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Smitha Rao
Assistant Professor of Social Work, The Ohio State University
Dr. Smitha Rao’s work at the intersection of environment, development, and social policy is informed by her interdisciplinary background in social work and human geography. Her research interests include: (1) extreme weather events and contextual vulnerability, (2) improving adaptive capacities among communities to deal with climatic and other stressors, and (3) effects of air pollution on environmental health and improving access to clean energy. Dr. Rao has over a decade of macro-practice experience spanning academic and not-for-profit settings. This included post-disaster community-based reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, campaign strategy and design for local and international environmental organizations on climate change, phasing out toxins from industry, and promoting sustainable agriculture practices. Her current work encompasses social vulnerability in the context of disasters and disaster risk reduction to develop knowledge and inform policies centering underserved communities. Her interdisciplinary work touches upon climate change implications for vulnerable groups, energy poverty, anti-oppressive praxis, and ecological justice.
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Smytta Yadav
Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Dr. Smytta Yadav is an anthropologist whose research has primarily focused on labor, precarity, informality, autonomy, global production networks, globalization, urbanization, industrialization, and heritages.
She has held research fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the University of Manchester, Queen's University Belfast, the University of York, and the University of Bristol. Additionally, Dr. Yadav has extensive teaching experience, having taught Anthropology at the University of Sussex and lectured in Human Geography at the University of Brighton. Previously, she also taught Cultural Anthropology, Globalization, and International Development at the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University and at the State University of New York.
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Sneha Shah
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
In my long standing experience as a bench scientist I am skilled in molecular biology, RNA and epigenetic studies, neuroscience, genetics, Ribosome profiling and cell biology. My current focus is studying autism and Fragile X Syndrome in mouse and human patient derived iPSC cells.
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Soeren Mattke
Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California
Dr. Soeren Mattke is a Research Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory. The Observatory work on health system aspects of brain disorders with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease. So far, the Observatory has published analyses of health system preparedness to deliver a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment in 14 countries as well as analyses of diagnostic technologies and the economics of those treatments. Dr. Mattke serves on the Editorial Board of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, on ADI’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel, the CTAD Workgroup on Blood Based Biomarkers and a Consensus Panel for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care. Dr. Mattke has authored over 150 peer reviewed journal papers and technical reports
Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke was a Senior Scientist at RAND Health, a global think tank, where he led the private sector healthcare practice, and worked at the OECD in Paris on benchmarking healthcare systems in industrialized countries, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and got his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.
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Sofia Gameiro
Reader at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff University
Dr Sofia Gameiro is a mathematician and clinical and health psychologist. Her academic work aims to support people in all steps of achieving their parenthood goals or, when this proves impossible, in coming to terms with an unfulfilled wish for children. She conducts research and publishes in the best peer-review journals on the topic, trains health care professionals worldwide and participates in multiple events to raise awareness about the emotional aspects of (in)fertility. She chaired the first European evidence-based guidelines for delivering routine patient psychosocial care at fertility clinics, has been on the editorial boards of Human Reproduction (ESHRE) and Fertility and Sterility (ASRM), and coordinated the Psychology and Counselling special interest group of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). She is a certified Clinical Psychologist and a senior lecturer in Health Psychology at Cardiff University.
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Sofia Pantano
Masters Student, Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I have obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Management at Carleton University and starting a MA in Human Kinetics in Fall 2023 at the University of Ottawa. I have numerous years of experience in lifeguarding, swim instructing, teaching first aid training, playing water polo and doing synchronized swimming. Aquatic safety is something that I am very passionate about and my goal is to increase water safety awareness to the greater population.
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Sofia Persson
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
I am a senior lecturer in Psychology. My main research interest is rape mythology, and how this is scaffolded in society, e.g., in the media. My research also focuses on how scientific communication can be used to support sexist stereotyping and myths and misconceptions about sexual violence.
I am an open science advocate.
