Who Owns Research?
A workshop organised by CRASSH Postdoctoral Researcher Forum
Thursday 3 June - 10.30-15.30 - Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
More details available here
Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order. Please check the event programme for more information.
- Linda Bree – Cambridge University Press
Linda Bree is Editorial Director, Arts and Literature, at Cambridge University Press. She has broad experience in commissioning a range of books in British, European and world literature; she manages many of the Press's scholarly editions including those by Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and also the on-line textbase Orlando, which concerns the history of women's writing in the UK. Her own scholarly work is in the literature of the long eighteenth century, from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen: among other projects she is editor of Defoe's Moll Flanders (OUP, forthcoming) and Henry Fielding's Amelia (Broadview, 2010), and co-editor of Jane Austen's Later Manuscripts (CUP, 2008).
- Jennifer Davis - Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Faculty of Law
Dr. Jennifer Davis is the Herchel Smith College Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Wolfson College. Dr. Davis lectures on intellectual property and the law of information in the Law Faculty. She has a particular interest in trade mark law, branding, unfair competition and personality rights and has published extensively on these topics. Dr. Davis is the author of Intellectual Property Law (3rd ed.) (OUP: 2008) and with Tanya Aplin, Intellectual Property: Text, Cases and Materials (OUP: 2009). With Lionel Bently and Jane Ginsburg, she edited: Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (CUP: 2008) and Copyright and Piracy (forthcoming, CUP: 2010). Before joining Wolfson College and the Faculty of Law, Dr. Davis practiced as a solicitor specializing in intellectual property litigation.
- Rupert Gatti – Open Book Publishers
Dr. Rupert Gatti is a Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. His research interests are in theoretical and applied microeconomic analysis and he has several publications investigating the nature of price competition in online markets. Dr. Gatti is a co-founder of the innovative, Cambridge based, academic publishing company Open Book Publishers.
- Gary Hall – Media and Cultural Theorist
Dr Gary Hall is Professor of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University, UK. He is author of Culture in Bits (London: Continuum, 2002) and Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). He is founding co-editor of the open access journal Culture Machine, director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH, and co-founder of the Open Humanities Press. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Parallax, The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, and The Oxford Literary Review. More details are available on his website http://www.garyhall.info
- Elin Stangeland – DSpace@Cambridge
Elin Stangeland has worked with repositories and open access since 2003. She is currently the DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager, facilitating increased use and continued development of DSpace@Cambridge, the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge. She is also involved with activities in the DSpace software community as a member of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC).
- Adam Steenkamp - Research Support and Contracts Manager, Cambridge Research Office
The Research Office offers expert guidance in securing and administering sponsored research funding for our academics, administrators and sponsors, working together today to enable world class research tomorrow.
- Robin Osborne - Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics
Professor Robin Osborne was director of an AHRB Research Project (2001–5) on 'The Anatomy of Cultural Revolution: art, literature, language and politics 430–380 B.C.' involving two post–doctoral research associates and three graduate students. Rethinking Revolution and Debating Cultural Revolution at Athens are products of this project. He was also involved in a Leverhulme Funded project (2005–10) Changing Beliefs of the Human Body directed by John Robb. His responsibilities lie with the sub-project on the Classical Body.
