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Keith Hartley
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of York
Founding Editor, Defence and Peace Economics, 1990-2007
Special Advisor to the Editor, Defence and Peace Economics, 2008-
Chair, Finance Group, Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team, reporting to Secretary of State, DTI
Written and Oral evidence presented to House of Commons Defence Committee for its Enquiries into the UK Defence Industrial Strategy and Defence Commitments and Resources
Special Adviser to House of Commons Defence Committee, 1985 – 2001
Consultant to UN, EC, EDA, UK Ministry of Defence, DTI, HM Treasury, Korean Defence Agency and Korean Development Institute
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Keith Laws
Keith Laws is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge and is the author of over 100 papers and a recent book entitled 'Category-Specificity: Evidence for Modularity of Mind'. His research focusses on cognitive function in a variety disorders including Alzheimer's Disease, Schizophrenia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
He is a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and various academic organisations including the British Neuropsychological Society, British Neuropsychiatric Association, Experimental Psychology Society.
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Keith Miller
Keith C. Miller is the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Law at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Professor Miller teaches the course on Gaming Law at Drake along with courses in the area of Torts. In addition to numerous law review articles, he is co-author of THE LAW OF GAMBLING AND REGULATED GAMING, the leading casebook on gaming law. The 2d Edition of the casebook will be published in January of 2016.
Professor Miller is the Vice-President of Educator Affiliates of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL), a global gambling law network and educational organization. He serves as the Vice-Chair of the Gaming Law Committee for the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. He has spoken on and moderated panels for the IMGL, the ABA Gaming Law Minefield National Institute, and has conducted symposia and lectured at law schools in the US and France. Professor Miller also consults on gaming law cases, has been an expert witness in gaming law litigation, and is a frequent resource for media on matters involving gaming law.
Professor Miller received his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the UMKC Law Review. After practicing law in Kansas City, Missouri, Professor Miller obtained his LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School before beginning his career as an academic lawyer. Professor Miller also served as the NCAA Faculty Representative at Drake University from 1995-2000.
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Keith Musselman
Assistant Professor in Geography, Mountain Hydrology, and Climate Change, University of Colorado Boulder
Keith Musselman studies hydrology, climate change, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, modeling and data analytics. His research goals are to assess climate change impacts on water availability, to measure and model ecohydrologic cold region processes across scales, and to develop approaches in collaboration with diverse stakeholder groups to inform sustainable adaptation and decision strategies. He has a Ph.D. in civil engineering from UCLA and a master's degree in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
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Keith Pilbeam
Professor of Economics, City University London
Professor Pilbeam is a Professor of International Economics and Finance at City University London.
He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, he has worked for NatWest Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland and has done extensive consultancy work for a number of City financial institutions.
He also advises the UK Foreign Office on international economic issues. He is the President of the International Economics and Finance Society (www.iefs.org.uk) and also General Secretary of the European Economics and Finance Society (www.eefs-eu.org). He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Asymmetries (Elsevier).
His research relates mainly to foreign exchange and financial markets. He is the author of two well-known textbooks, International Finance and Finance and Financial Markets both published by Palgrave. His other research book is Exchange Rate Managementy: Theory and Evidence also published by Palgrave.
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Keith Redway
Keith's major teaching areas are Medical Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Health & Safety. He is currently a Senior Academic in Microbiology & Molecular Biology, the Campus Health and Safety Officer and the University Biological Safety Officer. He is the course leader for the Postgraduate Certificate Molecular Biology in Medicine by Distance Learning and Chair of the Campus Safety Management Team. He is also a member of the University Ethics Committee and Research Ethics Committee and a member of the Academics Conduct Group.
He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Harrow College of Higher Education and a Lecturer in Biology at Lincoln College of Technology. He was a Graduate Research Scienctist at the National Collection of Type Cultures at the Central Public Health Laboratory (HPA), London.
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Keith Reid
Honorary Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Dr Keith Reid is a marine scientist with a passion for conservation and education. From 2008 to 2021 he was the Science Manager at the Secretariat of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Prior to moving to CCAMLR Keith was a research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey (1991 – 2007) where he was project leader for the Ocean Ecosystems and Management programme and also completed a secondment as a polar science and policy advisor to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has PhD from Liverpool University, is an author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications and was formerly the editor of the journal CCAMLR Science.
Keith’s work focuses on the use of science in conservation and the interface of science and policy. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University and an Adjunct Research Associate at the University of Tasmania.
