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Dr Anastasia Hronis
Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Anastasia Hronis is a clinical psychologist, concert pianist, and lecturer. Anastasia works across both clinical practice and academia. Her main areas of research are in addictions, gambling, and intellectual disabilities. She is the founder of the Australian Institute for Human Wellness.
Dr Anastasia Hronis' book with Penguin Random House publishing will be available from September 2024, which is all about unpacking the neuroscience behind dopamine and forming healthy habits.
Anastasia completed a Bachelor of Psychology with First Class Honours at the University of Sydney and a Master of Clinical Psychology degree at the University of Technology Sydney. She has completed her PhD in the area of mental health treatments for children with disabilities.
As a concert pianist, she has performed as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House seven times, as well as having performed at Carnegie Hall, New York.
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Dr Cheyann Heap
Research Associate, Community-Enhanced Social Prescribing, University of York
I'm a mental health researcher with a focus on social and community approaches. My background is as an NHS clinical psychologist. I have experience in volunteering and charity fundraising, journalism, teaching and training, public speaking and service development. My doctoral dissertation was on personhood in dementia care. I maintain an interest in relationships and social equality, and have also used my psychology training in international development and human rights-based projects.
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Dr Chris McCarthy
Research Fellow, Rehabilitation, Manchester Metropolitan University
Chartered Physiotherapist and Research Fellow within the Manchester School of Physiotherapy. Chair of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists.
Chartered Physiotherapist since 1989. PGD in Manipulative Therapy and PGD in Biomechanics followed by PhD (Medicine) in 2001. Assistant Professor in Rehabilitation with expertise in the rehabilitation of osteoarthritis and the diagnosis of spinal pain. Awarded Fellowship of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in 2010 and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 2011.
International lecturer and author of "Combined Movement Theory: A Rational Approach to Manipulation and Mobilisation of the Vertebral Column, Elsevier Health Sciences 2010. ISBN: 978-0-443-06857-7
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist in the University and Private Sectors
Chair of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists.
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Dr Fiorentina Sterkaj
Director of the Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Psychology, University of East London
I am a senior academic with over 17 years’ experience across 3 higher education institutions. I hold a Doctorate and a BSc Honours in Psychology and a Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. I have extensive training and experience in managing and leading change and have won several awards for student experience and leadership.
Areas of interest:
Pedagogical research with a focus on making a difference to student learning and improving student experience in HE
Problem-based learning and student engagement
Improving mood and student wellbeing and reducing study-related stress
Mental Health and Well-being, Mindfulness, Memory and Forgetting with a particular focus on Retrieval Induced Forgetting and Mood.
Cognitive neuropsychology and psychopharmacology of memory in clinical populations: executive functioning, cognitive deficits associated with depression and schizophrenia.
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Dr Jane Tiller
Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser - Public Health Genomics, Monash University
Jane Tiller (PhD/MGenCouns/LLB(Hons)/BSc) is a lawyer, genetic counsellor and public health researcher. She has a background in corporate law and a keen interest in the regulatory and ethical aspects of genomics. Jane is the Ethical, Legal and Social Adviser in Public Health Genomics at Monash University, and Senior Project Coordinator at Australian Genomics
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Dr Mohamed Shaheen
Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Loughborough University
Prior to joining Loughborough, Mohamed studied for a PhD at Manchester University, an MSc from Al-Azhar University in Egypt, an MEng from Grips University in Japan, and a DipEng from the IISEE institute in Japan. Mohamed also has more than 7 years of industry experience as a structural design engineer working with international construction organisations.
Mohamed's research interests are related to the response of steel and composite structures to focusing on the areas of structural fire engineering, structural earthquake engineering robustness, with particular expertise in the areas of experimental testing as well as computational modelling.
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Dr Nitasha Kaul
Reader (Associate Professor), School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster
Dr Nitasha Kaul (BA Economics Honours, SRCC, University of Delhi; MSc (Economics) with a specialisation in Public Policy and a Joint PhD Economics & Philosophy, University of Hull) is a widely-travelled multidisciplinary academic, award-winning novelist, and media commentator. Her interventions on politics, democracy, and human rights have appeared in major international radio, televisual, and print media including BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, DW, France 24, The Guardian, and The Independent. She has wide recognition as a public intellectual, having delivered invited lectures and keynotes at institutions around the world, addressing diverse audiences, including U.S. Congress, U.N, and European Parliament.
