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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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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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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Professor of Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
Sally Archibald works on understanding the dynamics of savanna ecosystems in the context of global change. Her work integrates field ecological data, remote sensing, modelling, and biogeochemistry. She is currently involved in collaborative research projects on grass functional traits, inter-continental savanna comparisons, and the origins of wet-dry seasonality in Africa.
Sally’s research on global fire regimes has highlighted misunderstandings about the role of humans in altering patterns of fire, and has provided new tools for managing fire in conservation areas to promote biodiversity. Insights from her collaborative research into savanna ecosystem functioning is contributing towards better definitions of degradation in tropical ecosystems.
Current research interests include understanding fire, herbivores and droughts as drivers of tropical grasslands, inter-continental savanna comparisons, and the origins of wet-dry seasonality in Africa.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Westminster
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard was awarded her PhD from King’s College London after completing an ethnographic study into street children’s involvement in organised crime in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sally began her career as a researcher for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London, where she worked with young offenders engaged in violent offending, developed the MPS first Gangs Manual and represented the MPS in a collaborative study with the British Prison Service which explored the psychology of gang related violence. Sally went on to advise on a variety of criminal justice reform projects in Bangladesh, including leading the Bangladesh Prison Directorate and the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission through the development of their first strategic plans. She then lived in Beijing for 3 years where she led a study into migrant children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in China. Sally now works as a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster.
Sally’s research has been published in various journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, the Asian Journal of Criminology, Child Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Public Health among others. Her first book: The Gangs of Bangladesh; Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka. Palgrave Macmillan was awarded the Asian Society of Criminology distinguished book award in 2020. Sally frequently presents her work at international conferences and universities including the University of Cambridge, Oxford University, King’s College London, Hong Kong University and the University of Dhaka.
Sally’s current research focuses on county lines in the UK, specifically coercion, control and young people’s agency. She is involved in studies which consider street children’s relationship with play and the UNCRC and gang member life histories. Sally’s research also develops comparative analysis of street children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in Asia (notably Bangladesh, China and Nepal) and, in collaboration with colleagues in Nepal, the first study into street children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in Kathmandu. She is writing her second book, ‘Through the lens of labour: developing pan-Asia understandings of young people’s involvement in gangs and organised crime’. The book will propose and develop a new theoretical framework for considering juvenile offending ‘through the lens of labour’.
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, Nottingham Trent University
I am a PhD student and part-time lecturer in Public Health at Nottingham Trent University. I taught nursery to secondary pupils for over 25 years and worked as an Assistant Head Teacher of an Infant School for 9 years. I also founded and Chair a charity which operates in rural Uganda which helps to improve the lives of women and girls through education and social enterprise projects. My interests concern gender and global health.
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Sally has spent the last fifteen years investigating the influence of circadian rhythms on human activities. Her particular focus is the interaction between work hours, sleep and wake patterns and what that means for people's safety, health and well-being.
Sally publishes, supervises students and gets out of the office as often as possible
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Professor Friedman, who teaches courses in a variety of areas of American politics and methodology, is particularly interested in aspects of political representation and the processes associated with a representative democracy. Thus, her 2007 book Dilemmas of Representation is an effort to highlight the balance of local and national elements that make up the home styles of current members of Congress. While many scholars (rightly) highlight the importance of staying “local” as one goes about the business of “representing” constituents, in the modern era of strong parties, diverse groups and polarizing issues, in-depth case studies document how members of Congress additionally incorporate national elements in their presentations of self to constituents. The work also suggests that in fact the local and national elements of politics may be more connected than much previous literature has emphasized, and the case studies highlight the multi-faceted ways legislators have found to represent constituents.
In several other publications and papers, Professor Friedman has delved into other aspects of representation. Thus, questions she has researched have included: Do social backgrounds—in particular a background in business—impact legislative behavior (see Friedman and Witko—Congress & the Presidency). What factors impact the home styles of Latino representatives (see Friedman in Erikson forthcoming and Friedman, paper presented at the American Political Science Association meetings, 2008). In a partisan era, what factors lead some legislators to cross the aisle to work in a bipartisan manner (see Friedman and Ferradino, paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, 2008). In her efforts, Professor Friedman enjoys working with a variety of methodological approaches, including both qualitative and quantitative research.
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Conjoint Nurse Researcher, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Queensland
Dr Sally Havers is a committed infection control practitioner of more than fifteen years. Dr Havers has extensive experience and post graduate qualifications in the field of infection prevention and control, public health and healthcare management. She has an in-depth understanding of policy implementation in the hospital setting and experience in the management of large-scale, national prevention programs.
