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Professor Sean Nixon

Department of Sociology, University of Essex

Sean is currently working on a new monograph Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment and Sport to be published by McGill-Queen's University Press. It is an interdisciplinary study drawing upon environmental and cultural history, animal geography and sociology. It explores the shifting relations with wild birds within Britain and the wider Atlantic world from the first decades of the twentieth century to the late 1970s. It seeks to bring together the practices of bird conservation and bird-centred field sports to explore the interplay of different passions for birds and competing configuration of human/avian relations. His previous research has focused on the history of advertising and commercial culture.

Miruna Ivan

Finance student, University of Essex

Gifty Antwi

Electronic engineering student, University of Essex

Ziming Wang

Economics student, University of Essex

Dr Lorena Salud Gadella Kamstra

Lecturer in Spanish, University of Essex

Lecturer in Spanish

Ayse Guveli

Reader, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Sabrina Rau

Senior Research Officer, University of Essex

Andre Blais

Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal

Dr Sean Irving

Senior Research Officer, University of Essex

Dr Sean Irving, of the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, works on the intellectual history of ‘competition’.

Jots Sehmbi

Chief Digital and Technology Officer, University of Essex