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Wasim Saman
Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering, University of South Australia
Wasim Saman is Emeritus Professor of sustainable energy engineering, University of South Australia. His career has focused on sustainable energy education and industry targeted research since the 1980s. He has published over 300 technical articles and supervised 35 post graduate research candidates. His research has focused on solar thermal generation and storage and sustainable use of energy in buildings.
He has been leading industry-focused research teams developing thermal storage materials and systems for buildings, solar thermal applications, low energy air conditioning systems and developing smart demand management technologies. He has been a founding research leader for the CRC for Low Carbon Living and led a number of research projects as well as establishing and leading the SA Research Node for Low Carbon Living until July 2018. He has been leading industry focused research into low energy and water housing which involved establishing guidelines and detailed performance monitoring programs. This commenced at Mawson Lakes and culminated in the Lochiel Park Green Village, Australia’s most environmentally sustainable housing development where a multidisciplinary approach research involving social, economic and engineering research demonstrated the environmental, social and economic advantages of near zero energy housing.
Wasim is Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, Fellow of the Australian Institute for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating. He received the Pioneer Award from the World Renewable Energy Network in 2012. He is currently working with industry on commercialising solar water heating and energy storage systems. Wasim provides advice to developers and has served on a number of national and international committees on energy use in buildings.
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Wawan Kurniawan
Peneliti di Laboratorium Psikologi Politik Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Indonesia
Peneliti dan membahas isu psikologi sosial.
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Wayne Wong
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
Wayne Wong is Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He holds a PhD in Film Studies and Comparative Literature from King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including Global Media and China, Asian Cinema, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Archiv Orientální.
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Wei Gordon
Assistant Professor of Biology, Menlo College
Dr. Gordon is Assistant Professor of Biology at Menlo College. This is her first year teaching at Menlo College. Dr. Gordon went to graduate school to become an undergraduate professor and work at a student-focused institution. Prior to joining faculty, Dr. Gordon taught graduate courses at UC San Francisco and undergraduate courses at University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and UC San Diego, as well as elementary courses at San Francisco public schools. At Menlo College, Dr. Gordon is focusing on improving STEM interest in STEM-underrepresented groups and connecting students to their surrounding biotechnology hub.
Dr. Gordon first began research at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California, where she worked as a husbandry intern. She conducted an artificial reef habitation project with local swell sharks and launched an aquaponics education exhibit. Dr. Gordon went on to work as a husbandry intern in the lab of Dr. Deborah Yelon at UC San Diego, where she migrated to the laboratory bench to study zebrafish heart development. Dr. Gordon simultaneously worked in the lab of Dr. Maike Sander at Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine as a lab assistant and, later, the lab of Dr. Amro Hamdoun at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an undergraduate researcher and URS (David Marc Belkin Memorial Research Scholarship for Environment and Ecology). While learning about drug transporters and embryonic development with sea urchins in Dr. Hamdoun’s lab, Dr. Gordon pioneered a collaborative project between the labs of Dr. Hamdoun and Dr. Yelon, identifying a cell type in the zebrafish embryo that likely protects embryonic development from harmful small molecules (Gordon et al., Aquatic Toxicology, 2019).
As a graduate student, Dr. Gordon joined the lab of Dr. Nadav Ahituv at UC San Francisco to investigate the genetic factors underlying the evolution of frugivory (fruit-specialization) in mammals. By studying the DNA of mammals that adapted to high sugar diets, bats and primates, Dr. Gordon and her collaborators can identify novel DNA targets for therapies for metabolic diseases in humans like diabetes. Dr. Gordon utilized both comparative genomics and functional genomics techniques for her investigation, and she also traveled to Belize to work with bats and other bat researchers across the globe at the “Bat-a-thon.” Dr. Gordon was awarded the NSF GRFP and also acquired an NIH EDGE CMT grant with Dr. Ahituv to advance her research. Dr. Gordon discovered many frugivory adaptations in the fruit bat kidney and pancreas, including differentially active genes and regulatory regions involved in fluid and electrolyte balance in the frugivore kidney and an increase in endocrine and a decrease in exocrine cells in the frugivore pancreas (Gordon and Baek et al., BioRxiv, 2023). More of Dr. Gordon’s work will be published in the coming years.
