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Gitte Marianne Hansen
Reader in Japanese Studies, Newcastle University
I have an interest in character construction techniques and story repetition across genre, and in my research I look at diverse fiction, such as Murakami Haruki’s, Kanehara Hitomi’s and Kirino Natsuo’s literary works, as well as Miyazaki Hayao’s animation and artwork by Aida Makoto, among others. My approach is interdisciplinary and I enjoy working thematically.
Currently I am particularly interested in Murakami Haruki. I lead the AHRC funded project, Genderign Murakami Haruki: Characters, Transmedial Productions and Contemporary Japan. The project aims to examine Murakami's literary works in terms of the processes of translation, transmedial production and the gendering of his characters. I am particularly interested in his female characters and their changing position and diverse representation. For more information see my website: Eyes on Murakami: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/murakami/
Outputs related to my Murakami project includes a special issue on Murakami Haruki at Japan Forum Vol 32(3) that I co-edited in 2020 with Dr. Michael Tsang. Together we have also edited the volume Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage to be published with Routledge.
Together with Professor Christopher Jones, I produced the art catalogue, Beyond Words: Transmediating Murakami Haruki, 2018. The catalogue can be viewed here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/media/sites/researchwebsites/eyesonmurakami/Beyond%20Words%20-%20Transmediating%20Murakami%20Haruki%20(Jones%20&%20Hansen,%202018).pdf
In 2016 I published my first monograph with Routledge: Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan - Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture: https://www.routledge.com/Femininity-Self-harm-and-Eating-Disorders-in-Japan-Navigating-contradiction/Hansen/p/book/9781138905306
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Giulia Champion
Research Fellow, Humanities, University of Southampton
Dr Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton, UK. Her work investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through finance, governance, culture and science. her current project explores how these engagements emerge in the creation of a regulatory framework to mine deep-sea polymetallic nodules from the seabed in the Pacific. Also called deep-sea mining, this type of extraction is supposedly needed to gather the minerals necessary for our energy transitions. My work asks whether we can decarbonise beyond extractivism by considering degrowth and mineral recycling.
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Giulia Giupponi
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
I am an Assistant Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University. I was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. I received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
My research interests are in the areas of Labor and Public Economics, with a focus on social insurance programs and minimum wage policy.
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Giulia Sesa
PhD Candidate in Biomedical Sciences (KU Leuven) & PhD Candidate in Sport Sciences (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences), KU Leuven
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Giulia Vivaldi
Queen Mary University of London
Giulia Vivaldi is a statistician and epidemiologist on the COVIDENCE UK study, a cohort study launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore the effect of COVID-19 on the general population. Her research has focused on the long-term impacts of the pandemic, such as how well vaccines continue to protect against infections and the long-term symptoms experienced by some people after COVID-19.
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Giulia Prelz Oltramonti
Assistant Professor, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)
Giulia Prelz Oltramonti is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille, France. She is also a researcher and part-time lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université Catholique de Louvain.
She works or has worked on political economies of conflict in the Caucasus, informality in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, processes of border and boundary formation in the European neighbourhood, and secessionist entities and alternative diplomatic practices.
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Giuliana Murfet
Casual Academic, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Giuliana Murfet, a Bullwinkel Scholar, has a Visiting Fellow appointment in the School of Public Health and works clinically as a nurse practitioner (diabetes/bariatrics). Her research has included the co-design and evaluation of rural regional models of care for diabetes in pregnancy, paediatrics diabetes, obesity management in type 2 diabetes, and high-risk foot clinic. Also, evaluating the value of the nurse practitioner role to build workforce capacity. Her current research focuses on developing capacity in the healthcare workforce for future diabetes care needs, and she has identified a capability framework to be launched nationally to guide health professional curricula on diabetes.
Giuliana is a Fellow of the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) and certified as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator. Giuliana is a past President of the ADEA and Chairs the Medical Educational and Scientific Advisory Council, and Co-Chairs the Health Professional Advisory Council for Diabetes Australia and is a Steering Committee member of the Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium (https://diabetessociety.com.au/living-guidelines.asp).