Since 2021 Keith has been a Director of Ross Analytics, specialising in ecological and environmental risk assessment in the fisheries and renewable energy sectors.
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Keith Ruiter
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Suffolk
I am an interdisciplinary medievalist working at the intersection of history, law, archaeology, and literature, especially on topics like legalism, normativity, punishment, and personhood in Viking-Age Scandinavia and its diaspora.
I have a passion for using innovative and culturally comparative methodologies for researching and teaching the medieval world – including Indigenous Studies, Posthumanist, and Game Studies approaches – with an eye towards fostering richer and more inclusive dialogue about this period and its many connections.
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Keith Somerville
Visiting professor, University of Kent
Professor Keith Somerville is a writer and lecturer on African affairs, journalism and the global media. In January 2013, he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. He teaches the Communications and Humanitarianism and Propaganda modules at the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent.His book, Africa’s Long Road Since Independence. The Many Histories of a Continent has just been published by Hurst and Co and his work on the history of the ivory trade in Africa – Ivory. Poaching and Power in Africa will be published at the end of 2016. . Professor Somerville founded and runs the Africa, News and Analysis website.
Keith writes on Africa’s military and political affairs; the politics of conservation in Africa; Africa and the media; the history and use of propaganda and hate broadcasting; analysing the global media and its coverage of major world events; finding and developing stories; news and feature writing; interview techniques; broadcast and online news reporting and production; media law and ethics, and international journalism.
He has specialist knowledge of African politics and military/strategic issues; foreign intervention in Africa; environmental and wildlife issues in Africa and beyond; Marxism and the foreign policy of the former Soviet Union; and rugby (he has years of playing and team captaincy experience and is an RFU-qualified rugby coach). His current research interests are the contemporary history of Africa in light of the interplay bet ween structure and human agency; radio propaganda in apartheid South Africa; and the links between insurgency, organized crime and poaching in central and southern Africa
A career journalist with the BBC World Service and BBC Newsi for three decades, Keith has an established track record as a trainer and training designer for the BBC, initially with BBC World Service training and latterly with the recently-established BBC College of Journalism. He was executive producer for the BBC’s international award-winning Legal Online course; co-author and role-play developer for the BBC’s post-Hutton Sources, Scoops and Stories course; he in charge of and the scenario writer for the BBC’s interactive journalism teaching tool, The Journalism Tutor.
His knowledge of journalism theory and practice is based on nearly three decades of reporting, writing, presenting and editing World Service news programmes. He also has extensive online production experience and has written for specialist publications on African affairs.
The major world events he has covered include running the World Service team in South Africa for the first post-apartheid elections in 1994; presenting live coverage of the attempted coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev; overseeing the first 10 hours of World Service coverage of the death of Princess Diana; running of live World Service radio coverage on 9/11; and producing and presenting radio documentaries from South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica and the wilds of deepest Cardiff and Norfolk.
Keith has an extensive publication record on African continental and international politics.
From 2012 to 2014 he taught the Humaniatarian Communications module and a module on Conflict and Security in Africa in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Kent. From 2008 to 2011, he taught journalism at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Brunel University and was BA (Hons) Journalism course leader and Admissions Tutor for the MA in International Journalism. He was educated at St Clement Danes Grammar School, the University of Southampton, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Brunel University.
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Keith A. Preble
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University
Since August 2022, Keith A. Preble has been a visiting assistant professor of political science at Miami University (Oxford, OH).
He received his PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York with a focus on international relations and comparative politics in December 2021.
His dissertation, entitled “Economic sanctions and opportunism,” explores the ways in which third-party states and their firms take advantage of opportunities that emerge when economic sanctions and arms embargoes are implemented. His dissertation was also awarded the Rockefeller College Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2022.
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Keith L. Carter
Associate Professor of Political Science, US Naval War College
Keith L. Carter received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. His research agenda encompasses strategic competition, the impact of societal and technological trends on military organizations and security operations, and civil-military relations with regards to U.S. institutions, force design, and force employment. Keith is a retired Army officer, whose military career spanned over two decades and included multiple command assignments, service in special operations, and eight combat tours.
