Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sabine Frühstück is interested in the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to the world. Her research has engaged several intellectual fields. Her most recent book, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (2022) describes the ever-changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities from the 1860s to the present day. Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017) is a cultural history of the naturalized connections between childhood and militarism. It analyzes the rules and regularities of war play, from the hills and along the rivers of 19th century rural Japan to the killing fields of 21st century cyberspace. The ethnography, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007) employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the ambivalent status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003) is a socio-historical study of the creation, formation, and application of a “science of sex” from the late 19th through the mid-20th century.
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Research Associate in International Law, Western Academy for Advanced Research, Western University
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I am a researcher in Laboratory Astrochemistry. While the focus of my PhD project was on gas-phase ion-neutral reactions and spectroscopy, I no switched fields to solid state astrochemistry. Currently I am investigating planet forming collisions (using microgravity environments) and the strucutral properties of interstellar water ices (using neutron scattering facilities).
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Professor, Management, Strategy & Innovation, MCI Management Center Innsbruck
As a professor specializing in strategy and innovation, I bring 20 years of combined experience from both academia and industry. My expertise lies at the crossroads of strategy, technology, and innovation, with a keen focus on the transformative potential of Human-AI-Collaboration. Passionate about impactful research and teaching, I deliver classes on digital work, strategy, and research methods. In my research, I’m passionate about exploring and designing the future of work and business with AI. Based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, I’m dedicated to mentoring a new generation of thinkers who are equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-driven workplaces.As a professor specializing in strategy and innovation, I bring 20 years of combined experience from both academia and industry. My expertise lies at the crossroads of strategy, technology, and innovation, with a keen focus on the transformative potential of Human-AI-Collaboration. Passionate about impactful research and teaching, I deliver classes on digital work, strategy, and research methods. In my research, I’m passionate about exploring and designing the future of work and business with AI. Based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, I’m dedicated to mentoring a new generation of thinkers who are equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-driven workplaces.
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Molecular microbiologist; laboratory head, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Dr Sacha Pidot is a molecular microbiologist and research-teaching academic with interests in identifying and developing new antimicrobials, primarily from Actinomycete bacteria. His PhD piqued his interest in the ways in which bacteria can produce bioactive metabolites, which he followed up with a change in direction to chemical biology under the direction of Professor Christian Hertweck in Germany. Since moving to the Doherty Institute, Sacha has established his own group to continue unearthing new antimicrobials and investigating their biosynthesis.
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Lecturer in Social Work and Policy Studies, University of Sydney
Dr Sacha Kendall Jamieson's research investigates social, cultural and ethical aspects of health across diverse contexts with a focus on marginalised populations. She is passionate about promoting qualitative approaches and post-structural analysis to understanding health and addressing health inequity. Her current research investigates the health of incarcerated Aboriginal women and issues for health and social service providers.
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Arrell Research Chair in the Business of Food and Assistant Professor, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
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Head of Research at Institute of Alcohol Studies, Visiting Researcher, King's College London
Sadie is Head of Research at Institute of Alcohol Studies, where she leads on the delivery of IAS’ research strategy.
This includes conducting and supervising in-house research, co-ordinating commissioned projects, and managing the IAS Small Grants Scheme.
Sadie is an experienced alcohol researcher who joined IAS in August 2019. Her research interests relate to health inequality, young people, and measuring alcohol consumption.
Before joining IAS, Sadie worked as a research fellow on randomised controlled trials in the addictions field at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.
Sadie completed a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL in 2013. She also has a Master’s degree in Health Sciences from Newcastle University and a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sadie Dempsey is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying democracy, political inequality, social movements, and political communication.
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Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, University of The Fraser Valley
Saeed Rahman is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability in the School of Business, University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada. His current research investigates how business innovations can contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation. He works in collaboration with researchers from UFV’s Food and Agriculture Institute, examining how agri-food businesses can develop sustainable strategies based on critical knowledge about the business-nature interface, and the traditional/Indigenous and scientific knowledge on agricultural practices and ecosystem dynamics. Dr. Rahman’s research has been supported by several prestigious research grants, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship and the Graduate Fellowship from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.
Prior to academia, he worked in the development sector for KPMG, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and World Bank, as well as for multinational company Reckitt Benckiser. Dr. Rahman earned an MBA from the University of Windsor, Canada, and a PhD in strategy and sustainability from the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Trent University
Saeid Kermani is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Trent University. His research addresses business and societal issues related to corporate social responsibility, social activism, and ethics.
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Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
Safeera Jaffer is completing a Master of Arts in the Education & Society thesis program in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests include critical pedagogy and teaching practices in university-level classrooms.
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Associate professor, Deakin University
Dr Sagarika Mishra is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Finance at Deakin Business School. Sagarika completed her PhD in Applied Economics from Western Michigan University in the USA. She has over ten years of experience in research and teaching, with six publications in ABDC A* journals and many more in other reputable journals.
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Research Scholar in Energy Policy, Columbia University
Sagatom Saha is an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. He is an expert on the geopolitics of the global energy transition and U.S. competitiveness in clean energy technologies. Sagatom previously worked on cleantech competitiveness at the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce and served as a special advisor in the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. In this role, he was chief of staff to Secretary Kerry’s clean energy and innovation team and led on cleantech competitiveness, nuclear energy, industrial decarbonization, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, and India. Sagatom was also a Fulbright researcher in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he advised the Ukrainian Parliament and cabinet ministries on strategies to advance energy reform. Sagatom previously helped direct the Council on Foreign Relations’ Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, managing its geopolitics portfolio.