Her last sabbatical leave included diabetes clinical placements at the Joslin Diabetes Centre, USA, and Glasgow Hospital and Ayr Medical Group, Scotland, and bariatrics clinical placement at Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan – Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Wales. Further, she was invited to support the development of a curriculum for the first diabetes nursing postgraduate qualification by the Faculty of Medicine at Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Her research and expertise have supported quality improvement and advised national policy and practice in diabetes and obesity management.
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Giuliana Pieri
Professor of Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London
My research interests are firmly in the area of comparative and interdisciplinary studies, especially the intersection of the verbal and the visual, and the role of Italian visual culture in the construction of Italian identity both in Italy and abroad. I am very interested in curatorial practice and, in 2010, I co-curated the exhibition Against Mussolini. Art and the Fall of a Dictator (London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art) as part of the AHRC funded research grant The Cult of the Duce (www.mussolinicult.com). I am currently co-investigator of the AHRC funded project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia (http://www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org/). The project will run until 2018. My contribution focuses on Italian Modernism and the intersection between the fine arts, design (pre- and postwar) and Italian culture as part of the project’s collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, official partner of the project.
My teaching is closely related to my research, and it includes courses on Italian Fascism, its history, culture and legacy; Italian crime fiction; Italian Renaissance art and its reappropriation in the 19th century; and postwar Italian fashion and design.
I am currently the Head of the School of Modern Languages, Literature and Culture and I am responsible for the many degree programmes which the School runs: Comparative LIterature and Culture; LIberal Arts; and degrees in the four major European lanaguges that we teach in the department: French, German, Italian and Spanish. I am also the Director of Royal Holloway's Languages for All programme which is open to all students and staff on campus. Language for All allows our students to study the following languages outside of the their degree programmes: French, German, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish.
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Giulio Guarini
Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organization, University of Tuscia
Giulio Guarini is Full Professor of Political Economy at University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), where he coordinates the PHD course in Economics, Management and Quantitative Method. He holds a PHD in Economics and a degree in Economics from Sapienza University of Rome. He worked as economist-public servant at the Italian Agency of Territorial Cohesion and at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and at the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is member of MinervaLab-Sapienza University and of the association Economia Civile and of Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Research Group. He is on the editorial board of PSL Quarterly review, Moneta e Credito and Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Bulletin. He is Fellow of the National University Center for Applied Economics (CiMET). Based on the Classical-postKeynesian approach, his main research interests are economic development, ecological transition, human development, innovation, ecological macroeconomics, inequalities.
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Giulio Cesare Giorgini
Maître de conférences HDR en droit privé et sciences criminelles, Université Côte d’Azur
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Giuseppe Di Labbio
Professeur adjoint, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Mon groupe de recherche est spécialisé dans la dynamique des fluides expérimentale pour l’étude des écoulements instationnaires, allant des investigations fondamentales aux innovations industrielles et médicales. Pour extraire et exploiter la physique cachée derrière la complexité de ces écoulements, nous appliquons et développons de nouvelles techniques de post-traitement. Actuellement, nous étudions la théorie et les applications des agencements de jets pulsés. Nous recherchons et développons des applications de jets pulsés pour atténuer le décollement des flux sur les profils aérodynamiques, pour stimuler le mélange à faible cisaillement, pour propulser et manœuvrer les véhicules aquatiques et pour mieux comprendre certaines maladies cardiovasculaires/urogénitales.
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Giuseppe 'Nick' Giordano
Associate Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Lund University
I am currently the Head of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (GAME) unit at Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, currently busy with several IMI/EU-funded projects, whose focus are on type 2 diabetes and obesity research.
In parallel to my non-communicable diseases research, I maintain links with Political and Social Sciences, and Public Health. As such, I am currently investigating the genetic underpinnings of (dis)trusting personality traits and their links to cardiovascular health outcomes.
I am a relative latecomer to academia, having practised dentistry in the UK and Australia for 14 years, prior to defending my PhD at Lund University Medical Faculty, in May, 2012.
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Giuseppina Fabbiano
Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Institution
Giuseppina Fabbiano is Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a member of the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) | Harvard & Smithsonian, in Cambridge MA, USA.
