Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.
Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is… originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.
Professor Akhgar is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and has 100 refereed publications in international journals. Professor Akhgar has been a keynote speaker in several international conferences on Knowledge Management and Security. He is a member of editorial board of three international Journals, Chair and program committee member of several international conferences on Knowledge Management, Security and Terrorism. He has extensive hands on experience in the management and execution of large international security initiatives concerning combating terrorism, organised crime, cyber security, public order and cross cultural ideology polarisation.Simeon Yates was formerly at Sheffield… Hallam University and CENTRIC, and is now Director of the Institute of Cultural Capital, a strategic collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool (UK).