Dr. Kristopher Wells (He/Him) is an Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at MacEwan University. His scholarly work specializes in sexual and gender minority youth, health, education, sport, and culture. Dr. Wells is one of the driving forces behind the creation of many ground-breaking initiatives including PrideTape, Camp fYrefly, Edmonton Queer History Project, and NoHomophobes.com. Dr. Wells is a frequently invited national and international speaker on sexual and gender minority youth issues. He has served as an expert scientific consultant to the Government of Canada, Canadian Senate, Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Canadian Teachers’ Federation, RCMP, Public Health Agency of Canada, UNESCO, World Health Organization, and many provincial and municipal governments across Canada. Currently, Dr. Wells serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of LGBT Youth, which is the world’s leading research publication on 2SLGBTQ+ youth. His work has been recognized with over 50 scholarly and community awards and recognitions including the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s Public Education Award, University of Alberta’s Alumni Horizon Award, Alberta Centennial Medallion, and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal.
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Director of Indigenous Leadership and Engagement and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT and Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Kris Wilson is the Director of Indigenous Leadership and Engagement and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney. He has a joint appointment with the Faculty of Law. His research interests are in cybersecurity, computer-related crime, Indigenous traditional knowledge in a digital context, Indigenous legal relations and cultural and intellectual property protection. He is consistently rated by students as one of the top teachers and subject coordinators across both core law subjects and electives. Kris currently teaches Real Property Law and Criminal Law.
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DPhil. Candidate in Cybersecurity, University of Oxford
Kristopher Wilson is a DPhil candidate in Cybersecurity(Law) at the University of Oxford, and a Sessional Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and Internet Law at the University of Reading. His current research involves evaluating the utility of the Computer Misuse Act in adequately responding to the developing nature of the use of computers in criminal activity.
Prior to this he was an Associate Lecturer and Academic Advisor at Yunggorendi First Nations Centre at Flinders University, teaching Introduction to Indigenous Studies, advising Indigenous Law and Business Students, and working in school and community outreach programs. He was also a Sessional Tutor at Flinders Law School working in the topics Introduction to Public Law, and Legal Research and Writing.
Kristopher undertook his LLB(Hons) at Flinders University, and his LLM at the University of New South Wales.
Outside of Academia, Kristopher has worked with the South Australian Law Society's Indigenous Young Lawyers Mentoring Program, worked on various research projects with the South Australian Attorney General's Department, and continues to work as a mentor with 'The Aspiration Initiative' program.
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PhD Candidate in Animal Psychology , University of Hull
PhD student at the University of Hull investigating whether studies of animal psychology can benefit conservation efforts and change public attitudes of wild mammalian carnivores
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Associate Vice President of Research, University of Iowa
I am a Religious Studies-trained Ph.D. and my research and scholarship focuses on religion, migration, and work in the United States. I focus on the cultural history and anthropology of Catholicism and am a specialist in Latina/x/o Catholicisms. I have authored five books and numerous articles and am working on a new book about the value of colleges and universities today, and why the humanities matter more than ever. I have been a college professor since 2001, and have mentored numerous undergraduates and graduate students in the humanities and adjacent fields. I am currently Associate Vice President of Research at The University of Iowa, where I oversee and support faculty and graduate student research and creative work in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education, Queen's University, Ontario
Dr. Timmons is an Associate Professor and Graduate Faculty Member in Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Dr. Timmons completed her MA in Child Study and Education at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto and her PhD in Developmental Psychology and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT). Dr. Timmons’ teaching experience spans the early years, elementary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Her research interests centre on the processes that influence young children’s learning, engagement, and self-regulation. Within this focus, she has carried out research with children, families, and pre- and in- service educators. Dr. Timmons is also an Associate Faculty Member of the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) at Queen’s University. AEG faculty members and graduate students engage in independent and collaborative research, program reviews and consulting.
