Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Dr. Azar joined the UMass Memorial Diabetes Center of Excellence care team in 2022 and is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at UMass Chan Medical School. She is interested in increasing awareness for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASH) and implemented a screening process for people with diabetes and prediabetes to determine the risk of liver fibrosis. She is also on the Diabetes in Pregnancy Program care team.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University
In June 2022 I joined James Cook University as a postdoctoral researcher in island archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and human-climate interdependencies. Before this, I served as a postdoctoral researcher at Kiel University, Germany. I received my PhD degree in archaeology in December 2018 from the University of Iceland, and my Master's degree at the University of Bonn, Germany.
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Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
I am a Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. I am interested in the aesthetics and politics of the voice and issues of cultural audibility. I am Principal Investigator of Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, The Verbatim Formula.
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Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Maggie Paino was previously the Director of Accountability for the Indiana Department of Education. In tht role, Maggie oversaw the implementation of federal, state, and district accountability requirements related to student achievement and educational outcomes. During her time as Director, Maggie focused her efforts to promote data literacy for stakeholders and to advance the topic of inequities in educational opportunities. Maggie previously served as Special Education Due Process Coordinator and Staff Attorney for the Department. Prior to her tenure at the Indiana Department of Education, Maggie worked as a teacher for DC Public Schools. She received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Comparative Literature from Indiana University.
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University
Maggie Ruderman, MS, CGC (she/her) is a genetic counselor, clinical researcher, and assistant professor at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Through presentations, research, and blog posts, she has done work focusing on improving genetic services for gender diverse and BIPOC people.
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Doctor, UNSW Australia
Dr Magnolia Cardona-Morrell has a background in Medicine from Latin America with Australian postgraduate qualifications in Public Health (MPH) and Applied Epidemiology (Grad Dipl Appl Epid and PhD). She has worked with international aid agencies, at State Health Departments and Universities. Her research interests are patient safety, end-of-life care, health services research, health program evaluation, chronic disease prevention (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer), international health, pharmacoepidemiology and evidence-based health policy.
At The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research she is currently leading a program of research to improve end-of-life care for patients, families and health profesisonals (https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sense-ending). Central to this is the development, implementation and validation of a checklist for identifying terminal patients and facilitating doctor's conversations with patients and families about end-of-life care preferences. See CriSTAL project page, available at:
https://swscs.med.unsw.edu.au/project/validation-cristal-criteria-screening-and-triaging-appropriate-alternative-care
In consultation with doctors, nurses and health service managers she has also designed the evaluation of an initiative to provide a safer environment in acute hospitals through the introduction of continuous monitoring of vital signs among patients admitted to general wards: See the Vigilance with Vital Signs project (VVS) page. The ultimate goal is to prevent unplanned admissions to intensive care and reduce avoidable in-hospital deaths.
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Professor Of Social Anthropology , University of Sussex
Magnus Marsden joined Sussex in November 2013 from SOAS, University of London where he was Reader in Social Anthropology. He studied for his BA and PhD degrees at Cambridge University, where he was also Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Graduate Officer in Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.
Research expertise:
Afghanistan, Anthropology of Diplomacy, Anthropology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Anthropology of Postsocialism, Anthropology of Religion, Bazaars and Markets, Central Asia, Cosmopolitanism, globalisation, Migration and Mobility, Morality, Pakistan, Social anthropology, Tajikistan, Trade Traders and Trading Nodes, Trading Networks and Diasporas, Travel, Trust and Entrustment.
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Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
Dr Söderberg has spent his career studying the essential services (electricity, district heating, water and sewerage and municipal solid waste), using an economic lens.
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Executive Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, and Teaching Professor of Teaching Professor of Islam and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
An Islamic studies scholar and expert on religious literacy, Mirza brings extensive pedagogical and administrative experience to his role, including serving as dean of faculty at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, America’s first accredited Muslim liberal arts college.