Dr. Gordon’s research at Menlo College will be on general biology education. She will be testing a variety of techniques and collecting data. Ultimately, she intends to use her genetics expertise to develop new courses at Menlo College that are in line with student interests and prepare students to become positive leaders of change in fast-growing biotechnological spaces of genomics, gene therapy, and pharma.
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Wei Li
Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Wei Li's foci of research are urban ethnicity and ethnic geography, highly-skilled international migration and transnational connections, financial sector and minority community development, focusing on the Chinese and other Asian groups in the Pacific Rim. She coined the term "ethnoburb" to describe a new form of contemporary suburban Asian settlements, and continues her empirical studies in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, Metropolitan Phoenix, Toronto, and Vancouver, Canada.
Li's research has been funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Foundation, the Government of Canada, and the U.S.-India Educational Foundation, including projects analyzing financial institutions and immigrant community developmentin Canada and the United States, studying the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on African American and Vietnamese American communities in New Orleans East; and highly-skilled international migration.
She is the author of "Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America" (2009; paperback 2012; The 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies); editor of "From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries" (2006); co-editor of "Landscape of Ethnic Economy" (2006), "Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities" (2012), and "The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in North American Cities" (2015); and co-editor of two journal theme issues. She has published more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, including those in journals such as Annals of Association of American Geographers; Environment and Planning A; GeoForum; Geographic Review; Urban Studies; Urban Geography; Social Science Research, and Journal of Asian American Studies. Li has received numerous awards, including the 2014 AAG Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors (one of the highest honors conferred by Association of American Geographers/AAG), and the AAG Ethnic Geography Specialty Group's Distinguished Ethnic Geography CAREER Award and 2012 Distinguished Scholar.
She was appointed to three terms as a member of the U.S. Census Bureau's Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees (REAC) on the Asian Population by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serves as its elected chair (2010-2012) and vice chair annually 2004-2009, and was one the inaugural members of the Bureau's new National Advisory Committee of Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations. She serves as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship in Queen's University, Canada (2006-2007) and a Senior Fulbright Scholar to India (2016-2017); a member of the inaugural class of the National Asia Research Associates with the National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2010-2011); and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writing Residency (2014). She is a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Metropolis Project, and the North American director for the International Society of Studying Chinese Overseas.
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Weiyao Yin
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
Weiyao Yin is a clinical doctor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine and researcher with a focus on women’s and children’s health. Her research interests include perinatal risk factors, preterm birth, and neuropsychiatric conditions in mothers and children. She holds a PhD in obstetrics and gynecology from the West China School of Medicine/ West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Currently, she works at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet on a multinational research project examining preterm birth and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. The project utilizes registry data from Sweden and other Nordic countries.
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Wellett Potter
Lecturer in Law, University of New England
Wellett is a lecturer at the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale. She was conferred with her PhD in law from UNE in March 2021. Her PhD thesis was titled "‘A Legal Exploration of the Copyright Protection of Databases in the Fourth Industrial Era" and specialised in intellectual property, examining the copyright protection of databases in the digital era.
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Wendie A. Berg
Wendie A. Berg, MD, PhD, FACR, FSBI is Professor of Radiology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was PI of ACRIN 6666, Screening Breast Ultrasound (US) and MRI. Dr. Berg has led and analyzed prospective trials evaluating elastography, positron emission mammography, MRI, and molecular breast imaging. She is currently leading several screening trials comparing tomosynthesis and contrast-enhanced mammography. Dr. Berg is Chief Scientific Advisor to www.DenseBreast-info.org, served on committees for the BI-RADS 3rd ,4th, and 5th editions for mammography and 1st and 2nd editions for ultrasound. She has over 125 peer-reviewed publications, including recently published results on the DBTUST trial of screening ultrasound after tomosynthesis, and has been co-lead editor/author of 3 editions of Diagnostic Imaging: Breast and the associated content in StatDx.