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Professor of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Sally Howell is professor of history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Her books include Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade (2011), Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past (2014), and Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging (2022). Old Islam in Detroit was named a Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan and given the 2014 Evelyn Shakir Award. Howell is also a curator of public history projects including the Halal Metropolis exhibition series, the Seen Jeem Podcast, and Unsettled Lives: Displaced Iraqis in Metro Detroit.
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Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
Using coral reefs as a model system, my team aims to:
(1) figure out if, when, how and why animal behaviour can scale up to influence the diversity and distribution of life on Earth,
(2) identify and explain global geographical patterns in animal behaviour,
(3) capture the impact of environmental change on (1)&(2), predict ecological vulnerability into the future, and offer solutions to increase ecosystem resilience.
To achieve these aims, we combine purpose-built fieldwork with a macroecological approach, conducting behavioural research in multiple locations across the world. This broad geographic coverage allows us to identify generalisable "rules" for how animals behave and understand how behaviour is affected by an animal's biotic and abiotic environment in the real-world.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London
I am currently writing a book based on my doctoral research findings that gender and race myths appear to trump the available empidemiological data when it comes to clinical and lay descriptions of menstrual health-related symptoms. I have a Master's degree in research methods (Qual & Quant), ten years experience as an evaluator of human rights policies and interventions (with a focus on gender equality), and ten years specialising in menstrual health research. I also founded the world's first evidence-based info hub on menstrual health and associated rights issues in 2016 (www.menstrual-matters.com).
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Associate Professor Education, Charles Darwin University
Sally Knipe is Associate Professor (Education) at Charles Darwin University. Sally is an experienced teacher and academic with an extensive background in the leadership and development of teacher education programs, which includes working as a national assessor of initial teacher education programs. Sally has published several articles in the areas of teacher education, school education as well as in the use of existing data.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University
I am interested in the evolutionary genetics of Southern Ocean benthic taxa. Currently investigating genome assemblies, evolutionary simulations, and the genomic signatures of glacial refugia, evolutionary innovation, seascape adaptation and historical ice sheet changes.
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Senior Lecturer Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Sally’s career as a public health nutritionist has spanned three decades from working as a health promoter to academic. She began work with the Heart Foundation as a health promoter focusing on caterers and during this time completed a PGDip in Public Health. With a move to Nelson, she worked as a health promoter at the local public health unit and then with the Ministry of Health as senior advisor on the 2008/09 National Nutrition Survey. She completed a PhD at the University of Auckland with the INFORMAS research group on methods to monitor the cost and affordability of diets. This began a research career in monitoring food environments both in Aotearoa and globally with the INFORMAS network. She teaches population health nutrition at the University of Auckland and supervises Masters and PhD students. She is part of research teams developing the methods for the next national nutrition survey and evaluating the National Healthy Food and Drink Policy. Sally recently presented the keynote Muriel Bell lecture at the Nutrition Society of NZ conference in 2022 in recognition of her services to nutrition.
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Associate Professor of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University
Sally Matthews is an associate professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. Her research and teaching interests are in comparative politics, African studies and development studies.
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Strategic Lead for Early Years and Director of the Early Years Community Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Professor Sally Pearse
Sally is the Strategic Lead for Early Years at Sheffield Hallam University. Since 2017 Sally has led the work with early years colleagues from across South Yorkshire to develop a range of collaborative projects. These have included a £1million project, funded through the DfE Early Outcomes Fund to transform the regions speech, language and communication services and the development of an Early Years Community Research Centre in Sheffield which is now delivering nursery places in an area of social and economic challenge. Prior to this role Sally was Hallam’s Head of Area for 0-5 Teacher Education. Before joining the university, Sally was a teacher, community development worker and the director of a charity that ran a day nursery, family learning and health projects and a community café. Sally was made a National Teaching Fellow in 2018 and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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University Teaching Fellow, Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
Sally Reis is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, and a Teaching Fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. She currently holds the Letitia Neag Chair in Educational Psychology. She was a public school teacher and administrator for 15 years, prior to her work at UConn. She has authored more than 250 articles, books, book chapters, monographs and technical reports. She has traveled extensively across the country conducting workshops and providing professional development for school districts on enrichment programs and gender equity programs. Sally serves on the editorial board of the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past-president of The National Association for Gifted Children. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and was named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Association for Gifted Children.
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