Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research, UCL
My expertise is in research methodologies in education, including randomised controlled trials and meta-analysis. I contribute to evidence reviews and impact evaluations of educational programmes and initiatives. Much of my work is focussed on socio-economic inequalities in education and I provide policy advice to the Social Mobility Commission. I also regularly work directly with schools, local authorities, and multi-academy trusts to improve the use of evidence in practice. This work includes supporting teacher research and developing school policy. I speak at research conferences and teacher training events.
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Professor, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
Sally is Professor of Disability and Community Inclusion in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. Her interests and expertise centre on the use of creative methods to engage people with cognitive disability in research to express their perspectives on key issues.
Sally has contributed to a wide range of research and evaluation in the social policy arena over the past decade, focusing particularly on safety and harm, accommodation and social exclusion concerns of people with disability.
She is actively engaged in community and government policy debates, frequently advising on the development of policy and practice on abuse and abuse prevention, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and community inclusion for children and young people. Prior to life as a researcher, Sally has a long history of advocacy and support work with people with intellectual disability. She has worked with people with intellectual disability for over 30 years.
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Professor of Law, University of Bristol
Sally Sheldon is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She has published widely in this field, including two books on abortion law: 'Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion law' (Pluto 1997) and 'The Abortion Act 1967: a Biography of a UK Law' (CUP, 2022, co-authored with Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill and Clare Parker, and funded by the AHRC, AH/N00213X/1).
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I am a Lecturer in Private and Commercial Law. I hold a PhD from LSE, LLM from Cambridge, and LLB from LSE. I currently sit on the Law and Technology committee in the Scottish Law Society.
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Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, University of Essex
Sally joined the University of Essex in 2019. She graduated as a Sports Therapist in 2001 and has since spent time in academia, sport and clinical practice in the UK and in South Africa. She completed her PhD in Human Movement Science at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and an MSc in Sports Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University in 2019. She is a member of the Society of Sports Therapists, Sport and Exercise Nutrition register and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.
Research interests include training and nutrition for endurance sports (with a particular focus on iron-distance triathlon masters athletes) and physical activity and health.
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Research fellow, Australian National University
Sally’s research interests focus on Islam, gender and politics in Indonesia.
From 2018 to 2021 Sally was a key researcher in the ‘Supporting the Rules-Based Order in Southeast Asia (SEARBO)’ project funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Under SEARBO, she headed up (with Edward Aspinall) a research component on women’s political participation in Indonesia, and (with Greg Fealy) a second component on polarisation within the Islamic community in Indonesia.
Sally’s current research focus, as part of a ARC Discovery Project led by Professor Edward Aspinall and Dr Eve Warburton, is on women's political representation in Indonesia.
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Reader in Music Business, University of Westminster
Sally Anne Gross is both a music industry practitioner and an academic. In 1993 she was the first women to work as a director of Artist and Repertoire at Mercury Records UK, and in the same year she chaired the first ever panel on women in the music industries at ‘In The City’ music conference in Manchester. Sally Anne has been working in the music industry for nearly three decades, as an artist manager, record label director and international business affairs consultant. In her current role at the University of Westminster, she is the program director of the MA Music Business Management where she teaches Intellectual Property and Copyright Management, Artist & Repertoire and Music Development. In 2016 she founded ‘Let’s Change the Record’ a project that focuses on bridging the gender divide in music production by running inclusive audio engineering and song-writing workshops for people identifying as women or non-binary. Sally-Anne is the co-author of ‘Can Music Make You Sick’ the largest ever study into mental health in the music industry that was funded by the charity Help Musicians UK and published in November 2017. She is interested in working practices in the music industries and the conditions of digital labour and specifically how they impact on questions of diversity and equality. Sally-Anne has four grown up children all of whom work one way or another with music, and although she always identifies as a ‘native’ Londoner, she actually lives in North Hertfordshire.
Research
Labour relations in the music industry - in sickness and in health. Gender inequality in the business of music and music production. Big data - what do the numbers really tell us? The politics of cultural production.
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Research Fellow, Deakin University
I am an Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University. I have been a performing artist (dance) and have a BA in Asian Studies from the ANU, a Master's Degree in Critical Theory and PhD in Cultural Studies (Monash University 2004).
