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Rosemary Wilson
Associate Director/Associate Professor of Nursing, Queen's University, Ontario
I am a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class/Nurse Practitioner and Associate Professor at Queen's University. My research is focused on pain care and knowledge translation.
My ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-243X
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Rosemary Iriowen Egonmwan
Professor of Environmental Physiology of Animals, University of Lagos
Rosemary Iriowen Egonmwan is a professor of environmental physiology of animals in the Department of Zoology, University of Lagos.
She is currently the head of the Natural Resources Conservation Unit in the department. Prof. Egonmwan had her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Lagos in 1977 and 1981 respectively. She holds a D.Phil. (Zoology) from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (1988).
As a student, she was a recipient of various scholarships such the Bendel State Best WASC Students’ Academic Scholarship (1972-1974), Academic Merit Award for Best Year 1 student, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, and Federal Government of Nigeria scholarship (1975-1977), University of Lagos Academic Bursary Award (1978-1980), and Commonwealth Academic Scholar (University of Oxford, 1984-9188). Prof. Egonmwan started her lecturing career in 1982 in the University of Lagos when she was employed as an assistant lecturer in 1982, and rose to the position of a full professor in 2007.
Her current research is on animal ecophysiology, ecotoxicology and conservation.
She has served the university, and the nation, at the state and federal levels, in various capacities. In the department, she has served as course adviser, postgraduate coordinator, acting, and head of the Department of Zoology, and head, Natural Resources Conservation Unit. She has also served at the Faculty level on Member, Appointment and Promotion, and Endowment Committees.
Egonmwan was a board member of Lagos University Teaching Hospital for four years (2012- 2016). In Edo State (where she hails from) she served as the chair of the Committee of Enquiry in the Edo State Polytechnic. At the federal level, she served as a member, Nigeria National Think Tank. During one of her sabbatical years, she worked a senior environmental advisor to Shell. Prof. Egonmwan is a member of many professional bodies such as the Marine Biological Association of Great Britain, Malacological Society of London, Unitas Malacologica, Ecological Society of Nigeria, Science Association of Nigeria, OWSD, Unilag Branch (where she doubles up as a board of governors member), Nigeria Conservation Foundation, among others. She is a Fellow,
Zoological Society of Nigeria and Zoological Society of London.
The services of Prof. Egonmwan in the University of Lagos have spanned for over four decades. She has successfully supervised 10 PhD candidates. She is currently supervising two PhD students.
In March 2023, Prof. Egonmwan was appointed the chairman of the board of Vitafoam Nigeria Plc.
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Roshan Arah Jahangeer
Postdoctoral Researcher, Memorial University of Newfoundland
I have a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Toronto. I defended my dissertation in 2022 on the topic of "Secularism, Feminism, and Islamophobia: A Study of Anti-Veiling Laws in France and Québec." My research discusses the transnational circulation of the laws banning "religious symbols" in France, how they have circulated to Quebec, Canada, and their impacts on Muslim women across both sites.
I'm currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the SSHRC-funded project, "La Laïcité dans la Francophonie: Vue du Québec et de l’Ontario," alongside the principal investigators, Amélie Barras (York University) and Jennifer Selby (Memorial University).
I also have several publications that deal with Quebec, France, anti-veiling laws, and Islamophobia, including:
In Press “Good Islam, Bad Islam? Secularism, Separatism and Islamophobia,’” in Islamophobia and/in Post-Secular States. Ed. Sharmin Sadequee. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
2021 Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Québec, in Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On Knowledge Production, Positionality and Politics. Eds. Jennifer Selby, Melanie Adrian and Amélie Barras. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020 Anti-veiling and the Charter of Québec Values: ‘Native Testimonials,’ Erasure, and Violence Against Montreal’s Muslim Women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law / Revue Femmes et Droit, 32 (1): 114-139. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.32.1.05
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Roshanak Mehdipanah
Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Michigan
Roshanak Mehdipanah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health. Dr. Mehdipanah is the co-lead for the Public Health IDEAS for Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities and the Director of the Housing Solutions For Health Equity initiative. She completed her PhD at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain and her M.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Dr. Mehdipanah's research focuses on urban health including urban renewal, gentrification and their impacts on health inequities. She is particularly interested in examining the health impacts of housing policies. She specializes in innovative research methods including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health.
