Adjunct Lecturer in Sports Law, University of Toronto
Marcus is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses on Global Sports Law and Canadian Sports Law. Marcus is also a lawyer for the Ontario Ministry of Health.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, Middlesex University
Marcus O'Dair co-leads the Popular Music BA at Middlesex University, where he is convenor of the Blockchain for Creative Industries research cluster. He is the author of Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt (Serpent's Tail, 2014). Shortlisted for the Penderyn music book prize, it was a Radio 4 book of the week and a book of the year in the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Mojo Uncut.
Marcus has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Irish Times, Uncut, the Arts Desk, the Quietus, Pitchfork, Wire and Jazzwise. He is an occasional studio guest on BBC 6 Music (Freak Zone, Freakier Zone) and BBC Radio 3 (Jazz on 3, the Essay) and has presented music podcasts for the Independent, Music Week and the Barbican.
As a keyboard player, double bassist and manager, Marcus is one half of Grasscut, who have released three acclaimed albums (Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings) and performed across Europe. As a session musician, he also spent several years on retainer with Passenger, performing at festivals including V and Latitude and live on Radio 2 and Radio 4, but somehow managed to leave before Let Her Go became an international number one.
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Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
I am a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. My research examines iconicity in speech and gesture, with special interest in the evolution of human communication. I also study the gesturing and vocal behaviour of great apes.
I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in September of 2017. Before coming to Birmingham, I earned my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with Raymond Gibbs. Following this, I was a postdoc at the Gorilla Foundation, where I studied under the gorilla Koko. I then did postdocs in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, and in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, I was a postdoc in the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
My research is driven by two big questions. What is language? and Where did it come from? My main angle into these questions is through iconicity – resemblance between the form of a signal and its meaning. My work examines iconicity across a range of phenomena, from prosody in the production of spoken sentences, to word learning by children, to the gesturing of gorillas. I am especially interested in the role of iconicity in the evolution of human communication and the ongoing historical development of languages.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
I am an ecologist interested in how species respond to environmental change. My research involves a combination of fieldwork and modelling to investigate how climate and habitat influence the persistence of species within landscapes. Butterflies are a particular passion of mine, with their ecology and conservation forming a focus for much of my work.
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Group Leader, Forest Dynamics and Ecophysiology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
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Associate Professor of Management, University of North Texas
Marcus Wolfe is the G. Brint Ryan Professor of Entrepreneurship, and an Associate Professor in the Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. His research primarily focuses on individual cognition and decision making at all stages of the entrepreneurial process, the potential clinical and biological factors that influence entrepreneurial health and well-being, as well as emotions and entrepreneurial failure. His research has appeared in a number of leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal among others. He serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Additionally, prior to beginning his career in academia Marcus was also involved in helping to found and run several new venture start-ups in a wide range of industry sectors.
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Policy Analyst, Indigenous Knowledge
Marcus (He/him) has a Bachelor of Science Majoring in Biological sciences and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury, a Post-graduate Diploma in Applied Science from Lincoln University, and is currently working on his Thesis at the University of Canterbury in seed banking methods and cultural protocols for seed banking.
Marcus-Rongowhitiao has a keen interest in using both traditional scientific practices, as well as mātauranga Māori research practices. He has experience working alongside Kaumātua across the country as well as researchers across New Zealand Universities and Research agencies in the biosecurity, language and wider science space.
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PhD candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Maree is a PhD candidate at the School of Justice at QUT. Her thesis focuses on young people's experiences of pornography and school-based pornography education. She is co-founder and Director of the Australian violence prevention initiative It's time we talked and co-producer and co-director of the broadcast documentary films, Love and Sex in an Age of Pornography and The Porn Factor. She is also author of In The Picture, a resource to support secondary schools to develop a tailored, whole school approach address pornography's influence and Talking Respect, a resource to support conversations about healthy relationships and media influence with young people in the Northern Territory. Maree delivers conference presentations and professional learning to a wide range of sectors in Australia and internationally.
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La Trobe University
Maree Patsouras is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) at La Trobe University. She completed her honours Psychology degree on digital and media alcohol exposure. Her other research interests include emerging technologies and women’s alcohol use.
