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Melissa Kennedy
I am an archaeologist with over 15 years of field and research experience in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Australia. As part of my postgraduate studies at The University of Sydney, I analysed the Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, mid-to-late third millennium BC occupational sequence, which included comprehensive ceramic analysis and full stratigraphic phasing of the site. My post-doctoral work has focused upon the final publication of the later phases of occupation at Tell Um Hammad, Jordan, specifically the Early Bronze Age IV and Iron Age levels, as well as the publication of the third and early second millennia BC sequence at Tell Nebi Mend. I was a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia on the project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Project (AAKSA). I am now a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Prehistoric AlUla and Khaybar Excavation Project (PAKEP).
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Melissa Kimber
Assistant Professor & Core Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
Melissa Kimber, Ph.D., M.S.W., R.S.W., is an Assistant Professor and Core Member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, Canada. She is also Registered Social Worker that continues to provide mental health assessment, advocacy, and psychotherapy in a private practice in Hamilton (Ontario) to children and adolescents (< 17 years) living with mental health challenges. Dr. Kimber received her PhD (2015) in Health Research Methodology from the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (formerly known as the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at McMaster University and completed her CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Offord Centre for Child Studies (2018). Her research reflects her personal and professional commitment to improve the lives of children (< 17 years old) who experience family violence (i.e., child maltreatment and intimate partner violence) and mental health challenges, as well as the lives of the health professionals that care for them. For these populations, Dr. Kimber and her team utilize qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research designs to: (a) characterize the prevalence, determinants, and impacts of family violence and mental health challenges; (b) identify and evaluate strategies to improve the efficiency with which individuals receive empirically-supported interventions to mitigate their suffering; as well as (c) identify and evaluate new clinical and educational interventions that can assist in reducing the impacts of family violence and mental health challenges, locally and globally.
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Melissa Lem
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia
Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Director of PaRx, Canada’s national nature prescription program powered by the BC Parks Foundation, she is an internationally recognized leader in the field of nature, biodiversity and health. She has also engaged in advocacy and policy work on a broad range of other issues, from extreme heat and hydraulic fracturing to sustainable health care and low-carbon transportation.
A widely published writer, her work has appeared in media including the CBC, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, The Narwhal and National Observer. As a climate change panellist on CBC Radio's Early Edition, in-house medical columnist for CBC TV Vancouver and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, one of her major priorities is knowledge translation.
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Melissa Montanari
PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Melissa Montanari (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and which aims to bring food and literary studies into critical discourse.
In the Fall of 2021 Melissa taught a second year undergraduate course on Food in Media and Popular Culture. Inspired by students in her course she started a monthly newsletter called "foodstuff," which wades through the cultural, political, environmental and emotional entanglements that food elicits.
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Melissa Moynihan
Research associate, School of Nursing, Trinity Western University
I am passionate about health research, particularly research methodologies, measurement, and data analysis. I received my PhD in Nursing at the University of British Columbia in 2023. My dissertation work tested the theoretical framework of an intervention for runaway adolescents who experienced sexual violence. I am currently involved in projects focused on facilitating the use of patient-reported outcome measures to promote person-centered care and an intervention for individuals receiving dialysis.
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Melissa Pritchard
Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s Studies, Arizona State University
Melissa Pritchard is the author of eleven books, including a novel Palmerino, a story collection, The Odditorium, and an essay collection, A Solemn Pleasure. Among other honors, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Carson McCullers Center. Emeritus Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University, Pritchard's latest book, a highly praised fictional biography of Florence Nightingale, Flight of the Wild Swan, was published by Bellevue Literary Press, NYC in March 2024. An audiobook is also available.
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Melissa Skala
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Skala's lab at the Morgridge Institute for Research develops biomedical optical imaging technologies for cancer research, cell therapy, and immunology. Current projects focus on tumor immunology and immunotherapy, cell-level metabolic heterogeneity, and cell-cell interactions. Collaborative projects leverage these unique photonics-based tools for clinical problems, including quality control in T cell and stem cell therapies, designing personalized treatment plans for cancer patients, monitoring diseases in the eye, discovering new therapies for a range of diseases, and many others. Projects are highly diverse and range from translational research to hypothesis-driven questions to algorithm / instrumentation development.