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Rosie Nelson
Lecturer in Gender, University of Bristol
I am a sociologist of sexuality and gender. In practice, I am concerned with LGBTQ+ sexualities, trans and non binary identities, qualitative methodologies and health inequalities broadly defined.
My research focus on LGBTQ+ identities, mental health, and gender theory.
From 2010-2014 I attended Colorado College where I graduated with a BA Hons in History and Feminist and Gender Studies. From 2014-2016 I completed a partime MRes in Security, Conflict and Justice at the University of Bristol. From 2016-2019 I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of Bristol, which focused on bisexual people's identities and experiences of love, gender, and family. My PhD thesis was awarded the 2021 Hilary Hartley prize for best departmental thesis.
Since completing my PhD, I have been hired as a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies for 2020-2021. I also worked as a Research Associate at Lancaster University (2020-2021) where I am involved with the CLASS: Creating LGBT+ Affirming School Environments project, where we are conducting a realist evaluation of anti-homophobic/transphobic/biphobic bullying interventions.
Since autumn 2021, I have been acting as a Lecturer in Gender at the University of Bristol.
I have two current projects. The first of which is writing a monograph based on my recent PhD thesis which explored bi+ people's experiences of sexual identity, gender identity, and romantic relationships. I am also researching further ethical considerations related to conducting research using qualitative research methods.
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Rosie Shrout
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
I joined Purdue University’s Human Development and Family Studies Department in Fall 2021. I earned my PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno and completed a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Ohio State University’s Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research. As a social-health psychologist with specialized training in psychoneuroimmunology and quantitative methods, I study how couples’ stress affects their relationships and health. My work focuses on the underlying psychological, behavioral, and biological pathways connecting stress to people’s own and their partners’ relational and physical health across adulthood and later life.
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Rosie Young
PhD Candidate, Gut Microbes in Health and Disease, Quadram Institute
Throughout my undergraduate studies I undertook several research placements and online courses, developing my skills and knowledge in areas of interest: neurology, nutrition and molecular biology. At the same time, I completed my year in industry within a separate field, looking at the potential of plant biomass within industrial settings. Each venture has built upon my skill set and guided by next career choices. Having graduated with a First class (hons) BSc in Biology at Aberystwyth University, I was also awarded the best performance in biology and went on to successfully secure a postgraduate studentship at the Quadram Institute.
I am currently working as a PhD student under the direction of the Carding Research group on a project centred around the effect of stressors on human performance (cognitive and physical), as mediated by changes in the gut microbiome, encompassing my interests.
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Rosie C Harper
Clinical academic PhD candidate, Bournemouth University
Rosie Harper is a clinical academic PhD student at Bournemouth University. She was awarded the match-funded PhD Studentship with the NIHR in 2021. Rosie works as a specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Dorset. Her research interests include pelvic floor muscle training, women's health, digital technology, long-term conditions and behaviour change.
Research
I am currently conducting a research study examining the use of digital 'nudges' to motivate postpartum women to do pelvic floor muscle training
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Rosimeire Araújo Silva
Pesquisadora no Programa da Dinâmica Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
Graduada em Física pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas e em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas com Especialização em Ciências de Dados. Mestrado e Doutorado em Geociências com ênfase em interações oceano-atmosfera no clima e ambiente amazônico. Tem experiência na área de Climatologia, Variabilidade Climática, Eventos extremos, Modelagem Climática, Análise Exploratória de Longas Séries de Dados, Larga Escala, Aspectos multi-escalares de tempo e clima, Técnicas de Machine Learning e Inteligência Artificial para dados do clima e ambiente. Atualmente é bolsista pelo pelo Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia atuando como pesquisadora no Programa da Dinâmica Ambiental - AGROECO do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).
