Ph.D. Candidate in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
Maya Hernandez is a interdisciplinary doctoral candidate at UC Irvine with a research focus on understanding the risks and affordances of social technologies on adolescent development and mental health and an emphasis on historically marginalized populations. Her experiences span across developmental science, clinical psychology, public health, and informatics. She leverages quantitative, qualitative, and youth participatory action research approaches with multimodal data collection and analytic strategies.
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Jacinta is an exercise physiologist and postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focuses on exercise and mental health.
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Professor of Science and Technology Policy, UCL
Jack Stilgoe is a professor of science and technology policy at University College London. He is the author of 'Who's Driving Innovation?' (Palgrave).
He led the Driverless Futures project from 2018-2022, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. This project was looking to anticipate the politics of self-driving cars.
He worked with EPSRC and ESRC to develop a framework for responsible innovation, which is now being used by the Research Councils.
Jack is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
He previously worked in science and technology policy at the Royal Society and the think tank Demos.
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PhD Student in Department for Music, University of Bristol
During my time at university, I have had many interests in musicology, but my main interest has always been in pop music and pop culture. Currently, I am a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Bristol, researching the disco revival during the pandemic and how nostalgia and escapism influenced music. My overall interest in pop music tends to focus on music created or celebrated by minorities, however, I also find the concept of 'what is popular' fascinating. In my personal life, I am an avid fan of pop music and keep up to date with the releases from many artists, and I find this relationship between fan and artist interesting and would like to research it. My previous research has looked at Madonna's use of disco in 2005, as well as Black musical canon creation in the music of Lizzo and Janelle Monáe. I am also a keen follower of music award shows and find the institutionalisation of musical achievement an area that needs constant research and attention.
Research interests specifically would include; pop music, revivals, award shows, cultural commentary in music, music from queer experiences, chart music.
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PhD candidate, Integrative Biology, University of Windsor
I am a researcher studying the vocal behavior and social structure of endangered St. Lawrence belugas.
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Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Dayton
Jacob Bauer joined the University of Dayton Philosophy Department in 2014. He has also taught at Wright State University and Sinclair Community College. He teaches, researches and writes in the areas of normative ethics, professional ethics, effective altruism, philosophy of religion, philosophy of nonviolence and philosophy of science fiction. His graduate thesis explored Gandhi’s nonviolence through the lens of normative ethics.
He is also an active member of the Dayton International Peace Museum. He has served the Peace Museum in many roles, including vice-chair of the board of directors, docent, education committee chair, and programs committee chair. Through the Peace Museum, he helps organize public events, including the 2020 Building Peace Series and MLK Dialogues series. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and a variety of nerdy hobbies such as playing Magic: the Gathering, watching Star Trek and reading The Expanse series.
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Instructor of Music, Dalhousie University
Jacob Caines is a conductor, musicologist, and performer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jacob is a faculty member at Dalhousie University where he conducts the Dalhousie Wind Ensemble and teaches aural skills and theory. He is also completing a PhD at Concordia University in Queer Research-Creation, Queer Geography, and Urban Scenography.
He is founder of ClassicalQueer.com, a project dedicated to interviews with Queer+ performers, writers, musicians, administrators and artists. The CQ project has also created the Canadian Database of Queer+ Classical Musicians as well as the CQ Podcast which interviews musicians from around the world with co-host Sammi Jane Smith - an astrophysicist and Queer+ music specialist in northern Sweden.
As a performer, Jacob was the music director for the award-winning national tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He is also a founding member of the ALKALI Collective which performs, and commissions works by living Canadian queer and BIPOC composers. The group is proud to be funded by the Canada Council, Arts Nova Scotia, and the City of Halifax. Jacob is an active adjudicator and clinician and has worked with the Canadian Music Competition and dozens of ensembles and arts groups across Canada.
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Associate Professor, SUNY Old Westbury
Jacob Heller is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at SUNY Old Westbury. In 2008 he published The Vaccine Narrative with Vanderbilt University Press, where he looked at Rubella as one of four cases in American medical history. He is currently continuing his research on rumors and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS to include non-American populations, early findings of which were published in the Journal of American Public Health in January 2015.
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Jacqueline is currently a lecturer in Animal Science at Nottingham Trent University, with a passion for domestic species, notably dogs and horses. Her academic and research interests are broad ranging, from the molecular biology of parasitic nematodes to the genetic basis of cryptobiosis and jump kinematics in agility dogs. Jacqueline is very much an academic practitioner and recognises the value of science that has direct application and potential to improve animal health and welfare.
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Associate Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia University
Jacqueline Klopp is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the University of Nairobi Institute for Development Studies, Previously, she taught the politics of development at the School of International and Public Affairs for many years. A political scientist by training, her work focuses on the political processes around land-use, transportation, violence, displacement and planning in African cities. Klopp is the author of articles for Africa Today, African Studies Review, African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Politics, Forced Migration Review, Urban Forum, World Policy Review among others.
