Dr. Samuel Abraham studied political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is rector of and Associate Professor at BISLA – Liberal Arts College in Bratislava, Slovakia (www.bisla.eu). In 1996, he established and edits the journal Kritika & Kontext (www.kritika.sk). In 2008 he co-founded ECOLAS, a network of Liberal Arts colleges and programs in Europe.
Dr. Lauren Bird is Director of Admissions, Exam Secretary, and Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Warwick. She arrived at Warwick Liberal Arts in 2020, after working and teaching in both Arts and Sciences and Epidemiology and Public Health. She is a product of interdisciplinarity, having returned to education to study demography, epidemiology and public health (MSc and PhD) after previously studying history, English and postcolonial studies in her BA and MA. She previously spent a decade working in museums, material culture, and media archives and management. Her considerable experience spent outside of the bubble of academia is very important to her as an educator, driving her interest in helping students develop practical skills for their future success outside of a classroom.
Her research interests combine approaches from social epidemiology, demography, and sociology to investigate health and child development. She is particularly interested in family relationships, social inequalities in health, family structures, and implications for family well-being and child development. Her work combines sociological theories with quantitative techniques to analyse birth cohort and panel studies in the UK.
Dr. Bryan Brazeau is Reader and Head of Liberal Arts at the University of Warwick, where he teaches a range of interdisciplinary modules on subjects as vast as online disinformation, underworlds and paradises in the cultural imaginary, exile and homecoming, and two onsite modules in Venice focussing on Sustainability and on the rich traditions of Venetian Resistance and Resilience. His research focusses on early modern Italian literature (Jacopo Sannazaro and Torquato Tasso), philosophy, and poetic theory. He also studies Dante and medieval philosophy, book history, the intersections of Spanish and Italian early modern literary cultures (Cervantes) and the visual reception of Renaissance art in the early twentieth century. He is writing a monograph on the Renaissance poet Lucrezia Marinella and is the editor of The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in Criticism (London, 2020). He is passionate about Liberal Arts education, interdisciplinary thinking, teaching, and research, and innovative student-centred pedagogies.
Ms. Olivia Brown is a 3rd Year Liberal Arts Student from the University of Warwick, Currently on a Study Abroad year at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has a specialist interest in anthropology and archaeology particularly in the Medieval and Renaissance period but is hoping to integrate this into her passion for social activism and international governance.
Dr. Veronica Bremer is a research associate, lecturer, and advisor at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She has a background in art history and is interested in 20th century and contemporary art. Her post-doctoral project explores transformative pedagogy through visual and experiential learning. Her research has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Research, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, and the Claussen Simon Stiftung."
Dr. Andrew Brogan is a lecturer and advisor in Studium Individuale at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His background is in politics and education, with a PhD exploring anarchist theory and practice in his own teaching in universities. After holding positions in both politics and education departments in the UK, Andrew joined Studium Individuale in October 2022. Enjoying the flexibility the Studium Individuale programme provides for staff and students alike, he continues to experiment with his pedagogy in combination with his research work focussing on anarchism, critical pedagogy, and resistance. He teaches on the Studium Individuale core modules, ‘Freedom and the Transformation of Modern Europe’, and ‘Analysing Contemporary Societies’."
Ms. Megan Carolan is a first-year student currently studying Design and Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include topics surrounding wildlife and its conservation, and environmental initiatives. She enjoys researching about technical advancements and designs that can actually be used for solving our environmental issues, or purely innovative designs that she can use as inspiration. She also has interests in biological sciences, and hopes to further her studies in this area. She is committed to remaining curious, open, and informed.Her career ambitions generally relate to design, whether that be landscape design, architecture, branding, some sort of environmental design, fashion or interior design. She also hopes to develop creative writing projects in the future and looks forward to pursuing a career that will enable her to travel and explore the world.
Dr. Jarrett A. Carty is a Professor and the Principal of the Liberal Arts College at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, where he teaches in both the first and second year Political and Philosophical Foundations courses and the History of Science courses. His specialty is the early modern period in political thought, concentrating on Martin Luther, the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the late middle ages, and early-modern science. Jarrett also has a wide range of academic interests, including ancient Greek philosophy, the Enlightenment, the American Founding, and the history of astronomy.