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Roslyn Hickson
A/Prof, James Cook University
A/Prof Roslyn Hickson is a Science Leader for Emerging Infectious Diseases, a joint appointment between CSIRO and James Cook University. Her research is broadly on informing policy and practice through the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, through the lenses of biosecurity and One Health.
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Roslyn Russell
Professor Roslyn Russell is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University. Roslyn holds a PhD in Business and a Masters in Public Policy and Management.
Roslyn has been researching in the area of financial literacy and financial inclusion over the last 10 years. Roslyn works closely with the Australian Government, the financial and community sectors seeking to improve the financial well-being of Australians. Roslyn's research in recent years has focused on the factors influencing the financial decision-making of women. Much of Roslyn's research has been conducting evaluations of microfinance programs including Australia's leading financial literacy programs, Saver Plus and MoneyMinded.
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Ross Carroll
Assistant Professor of Political Science , Dublin City University
I am a political theorist who draws on early modern philosophy (mostly enlightenment thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft and David Hume) to illuminate contemporary problems concerning the politics of humour, ridicule, and the regulation of public speech. More recently I have developed research interests in intergenerational justice and the history of abolition. I have a BA in politics and philosophy from University College Dublin (2003), a Msc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (2004), and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in Illinois (2013). I was a Fulbright scholar in 2005-6 and from 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Political Theory: an International Journal of Political Philosophy.
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Ross Guest
Ross Guest is a Professor of Economics, and Dean (Learning and Teaching), in the Griffith Business School at Griffith University. He is an Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and a National Senior Teaching Fellow with the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.
Before joining Griffith University in 1998 he spent 8 years at Monash University in Melbourne where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1997. He has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Higher Education from Griffith University.
His current research programme is concerned mainly with the economics of population ageing in Australia and other regions of the world. He has published articles on this and related topics in, for example, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, The Economic Record, The Review of Development Economics, The Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, The Singapore Economic Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, and Economic Modelling. He has received 4 ‘Discovery Grants’ from the Australian Research Council, as 1st Chief Investigator, to support this work. He was an invited participant at the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008 on the basis of his work on population economics.
His teaching in recent years has been primarily in public economics at Griffith University and for ANZSOG in their Executive Master of Public Administration where he is a Subject Leader for Australia and New Zealand. He is Editor-In-Chief of the International Review of Economics Education, and co-author with Stiglitz et al. of Principles of Economics, First Australian Edition.
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Ross Lawrenson
Professor of Population Health, University of Waikato
Qualified in London and trained as a general practitioner in the UK.
Emigrated to New Zealand in 1983 and worked for 5 years as a GP in Wairoa before moving to the Waikato and training in public health (University of Otago Diploma Community Medicine)
Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health 1994
1995 returned to the UK as a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, which then merged with Imperial College. MD London University 1997
1998 moved to University of Surrey and in 2000 became Dean of the Postgraduate Medical School
Elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
2005 returned to New Zealand as Professor of Primary Care with the University of Auckland and Assistant Dean of the Waikato Clinical School
Moved to the University of Waikato in 2016
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Rossana Ruggeri
Research Fellow in Cosmology, The University of Queensland
I am a Cosmologist studying the properties of the Universe on the largest scales.
By mapping the positions of millions of galaxies, I investigate the unknown physics of the dark energy which drives the evolution of the Universe today, and the physics just after the Big Bang, when the ripples which grew under gravity to become galaxies were created.
I am actively participating in the key experiments designed to understand dark energy and gravity. I am co-chair of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) lensing working group, and an active member of the Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the past, I had led science with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, one of the major quests of contemporary physics that has spurred advancement in answering a range of fundamental questions about the origins of the universe.
I am passionate about communicating top-level research ideas to audiences outside our immediate academic sub-community. I have experience on a variety of media, including radio, public talks and lectures to local schools, science festivals and amateur astronomy groups, outreach activities at Stargazing Live events, as well as through written pieces.
