Contributors

Get a New Resolve:
Frances Wells

Frances Wells has worked in the fields of environment and sustainability for the past 17 years - promoting ideas and partnerships, advising on strategies, writing and presenting to a wide range of audiences. Her company specialises in advising organisations about how to be more successful by being more sustainable.

What is Art:
Sandra Szasz

Sandra Szasz is an artist and freelance writer: her production has been prolific, from prints and drawings to artists’ books, image projections, sound and installation.The subject matter of her artworks has always been related to the exploration of the inner self, through different means of expression depicting her surroundings (cityscapes, landscapes and natural phenomena) as well as herself and others (self portraits and portraits). The variety of media she has exploited responds to her search of the inherent characteristic of the materials she uses by means of reinforcing the meaning of the discourse conveyed in the artwork. Her writings also form an important set of work, mainly relating to her creative work although she has produced some poetry and fiction work as well.

Cinema Reviews:
Ken Lovesy

Ken Lovesy is a freelance writer with a special interest in film. In the past, you may have spotted him under assumed identities living in Jamaica and Cyprus. He was last seen 6 months ago in Reading …

Tubular Vision and Mt H’s Encyclopedia:
William Hartston

Property Beyond the Grave & Wintery Reads & Love Bus article:
Warwick Yolks

Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He received his M. A. and Ph.D. (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities. His interests are artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief, and his recent books include: Artificial Believers, Electric Words, and Machine Conversations (Kluwer, 2001).

Churchillian Food:
Miss Honey

In On The act both articles:
Jackie Keirs

Jackie Keirs is a Theatre and Dance Director and Choreographer, who founded the Oxford Dance Theatre Jackie’s next production is of Starvinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford, in May 2008. Long, long ago, Jackie choreographed a university production of Dr Faustus starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton …

Look Out!:
Alison Honey

Alison Honey is a freelance writer with a background in art and architectural history.

Love and Sex with Robots:
David Levy

David Levy is the author of Love and Sex with Robots and Robots Unlimited. He is also a founding partner of a company that will be offering puzzles in iON Oxford Tube and for publication via all forms of media.

Shed Days:
Carolyn Dutton

Carolyn Dutton lives in Oxford and is a keen amateur gardener who tends a large fruit and vegetable allotment on one of Oxford’s most beautiful sites.

Music:
Vera Bird & Richard Dutton

Richard Dutton is a freelance music writer and professional jazz pianist.

Antarctica:
Sue and Hamish Lumsden

Writing Childhood:
Sam Silkstone

Mivlos:
Oli Mival

Dr Oli Mival has bounced around somewhat. In his various incarnations he has been a technology consultant for IBM, Nokia and Orange; a script-writer for radio and television; a video game designer for PlayTech and EA; a self-unemployed film maker and a semi-professional poker player (that’s one that never wins). Currently he’s a Senior Research Fellow in Napier University’s Centre for Interaction Design and spends his time exploring people’s reactions, fears and love of technology.

Dining with Destiny & iON The Table & Pullman’s Oxford:
Fiona Ross

Gastro-detective Fiona Ross is a freelance writer. Like most adults, Fiona leads a double-life: her (damnably attractive) double works as a gastro-detective whose headquarters is the famous Bodleian Library; she spends her time there pondering what sandwich filling she would prefer for lunch when she is not hot on the trail of a famous or infamous gastronome. Her set of cookery books, Dining with Destiny, were the result of just such weighty thoughts – oh, and a take on history which means she can never recall anything boring like the date of a war but can always be counted upon to remember how much jam Marx liked on his tarts. Time will tell which is the more important.

Letter from St Petersburg:
Tom Clark

iON the World:
Emma Davson

Master Your inner Critic:
Melanie Greene

iON Words:
Partick Hanks

Patrick Hanks is a writer and lexicographer. He was chief editor of the best-selling New Oxford Dictionary of English. He has also compiled a huge 3-volume dictionaries of family names and some smaller dictionaries of first names.

iON Filings:
Harold Carter

Harold Carter is currently a Fellow of St John’s College. He has been a community activist, a banker, a political spin-doctor and a pollster, a strategy consultant for leading UK, French and US companies. He is currently researching the recent past, and problematic future, of England’s cities.

Market? Crash! Why Market Crashes should not surprise us!:
Chris Blake

Christopher Blake has at various points been an accountant, CEO of an international publishing company, dot.com entrepreneur, investment director of a private equity firm, fundraiser and private investor in small and early stage companies, lecturer and occasionally, a recreational poker player. His book The Art of Decisions: How to Manage in an Uncertain World (Financial Times Series) came out in 2007.