I was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin (2004-2017) and have published widely in Arts and Humanities journals and other forums. I translated a major dance reference work from French published as 'Poetics of Contemporary Dance' (Dance Books 2010), and have co-curated numerous conferences and other events including Dance Remains, a monthly foyer series of presentations at MUMA, 2017.
I was co-editor of Writings on Dance journal (1985-2012) and am currently co-editor of Palaver books and have co-edited 'Continent Aflame: reflections on an Australian catastrophe' and 'The Voice, A Question for the People'.
I am also active in the field of landcare and have recently been involved with Djarra women in the North Central Region of Victoria on a Victorian Government funded cultural burning and women's digging stick farming project, to be continued.
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Senior Lecturer In Advanced Practice, University of Gloucestershire
Sally-Anne Wherry (she/her) is a senior lecturer in Gloucestershire, teaching Advanced Practice to healthcare staff. A specialist Parkinson and Movement Disorder nurse, she is currently working on a PhD around intergenerational trauma from the Contaminated Blood Scandal, of which her family are a part.
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Associate professor, Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi
Prof Salome Bukachi is an Associate professor in the University of Nairobi’s Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies. She has a background in medical anthropology with a bias to infectious diseases in the areas of - community participation, gender, health systems, socio-economic and behavioural studies, food safety and security, and water, sanitation and health (WASH). She works with various stakeholders both local and international in undertaking research and development on anthropological issues. Her main disease focus has been– African trypanosomiasis, Rift Valley fever, brucellosis among others. Her recent research projects include; IDRC/BMGF/Global Affairs Canada funded research, “Gender Inclusive Vaccine Ecosystem: Enhancing Distribution and Delivery Systems for New Castle Disease and Caprine pleuropneumonia among smallholder farmers under the Livestock Vaccines Innovative Fund; An Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded research , “Rapid assessment of the impact of covid-19 on wet market reforms in Kenya, Philippines and Vietnam” and an African Oxford Initiative (AfOx) funded study, “Food safety and WASH in households with young children and its impact on their nutritional and health status in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya She serves as a member of the Africa Region Ecohealth Chapter, a member of the Africa One Health Network (AfOHNet) Steering Committee and a member of the One Health High level Panel (OHHLEP).
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Dr. Salsabel Almanssori is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Windsor. She teaches at the Faculty of Education and in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies. Informed by her previous career as an elementary school teacher, her interdisciplinary research is focused on the areas of teacher education, public pedagogy, digital pedagogy, sexual violence, technology-facilitated violence, and experiential learning. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy; Pedagogy, Culture, and Society; Gender and Education; Teaching and Teacher Education, among others. Salsabel is currently the Principal Investigator of two large SSHRC-funded Projects: (1) Pedagogy of social change: Teacher education to prevent sexual violence; and (2) The intersections of manosphere masculinity and technology facilitated sexual violence in Ontario secondary schools.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University
I research how climate change impacts water resources in Western North America, where snow and glaciers play profound roles in shaping how our society functions. During my PhD I published research about community vulnerability to the loss of glacier ice, as well as several additional papers about how data science and deep machine learning can reveal the changing role of ice in our water systems. As a postdoctoral research fellow, I investigate how extreme events like heatwaves impacts river flows. My research has been published in outlets such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, and Hydrology and Earth System Science. Beyond scientific research, I have published multiple essays in The Globe and Mail about the parallels between climate change impacts on ice and snow, and personal experiences such as healing from grief and fostering community.
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
Dr Sam Bennett joined the Grattan Institute as its inaugural Disability Program Director in September 2023. Sam has worked on disability, aged care, and health reforms at a national level for over fifteen years.
In his previous role, he led the Policy, Advice and Research Division of the National Disability Insurance Agency, where he shaped and delivered national policy, and implemented the Agency’s Research Strategy. Sam was also responsible for supporting the work of the NDIS Independent Advisory Council.
In the UK he led transformation programs in the National Health Service (NHS) integrating social care and health services. He was responsible for the UK Government’s program to extend personal health budgets for people with complex disability and chronic health conditions until 2018.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the West of England
Dr Sam Bourton is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Steering Board Member of the South West Fraud Forum. She teaches on the LLB and LLM programmes, with modules including the Law of Financial Crime and Regulation and International Financial Crime. Sam’s research interests lie in the law of financial crime, particularly tax evasion, fraud, and money laundering. Sam is currently writing a monograph for Routledge, which examines the law and enforcement policies pertaining to tax evasion in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Lecturer in Education, University of Bath
My research and teaching interests are focused upon the relationship between policy and psychology. I'm interested in how policy and discourse "shapes" us. I have published a lot in this area and am authoring my second book around educational policy and its link to motivation.
