Ann Vogel is a sociologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, USA, and a science-management degree from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany. Her most recent work is Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism: The Experience-Makers (2023). In her current position she advances research in police and administrative sciences.
Alan Shipman is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. He studied Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Oxford, UK, working at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and as a financial analyst and business journalist before joining the Open University, UK. His most recent monograph is Wynne Godley: A Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).