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Melissa Arnold Lyon
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York
Melissa studies the political economy of education policy, focusing on inequality, governance, and teacher politics and policy. She's interested in how political structures shape and get shaped by the incentives and behaviors of market actors, and conversely how economic inequalities shape the politics of education and education governance.
Her current work centers around labor politics, teacher labor markets, and shifts in education governance (e.g., state takeover). Her research has been published in journals including the Journal of Human Resources (JHR), American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), Political Behavior, Education Finance and Policy, Policy Studies Journal, Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Research of Educational Effectiveness, and Teachers College Record.
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Melissa J. Wilde
Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa J. Wilde is a sociologist of religion and inequality. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Sociology. She joined the department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, where she was undergraduate chair from 2013-2017. She has published award-winning articles in the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology. Her recent book, Birth Control Battles, demonstrates that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to eugenicist views of race, immigration and manifest destiny.
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Melissa K. Merry
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville
Melissa Merry received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, with specializations in American Politics and Public Policy. Before joining the faculty at University of Louisville, she spent one year as a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include environmental politics and policy, interest groups, and political communication. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Politics Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Online Information Review, Review of Policy Research, Policy & Internet, and Policy Studies Journal.
Melissa is the author of two books, one examining environmental groups’ communications in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, and the other examining the policy narratives of gun control and gun rights organizations. Her current research focuses on health care policy and involves analysis of public comments submitted between 2016 and 2018 in response to proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program.
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Melissa L. Gould
Senior Lecturer in Critical Media Studies, Auckland University of Technology
Kia ora! I'm a senior lecturer and researcher in the Critical Media Studies Department, at Auckland University of Technology's Te Kura Whakapaho (School of Communication Studies).
My current research focuses on media literacy, promotional culture, and childhood studies, and the mediated representations of gender and religion.
I am particularly interested in how the media helps shape our identity and empowering (particularly young) people to have agency over how they interact with media.
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Melita Jazbec
Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Melita is a Research Principal at UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures and leader of the Resource Flows team. Her main work and research focus on circular economy in Energy, Water and Resources sectors.
Melita's research aims to identify the transition pathways to a circular economy, including development of policy, modelling resource streams and identifying options and practical solutions for businesses and governments.
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Mellissa Prunty
Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University London
Mellissa is the Divisional Lead for Occupational Therapy at Brunel University London. She is a children's Occupational Therapist by background. She qualified from the MSc (pre-reg) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. She previously completed a BSc (Hons) in Kinesiology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, while on athletic scholarship for women’s basketball. She completed her PhD on handwriting difficulties in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), which she undertook at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Prof. Anna Barnett, Dr. Mandy Plumb and Dr. Kate Wilmut. Mellissa has worked in a variety of children's' services and specialises in working with children with coordination difficulties. She founded the children's occupational therapy research clinic (Kidspace) at the university which investigates key skills and participation in childhood including handwriting, activities of daily living and cycling. The clinic currently offers placements to occupational therapy students at the university.
Membership and affiliation
Mellissa is a Professional Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She is Chair of the National Handwriting Association (NHA) . She has developed a West London Handwriting Interest Group, which brings together local parents, teachers and therapists to discuss issues concerning the teaching and learning of handwriting in children.
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Melly Masni
Lecturer in Political Science, Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry
Dosen Ilmu Politik UIN Ar-Raniry
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Mélodie Anderson
Auxiliaire de recherche en agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables, Bishop's University
Je suis auxiliaire de recherche en Agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables (ASAD) à l'Université Bishop's, en territoire non cédé de la nation abénakise connu comme Sherbrooke, Québec.
Enrichie de mon expérience dans le milieu communautaire comme éducatrice, je m'intéresse présentement à la souveraineté alimentaire, et partculièrement aux modèles alternatifs et coopératifs de production et de mise en marché ainsi qu'à l'insécurité alimentaire. Dans le cadre de ma dernière année comme étudiante en ASAD et dans une perspective décoloniale, je réalise actuellement un projet de recherche sur la place des chercheur.euse.s en support à la souveraineté alimentaire autochtone en context canadien.