Research Interests
Building capacity in the early years through improved policies and practices
Advancing equitable access, experiences, and outcomes in early childhood education
Improving understanding of self-regulation and self-regulation assessment practice
Educator expectations, beliefs, and practices
Play-based learning
Experience
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Professor of Film and Television, University of Leeds
I have published extensively on film and television, particularly on feminist media studies, emotion and affect, British television history, and discourses on care in contemporary culture. My most recent publication is
Remembering British Television: Audience, Archive and Industry (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2019) with Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen, and I'm currently writing a monograph on Sally Wainwright for Manchester University Press with Professor Beth Johnson.
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Assistant Professor in Criminology, University of Nottingham
Kritika is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham. She obtained a BA in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Law from Carleton University and completed her MPhil and PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. Her MPhil was a theoretical explanation of human rights abuses in Abu Ghraib, post 9/11, while her PhD focused on understanding police use of force and officer decision-making.
Kritika's current research interests include psychosocial elements of criminal decision-making and crime prevention. During her role as Research Fellow at UCL, Kritika was involved in the evaluation of a stalking intervention programme (MASIP) which sparked her interests in stalking, offender risk-management and crime prevention. She is currently evaluating a similar initiative (EASI), commissioned by the West Midlands Police and Home Office.
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Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
I am a scholar and translator of Urdu poetry, and have written several publications on Urdu literature as well as scholarly translations. I published a translation of M.H. Ruswa’s Urdu novella "The Madness of Waiting" (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press, 2013; with Taimoor Shahid) and co-translated the poetry of the Urdu modernist poet Miraji. My research and teaching interests include Urdu, Bengali, Hindi and South Asian Anglophone literature and poetry, postcolonial literature and theory, feminist theory, and South Asian cinema. I'm currently working on a book project (under contract at Northwestern University Press) on the role of Urdu poetry in Indian public culture.
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Krystal Wilkinson is Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Management, based at the Business School’s Centre for Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on the work-life interface, women’s health and wellbeing at work. Recent research projects have focused on solo-living staff; complex fertility journeys (including employees going through fertility treatment, experiencing pregnancy loss and involuntary childlessness); mental health in pregnancy and post-birth; and women’s health more broadly and employment. She has published in leading academic journals, featured in various media outlets and trade press (including the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and People Management magazine), and is co-editor of the forthcoming book: Work-Life Inclusion: Broadening perspectives across the life-course.
Krystal is passionate about knowledge exchange and is working with various stakeholders to raise awareness and create resources, including the CIPD, national charities and employers. Prior to studying for her PhD at Leeds University, Krystal held operational Human Resource Management roles in different industries, including construction, retail and hospitality. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and was a member of the CIPD National Examinations team for 15 years.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Krys Chutko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and has been teaching at the University of Saskatchewan since 2016. Krys has been a field researcher since 1999 in a variety of fields, primarily looking at paleoenvironmental reconstructions, hydro-climatology, and the influence of land use change on terrestrial and aquatic systems. In 2018, Krys was awarded with a USSU Teaching Excellence Award.
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Senior Investigative Editor, The Conversation
Kurt is the New York Times bestselling author of six non-fiction books. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweek and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, he spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, and a winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, the SABEW Award for business enterprise reporting, and an Emmy Award nominee.
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Instructor of Epidemiology, UMass Chan Medical School
Kurt Hager is an Instructor in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Hager’s interests lay at the intersection of structural determinants of health, food insecurity, and government nutrition and health insurance programs. His current research focuses on the effectiveness of nutritional interventions and policies on chronic disease in the U.S, including evaluations of produce prescriptions and medically tailored meals integrated into clinical care. At UMass Chan Medical School, Dr. Hager is evaluating the effectiveness the Flexible Services Program, which addresses food and housing insecurity under Massachusetts’s Medicaid Section 1115 Waiver. Dr. Hager has training in nutritional epidemiology and quantitative research methods and his recent studies have included policy modeling and economic evaluations, quasi-experimental evaluations, and legal and policy analyses.
Dr. Hager’s involvement in policy initiatives underscores his commitment to translating science into evidence-based policy. These include former projects at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, as an author on the Aspen Institute’s Food is Medicine Research Action Plan, and as a writer with the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. He is currently serving as a steering committee member of the National Produce Prescription Collaborative.