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Sofia Romualdo
My research focuses on how gameful design – that is, design inspired by game elements and design, applied to non-game contexts – and the resulting game-like experiences have the potential to transform how museum visitors engage with a museum’s physical space. This investigated is supported by a collaborative doctoral award from REACT and Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM). The goal is to develop a framework that can be adapted by museums to inform the creation of rich, interactive, and gameful experiences that engage their audiences in a playful way. This framework will then be tested at the RAMM as part of my investigation, with the creation of diverse gameful experiences, such as museum-hosted game jams, gameful trails, and mixed reality game experiences.
As part of this investigation, I will study different kinds of gameful experiences in museums, from the use of full-fledged videogames as support and educational tools, to gamified platforms, to exhibitions built from the ground up to be game-like, to hybrid reality gameful experiences.
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Sofia Barbosa Boucas
Reader in Psychology, Brunel University London
Dr Sofia Barbosa Boucas is a respected academic with extensive experience in psychology and education. She joined Brunel University London in January 2018, following a distinguished career path that reflects her dedication to research and teaching.
Prior to her appointment at Brunel, Dr Barbosa Boucas held positions at respected academic institutions, where she made significant contributions to the field. She conducted post-doctoral research and served as a Teaching Associate at the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, and the Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy, University of Reading. Subsequently, she held a post-doctoral research position in Allied Health Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.
In 2013, Dr Barbosa Boucas transitioned into an academic role as a Lecturer in Health Psychology at Oxford Brookes University. Her commitment to advancing knowledge in the field of health psychology was evident throughout her appointment. In 2015, she continued her academic journey as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University, where she further honed her expertise in teaching and research.
Currently, Dr Barbosa Boucas holds the position of Reader (Education) in Psychology within the Division of Psychology, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences at Brunel University London. In this role, she continues to contribute to the academic community through her research endeavours and her dedication to providing high-quality education to students.
With her extensive background and commitment to academic excellence, Dr Barbosa Boucas is a valued member of the academic community at Brunel University London.
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Sofya Aptekar
Associate Professor of Urban Studies, City University of New York
I am a sociologist who studies immigration, the military, urban public spaces and gentrification, race and ethnicity, and alternatives to capitalism. In 2023, I am focused on sharing the findings of my new book, Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (MIT Press). The research for this book has allowed me to become an expert on immigrant enlistment in the US military, including through special programs like MAVNI, the role of race, gender, and immigrant status in the experience of military work and separation, and deportation of veterans. I also write about diversity discourse in the military, topical because of SCOTUS decisions on affirmative action in college admissions, which the US military consistently opposes.
With Dr. Hsin, I have examined the experience of undocumented college students in New York. We have published our findings in several articles, focusing on the experience of understudied groups, such as Asian undocumented youth. We have also published our findings on the tensions between college staff's understandings and goals in supporting undocumented students and the students' experiences and needs. We also developed the concept of stratified entry into illegality, analyzing the role of how one becomes undocumented on subsequent trajectories. My first book, The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States (Rutgers) contains a unique analysis of naturalization ceremonies, as well as analysis of why immigrants seek citizenship and inequities in its acquisition.
While much of my recent work is centered on immigration, I have also researched and written about gentrification and public space. My research on community gardens, public libraries, parks, and farmer's markets has been well received, and I continue to engage with these subjects as a reviewer, book review editor, and in the classroom.
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Solangel Maldonado
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
I am a tenured professor with over 20 years of experience teaching in the areas of family law, race and the law, gender and the law, and torts. I am the author of the forthcoming book The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (NYU Press May 2024). I am also the co-editor of two casebooks: Family Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2019) (with Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman, and Philomila Tsoukala) and Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law (Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2015) (with D. Marianne Blair, Merle H. Weiner, and Barbara Stark). I have also published numerous law review articles in the areas of race and family law and I am an Associate Reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Children & the Law.
