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Alice Naisbitt, A New Pattern Has Emerged’: the British Council’s Transnational Science in the Post-Colonial Era
Alice Naisbitt is a doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester. Her research explores how the British Council, a non-state ‘soft power’ organisation, utilised strategies amounting to ‘science diplomacy’ in the pursuit of particular post-colonial and Cold War objectives and policies.
Gabriella Rago, Fusion Valley: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the territories (2006-2012)
Gabriella is a PhD candidate at the University of Turin. Her research looks at the history of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) since the end of the Cold War.