Immediately before his appointment to the Ansari Institute, Mirza served as the lead faculty member for Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, which equips Islamic religious leaders in India and Pakistan with the tools to confidently engage with pluralism, modern science, and new philosophies.
Mirza joined Notre Dame in 2016 as professor of the practice for the Keough School’s Contending Modernities research initiative, a flagship program of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Through Contending Modernities, Mirza led the Madrasa Discourses project by teaching participants in India and Pakistan through distance learning. He also coordinated learning intensive sessions in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Qatar, including sessions that allowed for intercultural exchanges between Notre Dame students, Madrasa Discourses participants, and participants from South Africa. Additionally, Mirza directed pedagogical videos, helped develop an online Urdu journal published in India, and led an effort to launch an interactive website to make the Madrasa Discourses curriculum publicly accessible.
Mirza holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Hartford Seminary, and a PhD in religious studies from Yale University. He has taught courses and lectured on Arabic-Islamic studies, western religions, and the history of science, along with foundational subjects in the liberal arts, including logic, rhetoric, astronomy, ethics, and politics.
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Senior Research Fellow, Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology
Mahboobeh Shahbazi holds MSc and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Wollongong, where she worked on developing energy materials including iron-based superconductors. After graduating, she joined QUT where she followed her research studies on a variety of topics including perovskite solar cells, superconductors and magnetic materials. In 2017, Mahboobeh was awarded an Advance Queensland Fellowship in partnership with Siemens. In addition, Mahboobeh collaborates effectively with Australian and overseas superconductivity experts and is a co-investigator with her collaborative network at the University of Queensland on ARC Linkage projects investigating nanostructure engineered superconductors for fusion energy and MRI applications.
In January 2023, she started a new role as Foundation Fellow for a key project with the Future Energy Exports CRC. In this role, she collaborates on hydrogen-based projects in the CRC’s Programme 2 “Hydrogen Export and Value Chains” including identifying and resolving key issues associated with scaling up electrolysers and the use of magnetocaloric materials for the efficient liquefaction of hydrogen. In addition, she was part of an ARENA-funded team investigating the operational safety of Lithium-ion batteries used in hybrid renewable energy and hydrogen production facilities.
Mahboobeh’s research interests have centred on developing new and efficient methods to synthesise a variety of energy materials including superconductors, batteries, electrolysers and magnetocaloric materials. These syntheses are aimed at cost-effective, quality materials for use in applications such as MRI instruments and fusion reactors, hydrogen liquefaction and green hydrogen production systems. She is passionate about understanding the fundamental relationships between material structure, physical and electronic properties of materials and, accordingly, improving their performance in practical applications.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palaeoclimatology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Like most people, I was always fascinated by the sky and stars until an internal revelation led me to question if I knew enough about the Earth. This led my quest to find out more and more about Earth and its processes. On this path, I tried to understand how water - the elixir of life, on this planet, cycles through oceans, atmosphere and rocks and I am still doing the same. I use geochemical methods to understand climatic changes across Asia and Africa over the past hundreds of thousands of years. I also use geoinformatics as a tool for contemporary environmental monitoring and assessment. I learn each day and am a student for life.
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Lecturer, Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
Dr Mahli-Ann Butt is a feminist ethnographer researching questions of diversity in the cultures and industries of videogames.
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Sessional tutor, The University of Melbourne
Maia is a Research Coordinator at PIJI, managing the Assessment of Diversity research theme.
Maia has recently completed a Master of Geography at the University of Melbourne, with a background in international studies. She has research experience at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research and not-for-profit organisations.
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Pedersen Zari's research seeks to redefine sustainable architecture and urban design through mimicking ecosystems, changing the goals from sustainable to regenerative development, and integrating complex social factors into sustainable architectural design. Her current research explores how understanding ecosystem services can be used to define tangible ecology-based metrics for sustainability assessment in the urban built environment with particular regard to how climate change and continued loss of global biodiversity will affect architecture and communities. Her expertise include: urban climate resilience and adaptation in the Pacific, biophilic design, nature-based solutions, biomimicry, ecosystem services in cities, regenerative design, and urban biodiversity. Her work has been cited more than 700 times in international publications. Pedersen Zari is the author of 'Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry', Routledge, 2018, and co-author / editor of 'Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism, Routledge', forthcoming 2020.