After completing her studies in Physics at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 1973, Fabbiano joined the group led by Riccardo Giacconi at the CfA that became the major center for X-ray Astronomy worldwide. She was a scientist in the data management teams of the NASA UHURU mission, the first X-ray astronomy satellite, and the HEAO-1/A3 mission. As project scientist for the Einstein Observatory, she was responsible for the data processing system, and was a key member of the successful proposing team for the NASA Chandra X-ray Center (CXC). Today, she is the Head of the CXC Data Systems Division, with oversight of the software, hardware and system groups, as well as the Chandra data processing and archive.
Fabbiano is an active astrophysicist, with over 760 highly cited publications (280 refereed). She is a leader in the observational studies of populations of X-ray sources in galaxies, the hot interstellar medium, and the interaction between nuclear massive black holes and the host galaxy. She is the author of two invited reviews in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Fabbiano is a co-author of the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Strategic Plan (for 2010-2015) and of the 2009 report of the US Interagency Working Group on Digital Data ‘Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society’. She chairs the US Virtual Observatory Alliance and is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) executive committee, which she chaired in 2016-2018.
Fabbiano is a member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Member and former Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics.
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Gizem Ceylan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Management, Yale University
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale School of Management and Yale Center for Customer Insights. I study consumers' psychological processes on social platforms. Specifically, my research examines how and why consumers share information (such as online reviews) and misinformation (such as fake news), and how these actions affect other consumers, companies, and society at large. I am also interested in designing nudges that help consumers choose healthier and environmentally-friendly food options. To tackle these questions, I employ experimental, computational methods, and meta-analysis. I received my Ph.D in Marketing from the University of Southern California, my MA in Psychology from New York University, and my BA in Business Administration from Bogazici University (Turkey).
Before starting graduate school, I worked in consumer insights at Procter & Gamble and the Estee Lauder Companies. In those roles, I managed different product categories across Europe, Africa, and North America.
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Gladman Thondhlana
Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Rhodes University
Gladman Thondhlana is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University in South Africa, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
He completed his PhD in environmental science in 2011 at Rhodes University.
He was previously a PhD fellow in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. His work centres broadly on society and conservation. He has a particular interest in the links between wild natural resource access, use and household welfare, governance of protected landscapes, conservation conflicts and urban sustainability. In his work on urban sustainability, he has focused on questions of energy use behaviour and waste management.
His work is guided by efforts aimed at addressing inequality, marginalisation and social injustice within the context of sustainable natural resource management. Glad’s research and practice has been supported by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (South Africa), Economic Research Southern Africa (South Africa), International Foundation for Science (Sweden), the Social Science Research Council (USA), the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada) and International Science Council (France).
Associate Professor Thondhlana is an avid educator and a Teaching Advancements in Universities (TAU) fellow. He is a recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2016) and Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award (2019).
Recent Publications
Ngalo, N. & Thondhlana, G. 2023. Illegal solid-waste dumping in a low-income neighbourhood in South Africa: Prevalence and perceptions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(18). doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20186750
Thondhlana, G., Amaka-Otchere, A.B.K. & Ruwanza, S. 2023. Encouraging household energy conservation through transdisciplinary approaches in Ghana and South Africa: Assumptions, challenges, and guidelines. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 15(1): 201-214. doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2023.2223531
Yose, P., Thondhlana, G., & Fraser, G. 2023. Conceptualizing the socio-cultural impacts of marine plastic pollution on human well-being: A perspective. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 194. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115285
Mutumbi, U., Thondhlana, G. & Ruwanza, S. 2022. Co-designed interventions yield significant electricity savings among low-income households in Makhanda, South Africa. Energies, 15, 2320. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15072320
Thondhlana, G., Yose, P., Cockburn, J. & Shackleton, C. 2022. Livestock ecosystem services and disservices in a medium-sized South African town. Ecosystems & People, 18(1): 31-43.
Ruwanza, S. & Thondhlana, G. 2022. People's perceptions and uses of invasive plant Psidium guajava in Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo province of South Africa. Ecosystems & People, 18(1): 64-75.