She is Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics and International Relations and Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster, London. She has previously been an Associate Professor in Creative Writing in Bhutan and a tenured Assistant Professor in Economics at the Bristol Business School.Her work, over the last two decades, has been on identity, democracy, political economy, technology/AI, Hindu nationalism, rise of the global right, feminist and postcolonial critiques, small states and Himalayan geopolitics, Hindu nationalism, Kashmir, Kerala, and Bhutan.
She is the recipient of multiple research grants and awards for her research, writing, and activism. She is the author of over 145 publications, including 7 single-authored or edited scholarly and literary books, book chapters in numerous critical and ground-breaking edited collections, plus peer-reviewed original research articles in numerous journals across humanities and social science disciplines. Her books include Imagining Economics Otherwise (Routledge, 2007), and political fiction telling the stories of conflict and identity, such as her novel Future Tense (Harper Collins, 2020) and the Man-Asian Literary Prize shortlisted novel Residue (Rainlight, 2014) that was the first novel in English by a Kashmiri woman author. A focus on creating knowledge narratives to raise critical consciousness to build resilient democracies and lift the voices and views that are marginalised resonates through all her work; she highlights the need for social justice and human rights internationally and acts to combat prejudice and challenge the politics of hate.
Across disciplines, geographies, and over the years, the themes that motivate her work are as follows: the need to foreground and critically analyse -- institutions and systematisations of knowledge trajectories (and their link to systems of oppression, discourses of legitimisation, and narratives of dispossession); indigenisations of political expression; the use of memory as a resource; and the understanding of identities as they travel through the disciplining processes of territory and time.
See https://twitter.com/NitashaKaul and
https://westminster.academia.edu/NitashaKaul/CurriculumVitae
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Dr Punita Chowbey
Senior research fellow, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Punita Chowbey is a senior research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University. Research interests include household economies; economic abuse; food practices; parenting; women's employment; and gender and ethnic inequalities in health. Her research focuses on the South Asian population in the UK and in South Asia, particularly India.
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Dr Rachael Potter
Research Fellow, University of South Australia
Dr Rachael Potter is a Research Fellow at the Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory within Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. She is an experienced researcher, analyst, and communicator with a variety of specialist areas of inquiry such as work stress, national policy, digital communication management and gender equality. She is an ‘outward-facing’ academic whose work cuts across the disciplines of psychology, work health and safety, public health, and law. Rachael’s methodological stance is that research should give a voice to members in society and enact tangible and beneficial change. In alignment with this ethos, her unique contribution to academe is that she advocates for workers by focusing on the broader ecological system in which they operate. This expands knowledge beyond the work design and organisational perspective to incorporate the surrounding policy context, thereby striving to change systems and wide-ranging behaviour. Rachael’s work has been cited in national and international documents that put forward policy changes to improve worker health and safety and she has presented at numerous international conferences.
She is an active team member on a five-year project (2020 – 2025) at the Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory (PSC-GO) called ‘Mind the Worker: Transformative Change for a Human-Centered Corporate Climate’ led by distinguished Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor Maureen Dollard. Rachael is currently leading the 2023 national review into workplace discrimination for pregnant persons, those on parental leave and parents returning to work, as well as the Australian Work Addiction project.
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Dr Rachel Hennessy
Lecturer in Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Dr Rachel Hennessy is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. She is the award winning author of five novels: The Quakers (2008), The Heaven I Swallowed (2013), River Stone (2019), Mountain Arrow (2020), and City Knife (2023). Rachel has strong experience as both a published author and a creative writing academic. She has been awarded grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, Flinders University and the University of Melbourne and has a building reputation as a critical researcher in climate fiction, posthumanism and creative writing pedagogy.
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Dr Sameera Mahomedy
Researcher in Law and Policy, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Sameera Mahomedy holds an LLB, an LLM (cum laude) and an LLD from the University of Stellenbosch. Her areas of interest include health promotion and constitutional law. She has lectured advanced Constitutional Law, Legal Philosophy and advanced Legal Philosophy at Stellenbosch University. She is also a Fellow of the Ubuntu Dialogues, which is hosted by Stellenbosch University and Michigan University. She is currently a researcher in law and policy at the SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA.
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Dr Sarah Lothian
Lecturer and Academic Barrister, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
I am a Lecturer and Academic Barrister at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong.
I decided to embark upon a career in Academia after spending 12+ years in the legal profession. During my legal career I always endeavoured to build upon my academic credentials. In many ways, I enjoyed law school so much I never wanted to leave.
