Elif Shafak Writer / Novelist setting in the 17th century Mediterranean. Shafak greatly increased her readership with her novel Mahrem (The Gaze), which earned her the "Best Novel-Turkish Writers' Union Prize" in 2000. Her next novel, Bit Palas (The Flea Palace), has been a bestseller in Turkey and was shortlisted for the Independent Best Fiction Award. Shafak' [...]
Anna Coote Head of Social Policy, New Economics Foundation Anna is Head of Social Policy at the New Economics Foundation, leading work on developing a new social settlement to meet the challenges of the 21st century. This aims to promote well-being for all and sustainable social justice. It includes practical work on: moving [...]
Prof Michael Parker Banton Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol Prof. Michael Parker Banton is an Emeritus Professor at University of Bristol. He was born on the 8th of September 1926 and served in the Royal Navy between the years of 1944 and 1947 as a Sub-Lieutenant RNVR. He graduated with a B. SC. In [...]
Prof Margaret Crocco Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University Margaret Crocco’s research has focused on issues of diversity, both national and international, within a social studies education context. Most prominently, she has investigated how “women of the world” have been featured--or ignored--in global studies and world history courses, state curriculum frameworks, and [...]
Prof Patricia K. Kubow Director of the Center for International Education, Development and Research (CIEDR) & School of Education, Indiana University DR. PATRICIA K. KUBOW is Professor in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction at Indiana University (IU). She is also Director of the Center for International Education, Development and [...]
Marceline Naudi Senior Lecturer & Head of the new Department of Gender Studies Marceline Naudi is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta, Malta and is Head of the new Department of Gender Studies within the Faculty for Social Wellbeing. She contributes to teaching within several other University departments and Faculties on [...]
Jessica Frith King's College London, English Language and Literature Department, PhD Candidate Jessica Frith is a doctoral candidate at Kings's College London, department of English Language and Literature. Her research focus is on narratives of birds in the late eighteenth century society, considering how ornithology attracts symbolic value within poetry and what this [...]
Sarah Lain Research Fellow, RUSI Sarah Lain’s research focuses on Russia and the former Soviet Union. She has a particular interest in Central Asia and China’s growing influence in the region. Prior to joining RUSI, Sarah was an assistant manager in the Corporate Intelligence team within KPMG London’s Forensic practice. There she worked [...]
Michael Erdman MPhil/PhD Candidate, Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Great Britain Michael Erdman is in the second year of the MPhil/PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Great Britain. He completed [...]
Rosa Vercoe Former Project Coordinator, LCSS Rosa Vercoe is currently a part-time Project Coordinator at the London Centre of Social Studies. She holds PG Diploma with Honours in Russian Language and Literature; MA in International Relations from Nottingham Trent University (2005); and MSc in Development Studies with Special Reference to Central Asia from SOAS, University [...]
