Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Otago
My PhD from the University of Sydney focused on Middle English Literature by women. Since then, my interests have developed, so that more broadly, I research how our understanding of the world around us is directly shaped by texts: religious, scientific, literary, legal, historical, political. Within my research platform, I have six programmes of research: Medieval Race, Geoffrey Chaucer, Medievalisms, Medieval Women, Medieval Literary Anonymity, and Medieval Manuscripts. The programmes overlap and interconnect, but each seeks to bring to light a feature or characteristic of how texts shape our world.
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Research Associate, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
I am a Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, working on several research projects. My most recent projects include examining the re-licensing experiences of internationally trained physicians in British Columbia, and the uptake and evaluation of an equity, diversity, and inclusion community of practice within the institution.
I recently joined the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society (PIPPS) as a Research and Engagement Coordinator, where I conduct qualitative research to examine the role of community knowledge brokers in sharing COVID-19 information with priority populations.
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Sinclair Davidson is Professor of Institutional Economics at RMIT University and an honorary senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. His opinion pieces have been published in The Age, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, and Wall Street Journal Asia.
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Senior Lecturer in History, The Open University
My research focuses on protest in the US in the post-war 20th century, and particularly on gender. I have written on left-wing movements, the counter-culture and conservatism in the 1960s.
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Lecturer Sport and Exercise Nutrition, University of Westminster
The acute and chronic response to exercise depends on a complex interplay between the training stimulus, physiology, nutritional state, genetics, and environment. My research interests focus on metabolic and physiological responses to multi-modal concurrent training, namely in Functional Fitness, and how these factors impact performance potential in elite athletes, as well as health and longevity in the general population.
As a performance nutritionist, I look to practically influence acute and chronic responses to training through diet and supplementation. Athletes I have supported include international level weightlifters, British Title level boxers, World Title level BJJ competitors, and elite CrossFit athletes.
I now bring together my passion for science, coaching and education as a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at the University of Westminster.
My background is in cell growth and metabolism, with a PhD investigating growth factor regulation of the addition of cell mass and volume. It was here I developed a keen interest in understanding how cells respond to stress and physiological extremes. This ultimately led to my passion for understanding the acute and chronic response to exercise stress, and how we can manipulate this to maximise an adaptive outcome (and avoid a maladaptive outcome).
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Research Project Manager at the Alliance Bioversity and International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR and Associate Professor of Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, CGIAR System Organization
Sintayehu W. Dejene (PhD) holds a PhD in production ecology and resource conservation from Wageningen University, the Netherlands in October 2017.
He is currently working for Alliance Biodiversity and CIAT at the CGIAR as a research project coordinator for the livestock water monitoring project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is part of the climate action team contributing to different projects and initiatives. He is an associate professor of production ecology and resource conservation. His expertise is in the areas of natural resources, climate-smart agriculture, nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, rangeland resource assessment and management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, modelling, geospatial modelling and remote sensing in forest, grassland and agricultural systems.
He worked in different research positions including research training and research head at Africa Centre of Excellence in Climate Smart Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation (ACE Climate SABC) of Haramaya University, Ethiopia.
He has expertise in capacity building, research, international project development, implementation and engagement experience in sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, integrated environment and ecosystem rehabilitation and management, climate-change mitigation, adaptation and resilience working with diverse partners and stakeholders including students, farmers, government policy makers and international development partners.
He has been actively working on developmental research in the areas of natural resource and climate change including pastoralism, sustainable agriculture, climate smart agriculture, climate and spatial modelling, environment, and ecology projects in forest, grassland and agricultural systems.
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies, University of Alberta
Siobhan Byrne is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Byrne’s research and teaching are in the areas of feminist anti-war activism and peacebuilding in societies transitioning from conflict, with a special focus on Northern Ireland and Palestine/Israel. Dr. Byrne’s work has appeared in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Political Science Review, International Peacekeeping, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of the volume Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (Routledge), and she is currently completing a book manuscript with Dr. Allison McCulloch titled Gender, Peace, and Power-Sharing (University of Toronto Press). Dr. Byrne earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Queen’s University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Dr Siobhan O’Dean is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, The University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science with first class honours (2016) and a PhD in Psychology (2021) from the University of New South Wales. Dr O’Dean currently also lectures in undergraduate social psychology at UNSW.