Ms. Esme Hide is a third-year Liberal Arts student at the University of Warwick, presently undertaking a study abroad at Leiden University College, The Hague. In particular, her studies focus on international justice, environmental law, climate politics, and journalism. She is keen to work in a sector influencing sustainable global change.
Mr. Joey Kay is a final year Global Sustainable Development student at the University of Warwick, who has been passionate about sustainability for a long time now. In particular, he enjoys critiquing the fundamental flaws with the current global system and looking what an alternative and more functional system might look like. Throughout his studies he has also taken a strong interest in mental health.
Mr. Stuart Kirk is an environmental scientist and policy advisor with over 35 years of experience. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Environmental Science and is a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager and a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. His career includes roles within government and its environmental agencies, international consultancy, and the UK water industry. Now working as an independent science advisor, Stuart was, until February 2023, a Lead Scientist in the Chief Scientist's Group of the Environment Agency (England) and a former 'National Seconded Expert' to the Chief Scientists Group of the European Commission (SAM Unit). In these roles, he led research and advised policymakers mostly on sustainability challenges and alternative futures. Previously, Stuart lectured on environmental issues at The University of Bristol and AgroParisTech (Montpellier). He is currently involved with various ‘think tanks’, research groups, European projects, and consultancies. His interests include sustainability transitions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and science communications.
Dr. Anthony Kola-Olusanya is a Professor of Environmental Sustainability at the Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute (GASDI) and Department of Environmental Education, Osun State University, where he teaches in both the postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic, Research, Innovation, and Partnerships at Osun State University from 2020 to 2024. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Toronto. Anthony has authored one book, co-edited three, and published widely in academic journals. He is a member of several professional organisations, including the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC), and the Nigerian Environmental Society (NES). He is a Senior Associate Expert at the African Policy Group (APG) and the Centre for Human Security and Development (CSD). He is also a non-executive Deputy Director at the UNESCO Institute for African Culture and International Understanding (IACIU). He is a Fellow of the Africa Circular Economy Research and Policy Network.
Dr. Elena Korostoleva is Professor of Politics and Global Sustainable Development, and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) at the University of Warwick. In April 2024 Elena was appointed Chair for the Sustainability Spotlight, Warwick-wide interdisciplinary research-focussed network to address planetary challenges collectively; and in July 2024 she was elected to be a member of the Scientific Council for COP29. Elena is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and Jean Monnet Chair, which she was awarded twice by the European Commission in recognition of her research and teaching excellence. Before joining IGSD in 2022, Elena was Professor of International Politics and a founder of the Global Europe Centre (Professional Studies) at the University of Kent for ten years. Prior to that Elena worked as Senior Lecturer in International Politics, and Founder/Director of the Centre for European Studies at Aberystwyth University.
Dr. Milan Kovačević holds a PhD in higher education and labour market studies from Maastricht University, where his research focused on the skill development and university-to-work transition of Dutch university college graduates. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Novi Sad, and completed a master’s degree in interdisciplinary social science (Global Markets, Local Creativities) as an Erasmus Mundus scholar, studying at the University of Glasgow, the University of Barcelona, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests include educational innovation, skill development, learning progress evaluation, interdisciplinary education, 21st-century skills, and the future of work.
Ms. Xander McGregor is a second Year Liberal Arts with English student from the University of Warwick with an interest in video games and how the playing thereof affects players. Their studies currently focus on the concept of translation, both of mediums and languages, and how it can both build and shape communities.
Dr. Rachel Moseley is Vice Provost, Chair of the Faculty of Arts, and Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, where she also serves as PhD Admissions Tutor. She is co-founder of The Centre for Television Histories and collaborated with Dr Helen Wheatley on the recent, highly successful exhibition 'The Story of Children's Television, 1946 to Today' at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry. She was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989’, running between Warwick and De Montfort University, 2010-2014, with Investigators Helen Wheatley (Warwick) and Helen Wood (Leicester University). The project brought together archival and audience research methods in order to map this untold history and explore women viewers’ memories of the television that has been addressed to them.