I completed my undergraduate studies in Arts and Law at the University of Sydney in 2008 and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia. Whilst working full time as a Solicitor in a busy boutique Sydney law firm, I completed my Masters in Family Law at the College of Law Sydney in 2012. After being called to the Bar of New South Wales in 2013 I decided to continue my studies. In 2016, I completed my Masters in Maritime Law at the University of Nottingham (With Distinction) and was awarded the School of Law’s Best Graduating Masters Student of 2016.
After successfully defending my PhD in law at the University of Sydney in November 2020 I secured a position as Lecturer at ANCORS. In this role, I draw upon my experience as a legal practitioner. I remain an active member of the New South Wales Bar and I am also admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
At ANCORS, I convene the Masters course on Maritime Regulation and Enforcement, and teach into a range of courses on law of the sea and other oceans governance issues. I also co-supervise Masters and PhD research projects in these areas.
My research focuses on the development of a new Implementing Agreement to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which will be dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). My research concerns each of the four elements of the BBNJ package deal including marine genetic resources, area-based management tools (marine protected areas), environmental impact assessments, capacity-building and marine technology transfer.
My recent book, Marine Conservation and International Law: Legal Instruments for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (Routledge, 2022) provides a blueprint for an International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. The development of an ILBI could signify a pivotal turning point in the law of the sea by addressing regulatory, governance and institutional gaps and deficiencies in the existing international law framework for BBNJ.
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Dr Wendy Liu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Environment and Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland
Wendy has a background in environment management and planning. Her research works have spanned sustainability, housing provision, policy/plan outcome evaluation, and their interactions with or impacts on social-spatial equity and/or well-being. She enjoys multi-disciplinary research using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, often in combination with stakeholder engagements and interviews. Her current research interests include science-policy interface and brokerage, policy actors’ perceptions of risks and decision-making of environmental and health challenges, including cancer-causing substances in the environment.
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Dr Yukteshwar Kumar
Course Director, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath
Dr. Yukteshwar Kumar, a distinguished sinologist and Senior Academic, currently serves as the Course Director of the Chinese stream at the University of Bath. Beyond his academic contributions, Dr. Kumar has made history as the first Asian Deputy Mayor of Bath, showcasing his dedication to bringing about meaningful change. Additionally, he holds the distinction of being the first individual of Indian heritage elected as a councillor in the city of Bath, UK.
With over 31 years of experience in the Higher Education field, including at Tianjin, Beijing, Changsha, Santiniketan, Delhi University, and JNU in India, Dr. Kumar is a recognized expert on China affairs. He has been a Nehru Fellow at Peking University and has received numerous awards, scholarships, and honors. Fluent in Chinese, English, Hindi, and Bengali, he recently translated a book from Chinese into English, Hindi, and Bengali. Dr. Kumar has actively contributed to electronic and print media, authoring numerous articles, book chapters, and research papers.
In recognition of his influential contributions, Dr. Yukteshwar Kumar was chosen as the most influential person in the city by the Bath Chronicle in 2020. His impact extends to philanthropy, as evidenced by the establishment of a library in his name in Bihar in November 2023.
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Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui
Postdoctoral Climate Crisis Research Fellow, University of Canterbury
Dalila Gharbaoui, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury part of the Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dalila holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Liege (Hugo Observatory on Environment, Migration and Politics) and a Ph.D. in Pacific studies from the University of Canterbury with the support of the Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden. Dalila’s PhD thesis focused on climate change, planned relocation, and land governance in the Pacific region. She authored numerous research works related to climate change, adaptation and (im)mobility in the Pacific region, Africa, and Europe. Dalila has actively participated in various international, national, and regional discussions on human mobility, resilience and climate change, providing her expertise on topics such as community retreat, planned relocation, including at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Previously, Dalila worked as a researcher in policy and research teams and as consultant for organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), International Crisis Group and Amnesty International.
Research profile:
https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Dalila-Gharbaoui
https://www.hugo.uliege.be/cms/c_4870327/en/hugo-dalila-gharbaoui
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Dr. John Fox
Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
Dr John Fox is a senior lecturer and doctoral supervisor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, UK, where he teaches students at all levels in the subjects of criminology, criminal justice and policing studies. His main research interests include police investigation, homicide and police occupational culture.
MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice - University of Surrey
PhD Sociology/criminology - University of Surrey
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Dr. Louise Boronyak
Research Affiliate, University of Technology Sydney
Louise is a Wildlife Campaigner with Humane Society International Australia. She is a wildlife coexistence advocate and researcher with a passion for wildlife conservation, welfare and environmental justice. In her research she identifies holistic, compassionate and integrative approaches to coexist with wildlife and support local communities. Her interdisciplinary research spans social science, natural resource management, climate adaptation, animal welfare and conservation sciences.
