Honorary Research Fellow in Italian Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Stefano Jossa is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London and teaches Italian Literature at the Universita` degli Studi di Palermo.
He is the recipient of the BA/Leverhulme SRG for research on the Ridolfi collection at the Archives of Royal Holloway (2019-2021).
His research specialises in the Italian Renaissance and the Italian national identity expressed through literature. He held Visiting Professorships at the Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland - De Sanctis Chair, 2017), the University of Parma (Italy, 2017) and the University of Roma Tre (Italy, 2018).
Among his main publications: (with L. Curreri), In balia di Dante e Pinocchio: Per una critica della cultura italiana (Rome: Mauvais Livres, 2022); (with J. E. Everson and A. Hiscock), Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture (Oxford: OUP, 2019); La più bella del mondo: Perché amare la lingua italiana (Turin: Einaudi, 2018); (with G. Pieri), Chivalry, Academy and Cultural Dialogues: The Italian Contribution to European Modernity (Cambridge: Legenda, 2016); Un paese senza eroi: L’Italia da Jacopo Ortis a Montalbano (Rome: Laterza, 2013); (with Y. Plumley and G. Di Bacco), Intertextuality, Memory and Citation between Middle Ages and Renaissance (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2011).
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Professor of Regenerative Neuroimmunology, University of Cambridge
My team studies whether the accumulation of neurological disability observed in patients with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (PMS) can be slowed down using stem cell therapies. In particular, our aim is to understand the basic mechanisms that allow exogenously delivered neural stem cells (NSCs) to create an environment that preserves damaged axons or prevents neurons from dying. Using stem cells as a model to identify the critical factors that prevent neurodegeneration is an exciting new frontier of regenerative medicine, which is just being tested in humans.
I have been first or senior author in seminal papers that have established the potential of somatic NSC-based experimental therapies for PMS. My early studies identified a critical role around the route of cell injection4 and the mechanisms of NSC accumulation in the chronically inflamed CNS, as well as revealing an unexpected ability of NSC therapies to provide neurotrophic support and inhibit detrimental host immune responses in vivo.
My team has also focused on defining the nature and function of intercellular signalling mediated by extracellular membrane vesicles (EVs) from NSCs. Using a series of computational analyses and high-resolution imaging techniques, we have demonstrated that EVs deliver functional IFN-g/Ifngr1 complexes to target cells.
We have also discovered that EVs harbour L-asparaginase activity catalysed by the enzyme Asparaginase-like protein 1. While the translation of EV therapies into clinical regenerative therapies is still some way from being fully achievable, both these studies on NSC EVs serve as complementary models of how stem cell grafts might signal to the host to mediate repair through a range of complementary actions.
Our most recent work describes a delayed accumulation of the pro-inflammatory tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediate succinate in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of chronic MS. We have identified a new complementary mechanism by which directly induced NSCs (iNSCs) respond to endogenous inflammatory metabolic signals to inhibit the activation of type-1 mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) in vivo after transplantation. Transplanted iNSCs respond to the succinate released by type-1 inflammatory macrophages and microglia in the CSF, which then signals to iNSCs via succinate receptor 1 (SUCNR1) and initiates the secretion of prostaglandin E2 and the scavenging of extracellular succinate.
Our research has therefore recalibrated the classical view that neural grafts only function through structural cell replacement and opened up a new therapeutic avenue by which to use exogenously delivered NSCs.
By understanding the mechanisms of intercellular (stem cell) signalling, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) may be treated more effectively, and significant neuroprotection may be achieved with new tailored NSC therapeutics.
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Kairangahau/Māori hauora and social justice researcher, Auckland University of Technology
I graduated with an LLB/BA from the University of Auckland in 2009 and was enrolled as an officer of the court in 2010. In 2013, I completed Criminology Honours. I worked as a researcher with Waitakere DHB, then took a role with the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. In 2018, I became the Research Project Manager for He Ture Kia Tika.
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Professor of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Areas of specialisation: Epistemology and Feminist Philosophy
Field of interest: Philosophy of Birth
Stella Villarmea is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid,
and Associate Faculty Member in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
She is a main contributor to the emergent field of the Philosophy of Birth. With an expertise in
epistemology and feminism, her works address the relation between knowledge and
emancipation. She has published on capacity and rationality in birth care, obstetric violence,
and the language of birth from an epistemic perspective. In former years, she published
research on conceptual innovation and scepticism, as well as on Wittgenstein, Kant, and
Levinas.