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Intern Psychologist, Researcher – Te Puna Toiora (Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab), University of Canterbury
Siobhan is a Te Puna Toiora (Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab) alum and an intern psychologist completing training in clinical psychology. Siobhan has a PhD in nutritional psychology and has a passion for maternal mental health and infant development. In addition to her work with the University of Canterbury, she has worked in mental health for the past decade working in youth and adult services, both in the community and inpatient units across Aotearoa.
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PhD candidate, School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
PhD candidate specialising in the oral microbiome and antimicrobial resistance.
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Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University
I have worked with microneedle devices since 2002, exploring their potential as a minimally invasive method for trans- and intra-dermal delivery of both novel and established active pharmaceutical ingredients, including a range of biologics and vaccines. I have a particular focus on, and passion for, translating the technology from laboratory prototypes to clinically useful and commercially available products. I have contributed to a range of projects and have considerable technical experience in the evaluation of intra- and trans-dermal delivery systems both ex vivo and in vivo. My expertise and publications include the use of innovative methods to evaluate human skin biomechanics, tissue architecture and local immunology, as well as user studies. I am a co-founder of Extraject technologies, a spin out from Cardiff University, which aims to commercialise minimally invasive systems for cell-based therapy in the skin, and am co-Chair of a Working Group (Microneedle Array Patch - Regulatory Working Group; MAP-RWG), which was initiated in 2018 to help define the regulatory pathway for this dosage form and expedite clinical translation of the technology.
I also work closely with major international Pharma to evaluate the performance of established and innovative capsule products to be used in capsule-based dry powder inhalers (DPIs). I helped develop an in vitro testing methodology for capsules that has been, and continues to be, used by the pharmaceutical industry for product development and quality assurance. My aim is to understand and improve the performance of DPIs both in the laboratory and in the hands of the user.
My third area of interest is 3D bio-printing and, more specifically, the development of a skin model using an affordable and commercially available 3D bio-printing platform. This highly innovative area of research has stimulated significant scientific and public interest, which has facilitated a number of engagement opportunities.
I also have a pedagogic interest in numeracy and medicines-based calculations, with a particular focus on the education of pharmacy students and pharmacists in this area. I have developed a contextualized diagnostic numeracy test that has been used at a number UK Schools of Pharmacy and have contributed to activities that have directly informed the education and training of pharmacy and medical students.
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Emeritus Professor of Welsh, Cardiff University
Professor Davies was the first woman ever to hold the position of professor of Welsh and retired in 2019 having been Head of the School of Welsh at the university for 20 years. She was recognised for her contribution over almost 40 years to teaching and research at the school.
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Acting Director: Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, University of Johannesburg
Zondi earned his BA Honours and Postgrad Diploma from the then University of Durban-Westville and his MPhil and DPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research careers spans the now defunct Africa Institute of South Africa, the Institute for Global Dialogue, and the University of Pretoria. He is currently with the Department of Politics at the University of Johannesburg where he is acting director of Institute of Pan-African Thought &Conversation as well as acting co-director of Institute for Global African Affairs (jointly hosted with the University of West Indies). Zondi is on the National Planning Commission, while he is also the chair of the SA Brics Think. His research interests relate to the decolonisation of power, of being and of knowledge
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Principal of Jesus College and Professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science, University of Oxford
I completed my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Newcastle graduating with 1st Class Honours in 1978. My postgraduate studies were in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. In 1983 I joined the Department of Psychology at Nottingham where I established and led the AI Research Group. In 1992 I became the Allan Standen Professor of Intelligent Systems.
In 2000 I moved to Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science. My research focused on the science and engineering needed to support the continued development of the World Wide Web and I led the Web and Internet Science Group.
In 2009 I was appointed along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee as Information Advisor to the UK Government. This work led to the release of many thousands of public sector data sets as open data. In 2010 I was appointed by the Coalition Government to the UK Public Sector Transparency Board which oversaw the continued release of Government open data. I continue to advise Government in a number of roles.
