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Robert Tomczak
Post-doc in History, Adam Mickiewicz University
I am a historian and a fellow researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. I am a former recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (post-doc at Basel University 2019/2020). My research interests include Polish and Czech history; the history of universities; peregrinatio academica in early modern times; alba amicorum; the history of Polish-Irish relations, as well as biography, genealogy and heraldry. I specialise in the analysis of late medieval and early modern historical sources. I am the author of "Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z uniwersytetami praskimi w XVI-XVIII wieku" [Early modern education of the Poles at universities in Prague] and co-author (with Adam A. Kucharski) of "East Central Europe and Ireland Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000–1850", Brepols 2024.
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Robert Townsend
Senior Lecturer in Disability and Para sport, University of Waikato
Dr Robert Townsend holds a joint appointment as the national Disability Lead for Sport New Zealand and as a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Pedagogy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
I have a background in high performance disability sport. My research interests are interdisciplinary, drawing on participatory qualitative research methods, critical social science and disability studies, with a specific focus on disability sport and sport coaching.
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Robert Whelan
PhD Candidate, Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh
In 2021, Robert completed his MSc in Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Specialising in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, he undertook two research projects within the Animal Sciences and Health/Bioinformatics and Genomics clusters, collaborating with research teams at Radboud University, Nijmegen and KU Leuven in Belgium. The first used the zebrafish as a model system to investigate the glucocorticoid receptor and innate immune cell migration during the inflammatory response. A later project focused on the taxonomic and functional profiling of zebrafish intestinal microbiome using metagenomic approaches and next-generation sequencing datasets. Today, Robert bridges these areas, combining his research interests in human disease, inflammation, and the gut microbiome and applying them to his present PhD project.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are chronic immune-mediated conditions affecting the gastrointestinal tract. They are common, with a global prevalence approaching 20-30 million individuals by 2025.
The gut microbiome is a critical factor in the development of IBD and there are now several approaches aimed at manipulating the gut flora as therapy including faecal transplantation, probiotics and selective expansion of beneficial bacteria populations using spore technologies. However, we do not yet have the precision medicine tools to refine our understanding of the complex gut microbiome and its interconnection with IBD disease activity to improve the way we choose and tailor microbial-based treatments.
Emerging evidence suggests that inflammation may begin in the oral cavity and spread to the gut as pathobionts move between those body sites, hence there is a need to investigate the oral-gut microbiome axis in IBD.
Robert – alongside PI’s with bioinformatics, clinical and IBD expertise – aims to characterise the metagenome to determine if the complexities of the gut microbiome can be refined and reduced based on oral microbiome data to allow for a simple, quicker and more acceptable form of microbiome analysis that can be carried out in the widest IBD setting. Together, they will use strain-level metagenomics to look at the cross-talk between the oral and gut microbiota in IBD, and functional metagenomics to look at functional correlates with disease progression, outcome, and mucosal healing.
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Robert Winstanley-Chesters
Robert is a Research Fellow at Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He obtained his doctorate from Leeds’ with the Thesis “Ideology and the Production of Landscape in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. Rowman and Littlefield’s Lexington Press published Robert’s monograph “Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project” in November 2014. Robert's new monograph "New Goddesses of Mt Paektu: Gender, Violence, Myth and Transformation in Korean Landscapes" co-authored with Victoria Ten will be published in winter 2016/2017 with Lexington Press. Robert is currently researching the Historical Geographies of Korean forestry, Colonial Mineralogical landscapes/inheritances, the place of topography within Pyongyang's charismatic narrative of the life of Kim Jong-suk and Animal/Creaturely Geographies of North Korea.
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Robert Yablon
Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Yablon is an Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative. His research interests include political and election law, constitutional law, federal and state courts, and statutory interpretation. He teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, and the Law of Democracy.
