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Tami S. Rowen
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Gynecologic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Rowen is a general obstetrician and gynecologist with a clinical and research focus on sexual health and gynecologic care for women with disabilities as well as women with cancer. She is an international expert in sexual health, serving as a board member for the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. She has also conducted several studies on family planning as well as safe motherhood in developing countries.
As a generalist, Dr. Rowen also provides family planning services as well as management of routine and complex gynecologic conditions, including surgical services and office treatment for conditions ranging from abnormal uterine bleeding, fibroids, adnexal masses, cervical dysplasia and endometriosis.
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Tamika Worrell
Associate Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
Dr Tamika Worrell is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies Macquarie University. She has recently completed her PhD thesis "Prioritising Blak Voices: Representing Indigenous Perspectives in NSW English Classrooms". This thesis continued her work in representation, secondary schooling and Indigenous education.
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Tamlyn Avery
Lecturer in American Studies, The University of Queensland
I am a Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Queensland, specialising in literary studies and modernism. My research interests include topics in American literature, modernism, music and literary studies, and African American Literature. My current research projects investigate the history of race and white-collar labor, as it was represented in American modernist literature; and also examine how classical musical composers and sound technologies influenced the politics of literary innovation in modernism and African American literature.
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Tamlyn Monson
Postdoctoral research fellow, Coventry University
I am a research fellow at Coventry University, with a multidisciplinary academic background. I hold a PhD in Sociology (LSE), and postgraduate degrees in Forced Migration Studies (U. Witwatersrand) and Applied Linguistics (Birkbeck).
Much of my professional life has been dedicated to research, policy and knowledge mobilisation around issues of community relations, migration and integration. I have worked in the UK and South Africa across the government, NGO and academic spheres.
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Tammy Gaber
Director, McEwen School of Architecture, Laurentian University
Dr. Tammy Gaber is Director and Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture, which she joined as Founding Faculty in 2013 and helped create new curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate programs. Dr.Gaber has won awards for the impact of her teaching and research, won several federally funded grants, and has published extensively and taught in architecture programs for the past two decades. Dr.Gaber’s ground breaking book , Beyond the Divide A Century of Canadian Mosques Design published by McGill-Queen’s press was profiled in the Globe and Mail and various journals, periodicals and television. In 2019, Dr. Gaber won the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and in 2020 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for a Full-time professor. Dr.Gaber was awarded Canadian Federal funding, again, in 2022 for her research on the sacred spaces designed by the Modernist architects Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto and is currently working in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Finland on an exhibition set for 2024. As an acclaimed pedagogue and academic, Dr.Gaber’s leadership of the McEwen School of Architecture has demonstrated tenacity and proactive initiatives to address the particular challenges during her term. As one of the first women of colour to lead a school of architecture in Canada, she has led the amelioration of curriculum and set the course visioning the future.
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Tammy Rittenour
Professor of Geosciences and Director of Luminescence Lab, Utah State University
Dr. Tammy Rittenour is the Director of the USU Luminescence Lab and Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Utah State University. Her research combines geomorphology, sedimentology and stratigraphy to reconstruct past climate and landscape evolution from fluvial, eolian, glacial and geoarchaeological records. She developed the USU Luminescence Lab in 2007 and has experience with Luminescence geochronology since 2000.
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Tamryn Frank
Researcher, University of the Western Cape
Tamryn Frank is a researcher at the University of the Western Cape’s School of Public Health (SoPH). She works in the field of obesity- and non-communicable disease prevention. This informs her current PhD work which is in the area of obesity prevention policies in low income settings. Prior to joining the SoPH, Tamryn worked as a primary health care dietitian for the department of health, both in the Eastern and Western Cape in South Africa. Her masters research focused on human rights and food security.
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Tamsin Barnes
Inidustry Fellow, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
Dr Tamsin Barnes is an Industry Fellow in the School of Veterinary Science at The University of Queensland. She is a specialist in research technology.
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Tamsin Mather
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
My main research interests centre on the science behind volcanoes and volcanic behaviour. My motivation is to understand volcanoes as (a) natural hazards, (b) a key planetary scale process throughout geological time, vital for maintaining habitability and (c) natural resources (e.g., geothermal power and the development of ore deposits).