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PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York
Sam Crane is an award-winning video artist and actor.
In a theatre career spanning twenty years he has been critically acclaimed for his performances at the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, in the West End and on Broadway.
His films have been screened at contemporary art and film festivals worldwide. He won the Critics’ Choice award at Milan Machinima Festival, First Prize for Video Art at The Athens Digital Arts Festival and was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
His production of Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto won The Stage Innovation Award 2023 and is the subject of a forthcoming feature length documentary.
He is currently playing Harry Potter in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and can soon be seen as Jacques-Louis David in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming film Napoleon for Sony Pictures and Apple TV.
He is a PhD candidate at York University's School of Arts and Creative Technologies (under the supervision of Dr Ben Kirman and Dr Karen Quigley) and is a member of the PEERS programme of artistic researchers at Zurich University of the Arts.
He read Classics as an undergraduate at Oxford University and trained as an actor at LAMDA where he won the Nicholas Hytner scholarship.
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Lecturer School of Business and Creative Industries, filmmaker, University of the West of Scotland
Sam Firth is a practicing filmmaker and lecturer with an interest in both documentary and fiction filmmaking. Her work explores documentary form, the construction of personal narrative, notions of truth and objectivity and our relationship to place. Her fiction films have focussed specifically on the experience of young women. She has won awards internationally. She has also worked extensively as a community film practitioner.
Sam has been as a script consultant for a number of organisations including Film Four, Screen Yorkshire and the Welsh Arts Council. For many years Sam ran her own film production company Tiny Spark Productions where, she developed and delivered educational film programmes in primary and secondary schools across Scotland. Sam has also delivered programmes for the BFI Young Filmmakers Academy and taught at the Met Film School and has won awards for her work in this area.
Sam Firth's primary area of expertise is in filmmaking practice, but also the pedagogy of teaching filmmaking.
Sam's first three films use first person filmmaking to explore notions of self identity and the constuction of personal narrative. Her film Stay the Same which explored our relationship to time (2012) won International Competition in 2013 at Videoex Experimental film festival in Zurich and a special mention at Stuttgart Filmwinter. Her first film I.D. won the DepicT! Award at Encounters Film Festival and the Human Condition Competition at Chicago International Film Festival in 2010 and has been screened at the Tate Modern in Liverpool.
In 2012 Sam won a special commendation in the Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Award and an award of £10,000 for her work.
Her fiction film Creeling explored the depiction of teenage female sexuality and sexual desire in cinema. Creeling screened at the Edinburgh Film International film festival and is now used as a teaching tool in Germany and Austria .
Sam's most recent film The Wolf Suit premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. It explores reconstruction both in personal memory and in documentary and it's relationship to truth and reality, specifically in the context of families histories and 'gaslighting'.
Sam has evaluated, developed, facilitated and delivered community film projects with children and young people since 2001 and has won awards for her work in this area. Over this time Sam developed innovative ways of working with children and young people to explore their creativity through film. This interest in teaching creativity and encouraging creativity in teaching has continued in her role in HE and she has delivered workshops for academics on the subject.
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
Dr Sam Hirst is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham, working on displays and events for the bicentenary of Byron's death. They work on Gothic literature and theology and intersections of LGBTQIA+ history and literature. Their monograph The Theology of the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834 was released in 2023. They run an interdisciplinary online education project Romancing the Gothic, which runs free online classes, reading groups, and events
You can listen to them discussing Byron's letters here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OneUYJw_E&t=15s
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PhD Candidate, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
Sam Jeffrey (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. His PhD is investigating barriers to care for trans and gender diverse people with endometriosis, looking at gaps in Australia and Aotearoa health care provider curriculum as a key barrier to care. His research aims to assess the current inclusion of trans health in medical and complementary medicine curriculum across Australia and Aotearoa to develop curriculum recommendations and a trans health care module.
