Investigador de I-Communitas, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Universidad Pública de Navarra
Áreas temáticas: radicalización violenta, seguridad colectiva, gobernanza y desarrollo.
Actualmente vivo en Pamplona y dirijo una investigación sobre radicalización violenta en la UPNA. Antes de ello estaba en Madrid, dando clases en la UCJC y CEDEU/URJC, y dirigiendo el área de investigación y discurso de la Oficina de Asuntos Públicos de la comunidad bahá'í de España. He vivido muchos años en Latinoamérica, donde puede hacerme consciente de la necesidad del conocimiento, de la educación y de nuevas estructuras de aprendizaje que se dediquen al empoderamiento de las masas, a fin de crear una sociedad global más justa, sostenible y pacífica. Dentro de este contexto, me parecen especialmente relevantes las dinámicas de la gobernanza, el desarrollo y la seguridad, tres áreas a las que he prestado particular atención en los últimos años. En mi web (sergarcia.es) puedes conocer más de mí, ver mis libros y artículos académicos, así como mi labor con el Instituto para el Conocimiento, la Gobernanza y el Desarrollo globales (ICGD). El ICGD pretende ser una de esas nuevas estructuras que facilitan el aprendizaje para el cambio social positivo.
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Associate Professor of Geography and International Relations, Mount Holyoke College
Serin D. Houston’s research draws on qualitative methods and a geographic perspective to examine questions of equity and justice from the individual to the global scale. Her book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (2019), uses Seattle as a lens to analyze the translation of sustainability, creativity, and social justice from theory into praxis. Studying not only what policies and programs say, but also how they work in practice, Houston finds that racism and classism, matched with market-driven mandates, constrain the realization of these social values within the urban governance of Seattle, Washington.
With research assistants from Mount Holyoke, Houston investigates sanctuary policies and social movements in the United States. This research has resulted in publications about sanctuary as a process rather than a place designation, the impacts of neoliberalism on sanctuary policies, and the framing of noncitizens as either extraordinary or ordinary in sanctuary social movements.
A more recent research project focuses on climate change and human migration. In collaboration with Kiana London, Houston considers the geopolitics of climate change and migration in the Pacific region and the meaning and modes of knowledge production in such spaces. Finally, Houston’s interest in pedagogy and high impact learning has led to collaborations with colleagues at Mount Holyoke and publications about global/local community engagement and scholarship.
At Mount Holyoke, Houston mentors independent studies and teaches the following courses: Cities in a Global Context; Climate Migration; Global Movements: Migrations, Refugees, and Diasporas; Research Methods; Sense of Place, Sense of Planet; and World Regional Geography.
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PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Warwick
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Warwick, interested in all things vegetable! I'm currently working on the introduction of tomatoes in England, and have previously worked on sweet potatoes.
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Research Fellow in International Development, Tufts University
Seth Owusu-Mante is a research fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His areas of expertise include international development and environmental policy, and global governance and international organizations. He was the president and founder of Young Diplomats of Ghana; managing editor of the Diplomatic Times in Accra, Ghana; and former director of SDGs Policy Advocacy, International Perspective for Policy and Governance (IPPG), in Accra.
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Research assistant, University of Oxford
I currently work in the Oxford Biology Department at the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, and have previously worked for the IUCN, WWF, Desert Research Institute, Oregon State University, and the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. I have experience working with the CITES secretariat and was a youth UN delegate to COP15 in Montreal.
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Visiting lecturer, University of Pittsburg and Adjunct Associate Professor, Osaka University, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Seth Asare Okyere is an interdisciplinary urban, environmental, and international development planner, researcher, and recognized author whose work cuts across social equity, resilience, and sustainability to cross-pollinate ideas and action for just and sustainable communities. Seth has a depth of international experience, which spans cities, communities and institutions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. He has extensive experience across Academia, Think Tanks, and Civil Society Organisations as an educator, researcher, international project coordinator, consultant, supervisor/mentor and community engager. Seth is in pursuit of the sustainable development of communities through mission-focused approaches for co-producing equitable, resilient, and place-based solutions. He is the author of Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South: Theoretical and Policy Imperatives for Sustainable Communities (Springer Nature).
