Professor in Employment Studies, University of Bristol
Vanessa works at the University of Bristol Business School. She gained her degrees from Brunel (BSc), Keele (MPhil) and Birmingham (PhD) and worked at the University of Leicester before joining Bristol.
Vanessa has published on issues relating to older workers; the extension of working lives following the abolishment of the default retirement age; unemployment and underemployment.
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Dr. Vanessa Cobham is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor, with continuing appointments in both Children’s Health Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service and the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. Dr. Cobham has continuously maintained both clinical and academic appointments, making her a true clinician-researcher. Dr. Cobham is regarded as an international expert in child and adolescent emotional disorders. Her research is characterized by a family-centric, consumer-focused approach to the treatment of youth experiencing mental illness. Dr. Cobham’s research has focused on improving our understanding of the ways in which anxiety and depressive mental health conditions develop; the development and evaluation of models of care and interventions for the treatment of these conditions; understanding the intersection between physical and mental health conditions; and bridging the evidence-practice divide that exists in child and youth mental health. She is also the lead author of internationally disseminated clinical programs. Dr. Cobham has led numerous child and adolescent mental health responses following natural disasters in Australia; and is regularly invited to consult to government agencies in other countries following community-wide traumatic events (e.g., 2020 Nova Scotia shootings, Canada; 2019 Christchurch Mosque Attack, NZ). Often this consultation involves providing training and supervision to clinicians working with children and families.
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Lecturer in Criminology and Senior Policy Officer (Office for the Commissioner for Victims of Crime), Victoria University
Dr Vanessa Letico is a Lecturer in Criminology (Level B) at Victoria University. Dr Letico completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology) in 2024 which focused on sexual violence and how offenders excuse and justify their actions.
Beyond her accolades, Dr Letico has extensive work experience with the Commissioner for Victims of Crime (Western Australia) and the youth justice system in Victoria.
Her research interests are in voiceless victimology; focusing on the victimisation experiences of those who do not have a voice including infants/children, animals, people with disabilities and deceased victims. Dr Letico's research focuses on sexual violence victimisation experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing women and their unique barriers to reporting and justice.
Dr Letico has been invited to present her research findings and expertise at the University of Genova, Italy, as well as multiple domestic criminology conferences.
Beyond her research, Dr Letico is passionate about childhood literacy and is a children's book author. Vanessa is also passionate about teaching the next generation of criminal justice workers and is the Unit Convenor of LCR2003 Criminological Theory and LCR3004 Victims, Justice and the Law at Victoria University.
Email: [email protected]
Accessibility Information: Proficient in Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
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Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University
Vanessa is an artist scholar, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice. Vanessa's research specialises in Black feminist performance practices in the UK and US from the 1980s to the current day. Her research uses both practice-based and written approaches to challenge the imbalances of intersectional identities, speaking to contemporary struggles and anxieties about the performing Black body.
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PhD Candidate and educator in sustainable fashion, Concordia University
I hold a Fashion Design Bachelor from Paris (1992-1996) and a Master of Arts in Textile Design from London (1996-1998). With over two decades of experience in the European and Canadian fashion industry, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to my current role as a PhD Candidate in the School of Graduate Studies at Concordia University (INDI program, 2017-2024). My research, centered around Textile Ecoliteracy, bridges the realms of Design, Environmental Health, and Ecology, with a specific focus on sustainable dyes. I am committed to developing a macro vision for the fashion industry that aligns with ecological principles. In addition to my research, I contribute to the next generation of designers as a Textile Design Instructor at Ecole Supérieure de Mode ESG UQAM.
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Astronomer, International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development
Dr McBride is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development. She works towards bridging the gap between the community of professional astronomers and the development world with a view to helping astronomers apply their skills to problems related to socioeconomic development. She is also an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town where she works on observations of massive stars in binaries.
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
Vanessa is a researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), focusing on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course. Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies. She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life-course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.