Recently, she has been experimenting with creative urban mapping projects for both analysis and advocacy and is a founding member of the DigitalMatatus consortium which has produced the first open transit data and public transit map for Nairobi's quasi-formal "matatu" transit system. She helped start the blogs CairofromBelow and nairobiplanninginnovations.com to provide more grounded and open urban information to citizens. She is also a founder and Board member of the Internal Displacement Policy and Advocacy Center (IDPAC) based in Nakuru, Kenya. She is currently writing a book on the politics of planning in Nairobi.
Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
Jacqueline Klopp is an Research Scholar and Director at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at teh Climate School at Columbia University, Previously, she taught the politics of development at the School of International and Public Affairs for many years. A political scientist by training, her work focuses on the political processes around land-use, transportation, violence, displacement and planning in African cities. Klopp is the author of articles for Africa Today, African Studies Review, African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Politics, Forced Migration Review, Urban Forum, World Policy Review among others.
Recently, she has been experimenting with creative urban mapping projects for both analysis and advocacy and is a founding member of the DigitalMatatus consortium which has produced the first open transit data and public transit map for Nairobi's quasi-formal "matatu" transit system. She helped start the blogs CairofromBelow and nairobiplanninginnovations.com to provide more grounded and open urban information to citizens. She is also a founder and Board member of the Internal Displacement Policy and Advocacy Center (IDPAC) based in Nakuru, Kenya. She is currently writing a book on the politics of planning in Nairobi.
Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.
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Lecturer and researcher, The Centre for Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
I am an archaeologist, with over 35 years of experience in professional, field and academic archaeology. I specialise in -
Archaeological science (particularly zooarchaeology and bioarchaeology).
The archaeology of islands and coasts.
Heritage management and archaeological practice.
Contemporary and historical archaeology.
I am Head of Section for Archaeology and Conservation, looking after @30 staff and @300 students s I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review Colledge, a Vice-President of the Prehistoric Society, the driving force behind Guerilla Archaeology (GA) and a founding member of the Festivals Research Group. I served as a full panel member for Unit of Assessment 15, Archaeology in REF2021.
I created Guerilla Archaeology to share my passion for the past with the public. I combine my specialist knowledge of archaeology with my love of the creative arts in festival outreach. From Shamans to Bog Bodies to Stonehengeburys, our innovative workshops were been voted as one of the 'top 20 things to do at Glastonbury 2017' and each year motivate thousands of people to engage with the past.
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Jagdeesh Prakasam is Co -Chief Investment Officer for Rotella Capital Management and oversees the investment process for the firm’s publicly offered programs. He also focuses on the exploration of future research initiatives directly benefitting the firm’s core programs. Mr. Prakasam has been managing various proprietary portfolios as Portfolio Manager since early 2007. The holding period of the trades in these portfolios range from intraday to intermediate term across both futures and equities spaces. Mr. Prakasam joined Rotella Capital Management, Inc. (RCM) in 2003 as a Researcher primarily focused on supporting the research efforts in portfolio construction, risk management, and overlay strategies for RCM’s core trading strategies. He graduated from Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering in 2001 and received a Master of Science degree in Finance from the Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2003. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designee since November 2007.
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Jaime Luque joined the Wisconsin School of Business as assistant professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics in September 2012. Jaime has previously taught at the Department of Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Jaime’s main academic research focuses on mortgages and securities lending. He also has some work on regional and urban economics. Jaime’s research has been published in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has also written opinion pieces for the Financial Times, Expansion and La Repubblica, as well as for the Vox.eu and Eurointelligence economics op-ed sites.
Professor Luque's teaching specializations include real estate finance and urban economics. He has recently published the textbook "Urban Land Economics" with Springer International Publisher, an initiative that involved the participation of numerous students from the Real Estate program at the Wisconsin School of Business.
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Marine mammologist that studies the health and foraging ecology of baleen whales.
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James is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. He is interested in conservation and population genetics with a focus on woody plants. His current research seeks to understand the decline of Dwarf Birch in the Scottish Highlands due to habitat fragmentation, climate change and population genetic processes.
James also has extensive field experience on biodiversity research expeditions around the world, from the deserts of Arabia, to the Amazon rainforests. He founded the social enterprise Discover Conservation, and is passionate about citizen science and public engagement. James also speaks regularly to a variety of audiences across the UK.