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Wendy Collinson
Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Biodiversity Value & Change, University of Venda
Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Biodiversity Value & Change, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
IUCN: Transport Working Group
Project Manager, Wildlife & Transport Programme, Endangered Wildlife Trust
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Wendy Goff
Associate Professor, Deputy Chair Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology
Wendy's APAC-accredited degree in Psychology (GDPSY) has provided a good basis for understanding the complexities of adult behaviour and how adults come together; including how these behaviours and actions shape the experiences of children. Wendy's qualifications and experience in Education (BEd; MEd; PhD; GCISM; GCULT) provides her with a comprehensive understanding of schools and the teaching profession.
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Wendy Nelson
Senior Research Fellow, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Research Interests include: marine phycology, particularly the discovery and documentation of New Zealand’s algal biodiversity; research on floristics and phylogeny, as well as ecology and life history studies.
Qualifications include: PhD in Botany; FRSNZ
Positions held include: Programme leader Marine Biodiversity - NIWA; Professor - School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland
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Wendy O'Brien
Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
Dr Wendy O’Brien lecturers in Criminology and conducts research on human rights and international justice. Wendy's current research focuses on children's access to justice, and on the legal responses to violence against women, children and LGBTI identified individuals. Wendy also conducts work on the practical implementation of public policy with a particular focus on the evaluation of responses to women and children in contexts of sexual assault. Recent publications include scholarly articles in the International Journal of Children’s Rights, and the Human Rights Law Review.
Prior to her appointment at Deakin, Wendy served seven years as Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Crime Commission where she conducted intelligence led research, and provided policy advice on issues of sexual violence and the wellbeing of children.
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Wendy Smidt
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
POST-GRADUATE STUDIES:
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Mowbray Campus.
2023: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, D.Ed.
Research topic: The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth.
2015: Stellenbosch University, MAVA (Ed).
Research topic: Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape.
PUBLICATIONS:
Smidt, W. 2015. Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Education. Dept. of Visual Arts. 2015, 98 pages. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97910
Smidt W. 2020. Engaging the transformative potential of shortfilm-making toward critical awareness and transpersonal growth among post-school youth. Integral Transpers J. 2020;14(14):26–53. https://doi.org/10.32031/ITIBTE_ ITJ_14-SW2
Smidt, W. 2023. The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. Thesis (D.Ed.)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2023, 328 pages. doi: https://etd.cput.ac.za/handle/20.500.11838/3879
Smidt, W., & Waghid, Z. 2024. Nurturing youth film literacy: Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 20(1), 13 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v20i1.1382
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Shortfilm-making as an experiential pedagogical activity, critical engagement and social impact, arts-based research methods, personal and transpersonal growth within the context of young adult education.
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Wendy Ward
PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University
I am currently working part-time towards a practice-based PhD titled 'Enduring Fashion: Building Sustainable Clothing Practices Through Wearer-Garment Relationships.
Sustainability in fashion has been a long running theme throughout my academic and professional career: I was the only student on my BA looking at the environmental impact of the fashion industry when I graduated in 2000 and explored novel ways to recycle textiles for my MA in 2004. I worked as a designer for a niche ethical fashion business and have written craft books designed to empower people to do fashion their own way.
Clothes and how people use them is at the heart of what makes me tick.
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Wendy Williams
Associate Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Wendy Williams’ research focuses on forced displacement and migration, violent extremist organizations, illicit financial flows, international human rights and humanitarian law, military professionalism, and the rule of law.