Louise completed her doctorate in 2022. Her thesis explores the critical issue of human-animal coexistence with a focus on human and large carnivore interactions in production landscapes in the United States, South Africa and Australia. Her research aims to inform innovative government policies and practices and document evidence-based solutions that increase the resilience of landscapes, livestock and livelihoods while simultaneously conserving carnivores. This work illustrates the essential pathways to transform the paradigm from conflict towards coexistence that is both feasible and beneficial for people, animals and agricultural enterprises.
Louise is an associate of the University of Technology Sydney where she worked for 14 years on sustainability issues such as biodiversity conservation, wildlife management, climate change adaptation and natural resources. She was a co-founder of the world's first Centre for Compassionate Conservation (CfCC) where she explored ways to reduce threats to wildlife from human intolerance in production landscapes and from emerging diseases.
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Drew Cingel
Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, Davis
Drew Cingel studies the interaction between human development and media effects. He is particularly interested in understanding how facets of child and adolescent development influence media choice and the effects of exposure to media. He has worked with different media companies, such as Common Sense Media, and primarily uses experimental and survey methodologies. He addresses these questions of interest through research in his lab, a naturalistic, living room setting equipped with traditional and new media technologies.
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Drew Dawson
Director, Appleton Institute, CQUniversity Australia
Drew established the sleep research group at the University of Adelaide in 1992. In recent years Drew has broadened his research interests to include safety science, applied psychology, human factors and safety management systems, and cultural anthropology. Having built a broad multidisciplinary team, Drew formed the Appleton Institute in January 2012.
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Drew Kassel
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Drew comes from the north, i.e., Wisconsin. He grew up in Milwaukee and graduated high school in 2017. He moved out to Madison for undergraduate studies and then graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Science in mechanical engineering. During his undergrad years, he began his research career as an undergrad assistant in a lab that studied fluid dynamics and the heat transfer properties of two-phase flow. Once graduated, he moved to Austin in the summer of 2021 to begin working toward a Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin within the Webber Energy Group. Drew’s research interests are in big picture energy systems and cleaning up the power grid. Currently, he is researching grid resilience scenarios in extreme weather events by studying what efforts are needed to prepare for increasingly probable extreme weather. The methods involved in this research are robust capacity expansion models of the ERCOT power grid infrastructure that can be modified to explore specific resilience plans. These plans typically involve grid interconnections, distributed energy resources, and storage options at utility and distributed scales. Ultimately, Drew will study the interactions between these three options on a case by case basis to determine what combinations of them might work in practice.
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Drew Shindell
Drew Shindell is a Professor of Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. From 1995 to 2014 he was a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. Dr. Shindell taught atmospheric chemistry at Columbia University for more than a decade. He earned his Bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley and his PhD at Stony Brook University, both in Physics. His research concerns natural and human drivers of climate change, linkages between air quality and climate change, and the interface between climate change science and policy. He has been an author on >175 peer-reviewed publications, received awards from Scientific American, NASA, the NSF and the EPA. He has testified before both houses of Congress (at the request of both parties). He chaired the 2011 UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone and was a Coordinating Lead Author on the 2013 IPCC Assessment. He chairs the Scientific Advisory Panel to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition of nations and organizations.
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Drew M. Dalton
Professor of Philosophy, Dominican University
Drew M. Dalton is a Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Leuven (BE) through a partnership with both the Husserl Archives and the Center for Social and Political Philosophy. His research and teaching interests are primarily in Phenomenology, German Idealism, Speculative Materialism, and Psychoanalysis especially as they address questions of lasting social, political, and ethical concern. His first book, "Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire," (Duquesne University Press, 2009) integrated these interests through an extended exploration of the roots and implications of Emmanuel Levinas' concept of desire, especially as it relates to the emergence of ethical concern and informs our understanding of the origins of social conflict. His last book, "The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute," (Bloomsbury, 2018), extended this research by examining the concept of the absolute in ethical decision making and exploring its role in the problem of evil. In addition to these longer works, Dalton has published a number of shorter works in various philosophical and interdisciplinary journals including: Philosophy Today, Angelaki, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Phenomenological Inquiry, Idealistic Studies, Studia Phaenomenologica, Open Philosophy, and others. In addition to his academic interests, Dalton is also an amateur jazz guitarist and an avid middle to long distance runner. He also harbors an abiding love for modern architecture, street art, vintage stereo equipment, oatmeal cookies, and the Marx Brothers.
