Notes on Contributors
Ranjeeta Basu
is Professor of Economics at California State University San Marcos. Her areas of expertise include Economics and Wellbeing, International Economics and Econometrics.
Valeriu Budeanu
is a senior consultant in finance and economics fields. During his career, he has been working in environments like banking systems, production companies, winding up companies, the Romanian Justice Department, penitentiaries administration, the United Nations (just to mention a few), where he had the opportunity to work with and to make observations on a wide range of employees and employers.
Sarah A. Bushey
is an adjunct instructor and Assistant Director of the course What is the Good Life at the University of Florida. She graduated in April 2015 with a doctorate in musicology and also holds degrees in music education and performance. In summer of 2018, she moved to her home town in Norther Maine and now owns and operates a bakery
Mustafa Cihan Camcı
is an Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy in Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. He teaches phenomenology, particularly Heidegger, modern Turkish literature, philosophy of art and philosophy of identity.
Kelly K. L. Chan
is a second year PhD candidate in the School of Health and Education at Middlesex University London. Her current research focuses on happiness in higher education in Hong Kong. She examines happiness using visual ethnography.
A. Erdem Çifçi
is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy in Mersin University in Turkey. His main research interest is in phenomenology. He also has an interest in humanistic (existential) psychotheraphy.
Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh
is a Research Fellow in Communication Design from the University of Surrey. Her PhD research, undertaken at Loughborough University, looked at how design and creativity can be used to improve sustainability and happiness in the home, in particular, art therapy techniques within service design.
Carolina Escobar-Tello
is Lecturer in the Loughborough Design School at Loughborough University and Loughborough University in London campus (UK). Her research interests include happiness and well-being, sustainability, social Innovation, creativity, and systemic thinking.
Robert D. Hermanson
a retired architect, has a Masters Degree in Architecture, U. of Penn. Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning. He has also been a visiting professor at cua, Washington, DC, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina and Université Tunis Carthage, Tunisia.
Julia Hotz
is currently living in Athens, Greece as a Fulbright Scholar. When not teaching English at Athens-Psychico College or volunteering with refugees downtown, Julia enjoys writing and gathering research for an initiative to apply ancient Greek philosophy to modern society.
Søren Harnow Klausen
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark. He is head of the Values, Welfare and Health Communication research program. Søren Harnow Klausen obtained his PhD1993 at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow 2000–2002, member of the Danish Council for Independent Research 2008–2013 and elected member of Science Europe Scientific Advisory Committee 2016. His wide research interests include happiness and wellbeing, value theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, social epistemology and philosophy of literature.
Kathy Pui Ying Lo
is Academic Lead of Service Design Mini Centre for Doctoral Training and Lecturer in Visual Communication at Loughborough University. She’s an international scholar and educator in service design, experience design, emotional design, and visual communication.
Andrea-Mariana Marian
is currently a PhD student in Sociology at University of Bucharest, Romania. Her main research interest includes happiness studies, with a focus on qualitative methods. She also developed a carrier as a Financial Analyst, holding a leading position in the Finance Department of an international company.
Bryon Martin
is an Assistant Professor of Recreation at Henderson State University, usa. Martin’s teaching and research centers on understanding socio-cultural and behavioral aspects of community recreation and sport, service and experiential teaching and learning strategies, and recreation across the lifespan.
Andrew Molas
is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at York University in Toronto. His doctoral research focuses on the role that empathy plays in our engagement with people living with schizophrenia and how cultivating a phenomenological conception of empathy can help reduce stigma and support people in their recovery from mental illness. More broadly, he works on the ethics of care as a normative theory and its application within interpersonal and professional contexts.
Seán Moran
is a philosopher at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, and is happy to be an event leader with the Inter-disciplinary Network. This year, he has become a regular contributor to Philosophy Now, as ‘The Street Philosopher’.
Lisa Ortiz
is a Professor of Technical Communication at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research interests include media literacy and production, visual communication and Universal Design. Her hobbies include photography, silversmithery and jewellery design.
Ann Shelomi Panditharatne
is currently reading for the PhD at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and her research interests involve subjective well-being and female labour force participation.
Sheila M. Rucki
is a Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research centres on applications of neo-Gramscian theory to contemporary political, economic and social issues.
Jane Russell-O’Connor
has a PhD from University of Wolverhampton, UK and has been conducting interdisciplinary research and publishing in landscape history and landscape ecology for over 15 years, primarily in the UK and latterly in Ireland. Her most recent research is that of interdisciplinary research on demesne landscapes. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Waterford Institute of Technology and is supervising three PhD and three research master students. Jane has 23 years teaching experience and has also worked in nature conservation, managing nature reserves. She also runs an environmental and ecological consultancy.
Marie D. Thomas
is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University San Marcos. Her most recent research focused on well-being and positive psychology.
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