Specific interests include:
The atmospheric chemistry of volcanic plumes including the effects due to background air mixing into the hot gas mixture and volcanic lightning;
Quantifying and understanding the volcanic fluxes of chemical species of atmospheric importance over different temporal and spatial scales (gases and particles) and their roles in global geochemical cycles;
Volcanic degassing processes and the formation of volcanic aerosol;
The emission and chemistry of mercury in volcanic plumes;
The ultimate fate, atmospheric and environmental effects of volcanic emissions;
Using stable isotopes to understand volcanic processes;
The cycling of volatiles through subduction zones;
Patterns and forcing of volcanism on the arc scale;
Studying volcanic deformation in order to understand the physical processes of magma movement and storage and the structure and stability of volcanic edifices.
These interests also lead me away from volcanoes at times and I have also studied the emissions from an oil depot fire (Buncefield 2005) and am generally interested in the global mercury cycle as well as other biogeochemical cycles.
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Tamsin Mynett
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment, Kingston University
I worked as an engineer in the automotive industry for 25 years, followed by a brief stint working in the claims industry. Finally, for the last 12 years, I have been teaching mathematics and physics up to A-level standard. I am now a PhD research student in the area of Astrodynamics.
Whilst working as an engineer I became a technical trainer, writing and running courses, some of which were Geometric Tolerancing, Experimental Design, Robustness and Presentation Skills. I worked on the shop floor and in production engineering as well as in quality control. As a technical trainer for an engineering management and training company, I became the company subject matter expert for Experimental Design and Taguchi Methods.
My PhD project aims to create a computer simulation of the time and space-dependent nature of spacecraft trajectories. Based on the knowledge gained from these simulations, exemplar trajectories for space mining activities will be explored.
The project requires the use of astrodynamic methods to analyse and identify possible low-fuel trajectories to asteroids within our solar system. Stable and unstable manifolds will be used to find heteroclinic connections between different Three-Body planetary systems. An ephemeris model and statistical analysis will identify trajectories that optimise time and fuel requirements.
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Tandi Matsha-Erasmus
DVC Academic and Research, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
As an accomplished Executive Leader in Higher Education, I specialise in transforming institutions through strategic leadership and innovative solutions. With a proven track record of 20 in senior and executive roles, I am dedicated to enhancing academic quality, student success, and operational efficiency. I have a growing list of publications having published 100 scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals, 2 book chapters, 2 Novel SNP database entries, and 1 patent. I have achieved a high professional standing in my field having been awarded several honours, including the 2018/2019 NSTF-South32 Awards which recognises outstanding contributions to science, engineering, and technology (SET) and innovation in South Africa. In addition to my academic work and the training of postgraduate students in medical research, I have contributed to several initiatives that promote the participation of women in science at institutional, regional, and national levels.
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Tania Li
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
I am a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. My research concerns land, labour, capitalism, development, politics and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. I aim to bring my research into dialogue with scholars in multiple fields (eg geography, planning, law, environmental studies) and with activists and policy makers who are curious about how their interventions work out on the ground.
The books I have written tackle these themes in different ways. They are Malays in Singapore: Culture, Economy and Ideology (1987); Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power and Production (edited, 1999); The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development and the Practice of Politics (2007); Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch) (2011); Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (2014); and Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone (with Pujo Semedi, 2021).
Land's End won two book prizes: the senior book award of the American Ethnological Association and the George T. McKahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies. The latter also awarded Honourable Mention for Plantation Life. My books and many of my articles have been translated into Indonesian where they are used in university teaching and public debate.
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Tania Moerenhout
Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Otago
GP with a PhD in philosophy, current research focused on digital health ethics
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Tania Sheikhan
PhD Candidate, History of Art, UCL
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century European history, with particular emphasis on French sartorial politics (strategic use of dress to convey political and social ideals) and sartorial appropriation (the adoption and presentation of non-Western garments in shaping colo-nial narratives around cultural superiority). On the first point, I’m interested in exploring ideas around the political implications of ‘power-dressing down,’, which is the focal point of my dissertation’s third chapter where I examine Napoleon’s clothing choices prior to becoming First Consul and Emperor. This is done in parallel with research into the peri-od’s leading female figures of fashionability including Thérésa Tallien and Juliette Ré-camier. On the second point, I’m particularly interested in examining male appropriation of non-European garments. This subject often highlights the role of French women in such cross-cultural colonial exchanges; which I argue merits further nuance as my disser-tation’s fifth and sixth chapters examine French soldiers intrigue and adoption of Mame-luke attire during the Egyptian campaign of 1798.