I am an advocate for making STEM field accessible to everyone. During my career, I took part into different initiatives aiming to reduce structural barriers faced by different minorities in academia and inspire the next generation of STEM careers. I am part of the Women in Science Association with the aim to foster a community for young women in STEM, within and beyond the academic community. I worked and volunteered at N.G.O. centres, in Italy and Australia supporting young students to overcome educational inequality caused by poverty and other conditions.
Since 2021 I am on the Early Career Chapter committee for the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) to promote and assist the career development of early and mid-career researchers in the Australian astronomy community. I am also part of the Wellbeing Ambassador program at the University of Queensland, with the aim of contributing to creating a safe and healthy space for staff and students.
I am a Cosmologist studying the properties of the Universe on the largest scales.
By mapping the positions of millions of galaxies, I investigate the unknown physics of the dark energy which drives the evolution of the Universe today, and the physics just after the Big Bang, when the ripples which grew under gravity to become galaxies were created.
I am actively participating in the key experiments designed to understand dark energy and gravity. I am co-chair of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) lensing working group, and an active member of the Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the past, I had led science with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, one of the major quests of contemporary physics that has spurred advancement in answering a range of fundamental questions about the origins of the universe.
I am passionate about communicating top-level research ideas to audiences outside our immediate academic sub-community. I have experience on a variety of media, including radio, public talks and lectures to local schools, science festivals and amateur astronomy groups, outreach activities at Stargazing Live events, as well as through written pieces.
I am an advocate for making STEM field accessible to everyone. During my career, I took part into different initiatives aiming to reduce structural barriers faced by different minorities in academia and inspire the next generation of STEM careers. I am part of the Women in Science Association with the aim to foster a community for young women in STEM, within and beyond the academic community. I worked and volunteered at N.G.O. centres, in Italy and Australia supporting young students to overcome educational inequality caused by poverty and other conditions.
Since 2021 I am on the Early Career Chapter committee for the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) to promote and assist the career development of early and mid-career researchers in the Australian astronomy community. I am also part of the Wellbeing Ambassador program at the University of Queensland, with the aim of contributing to creating a safe and healthy space for staff and students.
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Rossella Pulvirenti
Senior lecturer, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
Rossella holds a PhD in human rights law from the University of Nottingham. Also, she has a Master Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham and a quinquennial degree from the University of Catania (Italy). Rossella is currently a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), where she teaches human rights and medical healthcare in addition to international criminal law. Before joining MMU she worked ad lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, University of Bedfordshire, SOAS and University of Nottingham and as a lawyer in Italy. Rossella has also worked for several international organisations and NGOs, like the European Court of Human Rights (Registry) and the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum.
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Rotem Perach
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Westminster
Dr Rotem Perach is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. He is interested in applied social psychology including topics relating to collective resilience, misinformation, public health messaging, and facemasks. Rotem received his PhD from the University of Kent, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Sussex, and University of Westminster.
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Rounaq Nayak
Lecturer in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems, Bournemouth University
I am passionate about exploring the reciprocal relationship between organizations and local communities, analysing their mutual influence, and studying the sustainability implications. As a human factors specialist and a human geographer, I have worked on projects in agri-food and healthcare sectors, prioritizing a people-centred approach to service improvement. My research interest lies in enhancing the resilience of the global agri-food system to challenges like food poverty, forced labour, and carbon trading by adopting a systems approach. I aim to optimize systems, promote transparency, build community resilience, and evaluate technological innovations using a human factors lens. Through service improvement projects, I have generated reports contributing to sustainable transformations in the agri-food sector and charities
I hold Fellowships with the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy. My educational background includes a BEng in Biotechnology, an MSc in Food Safety and Management, and a PhD in Human Factors and Sustainability. Prior to BU, I have worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, the NHS, and as an academic at Harper Adams University.
So whether you want to know more about my research or would like to collaborate on a service improvement project, feel free to get in touch.
