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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
Professor Yvette Taylor is Head of the Weeks Centre at London South Bank University. Her publications include Working-class lesbian life: Classed Outsiders (Palgrave, 2007), Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (Palgrave, 2009) and an edited collection Classed
Professor of Financial Mathematics within the Mathematics Department at the King's College London, William Shaw received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford, following which he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and M.I.T. He then
Professor Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His research is about how energy flow shapes the broad sweep of evolution, focusing on the origin of life and the improbable emergence of complex cells.
Mike Rendell spent thirty years as a lawyer in Bristol before retiring to Spain a decade ago. He has used his time to research a huge collection of papers from the 18th Century. These included everything from diaries to inventories
Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She has been Head of the School of English and Drama, and Dean of Arts, and is now Director of the Centre for Editing Lives
Jude Kelly CBE is CEO and Founder of The WOW Foundation. She founded WOW in 2018 to celebrate the achievements of women and girls and confront global gender injustice. Starting as a three-day festival at London’s Southbank Centre in 2010