Publications
Sheikhan, T. ‘Politics, Fashion and Female Agency in Parisian Salons c. 1800: The Case of Juliette Récamier.’ Object Vol. 23, Issue 1 (2022) : 47-64.
Zasrodney K, Sheikhan T, Sheikhan N, Pinto A, Witek T.J. ‘Trends in FDA Drug Promo-tion Enforcement letter over a Ten Year Period.’ ISPOR International Meeting 2018.
Sheikhan T, Witek TJ. ‘Women’s health and Commerce: A Historical Perspective.’ MISC Magazine July 2016, 106-108.
Curatorial Work
Femininity Unbound, Grémio littéraire de Lisbonne, Portugal
Junior Curator, 2023
North South / East West, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal
Junior Curator, 2018
Hotel Bogotá, Toronto, Canada
Junior Curator, 2014
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Tania Signal
Professor of Psychology, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia
Dr Tania Signal comes originally from New Zealand where she received her PhD in Psychology from Waikato University working within the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research Centre. In 2003 she moved to Australia and took up a Lectureship at Central Queensland University, now a Professor she has developed a comprehensive research program investigating a range of human-animal relationships particularly the overlap between human and non-human health and wellbeing. Tania is a member of the Queensland Centre for Domestic & Family Violence Research, the Appleton Institute and a Charter Scholar Member of the Animals & Society Institute (USA). ORCID: 0000-0001-5677-9496
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Tania A. García de la Parra Bañares
Estudiante de Doctorado, Universidad de La Rioja
Soy estudiante de doctorado, docente en un centro educativo de secundaria y autodidacta de la vida.
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Tanika Raychaudhuri
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University
Tanika Raychaudhuri is an Assistant Professor at Rice University who specializes in American politics with a focus on immigration, race, and inequality. Her current book project uses surveys, experiments, and in-depth interviews to explore how Asian Americans — the fastest growing racial group in the United States — learn about American politics and develop partisan preferences. Her other research explores questions about immigrant political representation as well as race and public policy. She has published her research in Electoral Studies, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Politics, and other academic journals. Her recent work has been recognized through awards from the American Political Science Association (REP Section Best Paper Award 2021) and the Midwest Political Science Association (Lucius Barker Award 2024).
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Tanja Beer
Senior Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Dr Tanja Beer is a Senior Lecturer in Design at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Originally trained as a set and costume designer, her extensive career as an ecological designer, community artist and researcher builds on more than 20 years of theatre practice. Tanja’s pioneering concept of Ecoscenography has been featured in numerous programs, exhibitions, articles and platforms around the world. She is the author of Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance (2021).
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Tanja Radu
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, Loughborough University
I am a Lecturer in Water Engineering, with more than 15 years of international experience in water and environmental engineering. My main research interests include waste water treatment, renewable energy from waste and supplying energy for rural communities in developing countries. Currently, I am focusing on the process of biogas generation from waste using the technology of anaerobic digestion. I am involved in a range of international projects providing small-scale, decentralized sustainable energy generation. This includes international research projects (please see below). In addition, I have broad experience in studying heavy metal transport phenomena. For example, I am involved in research of mercury phytoremediation and removal, and its effect on the biological systems. My research collaborators include academics and industries from the UK, Thailand, India, Bahrain, and across Europe.
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Tankiso Moloi
Full Professor and Director: Academic at the Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
Tankiso is a Director: Academic, Full Professor, and Research Chair in 4IR at the Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg. He has previously been a Finance & Risk Executive at Anglo American (Kumba Iron Ore) and the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has participated and held various strategic board positions which includes being the Chair of Africa’s Regional Engagement Group (June 2022 to date), Vice-Chair (June 2021 to May 2022) and Member of Africa Regional Advisory Panel (Apr 2019 to May 2022) in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants/Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the Chair of Work Stream 6-Core 4IR Technologies (September 2021 to August 2022) in the Namibia’s 4IR Task Force, the Board and Member of the Audit Committee for AB4IR NPC (Oct 2020 - March 2022), the Board Member (Dec 2020 to 30 September 2021 and Audit, Risk and Finance Committee Member for the Green Matter NPC (Oct 2019 to 30 September 2021), being the Council Member and Chair of Finance Committee in the South West Gauteng TVET College (2019-2020), the Audit and Risk Committee Member at Sedibeng TVET College (2017-2017), and the Member of Ministerial Advisory Council on Energy, South Africa’s National Department of Energy (2015-2017).