Ruwanza, S., Thondhlana, G. & Falayi, M. 2022. Research progress and conceptual insights on drought impacts and responses among smallholder farmers in South Africa: a review. Land, 11, 159.
Williams, S.P., Thondhlana, G. & Wei Kua, H. 2021. Behavioural interventions yield electricity savings among high-income households in Johannesburg, South Africa. Engery & Environment, 1-16.
Mutumbi, U., Thondhlana, G. & Ruwanza, S. 2021. The distribution of selected woody invasive alien species in small towns in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Southern African Journal of Botany, 141: 290-295.
Pullanikkatil, D., Thondhlana, G. & Shackleton, C.M. 2021. The cultural significance of plant-fibre crafts in southern Africa: A comparative study of Eswatini, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Forests, Trees & Livelihoods, DOI: 10.1080/14728028.2021.1998797.
Thondhlana, G., Mubaya, C.P., McClure, A., Amaka-Otchere, A.B.K. & Ruwanza, S. 2021. Facilitating urban sustainability through transdisciplinary (TD) research: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Sustainability, 13, 6205.
Pamla, A., Thondhlana, G. & Ruwanza, S. 2021. Persistent droughts and water scarcity: Households' perceptions and practices in Makhanda, South Africa. Land, 10, 593.
Belluigi, D.Z. & Thondhlana, G. 2020. Your skin has to be elastic: The politics of belonging as a selected black academic at a ‘transforming’ South African university. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1783469
Cockburn, J., M. Schoon, G. Cundill, C. Robinson, J. A. Aburto, S. M. Alexander, J. A. Baggio, C. Barnaud, M. Chapman, M. Garcia Llorente, G. A. García-López, R. Hill, C. Ifejika Speranza, J. Lee, C. L. Meek, E. Rosenberg, L. Schultz & Thondhlana, G. 2020. Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability: A methodology for cross-case analysis. Ecology and Society, 25 (3): 7 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art7/
Du-Point, T., Vilakazi, M., Thondhlana, G. & Vedeld, P. 2020. Livestock income and household welfare for communities adjacent to the Great Fish River Nature Reserve, South Africa. Environmental Development, 33: 100508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100508
Thondhlana, G., Redpath, S., Vedeld, P., van Eeden, L., Pascual, U., Sherren, K. & Murata, C. 2020. Non-material costs of wildlife conservation to local communities and implications for conservation interventions. Biological Conservation, 246: 108578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108578
Thondhlana, G., Shackleton, C & Pullanikkatil, D. 2020. Plant fibre-products production, trade and income in Eswatini, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Forests, 11, 832. https://doi:10.3390/f11080832
Williams, S.P., Thondhlana, G. & Kua, H.W. 2020. Electricity use behaviour in a high-income neighbourhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sustainability, 12, 4571. https://doi:10.3390/su12114571
O’Brien, J. & Thondhlana, G. 2019. Plastic bag use in South Africa: Perceptions, practices and potential intervention strategies. Waste Management, 84: 320.328.
Olagunju, A., Thondhlana, G., Chilima, J.S., Sene-Harper, A., Compaore, W.R. & Ohiozebau, E. 2019. Water governance research in Africa: progress, challenges and an agenda for research and action. Water International, doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1594576.
Books and Book chapters
Linnell, J.D.C., Thondhlana, G. & Simon Hedges 2023. Assessing the impacts of conflicts. IUCN SSC guidelines on human-wildlife conflict and coexistence (First Edition). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
McQuinn, B., Zimmermann, A., Stevens, J. & Thondhlana, G. 2023. Dialogue: a process for conflict resolution. IUCN SSC guidelines on human-wildlife conflict and coexistence (First Edition). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Roe, D., Thondhlana, G., Hill, C. & Roy, S. 2023. Livelihoods, poverty and well-being. IUCN SSC guidelines on human-wildlife conflict and coexistence (First Edition). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
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Glaire Anderson
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art , The University of Edinburgh
I'm an award-winning author and historian of Islamic architecture, art, and history in the age of the caliphs (c. 650-1250 CE).