Professor Yablon's recent publications have appeared in the NYU Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Iowa Law Review. In 2018, UW Law students honored Professor Yablon with the Classroom Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2019 he received a University Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Yablon received his bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master's degree in social policy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned his J.D. at Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Following law school, Professor Yablon served as a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. He also worked in private practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. He has been the principal author of dozens of appellate and trial-level briefs, and has argued in a number of state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Robert A.R. Guldemond
Researcher, Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria
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Robert Andrew Robergs
Associate Professor - Exercise Physiology, Queensland University of Technology
I completed a B.Ed. in Physical Education and Geography at the State College of Victoria-Rusden Campus (now Deakin University) in 1978. I commenced a Masters Preliminary year (Exercise Science) at the University of Western Australia in 1985, and then moved to the USA to complete a M.Ed. in Exercise and Sports Science and Cardiac Rehabilitation at Wake Forest University (North Carolina) in 1987. I completed a PhD in Human Bioenergetics at Ball State University in Indiana in 1990. I accepted an academic appointment at the University of New Mexico in 1990, where I eventually received tenure and was promoted to Professor. I left the USA for a return to Australia in 2011, where I worked at Charles Sturt University as a Research Professor from 2011-2016. I then commenced a research and teaching appointment at Queensland University of Technology in 2016.
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Robert B. Gibson
Professor of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
Robert B. Gibson is a professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, specializing in environmental policy issues and broader sustainability imperatives and applications. He has been involved with impact assessment law, policy and process issues since the mid 1970s.
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Robert Chao Romero
Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Chao Romero received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Latin American history and his Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley. His research explores the little-known history of Asian-Latinos, as well as the role of Christianity in social justice movements in Latin America and among U.S. Latinas/os. Romero is the author of several books, including, “The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940” and “Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity.” “The Chinese in Mexico” received the Latina/o Studies book award from the Latin American Studies Association and “Brown Church” received the InterVarsity Press Readers’ Choice Award for best academic title. Romero is also an attorney, ordained minister, and faith rooted community organizer.
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Robert J. Stephens
Principal Lecturer in Religion, Clemson University
Dr. Rob Stephens is a lifelong student with interests in Asian philosophies and the history of religions. He earned a B.A. cum laude in Religious Studies (with emphasis in biblical studies and early Christianity) from Missouri State University, an M.A. in Religious Studies (with emphasis in method and theory in Religious Studies) from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (in the History of Asian Religions and Cultures track) from the University of Iowa. Dr. Stephens joined the Clemson faculty in 2010 after holding teaching appointments at the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Alabama, Transylvania University, and Lindenwood University. He regularly offers classes such as Introduction to Religion, World Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and upper-level seminar courses on topics related to South Asia. Dr. Stephens has published several book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and book reviews in The Journal of Asian Studies, The Journal of Church and State, Religious Studies Review, Nidan: An International Journal for Indian Studies, and The Journal of International and Global Studies. He has served as an editorial consultant for Oxford University Press, Routledge University Press, and The Asian Journal of Communication. In 2020, Dr. Stephens was selected to join Clemson University’s Fulbright-Hayes India team tasked with expanding educational awareness of and institutional partnerships with India at Clemson University and the state of South Carolina
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Robert J. Teather
Associate Professor and Director, School of Information Technology, Carleton University
Robert J. Teather is an Associate Professor in and Director of the School of Information Technology at Carleton University. He is co-director of the MARVEL research group, and studies on human performance in mixed, augmented, and virtual reality environments. His primary research area focuses on human interaction with computer-generated virtual environments, 3D interaction for object acquisition and manipulation, travel through virtual environments, cybersickness, and haptics.
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Robert John Young
My research has always been focused on understanding animal behaviour and how it can be used to improve animal conservation and animal welfare. Although, much of his research is applied some of it addresses fundamental questions about how animals communicate, for example. In recent times my captive research has focused on questions regarding “Fitness for the Ark”; that is, can captive (zoo) animals be used in reintroduction programmes and what training might they need to survive in the wild. In the field I have studied primates, maned wolves, fish and birds. I am particularly interested in the human wildlife interface in how sound pollution from mining activities affects wildlife. And in human-animal interactions in urban environments especially how such interactions can be managed. My research approach is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary as I believe strongly that this is how we will be able to answer the ‘big questions’. Thus, I collaborate widely with researchers that include engineers, geographers, mathematicians, psychologists and sport scientists.