I am Chairman and Co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI), based in Shoreditch, London. The ODI specialised in the exploitation of Open Data supporting innovation, training and research in both the UK and internationally.
I have always been fascinated by the link between innovation and research. I was a founder and Chief Technology Officer of ID protection company Garlik Ltd. In 2008 Garlik was awarded Technology Pioneer status by the Davos World Economic Forum and won the UK national BT Flagship IT Award. In December 2011 Garlik was acquired by Experian Ltd.
In its 50th Anniversary year 2006-2007, I was President of the British Computer Society. I am a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society.
I have researched and published on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. I was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of Web Science that seeks to understand the Web at a systems level.
As well as open data, my current research is focusing on the concept of "social machines". Working with the universities of Edinburgh and Southampton, I am researching the theory and practice of social machines – applications that succeed at Web scale by integrating humans and computers in novel and unanticipated ways.
I have published over 500 articles and since 2000 have acted as principal or co-investigator on 30 research projects.
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Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
I am a public anthropologist informed by feminist and decolonial practices. I apply an anthropological lens to address issues of internal colonialism, gender, poverty, social oppression and structural violence within the postcolonial and neoliberal contexts of South Asia and settler Aotearoa New Zealand
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Dr. Sita M. Syal is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and directs EMBERlab at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on studying human influence and embedding equity in sustainable energy and transportation systems. She uses human-centered design methods, builds quantitative models, and engages with communities to co-create a more just and sustainable future.
Dr. Syal’s professional experience spans across energy from biofuels development to topsides process engineering in the oil and gas industry. Prior to graduate school, she served as a topsides process engineer and a rotational operations engineer on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for BP America. She holds a PhD. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Product Design Engineering (“Design Impact”) from Stanford University. A proud Wolverine alumna, she holds an M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering and B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Research Associate, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Siti is a PhD graduate from Flinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health. She has been involved in molecular medicine research for over 10 years. She joined Childhood Dementia Research Group (CDRG) over 3 years ago whose research commitment is to improve lives of children affected with dementia. She is currently working on establishing new cell model of Sanfilippo syndrome to test and repurpose already approved drugs with the goal of fast-tracking research to clinical trial and providing more accessible treatment to the patients.
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Auckland University of Technology
My research interest concerns corporate sustainability in international business, sustainable business strategies, circular economy, business ethics and corporate social responsibility. My main research contribution lies in exploring tensions in sustainability and key strategies for managing them in an international business context, in particular between Chinese and New Zealand business partnerships.
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Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Central Florida
Dr. Sixiao Liu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida. As a public health communication scholar with specialized training in health equity and health campaign techniques, Dr. Liu brings a wealth of expertise to her role. Before joining UCF, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Liu’s research program emphasizes the design, implementation, and evaluation of tailored health messages for at-risk populations, including youth and young adults, immigrants, and racial and sexual minorities. Her work employs various message techniques, including framing, emotional appeal, targeting, cultural tailoring, and narrative persuasion. Her proficiency in digital design and implementation enables her to present health messages in various formats, such as posters, ads, textual messages, and videos, and adapt to different platforms.
In her approach to health intervention evaluation, Dr. Liu embraces a mixed-method research design. Her research investigates the behavioral and social determinants of health and scrutinizes the influence of media, marketing, and public health messages on health behaviors and outcomes. The overarching goal of her research is to transform knowledge into culturally appropriate interventions that resonate with individuals from diverse backgrounds, promoting both individual and community well-being. Her areas of focus encompass infectious disease prevention, tobacco and other substance use prevention, and the innovative application of advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, in health message dissemination.
Beyond research, Dr. Liu actively engages in community collaborations and mentoring, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment. She obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her work has garnered support from various funding sources, including the National Science Foundation.
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Visiting Researcher, CGIAR System Organization
Dr Siyaxola Gadu has a PhD in geography and environmental sciences (climate change) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Gadu investigated the complexity of evaluating and monitoring the adaptive capacity to climate change of local government institutions in South Africa: A study of the Eastern Cape Province.