For more information, please visit www.jamesborrell.com
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PhD Candidate and Research Associate, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Hons 1)
Graduate Diploma Chartered Accounting
Chartered Accountant
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Senior Research Associate (Psychology), Lancaster University
At the broadest level, my research is concerned with the cognitive and cultural factors that inform how human beings think about, create and communicate representations. In this regard, it cuts across both the humanities and the social sciences. Methodologically, I am very interested in how quantitative and experimental methods can be applied to qualitative cultural and linguistic data (and particularly to 'big' data). To date, I have published on a wide variety of subjects, including experimental psychology, literary studies, anthropology, cultural studies, mythology, social media and linguistics.
I have graduate degrees in discourse linguistics, literary studies and philosophy; I have also held competitively awarded fellowships in the form of a Junior Research Fellowship (Linacre College, Oxford) and a Marie Curie Fellowship (Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford).
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Research interests include the application of geodesy to the mitigation of natural hazards, volcanic, tectonic, oceanographic and meteorological processes, and the impact and mitigation of the atmosphere on space geodetic measurements.
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James Henderson has been analysing the Russian oil and gas industry for the past 20 years. Having been Head of Energy for Wood Mackenzie Consultants in the mid-1990s he moved to Moscow as Head of Oil & Gas Research for Renaissance Capital in 1997, and in 1999 became Head of Equity Research. Having returned to the UK in 2002 he became Head of Russia at Lambert Energy Advisory while also studying for his doctoral thesis on partnership in the Russian oil and gas industry at the University of London, which he completed in 2010. He then became a Senior Research Fellow at OIES contributing to the work of the Gas and Oil programmes, mainly covering Russia and the CIS but also contributing research on various global gas issues. His recent publications include analysis of potential North American gas exports and changes in the domestic Russian gas market, while research in progress includes a working paper on Australian LNG prospects and a book on the Russian Gas Matrix (edited with Simon Pirani) to be published by OIES in 2014.
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PhD Researcher in Finance, University of Bath
James has a keen interest in Emotional and Behavioural Finance frameworks. He mainly focuses on the psychological and emotional implications of investors' investment decision-making processes through analysis of volumetric expression. He also has a passion for Elliott Wave theory and works as an associate tutor at the university.
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Research Fellow in Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland
I received my PhD in the field of clinical psychology from The University of Queensland. My PhD involved developing and evaluating a new version of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program for grandparents. My research is now focused on examining the role of mindfulness and compassion in enhancing nurturing family environments.
I am also a Clinical Psychologist and work in private practice at Psychology Consultants where I practice compassion focused therapy.
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James Knowles specialises in early modern literature and culture (1500-1700) and has published widely on early modern drama especially Jonson, Marlowe, Marston, Middleton, and Shakespeare. He is an internationally recognised expert on the court masque and civic pageantry and has written on literary and cultural geographies, orientalism, patronage and collecting, manliness and sexuality, verse libel and manuscript culture. He also retains a wider interest in gender, sexualities, and book culture including modern and contemporary gay writing and queer theory.
Research area(s):
Renaissance literature and culture, esp the court masque and civic pageantry, city comedy, revenge and political drama
Caroline and civil war writing
Literary and cultural geographies and orientalism, early modern Irish and Scottish cultures
Patronage and collecting, esp libraries
Manliness, sexualities and book culture including modern and contemporary gay writing and queer theory
Book and manuscript culture, verse libels and literary circulations, censorship, and textual editing
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James Laurenceson is currently Deputy Director and Professor at the Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS), University of Technology, Sydney. He has previously held appointment at the University of Queensland, Shandong University (China) and Shimonoseki City University (Japan).
His research focuses exclusively on the Chinese economy and has been published in international, peer-reviewed journals such as China Economic Review, China Economic Journal, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies and China and World Economy.
The Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology, Sydney, was launched by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in May 2014. The Director is former Foreign Minister Bob Carr. The aim of ACRI is to illuminate the bilateral relationship across political, economic, cultural and other dimensions.
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Associate Professor in Mathematical Biology, University of Melbourne
James McCaw is a mathematical biologist and epidemiologist and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2011 – 15) at the University of Melbourne. After obtaining a PhD in theoretical physics in 2005, he turned his interests to a recognised needs area in Australia – mathematical modelling of infectious diseases to inform public health policy. He now holds a teaching and research position split between the School of Mathematics & Statistics and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He also holds an honorary appointment at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. James’ interests range from the application of mathematics to problems in basic biology through to multi-scale integrated health policy analyses.
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James Mehigan is a lecturer in criminology at the Open University and a barrister at Garden Court Chambers.
As a lecturer his research interests include policing, prisons, human rights and criminal law. As a barrister he has acted in numerous high profile appeals and inquests and specialises in criminal defence, prison law, inquests and human rights. He is called to the bars of England & Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
He is a trustee of the UK branch of Front Line Defenders, a NGO that focuses on the protection of human rights defenders at risk around the world.