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Mélodie Beaujeu
Consultante et chercheuse, affiliée à l'Institut Convergences Migrations, Sciences Po
Actuellement consultante indépendante spécialisée sur les enjeux de migrations internationales, cofondatrice de l'association Désinfox-Migrations et membre de l’Institut Convergence Migrations, je travaille et mène des études et recherches depuis plus de dix ans sur les enjeux liés aux migrations internationales en lien avec diverses organisations (ONG, institutions publiques, organisations internationales, centres de recherche).
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Melodie McGeoch
Professor, La Trobe University
Melodie McGeoch is an ecologist that works on biodiversity change, combining theory and analytics to address central environmental challenges, including climate change impacts and biological invasions. She works across taxa and regions, including in the Antarctic, is active in the translation of science for biodiversity policy and holds multiple professional leadership positions in Australia and internationally.
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Meltem Weger
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Meltem Weger is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of A/Prof. Frederic Gachon at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland. Meltem is interested in the understanding of the role of the stress axis and the circadian clock for (patho-) physiology and metabolism.
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Melvyn Levitsky
Professor of International Policy and Practice, University of Michigan
Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, a retired Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Professor of International Policy and Practice at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is Senior Fellow of the School's International Policy Center and a member of the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC) and a Faculty Associate of the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2006, Ambassador Levitsky taught for eight years as Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Relations at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Maxwell School's Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. He has also taught as a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
In 2003 Ambassador Levitsky was elected by a vote of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to a seat on the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent body of experts headquartered in Vienna and responsible for monitoring and promoting standards of drug control established by international treaties. He served on the INCB until 2012.
During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Levitsky was Ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Executive Secretary of the State Department, Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights.
Ambassador Levitsky also served as Director of the State Department's Office of UN Political Affairs and as Officer-in-Charge of U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relations. Earlier in his career he was political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a Consul at U.S. Consulates in Belem, Brazil and Frankfurt, Germany.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa.
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Melvyn F Ternan
Senior lecturer in animation and digital media production, Sheffield Hallam University
My taught subjects include stop motion animation, animation project development and production and experimental stop motion. In 2013 my first book, Stop Motion Animation, was published by Barrons educational books and translated into six different languages for sale around the world. My research areas include production temporality, animation technique, idea genesis and animation method identification.
I previously worked as a studio animator and compositor for many years, co-founding two animation studios in Bristol before working as a freelance animator and project facilitator. During my time as a freelancer, I worked on over 150 projects covering animation, live action, online production and media distribution. I also work as a voice artist on short, award winning animations.
Since working at Sheffield Hallam University, I have realised a hidden passion for teaching animation, for helping others grow their understanding and development of this creative art form. I am honoured to have been one of the recipients of the Sheffield Hallam University Inspirational Teaching award in 2017 as well as being recipient of the college level award in 2012, 2018 and 2021.
Specialist areas of interest
Pre-Production for Animation
Stop Motion Animation
Visual Techniques within Animation
Post-Production for Animation and Animation Project Management
Melvyn also enjoys studying idea genesis, technique identification and enjoying the freedom of his motorbike.
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Mendita A. Ugembe
PhD in the Sustainable Energy Systems project in the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics, and Energy, Science Faculty, Universidade de Lisboa
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Meng (Matt) Wei
Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Meng (Matt) Wei is an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. His lab work on topics include geodesy, fault mechanics and natural hazards. Wei completed his Ph.D. in earth sciences at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
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Mensah Adinkrah
Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University
Mensah Adinkrah is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University. His current research interests focus on homicide, suicide, masculinities, death studies, and witchcraft. His newest book, Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana (August 2015), was published by Berghahn Books.
Professor Adinkrah holds academic degrees in sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a senior Fulbright research scholar to Ghana during 2003-2004.
Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Dr. Adinkrah speaks and reads Twi (Akan).
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Meredith Gore
Professor, University of Maryland
I am a human geographer.
I advance understanding about the human dimensions of global environmental change such as biodiversity loss and climate change. The majority of my research uses risk concepts to explore human-environment interactions and all of my efforts are designed to build evidence for action. I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to a range of conservation issues such as wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing and illegal logging.
I am on the faculty of the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. I received my PhD in Natural Resource Policy and Management from Cornell University, MA in Environment and Resource Policy from George Washington University, and BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Brandeis University. From 2006-2020, I was on the faculty at Michigan State University.
