Dr Eric L. Hsu is an Australian-based social scientist who specializes in the sociology of sleep, the sociology of time, the social analysis of automation and robotics, and the social theory of disasters and globalization. His work has appeared in leading international journals such as in Sociology, and Technology in Society. He is editor, most recently, of a 4-volume major works series set on Sleep: Critical Concepts in Sociology (Routledge, 2017). An article of his appearing in the flagship journal of the British Sociological Association was shortlisted for the 2018 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.

Dr Hsu is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Justice & Society Academic Unit at the University of South Australia, where he also serves as a Research Platform Leader at the UniSA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Dr Louis Everuss is a Research Associate and Coordinator at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of South Australia, where he also teaches across the sociology program. Dr Everuss’ primary research interests are located in the sociological study of mobilities, sovereignty, migration, globalization, political and media communication and climate change. His work has studied how systems of mobility are incorporated into representations of sovereign outsiders, and how public opinions of climate change are impacted by national context. His work has been published in Political Geography the Journal of Sociology, Applied Mobilities, Borderlands e-journal and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.