Dr Olga A. Pilkington has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK. She teaches composition and literature at Dixie State University, USA. Her research interests include popular science writing and lab lit.
Govert Valkenburg is a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He currently works on a project funded by the Dutch Science Organization NWO on responsible innovation of biogas in India. Before, he conducted research at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, on privacy and security technologies.
Nicholas Beuret is Research Associate at Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University. His research explores the construction of political issues through technoscience, political practice, infrastructure, policy, planning and resistance, with an emphasis on environmental problems and processes of social exclusion and abandonment.
Gareth Brown is based at the School of Business at the University of Leicester. His work focuses upon the collective political imaginaries of radical and revolutionary organisations and the methodologies via which these are developed.
Becky Mansfield is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University. Her research is on knowledge about the permeability of environments, bodies, and health, with an emphasis on the biopolitics of emerging truth claims and forms of governance.
Elizabeth Frances Caldwell is an Academic Skills Tutor in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. Beth is a graduate of University College London where she completed her PhD in Anthropological Genetics. She also holds two BSc degrees, one in Human Sciences from University College London and another in Herbal Medicine from the University of Central Lancashire. Her current research examines disciplinary boundaries and visual culture in the biological sciences.
Christopher Groves' work focuses on how people and institutions negotiate and deal with an intrinsically uncertain future. He has published on intergenerational ethics, the regulation of emerging technologies, and the sociology and politics of risk and uncertainty. He is co-author with Barbara Adam of Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics (2007) and author of Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Greg Hollin is a lecturer in social theory at The University of Leeds and has written on various topics related to the sociology of science and medicine with particular concern paid to both the psychology of autism and animal experimentation. Greg's research has been published in Nature Climate Change, Theory, Culture and Society, Science as Culture, and elsewhere.
Angela M. Filipe is Research Fellow in Social Science at LSHTM working at the intersection of anthropology, STS, and social theory. She holds a PhD in Sociology from King's College London (UK) and is a lead editor of the forthcoming volume Global Perspectives on ADHD (2017, Johns Hopkins University Press). Her research explores issues concerning diagnosis, medicine, and mental health, and processes of knowledge production, participation, and valuation in both national health care and global health contexts.
Lukas Engelmann is a historian of medicine at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. He has published various articles in the history of AIDS, science and medicine, gender and visual studies. His current research focuses on plague mapping, the history of medical geography and the historical comparison of the plague-driven enforcement of bacteriology in public health reasoning in North and South America. He currently develops a research project on the long history of digital epidemiology.