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Programme Leader for MA International Journalism, University of Salford
Two decades in overseas media development training and consultancy after 15 years with BBC Global News and World Service in London as broadcast journalist and editor. Expertise and experience in FSU, Eastern Europe and international affairs, media regulation and public service broadcasting.
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With a passion for exploring bleeding edge technologies and using them to create opportunities and solve problems, Marek has extensive industry based innovation implementation experience together with a strong academic background.
With a high quality publication record and registered patents, Marek is academically rigorous and actively applies research to industry outcomes. His role of Senior Director, Products and Innovation with SAP, Silicon Valley saw him successfully lead teams of researchers and developers in many innovative projects. He drove the set up of a brand new SAP Research centre in Singapore and SAP’s newest, flagship series of developer events, d-kom. Marek is also a co-founder of Business Information Systems Institute (I2G), a successful spin-off delivering high quality R&D services in statistical NLP, information extraction, data mining and data integration.
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Marek's research focuses on various aspects of competition law and policy in international and transnational contexts, including the limits of extraterritorial jurisdiction and state involvement in anticompetitive practices. In broader terms, his interests lie in international economic law.
Before joining Queen's Marek was a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin (completed on a prestigious Ad Astra Scholarship), an LLM (with specializations in EU Economic and World Trade Law) from the Saarland University’s European Institute, and MA degrees from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Marek is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago (US); an Associate Member of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the Warsaw University (Poland); and a Fellow of the European Law Institute (Austria). He is also a member of a number of academic societies-- among them the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Academic Society for Competition Law, and Competition Law Scholars Forum. Marek has been also nominated by the Polish Competition Authority to serve as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network
He has taught Contract Law, EU Law (both Constitutional and Substantive/Economic), International and Comparative Competition Law, EU Competition Law, and International Trade Law.
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Professor, Head of School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Professor Marek Tesar is Head of School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, and the Associate Dean International at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. He is also the director of Centre for Global Childhoods, and the Chair of Early Years, Childhood Studies and Child Development Research and Teaching Hub. His award-winning scholarship is focused on early childhood education in both New Zealand as well as in cross-country contexts. His academic work and consultancy focuses on educational policy, philosophy, pedagogy, methodology and curriculum, and draws on his background as a qualified teacher. Currently, Marek serves as a leader of two leading learned societies in his fields; he chairs the Steering Committee of the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE), and is elected President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).
Marek’s scholarship and activism merges theoretical work with a practical focus on the everyday lives of children and their childhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. He has published 200 peer-reviewed publications, and his scholarly work has received many prestigious national and international awards and accolades. He edits 4 educational book series with renowned publishers, is Editor of 6 academic journals, and sits on over 20 international editorial boards.
In 2016 Marek led a team of international and local experts in Indonesia to establish a research centre of excellence for early childhood education, care and parenting, that serves the South-East Asia region (SEAMEO). While his research is mainly focused on the early years, he has substantial experience and knowledge of educational systems more generally. Since 2018, Marek has been leading a team of New Zealand early childhood experts to deliver a curriculum framework, and teaching and parenting programmes in China. In 2020, Marek was appointed as a Research Fellow at SEAMEO to provide expertise on future research and development initiatives and programmes, and enhance cooperation in education, science and culture in Southeast Asia.
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Lecturer of Federalism, Debark University
I teach and conduct research on governance, federalism, human rights and political science. I graduated from the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2023) with an MSc in governance and development. I also did my MA (2013) in federalism studies and BA (2010) in journalism and communications at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology Department, Marine Research Institute (INMAR), Universidad de Cádiz
Marga López Rivas is a researcher in marine ecology and conservation biology. Her research interests include the ecology of sea turtles and cetaceans, climate change, deep learning and marine pollution.
She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher in the biology department of the Marine Research Institute (INMAR) at the University of Cádiz, Spain.
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Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program, Bowdoin College
Margaret Boyle's teaching and research spans the literature and culture of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Her primary interests include Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures.
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Professor, Management Strategy & Organisation, University of Bath
Dr Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard & Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation.