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Soma Chatterjee
Associate Professor of Social Work, Associate Member, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Canada
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Somayeh Sadegh Koohestani
PhD student, University of Technology Sydney
Somayeh is a PhD scholar at the University of Technology Sydney
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Somdip Dey
Embedded Artificial Intelligence Scientist & AI Music Producer, University of Essex
Somdip Dey, FRSA, also professionally known as InteliDey, is an Embedded Artificial Intelligence scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, AI art & music creator and TED speaker. Dey is the CEO of Nosh Technologies, the CTO of Blockway Technologies, a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Essex, and a Lecturer of Data Science at the York St John University. He is also the Danah Zohar Professor of Quantum Philosophy & Professor of Practice (AI/ML) at Woxsen University, India. He has more than 13 years of industrial experience including working for Microsoft and Samsung in developing technological products that are currently used by billions of users in different ways. For contributions to improving society through applications of embedded machine learning Dey is elected a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, named an MIT Innovator Under 35, an Outstanding Achiever in Education, Science & Innovation at the 2023 India UK Achievers Honours and a 2022 World IP Review Leader.
Dey was born on December 13, 1990, in Kolkata, India. Dey is the only child of a painter mother, Soma Dey, and a commercial artist father, Sudip Dey. He attended South Point High School in Kolkata, India and went to study bachelor's in Computer Science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, where he graduated with a first-class degree (2012). After graduating with a Computer Science degree Dey pursued a career of an engineer, a scientist and an entrepreneur. In 2012, Dey invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates.
In 2013, he moved to the U.K. to pursue a master's study and while pursuing his MSc at the University of Manchester in 2014, his parents had a car accident that made him the family's sole breadwinner. Sending money to his family to support them left Somdip with an empty bank account and he was left to collect food waste from dumpsters. This led him to co-found Codeepy, a start-up committed to co-developing the world's first crowd food-sharing platform, which was made open source. It won the 3Scale API Award at the Koding's 2014 Global Hackathon & inspired entrepreneurs around the world to develop similar solutions.
In 2020, when the pandemic took over the world and people started to overbuy groceries to adapt to the changing shopping schedule, it ran the risk of increased food wastage at home. Dey co-developed an award-winning AI powered food management app - nosh - to help users reduce food waste in the household. In 2021, Dey co-founded Nosh Technologies (nosh tech inc. - US & Nosh Tech Ltd. - UK), which provides the nosh app solution to reduce food waste at home, and he also assumed the role of the CEO & Chief Scientist of the company.
In 2022, Dey co-developed a machine learning based platform to reduce scams and malicious behavior in blockchain projects while empowering on-chain marketing. This led him to cofound Blockway Technologies (Blockway Tech Inc.).
Dey is a member of the technical program committee and reviewer of several top technical conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Design Automation fields such as AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ASAP, IEEE EdgeCom, IEEE CSCloud, etc. He is also an editor of numerous academic journals.
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Somin Lee
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Applied Physics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
Somin Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Applied Physics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. She is a member of IEEE and SPIE. Her research is in light-matter interactions to image below the diffraction limit and to control nanoscale objects in the fields of nanophotonics, super-resolution and plasmonics.
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Sona Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University
Dr. Sona Kumar is a postdoctoral scholar at Purdue and her work focuses on the development of STEM learning and motivation in early childhood, investigating how caregivers like parents and teachers can best support children’s early engagement and sense of belonging in STEM.
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Sonal Choudhary
Sonal Choudhary, MD is a dermatology trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2015 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology.
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Sonali Campion
Doctoral Researcher in Politics, University of East Anglia
Sonali holds a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. Her PhD research at the University of East Anglia is funded by an ESRC SeNSS studentship and explores the concept of capacity in the context of election management bodies.
Sonali previously worked in international electoral assistance and has supported observation missions and training in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Pacific. She is an affiliated researcher with the Electoral Integrity Project, and in summer 2023 was a visiting scholar at International IDEA in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Sonali Das
Full Professor, University of Pretoria
Prof Sonali Das holds a PhD in Statistics (University of Connecticut, USA), and is a Full Professor in the Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria. She is a C-rated SA NRF researcher, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2020 Prof Das was the recipient of the Mujeres Por Africa (MxA) award from Spain to pursue collaboration with Spanish Universities. In 2018 she was the Chair of the Women in Science Without Borders conference. Her work is transdisciplinary in nature where her interest lies in deciphering the underlying data generating process to answer relevant questions. She publishes widely, and supervises a group of motivated post graduate and doctoral students.