Seth holds a PhD in Engineering (Urban Development Planning) from Osaka University, Japan, an MSc in Urban Planning and Policy Design (cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and BSc in Development Planning (First Class Honours) from KNUST, Ghana. Seth also holds Honor Code Certificates in Future Livable Cities from ETH Zurich, Health and Society from Harvard University and a professional certificate in Emergency Planning and Crises Management from the Federal Office for Civic Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) in Germany.
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Professor, School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana
Since 2015, Seth has been instrumental in the execution of Ghana's nuclear power infrastructure development. He has been involved in several International projects including the IAEA TC projects and coordinated research projects. He has served as the chief scientific investigator and alternate for many projects. Currently, Seth is the project counterpart (for Ghana) for the IAEA TC project (GHA2005) - Establishing Nuclear Power Infrastructure for Electricity Generation. Seth is also IAEA-AFRA national coordinator for RAF2013 (Developing, Expanding, and Reinforcing Energy Planning Capabilities - Phase II).
Even though Seth focuses on nuclear power infrastructure development, he still maintains an interest in the Nuclear Engineering Department under the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana, where he serves as an associate professor of nuclear engineering.
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PhD Student in Geography, University of Tennessee
Geography PhD Student at the University of Tennessee. My academic areas of expertise include protected areas studies, place naming, and nature and society relations. I am fascinated by protected areas such as our 'National Parks' and how factors such as a place name can shape the perceptions and experiences that people have when visiting them.
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Professor, Head of the FERE Research Chair (Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy) Habilitée à diriger des recherches en sciences de gestion, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
Professeur senior à Grenoble École de Management, spécialisée en entrepreneuriat féminin. Elle réalise un second doctorat au sein du Centre de Recherche en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique (CRHAI) à l’université de Nantes.
Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire is full professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management and head of the FERE Research Chair (Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy) she founded in 2016 and that focuses on Women inclusion into economic society in 8 countries.
She authored several manuals in Innovation management (Pearson Education) and on Female Entrepreneurship (EE Publishers, Pearson...). Her research focuses on women inclusion through entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. She regularly publishes her research in peer reviewed academic journals. Her last publications refers to spousal support or spousal control to Syrian Women Refugee Entrepreneurs (with Dr. Rola Al Ali), warming NGO and policy makers on the limitations of their policies. She also worked on women inclusion in existing companies to enhance a strategic renewal that takes climate change into consideration and co-authored a series of articles in that respect.
She also leds several programs on women inclusion in society by entrepreneuring.
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Senior Lecturer in Law and Human Rights, Sheffield Hallam University
Severyna joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2019 and is Course Leader for the MA and LLM degrees in Applied Human Rights. Her research interests focus on equality, violence against women, specifically domestic abuse and sexual assault, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and access to justice. Severyna obtained a Masters in International Law with from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2008, and has worked with NGOs in the UK and India. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2020.
Prior to joining Sheffield Hallam she founded and was the Faculty Co-ordinator of the Human Rights Law and Theory programme for over four years at Jindal Global Law School, India's leading private law school, as ranked by QS World University Subject Rankings 2020. During her time at JGLS, Severyna co-developed a new policy against sexual harassment and was the founding Member-Secretary of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment. She was the Project Manager for a Women's Social Integration project in East London funded by the UK Home Office and European Commission. The project provided service delivery to vulnerable women who were experiencing or re-building their lives after having experienced domestic violence or forced marriage. In India she was a Researcher and Co-ordinator for a UN Women funded project researching access to gender-sensitive, rights-based justice through traditional forms of justice. Severyna also guest lectures on the University of California, Berkeley's comparative equality and discrimination online module delivered to students across the world.
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Postdoctoral fellow, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
Mehdi is a postdoctoral fellow in sustainable mobility management at Concordia University. His research primarily focuses on the simulation and optimization of shared mobility and on-demand services, with a particular emphasis on advancing the design and implementation of on-demand transit and micro-transit solutions. Through his work, Mehdi seeks to drive innovation in transportation systems that promote efficiency, accessibility, and environmental sustainability.