I have always been fascinated by the natural world and the need to conserve it for future generations. Thus, I studied Biology BSc (Hons) at the University of Nottingham (graduated 1989), followed by a PhD at the University of Edinburgh (graduated 1993) in animal behaviour/animal welfare under the supervision of Prof. Alistair Lawrence. I then embarked on a wildlife career working as Research Coordinator for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (Edinburgh Zoo), where I was able to put into practice much of the theory I had gained during my university education. In 2001, I moved to Brazil, as a Professor of Animal Behaviour, to further fulfill my ambition to study wildlife. Here I developed a number of long term research projects on primate species (notably titi monkeys and marmosets), birds, carnivores and urban wildlife. At the beginning of 2013 I moved to the University of Salford to take-up a Chair in Wildlife Conservation.
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Robert Joseph Gill
Associate Professor in Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
Rob Gill is the Course Director for Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. He has been an academic in Public Relations & Advertising at Swinburne since 2007. Rob completed his doctorate in 2006 on the theme “Employee Engagement.” His current research interests include brand communication and reputation management, particularly in sport. Rob is an active Fellow of the Communication and Public Relations Australia (CPRA) association and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), and a graduate of the Corporate Public Affairs Institute residential program. Rob has been awarded 3 national teaching citations and was awarded the 2017 national PRIA Educator of the Year. Before becoming an academic, he worked for more than 10 years as a communication manager in the fields of finance, tourism and state government. Prior to this, Rob spent 15 years teaching in Australia and internationally.
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Robert L. Ascah
Research Fellow, The Parkland Institute, University of Alberta
Worked at Alberta Treasury and Alberta Treasury Branches for 25 years concentrating on public debt issuance, financial sector policy and economics. Director, Institute for Public Economics at University of Alberta Economics' department from 2009-13, Have contributed opinion pieces since 2010 in Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald. I have been published in Alberta Views (April 2020) and CBC opinion piece on the Alberta budget. Since 2018 two co-authored and one sole-authored reports for the Parkland Institute.
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Robert Leslie Thomson
Associate Professor, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
Robert has a broad interest in bird ecology, but is especially interested in between-species interactions. He comes from Pretoria, and grew up birding and ringing in the bushveld areas. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pretoria, studying mixed species bird flocks for his BSc Hons. These studies led to him being a field assistant in northern Finland. This stint became his MSc thesis at the University of Oulu, which tested the heterospecific attraction hypothesis that migrant songbirds attract to resident songbirds during their habitat selection decisions. He continued with his PhD in Oulu, further investigating the positive associations in Boreal bird communities, but incorporating the interplay of negative, predation and competition, interactions. He defended his thesis in 2006, and moved to southern Finland to take up a post-doc position at the University of Turku investigating various aspects of raptors and their impact on songbird community structure.
During the avian influenza (AI) crises in 2007, Robert led AI surveillance efforts in Cambodia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and assisted with surveillance work in Mongolia. He then returned to Finland where he held a series of research fellowships investigating avian habitat selection decisions in the face of ‘enemies’ and the life history of endangered wader populations in the Bothnian bay.
Robert has also initiated three new research projects in the last few years that use unique study systems to answer questions of interest. He has been working on:
1) The importance of Sociable Weaver colonies in the Kalahari and their use by other avian species and other taxa. Investigating how these communities and their interactions change at weaver nests across aridity gradients. This work has also focused on the African Pygmy Falcon, an obligate user of these weaver nests, and their life history and interactions with their weaver hosts.
2) Understanding front-line defences in brood parasite – host interactions. For these studies he is using the redstart-common cuckoo system, unique because the redstart is the only known cavity nesting host of the common cuckoo, that present interesting challenges for the cuckoo.
3) An applied project to understand the role of farmers in vulture conservation in southern Africa. Taking interdisciplinary approaches to understand the factors that affect the use of poison by farmers and human-wildlife conflicts. And focusing on the role that supplementary feeding efforts by farmers can play, and assessing the services that vultures may provide in terms of carcass.
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Robert P. Jackson
Senior Lecturer in Political Thought, Manchester Metropolitan University
I am an Edward W. Said Fellow 2024 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, NY). I am currently developing a book project on Said’s conception of ‘critical consciousness’ and its relationship with the thought of Antonio Gramsci. My areas of specialism are political theory and the history of modern political thought. My research addresses issues at the intersection of critical and postcolonial thought, in particular re-examining the role of intellectuals in modern society.