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Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington
Dr. Maida Lynn Chen, MD, is Director of Sleep Medicine and attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Division and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at Northwestern University, and stayed in Chicago to do her residency in Pediatrics at Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke’s Medical Center. She then completed her Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, with special focus on respiratory control and sleep medicine. Her clinical interests center on sleep disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. Her research interests focus on respiratory control disorders and sleep-disordered breathing in special needs populations, including those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, obesity, Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome and craniofacial anomalies. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Thoracic Society, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and Sleep Research Society.
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Professeur agrégé, département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Diplomé à l’Universidad de La Havana en biochimie avec intérêt pour la recherche en écotoxicologie, j’ai débuté un projet de maîtrise à l’INRS sous la supervision de Landis Hare et Peter Campbell en 2009. Ensuite, j’ai décidé d’entamer un projet de recherche doctoral avec la même équipe. Mes recherches portaient sur la gestion intracellulaire de plusieurs métaux dans deux modèles d’animal : larves d’insecte et des anguilles. Les résultats de recherche générés dans ces études m’ont permis d’obtenir la médaille d’or du Gouverneur Général de Canada. J’ai fait une année de recherche postdoctorale dans le laboratoire de Marc Amyot (Université de Montréal) en 2015 et une année après, j'ai été engagé comme professeur au département des sciences biologiques à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Les recherches de mon équipe portant d'abord sur la compréhension de la manière dont les métaux traces provoquent des effets délétères en interagissant avec des biomolécules importantes au niveau subcellulaire dans différents tissus d'organismes aquatiques, ainsi que sur l'évaluation des conséquences biochimiques et physiologiques de ces interactions, de l'individu au niveau de l'écosystème. Les principales approches de mes recherches incluent des méthodes de fractionnement subcellulaire des métaux et des techniques liées à la métallomique environnementale. Les connaissances approfondies de la toxicité des métaux générées dans mon laboratoire vont contribuer à développer des outils environnementaux à utiliser pour l'évaluation de l'impact des métaux traces sur les écosystèmes aquatiques.
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Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Bristol
My PhD research, supervised by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Silke Knippschild, centres on Egyptian funerary stelae from the Roman period, using the site of Terenouthis/Kom Abou Billou as a case study. I am exploring how the inscriptions and iconography are used to construct and express the social identity of the deceased, with particular focus on gender, religious identity and ethnic identity; I am also investigating the effects of linguistic interference from the Egyptian language on the Greek language in Terenouthis.
I have previously completed a BA and MA in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where I specialised in the ancient Egyptian language and literary texts. My BA thesis investigated the concept of divine kingship in didactic literature from the Middle Kingdom period. My MA thesis, supervised by Dr Roland Enmarch and Prof Christopher Eyre, focused on the themes and motifs in the Late Egyptian literary text 'Tale of Two Brothers'.
My research interests are diverse and include ancient Egyptian language and literature, cross-cultural contact in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, language contact in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, Hellenism and Greek language in Egypt and the Near East, comparative Semitic philology, religion in ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, Coptic language and literature, early Christianity, the reception of ancient Egypt and archaeology in modern visual media, and the reception of ancient Egypt in 19th and 20th century spirituality and religious movements.
My linguistic competence is broad and includes Egyptian hieroglyphs, Coptic, Classical Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician and Classical Arabic.
In addition to my academic research I am actively involved in the outreach programmes Access to Bristol and Classics for All, delivering workshops to schools in the South on a wide range of topics related to the study of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. I also regularly teach courses in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and give public lectures on a range of topics related to Egyptology and ancient history. For upcoming events and courses, please visit https://mmkingevents.weebly.com and https://kemetklub.co.uk.
