Senior Research Fellow, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Research Interests include: marine phycology, particularly the discovery and documentation of New Zealand’s algal biodiversity; research on floristics and phylogeny, as well as ecology and life history studies.
Qualifications include: PhD in Botany; FRSNZ
Positions held include: Programme leader Marine Biodiversity - NIWA; Professor - School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland
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Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
Dr Wendy O’Brien lecturers in Criminology and conducts research on human rights and international justice. Wendy's current research focuses on children's access to justice, and on the legal responses to violence against women, children and LGBTI identified individuals. Wendy also conducts work on the practical implementation of public policy with a particular focus on the evaluation of responses to women and children in contexts of sexual assault. Recent publications include scholarly articles in the International Journal of Children’s Rights, and the Human Rights Law Review.
Prior to her appointment at Deakin, Wendy served seven years as Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Crime Commission where she conducted intelligence led research, and provided policy advice on issues of sexual violence and the wellbeing of children.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
POST-GRADUATE STUDIES:
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Teacher Education Society (GITES), in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Mowbray Campus.
2023: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, D.Ed.
Research topic: The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth.
2015: Stellenbosch University, MAVA (Ed).
Research topic: Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape.
PUBLICATIONS:
Smidt, W. 2015. Critical citizenship education: investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Education. Dept. of Visual Arts. 2015, 98 pages. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97910
Smidt W. 2020. Engaging the transformative potential of shortfilm-making toward critical awareness and transpersonal growth among post-school youth. Integral Transpers J. 2020;14(14):26–53. https://doi.org/10.32031/ITIBTE_ ITJ_14-SW2
Smidt, W. 2023. The use of film literacy in the development of critical self-awareness and transpersonal growth amongst a group of post-school youth. Thesis (D.Ed.)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2023, 328 pages. doi: https://etd.cput.ac.za/handle/20.500.11838/3879
Smidt, W., & Waghid, Z. 2024. Nurturing youth film literacy: Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 20(1), 13 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v20i1.1382
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Shortfilm-making as an experiential pedagogical activity, critical engagement and social impact, arts-based research methods, personal and transpersonal growth within the context of young adult education.
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, Deakin University
Wendy is interested in water and the earth. Her role as a Professor at Deakin University involves teaching and research across Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Wendy is a Chartered Engineer and a hydrogeologist, working with soils and rocks on and within the earth. She enjoys working in interesting and remote places, utilising new technologies beyond a laboratory, and integrating information in models and 'big pictures'.
Balancing water needs for many water purposes is challenging, specially with variable water quality. So Wendy works with industry research partners and promotes high quality education that helps solve real world challenges.
These are the research areas that keep Wendy busy with colleagues and students:
* water-energy nexus & carbon sequestration in sub-surface
* waste engineering & sustainability
* water quality & environment
* geological barriers to control flow & contaminants
* hydrogeomechanics of underground mining & tunneling
Wendy is a past Vice-President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, and continues to work towards the wise use of groundwater to support development around the world. Wendy also serves on independent expert review panels including the IESC for the Commonwealth of Australia.
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PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University
I am currently working part-time towards a practice-based PhD titled 'Enduring Fashion: Building Sustainable Clothing Practices Through Wearer-Garment Relationships.
Sustainability in fashion has been a long running theme throughout my academic and professional career: I was the only student on my BA looking at the environmental impact of the fashion industry when I graduated in 2000 and explored novel ways to recycle textiles for my MA in 2004. I worked as a designer for a niche ethical fashion business and have written craft books designed to empower people to do fashion their own way.
Clothes and how people use them is at the heart of what makes me tick.
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Associate Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Wendy Williams’ research focuses on forced displacement and migration, violent extremist organizations, illicit financial flows, international human rights and humanitarian law, military professionalism, and the rule of law.