I am an American Geographical Society Council Member, a National Academies of Sciences Jefferson Science Fellow, US Department of State Embassy Science Fellow and Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader.
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Meredith J C Warren
Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
Meredith Warren is Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield, and is a member of SIIBS, the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. She directs the SIIBS research theme, Embodied Religion.
Warren completed her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at McGill University and from 2013–2015 held a postdoctoral position at the University of Ottawa funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et Culture. She has taught classes on women in early Judaism and Christianity, Koine Greek, ancient Mediterranean religions, and the early church. Meredith’s primary research interests lie in the cultural and theological interactions among the religions of ancient Mediterranean, especially early Judaism and Christianity. In particular, Meredith is interested in how shared cultural understandings of food and eating play a role in ancient narratives, including the Pseudepigrapha, Hellenistic romance novels, and the Gospels.
Meredith’s doctoral work, recently published as My Flesh is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51–58 (Fortress 2015), investigates how the Gospel of John makes use of Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman attitudes about sacrifice, divinity, and the consumption of human flesh in order to make claims about Jesus’ divinity.
Her current book project, titled Hierophagy: Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature, examines how characters in literature are transformed by eating otherworldly food. An article emerging from this research, “My Heart Poured Forth Understanding: 4 Ezra’s Fiery Cup as Hierophagic Consumption,” was recently published at the journal Studies in Religion.
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Meredith Peddie
Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago
Meredith Peddie has a BPhEd (Hons) in Sports Science, a BSc and MSc in Nutrition, and graduated with her PhD from the University of Otago in 2012. Between 2012 and 2020 Meredith worked in the Department in research positions funded by the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand. She joined the Department permanently as a Senior Lecturer in February 2020. Meredith's main area of research focuses on the postprandial metabolic effects of interrupting sitting time with short bouts of physical activity, but she is also interested in how moving more and sitting less impacts health in a broader sense. Meredith's other research interests include the impact of nutrition, sedentary behaviour and physical activity on cardiometabolic risk.
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Meredith Ralston
Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
My research work has been mainly in the areas of women and politics, slut-shaming and sex work in Canada and the Philippines.
In my new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution published by McGill-Queen's University Press in June, I examine the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the traditional patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and anecdotes, I show how women will achieve sexual equality only when the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as “whores” are destigmatized. Illustrating how women’s sexuality is policed by both men and women, I argue that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, the book calls out Western society’s hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.
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Meredith Richards
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University
Meredith P. Richards is an associate professor of Education Policy at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on exploring the effects of educational policies on equity and stratification in schools and situating policies in their metropolitan and geographic contexts.
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Meredith Warren
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, where I am the Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. In addition, I am editor in chief of the open-access Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.
I have published numerous books and articles on early Christianity, early Judaism, and biblical texts. Most recently, I published a co-authored text book with Sara Parks and Shayna Sheinfeld titled Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge 2022). I have two previous mongraphs. Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (SBL, 2019) defines a genre of transformative ingestion called hierophagy. I use sensory analysis to explore how performative consumption brings about access to other worlds in ancient Mediterranean narratives. My first book, My Flesh is Meat Indeed (Fortress; 2015), evaluates how John 6:51c–58 contributes to the gospel’s presentation of Jesus as divine in light of Hellenistic attitudes about sacrifice, divinity, and the consumption of human flesh. Soon to be published are two co-edited volumes on Judeophobia and the New Testament (Eerdmans 2025) and on Good Omens and the Bible (Sheffield Phoenix 2025).
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Meredith K. Ginley
Assistant Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University
Dr. Meredith Ginley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her undergraduate degree at Tufts University, her Ph.D. at The University of Memphis, and her clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Her research focuses on efforts to improve outcomes and retention in treatment for substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. Specifically, she is interested in how targeting individual differences can improve treatment uptake and retention and how providing adjunctive interventions such as motivational interviewing and contingency management can improve overall treatment outcomes. She has over 20 publications specifically related to gambling and has been engaged in the treatment of individuals with gambling disorder as either a clinician or a clinical supervisor since 2011.
