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Prof. Mulala Danny Simatele
Environmental Scientist, University of the Witwatersrand
Prof. Mulala Simatele is an Environmental Scientist by training and specialized in Geographies of the Environment and Sustainability. He holds a DPhil in Environmental Management and Sustainability from the University of Sussex in the UK. Prior to joining Wits, Mulala worked for the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where he was part of the team which established the St Andrews Sustainability Institute.
His main areas of research interest revolves around community based natural resource management with a special focus on water management, education for sustainability, climate change adaptation, environmental justice, environmental impact assessments, marine resource management and disaster risk management. In additional to academic engagement, Mulala is one of three technical advisors to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) on the Cultivate Africa Programme.
He is also a board member for Hanell International and has diverse experiences working with policy related institutions notably on environmental management, climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability. Notable among these institutions include: The World Bank; The Scottish Environmental Think Tank, and the Ford Foundation. He has also served as an environmental consultant for different governments; the government of Bolivia; Botswana, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Sweden, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He has also worked with various NGOs on environmental and climate change issues including community development. Mulala is very passionate about research and working with students from diverse backgrounds. Since arriving at Wits in 2013, he has successfully supervised 20 PhD students and over 80 Masters and honours students.
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Professor Dibyesh Anand
Head of School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster
Dibyesh Anand is the Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster in London. He is a professor of international relations and the author of monographs "Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination" and "Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear" and has spoken about and published on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia in India, and the colonial occupation in Kashmir. He is co-chair for the Westminster BME network and newly formed EDI committee. He identifies as queer in personal and political terms. He is available on Twitter @dibyeshanand.
Dibyesh Anand is the Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster in London. He is a professor of international relations and the author of monographs "Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination" and "Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear" and has spoken about and published on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia in India, and the colonial occupation in Kashmir. He is co-chair for the Westminster BME network and newly formed EDI committee. He identifies as queer in personal and political terms. He is available on Twitter @dibyeshanand.
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Professor Keith Ryden
Professor of Space Engineering, University of Surrey
Prof. Ryden is currently Interim Director of the Surrey Space Centre which is a research unit within the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. The centre currently focusses on space applications, exploration and instrumentation and has a long history of building space experiments (including experimental satellites) and space instruments.
Keith’s field of research concerns the effects of space radiation and space weather on spacecraft, aircraft and ground systems and also how to protect them. He has been involved in a numerous national and international (e.g. European Space Agency and NASA) projects to develop space environment models has invented and flown novel instruments to measure and investigate such issues – his instrument designs are used today for example, in the European Space Agency ‘Galileo’ satellites and the Japanese Meteorological satellites. He has strong research links with the UK Met Office and Ministry of Defence in the field of space weather as well as with the space industry. Keith has developed a new Masters-level module ‘Space Environment and Protection’ at Surrey.
After graduating from the University of Bath in 1986 with a First in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Keith joined the Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE), Farnborough, then part of UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), to carry out research into improving the effectiveness and survivability of UK defence satellites. In parallel he completed a part-time MSc in Satellite Engineering at the University of Surrey, graduating with Distinction. Keith led the design, construction and launch of MoD’s 50kg STRV1a research satellite which performed its mission successfully from 1994-1999. In 2007 he was appointed to the position of Technical Fellow at QinetiQ (a spin-out from MoD) where he led a team dedicated to understanding radiation environments and effects. In 2012 he joined the Royal Academy of Engineering study team looking into Extreme Space Weather which reported in 2013. Soon thereafter he took up a post at the University of Surrey as Reader in Space Engineering.
Keith is currently a member of the UK Space Environment Impact Expert Group (SEIEG), which advises the UK Government on space weather risks. He is Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET.
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Progress Hove-Sibanda
Associate professor of logistics, Nelson Mandela University
Prof Progress Hove-Sibanda is a Logistics and Supply Chain Management Professional and an NRF rated researcher. She is an associate professor in the Department of Logistics, School of Business and Economic Science, Nelson Mandela University. She is a board member of the Journal of Transport and Supply chain management; and a committee member of the African Institute of Supply Chain Research (AISCR). She has published widely and presented several papers in local and international conferences. Her research interest lies in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Green Logistics, Reverse Logistics, Waste Management, Smart Logistics, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, SMEs, Islamic banking, Maritime Logistics, business management, sustainable entrepreneurship, and economics.
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Pui Ting Wong
PhD Candidate, diet and adolescent mental health, The University of Queensland
I am a PhD Candidate and Accredited Practising Dietitian researching the impact of culinary education on the psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents. My vision is to empower people to lead happy and healthy lives through education around diet and mental health. My international research portfolio spans nutrition education, nutrition in cystic fibrosis and migrant health. I have worked with organisations including American Diabetes Association, Dietitians Australia, and Hong Kong Community Dietitian Association.
As an emerging educator, I have provided nutrition education both within Australia and internationally to a diverse range of audiences including people with neurodiversity and special education needs, families, allied health professionals, and First Nations people, across clinical, community, and corporate settings.
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Pujo Semedi
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Dr. Pujo Semedi is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada. His research is focused on rural-agricultural economic and ecological issues, and he carried out fieldwork among fishers and farmers in Java, Kalimantan, and South Germany. His works include Rubber, Oil Palm and Accumulation in West Kalimantan, 1910s-2010s (2022); Plantation Life. Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zones. with Tania Li (2021); “Fishers’ responses to the Danish seiner ban and the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast” with Katharina Schneider (2021); “The Development and Demise of Child Labour in a Javanese Tea Plantation, 1900–2010” with Gerben Nooteboom (2018). He got his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2001.
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Puneet Vatsa
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
I am an economist at Lincoln University in New Zealand who enjoys answering interesting questions about people, prices, and society using data. My current research focuses on energy and agricultural commodity markets, the socioeconomic effects of technology adoption, and rural development.
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Purungu Desmond Taylor
Warnman - Manjilyjarra man from Karlamilyi National Park, interpreter and artist, Indigenous Knowledge
Purungu Desmond Taylor is a Warnman - Manjilyjarra man. His country is within Karlamilyi National Park and the Martu Native Title Determination Area. Desmond was born near the Oakover River, Western Australia. His family, children and grandchildren live in Jigalong, Parnngurr, Bidyadanga, Perth, Adelaide and other places.
He is an interpreter and artist. He speaks more than five Western Desert languages. He paints ancestral and personal stories including the Niminjarra, Jila Kutjarra, yiwarra and others. He has worked in linguistics, archaeology, history, anthropology, ethnoecology, health and other disciplines.
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Purva Abhyankar
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Stirling
I am a health psychologist by training and have many years of research experience in applied health and health services research. My research aims to help people make better decisions about their healthcare and actively manage their health and illness by engaging in healthy behaviours. It draws on the knowledge from psychological theories underpinning human behaviour and decision making, applied to improve health and healthcare delivery. I am an inter-disciplinary and mixed methods researcher, equally comfortable with qualitative and quantitative methodology.
I joined the Division of Psychology, in FNS at Stirling in June 2021. Prior to this, I spent nearly 6 years as a lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, teaching several aspects of Health Psychology (e.g. health behaviour change, clinical and shared decision making), and a wide range of research methods to nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals.
Within Psychology, I lead the third year undergraduate module Clinical and Health Psychology, along with contributing to teaching on final year electives, MSc Health Psychology and UG, PG and doctoral supervision.
I am also the convener and University representative for the Health, Families, Relationships and Demographic Change Pathway for ESRC's Doctoral Training Pathway.
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