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I am Professor of Comparative Politics at Keele University, where I convene the Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU).
My current research focuses mainly on political parties, including their organization, their role in deeply divided societies and party competition. I was part of a major ESRC-funded project (hosted by KEPRU) on the impact of European integration on the internal organization of national political parties throughout Western Europe. Recently, I have been working with an international group of scholars on the links between social democratic parties and trade unions.
I continue to research into the organizational adaptation of radical right-wing parties and into the strategies of those parties and of their competitors, as well as to specialize on Austrian party politics. In 2009, the Austrian Federal President awarded me the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts.
In 2014 I was appointed to a three-year Guest Professorship at Tongji University in Shanghai and started looking into the organisational adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party.
Since 2015, I have been Keele University's Dean for Internationalisation.
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PhD Student, Kinesiology, University of Windsor
Kurt is an award-winning teacher with the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board and President/Head Coach of the Boarder City Athletics Club. Kurt has represented Canada as a staff coach at a number of international events including the World Youth and World Junior Championships, the Pan American Games, the World Championships and the Tokyo Olympic Games. As a coach, educator, and mentor of elementary school student athletes, he has used his resources to help students and athletes to realize their potential. During the pandemic, Kurt arranged for a number of Olympians and elite female athletes to guide 60 young girls who identified as black, indigenous of people of colour (BIPOC) at a special event filled with fun and fitness in the hope of encouraging this to get active. He has also, developed a series of videos entitled “the Learning Never Stops” to encourage students to return back to class during the post covid climate that included various professional athletes. Kurt was the recipient of the Canadian Running Magazine Golden Shoe Awards’ Community Builder of the Year, following a number of years in which he helped create opportunities for young women to see a future for themselves in sports. Under his leadership, the Border City Athletics Club, hosts an annual summit, entitled ” Women Can”, to encourage women to become coaches and seek positions within sport.
In addition, Kurt was named the Athletics Canada Dr. Doug Clement Coach of the Year and the Contributions to Catholic Education Award winner. Kurt has recently begun his PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Windsor, under Dr. Kevin Milne.
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Associate Professor of Economics, Rutgers University - Newark
Kusum Mundra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University Newark. Her research interests are in the area of Applied Econometrics, Immigration, Housing, Population Economics, Social Networks. She has published in various economic journals including the International Migration Review, Demography, American Economic Review- Papers and Proceedings, Empirical Economics, Review of International Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, International Trade Journal, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inferences, and the Frontiers of Economics and Globalization – Migration and Culture. She is in the Editorial Board of Journal of Quantitative Economics. Dr. Mundra's research has been cited in various media outlets such as Washington Post, US News, NPR (Marketplace), Economist. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and a fellow at the Global Labor Organization (GLO). She received her Ph.D in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. from Delhi School of Economics, India.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Politics of Architecture, SOAS, University of London
I am a trained architect and researcher who creates, studies, teaches and documents histories, theories, and politics of the architecture of Africa.
I am currently a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Stanford and a postdoctoral researcher on the African State Architecture Project at SOAS, University of London. I have a PhD in Politics and International Studies from SOAS, University of London, an MSc in African Studies from The University of Oxford, and Masters and BSc Architecture degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
I am writing a book, based on my PhD research, on ‘The Architecture of Education in Ghana’ which examines nation-building, social class, and modernness through a longue durée analysis of the sociopolitical and physical architectures of secondary schools. My academic publications, creative writing, and public scholarship have appeared in 'African Affairs', 'Al Jazeera', 'Curator: The Museum Journal', and 'Tampered Press'.
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Juba
Kuyok Abol Kuyok is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Juba, South Sudan. A graduate of the University of Juba’s College of Education, he obtained MRes and DPhil degrees from the Institute of Education, London. Before returning to South Sudan in 2010, he was a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE), London Metropolitan University. At the University of Juba, he teaches research methodology, sociology of education and comparative education. His academic interests are in higher education, education in post conflict contexts, and comparative education-national systems of education.