His qualifications include a Ph.D. in Finance (UCN EU Programmes), MCom in Accounting (UNISA), MSc in Financial Management (London), MA in International Relations (Leicester), Postgraduate Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics (Texas at Austin), Postgraduate Programme in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Texas at Austin), Hons BCom in Accounting (UNISA), and a BCom (UNISA). He is also a Chartered Management Accountant (CMA) holding a Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). In addition, he has completed leadership and technology programmes which includes a Program for Management Excellence (Gordon Institute of Business Science), the Executive Program in Artificial Intelligence (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the Executive Program in Blockchain Technologies (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the Executive Leadership Programme (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford).
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Tanya Dewey
Assistant Professor, Biology, Colorado State University
Tanya Dewey is an assistant professor of biology and associate chair of undergraduate studies at Colorado State University. She has a diverse research interests, including education research and primary research on the impact of accurate species delimitation on conservation and management issues. She studies North American bats, including the impact of white-nose syndrome, invasive fungal disease that is devastating bat populations in eastern North America. She has also been involved in spatial ecology research on Myotis to try to understand their susceptibility to white nose syndrome.
Dewey also is the director of the Animal Diversity Web and is particularly interested in the impact of authentic, data-driven inquiries on student engagement and learning gains in biology classrooms. As a QUBES Mentor, she works with faculty across the United States to improve integration of quantitative and data-driven skills into undergraduate classrooms. She works with dozens of undergraduate educators every year to provide and assess the value of writing-in-the-discipline experiences in natural history.
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Tanya Hill
Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museum Victoria
I am an extragalactic astronomer, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and am currently working in the field of science communication at Melbourne Planetarium.
I have been the Curator (Astronomy) at Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks since 1999, drawing on my background in research astronomy to create more than a dozen planetarium productions. The most recent of these are now screened in over fifty planetariums across sixteen countries world-wide.
I am proud to be the Australian Representative of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Science Outreach Network. This sees me working with Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) to promote ESO’s extensive research accomplishments throughout Australia.
I am also involved in projects to bring research astronomy data into the planetarium to both engage the public and to turn the planetarium into a tool for research astronomers wanting to know more from their data.
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Tanya McDonald
Lecturer, Children's Health and Community, Charles Darwin University
I am an Indigenous woman from Kirrae Whurrong/Gunai Kurnai Country in Victoria. I am living and working in Alice Springs as a Lecturer in Community Services, Children's Health and Community for Charles Darwin University.
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Tanya Rouleau Whitworth
Research Scientist for the Sibling Aggression and Abuse Research and Advocacy Initiative at the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center
I study families, parenting, mental health, and sexuality, with a focus on the well-being of children and adolescents. Most of my projects involve statistical analysis of survey data, but I also collaborate on mixed methods projects.
My work has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Gender & Society, and Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
In my dissertation, Parents as School Supplies: How Support from Mothers and Fathers Contributes to Inequality in College, I examined how the range of support college students report receiving from their mothers and fathers varies by gender, social class, and race/ethnicity. I considered, in turn, how different types of parental support affect degree completion.
I also have ongoing collaborative research projects in three areas: (1) sibling dynamics; (2) the support college students give to and get from their families; and (3) social networks, academic success, and well-being in law school.
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Tanya Zack
Visiting researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr. Tanya Zack is a South African planner specializing in urban policy, regeneration, informality and sustainable development. She has been an advisor and consultant in the development arena for over 25 years and has worked locally and internationally with senior level clients in government, academic institutions, the private sector, and directly with the communities. She has wide experience in establishing and managing teams on complex programmes integrating fields such as housing, informal economies, city governance and sustainable development with policy development, capacity building and meaningful monitoring and evaluation. Her projects in the inner city including taking a lead in the development of an inner-city transformation policy, and on cross border shopping, have influenced City strategy and are recognised as ground-breaking interventions. She is the author of an acclaimed series of photo books entitled Wake Up This Is Joburg. She has deep knowledge, experience, a proven track record and a passion for working with likeminded organisations and individuals on complex programmes that aim to tackle long-term sustainability challenges in contemporary urban sites.