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Wendy M. Erb
Postdoctoral Associate in Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell University
I am a biological anthropologist and behavioral ecologist who studies the ecological, social, and physiological influences on the behavioral and reproductive strategies of wild primates. My collaborative research program spans ecology, bioacoustics, anthropology, and conservation, tied together by a deep interest in how primate populations and human-wildlife relationships are responding to social-ecological change. With my research teams, I have compiled multi-year behavior, ranging, and sound-recording datasets for simakobu (Simias concolor), tamarins (Leontocebus weddelli), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) as well as soundscape recordings of dipterocarp, peat-swamp, mangrove, and heath forests in Borneo. Students and early career researchers with an interest in collaborating on any of these research topics, please get in touch!
At the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, I am leading a team of natural and social scientists – in collaboration with local partners – to conduct social-ecological research across Indonesia's planned new capital city location in Borneo. With support from Cornell University's Migration Initiative and the Fulbright Scholar Program, we seek to understand the wide-ranging impacts on forests, communities, and biodiversity by combining bioacoustics and ethnographic approaches. In parallel, I am collaborating with Dr. Frank van Veen at the University of Exeter, the Borneo Nature Foundation, and Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya – initiated in 2018 with a fellowship from the British Academy – on a multidisciplinary research and conservation program in the Mungku Baru Education Forest in Central Kalimantan. We are working to develop cost-effective methods to monitor ecological responses to anthropogenic change to support data-driven conservation strategies for the Rungan landscape.
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Wenzhong Wang
Professor of Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Wenzhong Wang is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, who studies the chemical and physical properties of rocky planets under extreme conditions using first-principles calculations based on quantum mechanics. Particularly, he applies the isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation to investigate the origin and evolution of rocky planets. With the support from NSFC and Carnegie postdoctoral fellowship, he has published more than 40 papers.
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Wern Chai
Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of South Australia
Dr Wern Chai is a Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of South Australia with a research background and expertise in drug discovery, drug development and antimicrobial resistance. He maintains his clinical practice as a community pharmacist. Additionally, he contributes his expertise to the Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotics as a Member of the Evaluation Network and the Australian Pharmacy Council as a Subject Matter Expert (Examination).
Dr Chai is an early career researcher and holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of South Australia. In the face of the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance, his research focuses on developing a new antimicrobial agent with a novel mechanism of action. His continuous dedication and commitment to teaching and research earned him recognition as a Rising Star in Pharmacy in 2021 (published in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, and the Emerging Leader in Science in 2022 (by the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association).
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Wes Hill
Associate Professor, art history and visual culture, Southern Cross University
Dr. Wes Hill is an art historian, critic and curator who lectures in art history, theory and visual culture studies at Southern Cross University, Northern NSW.
Specialty research areas include contemporary art, visual culture, the folkloric, the hipster, and the nature and representation of criticality in creative practice. Publications include "How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics" (Routledge, New York), "Speech Acts: Richard Grayson & Matt Mullican" (UTS Press, Sydney), and "Art After the Hipster" (Palgrave Macmillan, New York). His forthcoming book is “Jeff Gibson: False Gestalt,"co-published by Perimeter Editions and Griffith University.
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Wesley Chang
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University
Dr. Wes Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at Drexel University. Wes completed his BS (2014) and MS (2016) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford, and his PhD (2021) in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Princeton. After completing his doctoral thesis, he continued working on lithium metal batteries as a Postdoc at Columbia University in collaboration with electric vehicle companies. He spent the following year (2022 – 2023) as the Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, where he worked on lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis. He is the recipient of the Electrochemical Society F.M. Becket Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. Outside of academia, he has previously worked in the battery industry and management consulting for energy and utilities, and regularly serves as a technical advisor to energy-focused startup companies and investment firms.
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Wesley Freppel
Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
For millennia, pathogens have not stopped to evolve in parallel with humans in order to thwart our immune system. I am mostly interested in the molecular and cellular aspect of host-pathogen interactions.
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Wewin Wira Cornelis Wahid
Program Officer, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
Working in resilience and sustainable development, particularly in the financing aspects. Currently program officer for Center for Environment and Global Financing (CEGF), a center under world renouned think-tank Resilience Development Initiative.
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Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
Expertise
Ethics (Theoretical and Applied), Philosophy of Law, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests
Ethics; Law and ethics of war, self-defense, and punishment; Philosophy of religion.