She is the author of six books. Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better”.
She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co, mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organisations.
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Senior Research Fellow, Social Work, The University of Melbourne
Dr Margaret Kertesz is a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and has worked in the child and family welfare sector for over 25 years, in both practice and research. In addition to ongoing work in out-of-home care,she specializes in applied research in domestic and family violence, involving all members of families who may also face challenges relating to substance misuse, poor mental health or child protection. She is currently co-leading projects involving capacity building in the Safe & Together ModelTM through Communities of Practice, across a range of NSW services. Her research over the last decade has focussed on evaluation, practice development and knowledge translation, with research interests including the impact on children of domestic violence, approaches that promote recovery post-violence, and moving beyond the binary conceptualisation of victim and perpetrator.
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Professor, School of Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
Professor Margaret Kettle is a research-focused academic based in the School of Education and the Arts. Her research and teaching focus on education for diverse populations in formal and informal settings. Specifically, she is interested in the ways that pedagogy, language and culture intersect in people's lives and can be brought together to promote access, attainment and wellbeing in schooling, higher education, workplaces, and communities.
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret (Maggie) Lowenstein, MD, MPhil, MSHP is a general internist, addiction medicine physician, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Lowenstein’s research focuses on novel strategies for implementing evidence-based treatment and harm reduction interventions for opioid and other substance use disorders. She is interested in the delivery of substance use care in general medical settings as well as developing and studying low-barrier treatment models for substance use disorder. Dr. Lowenstein also co-chairs the Opioid Use Disorder Workgroup of the Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force and collaborates with partners in Philadelphia to disseminate best practices for opioid use disorder care. She currently practices integrated addiction medicine and primary care at the University of Pennsylvania and attends on Penn’s inpatient addiction medicine consult service.
Dr. Lowenstein received her undergraduate degree at Williams College, a Master’s degree in Biology and Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge as a Herchel Smith Fellow, and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in the UCSF primary care program and then a fellowship in health policy with the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Penn.
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Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Stirling
Margaret Maxwell is Professor of Health Services and Mental Health Research at the University of Stirling. From 2016-2024 she was Director of the Chief Scientist Office funded Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit (NMAHP-RU) and Deputy Director from 2009-2016. She was Head of the Scottish Government funded Scottish Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development programme from 2003-2009. She has been involved in health services research for over 30 years, leading or collaborating on over 70 research studies focusing on quality and delivery of care, especially in relation to the management of long-term conditions and common mental health problems. Her work has included evaluating different service models, different staff skill mixes and advanced practice roles for delivering effective and efficient healthcare. She has had a long-standing interest in developing research capacity and capability within the NHS workforce to enable delivery of evidence-based care. She is mostly known for her work in mental health and wellbeing, depression and anxiety, maternal mental health, child and adolescent mental health, and suicide prevention. She has been involved in European research collaborations spanning over 20 years tackling suicide, depression, and mental health in the workplace, and has evaluated several national programmes for improving mental health and long-term conditions.
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PhD candidate in International Development, University of Oxford
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre in the Department of International Development. Previously I completed an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. I also hold a BA in Humanities from Yale University.
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Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Media & Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Maggie Scammell was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE for 11 until 2010, and has continued to be associated with the department since then as a visitor. Before coming to the LSE she was a lecturer at the School of Politics and Communications at the University of Liverpool, and a Research Fellow at Joan Shorenstein Center for Press/Politics, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She took her PhD at the LSE, investigating the Thatcher government's use of marketing and public relations. Before joining the academy, she worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines and television, writing and researching on a variety of subjects including general elections, gay politics and sport.
Maggie's research interests are in political communications, especially political campaigning, media and elections, governments and news management, political marketing and political journalism. Current research projects include populist political communication and its impact on mainstream party communication; and women in politics, focusing on the rise of women to heads of governments around the world.