She currently leads a Program of Excellence on the Philosophy of Birth (PHILBIRTH-2), funded
by the Government of Madrid (2021-24). She is a research member in the European Project
‘IPOV-Respectful Care’, an International Platform on Obstetric Violence, funded by the
European Commission MSCA Staff Exchange Programme. As a Marie S. Curie Fellow at the
University of Oxford, she led the research project, ‘Controversies in Childbirth: from
Epistemology to Practices (VOICEs), funded by the European Commission (2018-20). As the
principal investigator of ‘Philosophy of Birth: Rethinking the Origin from Medical Humanities
(PHILBIRTH-1)’, funded by the Ministry of Economy in Spain, she coordinated an
interdisciplinary team around birth care (2016-19).
Stella Villarmea received the Special Distinction of Excellence for her 20 year-teaching career
at her former University, the University of Alcalá. She was Adjunct Professor at University of
Saint Louis, Madrid, and Visiting Professor at the Humboldt and Paderborn (Germany), Lund
(Sweden), Marie Curie (Poland), Kent and Oxford (United Kingdom).
Stella Villarmea serves in the Steering and the Gender Committees of The International
Federation of Philosophical Associations (FISP) and has been Speaker of The International
Association of Women Philosophers (IAPH), the oldest and most diverse global network of
women philosophers. She is a Member of the Institute for Feminist Studies at Complutense
University of Madrid. She is the Lead of the Philosophy of Birth Network in The Collaborating
Centre for Values-based Practice at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. She volunteers in Childbirth
is Ours, the Spanish birth-rights association, and has been recently hired by the European
Commission to co-author the report “Obstetric Violence in Spain”.
Her career, commitment, and knowledge speak for her ability to contribute to the diversity of
philosophical areas, methods, and topics; and to apply the philosophical tools to improve
birth-care and citizenship in the labour room.
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Professor of Microbiology, Mountain Top University
Stella Ifeanyi Smith (PhD) is a director of research with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria and professor of microbiology at Mountain Top University.
She holds a PhD in medical microbiology from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (1997). She had her pre-doctoral fellowship with EU Scholarship at the Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK and post-doctoral fellowships at Bordeaux, France and Dresden and Munich, Germany, with INSERM and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships respectively.
Her special interest is in molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and microbiome of infectious diseases agents such as Helicobacter pylori, Salmonella spp, Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, Enterohaemorraghic E. coli 0157:H7 and Vibrio cholerae.
She was a consultant to the Maastricht VI project, Italy, 2021 as well as the Real-World Gastritis Initiative (RE.GA.IN), Italy 2022 as the only African, with 29 countries involved.
She is the founding president of African Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Initiative Limited by Guarantee (AHMSI Ltd/Gte) with board members from 10 countries and 70 ordinary members spanning 17 African countries.
She is the co-chair of the Food-Borne Disease Genomic Surveillance Network, an initiative of African CDC, and the group is finalising the roadmap for disease surveillance in Africa. She is the head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Research Group in NIMR.
In molecular biology hands-on-training, she has built capacity of over 720 students/participants with supervision/co-supervision of several BSc, MSc and PhD students. She is a reviewer for several international journals and editorial board member/special issue editor in some international journals.
She has been an external assessor for several professorial candidates internationally (South Africa and currently one from Canada).
She is a recipient of the 19th Edition of the Who is Who in the world and a member of the national Technical Working Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as well as the chairperson of the Institute Biorisk Management Committee and AMR Committee. She is a member of several international organisations.
She has attracted 16 research grants, both local and international and five equipment grants with several book awards.
She is a fellow of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Science (FAS), fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine Specialties (FAMedS), fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and International Federation of Biosafety Association (IFBA) certified. She has 205 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar citation of 4741 and h-index of 36.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Science, University of Sydney
I have a PhD in Marine Biology, specifically coral physiology and biochemistry, focusing on how corals protect themselves against environmental stress caused by climate change.
My research spans tropical and temperate reef ecosystems, with a range of organisms such as corals, algae and fish gastrointestinal tracts, with the common theme of marine microbial ecology. My research as a microbial ecologist involves looking at bacteria to understand their role in health and function under a changing climate. My day-to-day activities include experimental design, fieldwork, lab work, data analysis, manuscript writing and science communication work.