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Sonam Thakchoe
Senior Philosophy Lecturer, University of Tasmania
I hold a PhD in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy from the University of Tasmania (2003), Masters's Degree (Acharya) in Advanced History, Philosophy and Hermeneutics in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with a double major from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS, 1998) and a Bachelors Degree (Shastri, 1996). I am one of the very few Australasian scholars in the field—and, indeed, the only Asian-born philosopher with significant experience in an in-depth study of Indo-Tibetan philosophy in close collaboration with Western colleagues. I am making significant contributions to research in this field at the University of Tasmania, and my work has received international recognition. I am the key person in the Philosophy Program at the University of Tasmania responsible for research activities on the topics of Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhist philosophy. I am one of a small coterie of researchers in the field of Buddhist philosophical studies in Australia, and my research activities have significantly contributed to the internationalisation of the research culture of the School of Humanities at UTAS. Previously dominated by the Western Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions, the style of thinking and research focus in the School has now transformed into a significantly more expansive cross-cultural, interdisciplinary philosophical exchange by way of integrating the philosophical methods of Asian, comparative and intercultural thought.
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Song Shi
Associate Professor School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
Song received his Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree in 1991 from Southeast University, China and completed his PhD in Property Studies in 2009 from Massey University, New Zealand. His PhD thesis has been included in the Dean's List of Exceptional Doctoral Theses.
In 2011, Song won the prestigious national Property Institute of New Zealand Academic Award. In 2013, Song was invited to Tsinghua University, China for a scholar visit of 3 months. In 2017, Song left school of economics and finance at Massey University and joined UTS in the school of built environment. He teaches property finance, investment and financial analysis subjects at UTS.
Song has widely published his research work in top academic journals, including Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, and Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management.
He is the board director of Global Chinese Real Estate Congress and currently on the editorial board of Pacific Rim Property Research Journal and International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.
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Sonia Anand
Associate Vice-President Global Health, McMaster University
Dr. Anand is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, and a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences in Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease, and is the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Dr. Anand is a senior scientist at the Population Health Research Institute. Her present research focuses on the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, and women and cardiovascular disease.
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Sonia Colina
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
Dr. Sonia Colina's areas of expertise are Spanish phonology (Optimality Theory, syllable structure) and Translation Studies (translation in language teaching, translation pedagogy, translation quality and translation in health care and research). She is the author of Fundamentals of Translation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Syllable Structure in Spanish (Georgetown University Press, 2009), Translation Teaching: From Research to the Classroom (McGraw-Hill, 2003), the co-editor of The Handbook of Spanish Phonology, Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española, Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, and Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected Proceedings of the 39th LSRL, and the author of numerous book chapters and articles in refereed journals. In addition to her publications, Professor Colina has served as an investigator and consultant for the Robert Wood Johnson foundation (Hablamos Juntos program) and as research team member in the UA’s NIH funded-project Oyendo Bien (Hearing Well) (with faculty from Speech and Hearing and Public Health) which used the Community Health Worker model to improve access to care by limited English proficient populations with chronic hearing loss on the Arizona-Mexico border. She was responsible for the translation/language mediation aspect of the grant. She was also a Co-Investigator on another NIH grant with the UA’s Department of Management of Information Systems on Spanish/English automatic text simplification. Sonia Colina is regular faculty in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program and is affiliated with the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (College of Science). She serves as Director for the UArizona's National Center for Interpretation and is a founding member and Past President of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA) (www.atisa.org).
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Sonia Graham
DECRA Fellow, University of Wollongong
Dr Graham is a rural, environmental geographer with a mathematical bent. Combining these two skill sets, she uses social science methods and computer modelling to understand how the relationships between individuals and institutions affect the management of natural resources.
Dr Graham has been researching the nature of collective action in weed management for over a decade. Previously she has worked at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her other research has investigated the social and equity outcomes of adaptation to sea-level rise.