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Tanya L. Sharpe
Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Founder & Director of The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims, University of Toronto
Dr. Tanya Sharpe is a community-engaged researcher, who is passionately committed to the development of culturally responsive approaches and sustainable opportunities that allow Black communities to thrive in the face of homicide victimization. Over her 20-year career, Dr. Sharpe’s innovative and community-directed contributions have not only shaped and advanced the field of homicide research, but have created an essential seminal paradigm that considers the interplay between the chronic traumatic experiences of anti-Black racism and homicide. She has used this ground-breaking framework to develop culturally appropriate interventions, tools of measurement, impactful policy and best practices designed to assist Black survivors of homicide victims in the management of their grief and bereavement. Dr. Sharpe is currently an Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) at the University of Toronto (U of T), the FIFSW Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Community, and the Founder and Director of The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB). Her work has been published extensively in referreed scientific journals spanning the disciplines of social work, sociology, criminology, public health, children and youth, Black studies, and trauma, and has been cited over 1,140 times in publications (h-index 19). Through this, and her more than 30 local and international plenary talks on the disproportionate impact of homicide on Black communities, Dr. Sharpe has inspired broad and impactful change in research, policy and practice, and achieved tangible and meaningful outcomes for victims and survivors of crime.
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Tapan Sarker
Senior Lecturer, Department of International Business & Asian Studies, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Dr Tapan Sarker is a Senior Lecturer based at Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia. His research investigates how socioeconomic, regulatory and environmental factors influence the ways in which people use, perceive and govern natural resources, with a particular emphasis on economic and sustainability accounting principles. Tapan is a former World Bank scholar. He complements his research work with experience in government, international organisations, and iNGOs.
Dr Sarker leads a range of collaborative externally funded project funded by ACIAR, DFAT, NCCARF and The World Bank.
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Tapani Rinta-Kahila
Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland
I am a Lecturer of Business Information Systems at The University of Queensland Business School. I hold a doctoral degree in Information Systems Science from the Aalto University School of Business. My research addresses issues related to implementing and managing artificial intelligence in organisations, focusing on AI's effects on work, skills and organisational outcomes. My main method of inquiry is qualitative case study, and I have uncovered various underexplored phenomena using that method.
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Tapas Sen
Dr Sen is an expert in nano chemistry and nano-biomaterials with more than 20 years research experience from laboratory scale development to commercial products. He is the principal inventor of three Great Britain patents and has published more than 50 high impact peer review journal articles of his original work, two high impact review articles, two book chapters and seven articles in books in the area of nano-biomaterials chemistry.
He managed several research projects as a principle investigator in the past and currently managing a unique research area “Magnetic Hyperthermia” in collaboration with nanoscale Biomagnetics SL, Spain funded partially by Royal Society, UK. He is the coordinator of one on-going international project funded by UKERI (www.nanowateratulcan.org) in collaboration with two industrial organisations and one academic organisation. He has successfully delivered as a chair / coordinator of one International workshop on magnetic nanomaterials in August 2015 (https://nanowateratuclan.org/an-international-workshop-on-magnetic-nanoparticles/) and one international symposium “Functional Nanomaterials in Industrial Applications: Academic-Industry Meet” in March 2016 (www.nanosymposiumatuclan.net).
Due to his outstanding research reputation, he has been invited to present his group’s research work at top international nanotechnology conferences across the globe, chaired several sessions and participated as a panel member of several forum discussion with academic and industrial organisations. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Higher Education Academy, UK and member of the Editorial board of two peer review journals, a member of the peer review panel of the research council UK and Royal Society, UK. He has also completed a foundation degree in project management (PRINCE II) endorsed by the UK government as the project management standard for public projects
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Tara Crandon
Psychologist and PhD Student, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
I am a PhD Student in the Child & Youth mental health group at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, researching climate anxiety in children and young people. I have a Master’s degree in Psychology and practice as a Psychologist with children, adolescents and young adults.My clinical and research interests are in supporting children and adolescents experiencing mental health concerns.
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Tara Vinodrai
Associate Professor, Institute for Management and Innovation, University of Toronto
Tara Vinodrai is a Professor and Director of the Master of Urban Innovation program at the Institute for Management and Innovation at the University of Toronto. She holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Geography and Planning and is a Faculty Associate of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Dr. Vinodrai's research focuses on innovation, economic development, work and labour market dynamics, and technological change in cities. Additionally, she has long-standing interests in the creative and cultural industries, clusters and the uneven outcomes, patterns and equity implications associated with changes in urban and regional economies.
