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Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University

Maya Tudor, University of Oxford

Matthew Robert Bennett, Bournemouth University; University of Reading and Sally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University

Stuart McLelland, University of Hull

Mark Maslin, UCL

Simon Clarke, University of Reading

Mark Merrony, University of Oxford

Dan Stratton, The Open University

Tracey German, King's College London

Dipa Kamdar, Kingston University

Chloe Brimicombe, University of Oxford

Robert Hargreaves, York St John University

Simon C Moore, Cardiff University

Melinda McPherson, Anglia Ruskin University; Hilary Bungay, Anglia Ruskin University, and Sarah McLachlan, Anglia Ruskin University

Linda Calabrese, ODI Global and Jodie Keane, ODI Global

Conor O'Kane, Bournemouth University

Charikleia Sinani, York St John University; Greg Wood, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Kate Wilmut, Oxford Brookes University

Katie Harling-Lee, University of Edinburgh

Joseph Downing, Aston University

Mitya Pearson, University of Warwick

Saroash Shahid, Queen Mary University of London

Patrick Barwise, London Business School

Emily Hay, University of Glasgow and Craig Lamont, University of Glasgow

Rod Thornton, King's College London

Erin Pritchard, Liverpool Hope University and Samantha Lilly, Deakin University

Ed Turner, Aston University; Carolyn Rowe, Aston University, and Tobias Hofelich, Aston University

Benjamin Martill, University of Edinburgh

Sharon McAvoy, Edge Hill University

Lizzie Simon, University of Exeter and Hannah Bunting, University of Exeter

Marina Yusupova-Ryder, Edinburgh Napier University

Anne Irfan, UCL

Steven Paget, Anglia Ruskin University

Frans Viljoen, University of Pretoria

Osman Bahadir Dincer, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) ; Bahar Baser, Durham University, and Zeynep Sahin Mencütek, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)

Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield; Andrew Russell, University of Portsmouth; Chris Rojek, City St George's, University of London; David Voas, UCL; Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth, and Steven Buckley, City St George's, University of London

José Iriarte, University of Exeter

Gunter Kuhnle, University of Reading

Ross Cameron, University of Sheffield

Stephen Garland, Malmö University

Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University

Shireen Kassam, University of Winchester and Dagfinn Aune, Imperial College London

Nutmeg Hallett, University of Birmingham and John Baker, University of Leeds

Mary M. Hausfeld, University of Limerick and Jochen Menges, University of Zurich

Sarah A. Walker, Durham University and Belen Lopez-Perez, University of Manchester

Isabell Fritz, Lund University and Ashley Hall, Lund University

Roman Pavlyuchenko, University of Bath

Meg Kobza, Newcastle University

Sophie Gilmartin, Royal Holloway, University of London

Tony D Sampson, University of Essex

Emma Colven, King's College London and Zahratu Shabrina, King's College London

Damian Bailey, University of South Wales; Brian Clark, Ohio University, and Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford

Ildar Farkhatdinov, King's College London

Wolfgang Wüster, Bangor University