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Duane Hamacher
Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
Duane Hamacher is Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy in the ASTRO-3D Centre of Excellence and the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne.
His research focuses on the role of astronomy in history, culture, and society. Born in the United States, Duane earned a degree in physics at the University of Missouri before moving to Australia to complete a Masters degree (by research) in astrophysics at UNSW, followed by a PhD in Indigenous studies at Macquarie University with a thesis on Australian Aboriginal astronomy. He was awarded a DECRA Fellowship to work for Meriam Elders in the eastern Torres Strait to document their star knowledge and from October 2022 to July 2023 worked as a CAPAS Fellow in the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Universität Heidelberg in Germany. He authored the book "The First Astronomers: how Indigenous Elders read the stars" (Allen & Unwin, 2022) with six Elders. 100% of author royalties go to charity.
He is President and Founder of the Australian Association for Astronomy in Culture, Vice President of the International Society of Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture, a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He serves in the IAU Working Group on Star Names, is an associate editor of the Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage, and appeared on documentaries with Morgan Freeman, Warwick Thornton, Clive Oppenheimer, and Werner Herzog.
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Duane Jethro
Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
Duane Jethro is a Lecturer in the Department of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. He specialises in the analysis of the cultural construction of heritage and contested public cultures.
A graduate of Utrecht University, he was Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Curating the Archive, at the University of Cape Town between 2020 and 2022, and pursued a research project takes a multiperspectival approach to the loss and salvage of the University of Cape Town Jagger Library and its collections after a devastating fire in April 2021. He was co-curator (with Michaelis Galleries curator Jade Nair) of the Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition in April 2022, and co-organised a symposium, After the Fire: loss, archive and African Studies with Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative postdoctoral research fellow Alirio Karina.
Between 2019 and 2020 he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, CARMAH, at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which was founded and directed by Professor Sharon Macdonald. He held an Alexander von Humboldt Georg Foster Post doctoral research fellowship and was also based at CARMAH between 2017-19. And he is an Associate Research Fellow at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town.
He serves as ambassador scientist and on the selection committee for the Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fund for South Africa. Since 2023, he also serves on the executive commitee of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies. He has published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Material Religion, African Diaspora and Tourist Studies. He is an editor of the journal Material Religion and serves on the editorial board of the journal Museums and Social Issues. His book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power is published by Bloomsbury Academic.
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Dulani Jayasuriya
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Auckland
Dulani has industrial experience in trading and building trading models at Hedge Funds in the U.K. and conducts consulting activities on Bank Risk Management, Data Governance and FinTech. Her research areas include banking, social media, machine learning, technology in education, blockchains and cryptocurrencies. She is particularly interested in applying artificial intelligence-based technologies to solve socio-economic problems in finance, education, health, and the environment.
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Duncan Connors
Teaching Fellow in Finance and Economics, Durham University
Duncan joined Durham University Business School in October 2013. His early career was quite varied; after working in the family wine business since an early age, Duncan went to the University of Manchester to as a mature student and worked in finance (all this with a side-line in Rugby League) until his just before his thirtieth birthday, when he was injured undertaking training for the RAF reserves and decided to pursue an academic career.
Since then, Duncan completed a PhD in Economic History at the University of Glasgow and has worked in research and lecturing positions at the University of Cambridge, Coventry University and the University of Buckingham.
He specialises in the finance and economics of heavy industry with a focus on shipbuilding, nuclear power and the aviation industries.
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Duncan McTavish
Professor of Public Policy and Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
Professor McTavish has held senior positions in public and private sector organisations; he has operated as a consultant and adviser to business, third sector and public organisations. His background includes senior academic positions in a number of UK universities, working both in the UK and internationally.
Duncan publishes extensively in leading journals, authors and edits books individually and collaboratively. He is editor of the journal Public Policy and Administration and serves on a number of journal editorial boards. Duncan peer reviews for major grant awarding bodies and has managed major research projects supported by UK governments and the EU.
Duncan is a member of a number of professional-academic and scholarly bodies. He is also a non executive director with Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector in which capacity he operates at the community-public service-government policy interface.
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Duncan Stone
Visiting Researcher, University of Huddersfield
My PhD examined the historical, sociological and cultural machinations of cricket in southern England, with a particular emphasis upon the philosophical origins of amateurism, how amateurism was used as a means of class distinction and the influence this had upon the development of regional identities.