James is a former member of the Independent Monitoring Board at Pentonville Prison.
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James Morley is a Professor of Economics and the Associate Dean (Research) of the Business School at the University of New South Wales. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1999. Before moving to Australia in 2010, he was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2010) and a Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2004-2010). He has worked regularly with the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers and has held a number of visiting positions, including at the Bank of Canada, Bank Negara Malaysia, and the Bank for International Settlements Asian Office in Hong Kong. He recently served as the President of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (2011-2014) and is a founding member of the Shadow RBA Board (2011-), an Academic Fellow at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (2014-), and Co-Editor of The Economic Record (2015-). His research has been published in many top academic journals and focuses on the empirical analysis of business cycles, stabilization policy, and sources of persistent changes in macroeconomic and financial variables.
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James N. Friedman is Chief Business Development Officer and has been with FX Bridge since 2002. Mr. Friedman is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA in business management. He brings technology and marketing experience from Digital Equipment Corp., Software AG, and SBC Communications. In addition, he has held NASD Series 3 and Series 30 licenses with National Futures Association in United States.
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Professor of History, University of Washington
James Gregory is a Professor of History and former Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies at the University of Washington. His research and teaching center on these aspects of 20th century United States history: (1) labor history, particularly the history of American radicalism; (2) regionalism, both the West and the South; (3) race and civil rights history; (4) migration, especially inside the United States.
His prize-winning books include "The Southern Diaspora: How The Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America" and "American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California"
His current work explores the political geography of the American Left and includes the online Mapping American Social Movements project http://depts.washington.edu/moves/
In addition, he is active in the field of digital and public history, directing a set of online projects focused on the labor and civil rights history of the Pacific Northwest. http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/
He currently serves as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton
James Pickles is a Criminologist at the University of Brighton at the School of Humanities and Social Science. After undertaking a Masters of Research in Social Sciences, he completed his PhD at Northumbria University in 2018 through a funded studentship. James has published his work in well established international journals such as Policing & Society, Journal of LGBT Youth, Qualitative Research, and International Review of Victimology. Alongside publishing empirical data he has also published methodological commentaries on ethical research.
James' research focuses on violence against minority communities, specially anti-LGBT+ 'hate' crime. A former youth worker who has run several youth groups across the North East of England, he is particularly interested in how young people access support for their experiences of victimisation and violence.
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I am interested in racism, especially antisemitism and Islamophobia; Empire; and the genealogy of global politics. My research focuses on European ideas of the Jew, the Arab, and the West; post-secularism; British and French colonialism in the Jewish and Middle Eastern worlds; the First World War and its afterlives; the Zionist-Palestinian conflict; the League of Nations Mandate system; the West and the Middle East relationship; and the political public sphere in the colonial world after 1914.
My first book, The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), was a new history of the Balfour Declaration. Placing the Declaration within the wider story of the global politics of race and nationalism in the Great War, the book put forward a new interpretation of its origins, purpose and significance.
I am currently writing a biography of the idea of the Middle East, for which I was awarded an Early Career Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. With Ben Gidley (COMPAS, Oxford), I am also co-editing a book on antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, from the Crusades to the 21st century.
Outside of the academic world, I have written for Ha’aretz, openDemocracy, The Conversation, The Jewish Quarterly and Teaching History, and regularly give public talks. On television, I have featured in programmes including ‘Al-Nakba: The Debate’, which focused on the British role in the history of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, ‘World War I through Arab Eyes- Episode 3: The New Middle East‘, and ‘The Grand Mufti’, a documentary about the Palestinian leader Muhammed Amin al-Husayni.
I am a committee member of the British Association for Jewish Studies, an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I am also a member of the History & Policy Network, and the chair of ErRS: the Ethnicity, Race, and Racism Seminar at Edge Hill. In 2015, I organised the ErRS symposium ‘Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order’.
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Senior Lecturer in Modern European (Russian) History, Cardiff University
I am a history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, focusing on the relationship between Leninist ideology and political violence, and the intellectual history of Soviet state violence. I am the author of a monograph on violence in Lenin's political thought (Routledge, 2012), and I have published articles in academic journals such as Slavic Review and Historical Research.
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Professor of Biology, Trent University
I have been Professor in the Department of Biology for nearly 25 years. Prior to my academic appointment, I served as Senior Wildlife Biologist with the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador.
I am a member of the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel, a Fellow with the Leopold Leadership Program, and the founding Director of the Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation.
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Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
Dr James Smallcombe is a post-doctoral research fellow in Heat and Health Research Incubator in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney. James leads several research projects aimed at increasing human resilience to extreme heat events. James’ main expertise is in paediatric thermoregulation and protecting vulnerable populations against the negative impacts of heat stress during day-to-day activities.
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