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Researcher, Tangentyere Research Hub, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
Vanessa Newby is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and President of the Netherlands chapter of Women in International Security (WIIS) based in The Hague. Her research interests include gender and security, non-traditional security threats, peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and disaster response and the international relations of the Middle East. Vanessa has conducted research on the Middle East for over twelve years and is an Arabic speaker. She is the author of Peacekeeping in South Lebanon: Credibility and Local Cooperation with Syracuse University Press (2018) and has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Politics, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Third World Quarterly. Vanessa blogs regularly and has contributed over the years to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Lowy Institute, and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
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Research Fellow, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
Vanessa is a cross-disciplinary post-doctoral fellow supported funded by the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh; she graduated in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in Astronomy. Vanessa's research interests include cellular senescence, senolytics discovery for anticancer therapy, and genotype-phenotype interactions using machine/deep learning methods. She works in collaboration with JC Acosta's and Neil Carragher's labs at the Institute of Genetic and Molecular Medicine. In her spare time she likes to dance, skate, and read.
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Scripps College
Tyson’s first book manuscript Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House (under contract with Oxford University Press) explores structural inequality in the United States and how members of Congress have formed multiracial coalitions as a strategy to provide for their diverse constituencies. Having worked on political campaigns since she was 12 years old, she carefully considers how political dynamics affect policy formulation and consequent outcomes. Tyson also spent years working as an advocate for sexual violence awareness and prevention.
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull
I have a background in both Zoology and Psychology, conducting comparative research on cognition and personality. I have worked as a postdoc in Germany and Switzerland, and recently started a lecturing role at Hull. My recent work has focused on using eye tracking to study the cognitive basis of a key aspect of language, in apes and humans.
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PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia
Vania is originally from Italy, where she completed her Master's in Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Turin. She became fascinated with the ocean since moving to Australia in 2013. Vania’s interests lie in the interrelations between the ocean and human health, in particular the global issues of food and nutrient security. She is exploring the challenges that compromise the role of wild capture fisheries in providing a secure source of food and nutrients, such as fisheries subsidies, overfishing and international trade. Vania wants to impact policy by providing information on how to make the ocean a more equitable place for all.
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Honorary Associate Professor, Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland
Professor Vânia Rodrigues Leite e Silva has 33 years of combined experience in industry and academia, within the cosmetics field. She has played a significant role as the former president of Associação Brasileira de Cosmetologia - the Brazilian Society of Cosmetology in strengthened connections between academia and industry while advocating for robust scientific and regulatory standards within the cosmetic industry. Furthermore, Professor Vânia currently holds an Honorary Associate Professor position at UQ.
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Senior Research Fellow, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Dr Vanita Yadav is a Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She specialises in innovation management, entrepreneurship, sustainable business, strategy and governance. She has more than 12 years of diverse experience in research and academia spanning multiple countries like Australia, the USA and India. Dr Vanita is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Research fellowship award for research in entrepreneurship and sustainable development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She was also a research affiliate at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University for her work on Innovation Management. She has led and worked on interdisciplinary international and national research projects and grants. Dr Vanita has also held many leadership positions, like Discipline Leader of Management and Innovation discipline at the School of Business & Law, Central Queensland University Australia, and founding leader of a Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy & Policy area chairperson at IRMA India.
At Western Sydney University, Dr Vanita is currently working on research projects examining issues of sustainability and regeneration for businesses, multi-stakeholder governance for climate challenges (like heat and housing), sustainable strategies for enhancing urban green spaces, and examining gender issues, equity and diversity in businesses. She has 50+ research publication outputs including Best Paper Awards, supervises PhDs, serves on editorial boards, and speaks at international events as a keynote speaker and expert panelist.
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Professor of Epigenetics, Queen Mary University of London
For my PhD (1999-2002) I investigated epigenetic inheritance under the supervision of Prof. Emma Whitelaw, University of Sydney, Australia. From 2003-2007, I was a CJ Martin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK; where, under the guidance of Dr Stephan Beck, I developed functional genomics tools for genome-wide DNA methylation analyses.
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Vasilis is the Director of MBA Programmes at Sheffield University Management School and member of the Investment Committee of the PJ Tech Venture Capital fund. He has spent several years in Silicon Valley holding executive positions and has cofounded successful high tech companies.
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Senior Research Scientist, Climate Forecasting, CSIRO
Dr Kitsios completed a PhD with the University of Melbourne and the Université de Poitiers (France) on fluid dynamical stability and model reduction of aerospace flows (2006-2010). He then undertook post-doctoral research with the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere division (2010-2013) and the Monash University (2013-2016), on the massively parallel numerical simulation (32,000 cores) and stochastic parameterisation of atmospheric, oceanic and boundary layer turbulence. He then held an industrial research position at a hedge fund (2016-2017) developing trading algorithms on the basis of macroeconomic themes and market conditions. Since re-joining CSIRO in 2017, he has been undertaking research on the data assimilation and stochastic modelling methods for improved climate state / parameter estimation and forecasting. His most recent research involves the application of machine learning for climate emulation, and quantifying the influence of climate on financial markets and health indicators.