I have forthcoming articles in Interventions and Notebooks, and I am co-editor of Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks (Brill, 2020), a rich collection of innovative scholarship on Gramsci (also in paperback). I have published work in TOPOI, Theory and Event, Thesis Eleven, Gramsciana, Hegel Bulletin, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Science and Society, and the International Gramsci Journal.
Before joining Manchester Metropolitan in 2014, I lectured in European and International Studies at King’s College London, where I completed my PhD in 2013.
I co-created the Critical Theory in Hard Times network, which organised workshops on Decolonising Critical Thought (2021) and Racial Capitalism and Anti-Racist Futures (2023).
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Robert S. Brown
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education and in Critical Disability Studies, York University, Canada
Dr. Robert Brown has worked in applied research for over thirty-five years, in media research, market research, and education research. After a master’s in Communication Studies at the University of Windsor, he completed his doctorate in education at the University of Toronto. A Past President of the Association of Educational Researchers of Ontario, Robert retired from the Toronto District School Board's Research and Development department in August. He is Adjunct Professor at York University, in the Faculty of Education and in Critical Disability Studies. His areas of study include the time structures of schools, postsecondary student pathways; longitudinal tracking studies; and socio-economic and demographic patterns. He has authored or co-authored works in a number of fields including education, psychology, sociology, medicine, and economics.
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Roberta Angioi, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University
My first encounter with research was during my final project in my MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in my home country, Italy. An Erasmus+ grant allowed me to carry out most of my project abroad, at the Wroclaw Medical University (Poland). Curiosity (and another Erasmus!) led me to the University of Split (Croatia) where I gained more hands-on research experience with different analytical techniques to study plant and food samples. After my degree, I worked as a pharmacist for some time, but I was missing the thrills and challenges of research. When I was awarded the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship in 2019, I was delighted to join Dublin City University to start my PhD with Prof. Blánaid White and Dr. Aoife Morrin. My project aimed at developing a multidisciplinary method to characterise honey and its potential biomedical applications using volatile markers. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Aoife Morrin’s laboratory with Insight (SFI) at DCU, working on bacterial signature Volatile Organic Compounds for wound infection diagnostics.
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Roberta Anversa
The University of Melbourne
Dr Roberta Anversa is a Research Associate at The Florey Institute and her research explores novel treatments for alcohol and nicotine addiction. Roberta has an undergraduate degree with Honors in Biotechnology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne.
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Roberta Attanasio
Associate Professor of Biology, Georgia State University, Georgia State University
Research scientist in immunology and environmental toxicology; instructor of immunology, environmental health, and sustainability-related courses; instructor of women leadership courses, with emphasis on leadership in the sciences.
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Roberta Garrett
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, University of East London
Dr Roberta Garrett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of East London. She is author of Post-Modern Chick-Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film (2008) co-editor of We Need to Talk About Family: Essays in Neoliberalism, The Family and Popular Culture (2016) and author of Writing the Modern Family: Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberalism (2021). She is currently co-editing a book of essays on Rachel Cusk. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary film and literature and has a forthcoming article in Feminist Media Studies on domestic abuse on screen.
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Roberto Nisticò
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II
Roberto Nisticò is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II and is also affiliated with CSEF and IZA. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. His research focuses on Development Economics, Labor Economics and Political Economics.
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Roberto J. González
Professor of Anthropology, San José State University
Roberto J. González is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of science and technology, militarization, environmental anthropology, and the history of anthropological thought. He has written several books including "Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca" (2001), "American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain" (2009), "Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State" (2010), "Militarization: A Reader" (co-edited, 2019), "Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network" (2020), and "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Date, and Predict the Future" (2022).
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Robiel Eilyn Manzueta Felix
Research fellow, Universidad de Navarra
Master en Biodiversidad, Paisajes y Gestión Sostenible.
Estudios de doctorado en el proyecto de investigación: Cuantificación de contaminates originados de la exhalación de los edificios en entornos urbanos. EXHAL.
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Robin Banks
PhD Candidate and University Associate, University of Tasmania
I am a human rights lawyer with particular expertise in discrimination law. I have practised as a lawyer and held the statutory appointment of Anti Discrimination Commissioner under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) (2010-17). I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania researching potential reforms to discrimination laws drawing from social science research on discrimination, prejudice and stigma.
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Robin Chataut
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University
Dr. Robin Chataut is an assistant professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science at the School of Computing and Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of North Texas and his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Tribhuvan University. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the software industry as a software developer.