Dr. Ginley is a co-investigator at The Institute for Gambling Education and Research and Director of The Gambling Clinic East. She is currently a co-investigator on a grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to facilitate expanded access to gambling prevention and treatment services for all Tennesseans.
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Mererid Hopwood
Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University
Mererid Hopwood is Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. Before that she had been Professor of Languages and the Curriculum Cymreig in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
She has spent her career in the fields of languages, literature, education and the arts. She won the National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Chair, Crown and Prose Medal and Welsh Book of the Year prize for poetry in 2016 for her collection of poems, Nes Draw. She has been children’s poet laureate of Wales (Bardd Plant Cymru) and in 2018 won the Tir na n’Og prize for her writing for children. She was awarded the Hay Festival Poetry Medal in 2023.
Mererid has composed words for musicians, visual artists and dancers, and has taken part in literature festivals in Europe, Asia and South America. She has translated many works of literature into Welsh including plays from Spanish and German for Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.
She is Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Academi Gymreig, and Honorary President of the Waldo Williams Society. She is Secretary of the Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales' peace institute).
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Merewalesi Yee
PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environment Sciences, The University of Queensland
I am a Fijian woman pursuing a PhD at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. My project seeks to advance understanding of opportunities and challenges for transformative mobilities where mobility contributes to climate change adaptation and positive development outcomes across multiple scales, places of origin, destination and transition. My research site is Fiji. Standing on the shoulders of three Giants that form my advisory team A/Prof Karen McNamara (UQ), A/Prof Celia McMichael (Unimelb) and Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar (QUT). Prior to my PhD journey, I have worked at USP as a regional teaching assistant/facilitator for students around the Pacific. During my PhD , I have been privileged to be part of several projects funded by the Australian Research Council as a research assistant and project officer using Talanoa research method to investigate climate change and adaptation, voluntary immobility, planned relocation, place-belongingness and gender food security and disaster resilience in the context of climate-related risks. I have conducted fieldwork in 8 communities in Fiji from 2021 to 2022. I am also a fellow with Australia Climate for Change organisation whose main aim is to help everyday Australians to have a better conversation about climate change and to take action.
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Meridith Sones
PhD Candidate and Knowledge Mobilization Manager, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
I'm part of the Cities, Health, and Active Transportation Research (CHATR) Lab at Simon Fraser University and the Knowledge Mobilization Manager for the Interventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (www.teaminteract.ca). My research explores how community design shapes social connectedness, health, and equity in cities.
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Meriem Naili
PhD candidate, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter
Meriem, a PhD candidate at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies, has spent recent months conducting interviews as part of her research on the conflict in Western Sahara. The interviews took place in London and New York where she gained valuable insights from, among others, Aminatou Haidar, one of Africa’s most prominent human rights activist and Nobel Prize nominee.
Meriem’s research focuses on the absence of an explicit human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). In April 2019, the United Nations Security Council unanimously extended the mandate of MINURSO for the 45th time since its creation in 1991, but once again did so without entrusting the Mission with any human rights monitoring responsibilities. This makes MINURSO the only post-Cold War UN peacekeeping mission without a human rights monitoring mandate. This is despite the fact that, according to reports from major international NGOs, human rights abuses have been committed by both parties to the long-running conflict in Western Sahara.
Against this background, Meriem is evaluating the extent to which human rights monitoring and protection mechanisms can play a part in advancing the current process towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the Western Sahara. She has a particular interest in the issue regarding the right to access natural resources and their management by a people living in a Non-Self-Governing Territory. To that effect, she has been invited to join a panel at the next World Congress of the International Political Science Association due to take place in Lisbon next summer under the title: “Why do natural resources matter in the Western Sahara conflict: Actors and Strategies”.
In addition to working on her thesis, Meriem has participated in a number of high-profile conferences and meetings on the subject of the Western Sahara throughout Europe. She is a member of the steering committee of the International Academic Observatory on Western Sahara at the University of Paris Descartes. As such, she has participated in a pluri-disciplinary colloquium in Amiens earlier this year on the legal, economical, anthropological and social questions raised by the situation in Western Sahara.
Meriem has recently been offered a placement at the European Parliament in Brussels where she will be working closely with the Human Rights Advisor to the Greens/EFA group, looking specifically at the relations between the EU and Western Sahara.
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