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Keith N. Hampton
Professor of Media and Information and Interim Director of the Quello Center, Michigan State University
Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Media and Information and Interim Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University. Dr. Hampton is a network scholar who studies community, with a focus on digital media and social inequality. His research investigates the connections between digital access and disparities in areas such as gender, education, and well-being. He has examined how variation in the use of digital media (i.e., social media, video games, etc.,), digital skills, parental mediation, and access inequalities influence outcomes, particularly in rural communities. Dr. Hampton's research has received a number of awards. This includes the 2022 Career Achievement Award from the Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology of the American Sociological Association. In 2017 he was elected a member of the Sociological Research Association. Hampton's prior faculty appointments include Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Kelley Cours Anderson
Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Charleston
I am an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the College of Charleston (Ph.D., Texas Tech University). My research offers insights into the role of technology in value cocreation, identity development, and market system dynamics. I use multiple methods to reveal the benefits and consequences of technology-enabled actor-networks. My work in digital wellness impacts scholarship, learning, and businesses.
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Kelley Gullo Wight
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Indiana University
Professor Wight joined the Marketing Department at the Kelley School of Business in July 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from Duke University. Kelley is an experimental researcher, focusing on how time and close relationships impact consumer behavior and well-being. Kelley's research has been published in premier marketing journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
Professor Wight teaches undergraduate Digital Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research. She also served as an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Marketing Insights for the Classroom initiative from 2018-2020, helping authors translate their research findings into cutting-edge insights to be taught in classrooms.
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Kellie Tobin
Lecturer in Education - Applied Learning, Deakin University
Kellie Tobin is an Early Career Researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Her doctoral research investigated the challenge of creating and maintaining enduring school-university partnerships in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Kellie’s role in Education has been that of a change agent where she has worked across various settings to build school student capacity, partnerships and collaborations in the field of Initial Teacher Education. Kellie is the Course Director in the Master of Applied Learning and Teaching and is lecturing in areas of Applied Learning, Middle Years Education, teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students and Literacy and Numeracy teaching. Kellie has also served in a range of other capacities including the School Centres for Teaching Excellence Site Director, Wannik Strategy Co-coordinator for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students and as an English Secondary School Teacher.
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Kellie Toohey
Associate Professor Clinical Exercise Physiology, Southern Cross University
Associate Professor Kellie Toohey is a distinguished Clinical Exercise Physiologist Academic at Southern Cross University (SCU). With a strong track record in cancer and clinical exercise physiology research across the lifespan, Associate Professor Toohey actively contributes Nationally and Internationally to the field through such roles as the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia's Exercise and Cancer Executive Committee and Exercise and Sports Science Australia's Publications Committee.
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Kellie Vella
Postdoctoral researcher in Human-Computer Interaction, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Kellie Vella researches human-computer interactions with a focus on social, wellbeing, and sustainable contexts. She draws upon theories and methods across the humanities (in particular, social and motivational psychology, ethnography, and participatory research) to better understand how to design, apply, and evaluate technologies. She has published in leading conferences and journals within the field of Human-Computer Interaction and has been navigating a research-driven career across numerous projects, including but not limited to research on positive wellbeing for young men; designing for ecoacoustics research; technologies for disaster victim identification; home-based technologies to engage people with local nature; technologies to reduce campsite waste at music festivals; and designing for young children's nature engagement.
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Kelly Bjorklund
PhD Candidate, Staffordshire University
Kelly is a PhD researcher at Staffordshire University, focusing on how journalists have been targeted by states during conflicts, if and how established codified norms are changing, and what the effects are.
A faculty member at the University of Colorado’s College of Media, Communication and Information, Kelly serves as a Lecturer in Communication. She also teaches Media, Culture, and Identity at the University of Florida, an interdisciplinary course that analyzes how the media represents groups, identities, and issues and how these representations can impact opinions and behaviors.
A working journalist, Kelly is a senior writer and editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which provides news and information to countries without a free press. As a contributor to Foreign Policy Magazine, she investigates and analyzes complex international issues. Kelly spent seven years reporting about human rights, international relations, and security for Radio Free Asia.
In addition to academia and journalism, Kelly has been engaged with multiple international human rights NGOs and civil society organizations on communications, policy, and strategic planning.
Her topical expertise is in human rights; press freedom and freedom of expression; disinformation/misinformation; media and democracy; political and non-profit communication; and media, culture, and identity.
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Kelly Fincham
Lecturer in Journalism and Communications, University of Galway
I’m the programme director for the Global Media and Communication MA at National University Ireland Galway and I also teach journalism (social media) in the undergraduate and graduate programmes with a focus on social and digital journalism and media theory.