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Rowena Ball
Associate professor, Australian National University
I am an applied mathematician and physical chemist.
Currently I am working on the origin of life in the primordial soup! Another current interest is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientific and engineering heritage.
As an experienced thermodynamicist I am concerned about the widespread misunderstanding of thermodynamics, particularly of the second law and the concept of entropy, among people who are otherwise scientifically literate. If you do not have good working knowledge of the fundamentals of thermodynamics – specifically the Maxwell relations and their Legendre transforms – then it is better not to mention entropy or the second law in your articles, because you will most likely get it hopelessly, even ridiculously, wrong.
Currently in my research I am working collaboratively on new high efficiency systems for separating carbon from fuels and flue gases.
A spinoff is that I have elucidated the oscillatory thermal instability that led to the Bhopal disaster and initiates explosion of peroxide bombs used by terrorists.
My research expertise in reactive thermal runaway and thermal explosions is also motivated by process safety. Serious and fatal thermal runaway incidents are quite common in chemical plants in Asia and in developing nations, although they are rarely reported in the Western press. (E.g, see http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-19/hyderabad/29904559_1_kalpana-explosion-ketone.)
Most such incidents are preventable, but crucial knowledge that was made good use of by chemical engineers from the 1950s through the 1970s evidently never was learned in some relevant quarters. Ignorance is dangerous.
Recently I came across two papers in the refereed literature claiming to determine thermal runaway criteria for processes used to manufacture two types of explosives, which I read with horror and disbelief.
The authors prescribed operating criteria that they claimed are "safe" from thermal runaway, without carrying out ANY stability analysis. But there is a vicious oscillatory thermal instability in these systems, as an elementary stability analysis shows. Plant operators using their guidelines would be in for a nasty surprise - that is, if they survived. Due to their ignorance these authors' thermal 'safety' criteria are incorrect and dangerous.
This does not reflect well on the journals that published these two papers. Why were the serious shortcomings not picked up by referees?
In general science as fatally (literally) flawed as that in these two papers should not be left unchallenged but where real safety is involved and it puts human lives at risk one is morally obliged to correct it in the refereed literature. Our paper on this may be downloaded at http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5550, it is published as: Ball, R., Gray, B.F., Thermal instability and runaway criteria: The dangers of disregarding dynamics. Process Safety and Environmental Protection (2012),
http://dx.doi.org/10.10/j.psep.2012.05.008.
On another front, I am researching the role of fire in sequestering CO2.
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Rowena Naidoo
Associate Professor in Sport Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Rowena Naidoo is an Associate Professor/biokineticist in the Discipline of Biokinetics, Exercise, and Leisure Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is a Developing Research Innovation, Localisation and Leadership (DRILL) fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2020, Prof Naidoo led the development and writing of two international policy briefs specifically on physical activity and health for children and adolescents during COVID-19 and Beyond. She is also a founding executive member of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise. More recently, Prof Naidoo has been appointed as the Partnerships Director for the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) and as a World Health Organisation (WHO) Physical Activity Consultant.
Prof Naidoo is currently a “Clean Sport Educator”, part of the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport, and is the recipient of the World Anti-Doping Association Social Science research grant to develop an innovative anti-doping program for adolescents.
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Roxanne Dault
Roxanne Dault specializes in patient-oriented research and in knowledge transfer. She coordinates CLARET, a research project that looks at how citizens can give consent to the use of their health data for research purposes. She wants to help improve health care and build a fair and efficient health system where citizens play a central role.
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Roxanne Prichard
Professor of Psychology, University of St. Thomas
Prof. J. Roxanne Prichard is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She studies sleep health in college students as it relates to performance, mental health and retention. Her scholarship has been cited in the New York Times, Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, and The 1A radio program. She served on the NCAA Taskforce for Sleep and Wellbeing and her TEDx talk "Addressing Our Children's Sleep Debt" was featured on the Transforming Education series. She regularly consults with college athletics programs and other organizations to help people harness the power of sleep for improved health and performance.