Dr. Vinodrai's award-winning research has been recognized in Canada and internationally by the Academy of Management, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, the Journal of the American Planning Association, the American Association of Geographers, and the Canadian Institute of Planners. She is regularly called upon by to provide advice to large cities and smaller communities and all levels of government related to innovation, economic development and urban prosperity.
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Tara Woodyer
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Portsmouth
I graduated from Royal Holloway (University of London) in 2003 with a BSc (Hons) in Geography. I then went on to complete an MA in Cultural Geography Research (Royal Holloway, 2004) before taking time out of academic study to work in the area of Special Educational Needs in secondary education. I then returned to Royal Holloway to complete a PhD in Human Geography (2009) and Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning (2006). Following completion of my PhD (funded by an ESRC Studentship awarded through the Open Interdisciplinary Competition), I joined the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter in 2009 as a Teaching Fellow. In 2011 I was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I completed at Exeter alongside a period as Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Children and Children Studies at Rutgers (Camden) in the US. Following completion of my postdoctoral studies, I joined Geography at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer.
Teaching Responsibilities
I deliver social and cultural geography components of the undergraduate teaching in the department. I am the co-ordinator of two human geography units:
Foundations of Human Geography
Place: Invented, Experienced, Represented
I also contribute to the following co-taught units:
Geography, Skills and Prospects
Social Geography: Geographies of Wellbeing
Research Design and Practice
Human Geography: critique and discourse
Independent study
I jointly teach a European residential field course to Berlin explores urban geographies, more specifically landscapes of memory, subterranean geographies and gentrification.
I have contributed chapters to the following book series:
The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography series
The Open University’s Childhood series
Ashgate’s Critical Geopolitics series
I have also contributed chapters to the following reference volumes:
Springer’s Geographies of Children and Young People series
CQ Press Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture
Research
Ludic (or playful) Geographies
My interest in play extends to it role across the lifecourse, and coalesces around three key themes: the relation of play to the everyday, a reconfiguration of the politics of play toward an inwardly oriented vitality, and the ways in which play exceeds representation. I am particularly interested in the critical and ethical potential of playful ways of being and doing and how this can operate as an affirmative mode of critique.
Geographies of Material Sensibilities
My research examines how material geographies and sensuous geographies can inform each other in productive ways around questions of tactility, affect and relational agency. As a geographer, it is not only the material relations between people and things that are of concern to me, but also the imaginative spaces that can be configured through these relations and how these spaces are enacted in and of the ‘real’ spaces of the everyday.
Creative Methodologies
Influenced by my concern with material and sensuous geographies, I am interested in exploring ways of investigating non-cognitive and profoundly practical knowledges.
Current Research Projects
Ludic Geopolitics: children’s play, war toys and re-enchantment with the British military
Funding: ESRC Standard Grant (£492,850)
This project analyses military action figures for the purpose of examining a ‘ludic geopolitics’: how contemporary geopolitics are expressed and enacted through play. Studies of the ‘military entertainment complex’ have documented the entanglement of the military and toy industry, however work has focused on videogames in a US context. Despite the iconic status of traditional toys like Action Man, and the commercial success of the contemporary HM Armed Forces brand, action figures are yet to receive critical academic attention. Using an ethnographic approach, this project examines children’s embodied practices with the HMAF range. To contextualise and historicise the brand, this work is complemented by archival and museum-based research of the British action figure’s trajectory. This research critically reviews the status of children, mundane everyday practice and the more-than-textual in critical geopolitics, and makes a significant intervention in the interdisciplinary war toy debate by addressing war toys not just as ideological texts, but as objects in playful practice.
Please see my blog for more information about my research: http://materialsensibilities.wordpress.com/
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Tara Lai Quinlan
Assistant Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
Dr. Tara Lai Quinlan is a US-trained lawyer (New York) and Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham. Dr. Quinlan’s research and teaching focus on criminal law, policing, disproportionality and diversity in the criminal justice system, and counterterrorism.
Dr. Quinlan recently completed a monograph, Police Diversity: Beyond The Blue (Bristol: Policy Press), which examines experiences and impacts of police diversity in the UK and US, and includes original interviews with trailblazing UK and US police leaders. Dr. Quinlan’s PhD examined police engagement programmes with Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities as part of post-9/11 counter-terrorism approaches, and involved interviews with leading UK and US law enforcement and counter-terrorism officials. Before commencing her academic career, Dr. Quinlan practiced law in New York City, where she worked on employment litigation, housing discrimination, access to justice and criminal law matters.
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