first class degree and an MSc equivalent in Physical Geography. Most recently she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Her entire education at University and subsequent jobs have revolved around environmental and marine issues. Her research is focused on the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients in marine ecosystem models, which is an important aspect of the global carbon cycle and climate change research.

Valerie Wells is research scientist whose research is focused on defining differences in the signalling pathways that operate in normal and cancer cells. The aim is to exploit the differences in the 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. 

Dr Philipp Wirtz studied the history, languages and cultures of Europe and the Middle East in Frankfurt am Main, Bamberg and London. He is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Research interests are mainly within the early modern and modern history of the Middle East, especially the Ottoman Empire. He teaches several aspects of the history of the Middle East and convenes an MA course on late Ottoman history.

Matt Wolf is London theatre critic of The International New York Times (formerly the International Herald Tribune) and London editor of the broadway.com website; he is also theatre editor and a founding member of The Arts Desk website (www.theartsdesk.com), which started in September, 2009. 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 Evening Standard, 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 teaches regularly for Syracuse University in London and the University of California at Berkeley's summer abroad program, as well as NYU London.

Dr Jamie Woodcock is a fellow at the LSE and author of Working the Phones. His current research focuses on digital labour, the sociology of work, the gig economy, resistance, and videogames. He has previously worked as a postdoc on a research project about videogames, as well as another on the crowdsourcing of citizen science. Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, and Cass Business School.

Dr Philip Woods teaches ‘Cultures and Contexts: Contesting British National Identity’, and also ‘Britain and Slavery’ at NYU in London. Until recently he taught at Kingston University, London where he was Academic Advisor in the International 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 the role of war correspondents in Burma during the Second World War. He has published in a number of academic journals including The Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, South Asia and Indian Horizons.

Dr Stan Zochowski is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL and has previously taught at Birkbeck.