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Postdoctoral Associate in Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell University
I am a biological anthropologist and behavioral ecologist who studies the ecological, social, and physiological influences on the behavioral and reproductive strategies of wild primates. My collaborative research program spans ecology, bioacoustics, anthropology, and conservation, tied together by a deep interest in how primate populations and human-wildlife relationships are responding to social-ecological change. With my research teams, I have compiled multi-year behavior, ranging, and sound-recording datasets for simakobu (Simias concolor), tamarins (Leontocebus weddelli), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) as well as soundscape recordings of dipterocarp, peat-swamp, mangrove, and heath forests in Borneo. Students and early career researchers with an interest in collaborating on any of these research topics, please get in touch!
At the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, I am leading a team of natural and social scientists – in collaboration with local partners – to conduct social-ecological research across Indonesia's planned new capital city location in Borneo. With support from Cornell University's Migration Initiative and the Fulbright Scholar Program, we seek to understand the wide-ranging impacts on forests, communities, and biodiversity by combining bioacoustics and ethnographic approaches. In parallel, I am collaborating with Dr. Frank van Veen at the University of Exeter, the Borneo Nature Foundation, and Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya – initiated in 2018 with a fellowship from the British Academy – on a multidisciplinary research and conservation program in the Mungku Baru Education Forest in Central Kalimantan. We are working to develop cost-effective methods to monitor ecological responses to anthropogenic change to support data-driven conservation strategies for the Rungan landscape.
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Associate Professor/ Director of Research (School of Education), Murdoch University
Wendy is an Associate Professor and Research Director at Murdoch University’s School of Education. For more than two decades, her research has highlighted diversity, equity and inclusion. Starting her career as a classroom teacher, Wendy has supported students from early childhood to doctoral levels. She values collaboration with community stakeholders to develop equitable learning and teaching environments. Both overseas and in Australia, Wendy’s research has been disseminated extensively through books, peer reviewed journals and creative/media outputs. Her latest book from Routledge, is LGBTQI+ Allies in Education, Advocacy, Activism, and Participatory Collaborative Research (2023).
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China
Wenzhong Wang is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, who studies the chemical and physical properties of rocky planets under extreme conditions using first-principles calculations based on quantum mechanics. Particularly, he applies the isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation to investigate the origin and evolution of rocky planets. With the support from NSFC and Carnegie postdoctoral fellowship, he has published more than 40 papers.
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Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of South Australia
Dr Wern Chai is a Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of South Australia with a research background and expertise in drug discovery, drug development and antimicrobial resistance. He maintains his clinical practice as a community pharmacist. Additionally, he contributes his expertise to the Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotics as a Member of the Evaluation Network and the Australian Pharmacy Council as a Subject Matter Expert (Examination).
Dr Chai is an early career researcher and holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of South Australia. In the face of the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance, his research focuses on developing a new antimicrobial agent with a novel mechanism of action. His continuous dedication and commitment to teaching and research earned him recognition as a Rising Star in Pharmacy in 2021 (published in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, and the Emerging Leader in Science in 2022 (by the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association).
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Associate Professor, art history and visual culture, Southern Cross University
Dr. Wes Hill is an art historian, critic and curator who lectures in art history, theory and visual culture studies at Southern Cross University, Northern NSW.
Specialty research areas include contemporary art, visual culture, the folkloric, the hipster, and the nature and representation of criticality in creative practice. Publications include "How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics" (Routledge, New York), "Speech Acts: Richard Grayson & Matt Mullican" (UTS Press, Sydney), and "Art After the Hipster" (Palgrave Macmillan, New York). His forthcoming book is “Jeff Gibson: False Gestalt,"co-published by Perimeter Editions and Griffith University.
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University
Dr. Wes Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at Drexel University. Wes completed his BS (2014) and MS (2016) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford, and his PhD (2021) in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Princeton. After completing his doctoral thesis, he continued working on lithium metal batteries as a Postdoc at Columbia University in collaboration with electric vehicle companies. He spent the following year (2022 – 2023) as the Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, where he worked on lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis. He is the recipient of the Electrochemical Society F.M. Becket Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. Outside of academia, he has previously worked in the battery industry and management consulting for energy and utilities, and regularly serves as a technical advisor to energy-focused startup companies and investment firms.