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Associate Professor of Global Digital Media, UMass Amherst
My research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa, China, and the United States. This work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used, as well as their implications for issues of labor, identity, and futures.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Institue of Busines and Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia, The University of Queensland
Shabbir Ahmad completed his PhD in Econometrics at the UQ School of Economics in 2014. He also holds PhD in Economics with specialization in financial economics. His areas of research include efficiency and productivity analysis, environment and sustainability, and financial regulation and governance. He has 15 year's university research and teaching experience in Pakistan and Australia. His areas of research focus on resource and financial sectors performance measurement at micro level. He has devised novel methodologies to measure business growth and innovation, with particular focus on agriculture sector. Currently, he is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at AUstralian Institute of Business and Economics (AIBE), the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Previously, he held research positions at the Centre of Social responsibility in Mining (CSRM), Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), UQ. Currently, he is leading Australian Centre for International Agriculture (ACIAR) funded project Farmer's capabilities, productivity, and profitability: A case study of smallholders in selected agro-zones in Pakistan". He has delivered numerous projects for international agencies on sustainable development and productivity focused on mining, manufacturing and financial sectors.
His research activities span to both public and private sectors with a focus on social and economic impact assessment. He has been involved in these projects to develop and apply a variety of tools for economic analysis and the resulting policy implications. He is also an Associate of the World Bank-sponsored South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).
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Shabbir is a senior lecturer in economics and manages the MSc Economics suite of programmes (MSc Economics, MSc Financial Economics and MSc Business Economics) in University of Huddersfield.
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Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
I am an assistant professor of marketing in the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University of Chicago. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in digital marketing and digital marketing analytics. My research is centered on the textual and visual information processing and decision-making behavior across different digital platforms, with emphasis on the role of individual differences. My current research examines linguistics of online reviews and their impacts on consumers’ decision making.
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Plymouth
I am Associate Professor in International Relations. My research interests are focused on 3 areas:
The role of ideas in Iran and their relationship with domestic and international politics
I have looked at the ideas of ‘nation’, ‘democracy’, and ‘the people’ in the context of the Islamic Republic of Iran. My publications have looked at how these ideas are constructed and the meanings that are attached to them. Building on this, I am currently working on the idea of ‘world order’.
Approaches towards a more inclusive and non-Eurocentric IR
I come from an Area Studies and Middle East Politics background and found myself in IR because of my interest in Iran’s relationship with the international. This experience has led me to question and interrogate IR’s Eurocentricity and particularly the relationship between the ‘West’ and ‘the rest’.
Political change, revolution, and legitimacy in post-revolutionary situations
I am interested in the dynamics that lead to revolution and how legitimacy is maintained after a major change in a domestic political order. I have used Antonio Gramsci’s work to explore these dynamics.
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PhD Researcher in Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From the molecular to the most majestic of biological marvels, I have always been driven to understand the “why” behind the whimsical. That’s how I ended up at the Amphibian Evolution Lab (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) with a mission to investigate a strange but little-known phenomenon: frog glue. Together with her trusty companion, Bob the Tomato Frog, the two of us are on a quest to unravel the enduring mysteries of what makes these creatures so incredibly sticky.
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Doctoral Candidate in Global and Area Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Shahar Shoham is a doctoral candidate in Global and Area Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, and an alumna of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung in Germany.
Her ethnographic research provides a new perspective on the Thailand-Israel labor migration regime by centring the experiences of Thai migrant farmworkers in Israel as well as their sending communities in Thailand.
She also conducted research on Israel's externalization policies and deportations of refugees to Rwanda. Her latest article, published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, focuses on the ethics of collaborative public struggles with refugees.
Previously, she was the head of the migrants and refugees department at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
Shoham is a public anthropologist, working closely with civil society actors and grassroots groups. She was interviewed by numerous international media outlets on migration-related issues and has vast experience in consultancy and advocacy.
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Professor in Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences
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Professor of Optometry, Anglia Ruskin University
Prof Pardhan was appointed as the first female Professor of Optometry in the UK in 2001, having graduated with a First-Class Honours and awarded the Best Student Prize from the University of Bradford, and been supported by a PhD scholarship from the College of Optometrists for her thesis, ‘Summation and inhibition in binocular contrast detection’.