Ms. Nikita Nagda is a first-year student studying Design and Global Sustainable Development at Warwick. She plans to focus on market research and consumer research, branding, and the architectural side of social design while creating a sustainable future. She hopes to become a skilled UX designer/ product designer that can lead a creative team.
Dr. Josh Patel is a Researcher at the Edge Foundation, where he explores the relationship between further and higher education, the emergence of new institutions, and the historical development of tertiary education policy. He completed a PhD in History at the University of Warwick, examining the post-war expansion of British higher education, and was previously an Early Career Fellows at Warwick’s Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. Josh has published across academic and policy platforms, and his forthcoming book with Routledge interrogates the evolving purposes of higher education in liberal societies.
Dr. Jessica Riddell is a Full Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bishop’s University and holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. As founder of the Hope Circuits Institute (HCI), she drives systems-change in higher education, focusing on governance, leadership, and student success. In a landscape rife with indictments of broken systems, her work invites people across the post-secondary ecosystem to co-create blueprints for meaningful rewiring that centers justice, equity, and access. Her 2024 book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing (McGill-Queen's Press), offers a roadmap for this transformation. A recognized leader, scholar, and educator, she serves on multiple boards and has received numerous awards and grants for teaching and leadership, including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (Canada's highest recognition of educational leadership), the D2L Innovation Award (the highest recognition of innovation in partnerships), and the Forces Avenir award (Quebec's highest recognition of teaching excellence in higher education).
Dr. William Rupp is
Associate Professor and incoming head of Warwick Liberal Arts. He has studied at the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Warwick. An historian by training, William’s current research and teaching interests seek to draw in transdisciplinary approaches to understand a range of complex issues including pedagogy, travel and identity, and Britain in the eighteenth century. To this end, he has worked to draw in human experiences, particularly of identity creation and relationships to space, and how these can inform our approaches to solving complicated global problems. He co-edited
Globalization in Practice (2014) and has been assistant editor and website editor for
The European World, 1500-1800:
An Introduction to Early Modern History (2009, 2014, 2018, 2023).
Dr. Simon Scott is Associate Professor and programme lead for the new BASc Arts and Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He also runs the university’s Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Education Group. He has led on the Liberal Arts and Natural Science’s interdisciplinary core curricula since joining in 2017. Previously, he taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research interests are in teaching interdisciplinarity, the nature of integration, as well as Continental Philosophy. He is co-editing the article collection ‘Practice-Based Research of Interdisciplinary Higher Education’ for the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications of Springer Nature with Ida Kemp, Catherine Lyall, and Iris van der Tuin. He is also co-editing a book on Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Pedagogies and Practice, which is published in November 2025.
Ms Lily Taylor is a second year Liberal Arts with English student at the University of Warwick. In particular, she focuses her studies on the intersection between literature and its cultural and societal contexts. She hopes to continue her studies into the multidisciplinary aspects of art and society.
Dr. Jane Webb is Head of the School for Cross-Faculty Studies at the University of Warwick. The process of visual and material practice form an important part of her research methodologies. She works with makers and making, archives, historical geographies and collections of dress and other objects to imaginatively explore individual histories of personal experience. She is a passionate teacher and for over twenty years has taught material culture and creative thinking to designers, artists and art and design historians. She was Director of Studies at Manchester School of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University) for the Design Department and has come to Warwick from her role as Deputy Head of Wolverhampton School of Art, University of Wolverhampton.
Mr. Zeeshan Yousuf is a first-year student on Warwick’s Design and Global Sustainable Development degree, with a background in technology and product development. He previously studied at Warwick’s School of Engineering and has experience co-developing innovative tech accessories. Through his current studies, he is pivoting towards exploring how design mediums and languages - graphics, film, interactive systems, and product form - can be unified into holistic narratives that promote togetherness, joy, and cooperation. His research interests lie in sustainable design futures, emotionally durable aesthetics, and the power of visual storytelling to bring people together. He is passionate about design across disciplines, with a strong appreciation for high-quality, precision-driven innovation. His long-term ambition is to lead innovative design projects that challenge the norms of consumerism and create timeless experiences that are sustainable, human-centred, and emotionally resonant..