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Roy Judge
Associate Professor (Prosthodontics) Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne
Roy is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Dental School. His current roles at the school include.
• Head of Prosthodontics
• Director of International
Roy has spoken throughout Australia and overseas in regard to provision of implant dentistry, implant complications and the mechanical properties of bone around implants and teeth. His PhD was related to this research topic and has flowed on to several research projects carried out by graduate diploma, DCD, MPhil, MSc and PhD students.
Roy is the chief investigator for the practice-based research project entitled “Implant Complications in Practice”. This research project has gained support from external societies namely the Australian Prosthodontic Society, The Australian Osseointegration Society and the Australian Periodontal Society. Several papers have been from this research project in national and international peer revived papers.
Roy is the research lead for the new dental implant being developed at the University of Melbourne. Roy maintains a part time specialist referral practice in Moonee Ponds which encompasses all aspects of Prosthodontics.
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Roy Maconachie
Professor of Natural Resources and Development, University of Bath
My research in Sub-Saharan Africa explores the social, political and economic aspects of food production and natural resource management, and their relationships to wider societal change. Much of my recent work has been concerned with the politics of natural resource management in West Africa, with a particular focus on the extractive industries, livelihood change and social conflict. My disciplinary background is in human geography, but my work has largely been interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing principally upon anthropology and politics/political economy.
In pursuing my research, I have developed strong international links with a wide range of institutions in Africa, including Fourah Bay College (Sierra Leone), Bayero University Kano (Nigeria) and Makerere University (Uganda). Before joining the International Development Group at Bath, I was a post-doctoral fellow at IDPM, University of Manchester (2007-2009) and IDS Sussex (2005-2007).
Current and recent research themes:
Socio-economic dimensions of small-scale mining in West Africa
Natural resource governance and the extractive industries
Community-based resource management, livelihoods and institution building in post-conflict states
Youth identity politics and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Urban and peri-urban food production and resource management in West Africa
Find out more about my research on natural resources in West Africa here
PhD Supervison
I am interested in supervising PhD students working on topics related to:
The environmental and socio-economic dimensions of artisanal and small-scale mining.
The dynamics of conflict and competition over natural resources in developing countries.
Community based resource management and livelihoods in post conflict states.
I am particularly committed to working with students whose research interests lie in West Africa.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Roy Whitaker
Associate Professor of Black Religions and American Religious Diversity, San Diego State University
Dr. Roy Whitaker is an Associate Professor of Black Religions and American Religious Diversity in the Department for the Study of Religion at San Diego State University. After completing a Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary and Master of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, Dr. Whitaker obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University.
Dr. Whitaker's research and teaching interests include African American religious studies, world religions, comparative religions, contemporary philosophy of religion, new religious movements, Afrofuturism, religious pluralism, hip hop, Martin Luther King, Jr., and continental and humanist philosophy.
In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals such as the "Journal of Contemporary Religion," "Journal of Ecumenical Studies," and "Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought" and interviews appearing in "The San Diego Union-Tribune," Dr. Whitaker serves as a Diversity Liaison for the College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Metropolitan Area Pluralism Study, and Professor of Equity in Education for Student Affairs and Campus Diversity at SDSU.
Dr. Whitaker consults and advises on various topics including race relations, curriculum development, ethics, interfaith dialogue, meaning of life, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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Ru Xie
Associate Professor in Finance, University of Bath
Ru Xie's main research areas lie in empirical money & banking studies and asset pricing. Recently, she has been working on various research projects in the area of monetary policy and financial uncertainty, including negative interest rate policy, financial crisis and funding & market liquidity risk. She has previously worked at Goethe University Frankfurt and Bangor Business School and has held visiting positions at: Bank of Finland and Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Ruan Veldtman
Senior Scientist at SANBI, Stellenbosch University
Ruan Veldtman is a senior scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute and a research associate at the department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University. He works in the field of applied biodiversity research, specialising in ecological entomology. His research deals with those entomological aspects linked to services provided by ecosystems and the impact of biological invasions. Other interests include wild silk moth ecology, plant-insect interactions, biological control of plant invasions, pollination ecosystem services and invasive wasp management. He is also a supporter of interdisciplinary exchanges around entomology such as agricultural economics and sustainable agricultural production.