He’s the author of South Sudan: the Notable Firsts, Bloomington: Author House, 2015. The book is a biographical dictionary of eminent personalities in South Sudan since Nyikang, the 16th century founding Reth (King) of the Shilluk monarchy. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributes articles for national and international publications on educational issues.
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I hold a PhD in Economics from Kobe University, Japan, and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Ghana and a BA in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Senior lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
Kwong Ming (KM) is currently a senior lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology. He obtained his BEng in Mechanical Engineering (2009) and PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS) (2014). During his PhD, KM had developed and validated a finite element model of human head which has then been used extensively in the applications of head injuries. He continued in the same university as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Protective Technology (CPT), from Dec 2013 to Nov 2015, working on a defence project funded by Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore. Thereafter, KM joined the University of Melbourne as a postdoctoral research fellow working on a defence project funded by Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, Australia, studying lumbar spine injuries under extreme loadings (Nov 2015 – Dec 2017). His work on head injuries led to international collaboration with institutions in China and Spain. KM has extensive experience working with defence organizations and hospitals in Singapore, Australia and the United Kingdom, and has successfully initiated collaboration with international institutions in China, India, Singapore and Spain.
His research interests are in:
Biomechanics;
Protective Equipment;
Impact Mechanics;
Injury Prevention;
Finite Element Modelling;
Mechanics in Medicine (orthopaedic biomechanics, re-engineering and design of prostheses, surgical procedures, cardiovascular biomechanics).
KM believes that the research is an emerging multidisciplinary field involving engineering sciences, medicine, health and ergonomics, which has the potential to revolutionise the ways of improving health and quality of life for millions of people worldwide. He looks forward to continue working in the field of injury biomechanics and injury prevention mainly on implementing novel engineering materials in protective equipment for military soldiers, sportsmen and elderly.
Research interests
Mechanics in Medicine; Biomechanics; Protective Equipment; Injury Prevention; Finite Element Modelling
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Kye is a doctoral researcher developing and testing innovative applications of emerging technologies for wildlife conservation.
Skills include: Drone operation, koala surveys, koala catching, wildlife monitoring technology, detection dog handling.
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Assistant Professor of Neuroepidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
Epidemiologist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia and postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute. My research focuses largely on the causes and consequences of multiple sclerosis.
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Kyle Doudrick is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. HIs Doudrick Research Group works on problems related to physical-chemical environmental processes, with an emphasis on water quality, drinking water treatment, and emerging contaminants. More detail here: https://www.doudrick.info/
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Research Scientist in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Kyle Wilburn, Ph.D., is a research scientist at CIRA. His passion for satellite retrievals and precipitation led him to join CIRA in 2016, which provided him the exciting opportunity to analyze data from the new GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instruments. His main focus has been on using GOES to better initialize convection in high-resolution weather models. Working with data from GLM sparked his interest in lightning. He is also fascinated with the power of artificial intelligence / machine learning to extract spatio-temporal patterns in satellite imagery. His recent research has used convolutional neural networks to extract precipitation latent heating rates from GOES ABI+GLM to inform numerical weather prediction models. He has developed approaches for visualizing and interpreting what the machine has learned. Kyle is also involved in satellite data applications for monitoring and modeling wildfires. Kyle previously worked for Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, California, where he worked as a Scientist and Lead Software Developer. His research initially focused on improving QuikSCAT wind retrievals in raining scenes, but this evolved into a broader pursuit of precipitation retrievals from passive microwave imagers. Kyle also studied the use of microwave satellite observations to better constrain the global water cycle.
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Assistant Professor of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
Kyle is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology. He was a Rose Postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology from 2017-2019. His research, and that of his lab, focuses on the study of bird, bat, and insect migration using a range of tools and approaches, including the use of radar, acoustics, and citizen science data. His work addresses a handful of fundamental questions of migration and its biology, including understanding avian flight strategies, long-term phenological change, population estimates, impacts of artificial light, and migration forecasting. He completed his M.S. with Jeffrey Buler at the University of Delaware and his Ph.D with Jeffrey Kelly at the University of Oklahoma.