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Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
For millennia, pathogens have not stopped to evolve in parallel with humans in order to thwart our immune system. I am mostly interested in the molecular and cellular aspect of host-pathogen interactions.
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Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver
I am currently a professor of Civil Engineering and affiliate professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, program director of the University Transportation Center through the Mountain Plains Consortium, and co-director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) research group. I received my Professional Engineering (P.E.) license in 2003 and focus on transportation teaching and research dedicated to creating more sustainable urban infrastructures, particularly in terms of road safety, active transportation, and transit. Other recent teaching and research topics involve: transportation planning and land use modeling, parking, health, and street networks.
Having spent time in the private sector with Sasaki Associates, and Clough, Harbour and Associates, I have been working on planning and site design issues related to civil and transportation engineering for the last fifteen years. A native of Watertown, Massachusetts, I am a graduate of the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, a recipient of the Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, and winner of the Charley V. Wootan Award for Outstanding TRB Paper in the field of Policy and Organization.
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Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
Wesley Widmaier is a Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. His research addresses the interplay of wars, crises, and change – and the ways in which stability can cause instability, a concern that spans International Political Economy and International Security settings. In substantive terms, he has published widely on international trade and monetary policies, US foreign policy and presidential leadership, and Australian economic and foreign policies.
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Program Officer, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
Working in resilience and sustainable development, particularly in the financing aspects. Currently program officer for Center for Environment and Global Financing (CEGF), a center under world renouned think-tank Resilience Development Initiative.
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Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
Expertise
Ethics (Theoretical and Applied), Philosophy of Law, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests
Ethics; Law and ethics of war, self-defense, and punishment; Philosophy of religion.
Just War theory; Law and ethics of personal self-defense and also self-defense as justification for war; Moral justifications for punishment; Evolutionary theories of ethics; Relationship between science and religion.
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Lecturer, School of Environmental & Natural Sciences., Bangor University
I'm an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in data analysis, public speaking, environmental awareness, GIS, R studio, and collaborative teamwork. I have a PhD in Environmental Science and governance, and a Master’s Degree focused in Public Affairs and Environmental Policy from Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. I have led independent research projects in environmental psychology, focusing on the relationship between human behavior and the built and natural environment. I have also designed and conducted experimental studies to investigate the relationship between individuals and their physical and social environments and analyzed data using statistical software (e.g. R, SPSS).
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Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
Dr. Whitney Monaghan is a Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines the representation of gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not ‘Just a Phase’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019).
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Girringun Aboriginal Corporation Indigenous Protected Areas Coordinator and Acting Executive Officer, Indigenous Knowledge
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Associate Professor and Program Director, Occupational Therapy Department, University of South Dakota
Whitney Lucas Molitor, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, BCG serves as Associate Professor and Program Director for the Occupational Therapy Department at the University of South Dakota. Dr. Lucas Molitor’s teaching responsibilities are in the areas of adult physical rehabilitation assessment and intervention, occupational performance for adults and older adults, and community-based practice. Her research interests include health promotion, population health, cultural implications on occupational performance, and interprofessional education.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
I am a PhD student at the University of Tennessee in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I collaborate with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the non-profit organization Island Conservation to study invasive house mice and monitor ecosystem response to mice. I also work as a Biology Content Creator at Khan Academy.
For nearly a decade, I have studied the flora and fauna of Kuaihelani and actively participated in the restoration of this unique atoll ecosystem. From conducting albatross demography studies to cultivating highly endangered species to running Bayesian mixing models, I have a wide variety of knowledge and experience regarding island conservation biology and restoration ecology. Both my MSc and PhD are focused on disentangling the complex connections among organisms in island food webs to better understand the impacts of invasive species.