Dr Gadu is currently part of CGIAR's Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT team researching the fragility, conflict and migration (FCM), and climate security (Climber) projects in southern Africa.
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Research Fellow in Emission and Trade Analysis, UCL
Socioeconomic activities are driving forces of environmental problems. In the context of globalisation, our daily life, whether related to diet, housing, energy use or other basic services, not only has local effects, but can also significantly influence the development and environment of distant regions through global supply chains. Therefore, my research focuses on the impacts of socioeconomic factors (e.g., international trade, consumption, bioenergy policy, urbanization, poverty eradication) on local and global environment (e.g., land use and land cover change (LULCC), carbon emissions and biodiversity loss) from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Associate lecturer, Sorbonne Université
I am Geologist at Sorbonne University (Paris, France). I am interested in cyclic climate and oceanic processes encoded in past (paleo) sedimentary records.
I acquire and use high-resolution geophysical and geochemical data from the sedimentary records (either from outcrops or from subsurface-drilling programs) to address three multidisciplinary, interrelated topics: (1) astronomical calibration of the Cenozoic and Mesozoic time scales, (2) the role of orbitally controlled climate and sea-level changes in the hierarchy of sedimentary sequences, and (3) to which extent the sedimentary record could provide constraints on astronomical modeling. In this latter topic, I am interested in two subjects: (a) constrain tidal-dissipation parameters (and dynamic ellipticity of the Earth) by calculation of the precession frequency (constant, p) from well-preserved sedimentary cycles, and (b) mapping the expression of Myr- to multi-Myr-long astronomical cyclicities in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic strata, esp. their implication for the chaotic behavior of the inner solar system, expressed in these long orbital periodicities as resonant angles.
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Senior Lecturer in Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex, University of Sussex
I received my PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Sheffield in 2015, supervised by Professors Richard Crisp and Eran Halperin. My postoc was in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Following this, I held a position of lecturer (assistant professor) in the Surrey Business School.
I believe that social and organizational issues cannot be examined without taking into consideration psychological factors and phenomena. On the other hand, I believe psychology loses much of its relevance if it does not address 'real' questions regarding the dynamics between people and groups.
My research focuses on the role of emotions in decision-making, conflict resolution, leadership and management, and negotiations. This includes emotional experiences (when people feel an emotion) and emotional expressions (when people express an emotion). My work spans organizational, social, and political contexts, and examines the way these frameworks are affected by one another.
In addition to researching the effects of emotions on behaviours and attitudes, I examine ways to regulate emotions experimentally using interventions.
In particular, I study the role of hope in social contexts, including conflict and intergroup relations, collective action and civil engagement, negotiations, and decision making. Along these lines, I develop experimental techniques to induce and regulate hope.
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Senior Lecturer International Business, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Auckland University of Technology
Dr Smita Singh is a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She teaches a range of Entrepreneurship and Management courses at various undergraduate and postgraduate levels and degrees.
Underpinning her research is a passion for illuminating the hidden stories, how venture work and wellbeing are interconnected, focusing on the possibilities of transformation and development that lie within the silent experiences of loss, 'taken-for-granted' cultural taboos, and stigmatized conditions.
Her research has highlighted grief, stigma, and resilience in experiencing entrepreneurial failure. Her research interests also include social entrepreneurship with focus on vulnerable populations' voices and bringing forward conversations on matters often perceived as too unsettling, morbid, or dark and therefore avoided.
She crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore such topics and contexts in entrepreneurs' lives and their enterprises' work. She has published in a number of well known international journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, International Small Business Journal, Management Learning and Third World Quarterly.
Smita serves as an Associate Editor for the Management, Spirituality & Religion Journal. Her research is featured in well-known industry platforms and community engagement invitations, such as a TEDx talk titled 're-imagining failure,' RadioLive, Idealog, and Callaghan Innovation, NZBusiness and NZ Herald.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Manchester
I am currently a Leverhulme early career researcher at the Global Development Institute. Prior to this role, I was a post-doctoral research fellow with the FCDO-funded African Cities Research Consortium.
With a background in law, my research is inherently interdisciplinary, spanning legal geography, urban politics, urban health, and development studies.