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Professor of Finance, City, University of London
Vasso Ioannidou is a Professor of Finance, Associate Dean Research at Bayes Business School, and a Research Fellow at CEPR (Financial Economics). Vasso’s research interests and expertise are in the areas of financial intermediation, corporate finance, and monetary economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Boston College, Massachusetts. Vasso’s work has been published in leading Finance and Management journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Finance and it is regularly presented in leading international conferences. Vasso currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and is regular visitor and advisor at several policy institutions and central banks around the world.
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Assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, UCL
Vaughn Tan is a strategy consultant and assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University College London (on leave). His first book, The Uncertainty Mindset (Columbia Univ. Press, 2020), is a multi-year ethnography of globally renowned high-end cutting-edge culinary innovation teams including those at the Fat Duck, The Cooking Lab, and ThinkFoodGroup. It explains the history, dynamics, and organization of innovation in high-end cuisine, and why that industry is in a state of continual change. He is currently working on a project about not-knowing.
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Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Veera Sundararaghavan is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and the director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory. His research is on multi-length scale computational techniques for modelling and design of aerospace materials with a focus on microstructural mechanics and molecular simulation. He is particularly interested in new computational techniques that can revolutionize the way we compute in materials science: machine learning and quantum computing algorithms. He has published over 75 journal articles and made over 100 national and international presentations. He was awarded the 2010 NSF CAREER award, the 2012 DTRA Young Investigator Award and 2019 AFRL Faculty Fellowship. He is a lifetime member of AIAA, TMS and ASME.
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Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg
Veli is professor in philosophy and director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She is the principal investigator of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South (funded by the NIHSS) and a collaborator on Epistemic Reparations (funded by the Northwestern Buffett Institute). Veli works at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and social epistemology. At the moment, her focus is on epistemic injustice, decolonising knowledge, and the ways in which phenomena such as white ignorance should make us rethink central normative-epistemology concepts like epistemic risk, blame, responsibility, and expertise. She is the author of Believable Evidence (CUP 2017), and the editor of Epistemic Decolonisation (2020) and of The Factive Turn in Epistemology (CUP 2018). Before joining the University of Johannesburg in 2015, Veli taught and researched at Universität Wien, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Rhodes University (her alma mater), and Cambridge (where she obtained her PhD).
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Reader in Physics, University of Bath
I am a Research Fellow of the Royal Society and a Reader. Prior to that, I was a Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge, where I was associated with Homerton College.
My research focuses on the interaction between powerful laser light and nanostructured materials. Powerful lasers constitute highly sensitive probes for material properties at the nanoscale, especially through nonlinear optical effect, such as Second Harmonic Generation (SHG). I seeks to apply SHG to chiral plasmonic nano/meta-materials in order to achieve enhanced chiroptical effects. The latter could enable the manufacturing of healthier and safer pharmaceuticals.
Research interests:
Chirality, Plasmonics, Second Harmonic Generation, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics
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Associate Professor Natural Resource Management, Namibia University of Science and Technology
I am a bioscience engineer specialised in forestry and trained in Belgium and France with more than 25 years of work experience, most as an academic in Namibia.
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Research Fellow in Ecology and Evolution, University of Sussex
Vera Vasas is a computation biologist working in the field of animal cognition. Her work explores the algorithmic bases of vision and visual learning, aiming to understand the computations taking place in animal brains.
Her favourite subjects are insects - due to the dual selection pressures of living complex lives and being limited in their energy, insect brains are small and highly efficient, offering an excellent model system for studying the fundamental principles of animal minds.
Vasas is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, working on models of ant navigation with Prof Paul Graham. Previously she has worked at Queen Mary, University of London, where she studied visual cognition in bees with Prof Lars Chittka.
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Research Assistant, Mathematics Teaching and Learning Lab, Concordia University
Vera Wagner holds a Master's of Arts in Child Studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focused on children's thinking in math, in particular how certain mathematics tools can impact how young students develop their understanding of number. She puts what she has learned into practice as an elementary school teacher.