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Ruar Elkington
Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
For over a decade, Dr Ruari Elkington’s industry engagement and academic research has been driven by questions around how screen content connects with discrete audiences in markets increasingly under pressure through creative and commercial tensions. His screen industry experience centred on the acquisition, marketing and distribution of documentary, feature film and innovative digital content to theatrical and online audiences.
He is a Chief Investigator with QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre and has published in the field of screen distribution, screen studies and education. Ruari is a Fellow, and Associate Fellow (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2021 he was nominated and approved by Council as a member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
In 2018 Dr Elkington was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate new initiatives connecting Creative Industries students and online video creators in collaborative work. His real-world engagement is evidenced in his 2019 peer reviewed appointment to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network (Future of Information and Entertainment) building on his 2016 AMP “Tomorrow Maker” award and funding.
Over the last five years external leadership work within the screen sector has also included National Executive Committee Membership (2019) to the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA), and institutional membership and ongoing student mentorship and screening facilitation for the Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA) /Australian Film Institute (AFI).
He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty. QUT is currently ranked as Australia's best young university in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings and was the world’s first University to establish a Creative Industries faculty in 2001.
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Ruby Acquah
Research Fellow, Economics of Trade, University of Sussex
Dr.Acquah is a Research Fellow in Economics of Trade at the University of Sussex
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Ruby Ekkel
PhD student in Australian History, Australian National University
Ruby Ekkel is a PhD candidate at Australian National University. Her research focuses on changing attitudes towards and interactions with native animals, especially as mediated by women. After completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history at the University of Melbourne, Ruby achieved a Masters degree in global history at the University of St Andrews. She has published, taught and presented on topics spanning animal history, environmental history, and women's history. She was recently awarded the Ken Inglis Prize by the Australian Historical Studies Journal.
Ruby is an HDR Representative for the Australian Historical Association Executive, and a co-editor of the ANU Historical Journal II. Outside the university setting, she co-edits a podcast about Australian environmental history, The Bush Bash.
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Ruby Heard
PhD candidate in energy justice, The University of Melbourne
Ruby holds a bachelor of electrical and electronic engineering from Victoria University and has been working as a consulting engineer for over a decade. Her early career involved working for Arup in both Melbourne and San Francisco.
Ruby is the founding director of Alinga Energy Consulting, a small firm providing energy research, feasibility and design services with a focus on affordable and sustainable off-grid systems which improve livelihoods for Indigenous communities. She is also a member of the steering committee for the First Nations Clean Energy Network, a non-profit working to ensure First Nations participate in, and benefit from the clean energy transition.
Over the years Ruby has contributed to publications on the topics of microbial fuel cells, DC power in buildings and microgrid applications for public transit in the United States. In 2020 Ruby became a PhD candidate with the University of Melbourne. Her research centres on energy justice for remote Indigenous communities and using traditional Indigenous values to augment energy service delivery in Australia.
In 2019 she was awarded as Young Professional Engineer of the Year – Victoria by Engineers Australia and was also featured in their top 100 Engineers Making a Difference list.
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Ruby Mendenhall
Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning and Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ruby Mendenhall is an Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. In 2004, Mendenhall received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy program from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. For her dissertation, Black Women in Gautreaux’s Housing Desegregation Program: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks in Economic Independence, she used administrative welfare and employment data, census information, and in-depth interviews to examine the long-run effects of placement neighborhood conditions/resources on economic independence.
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Ruediger Schack
Professor of mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London
Ruediger Schack is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in 1991 and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the University of Southern California, the University of New Mexico, and Queen Mary and Westfield College before joining Royal Holloway in 1995. His research interests are quantum information theory, quantum cryptography and quantum Bayesianism.
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