I am on the board of the Friends of the Petrie Museum, UCL as Secretary-Treasurer. In addition to this role I am also on the judging panel for the category Classical Studies and Archaeology of the Global Undergraduate Awards, an academic awards programme which aims to connect undergraduate students across national borders and academic disciplines.
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Professor of Modern History and Faculty Research Director, University of Nottingham
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
History of the Third Reich, especially propaganda, visual culture, architecture, photography.
Regionalism in modern Europe. The historical roots of modern identity politics; the role of material culture (buildings, urban design, objects) in shaping national and local identity; the history of the brand "Made in Germany".
The role of private 'snapshot' photography in prompting political behaviour, how people internalise, or contest, ideologies and cultural beliefs.
The problems of using 'perpetrator photography' to represent difficult histories, especially in the context of the way we document and exhibit the Holocaust.
Landscape: ways of seeing and perceiving landscapes, the way that historically created landscape shape our ideas of what is 'natural' and 'beautiful'. Modern landscape art; Anselm Kiefer.
Brief bio:
1970
born in Germany
1989-92
University of Cambridge MA in History, First Class
92-96
University of Cambridge PhD (study of how landscape gardens in England and Germany shaped and expressed ideas about Enlightenment and progress, and travelled across national boundaries)
95-98
Junior Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
98-2011
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Manchester
2011-present
Professor, Chair in Modern History, University of Nottingham
Visiting appointments
Institute for Contemporary History, Munich (2015)
Freie Universität Berlin (2008)
University College London (2005-06)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2004-05)
Harvard University (2001-02 and 2003)
Australian National University (2001)
Key books / publications (highlights only):
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History, Central European History. 48(3), 2015
German Cities and the Genesis of Modernism, 1890-1930, Oxford University Press, 2009
Municipalism, Regionalism, Nationalism. Hybrid Identity Formations and the Making of Modern Europe. European Review of History, 15/3 (2008)
Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization and the Built Environment. Stanford University Press, 2005
Hijacked Heimats. National Appropriations of Local and Regional Identities in Germany and Spain, 1930-1945, with Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, European Review of History 15/3 (2008), 295-316.
A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Long Nineteenth Century, American Historical Review, 110/3 (2005), 659-692.
Memory and Historicism: Reading between the Lines of the Built Environment, c.1900, Representations, 88 (2004), 26-54.
"Made in Germany". In H Schulze and E Francois, Deutsche Erinnerungsorte. Beck, 2001.
Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806, Hambledon, 2000.
FOR MORE DETAILS, SEE:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/people/Maiken.Umbach
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Lecturer, American literature and African American Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield
My research and teaching focuses on Gothic literature and Horror Film, although I also teach American literature and African American Cultural Studies. I specifically investigate racial discourses and manifestations in Gothic Literature and Horror film, as well as the way Black Diasporic people have appropriated the genres to speak back against oppressive socioeconomic rhetoric. For my BA fellowship, I am investigating the ways the Gothic has and continues to impact and inform anti-Black language and discourses from the Gothic’s rise to our current era (as such, I will also consider the ways Horror Film takes up this task in the twentieth-century). I am especially interested in how the genres morph alongside any moments of racial progress, thus providing a means to consistently erase Black humanity despite seeming political and ideological advancement. To put it simply, I want to explore how Gothic Literature and Horror Film have contributed to populations still needing to shout “Black Lives Matter” in protest during the Twenty-First century—150 years of the US abolition of Slavery and over 200 years after its abolition in the UK—at a point of such intellectual and scientific progress that we should be well beyond this discussion. Although my work focuses upon anti-Black discourse, it is also inspired by and has ramifications for anti-immigrant discourses (such as rhetoric warning against hordes of non-white immigrants coming to rape and pillage the nation).