As founding leader of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections I work with industry, academic, and GLAM partners to make Islamic art and history visible and accessible to all. I provided historical expertise on the new Assassin's Creed Mirage
video game, forthcoming from Ubisoft. I've published two books, co-edited volumes, and numerous essays on the art, architecture, and social history of the medieval Islamic lands with a focus on Córdoba. Currently I'm Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. I earned my PhD at MIT in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
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Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos
Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Professor da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e pesquisador da Griffith University (Austrália). Líder do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Economia e Administração do Turismo da USP (NEAT-USP). Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq. Editor Chefe da Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo (RBTUR). Membro da Academia Internacional para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Turismo no Brasil (ABRATUR).
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Gleb Redko
PhD Researcher in Punk, Brutalism & Psychogeography, School of Architecture Art & Design, University of Portsmouth
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Glen Nagle
Outreach Manager, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, CSIRO
Working in the science education and space industry for more than 30 years, Glen Nagle has held roles in organisations such as the Australian Space Industry Chamber of Commerce, the National Space Society of Australia, and has been on the organising committees of several international space industry conferences.
Since 2002, Glen has been the Education and Public Outreach Manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC); a part of NASA's Deep Space Network. He manages the Complex’s Visitor Centre and promotes space exploration to the 70,000 visitors it attracts each year to view its exhibitions and learn more about the giant antenna dishes which provide two-way contact with dozens of robotic spacecraft exploring the Solar System and beyond.
Glen's passion for space science is passed on to the 12,000+ school students he talks to each year; helping them to discover their own interests in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
He is a regular commentator on space matters in the media and has written for several industry and commercial publications. For three years, he was also the writer and presenter of a weekly TV program on astronomy and space, called Skywatch. He contributes regularly on social media (under several profiles) and is active on space focussed web forums such as Unmanned Spaceflight.com.
When he gets time (which he says is “not often”), he likes to relax creating space-themed digital artworks and developing small business websites.
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Glen Robbins
Research Associate, PRISM, University of Cape Town; Adjunct lecturer, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, University of Amsterdam
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Glen Thomas Currie
Energy Systems Program Impact Manager, Climateworks, Monash University, Monash University
Glen is responsible for managing and expanding the impacts of the Energy System program, focusing on delivering system scale change to support the Australian Energy Transition. His research and teaching experience range from energy consumer and demand side research, solar PV business, pumped hydro, hydrogen, distribution, transmission, climate change and system engineering.
A Fellow of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Energy, Glen brings over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, complex problem solving and leading the transformation of companies, including CSIRO Energy. At Caterpillar, Glen was a Senior Consultant in the service department technology program for dealers in 44 countries around Europe, Asia and Australia. He has also run his own business developing large-scale solar.
Glen holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Degree in Agricultural Engineering, both from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from the University of New England. He currently supervises a PhD student.
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Glenda Roberts
Postgraduate Researcher/Project Manager, Massey University
After more than 25 years working in the arts and events sector and as a freelance photographer, I chose to study via distance in 2018, completing an undergraduate degree in environmental studies, and I am currently working on my Master's in International Development. I have a wide range of interests, including rights-based studies, particularly gender and Indigenous rights, as well as social justice issues and art activism.
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Glenn Fosbraey
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Glenn Fosbraey is the Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Head of English and Creative Writing. He has published various books, journal articles and chapters on the subjects of drama, song lyrics, and pedagogical processes in HE, and runs the University's record label 'Splendid Fred Records', which has won a national Green Gown Award and reached the finals of the International Green Gown Awards.
Recent publications:
Reading Eminem. Palgrave Macmillan. 2022
Viva Hate: exploring hatred in popular music. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2022
Lost Horizons: Song lyrics and the coast (editor). Routledge. 2022
Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021 (co-editor)
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Glenn Savage
Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
Glenn C. Savage is a policy sociologist with expertise in education reform, federalism, intergovernmental relations and global policy mobilities. He is an Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling at the University of Melbourne the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His recent book, ‘The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy’ (Routledge 2021), provides a detailed history of schooling reform in the Australian federation. Glenn began his career as a music journalist, after which he became a secondary English teacher and worked in diverse school settings in Australia and England. Motivated by a desire to examine the politics of educational inequality, he pursued an academic pathway, which led him to develop a critical interest in how knowledge and evidence are used in wide-scale system reform. He currently leads an Australian Research Council project that is examining ways to improve intergovernmental collaboration between governments in relation to national education reforms.
