Iside Costantini Editor

Louise Dalingwater is full professor of British politics at Sorbonne Université. Her current research focuses on health policy, healthcare delivery and wellbeing in the United Kingdom, with some comparative research on European health systems (notably, France) and global health policy research. Her recent publications include a book on the UK service economy, a monograph on the NHS and several book chapters and articles on wellbeing and health. She has co-edited two publications on wellbeing: Wellbeing: Challenging the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017) and Wellbeing: Political Discourse and Policy in the Anglosphere (Papers in Political Economy, 2019). She is part of the Precision Health network (an international research project led by the Universities of Lund and Malmo in Sweden). She is also Chair of the Health Wellness and Society research network based in Illinois, United States.

Iside Costantini is an associate professor in British Politics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris. She completed a PhD in 2009 on 19th century exchanges between Great Britain and South China (Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai). She has an interest in Sino-British relations from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including comparative approaches in wellbeing policies. She had contributed a chapter, “Confucianism Promoted as an Alternative to the Anglo-Saxon Social-Cultural Model” in Wellbeing - Challenging the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017) and has coedited an online volume Wellbeing: Political Discourse and Policy in the Anglosphere (Papers in Political Economy, 2019). 

Vanessa Boullet is an associate professor at the University of Lorraine. Her research focuses on Irish studies, and on the interactions between economy, society and politics. Her thesis entitled "Planning in Ireland (1958-1972), methodologies and mythology of economic modernisation" was awarded the Prix Richelieu by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris in 2009. She is interested in the impact of multinationals on the Irish economy and its uneven development. She also tries to develop research in business and foreign languages departments in France and she is a member of the editorial board of the journal Revue International des Langues Appliquées Etrangères.

Paul Gibbs is Emeritus Professor of Middlesex University and founder of the Centre for Education Research and Scholarship, visiting professor at UTS Sydney and Azerbaijan and East European Universities. He is a fellow of ATLAS (Texas University) and of the Centre for Higher Education Policy, New College Oxford. He is an educator and researcher, having taught notions of transdisciplinarity alongside social realism and Heideggerian hermeneutics, and has over thirty successful transdisciplinary professional doctorate students. He has published over twenty peer reviewed books on topics ranging from the marketing of higher education to vocationalism and higher education, and has published more than one hundred academic articles and chapters. He is also the series editor of Springer Briefs on Key Thinkers in Education.