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Sonia Hassan
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Wayne State University
Dr. Hassan is Associate Vice-President at Wayne State University (WSU), a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Maternal Fetal Medicine. She has founded and led all research, program administration, staffing and budget
allocation for multiple Women’s Health initiatives and centers throughout WSU and in collaboration with the
National Institutes of Health including: the WSU Office of Women’s Health (2019), WSU COVID-19 in Pregnancy
State of Michigan Collaborative, Make Your Date, an implementation science program to reduce preterm birth, the
leading cause of infant mortality (2014), The WSU Perinatal Initiative (2012) and NIH’s Center for Advanced
Obstetrical Care and Research (2007). In addition, Sonia has extensive policy experience including currently serving
as co-chair of the State of Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health and Equity Collaborative and has several roles
supporting access of medical care to
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Sonia Livingstone
Sonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She teaches master's courses in media and communications theory, methods, and audiences, and supervises doctoral students researching questions of audience, publics and users in the changing media landscape. She is author or editor of eighteen books and many academic articles and chapters. She has been visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen, Copenhagen, Harvard, Illinois, Milan, Paris II, and Stockholm, and is on the editorial board of several leading journals. She is past President of the International Communication Association, ICA. Sonia was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2014 'for services to children and child internet safety.'
Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, Sonia's research asks why and how the changing conditions of mediation are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action, identity and communication rights. Her empirical work examines the opportunities and risks afforded by digital and online technologies, including for children and young people at home and school, for developments in media and digital literacies, and for audiences, publics and the public sphere more generally.
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Sonia Phalatse
Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Researcher on feminist economics, climate justice and inequality at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies.
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Sonika Singh
Senior lecturer, Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
Sonika is a Senior lecturer at the UTS Business School and currently serves as the Marketing Post Graduate Program Director. She holds a PhD in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research appears in the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Retailing & Consumer Services, Customer Needs and Solutions, and Higher Education Development and Research. She is the winner of 2020 UTS Learning and Teaching team citation award.
The broad domains of Sonika’s empirical research are Digital Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Retailing and Strategy. She has presented her research at leading marketing conferences in Australia, U.S., Europe and India.
Sonika is very motivated to engage with the broader community to foster social change within and beyond the boundaries of UTS and finds it fulfilling to demonstrate the real impact of her work. Outside of work, Sonika volunteers for Survivor Vision Australia.
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Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
Associate Professor in Policy and Intersectionality, UCL & Honorary Senior Researcher, United Nations University
Assoc Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson's research is broad and interdisciplinary with a particular focus on policy, intersectionality, and violence, as well as their overlaps with migration, refugees and trapped populations, trafficking or health and mental wellbeing. She is based at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction where she leads the ‘Everyday Disasters and Violences Research Group’ and two modules on humanitarian policy and responses to violence and marginalisation.
Assoc Prof Ayeb-Karlsson is also an Honorary Senior Scientist at the UN University’s Migration Section in Bonn, Germany, she leads the mental health work of the Lancet Countdown, and was part of the ‘Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Climate Emergency and Mental Health Task and Finish Group’. She is a core member of the SHERA research group and on the Hague Mothers UK steering committee. She is an associate editor for and on the editorial boards of four international high impact academic journals. Her work is well-published and widely covered by media outlets across the world.
Currently, she is particularly interested in furthering our understanding of policy protection vs. lack of protection, psychologically ‘trapped’ populations or legal entrapment, and safeguarding through specific legal systems and policy tools (such as Family and Criminal Law, the Human Rights Act, the Istanbul Convention, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child).
Assoc Prof Ayeb-Karlsson is available for PhD supervision in any of these research areas as well as work linked to the study of (im)mobility, gender-based and structural violence, conflict and disasters, non-economic loss and damage and other policy areas focused on the climate-violence-health loss nexus, Violence Against Women and Children (conflict, interpersonal, and domestic), child sexual abuse, exploitation and human trafficking, as well as policy and legal weaponisation or lawfare such as through the use of so-called 'parental alienation' or Hague parental ‘abduction’ proceedings to continue legal abuse and coercive control.
