Thomas Walker holds a BSc in Management Information Systems from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and an MBA and Ph D degree in Finance from Washington State University. Prior to his academic career, he worked for several years in the German consulting and industrial sector at such firms as Mercedes Benz, Utility Consultants International, Lahmeyer International, Telenet, and KPMG Peat Marwick. His research interests are in emerging risk management, corporate finance, venture capital, sustainability & climate change, fintech, corporate governance, securities regulation and litigation, insider trading, and institutional ownership, and he has published over 70 articles, book chapters, and edited books in these areas.
Jane Mc Gaughey is the Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies (2021-26). She joined the School of Irish Studies at Concordia in 2012 as the Assistant Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies. She completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2008. Her first book, Ulster“s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 was published by Mc Gill-Queen“s University Press in 2012. She was a co-editor of
Ireland and Masculinities in History (Palgrave, 2019). Her second monograph,
Violent Loyalties: Manliness, Migration, and the Irish in Canadas, 1798-1841, was published with Liverpool University Press in 2020. She has been the principal investigator on research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Fonds de Recherche Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ireland Canada University Foundation.
Gabrielle Kathleen Machnik-Kekesi holds an Individualized Program master’s degree from Concordia University (Gender Studies and Modern Irish History), which was funded by both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Fonds de recherche du Québec en Société et Culture, and a master’s in Information Studies from Mc Gill University (Archival Studies focus). Her research interests include the Irish Revolution, sustainability, food history, and cultural heritage. Gabrielle was awarded a Hardiman Research Scholarship at NUI Galway and is conducting her Ph D research under the supervision of Dr Nessa Cronin.
Victoria Kelly holds a BSc in Biology with an additional major in Irish Studies. She has worked with the Emerging Risks Information Center at Concordia University since 2020, where she has been involved in numerous book projects and research papers in the area of sustainability, climate change, and with management. She plans to continue her studies with an independent master’s degree examining the 1832 Cholera epidemic in Montreal and its management on a social, urban, economic, and medical level, drawing parallels with the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
5 Ebooks von Victoria Kelly
Thomas Walker & Jane McGaughey: Environmental Migration in the Face of Emerging Risks
This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisi …
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€139.09
Thomas Walker & Sergey Barabanov: Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Sector
The push for sustainability in the oil and gas sector has taken center stage in both climate action debates and mitigation/adaptation efforts in recent decades. As the global mission for sustainable …
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Englisch
€160.49
Thomas Walker & Ender Demir: Sustainable Tourism
This edited volume aims to ignite an academic discussion regarding necessary, and urgent, adaption and mitigation strategies for the tourism industry. Now more than ever, there is a need for designin …
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Englisch
€171.19
Victoria Kelly: Homefront
Inspired by Victoria Kelly’s experiences as the wife of a fighter pilot during three wartime deployments, this collection follows women whose lives have been impacted by war and military service as t …
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DRM
€28.30