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Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, Florida International University
Professor Saheed Aderinto, a filmmaker and the founding president of the Lagos Studies Association, is the author of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Ohio University Press/New African Histories Series, 2022), Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (Indiana University Press, 2018), and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Nigerian Studies Association's Book Award Prize for the “most important scholarly book/work on Nigeria published in the English language."
His current book project, Fuji: An African Popular Culture, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. The first episode of his debut documentary film, The Fuji Documentary, premiered in February 2024.
In 2023, he won the $300,000 Dan David Prize—the largest history prize in the world—in recognition of his “outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.”
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Lecturer in Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology, University of Portsmouth
Having joined the School in September 2021 while completing his Doctorate in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sahen became a Lecturer in Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology in 2022. Sahen is a applied practitioner (British Psychological Society QSEP route) and has worked in developmental-elite sport focusing on mental health adn performance interventions, resilience, psychotherapy and applied research. He brings this blend of practice and research from professional practice into the educational setting.
In addition to his Education and Research activities, Sahen has great practitioner experience across a range of professional sporting contexts, primarily in elite-international cricket and tennis.
Research interests
Sahen's research primarily focuses on the following major themes:
Resilience for Mental health and high performance
Cultural Sport Psychology
Psychotherapy and mental health in sport
Resilience and transferrability across contexts
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Armenian-Turkish Relations, University of Cambridge
Sahika Erkonan completed her PhD at the Institute of Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, London. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Armenian-Turkish Relations at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her main research interests are in politics of memory, diaspora studies, creative practices, dialogue, archive studies, visual and material culture, genocide studies and denialism.
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PhD Candidate in Sustainable Development, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Columbia University
I am a second-year PhD student in the Sustainable Development program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. My research interests include labor, migration, political economy and biodiversity. I am especially interested in the economic, environmental, and political tradeoffs that shape the design and implementation of environmental policy.
I hold Masters degrees in Public Policy (The University of Chicago), and Conservation Biology (State University of New York). I also have seven years of research and project management experience on topics such as wildlife trafficking, human-wildlife conflict, endangered species, resettlement of forest-dwellers from protected areas, and community-based conservation. I previously worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society in India.
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Ph.D. Student in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University
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Public Health Medicine Specialist and Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
Dr Saiendhra Moodley is a public health medicine specialist and a Senior Lecturer in the Division of
Behaviour and Health Management Sciences, School of Health Systems and Public Health at the
University of Pretoria. He has a broad range of health systems experience and has worked at the
Office of Health Standards Compliance, in the Department of Public Health Medicine at Steve Biko
Academic Hospital/University of Pretoria, and in the Provincial Department of Health in the Western
Cape. He has previously served as Vice-President and President of the Public Health Association of
South Africa, and is the current President of the College of Public Health Medicine (SA). His research
focus areas are public mental health and human resources for health.
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Senior research in geology, University of Turku
My research interests are to study 1) climatic and anthropogenic forcing of lake sedimentation and catchment erosion, and 2) sedimentary processes of micro plastic litter in aquatic environments. My current focus is to understand climate-catchment dynamics as well as sediment transportation and accumulation in various geological environments in detail.
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Senior Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
Saira Ali has over ten years of experience in the media industry, having worked at the top tiers of publishing with Kitab Pvt Ltd and the Oxford University Press in Pakistan. She started her academic career in 2015 at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), where she taught in various Public Relations and Social Media courses. She joined the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide in 2019. Her current research focuses on securitization and the media-terrorism nexus.
In 2022 her book Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk was published in the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies series. Saira also co-authored, Public Relations & Strategic Communication (2019), for Oxford University Press, Australia. She regularly publishes in high ranking journals such as Global Media and Communication, International Communication Gazette and Media International Australia.
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Researcher in the Clothing Sustainability Research Group, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy. His research focuses on the politics of military coups, authoritarian regimes, and democratization with a regional focus on the Middle East and Africa.
Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Ben Hammou served as a 2023—2024 USIP—Minerva Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and a Diversity Fellow at the American Political Science Association. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals like Armed Forces & Society, Africa Spectrum, International Studies Review, and Journal of Global Security Studies. His public-facing work has appeared in popular outlets like The Washington Post, The Conversation, Just Security, Modern War Institute, Political Violence at a Glance, The Loop, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
Ben Hammou received his Ph.D. in Security Studies at the University of Central Florida in 2024, where he taught courses and offered guest lectures on research methodology, authoritarian politics, and military coups. From 2022 through 2024, Ben Hammou served as co-chair of the Status Committee on Graduate Students for the American Political Science Association.
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
Salam Titinchi is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Research Group Leader at the Department of Chemistry. While his work covers a range of concerns, he has over the past years increasingly focused on the development of nano-materials for environmental applications.
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Rural Sociology, University of Southern Queensland
My PhD thesis has been submitted, evaluated and passed but is not yet formally awarded.
I have an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Science, a Masters in International Studies (Peace and Conflict Resolution) and a Diploma in Professional Coaching. I have worked with and in rural communities for several decades as a facilitator, knowledge broker and accredited mediator. Growing up in the far west of NSW, after graduation I worked for rural advocacy organisations, then the Department of Natural Resources and then worked with numerous government, corporate and community organisations as a Queensland consultant.
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PhD Candidate, Indiana University
Salih Yasun is a Ph.D. student with a focus on Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. He holds a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics from Indiana University (2019). Salih’s research focuses on local governance, democratization and property rights within the Middle East and North Africa, and his work appeared in Women’s Studies International Forum Journal. He employs both quantitative and qualitative methods in his research, including fieldwork, survey data analysis, interviews, archival and ethnographic dimensions.
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