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Sonja Falck
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of East London
Senior Lecturer and author Dr Sonja Falck is also a psychotherapist and supervisor of therapists. She is Senior Accredited with the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy). In her private practice in north London and internationally online, she specialises in helping adult individuals, couples, and groups communicate more effectively, and build and sustain good friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships.
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Sonja Klebe
Associare Professor, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Associate Professor Sonja Klebe is a senior staff specialist in Diagnostic Pathology at Flinders Medical Centre and a Clinical Academic Associate Professor at Flinders University. She has a special interest in pleuropulmonary pathology and molecular pathology with a focus on mesothelioma and asbestos-related diseases.
Sonja graduated from Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, with a MD in Biochemistry. She completed a PhD in Immunology and Gene Therapy at Flinders University in Adelaide in 2000 and obtained her Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists (RCPA) in 2005.
She is a Member of the International Mesothelioma Panel, the Pulmonary Pathology Society and the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) and IASLC staging committee. She is also a member of Lung Expert Group for development of Lung Cancer Structured Reporting Protocol for the RCPA and heads the mesothelioma structured reporting. She is a contributor to the WHO blue books. She regularly serves as an expert on diagnosis in mesothelioma to the courts. She has been an invited speaker for the Australian Society of Cytology Annual Conference, the Australian Lung Cancer Conference, World Lung Cancer Conference and the Australasian Pleuropulmonary Society as well as COSA.
She has successfully supervised 7 honours and 6 PhD students to completion. Her interests have focussed on clinically relevant basic research applications, and her 7-year appointment as Chief Examiner for the RCPA underscores her standing as an expert in pathological processes. She has published 5 book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed publications.
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Sonja Petrovic
Assistant Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
Dr Sonja Petrovic is lecturing and teaching in the Media and Communication program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her academic work focuses on addressing dynamics of communal belonging and public trust in digital spaces and in the context of crisis and disasters. Sonja is currently researching Japanese young women’s self-expression and self-actualisation practices in short-video formats and apps like TikTok; specifically, how this growing platform can accommodate new modes of expression and empowerment for young women through public self-staging, while considering intersecting themes of emotional labour, fandom, and online identities.
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Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, The University of the West Indies
Sonjah Stanley Niaah is a Jamaican cultural studies and music scholar, cultural activist and international speaker. She is the first Ph.D. Cultural Studies graduate from the University of the West Indies (UWI), and the first to be appointed Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies there. The inaugural Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies (2005), Sonjah Stanley Niaah is a former head of the UWI's Institute of Caribbean Studies & Reggae Studies Unit, and is a leading author, teacher and researcher on Black Atlantic performance geographies, popular culture and the sacred, and Caribbean Cultural Studies more broadly. Stanley Niaah is the author / editor of numerous publications.These include Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto (University of Ottawa Press, 2010); Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture (UWI Press, 2020); Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life (Routledge, 2022); A Study on the Creative Industry as a Pillar of Sustained Growth and Diversification - The Film And Music Sectors In Jamaica, UNECLAC Studies and Perspectives Series - No. 72 (2018); ”I’m Broader than Broadway: Caribbean Perspectives on Producing Celebrity' (Wadabagei, Vol. 12: 2, 2009); and ‘Of Sacred Crossroads: Cultural Studies and the Sacred’ (Open Cultural Studies Vol. 3, No.1, 2019).
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Sonto Madonsela
PhD student, Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
I am a third-year PhD student in psychology at Wits University and a research assistant at the Health Communication Research Unit. My PhD research focuses on adolescent mental health. My PhD topic, ‘Mhealth services for adolescent mental health: a focus on Soweto’, looks at how technology can be leveraged to provide mental health services to adolescents. My research interests are in health communication, mental health and migration. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a research assistant and sessional lecturer in the School of Human and Community Development at Wits University. I have been involved in collaborative multidisciplinary projects, including research on African migration and health communication in diverse contexts.
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