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Senior Lecturer in Neural Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Sam John is a senior lecturer in neural engineering at the University of Melbourne. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has extensive research experience in the development of neural interfaces and implantable devices. He has a passion for bridging the gap between cutting-edge medical technology and real-world applications. His research focuses on next-generation neural interfaces.
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Sam Jones is an Associate Professor in Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Sam specializes in research in applied macroeconomics, foreign aid effectiveness, labour markets and education quality, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, Sam worked for the Bank of England and spent seven years supporting the Government of Mozambique. Since 2012, Sam has collaborated with Twaweza in the large scale learning assessment exercises undertaken by Uwezo across East Africa.
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Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Wyoming
Sam Kalen joined the University of Wyoming College of Law faculty in 2009, and he is the William T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean, as well as the founder and co-director of the School’s Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies. Sam earned his B.A. from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, and he spent a year studying legal history and constitutional thought in a PhD program at the University of Virginia. Before joining UW, Sam taught as a visitor or adjunct at a number of other law schools, he also served in the Solicitor’s Office at the Department of the Interior during the Clinton administration, and he practiced for many years with a Washington, D.C., law firm. Immediately after law school, he clerked at the Missouri Supreme Court.
Sam is passionate about teaching and writing in a variety of areas that impact environmental, public lands and natural resources, energy, and administrative law. He spent years practicing in each of these areas, including working with Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Nations, and attempts to explore these areas in both the classroom and in his scholarship. He is the author and co-author of numerous law review articles, including one that was cited and quoted in a Supreme Court opinion. His most recent law review article appeared in Maryland Law Review, on "Public Land Management’s Future Place: Envisioning a Paradigm Shift" (Vol 82, page 240, 2023). He also is a co-author of the American Bar Association’s Endangered Species Basic Practice Series book (2nd edition), a co-author of Natural Resources Law and Policy (3rd ed. Foundation Press), and a co-author Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America’s Energy Policy (Cambridge U. Press 2018).
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Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow, Institute of Metabolic Science and Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge
Sam is trainee diabetes and endocrinology doctor and a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD student at the Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge. His work uses human genetics and model systems to discover novel causes and risk factors for human disease. He completed his undergraduate medical training at Queen's University Belfast followed by a visting studentship in Joslin Diabetes Centre, Harvard Medical School before returning to the UK to begin his clinical academic training in Belfast as an Academic Foundation Doctor and then in Cambridge as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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Research Associate in Marine Behaviour , University of Cambridge
I am fascinated by the behavioural strategies of predators and their prey. My PhD largely concerned how the presence of visual noise (in the form of dynamic illumination) within a habitat can alter the salience of motion, and subsequently influence predator-prey interactions and foraging behaviour. Two forms of dynamic illumination were of interest: dappled light (in terrestrial environments) and water caustics ("wave-induced flicker"; in aquatic environments). I am continuing this theme throughout my current role, expanding our knowledge to highlight how water caustics in marine habitats can also influence social interactions and collective behaviour. I am also interested in the emergence of interspecific foraging strategies and the ecological factors that may determine such interactions. In particular, I study the foraging behaviour and wider ecology of the trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus.
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Tutor and researcher in Philosophy of Science, Manchester Metropolitan University
Doctoral researcher in history and philosophy of science (MMU) studying the inter-war physics boom, particularly Sir Arthur Eddington.
Masters degrees in both molecular biology (Birkbeck) and theology (Chester)
Undergraduate degrees in genetics (Cambridge) and theology (Chester)
Tutor and lecturer in undergraduate philosophy at MMU.
Upcoming doctoral researcher in molecular biology at Reading studying DNA repair proteins (January 2025)
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Associate Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong
My main research interests are within social, evolutionary and environmental psychology although I have a wide range of interests across the sciences and humanities. Presently I am working on projects related to the clinical application of psychedelic drugs, mental health decision making and people's attitudes and feelings towards the natural world.
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Commissioning Editor, International Affairs
Sam began his media career shortly after graduating in Economics from the University of Leeds in 2021, when he undertook a position as Green Mobility Policy Editor at Ibex Publishing. He wrote on topics pertaining to transport and energy sustainability. His interests are in the application of economics to environmental and policy issues.
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Samuel is an ESRC funded doctoral researcher based in the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption (SCSC) interested in party funding regimes and corruption in Western Europe.
