All Writers: List

Kristi Eaton is the founder and CEO of ke comms, a mission-driven public relations and content writing agency based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, and working globally.

Melanie Edwards (nee Garner) provides research support and investigations for biological aspects of projects at the Australian Widlife Services.

She has worked as an Intern at Smithsonian Institution, Australian National, and University of Canberra, where she researched a diverse range of animals including sea otters, bottle-nose dolphins, dessert tortoises, brush-tail possums, wallabies, kangaroos, Australian and Amazonia parrots and eastern bearded dragons.

She has taught hundreds of tertiary biology students for a number of subjects, including genetics, immunology, cytogenetics, nutrition, diagnostics and wildlife management and has also worked within industry-government committee partnerships while in the Australian Department of Agriculture Water and Environment.

She has collaborated and co-authored with Professor Wilson on several papers, including kangaroos and greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous land management.

Pedro Ferreira is a fashion revolutionary. With a double Masters degree in Circular Economy and a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Pedro acts at the intersection between technology, innovation and sustainability. His expertise is in the environmental performance of fashion materials, predominantly focused on footwear. For the past two years, Pedro has represented Brazil in the Slow Fashion Movement, a global NGO that aims to guide customers to more environmentally and socially conscious decisions. Pedro also works on the global board of SFM, as the Research and Education Lead, designing and establishing primary data collection and partnership with Academia. Currently, Pedro works full time as a lifecycle assessment (LCA) specialist in Norway. In his free time, Pedro learns how to sew, so he can wear the revolution he promotes.

Triona Fitton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She's interested in charitable action, charity shops and second hand consumption and has published a number of articles in this area. She is also interested in intersectional inequalities and precarity in education, especially race and class.

Jordan Foster is a PhD Student, Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Dr Primrose Freestone (BSc (Hons), PhD, PGCE, FRSB, SFHEA) is an Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester. She is a biochemist by training, with extensive experience in bacterial physiology and biochemistry, including bacterial protein phosphorylation (she was the first to identify tyrosine phosphorylation as a regulatory mechanism in bacteria and provided key evidence concerning the biochemical function of the Universal Stress protein (uspA) in E. coli).

Currently, Dr Freestone’s research interests are focused on the relationship between stress and infection. She is a co-founder and internationally recognised leader in the field of Microbial Endocrinology, a research discipline which represents the intersection of microbiology, endocrinology and neurophysiology.

Judy Fudge is the LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Chair of Global Labour Issues in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, which she joined in July 2018. Judy began her academic career in Canada, where she was Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1987-2006) and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria (2007-2013), before moving to England to teach at the University of Kent (2013-2018). She has held visiting professorships and fellowships at several universities and institutes in Canada and Europe. In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; in 2014 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lund in Sweden; and in 2019 she received the Bora Laskin Award for her distinguished contributions to Canadian Labour Law.

Judy takes a socio-legal approach to studying work and labour and is committed to fostering a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing workers. She has worked with women’s groups, legal clinics, trade unions and the International Labour Organization. Her most recent work focuses on labour exploitation, modern slavery and unfree labour in the context of labour migration and global supply chains.

Anna Garton's forte lies in implementing circular textile strategies. Her commitment to circular textiles has been a driving force in fostering pioneering and innovative solutions for household collected post-consumer end-of-life textile materials. Through meticulous research and development, she has contributed to creating commercial products and business models that prioritise circular practices. 

Until recently, she was a post-consumer textiles expert at the LSJH (Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto), a municipal waste management company in Finland that coordinates the nationwide separate collection of end-of-life textiles from households. LSJH works closely with many European MMCF fibre producers and recycled fibre innovators to create new supply chains to scale up the use of existing textiles in their processes as feedstock.

SUBIR GHOSH is a Kolkata-based independent journalist-writer-researcher who writes about environment, corruption, crony capitalism, conflict, wildlife, and cinema. He is the author of two books, and has co-authored two more with others. In mainstream media, he has worked with the Press Trust of India (PTI), the Telegraph, and the Daily News and Analysis (DNA). 

He has handled communications and publications for the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Association of India (FHRAI). and SPG Publications. Over the years, he has been a columnist for a host of publications, including First Post, Kindle, Asian Correspondent, The Asian, Yuva and the Imphal Free Press, among others. 

He writes, edits, reports and designs. He is also a professionally trained and qualified photographer.

Directeur de Recherche au CNRS au laboratoire Takuvik et professeur associé au département de chimie de l’Université Laval, Julien Gigault s’intéresse aux particules et nanoparticules anthropiques dans l’environnement. Une des spécialités de Julien Gigault est de mettre au point des stratégies analytiques pour identifier la présence, les sources et les flux de nanoparticules dans les différents compartiments environnementaux. Le comportement et les impacts des nanoparticules sont au cœur de ces préoccupations en collaborant avec des biologistes sur ces questions.