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Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Dr Wil Ngwa is Director of the Global Health Catalyst, a professor of Global Health and Radiation Oncology, and a distinguished professor of Public Health. He is a chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa and one of the leaders of the Cancer Moonshot Lancet Oncology Commission. He is a Rutgers Presidential Faculty Scholar and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg Germany and University of Pennsylvania. He co-directs the Africa-Oxford-Harvard-Hopkins (AfrOX-H2) Clinical Trials network. He is co-founder of the Global Oncology University, with an award-winning collaborative education platform that offers everyone access to the same world class education and training available at the world’s best institutions. Dr Ngwa currently serves as an Advisor for the USA government on Global Health. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buea, Cameroon; his master's and doctoral training at the University of Leipzig Germany, and clinical training at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.
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Professor, Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science, University of the Western Cape
Wilbur Kraak's extensive body of research is centred around coaching and performance analysis, with a primary focus on the sport of rugby. With an impressive portfolio, he has co-authored and published approximately 40 research articles in both international and local peer-reviewed academic journals, contributing significantly to the academic discourse in the field. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Wilbur Kraak is an accomplished rugby coach. His coaching credentials include attaining a coveted World Rugby Level 3 certification, showcasing his in-depth knowledge and expertise in rugby coaching methodologies. Moreover, he has recently completed the Elite Coaches Program, an exclusive initiative by the South African Rugby Union designed for coaches earmarked for higher honours in rugby in South Africa.
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Chief Innovation Officer, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Wilbur Lam received his B.A. from Rice University in 1995, his M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1999 and his Ph.D. from the University of California,San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering in 2008. He completed his Residency in Pediatrics from UCSF in 2002 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley from 2008-2010. Dr. Lam's research involves integrating microtechnology ,development, experimental hematology and oncology and clinical medicine. His interdisciplinary laboratory, comprising clinicians, engineers, and biologists, is dedicated to applying and developing micro/nanotechnologies to study, diagnose, and treat blood disorders, cancer, and childhood diseases. This unique "basement to bench to bedside" approach to biomedical research is enabled by our lab's dual locations at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology and our affiliations with the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals.
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Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean (Teaching), Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, Loughborough University
Wilfred is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development. Wilfred has taught at bachelor, master, MBA, and PhD levels, in a number of different programmes and countries on the core themes of his academic research. His research focuses on collaboration for innovation, within and between organisations. Wilfred has consulted a number of large and small firms as well as government and NGO organisations.
Trained as both an economist and a philosopher, Wilfred focuses his research and teaching on collaboration within and between organisations to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship. The approaches taken include social network analysis, (gift) exchange theory, and institutional theory. He has published award winning books and articles, in a range of international academic journals.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND COLLABORATIONS
Wilfred is involved in a number of projects with leading firms and academics across different continents. He is keen to collaborate with organisations that seek to improve their innovative performance, providing advise in exchange for research collaboration.
CURRENT PHD/RESEARCH SUPERVISIONS
Wilfred supervises PhD projects that focus on the antecedents for and effects of innovation for large as well as small firms, in particular the strategic implications for firms of their strategic choices where innovation is a key research focus.
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Wilfred is an editor-in-chief of the Review of Social Economy, associate editor of Innovation Management Policy and Practice, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Organisational Change Management.
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Associate Professor in Botany, University of Mpumalanga
Prof Wilfred Otang Mbeng completed a Doctorate Degree in Botany from the University of Fort Hare in 2013, Master of Science and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Botany in 2005 and 2001; respectively, from the University of Buea in Cameroon and a PGDHE with Distinction from Rhodes University in 2020. He started his teaching career as a Tutor in Botany at the University of Fort Hare in 2010 and later as a Part-Time Lecturer at the same University in 2015. He was a Senior Lecturer of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at North-West University, Mafikeng Campus in 2016 and in 2017, he was employed as a Senior Lecturer of Botany at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP). In December 2020, He was promoted to Associate Professorship at the University of Mpumalanga.
Prof Mbeng been engaged in research in:
• indigenous knowledge systems;
• ethnobotany and
• ethnopharmacology.
