Mueller-Hirth, Natascha
Natascha Mueller-Hirth is Lecturer in Sociology at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She is an expert on post-conflict South and Southern Africa, having researched on peace, conflict and development in the region for the past decade. She has published on NGOs and civil society, the impact of audit culture on development organisations, corporate social responsibility practices and partnerships, and on time and temporalities of victimhood. She is coediting a volume on time and temporality in transitional societies (forthcoming with Routledge). Her current research project is a study of women’s demands for sustainable peace, examining the experiences and reparative needs of women survivors of the post-election violence in 2007/08 in Kenya.
Finnegan, Fergal
Fergal Finnegan became interested in issues of community development and equality through his work as a community educator in Dublin. He is now a lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University where he is a co-director of the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education programme. His research interests include social movements, popular education, biographical research, social class and equality and higher education.
Majumder, Sarasij
University of Houston
Mayes, Robyn
Robyn Mayes is a senior lecturer at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her interdisciplinary research draws on critical approaches in human/cultural and feminist geography, sociology, and cultural studies to elucidate crucial contemporary intersections of (transnational) business and society. She has published widely on topics such as mobile/migrant labour, global production networks and corporate social responsibility, digital platforms, and new social movements. This work is grounded through sustained critical attention to everyday experiences in local communities and workplaces, and through ongoing empirical work on the social and cultural impacts of the Australian mining industry.
McCrea, Niamh
Niamh McCrea is a lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland where she teaches in the areas of youth work, community development and adult education, with a particular focus on equality studies. She previously worked, in a paid or voluntary capacity, in the field of development education, community education and youth work and has co-written a number of development education practice resources. She has researched and published in the area of community development and venture philanthropy, and inclusive youth work. She is a member of the editorial board of the Community Development Journal.
Bender, Lin
Lin Bender is CEO of the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in Victoria, Australia. She began her career as a photographer and graphic designer, before establishing a number of social enterprises. A series of senior management roles in the not-for-profit sector followed, across operations and marketing to strategic business development, as well as CEO positions.
Kohl-Arenas, Erica
Erica Kohl-Arenas currently serves as the Faculty Director of ‘Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life’, at the University of California, Davis, where she is also an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School where she received university awards in Outstanding Achievements in Diversity and Social Justice Teaching and the Distinguished University Teacher Award. She earned her PhD from the Social and Cultural Studies in Education programme at the University of California, Berkeley (2010), an MS in Community Development from the University of California, Davis (1999), and a BA in Sociology from Reed College (1991). Prior to her graduate studies, Kohl-Arenas worked as a popular educator and community development practitioner in a variety of settings including urban public schools, immigrant nonprofit organisations, and rural communities in Appalachia, Scotland, and Wales.
Murtagh, Brendan
Brendan Murtagh is a Reader in the Natural and Built at the Queen’s University Belfast. He has researched and written widely on social economics, community development and urban regeneration including Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Routledge, 2013, with Simon Bridge and Ken O’Neill).
Makongo, Japhet Maingu
Japhet Makongo is a development consultant based in Tanzania. He began his career as a field extension officer in the Department of Livestock and Agriculture. Between 1990 -1993 he worked on flood and irrigation projects, funded by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), then becoming a trainer in community and rural development at the Training for Community Development Centre in the Monduli district of the Arusha region in Tanzania. He has also worked for HakiElimu, a national advocacy organisation promoting equitable and quality education for all children in 2002. Chief Executive of Ubunifu Associates
Ivancheva, Mariya
Mariya Ivancheva is an anthropologist and sociologist. Her doctoral dissertation (CEU, 2013) explored ethnographically the development of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. Since then she has worked as a post-doctoral research fellow on projects exploring housing in (post)socialist Sofia and Caracas (CAS, Sofia 2014), the casualisation of labour in post-crisis academia (UCD, 2014-2017), and the impact of digital technologies and marketisation processes on inequalities in the South African and UK higher education sectors (University of Leeds 2017-2018). Mariya has published widely on the legacy of socialist regimes, and the role of academic intellectuals and universities in processes of social change. She is a member of the editorial board of the web-portal for comments and analyses on Eastern Europe, LeftEast.
Sen, Debarati
University of Houston
Gagyi, Agnes
Agnes Gagyi specialises in social movements, focusing on connections between politics and social movements in Central and Eastern Europe, and the social, economic and geopolitical aspects of the region’s long-term world market integration. She is a researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, and member of the Budapest-based Working Group for Public Sociology ‘Helyzet’.
Flader, Ulrike
Ulrike Flader is lecturer in Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen and founding member of DEMOS Research Centre for Peace, Democracy and Alternative Politics in Ankara. She holds a PhD from Manchester University and has worked in and on Turkey for many years. Her research centres on questions of citizenship, governmentality, political subjectivity, everyday resistance and social movements. Her most recent ethnographic work focuses on everyday resistance among the Kurdish population in Turkey.
Gürer, Çetin
Cetin Gürer is Philipp-Schwartz-Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, currently working at the Centre for Labour and Politics at the University of Bremen. He studied Sociology and Political Science at the University of Hamburg and holds a PhD from the University of Ankara. He works on questions of minority rights and representation, specifically on territorial and non-territorial autonomy and the Kurdish Movement. He is author of Democratic Autonomy as a Heterotopia of Citizenship published in Turkish by NotaBene/Ankara in 2015.
Niamh McCrea is a lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland where she teaches community development, youth work and adult education, with a particular focus on equality studies.
Fergal Finnegan is now a lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University. His research interests include social movements, popular education, biographical research, social class and equality and higher education.