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Research Fellow, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Steph is a Research Fellow at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Steph leads an innovative program of research and translation to reduce the impact of substance use. Her research aims to improve the health outcomes for individuals, families and communities especially among vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Steph is passionate about addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with alcohol and drug use.
Steph leads a number of innovative digital projects including 1) Cracks in the Ice, a National Online Portal funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to develop and disseminate evidence-based resources about crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) for the Australian Community; 2) The Illicit Project an interactive, neuroscience-based harm reduction program that aims to upskill Australian young people in alcohol and drug use harm minimisation. She also works closely in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to co-develop and disseminate culturally appropriate resources to prevent and reduce the impact of substance use (e.g. crystal methamphetamine, nicotine) among communities.
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Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Steph Tai's scholarly research examines the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. These include the consideration of scientific expertise and environmental justice concerns by administrative and judicial systems, and as well as the role of scientific dialogues in food systems regulation, and the ways in which private governance incorporates scientific research. Professor Tai was an adjunct law professor at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, food systems law, environmental justice, risk regulation, contracts (especially private governance and supply chains!), and comparative Asian environmental law.
Raised in the South by two chemists, Professor Tai decided to combine their chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, Professor Tai was the Editor-in-Chief of theGeorgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team.
After graduating from Georgetown, Professor Tai worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. Professor Tai has also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Tai then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, briefing and arguing cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act. From 2013-2014, Professor Tai served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow as a researcher in the Federal Judicial Center.
Professor Tai actively represents amici in federal circuit court and Supreme Court cases. During the summer before joining the Wisconsin Law School faculty, Professor Tai teamed up with several other law professors to work on two Supreme Court amicus briefs: one for a group of legislators in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., No. 05-0848, and another for a group of scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1120. Professor Tai still continues this work, representing commercial fishers in Entergy Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Nos. 07-588, 07-589, 07-597; organic farmers in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475; former senior environmental agency officials in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Nos. 11-338, 11-347; and prominent climate scientists in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, D.C. Cir. Nos. 15-1363 et al.
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Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston
Stephan Manning is Associate Professor of Management and co-founder of the Organizations and Social Change Research Group at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. His research mainly covers three areas: sustainability standards, global outsourcing, and project-based organizing. He has done field research in various countries, including China, Germany, Guatemala, Kenya, Romania, South Africa and the United States. His research has been published in numerous top-tier academic journals. He teaches international business and strategy at the undergraduate, master and PhD level. He has specific industry expertise in automotive engineering, coffee production, global business services, and film-making. He is also founding co-editor and author of the Organizations and Social Change Blog, and has written for The Conversation, The Broker and other platforms.
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Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
I am a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century West Africa, with a focus on Ghana. While my first book, Making Men in Ghana, explored the history of masculinities in Ghana by foregrounding the life histories of eight men, my new monograph, A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana, is a history of Ghana’s largest development project, the Akosombo Dam, completed in 1965. A Dam for Africa is accompanied by the documentary film Ghana’s Electric Dreams (dir. R. Lane Clark). I am currently embarking on a new book project about the ecologies and infrastructures of Ghana’s Volta Lake. In addition, I remain curious in and engaged with historical questions about gender, sexualities, development and technology, Africa’s environments, and the practice of oral history in Africa and beyond.
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Group Leader Population Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
I am group leader for population genetics at the Department for Archaeogenetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. My group investigates human history by means of Genetics, and develops computational methods to model and analyse ancient and modern genomic data.
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Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
Stephan Weiler holds the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair as Professor of Economics at Colorado State University. He received his BA (Honors) in Economics and MA in Development Economics from Stanford University in 1988, and his Economics PhD from UC-Berkeley in 1994 where he studied with eventual 2001 Nobel Laureate George Akerlof. From 2004 through 2006, Stephan was appointed as Assistant Vice President and Economist at the Federal Reserve’s Center for the Study of Rural America to lead the Center’s applied research work. The Center was the focal point in the Federal Reserve System for rural and regional development issues, providing cutting-edge research perspectives to private, public, and nonprofit decision makers. Stephan became a frequent speaker before industry, university, and public policy audiences throughout the nation, is a regular contributor to media outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to National Public Radio, and has published over one hundred articles, book chapters, and policy papers. He served as Research Associate Dean for CSU’s College of Liberal Arts from 2006 to 2016.