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Glenn Williams
Principal Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Williams teaches on 'The Psychology of Positive Human Functioning' NTU Global Summer School course: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/international/study-and-courses/global-summer-school/courses-and-activities/online-courses
He is currently Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. His main role is overseeing all developments in the Psychology Department relating to Internationalisation (e.g. staff and student exchange, international student recruitment and support, and developing courses and research with a global outlook). He has worked at NTU Psychology from 2005 to 2015 and then from September 2017 onwards.
Dr Williams has experience of working in the National Health Service as a Research Officer and also a Research & Development and Clinical Audit Deputy Manager. He has been involved in provision of training & education of qualified and trainee health professionals for many years; for 3 years he was at the University of Nottingham’s School of Nursing as a Lecturer in Behavioural Science. He has worked for 2-and-a-half years as Principal Lecturer and as Head of Subject for the Psychological Therapies and Mental Health Subject Group at Leeds Beckett University.
Research areas
Community Psychology (e.g. community arts initiatives and mental health; addressing inequalities in health and well-being; poverty and well-being; stigma & discrimination); Psychology of well-being, health, and health care (e.g. positive psychological experiences, including flow and happiness; health professional education; health care delivery and decision-making; personality and mental health; addiction; spirituality and well-being; commuting stress).
External activity
British Psychological Society - Chair Elect, Chair, Past Chair for Community Psychology Section (2014-2017); Associate Fellow; Chartered Psychologist.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - Associate Editor.
The Royal Society of Arts - Fellow.
American Psychological Association – International Affiliate.
Society for Community Research and Action – Member.
International Association of Applied Psychology – Member.
External Examiner for MPhil/PhD examinations with University of Leicester, University of Wolverhampton, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan).
External Examiner for Undergraduate provision with Bradford College (formerly validated by Leeds Metropolitan University) and Belfast College (validated by Ulster University).
Sponsors and collaborators
Funded by:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Warwickshire County Council
Derbyshire Arts Development Group (Derbyshire County Council)
CASQ (ADQ), Nottingham Trent University (Spur 2 Success funding)
West London Research Network (Primary Care Research Network)
East London and Essex Network for Research (Primary Care Research Network)
North Central Thames Network (NoCTen) for primary care research
National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
Leeds Beckett University’s internal funding such as the Mid-Career Prize (£15,000) and Research Cluster funding (£30,000); Rugby League Cares and Big Lottery Fund; Leeds Community Foundation Mental Health fund.
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Glenn Withers
Professor of Economics, Australian National University
Professor Glenn Withers AO is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University and President-Elect of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has chaired various public Inquiries and has headed bodies such as the Economic Planning Advisory Commission and the National Population Council. He was chair of the Expert Working Group for Australia’s Comparative Advantage, a report for the Australian Council of Learned Academies
He was founding CEO of Universities Australia. Prior to that he was Professor of Public Policy at ANU and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. He is a Monash and Harvard graduate and has held academic posts in Australia and overseas including at Harvard and Cambridge and at La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
He has produced a significant number of books, academic papers and government and consultancy reports. He has worked in and for government, including as chair of various Australian government bodies such as the National Population Council and the Economic Planning Advisory Commission, and he has chaired public inquiries regarding population issues, immigration, and infrastructure financing and was a member of the Faulkner inquiry into child care and Co-Commissioner of the Productivity Commission's Stocktake of Micro-economic Reform. He is a Board member of CEDA and Chair of CEDA's Council on Economic Policy.
Professor Withers helped to establish the Productivity Commmission, the Crawford School, ANZSOG and Universities Australia. He has been an adviser to private sector and community sector organisations in Australia and overseas, ranging from the North West Shelf Consortium and the Business Council of Australia to the OECD and UNDP. Professor Withers was awarded an Order of Australia for services to applied economics, including for design of the Australian immigration points system.