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PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Kentucky
Kyle Jones is an economist interested in the intersection of public, health, and labor economics to evaluate the impacts of the social safety net and public policies. He is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Kentucky.
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
It is difficult to explain to many what I do, so I have started by saying that I am like a platypus – full of unique features, but no one knows what to do with me. Currently serve as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care at the University of Virginia and the Vice Chair of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement for the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia. Before these roles, I served as the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director for the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Special Pathogens Unit. My background is in Pulmonary and Critical Care as well as Epidemiology. My research interests are improving population outcomes in Hospital Settings, mainly through the lens of information overload. Outside of my work, I am an avid runner and optical course racer (there is even a photo of me in Trail Runner years ago as an advertisement for Spartan Race). I am also an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, specifically supporting the development of troops for Girls, DEI, and summer camp programs in my local council. Mostly though I am a father, human, and well a platypus.
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Associate Professor of Solar Engineering, Australian National University
Dr. Kylie Catchpole is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University. Her research interests are in nanotechnology for solar cell applications. She has a physics degree from the ANU, winning a University Medal, and a PhD from the ANU. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam. She has published over 60 papers, which have been cited over 1000 times to date. Her work on plasmonic solar cells has been featured in the news sections of Science magazine and The Economist and in 2010 her work on nanophotonic light trapping was listed as one of MIT Technology Review’s ‘10 most important emerging technologies’. In 2011 she was an episode winner on ABC TV's 'New Inventors'. She currently leads the nanostructures for photovoltaics group at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems.
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PhD Candidate, Deakin University
Kylie is a PhD Candidate within the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University.
Her research is focused on the potential to harness meal kit subscription services as a health-promoting tool to improve food literacy and vegetable intake among families with young children. Kylie's research areas of interest include early childhood and family nutrition, food literacy and behaviour change.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, Liverpool John Moores University
I am a Biological Anthropologist from Japan, speciliased in genetics. My research is to look at genetic variations that are responsible for phenotypic variations, to understand human adaptation and evolution, especially about externally visible traits including pigmentation and cranifofacial morphology.
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Project Assistant, Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci serves as a Project Assistant at the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is concurrently pursuing her doctorate in educational policy studies. Her research primarily centers on the career development of historically marginalized college students.
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Kyra Clark-Wolf is a Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology in CIRES at CU Boulder, studying ecological transformation in a context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Kyra’s research interests integrate perspectives from paleoecology, fire ecology, and ecosystem ecology. At the NC CASC, Kyra is working on the development of ecological scenarios given uncertainty in future climate to inform resource management using the Resist, Accept, Direct (RAD) framework. Her dissertation work utilized lake-sediment records to understand fire-climate-ecosystem interactions over centuries to millennia in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. She has also led research in recent wildfires investigating post-fire conifer seedling demographic processes and relationships with microclimate conditions. Kyra received a B.A. in Environmental Science from Colorado College and a Ph.D. in Systems Ecology from the University of Montana.
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Lecturer in Applied Psychology, Birmingham City University
Kiki (Kyriaki) is a Lecturer in Applied Psychology and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research primarily investigates mindfulness and compassion, including the benefits of both meditative and non-meditative practices on cognition and mental health.
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PhD candidate in the Department of Music, University of Bristol
L. Holland is a PhD candidate working on queerness in popular music. Their PhD looks at the performance of queer alter egos in pop music, looking at characters used by David Bowie, Prince, and Janelle Monáe. They have taught on hip-hop, gender studies, and music history, and have worked as a researcher on books about a wide range of musicians, from The Streets to Leonard Bernstein. Their work on Prince’s alter ego Camille as a trans* caricature can be found in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (36:1).
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PhD candidate in the Department of Music, University of Bristol
L. Holland is a PhD candidate working on queerness in popular music. Their PhD looks at the performance of queer alter egos in pop music, looking at characters used by David Bowie, Prince, and Janelle Monáe. They have taught on hip-hop, gender studies, and music history, and have worked as a researcher on books about a wide range of musicians, from The Streets to Leonard Bernstein. Their work on Prince’s alter ego Camille as a trans* caricature can be found in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (36:1).
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