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Professor Paul Taylor is Chair in Ocean Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and the University of Plymouth. His research covers four
Matt Cook is Jonathan Cooper Professor in the History of Sexuality at Oxford University. He is a cultural historian specializing in British queer history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His books include London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885
Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, illustrator, ranter, performer and poet. His work over the past 40 years has appeared in almost every publication you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun. A former chair
Kate Dossett is an award-winning historian of the twentieth century United States with broad interests in cultural and political history and specializations in African American History, Gender histories and histories of the African Diaspora. She has been teaching and researching
Andrew D. M. Pettegree is a British historian and expert on the history of the book, the European Reformation and media transformations. He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of History at St Andrews University, where he is the director of the
David Bedella is an American actor and singer. He is currently based in London and is best known for his Olivier award-winning roles in Jerry Springer: The Opera ,In The Heights and & Juliet. Theatre Credits include: Frank-N-Further in The
Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy in the School of Geography, University of Leeds, and is Programme Director for Urban Analytics and Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He has longstanding interests in mathematical modelling of urban
Julia Black is President of the British Academy. She is also Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was Pro Director of Research at LSE from 2014-19 and interim
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and a Turing Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute. He has worked on computer models of cities
Dava Sobel is an author of popular expositions of scientific topics, having written works such as Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter and The Glass Universe. She is also a former science reporter for the New York Times.