Imagining our futures

Jane Gleeson-White is the author of four books, including Double Entry (2011), the internationally acclaimed history of accounting, and its sequel, Six Capitals (2014). Her writing on economics, sustainability and literature has appeared widely, including in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bloomberg and Sydney Review of Books. She is a visiting fellow at UNSW Canberra

Bronwen Morgan joined the UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice School as a Professor of Law in October 2012, after seven years as Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, and six years at the University of Oxford. Her research explores creative ways of reimagining the economy to respond to contemporary challenges, including innovative ways of sharing the ownership and governance of digital platforms, and distributed participatory approaches to providing important infrastructure such as energy, food and water. She is also co-founder of the New Economy Network of Australia.

Amelia Thorpe is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She works in the areas of planning, property and local government law, legal geography and urban studies. Her research centres on frameworks for decision-making in contemporary cities – who gets to have a say, and how – and the ways in which those frameworks might contribute to social and environmental justice. In her recent book, Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property, Amelia explores how local, personal, and materially grounded understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.

Ashley Hay is the editor of Griffith Review, a former literary editor of The Bulletin, and a prize-winning author who has published three novels and four books of narrative non-fiction.

Her work has won several awards, including the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People’s Choice Award in the 2014 NSW Premier’s Prize. In 2014, she edited the anthology Best Australian Science Writing. She has also been longlisted for the Miles Franklin and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for prizes including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Kibble.