His research, teaching and mentoring have spanned a variety of development and labor market issues in Africa, Appalachia, Europe, and the American West. His current work focuses on regional economic growth and development, particularly in rural and inner-city areas, combining theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses on topics such as information, innovation, industrial restructuring, land use, public/private partnerships, immigration, entrepreneurship, and the environment. These various elements informed his role as founding research director of the Colorado Innovation Report (www.innovation.colostate.edu), begun in 2012 with a broad-based coalition of leaders from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors to understand and enhance the state’s innovative capacities. He is distilling these three decades of experience into the Regional Economic Development Institute (REDI@CSU), partnering with the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) at the Birmingham Business School in the UK to provide fresh, timely, and cutting-edge information to enhance economic growth and development prospects for regions across the globe.
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• Relations internationales depuis 1945 (France-Italie-Europe-Méditerranée)
• Relations culturelles internationales en Méditerranée au XXe siècle : institutions culturelles, échanges intellectuels, pratiques sportives.
• Immigration italienne en France à l’époque contemporaine.
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Professeur des Universités en Physiologie de l'Exercice / Neurosciences Intégratives, Directeur Unité Recherche EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, Université de Montpellier
Professeur des Universités (2008)
Membre honoraire IUF (2008-2013)
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (2003)
Thèse de Sciences Biologie de la Santé - Physiologie de l'Exercice (2000)
Depuis 2000, je travaille sur les thématiques de la cinétique du coût énergétique, la neurophysiologie de la fatigue, les liens cerveau - mouvement avec des applications en santé, sport et neurergonomie.
Activités de recherche : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephane_Perrey
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Assistant Professor of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, Southern Methodist University
Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin brings nearly 20 years of experience in corporate, media and political (campaign) work to bear in her research, which investigates the discourse of conservative social movements in the contemporary United States. She is especially interested in how political rhetorics about fiscal issues intersect with political rhetorics about social issues, and so work to reinforce one another. She is currently writing a book that explores how evangelicals have used news and other forms of mass media to promote government policies of fiscal conservatism and personal responsibility for ameliorating economic hardship in the aftermath of the national recession of 2008, and have agitated against increased spending on public welfare programs. The book also examines how the public discourse (and political priorities) of evangelicals is not only about abortion and other such cultural hot-button issues, but includes a preference for conservative economic policymaking, as well.
Martin has written journal articles and book chapters about conservative social and economic discourse in the United States. She is also interested in First Amendment jurisprudence.
Martin worked for her first political campaign in the summer between her senior year of high school and first year of college, when she volunteered at a phone bank for a candidate to the United States Senate from her home state of Idaho. Since that time she has remained an active participant in and observer of the United States political process and has worked on both national and statewide campaigns. As a media practitioner, Martin served as a project coordinator and staff writer for a PBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., and has also written extensively for several business-to-business publications sponsored by General Motors. She began her career as a project manager and industrial engineer, first for the Boeing Company and then for Hewlett-Packard.
As a teacher, Martin is deeply committed to helping students discover their own voices, as well as find ways to make their classroom experiences apply to their everyday, practical (and professional) lives. She encourages her students to apply their education to questions of social justice wherever they can, and to believe in the always-revolutionary notion that one person can make a real difference in the world.
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Visiting Scholar of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University
Stephanie is a Research Associate at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute and an Assessment Measurement and Evidence Consultant at UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. She is a Visiting Scholar at the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University.
She has worked at a local, federal, and international level to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations. Previously, Stephanie directed the Bureau of Homeless Services, Emergency Shelter, and Housing for the Boston Public Health Commission and served as a Policy Analyst and National Public Information Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Stephanie was a United States Presidential Management Fellow. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Gordon College and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
Stephanie hails from Southern California, considers Boston home, and currently lives in Florence Italy with her husband, two kids, and six bikes.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Carbon Sequestration, Arizona State University
Stephanie is a climate science expert. Her research has a focus on using natural archives to understand past climates, the relationship between drought and dust, carbon dioxide removal, and the certification of carbon sequestration. She holds a BSc in Earth Science from the University College Cork, Ireland, an MSc in Climate Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Ph.D. Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability from Northern Arizona University. Stephanie currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University.
