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Paul Hough, University of Westminster

Trudy Meehan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Brian Thornton, University of Winchester

Netalie Shloim, University of Leeds and Chagit Peles, Bar-Ilan University

Ian Williams, University of Southampton

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Vinicius de Carvalho, King's College London; Boriana Alexandrova, University of York; Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, King's College London; Karolina Watroba, University of Edinburgh; Marion Gibson, University of Exeter, and Narguess Farzad, SOAS, University of London

Michael J. Benton, University of Bristol and Monica Grady, The Open University

Barbara Pierscionek, Anglia Ruskin University

Liane Beretta de Azevedo, Sheffield Hallam University and Colette Marr, Sheffield Hallam University

Mary M. Hausfeld, University of Limerick

Emma Baker, Adelaide University ; Amy Clair, University of Essex, and Mark Stephens, University of Glasgow

Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson, Lund University

Ursula F Ott, Nottingham Trent University

Colin Diamond, University of Birmingham

Raawiyah Rifath, University of Exeter; Alex Powell, University of Warwick, and Calogero Giametta, University of Leicester

Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University; Keighley Perkins, Cardiff University; Swansea University, and Maxwell Modell, Cardiff University

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Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University

Tom Harper, University of East London

Massimo D'Angelo, Loughborough University

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Aimee Ambrose, Sheffield Hallam University and Jenny Palm, Lund University

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Florian Neukart, Leiden University

Margherita Malanchini, Queen Mary University of London

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Sam Wass, University of East London

Violet Broadhead, University of Bristol

David Unwin, University of Leicester

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Robert James Nicholls, University of East Anglia; Marjolijn Haasnoot, Utrecht University, and Piero Lionello, University of Salento

William Barter, University of Edinburgh and Mark Smith, Imperial College London

Mark Rawlinson, University of Nottingham

Max Carter-Brown, Anglia Ruskin University

Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University of Glasgow and Aishwarya Subramanian, O.P. Jindal Global University

Blane Savage, University of the West of Scotland

Sharha, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Nima Shokri, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg and Salome M. S. Shokri-Kuehni, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg

Mehri Khosravi, University of East London

Elisabetta Magnanti, Trinity College Dublin and Mark Faulkner, Trinity College Dublin