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Senior lecturer, specialist poultry veterinarian, University of Pretoria
I started my veterinary career in rural development work in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during the 1990s, then moved into the poultry sector from 1998 when I started work as a full-time post-graduate student at the University of Pretoria completing my BVSc (hons) and MSc degrees.
Between 2000 and 2010 I worked as Senior Lecturer and Head of the Section of Poultry Health at Onderstepoort.
In 2010 I joined Avimune – a veterinary practice specializing in veterinary consulting services to the Southern African poultry sector.
In 2012 I became a member of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians (ACPV) which recognizes specialist poultry veterinarians in that country.
Since 2012 I have been the managing partner at Avimune and worked as a consulting veterinarian for a variety of small and medium-sized poultry producers across Southern Africa.
In October 2023 I rejoined the University of Pretoria as a senior lecturer on a part-time basis.
I also serve as treasurer of the Poultry Veterinarians group and as advisor to the South African Poultry Association on disease control issues.
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Lecturer in Psychology, Solent University
Dr Shakiba Moghadam is a chartered psychologist and a lecturer in psychology, with a specific focus on community psychology, as well as sport and exercise psychology. Shakiba’s research predominantly focuses on mental health literacy and athlete mental health, experiences of women athletes in male dominated sports, human rights violations in sports, and the experiences of marginalised communities such as refugees and asylum seekers. Shakiba is also the Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Human Rights Group and an appointed trustee for non-profit organisations who support displaced communities.
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Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, University of South Wales
Dr. Shakiela K Davies holds the position of Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health at the University of South Wales, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
She was awarded one of the few fully funded PhD Psychology studentships at Swansea University which was based in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience of language, and completed this in 2019.
Shakiela has experience as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist with expertise in CBT, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Stress Control, Mindfulness and delivering NHS group interventions, as part of her NHS training. Shakiela has research interests which span across Clinical Psychology, Cognitive and Neuroscience of Language (e.g., Age of Acquisition and morphological processing); Research Methods, Mental Health and Online Grooming. She was asked to present her research at the Research, Engagement & Innovation Awards (REIS), Swansea.
Shakiela has published and disseminated her research nationally and internationally (Spain, Canada). She has recently co-authored and published a book which provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness with references to psychological disorders and their current evidence based psycho-therapeutic applications - Tyson, P. J., Davies, S. K., & Torn, A., (2019) Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies. Routledge: Taylor and Francis. She is currently in a supervisory team examining Coulrophobia (clown phobia).
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Policy Leader Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
Shamira Ahmed is a policy leader fellow at the European University Institute's Florence School of Transnational Governance, where her research focuses on human-centered sustainable digital transformation, frontier technologies and structural change, ethical innovation, responsible artificial intelligence (AI) governance, and intersectional inequalities. As executive director of the Data Economy Policy Hub (DepHUB), the first independent think tank founded by an indigenous African woman in South Africa (SA), and founder of the Artificial Intelligence for Circularity Exchange (AI4CE), Shamira is a pioneering figure in advancing transnational policy discourse on sustainable digital transformation in SA.
Shamira's participation as a founding partner of the South African AI Association (SAAIA) and global chair of the Digital for Development (D4D) Hub Civil Society & Academia Advisory Group (CSAAG) stands as a testament to her commitment to advancing inclusive transnational policy discourse in the digital age and addressing pressing global challenges through interdisciplinary approaches. With a background as a policy entrepreneur and quantitative economist, she has led numerous multinational policy-oriented research projects and contributed significantly to publications such as the African Union Commission's "Data Policy Framework" and the Global Partnership on AI's Report "Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in Artificial Intelligence", to name a few.
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Gender and Politics, The University of Edinburgh
Sarah Liu is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Gender and Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research broadly focuses on the cross-national comparison o gender and politics, specifically the ways in which contexts – women's political representation, women's movements, immigration, and COVID-19 – shapes the gender gaps in political opinion and behavior. Her works are cross-regional with a specific focus on Asia. She has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential scholars by Apolitical Foundation and as an Emerging Diversity Scholar by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She has also published in major political science and gender studies journals and appeared on international media, such as BBC World News and France 24.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University
Law professor in human rights, refugee and asylum law, public international law, for the past 6 years. Attorney with practice experience in international courts and tribunals, before UN bodies, and within US immigration courts.