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PhD Candidate, Università di Bologna
Stephanie Arnold is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS within the Digital Governance cluster and a PhD researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna (Italy). Throughout 2022/2023 she was a visiting PhD researcher at the Centre for Digitalization, Democracy, and Innovation of the Brussels School of Governance (VUB). Her research examines the role of foreign players in the digital development of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Previously, she studied abroad at Leiden University and the China University for Political Science and Law in Beijing. She also completed numerous internships including at the Embassy of Italy in Tanzania and the NATO Office of Legal Affairs. In 2022, she was selected to join the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership course for doctoral students coordinated by the University of Oxford.
She obtained a 5-year master’s degree in law from the University of Bologna with a master thesis on cross-border data transfers between China and the European Union. She is fluent in English, German, Italian, and Swahili.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
Dr Stephanie Brookes is senior lecturer in journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She researches media, journalism and politics, focusing on election campaigns, political journalism and journalistic identity, and fact-checking. She has a particular interest in questions of identity and belonging in news media and political discourse.
She has published widely in journal articles and book chapters, including co-editing the May 2018 special edition of Media International Australia on press gallery and political journalism in Australia, and is the author of Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia's Identity Anxiety (Anthem Press, 2017).
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Stephanie Cleland is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Her research focuses on evaluating the human health impacts of exposure to climate change-influenced environmental hazards, including wildfire smoke and extreme heat, using environmental epidemiology, exposure assessments, and health impact assessments. She holds a PhD and MSPH in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She conducted her dissertation research as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education research fellow at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment.
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Reader in Brazilian Studies, University of Leeds
Stephanie Dennison, originally from Northern Ireland, via Rio de Janeiro, has been living in Yorkshire and working at the University of Leeds for the last 20 years. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Brazilian Studies and a founding member of the Centre for World Cinemas. She is co-author with Lisa Shaw of two books on Brazilian cinema and edited books on Latin American film and popular culture, she co-edited with Song Hwee Lim Remapping World Cinema and she is currently developing an international research network examining cinema as soft-power asset in BRICS nations.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
Stephanie Eccles is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment. Stephanie is interested in the intersection of the climate crisis, animals, and society. Her dissertation focuses on the emerging biogas industry in North Carolina where she asks what does it mean to make agricultural waste essential in the 'Just Transition'? In addition, Stephanie is also researching farmed animals in disasters in the USA and Canadian contexts.
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PhD Candidate, Literature and Music, University of Liverpool
Stephanie Hernandez is a PhD student of Literature and Music at the University of Liverpool. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she is researching the echoes of Romanticism in the popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, from The Doors to Patti Smith. Her research incorporates literary analysis, musicology, fashion history and concepts of performance.
She has delivered the presentations 'Beatle Wives and the Curation of the Beatles Legacy' (PCA/ACA, 2023) and 'Joni Mitchell's Blue and Mental Health' (Popular Music and Wellbeing, 2023). At the University of Liverpool, she has participated in the IASPM Conference (2022) and the Tay Day (Liverpool's Version) Conference (2024).
While completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature, Stephanie worked at both The Beatles Story, Liverpool and Handel & Hendrix in London, which fostered her interest in the cultural legacy of historically musical spaces.
Stephanie is also a music journalist who has written for Rolling Stone UK, Warner Music UK and others. Her academic publications include 'Yoko Ono's Avant Garde Humour', in The Beatles and Humour (2023), and 'Marketing: How Gamification Produced a Vinyl-Mania' in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2021).
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PhD candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University, Canada
I am the executive director of the Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN) and a PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies at York University. My research focused on the intersections of aging, queerness, and technology. More specifically, I examine the barriers 2SLGBTQ+ older adults experience with accessing online service provisions in Ontario during the global pandemic.
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Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Florida
Stephanie Killingsworth is a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the Neogene Period and has included strontium dating and rare earth elements to calibrate Neogene fossil sites, as well as close examination of fossil horses to understand their evolutionary story.
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
Stephanie Lusby is a researcher and development practitioner. Her research focuses on gender and social change in the Pacific.
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York
Steph is a specialist in the Mesolithic of Northern Europe, with a particular focus on hunter-gatherer mobility, and using lithic raw materials to trace the movement of communities. Steph completed her BA in Archaeology (2010), MA in Archaeology with Prehistory (2011), and AHRC funded PhD (2017) at Durham University where she developed an ever-increasing love for the Mesolithic of Scotland, and prehistoric occupation of coasts and islands.