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Professor in School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
Will Atkinson is a sociologist specialising in social class. He has researched almost all aspects of it using a wide variety of methods and authored or co-edited several books on the topic. These include Class Inequality in Austerity Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Class in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2017), The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (Routledge, 2 vols, 2020-22) and his introductory text, Class (Polity, 2015, 2nd ed 2024). Fascinated by the way in which class is woven through individual biographies, he has latterly used the life of Vincent van Gogh as a lens on this.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Bristol
My research is broadly within the sociology of education, but I have strongly interdisciplinary interests. A unifying theme in my research is understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities. There are three interconnected strands to my scholarship.
Firstly, I am pioneering research into the rise of food charity in schools. Against a backdrop of growing food insecurity in the UK, a growing number of schools are running their own food banks. I study how and why this is happening and what it tells us about education, inequality and the state (see Baker 2023; Baker and Bakopoulou 2022 and 2023). My research in this area has been covered by the BBC, The Independent and many of major news sources.
Secondly, along with Dr. Katherin Barg, I have developed a program of research that explores the interconnections between parenting, socio-economic background, and educational inequalities. We are also interested in exploring how family life and parenting has changed over time and differs between countries and cultures (see Barg and Baker 2021; Baker and Barg 2019). Finally, I have published widely on how young people develop educational aspirations, career goals and orient themselves to the future (see Moles et al. 2023; Baker 2020). I’m particularly interested in how these are connected to moral attitudes and values.
Methodologically, I draw on both qualitative and quantitative sources of data, including sources of secondary data such asthe Millennium Cohort Study. I make extensive use of interviews in much of my empirical work.
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Senior Science Project Manager, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Dr Brownlie is the project manager of the GEF/UNEP-UKCEH Towards Sustainable Phosphorus Cycles in Lake Catchments (Up-Cycle) project. Up-Cycle will bring together the global lake management and sustainable phosphorus management communities, to develop and test a sustainable phosphorus management framework in Chile. Dr Brownlie was the project manager of the Our Phosphorus Future (OPF) project, consolidating global scientific evidence to raise awareness and support policy development related to phosphorus (funded by NERC, ESPP & UNEP). He is the lead editor of the OPF report and designed its multimedia (www.opfglobal.com). He is part of the project coordination unit of the GEF/UNEP-UKCEH International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) project; a science-policy support process leading global policymakers in sustainable nitrogen management. He is managing co-editor of the INMS International Nitrogen Assessment report and is developing the INMS Nitrogen Management Measures Database and its supporting guidance document.
Dr Brownlie provides expert advice and commentary on nutrient sustainability issues to the United Nations in various capacities. He has delivered keynote speeches at multiple international conferences and meetings, including COP27 and the 4th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit.
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Professor of Leadership and Education Director at the University of Bristol Business School, University of Bristol
Will Harvey is the inaugural Professor of Leadership and the Education Director at the University of Bristol Business School. He is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and Chair of the Board of Libraries Unlimited.
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Research interests
Skilled migration
Corporate reputation
Leadership
Talent management
Business and political elites
Social networks
Will’s research focuses on three areas. First, on the mobility, economic impact and social networks of highly skilled migrants. Specifically, he is focusing on the management of global talent in a range of economic sectors across different countries. Second, on how reputation and leadership is built and sustained within different types of institutions, with a particular focus on professional service firms. Third, on some of the methodological, fieldwork and practical challenges with interviewing business and political elites.
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Director of Research and Lecturer in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM), University of Hull
Dr Jones is the Director of Research and Lecturer in the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, AI and Modelling Centre (DAIM) at the University of Hull. He specialises in AI and healthcare, with a specific focus on AI medical diagnostics, and teaches these topics on an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Dr Jones was previously an Senior NHS Scientist and NIHR Manager specialising in evidence generation for novel medical diagnostics. Dr Jones has a PhD in Neuroscience, with a background in philosophy.
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