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PhD Candidate, Mosquito Ecology, University of Oxford
Maisie Vollans is a PhD student in the Mathematical Ecology Research Group at the University of Oxford. Her main interests lie in mosquito ecology and, as such, her DPhil project is centred around the broad ecological implications of releasing self-limiting GM mosquitoes. She is researching this using a variety of techniques: theoretical mathematical modelling, experiments in the laboratory and a systematic literature review.
Prior to her PhD, she completed a Masters in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London, where her thesis examined the impact of forest degradation on the size and demography of mosquito populations. Her undergraduate degree was in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.
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Lecturer, Political Science, University of Waterloo
Dr. Maissaa Almustafa is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her primary research interests are on the forcibly displaced. She focuses on their lived experiences as refugees and the politics of marginalization that govern their lives in the Middle East and in their diasporic communities in Europe and Canada. Her scholarship is enhanced by her active involvement in community outreach initiatives in refugee resettlement and integration. Maissaa earned her Ph.D. in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON. She recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Glendon Political Science at York University, Toronto, were she joined the Whole-COMM, a research project on migrant integration in Europe and Canada, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020. Her publications and research focus on lived experiences of refugees and the politics of marginalization that govern their lives in the Middle East and in their diasporic communities in Europe and Canada. In her doctoral research, “Refugees from Syria caught between war and borders: A journey towards protection,” which received the Award for Outstanding Graduate Work, she examines the governance structures of refugee protection and the encounters between exclusionary bordering practices and refugees’ agency during their displacement. The findings of her research appeared in leading journals. Dr. Almustafa is currently working towards the publication of her book “Contemporary Narratives of Exile: Rethinking Refugee Protection Worldwide” which is based on her dissertation research, with Wilfrid Laurier Press.
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Senior Lecturer of Sociology, University of Essex
Before joining Essex, I did my PhD from the Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan and have spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milan, working on the research project P2PValue, funded by the European Commission's FP7 program.
My research is in the area of Economic Sociology, STS, Consumer Cultures and Social Theory. I am interested in looking at alternative systems to global capitalism to frame them as a distinct analytical and political category. Part of this interest emerges from examining global bazaar economies as a popular economic system based on my ethnography in Delhi's Electronic Bazaars and developed as a monograph, Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy, published with Stanford University Press.
I am currently researching the Whitechapel market in East London to investigate bazaars as intellectual places drawing from the literature on public space, and Autonomist Marxism. The other strand of my research focuses on marginal cultural spaces, particularly young adults' social media use in the Global South, to see how they engage with global platforms in unique ways. Overall, I am interested in building a more embedded social theory through observations and practices often ignored in the dominant academic framework.
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Researcher in Ecology, Lund University
I am an ecologist and environmental scientist interested in understanding the multitude of factors affecting biodiversity and the functions organisms provide in ecosystems and to humans. I am particularly interested in how land use change and management of agricultural landscapes affect pollinators and the pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants.
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PhD student, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
PhD student at University of Western Cape
In Cultural Anthropology department
Student number 4280646
Research interests
Mental healing, coloniality and decoloniality of knowledge production, traditions and social norms in transformative religion
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Research Fellow in Demography, University of Oxford
I am a demographer and methodologist working for the University of Oxford, and a fellow of the Oxford Martin School.
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Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding, University of Winchester
I am an experienced principal investigator of international research projects and a conflict transformation facilitator. I am also an award winning teacher and presenter.
Here are some of the areas I cover in my training: 1) Exploring interpersonal conflict; 2) Turning conflict styles into strategies: 3) Developing key interpersonal skills; 4)Facilitating challenging conversations; 5) Developing intercultural awareness and competencies; 6) Creating a culture of dialogue; 7) Workplace mediation; 8) Facilitating inclusive meetings and 9) Developing strategies using envisioning and appreciative inquiry.
My research currently focuses on welcoming and integrating people on the move in Europe. I am currently particularly interested in the roles of language cafes in integration and the roles of faith-based actors in integration. In the past I have also done a lot of research on accountability for war crimes and transitional justice processes.