My research agenda is focused on the ways in which social media have impacted journalism and I am particularly interested in the ways that bad-faith actors are weaponising journalism norms in a social and digital media context. I draw from Andrew Chadwick’s hybrid media theory in understanding how social media has created new ways that information can flow in a hybrid media environment.
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Kelly Gregg
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University at Buffalo
Kelly Gregg, assistant professor of urban planning, pursues place-based research at the intersection of planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. Specifically her work focuses on street design and pedestrian environments in both an historic and contemporary context. Her current research includes examining recent street adaptations to enable physical distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. She strives to approach challenges in practice and in research with an interdisciplinary perspective that references her background in both planning and design. She completed her PhD in Planning at the University of Toronto in 2019. She also holds a Master's Degree in Urban Planning (MUP) and Urban Design (MUD) from The University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from The Pennsylvania State University.
Her publications from 2019 include a chapter co-authored with Paul Hess PhD that was published in the New Companion to Urban Design edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Additionally, part of her dissertation work on pedestrian malls was published in the journal Planning Perspectives. And a co-authored article on ‘Complete Street’ municipal policy was in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
Prior to joining the faculty at Buffalo, Gregg taught first-year common core courses for planning, landscape architecture, and architecture students at Ball State University. Her other previous experience includes work at the University of Cincinnati, where Kelly managed technical service projects, program development, and assisted with studio teaching at the Niehoff Urban Studio and Community Design Center. Additionally, she worked at The Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan and assisted the Detroit Climate Action Collaborative (DCAC) in developing a community lead climate action plan for the City of Detroit. Gregg has also worked on urban design visioning for climate adaptation in Manhattan, NY. This collaborative work was featured in The Atlantic Cities shortly after Hurricane Sandy in December 2012.
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Kelly Griendling
Lecturer of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Kelly Griendling is a seasoned lecturer in the prestigious Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a passion for active learning and innovative teaching practices. She teaches an array of courses with the aerospace undergraduate program and has been recognized with numerous awards for her commitment to student success and creative approaches to teaching and learning. Some of her particular focus areas in the classroom include the use of entrepreneurial-minded learning, alternative assessment practices, inclusive learning practices, and the integration of sustainability into engineering courses.
Dr. Griendling also serves as the K-12 Outreach Lead for both the School of Aerospace and the Georgia Space Grant Consortium, running an expansive outreach program that encourages undergraduate and graduate students to engage with K-12 students around Georgia. She founded and is currently the director of the Science, Technology, and Engineering Program (STEP), an innovative initiative creating valuable engineering experiences accessible to all high school students in Georgia. She is also a Co-I for Georgia Tech’s NASA KIDS award, playing a key role in developing a machine-learning and artificial intelligence curriculum for students in grades 6-12 that will be deployed across the southeastern US. She served as the outreach coordinator for Georgia Tech's inaugural DARPA-funded MENTOR program and as the curriculum development lead for the follow-on MENTOR 2.
She earned her Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. During her graduate studies, she distinguished herself as a Sam Nunn Security Fellow, showcasing her dedication to the intersection of aerospace and security.
Dr. Griendling's journey in aerospace education includes a significant tenure as the chief of the Advanced Systems Engineering division for the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) within the AE School. In this capacity, she successfully managed a diverse portfolio of research projects, focusing on the development of advanced methodologies tailored for addressing large, complex challenges in the aerospace and defense sectors. Prior to her current role, she served as a senior project manager at Georgia's Center of Innovation for Aerospace, where she played a pivotal role in providing data analytics and technical guidance to bolster the state's aerospace industry.
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Kelly Grindrod
Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo
Dr. Grindrod is a pharmacist and pharmacy professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy. Dr. Grindrod completed her BScPharm at the University of Alberta, her Masters and Doctoral degrees in pharmacy at the University of British Columbia, and a hospital pharmacy residency at the the London Health Sciences Centre. Here work focuses on using technology to educate healthcare providers and the public on the use of medicines, including drugs and vaccines.
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Kelly Lewis
Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), and the Emerging Technologies Lab, Monash University
Dr Kelly Lewis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), and the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University. Her research focuses on the social, political, cultural, and economic implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and data cultures, as well as new and innovative digital methods and critical approaches for studying them. Kelly’s interdisciplinary work has a particular focus on investigating paradigms of power asymmetries, discrimination, violence, and political (in)visibility that manifest through opaque relations, logics, and data flows.