Post-PhD, Steph worked as a commercial archaeologist for Archaeological Services Durham University as both a field archaeologist and palaeoenvionmental specialist, before joining Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology (2018-2019).
Steph joined York in 2019 as Associate Lecturer in Archaeology and was promoted to Lecturer in 2023. She maintains research interests in early prehistoric Northwest Europe with a particular focus on Scotland, as well as broader hunter-gatherer interactions in relation to changing climate. Steph is a stone tool specialist and has recently conducted analysis of Mesolithic assemblages from the UK and Denmark, as well as later prehistoric lithic material in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
In 2023, Steph was part of an interdisciplinary team from the departments of Archaeology, Health Sciences, and Environment & Geography awarded a York Environment Sustainability Institute Discipline Hopping Fellowship for the project Craftwell. The Discipline Hopping programme was delivered via NERC funding, and the project aimed to investigate the connection between outdoor heritage crafting and mental health and wellbeing in the student population. Steph delivered the outdoor workshop component of the project, working with participants to create replicas of archaeological objects inspired by Stone Age beads or Anglo-Saxon pottery.
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Lecturer in Law and Co-director Liverpool European Law Unit, University of Liverpool
Stephanie was appointed Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice in September 2013. She is a graduate of L'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Liverpool and completed her PhD studies at the latter institution in March 2015.
Stephanie's area of expertise falls primarily within EU law, specifically EU constitutional law, the law of the single market, Union citizenship and the EU legal framework relating to the protection of fundamental rights. Her doctoral thesis analyses the Court of Justice's approach to adjudicating tensions between the Treaty free movement provisions and fundamental rights. It argues that the Court's adjudicative methodology offers procedural prioritisation to free movement over fundamental rights and that this has concrete consequences for fundamental rights protection. The thesis runs a diagnostic analysis of the causes of this adjudicative imbalance concluding that it is the result of historical factors and significant constitutional evolutions. This uneven adjudicative architecture is then critiqued against fundamental rights theory and the Union's contemporary constitutional framework. Ultimately an alternative model of adjudication is proposed rooted in the concept of balancing.
Stephanie has also published in leading journals on the introduction of the 'genuine enjoyment test' to the EU citizenship legal landscape, and on the relationship between free movement and fundamental rights in the area of housing policy. In 2014, she was also appointed UK co-rapporteur at the XXVI FIDE Congress, hosted by the University of Copenhagen, on the topic of "Union Citizenship: Development, Impact and Challenges". As an active member of the Liverpool European Union Law Unit, Stephanie contributed extensively to the UK Government's UK/EU Balance of Competences Review. Developing this work, she is currently working with other members of LELU on a series of UK ESRC-funded events around the UK's renegotiation of its relationship with the European Union and the forthcoming referendum on UK membership of the EU. From September 2015, Stephanie became Director of the Liverpool European Law Unit.
Stephanie enjoys teaching on a wide range of engaging subjects including criminal law, EU law, and the School's innovative Law and Social Justice module.
Prior to joining the School, Stephanie worked in policy and communications at the Merseyside Brussels Office.
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Trent University
Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University. Her research inhabits the intersections among political ecology, environmental justice, animal studies, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada (MQUP 2022) and Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power (UMinn 2011). She was also a co-editor of Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research and Historical Animal Geographies (both with Routledge). Her new research is a community-based partnership that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Research Associate, Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub, University of Bristol
Stephanie takes a broad interest in emerging biotechnologies, particularly in neuroscience and genomics. Previously, she worked as a Research Associate as part of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub at the University of Bristol, conducting research on how different individuals reason about trust in AI.
A former specialist in AI ethics, she holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE), and now conducts research in psychiatric genetics at University College London (UCL).
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PhD candidate, Birmingham City University
PhD Candidate in Psychology (Birmingham City University), Senior HE manager (specialising in Plain English policy writing, complaints, and regulations), author, kindness advocate.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney
Dr Stephanie Ward is a geriatrician who is passionate about improving the quality of diagnosis and care for persons living with dementia. At CHeBA , she is a senior research fellow, and the clinical and initiative lead for the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Clinical Quality Registry.
Dr Ward’s clinical practice inspires her engagement in a number of studies investigating mechanisms of, or prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia. One such recent area of interest is the role of intergenerational contact in healthy ageing. She was the expert geriatrician on the ABC series 'Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds' and 'Old People's Home for Teenagers'.
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