Dr. Chataut's research interests lie in the areas of wireless communication, cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, and advanced technologies such as 5G, Beyond 5G, and 6G networks. His expertise also spans network security, smart cities, vehicular networks, and the Internet of Things. His significant contributions to the field are evidenced by his design, implementation, and optimization of complex algorithms and systems architecture for next-generation networks. He has authored several research articles over the past few years and has been a dynamic presence at numerous international conferences and seminars.
Beyond his research and academic commitments, Dr. Robin remains an active participant in the academic community. He serves in multiple international scientific journals and conferences, contributing significantly to the advancement of his fields of expertise.
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Robin Cohen
Robin Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, University of Oxford. Prior to his Oxford appointment in 2007, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He also held appointments at the Universities of Ibadan, Birmingham, Cape Town and the West Indies and short-term positions at Stanford, Toronto and Berkeley. He was editor of the Routledge series on Global diasporas and of the Cambridge survey of world migration.
His books on migration include The new helots: migrants in the international division of labour (1987, 1993, 2003), Contested domains: debates in international labour studies (1991), Frontiers of identity (1994), Global diasporas: an introduction (1997, rev. 2008), Migration and its enemies (2006) and Encountering difference (2016). He directed the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School (2009–11), and was principal investigator on the Oxford Diasporas Programme, covering 11 projects, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011–5).
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Robin Dodson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University
Robin Dodson is a research scientist with expertise in exposure assessment, particularly in the indoor environment. Her research focuses on three main areas: development of novel exposure measurements for epidemiological and community-based studies, analysis of environmental exposure data with a particular emphasis on semi-volatile organic compounds such as phthalates and flame retardant chemicals, and intervention studies aimed at reducing chemical exposures. Dr. Dodson oversees the Institute’s consumer product exposure research. She was the lead author on a landmark peer-reviewed study on endocrine disrupting and asthma-associated chemicals in more than 200 consumer products. As part of the Centers for Disease Control’s Green Housing study, she is currently investigating exposure in children with asthma to chemicals in consumer products and building materials. She leads Silent Spring’s Healthy Green Campus project, a research effort aimed at making health an integral part of sustainability practices on college campuses.
Dr. Dodson completed her doctorate in environmental health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For her graduate work, she designed and conducted an exposure study in the Boston area focusing on residential and personal exposures to volatile organic compounds. She developed models to evaluate the transport of pollutants in the indoor environment and determine the contribution of various microenvironments to personal exposures. In addition, she evaluated methods for using existing residential exposure data to model residential exposures in the general population. As a graduate student, she contributed to two studies focusing on asthma in lower-socioeconomic-status urban residences in the Boston area.
Dr. Dodson is an adjunct assistant professor of environmental health at Boston University School of Public Health and also holds an appointment as a visiting scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She previously taught biostatistics at Brandeis University for eight years. Prior to her graduate work, Dr. Dodson worked at Menzie-Cura and Associates, where she contributed to both human and ecological risk assessments. In addition to her doctorate, Dr. Dodson holds a bachelor’s in environmental studies from Bates College, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society, and a master’s in environmental science and risk management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Dodson’s interest in studying air pollution began in sixth grade when she first learned about the depleting effects of chlorofluorocarbons on the ozone layer. Today, she has dedicated her career to improving public health through her applied research, and hopes to inspire a new generation of young girls to become “future scientists.”
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Robin Eames
History PhD candidate, University of Sydney
Robin Eames is a queercrip historian, poet and PhD candidate living on Gadigal land. They are currently researching 19th century trans history, criminalisation, and medicalisation at the University of Sydney. Their work is currently on display in the State Library of NSW's Amaze Gallery, as part of the Pride (R)Evolution exhibition.
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Robin Freeman
Head of Indicators and Assessments Unit, Zoological Society of London
Robin Freeman is the Head of the Indicators and Assessments Unit at ZSL. This unit focuses on understanding the patterns and processes of global biodiversity change. From understanding global population trends through indicators like the Living Planet Index to how these trends respond to pressures and drivers across multiple scales. Together Robin's unit maintains and produces the Living Planet Index which is reported biannually with WWF in the Living Planet Report.