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Kelly Saunders
PhD Candidate, University of Canberra
Kelly Saunders is a lawyer and PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra in the field of Futures Studies.
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Kelly Summers
Assistant Professor of History, Department of Humanities, MacEwan University
I specialize in the history of France from the Old Regime through the Napoleonic era. My research on revolutionary migration examines issues that still resonate today: how individual liberties and national security conflict during times of political upheaval; how revolutions end; and how, in their aftermath, divided populations might be reconciled. I am currently completing a book entitled The Great Return: Émigrés, Refugees, and Revolution in France, 1789-1815, which will for the first time chart the complete life cycle of emigration, refuge, and re-migration during the French revolutionary era.
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Kelly Ann Blake
Gherrang/Biodiversity Project Officer, Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Kelly Ann Blake is a Wadawurrung Woman and Biodiversity Project Officer at the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
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Kelly Anne Young
Senior Researcher, University of South Africa
Dr. Kelly Young is a senior researcher in the Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL) at the University of South Africa (UNISA) with an academic background in Psychology. Her interests are centred primarily on student success models and predictions in the context of South African higher education and specifically in distance education. She has written papers appearing in journals such as the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioural Assessment and the South African Journal of Education on topics ranging from psychometric analyses to cyberbullying. Dr. Young completed her doctoral degree at UNISA under the supervision of Dr. Angelo Fynn and Prof. Elizabeth Archer. Her thesis examined psychological grit and its efficacy in determining student retention among postgraduate students enrolled at a South African distance education institution.
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Kelly M Greenhill
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Tufts University and at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Kelly M. Greenhill is a professor of international relations and security studies, with faculty appointments at Tufts University and at MIT, where she also directs the MIT-Seminar XXI Program. Greenhill's research follows four intersecting and overlapping lines of inquiry: the politics of information; migration, refugees and security; military intervention and operations; and coercion and asymmetric influence.
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Kelly R. MacGregor
Professor of Geology, Macalester College
As a geomorphologist, I study the forces that shape the physical surface of our planet. I measure active processes in the field (such as glacier motion, subglacial erosion, water velocity, and sediment transport), and use these data to constrain numerical models of landscape evolution over geologic timescales. My current research focuses on understanding the role of glaciers in shaping alpine landscapes. I use tools such as GPS to understand how glaciers behave over daily to annual timescales, and numerical models to examine their role in creating the fantastic mountainous landscapes we see today. In addition to my work on glaciers, I am interested in the effects of dams on sediment and water transport in river systems. By looking at historical data and making measurements of current river dynamics, we can quantify changes in sediment transport, which has important implications for riparian habitats over time. I teach a wide range of classes, including Geomorphology, Rivers and the Environment, Environmental Geology, History and Evolution of the Earth, and Glaciers and Climate.
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Kelsey Adams
PhD candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Kelsey Adams is a PhD candidate at the School of Justice at QUT. She is an interdisciplinary scholar in psychology and criminology. Her thesis, Understanding the Rape Acknowledgment Process: A Follow-up Study (submitted 2024) explored rape survivors’ journeys of labelling personal experiences of sexual violence. She spoke to her PhD findings at TEDxQUT 2023.
Kelsey holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science from UQ.
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Kelsey Coffman
Assistant Professor of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee
Hi! I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.
I study insect viruses – specifically those viruses that have evolved to be beneficial to their hosts, which has repeatedly occurred within insects called parasitoid wasps. Viruses are primarily considered to be pathogenic entities that exploit host organisms for their own gain. However, increasing evidence suggests that viruses often evolve to persist within hosts, and some are even beneficial for their hosts. The best-studied examples of ‘good’ viruses are found within parasitoid wasps, in which viruses are inherited by wasp offspring and act as biological weapons that incapacitate insect hosts of the wasps during parasitism.
A growing number of heritable viruses have been identified in various parasitoid wasp lineages, including wasps that serve as important biological control agents used to suppress agricultural pest populations. Very little is known about most of these viruses, even though some are pivotal for parasitoid wasp success. These viruses could therefore represent hidden aspects of natural biological systems that are used to mitigate pest species.
My lab group uses a combination of molecular biology, manipulative genetics, and genomic sequencing techniques to explore these novel insect-virus interactions and aims to use this knowledge in the future to develop innovative biological control strategies that promote sustainable agriculture.
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Kelsey Druken
Associate Director (Release Management), ACCESS-NRI, Australian National University
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