Just War theory; Law and ethics of personal self-defense and also self-defense as justification for war; Moral justifications for punishment; Evolutionary theories of ethics; Relationship between science and religion.
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Whitney Monaghan
Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
Dr. Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines the representation of gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not ‘Just a Phase’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019).
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Whitney Rassip
Girringun Aboriginal Corporation Indigenous Protected Areas Coordinator and Acting Executive Officer, Indigenous Knowledge
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Whitney Lucas Molitor
Associate Professor and Program Director, Occupational Therapy Department, University of South Dakota
Whitney Lucas Molitor, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, BCG serves as Associate Professor and Program Director for the Occupational Therapy Department at the University of South Dakota. Dr. Lucas Molitor’s teaching responsibilities are in the areas of adult physical rehabilitation assessment and intervention, occupational performance for adults and older adults, and community-based practice. Her research interests include health promotion, population health, cultural implications on occupational performance, and interprofessional education.
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Wieteke Holthuijzen
Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
I am a PhD student at the University of Tennessee in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I collaborate with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the non-profit organization Island Conservation to study invasive house mice and monitor ecosystem response to mice. I also work as a Biology Content Creator at Khan Academy.
For nearly a decade, I have studied the flora and fauna of Kuaihelani and actively participated in the restoration of this unique atoll ecosystem. From conducting albatross demography studies to cultivating highly endangered species to running Bayesian mixing models, I have a wide variety of knowledge and experience regarding island conservation biology and restoration ecology. Both my MSc and PhD are focused on disentangling the complex connections among organisms in island food webs to better understand the impacts of invasive species.
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Wilbur Kraak
Professor, Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science, University of the Western Cape
Wilbur Kraak's extensive body of research is centred around coaching and performance analysis, with a primary focus on the sport of rugby. With an impressive portfolio, he has co-authored and published approximately 40 research articles in both international and local peer-reviewed academic journals, contributing significantly to the academic discourse in the field. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Wilbur Kraak is an accomplished rugby coach. His coaching credentials include attaining a coveted World Rugby Level 3 certification, showcasing his in-depth knowledge and expertise in rugby coaching methodologies. Moreover, he has recently completed the Elite Coaches Program, an exclusive initiative by the South African Rugby Union designed for coaches earmarked for higher honours in rugby in South Africa.
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Wilfred Dolfsma
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean (Teaching), Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, Loughborough University
Wilfred is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development. Wilfred has taught at bachelor, master, MBA, and PhD levels, in a number of different programmes and countries on the core themes of his academic research. His research focuses on collaboration for innovation, within and between organisations. Wilfred has consulted a number of large and small firms as well as government and NGO organisations.
Trained as both an economist and a philosopher, Wilfred focuses his research and teaching on collaboration within and between organisations to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship. The approaches taken include social network analysis, (gift) exchange theory, and institutional theory. He has published award winning books and articles, in a range of international academic journals.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND COLLABORATIONS
Wilfred is involved in a number of projects with leading firms and academics across different continents. He is keen to collaborate with organisations that seek to improve their innovative performance, providing advise in exchange for research collaboration.
CURRENT PHD/RESEARCH SUPERVISIONS
Wilfred supervises PhD projects that focus on the antecedents for and effects of innovation for large as well as small firms, in particular the strategic implications for firms of their strategic choices where innovation is a key research focus.
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Wilfred is an editor-in-chief of the Review of Social Economy, associate editor of Innovation Management Policy and Practice, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Organisational Change Management.
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Wilfred Otang-Mbeng
Associate Professor in Botany, University of Mpumalanga
Prof Wilfred Otang Mbeng completed a Doctorate Degree in Botany from the University of Fort Hare in 2013, Master of Science and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Botany in 2005 and 2001; respectively, from the University of Buea in Cameroon and a PGDHE with Distinction from Rhodes University in 2020. He started his teaching career as a Tutor in Botany at the University of Fort Hare in 2010 and later as a Part-Time Lecturer at the same University in 2015. He was a Senior Lecturer of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at North-West University, Mafikeng Campus in 2016 and in 2017, he was employed as a Senior Lecturer of Botany at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP). In December 2020, He was promoted to Associate Professorship at the University of Mpumalanga.