His thesis is titled: Party Funding Regimes and Corruption: Linkages, Relationships and Trends.
The research is a comparative study of three advanced democracies in Western Europe (Denmark, France and the UK) and investigates whether a certain type of party funding regime (e.g. public or private funding) leads to the prevalence of a certain type of corruption.
There has been little research - academic or otherwise - which attempts to investigate these linkages, the hypothesis is that certain types of party funding regime are not necessarily more corrupt than other types; but that perhaps different types of corruption occur in different types of party funding regime. It is important to understand more about how democracy is funded and how that might lead to specific types of corrupt practices.
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Lecturer in Criminology, Aberystwyth University
Sam is a senior lecturer at Aberystwyth. She specialises in miscarriages of justice, media portrayal of victims and the more general experiences of victims of crime, including victims of animal abuse, farm crime, rural crime and wildlife crime.
Sam's primary area of research is miscarriages of justice and she has published extensively within this field. Her most recent research for her PhD thesis, entitled 'Watchdogs of the wrongly convicted: the role of the media in revealing miscarriages of justice', investigated the role of journalists in revealing wrongful convictions in England and Wales from the 1960s through to the present day.
Sam's research in this area, is in part driven by Walker and Starmer's (2002) rights-based theory of miscarriages of justice, (thereby adopting a broad definition of the phenomenon to include, not only wrongful convictions, but many other forms, including failures on the part of the CJS to act/ 'do enough' in criminal cases). It is also driven by the notion that victims of miscarriages of justice are 'voiceless victims'. This focus, has more recently led to her increasing interest in another, much neglected group of 'victims', namely victims of animal abuse, wildlife crime, farm crime and rural crime in England and Wales.
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PhD Candidate, Literary Studies, University of Tasmania
am Ryan is an emerging critic and early career researcher. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, where he is working on a thesis on the poetry in Overland and Quadrant. More broadly, he is interested in the genre of literary journal and its place in literary cultures. He has worked in publishing – in various functions – for more than a decade. He is Overland’s digital archivist and has a firm belief in the importance of digital preservation of literary journals. He has written for the Australian Journal of Biography and History, the Australian Book Review, Cordite, and The Conversation.
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Professor of Education Policy, University of South Australia
Sam Sellar is a Dean of Research and Professor of Education Policy at the University of South Australia. Sam’s research focuses on education policy, large-scale assessments and education technology. He is currently co-investigator for an Australian Research Council grant titled Artificial intelligence in education: Democratising policy. He has also recently published a book titled Algorithms of Education: How datafication and artificial intelligence shape policy, co-authored with Kalervo N. Gulson and P. Taylor Webb.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
I'm a cultural anthropologist specializing in religion, ethics, and strategies of influence. I use my training as an ethnographer to make sense of situations where people find themselves pulled between conflicting commitments. I'm co-editor of the special issue "Religious Suasion" (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024). My current work analyzes how moral values shape economic action in the social innovation sector.
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Associate Professor Sam Wylie is Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Business School.
His research and consulting is focused on the investment management and hedge fund industries, especially performance measurement and incentives.
In 2005 Dr Wylie’s work was published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Business.
He was an Assistant Professor at the Tuck School of Business from 1997-2004. The Tuck School, is one of the world’s leading business schools, being ranked #1 in world by the Wall Street Journal in 2006. Dr Wylie’s courses at Tuck were regularly rated among the best at a school renowned for teaching excellence.
Dr Wylie obtained his PhD from the London Business School. He also has a Master of Economics degree from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Western Australia.
From 1986-1992 he was an Intelligence Officer with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Dr Wylie is married and has three young children.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law, Trinity College
Sam Hayes is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in the departments of Political Science and Public Policy and Law for the 2023-2024 academic year. He completed undergraduate degrees in political science and journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and earned his PhD in political science at Boston College. During and following graduate school, Sam also taught at Wheaton College and Colby College, with classes on law, politics, voting rights and political geography. These courses used small class sizes and interactive methods to combine philosophic inquiry with practical applications. Sam studies American government and public law with research on the U.S. federal courts, electoral institutions, state and local politics, and political geography. Sam enjoys hiking, cycling, and spending time with family and friends, especially his wife Deidre and their daughter Lucy.
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