I also manage distance learning master programmes in reconciliation and peacebuilding at the University of Winchester, for more information see: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-reconciliation-and-peacebuilding/
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Adjunct assistant professor, Economics Department, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Practice, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg
Makhosazana Xaba is an award-winning South African anthologist and short story writer. She is also an editor, essayist, poet and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg based at the Centre for Race, Gender and Class. She was formerly a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Xaba has worked with national and international NGOs and in the areas of women’s sexual health and rights, gender and anti-bias training and in philanthropy. Xaba initially trained as a general nurse, midwife and a psychiatric nurse and later became an anti-apartheid activist and spent some years in exile.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Wits University. Recently she co-edited Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele with Bhekizizwe Peterson and Khwezi Mkhize and introduced, Noni Jabavu: a Stranger at Home with Athambile Masola. This book is a compilation of columns written by Noni Jabavu for the Daily Dispatch newspaper in 1977.
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Lecturer in Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetic, University of Limpopo
Ms. Makoma Bopape is a lecturer at the University of Limpopo, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a dietitian by profession and has passion in child nutrition. She also has interest in obesity prevention. She is a registered PhD at the University of the Western Cape, School of Public Health and is engaged in an obesity prevention project.
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PhD Candidate, Russian and East European Studies, Manchester University
Maksim is a linguist (computational linguistics, corpus-based studies, semantics, terminology) and discourse analyst, working on an interdisciplinary PhD project, situated at the intersection of Linguistics, Media Studies, and Russian and East European Studies.
Under the supervision of Professors Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz at the University of Manchester, Maksim is carrying out research using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods for a PhD project entitled: "Transforming Meaning: Russian Trolls in Social Media’s Changing Linguistic Landscape".
When complete, Maksim's thesis will provide the first substantive analysis of how the linguistic practices of online actors identified as Russian state-sponsored trolls change with time and context.
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Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo
For many years, my research has been focused on basic human values as they appear across nations. More recently, I got interested in perceptions of older adults and lay theories of wisdom, both in a cross-cultural perspective. Simultaneously, I pursue a track of methodological research. In particular, I investigated a complex role of ipsatization and effects of accounting for measurement error in the values research. I contributed to the measurement invariance methods, including invariance of the second-order factors and latent classes. Currently I am developing an R package featuring a method for identifying clusters of invariant groups in a network-like representation.
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Head of Design, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh
Mal is an alumni of Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal College of Art, in London, where he won the BT Award for Outstanding Studies. After graduation, Mal worked in Italy as a designer for United Colours of Benetton, and then as a freelance designer. Returning to Edinburgh, he established the design label, MalandLeigh, a partnership specialising in fashion and interiors.
In addition to his role as Programme Director for Fashion at Edinburgh College of Art, Mal is a committee member for the British Fashion Council Colleges Council, and from 2014-2019, he was a Trustee of Graduate Fashion Week.
Mal also serves as an external examiner for a number of UK courses, and has worked for a number of institutions includige NCAD Dublin, The London College of Fashion, Arts University Bournemouth, UCA Epsom and Kingtson University.
Mal continues to be an active designer, believing that this is important to his teaching methods on the programme, and his work has been exhibited at significant international venues including; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh), The International Centre for Lace and Fashion (Calais, France), The Bonnington Gallery (Nottingham), The Shanghai Museum of Textiles and Costume and Venice Design 2019.
He also directed The Edinburgh College of Art Diversity Network, uniting experts from academia, industry and charity sectors to discuss and improve fashion design through collaboration and public engagement.
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Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London
Malak holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), an LLM in Human rights law from Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Global Migration from University College London (UCL). Prior to her doctrinal research, Malak worked for several NGOs and international organisations, including for the United Nations in Vienna, Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, and the AIRE Centre in London.
Malak is now a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway University of London. She specialises in the areas of human rights law, refugee law, statelessness, Palestinians, and Kurds. Her research and teaching relies on a decolonial and intersectional methodology that includes critical race theory.
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