My primary focus lies in understanding the political economy of informal settlements and systems failings in cities, particularly in Africa. As part of this interest, I have engaged with multiple actors to understand how power is performed and how interests emerge and compete in informal settlements contexts. I also look at the everyday practices of marginalised urban residents to understand how agency is exercised, and the different strategies and tools that are employed to realise rights in the city. Additionally, I have strong research and professional interest in the field of land law.
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, The Ohio State University
Dr. Smitha Rao’s work at the intersection of environment, development, and social policy is informed by her interdisciplinary background in social work and human geography. Her research interests include: (1) extreme weather events and contextual vulnerability, (2) improving adaptive capacities among communities to deal with climatic and other stressors, and (3) effects of air pollution on environmental health and improving access to clean energy. Dr. Rao has over a decade of macro-practice experience spanning academic and not-for-profit settings. This included post-disaster community-based reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, campaign strategy and design for local and international environmental organizations on climate change, phasing out toxins from industry, and promoting sustainable agriculture practices. Her current work encompasses social vulnerability in the context of disasters and disaster risk reduction to develop knowledge and inform policies centering underserved communities. Her interdisciplinary work touches upon climate change implications for vulnerable groups, energy poverty, anti-oppressive praxis, and ecological justice.
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Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Dr. Smytta Yadav is an anthropologist whose research has primarily focused on labor, precarity, informality, autonomy, global production networks, globalization, urbanization, industrialization, and heritages.
She has held research fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the University of Manchester, Queen's University Belfast, the University of York, and the University of Bristol. Additionally, Dr. Yadav has extensive teaching experience, having taught Anthropology at the University of Sussex and lectured in Human Geography at the University of Brighton. Previously, she also taught Cultural Anthropology, Globalization, and International Development at the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University and at the State University of New York.
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Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
In my long standing experience as a bench scientist I am skilled in molecular biology, RNA and epigenetic studies, neuroscience, genetics, Ribosome profiling and cell biology. My current focus is studying autism and Fragile X Syndrome in mouse and human patient derived iPSC cells.
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Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California
Dr. Soeren Mattke is a Research Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory. The Observatory work on health system aspects of brain disorders with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease. So far, the Observatory has published analyses of health system preparedness to deliver a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment in 14 countries as well as analyses of diagnostic technologies and the economics of those treatments. Dr. Mattke serves on the Editorial Board of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, on ADI’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel, the CTAD Workgroup on Blood Based Biomarkers and a Consensus Panel for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care. Dr. Mattke has authored over 150 peer reviewed journal papers and technical reports
Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke was a Senior Scientist at RAND Health, a global think tank, where he led the private sector healthcare practice, and worked at the OECD in Paris on benchmarking healthcare systems in industrialized countries, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and got his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.
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Reader at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff University
Dr Sofia Gameiro is a mathematician and clinical and health psychologist. Her academic work aims to support people in all steps of achieving their parenthood goals or, when this proves impossible, in coming to terms with an unfulfilled wish for children. She conducts research and publishes in the best peer-review journals on the topic, trains health care professionals worldwide and participates in multiple events to raise awareness about the emotional aspects of (in)fertility. She chaired the first European evidence-based guidelines for delivering routine patient psychosocial care at fertility clinics, has been on the editorial boards of Human Reproduction (ESHRE) and Fertility and Sterility (ASRM), and coordinated the Psychology and Counselling special interest group of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). She is a certified Clinical Psychologist and a senior lecturer in Health Psychology at Cardiff University.
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Masters Student, Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I have obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Management at Carleton University and starting a MA in Human Kinetics in Fall 2023 at the University of Ottawa. I have numerous years of experience in lifeguarding, swim instructing, teaching first aid training, playing water polo and doing synchronized swimming. Aquatic safety is something that I am very passionate about and my goal is to increase water safety awareness to the greater population.
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
I am a senior lecturer in Psychology. My main research interest is rape mythology, and how this is scaffolded in society, e.g., in the media. My research also focuses on how scientific communication can be used to support sexist stereotyping and myths and misconceptions about sexual violence.
I am an open science advocate.
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