Robin originally conducted his doctoral work in a combination of zoology and machine learning and pattern recognition to investigate the distribution and navigational behaviour of homing pigeons and seabirds. He maintains a strong interest in novel analytical methods to better understand the natural world (including working closely with ZSL's Conservation Technology Unit).
Robin also works very closely with the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (CBER) at UCL and have previously had roles in the Computational Ecology group at Microsoft Research Cambridge with CoMPLEX at UCL and with the Animal Behaviour group at Oxford University.
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Robin Gregory
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
Robin leads research projects and workshops for Canadian and US government agencies, First Nations, and Industry on improving decision-making skills, addressing difficult tradeoffs, and meaningfully involving citizens in public policy decisions.
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Robin Gurwitch
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University
Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a professor in the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Child and Family Health, is a recognized expert in understanding and supporting children in the aftermath of trauma and disasters. She received her doctorate in Clinical/Medical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, completed her internship in Pediatric Psychology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and completed a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Dr. Gurwitch has focused much of her clinical work, training and research on improving the outcomes and increasing resilience in children who have experienced trauma or crisis events, including terrorism, natural disasters and stressors related to military deployment. She has served on state and national committees and task forces including the National Commission on Children and Disasters Subcommittee on Human Services Recovery and served as a subject-matter expert in the area of at-risk populations for the Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee of the National Bio-Defense Science Board for the Pediatric Preparedness and Response in Public Health Emergencies and Disasters for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (DHHS/ASPR). She is a member of the American Psychological Association’s Disaster Response Network and provides expertise on children and disasters/terrorism for the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She was a member of the inaugural HHS National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters.
A prolific writer and educator, Dr. Gurwitch has co-authored book chapters, scientific journal articles and public education materials on the topics of trauma, resilience, psychological first aid, terrorism, disasters and preparedness. She authored a trauma treatment manual for use following disasters for children and adolescents. Dr. Gurwitch regularly presents on topics related to her specialty area at regional, national and international conferences. An active volunteer of the American Red Cross, she worked with the American Red Cross to develop materials related to terrorism and disaster for use in disaster mental health training courses and for use in schools.
A caring clinician, Dr. Gurwitch has been involved in direct care following national and international disasters. She has been an active member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) since it began in 2001. She currently is the Co-PI for the NCTSN grant, NEW DAY (Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster Affected Youth. Dr. Gurwitch serves as a Senior Advisor for the National Center of Child Traumatic Stress' Terrorism and Disaster Program of the NCTSN.
Dr. Gurwitch also serves as the Director of the PCIT & CARE Training Program at the Center for Child & Family Health. She is one of only 22 Global Trainers in Parent Child Interaction Therapy, certified by PCIT International. She has led the national efforts for PCIT adaptations for military families and for PCIT with children who have experienced trauma. She is a co-developer of CARE (Child Adult Relationship Enhancement), again leading efforts for military and classroom adaptations. She has published and presented extensively across the United States and Internationally on issues related to PCIT & CARE.
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Robin Jeffrey
Professor Robin Jeffrey has published, with his colleague Assa Doron, The Great Indian Phone Book (London: C. Hurst/New York: Harvard University Press, 2013). The book is published in India by Hachette under the title of Cell Phone Nation. It was launched in New Delhi on 18 February 2013 by Mrinal Pande, chair of Prasar Bharati, India's equivalent of the BBC. The book analyzes the expansion of mobile telephone and its implications for society, politics and economics.
Professor Jeffrey is a co-editor of "Being Muslim in South Asia," a collection under contract to Oxford University Press to be published in 2013, and a co-editor of "Mughals and Mandarins," studies of the Chinese and Indian media by analysts and practitioners.
His long-term work focuses on a book called Slices of India, a history of India in the second half of the 20th century based around the years of the great Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.
Professor Jeffrey has written about Kerala, Punjab and Indian media. A third edition of India’s Newspaper Revolution was published in 2010.
He first lived in India as a school teacher in Chandigarh from 1967 to 1969 and has lived for six years in India between 1967 and 2010. He has published a number of books and contributes regularly to policy papers, reports and journals.
Professor Jeffrey completed a doctorate in Indian history at Sussex University in the United Kingdom in 1973. He taught for 25 years in the Politics Program at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and worked twice at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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