Prof Mbeng been engaged in research in:
• indigenous knowledge systems;
• ethnobotany and
• ethnopharmacology.
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Will Atkinson
Professor in School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
Will Atkinson is a sociologist specialising in social class. He has researched almost all aspects of it using a wide variety of methods and authored or co-edited several books on the topic. These include Class Inequality in Austerity Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Class in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2017), The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (Routledge, 2 vols, 2020-22) and his introductory text, Class (Polity, 2015, 2nd ed 2024). Fascinated by the way in which class is woven through individual biographies, he has latterly used the life of Vincent van Gogh as a lens on this.
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Will Baker
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Bristol
My research is broadly within the sociology of education, but I have strongly interdisciplinary interests. A unifying theme in my research is understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities. There are three interconnected strands to my scholarship.
Firstly, I am pioneering research into the rise of food charity in schools. Against a backdrop of growing food insecurity in the UK, a growing number of schools are running their own food banks. I study how and why this is happening and what it tells us about education, inequality and the state (see Baker 2023; Baker and Bakopoulou 2022 and 2023). My research in this area has been covered by the BBC, The Independent and many of major news sources.
Secondly, along with Dr. Katherin Barg, I have developed a program of research that explores the interconnections between parenting, socio-economic background, and educational inequalities. We are also interested in exploring how family life and parenting has changed over time and differs between countries and cultures (see Barg and Baker 2021; Baker and Barg 2019). Finally, I have published widely on how young people develop educational aspirations, career goals and orient themselves to the future (see Moles et al. 2023; Baker 2020). I’m particularly interested in how these are connected to moral attitudes and values.
Methodologically, I draw on both qualitative and quantitative sources of data, including sources of secondary data such asthe Millennium Cohort Study. I make extensive use of interviews in much of my empirical work.
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Will Brownlie
Senior Science Project Manager, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Dr Brownlie is the project manager of the GEF/UNEP-UKCEH Towards Sustainable Phosphorus Cycles in Lake Catchments (Up-Cycle) project. Up-Cycle will bring together the global lake management and sustainable phosphorus management communities, to develop and test a sustainable phosphorus management framework in Chile. Dr Brownlie was the project manager of the Our Phosphorus Future (OPF) project, consolidating global scientific evidence to raise awareness and support policy development related to phosphorus (funded by NERC, ESPP & UNEP). He is the lead editor of the OPF report and designed its multimedia (www.opfglobal.com). He is part of the project coordination unit of the GEF/UNEP-UKCEH International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) project; a science-policy support process leading global policymakers in sustainable nitrogen management. He is managing co-editor of the INMS International Nitrogen Assessment report and is developing the INMS Nitrogen Management Measures Database and its supporting guidance document.
Dr Brownlie provides expert advice and commentary on nutrient sustainability issues to the United Nations in various capacities. He has delivered keynote speeches at multiple international conferences and meetings, including COP27 and the 4th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit.
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Will Harvey
Professor of Leadership and Education Director at the University of Bristol Business School, University of Bristol
Will Harvey is the inaugural Professor of Leadership and the Education Director at the University of Bristol Business School. He is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and Chair of the Board of Libraries Unlimited.
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Will Harvey
Research interests
Skilled migration
Corporate reputation
Leadership
Talent management
Business and political elites
Social networks
Will’s research focuses on three areas. First, on the mobility, economic impact and social networks of highly skilled migrants. Specifically, he is focusing on the management of global talent in a range of economic sectors across different countries. Second, on how reputation and leadership is built and sustained within different types of institutions, with a particular focus on professional service firms. Third, on some of the methodological, fieldwork and practical challenges with interviewing business and political elites.
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