My post-doctoral work aims to investigate (amongst other things) the links between social class, the suburbanisation process and cultural change. I am also writing a social history of English cricket, with a particular emphasis upon amateur cricket – the game as played and watched by the vast majority of the sport's followers – and the relationship this level of cricket had with the so-called 'first class' game.
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Dustin Long
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
I am physician scientist at the University of Washington. My research is focused on the use of next-generation sequencing methods to understand mechanisms of bacterial infection, with an emphasis on surgical site infection and antimicrobial-resistance. Clinically, I work as critical care physician and anesthesiologist at Harborview Medical Center with a focus on recovery from major trauma and burn injuries.
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Dusty Hoesly
Postdoctoral Researcher in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
My research focuses on American religions and secularism, specializing in how new religious movements, Asian American religions, and the religiously unaffiliated shape modern American culture. I employ humanistic and social scientific methods to investigate how religion is constructed through discourse, practices, and institutions. I have published work on the Universal Life Church and contemporary American weddings, organic foods in new religious movements, biodiversity and spiritual wellbeing, and religion in the American West.
Current projects include the Meaning of Religion Project, part of an intergenerational study of religion, spirituality, and values funded by the John Templeton Foundation; the Secular Communities Survey, the largest-ever study of organized nonbelievers in the U.S.; a co-edited volume (with Melissa Borja) on Asian American Religions, Religious Freedom, and the State; and a monograph on the Universal Life Church. I am also developing articles about the Orientalist origins of the brainwashing concept and its application against Asian American new religions, the Esalen Institute’s spiritualization of geopolitics, and the federal taxation of religious groups.
I have conducted podcast interviews and written articles for the Religious Studies Project, published book reviews and encyclopedia entries, and contributed articles for academic blogs. These can be found here.
I am co-chair of the AAR’s Sociology of Religion Unit and I serve on the steering committee of AAR’s Asian North American Religion, Culture, & Society Unit.
Previously, I was a visiting assistant teaching professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dwan Vilcins
Group leader, Environmental Epidemiology, Children’s Health Environment Program, The University of Queensland
Dwan is an environmental epidemiologist, with a particular interest in children's environmental health. Her current research explores the following:
- Environmentally persistent free radicals, air pollution, and children's lung outcomes
- Bushfire smoke exposure and health effects
- Green space, ambient temperature and air pollution and the association with child outcomes
- Exposure to phthalates and allergic disease
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Dyala Hamzah
Associate professor of history, Université de Montréal
My research interests concern the processes of reform and centralization in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire throughout the 19th century (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, North Africa), from a cultural and social perspective. The central role of the press and associations in the emergence of a public space during the Arab Renaissance and the issues of education and citizenship in the colonial and post-colonial periods are central to my research.
At the same time, my work bears on the symmetrical processes of professionalization and the popularization of Islamic expertise in the 20th century. More specifically, I am interested in the institutional and curricular development of mosque-universities such as al-Azhar, Zaytuna and Qarawiyyin, from the 18th century until their nationalization in the 1960s, and also in the legacies and uses of Islamic historiography, philosophy and law in the contemporary period, particularly in nationalism and Islamism.
My current research aims to contribute to the cultural history of Arab nationalism and to define its key institutions: volunteer associations and secret societies; scouting movements; school textbooks.
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Dyan Mazurana
Research Professor of Global Affairs, Tufts University
Dyan Mazurana, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, and Research Director at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. Her research focuses on the areas of women, children, and armed conflict, gendered dimensions of humanitarian response to conflict and crises, documenting serious crimes committed during conflict, and accountability, remedy, and reparation. She serves as an adviser to several governments, UN agencies, human rights NGOs, and child protection organizations regarding humanitarian assistance and improving efforts to assist youth and women affected by armed conflict. This work includes the protection of women and children during armed conflict, including those people associated with fighting forces, as well as remedy and reparation in the aftermath of violence.
Dyan has written and developed training materials regarding gender, human rights, armed conflict, and post-conflict periods for civilian, police, and military peacekeepers involved in UN and NATO operations. In conjunction with international human rights groups, she contributed to materials now widely used to assist in documenting serious violations and abuses against women and girls during conflict and post-conflict reconstruction periods. She has worked in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Nepal, and southern, west and east Africa.
She has published more than 100 scholarly and policy books, articles, and international reports and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Dyan has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in women’s studies from Clark University.
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Dylan Bird
PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
PhD candidate at University of Tasmania researching podcasting, journalism and democracy.
Broadcaster and podcast host/producer.
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