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Associate Professor of Practice, School of Health Sciences and the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney
Shane's academic background is in theology and ethics. In 2010, he incurred a spinal cord injury that left him with incomplete quadriplegia. Drawing on the virtue ethics tradition and disability studies, Shane focused his research on happiness and flourishing with a disability. In 2013 he joined the Centre for Disability Research and Policy as honorary associate, working with the centre to write Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics and the Good Life. He spent four years as a researcher and Policy Director at Australia’s Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. On its completion, he joined the University of Sydney as a faculty member of the School of Health Sciences.
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Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Professor Shane Darke has worked in the field of illicit drug research at NDARC since 1988. His area of research is the harm associated with illicit drug use, with a particular focus on mortality. He has published widely in the area of illicit drug use, including work on opioid overdose, psychostimulant overdose, psychopathology, suicide, trauma, treatment outcome and toxicology, and was among the 250 most cited sociology researchers in the world between 2000-2008, according to Thompson Reuters' Highly Cited Research. He was a senior investigator for the Australian Treatment Outcome Study, the first longitudinal study of outcome for the treatment of heroin dependence among different treatment modalities to be conducted in Australia. He is currently supervising projects on methamphetamine toxicity, methamphetamine and violence, and the toxicology of suicide victims. Professor Darke's research interests include: Heroin overdose, psychopathology and drug dependence, suicide and drug use, and drug-related trauma.
He is the author of The life of the heroin user: Typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes, First, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107000636
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Professor of History, Leeds Beckett University
Shane Ewen is an urban historian specialising in 19th and 20th century urban space, identity, environmental disasters and governance. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of London Press, 2023). His earlier books include What is Urban History? (Polity Press, 2015), which maps the growth and contours of the field for a wide readership.
Shane is the co-editor of Urban History (Cambridge University Press), and a director of the Urban History Association in North America. He is the UK representative on the European Association for Urban History, and is also on the conference committee for the UK Urban History Group.
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Reader in Cultural History, Newcastle University
I am a Reader in Cultural History at Newcastle University.
I am an interdisciplinary historian with interests in what I call the 'night side' of modern experience - namely social attitudes toward death, dreams, ghosts, hallucinations, and the 'more than rational'. My research argues that, far from being peripheral, these aspects of life were central in making people (especially in western societies) feel modern. In looking at these topics I draw on a variety of approaches and literatures from cultural history, human geography, environmental humanities, and medical humanities.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, I was educated at University College Dublin where I received my PhD in History in 2008. I have been a Marie Curie Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Leicester where I worked on the 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' project. You can visit our online exhibition here. Before this I held research fellowships at Maynooth University, the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), and the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. I was also a research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, for five years.
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of York
Shane O’Rourke began his career as a historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, looking at the history of the Cossacks in particular. He has produced two books on the Cossacks and numerous articles, covering the Cossacks from Muscovite times into the post-Soviet period.
Over the past four years he has began to develop an interest in the history of Brazil and is now engaged on a major research project comparing the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 and the slaves in Brazil in 1888. Brazil is also figuring increasingly in his teaching and Shane now offers courses on Brazilian as well as Russian history.
Shane’s research interests have changed sharply over the past four years. From being a social historian of Russia, he has now broadened his interests to become a historian of Brazil. His work at the moment is writing a comparison of the emancipation of servile labour in both countries in the second half of the nineteenth century. This will be the first work to compare explicitly Brazil and Russia. As part of this project, he is working on two royal women, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel of Brazil, and their role in the emancipation of servile labour. An article on Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna will be published in Autumn 2011 in The Russian Review.
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Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Griffith University
Shane is a graduate of Macquarie and Griffith University who is interested in terrorism, international security and humanitarian related issues.
Shane has a Bachelor of Arts in Security, Terrorism, and Counter Terrorism studies. A Masters of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and a Graduate Diploma in Criminological Research Studies.
Shane is currently pursuing a PhD at Griffith University looking at global counter-radicalisation and deradicalisation policies.
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PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
PhD Candidate, Smith School of Business
MSc Organizational Behaviour, Smith School of Business
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