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Glenn C Savage
Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
Glenn C. Savage is a policy sociologist with expertise in education reform, federalism, intergovernmental relations and global policy mobilities. He is an Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling at the University of Melbourne the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His recent book, ‘The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy’ (Routledge 2021), provides a detailed history of schooling reform in the Australian federation. Glenn began his career as a music journalist, after which he became a secondary English teacher and worked in diverse school settings in Australia and England. Motivated by a desire to examine the politics of educational inequality, he pursued an academic pathway, which led him to develop a critical interest in how knowledge and evidence are used in wide-scale system reform. He currently leads an Australian Research Council project that is examining ways to improve intergovernmental collaboration between governments in relation to national education reforms.
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Glyn Davis
Glyn Davis is a Professor of Political Science, and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne.
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Godfred Amankwaa
University of Manchester
Godfred is a (PhD) researcher, and a Water, Infrastructure and Digital Development specialist based at the University of Manchester, UK. He also holds an MSc degree from the University of Oxford and has vast experience in the policy, utility and development space, undertaking transdisciplinary research as well as managing and consulting for over six years on projects and programmes for institutions such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Godfred's overarching research interests and expertise revolve around water management, digital water and utilities, digital development, Infrastructure, WASH for development, everyday urbanism and development.
y of Manchester
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Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu
Professor of Accounting, University of Ghana
Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu is an associate professor with the Department of Accounting, University of Ghana Business School. He holds a PhD in accounting from Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia, an MPhil in accounting and a Bsc in administration (accounting option) from the University of Ghana. He had his senior high education at Prempreh College, one of Ghana’s finest senior high schools. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial accounting, public sector accounting and managerial accounting. His research interests are in international financial reporting standards, financial economics, behavioral finance, accounting & business education. Prof Owusu has good working knowledge in the use of structural equation modelling techniques and their application to accounting and business research (using both co-variance based and partial least square techniques). He also specialises in panel data analysis (micro and macro panels) and has a number of papers published in very reputable journals with good impact factors. Dr. Owusu has co-authored several publications with prominent scholars including Prof. Law Siong Hook, a very prominent professor in panel data analysis and currently the editor in chief for the International Journal of Economics and Management (a journal cited in Scopus).
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Godfried Asante
Assistant Professor, School of Communications, San Diego State University
As an educator, Dr. Asante believes he has a responsibility to prepare future and current students for the complex roles they will fulfill as parents, community leaders, politicians, and more. He views the classroom as an extension of the “real world” and not outside of it. Based on this belief, he engages his students in critical dialogues where they respectfully challenge each other’s ideas while thinking through local and global issues. An emphasis on critical dialogue is driven by his desire for community-engaged learning, where students critically examine social issues by working with community members. In this way, students see the learning process as not only confined to the classroom but as a collaborative process with their communities. Dr. Asante believes that SDSU stands to make significant contributions to changing this country’s future leaders and is excited to be a part of that legacy.
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Goffredina Spanò
Lecturer in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Kingston University
Dr Spanò's research focuses on exploring the relationship between learning, memory, and sleep variability across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on neurodevelopmental and memory conditions. Her research programme also aims to develop targeted interventions that enhance sleep quality, cognitive function, and mental health.
She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 2016. Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). In October 2022, she joined Kingston University London as a Lecturer.
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Gokcay Balci
Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain, University of Bradford
Gokcay Balci is currently working as Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain at the University of Bradford. Previously, he worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield between July 2019 and January 2023. Before joining the academia, he worked in the shipping industry as a ship agent and broker and in the food industry as an export manager of a food supplier company. His research focuses on digitalisation, sustainability, resilience, and decarbonisation domains in the logistics and supply chain management subject. His research has been published in high tier journals such as Transportation Research Part E, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers in Industry, and IJPDLM. He has received a research funding (British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant) in the subject of “Freight transport resilience in the UK in the post-COVID-19 and post-BREXIT era”. He is a chartered member of CILT and the Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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