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Assistant Professor, Computer science, University of British Columbia
Vered Shwartz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, and a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. Her research interests focus on natural language processing, with the fundamental goal of building models capable of human-level understanding of natural language. She is interested in computational semantics and pragmatics, commonsense reasoning, multimodal models, and culturally-aware NLP models.
Before joining UBC, Vered was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Prior to that, She did her PhD (2019), M.Sc. (2015), and B.Sc. (2013) in Computer Science in Bar-Ilan University.
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Associate Professor of Marketing, EM Lyon Business School
I am an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Lifestyle Research Center at emlyon business school. My research broadly relates to consumption and sustainability and is informed by a transformative consumer research agenda that aims to benefit consumer welfare and quality of life.
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PhD Candidate, School of Science, Technology and Health, York St John University
I am a researcher pursuing my Ph.D. at York St. John University, focusing on the relationship between perfectionism and orthorexia. I hope to raise awareness of and educate others on the consequences of "perfect" dietary practices and the risks associated with taking "healthful eating" too far. I review for Appetite (Elsevier) and Eating and Weight Disorders (Springer). I write for Psychology Today and have published work.
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Associate professor, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Vernon is an Associate Professor at Auckland Law School. Before joining Auckland Law School, he was an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School at the Auckland University of Technology School of Law. Prior to commencing a full-time academic career, Vernon practiced environmental, planning and public law in Auckland, latterly as a partner at New Zealand national commercial law firm Chapman Tripp.
His teaching and research activities focus on four (related) areas of interest: public law, climate change law, international environmental law and New Zealand environmental law. Throughout his academic career, he has lectured in Public Law, Constitutional Law, Judicial Review, International Law, International Environmental Law, Resource Management Law and Climate Change Law.
He has published widely in the areas of environmental and international environmental law. In 2019, his research on a 5-year New Zealand Law Foundation-supported project critiquing New Zealand and international law responses to fossil fuel subsidies culminated in the publication of a monograph Fossil Fuel Subsidies: an International Law Response published by Edward Elgar. He is the author of Laws of New Zealand: Climate Change (LexisNexis NZ, Wellington, 2017); “International Environmental Law” in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (1st ed, LexisNexis NZ, Wellington, 2020); “Environmental Assessment” in Derek Nolan (ed) Environmental and Resource Management Law (7th ed, LexisNexis NZ, 2020).
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Research Associate in Medical Humanities, Durham University
I am an interdisciplinary medical humanities researcher, bringing together social science and literary studies methods to explore narratives and experiences of madness and mental distress. I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities where I am studying anxiety. In particular, I am interested in how anxiety is depicted in fiction, how these depictions are understood and assessed by people with experience of anxiety, and how anxiety might impact practices of reading and viewing fiction. This work emerges out of my PhD, which explored cultural representations of self-harm in literature, film, and television.
Throughout my work I use an interdisciplinary method to re-centre lived experience of madness and mental distress within questions of literary analysis and interpretation. Through this I explore broader questions of the relationship between the social and the cultural, the role of fictional texts in constructions of subjectivity, and the tension between personal sense-making and broader structural formations of meaning. Blending sociological discourse analysis and literary close reading I connect literary questions of genre, form, voice and narrative structure to sociological questions of identity, experience and chronicity. A short introduction to my research and the topic of narratives of self-harm, originally presented at a Time to Change event held on World Mental Health Day, can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/t3b06XaEmKA
I am currently undertaking a 2-year project at the Institute for Medical Humanities investigating narratives and experiences of debilitating anxiety. My doctoral research explored cultural representations of self-harm, as experienced and understood by people who have self-harmed. I am interested in bringing together Literary Studies and Sociological methods to explore the interplay and overlap between narrative and experience, particularly with regards to madness and mental distress. I use engaged and collaborative methods to centre lived experience within research. I am also the co-founder of Make Space, a user-led collective which seeks to facilitate more generous and nuanced conversations around self-harm.
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Associate professor, Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Veronica Hutchings is a registered psychologist and associate professor at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University, located in Corner Brook, N where she provides clinical services to the campus' 1300 students. She has a small private practice where she sees exclusively health psychology referrals. Previously she worked in Halifax, NS in seniors' health/geriatric medicine where the bulk of her caseload comprised of individuals living with dementia and their family members.
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