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Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
1991-1995 Head, School (now Conservatorium) of Music, UWA
1995-7 Seconded to WA Government, CEO Department for the Arts
1997-2001 Chair, Australia Council for the Arts
2001-2004 Pro Vice Chancellor UWA
2004-2009 Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor UWA
2009 Retired
2013 Australian Institute of Management Gold Medal Not for Profit Director
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington
My work focuses on community and school-based interventions for adolescents with ADHD and related difficulties in attention, motivation, and executive functions. I have authored or co-authored over 70 scientific papers and a book about how parents and professionals can empower teenagers with ADHD. My school-based models include summer programming to prepare teens with ADHD for the transition to high school and peer-delivered interventions for high schoolers. These approaches integrate motivational interviewing and executive function skill building. I am is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. My work has been conducted in partnership with the National Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Education Sciences, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Health, University College Cork
My research centres on social and commercial determinants of health, especially in relation to unhealthy diets and food systems. In particular, I use resources from philosophy, public health, medicine and other disciplines to examine fatness/obesity as a cultural, social and political phenomenon.
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Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University
Margarita Simon Guillory teaches courses on American religious history, digital religion, and religion and popular culture. Her research interests include identity construction in Africana esoteric religions, religion and technology, and social scientific approaches to religion. She is the author of Social and Spiritual Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches (Routledge 2017) and co-editor of Esotericism in African American Religious Experience (Brill 2014). In addition to these works, she has published articles in the Journal of Gnostic Studies, Culture and Religion, and Pastoral Psychology. Her current project, Africana Religion in the Digital Age, considers how African Americans utilize the Internet, social media, mobile applications, and gaming to forge new ways to express their religious identities.
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PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University
Hello there. As an accomplished and driven PhD candidate at Deakin University, specialising in Tech, Facial Recognition and Information Security Law, I strive for an academic excellence and extensive legal experience. With over a decade of involvement in both academia and the legal profession, I am amazed by changes that are coming to the legal world.
At my position of an Associate Law Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, I garnered recognition for my exceptional teaching abilities, receiving multiple accolades including the Law School's Outstanding Teacher Award. Prior to embarking on my current doctoral journey, I accumulated valuable practical expertise as an arbitration lawyer, legal advisor, and in-house counsel, providing me with a comprehensive understanding of various facets of the legal landscape.
In addition to my professional accomplishments, I have contributed significantly to the legal field through the publication of articles on international commercial arbitration and mediation, as well as authoring a book focusing on mediation agreements. I am also proud to hold an LL.M. degree from the esteemed University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
My research interests span a wide range of areas, including smart contracts, international arbitration law, mediation and negotiation, international maritime law, IP law, and tech law. With a genuine passion for education and student development, I am looking forward to discussion of various topics on this platform.
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Project Coordinator, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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obstetrician/gynaecologist and researcher, University of Cape Town
Margit Endler M.D. PhD, is a Swedish obstetrician/gynaecologist and researcher in the field of
global maternal health. Her research focuses on postpartum haemorrhage as well as advancing
safe abortion and contraceptive care. A main interest is researching and implementing
abortion and contraceptive counselling through telemedicine in Africa, the aim a several
clinical trials that she is currently conducting. She is a senior consultant at the Department of
Obstetrics at Söder Hospital in Stockholm, an assistant professor at the Department of
Women and Children´s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and a member of the FIGO
Committee on Women Facing Crisis. She has worked as a clinician or researcher in Sweden,
Kenya, Haiti, Poland, and South Africa.
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Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Cardiff University
I am an urban geographer and planner who is interested in working across and between spatial and political disciplines. My work is comparative, largely focused on the Global South, and draws on embedded and well-established research networks that span multiple countries. My research explores key questions of urban sustainability through various lenses, such as housing provision and mobility, framed by broader theoretical analyses of governance and gender. My research projects have ranged in focus from urban housing, land use management, transit-oriented development, to urban governance, questions of mobility and accessibility, and work on gender and the Geographies of Care. This has given me the scope to engage with broad conceptual themes of socio-economic rights, urban sustainability, spatial change and identity politics and their relationship to the City through comparative studies. These have included comparisons between Delhi, India and Johannesburg; Johannesburg and Cairo, Egypt; and I am currently involved in a comparative mobility study with colleagues in Maputo, Mozambique, and study of the housing/employment nexus of the urban youth in Hawassa, Ethiopia and Ekangala, South Africa.
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