PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, University of Oxford
I am a post-growth economist broadly focused on themes of ecological compensation, no net loss/net gain, environmental and conservation psychology, social justice, and human well-being. I am particularly interested in (i) improving the effectiveness of incentive-based conservation instruments such as payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsetting, (ii) developing conservation strategies that can lead to the desired outcomes from both nature and people perspectives, and (iii) understanding the socio-psychological mechanisms behind human attitude and behaviour towards the environment.
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Professor of Humanities, Australian Catholic University
Shurlee Swain is a social historian who has researched extensively in areas relating to treatment of women and children in the past.
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Research scientist, University of Oxford
Shuye Yu joined the Health Economic Research Centre at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, as a researcher in 2023. Shuye is currently working on several projects aiming to conduct economic evaluations on different interventions for child anxiety.
Before starting at HERC, Shuye worked as a lecturer at the University of Groningen, where he also received his PhD degree in Economics. His PhD research focused on the health impacts of flexible working arrangements. Shuye obtained his MSc in Economics at UCL and MSc in Health Economics at the University of York.
Shuye’s research interests lie in applied microeconomics with a focus on health, labour, population and household topics.
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
Siân Beynon-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. She discovered sociology via an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics, during which she became frustrated with conversations that positioned proteins as the sole agents of social change. After graduating in 2003, she undertook a taught MSc in Science and Technology studies at the University of Edinburgh, which allowed her to pursue her interest in the sociology of scientific and medical knowledge-making. Following this degree she was awarded an ESRC PhD studentship at Edinburgh (2005-2009). Her doctoral research explored how expertise is constructed by Scottish health professionals who are involved in abortion provision, and considered the implications of this for women who seek to end their pregnancies.
Career
Siân first joined the department in 2009 as a Research Fellow, working with Nik Brown on an EU FP7 project concerning the dynamics of policy-making about xenotransplantation. In 2011 she was awarded a three year Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at York to develop her research around experiences with abortion provision, focussing in particular on the meaning(s) of ‘time’ and ‘timing’ in this context. Siân took up a permanent post in the department in 2014 as an Anniversary Research Lecturer and has continued to explore temporality, law and reproduction through a range of funded research projects.
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Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Otago
I am an internationally recognised pioneer in bioethics and the bioarchaeology of social justice, central to steering biological anthropology’s focus to social marginalisation, climate change, and developing the theoretical approaches to support this research. I am the first in NZ and among the first globally to tell the life stories of individuals from historical anatomical skeletal collections (Southorn*, Halcrow* et al. 2024), who were otherwise treated as teaching ‘specimens’. I inform ethical guidelines for studying human remains in bioarchaeology and anatomy. My work has transformed our understanding health impacts of climate and environmental change and the agricultural transition through studying the most vulnerable population, infants and children. My papers are key references in the bioarchaeology of childhood used in university curricula globally (e.g., Halcrow and Tayles 2008). I have led the field’s emphasis on the mother-infant nexus to understand human evolution, health, epigenetic change, and human development. E.g., Gowland and Halcrow (2000), The Mother-Infant Nexus in the Past is the most downloaded of the book series per annum.
Since 2007, I have >140 publications in high impact journals and books and >7 million in research funding, e.g., Wenner-Gren, National Geographic, Fulbright, Australian Research Council, FONDOCYT (Chile), Marsden. Selected honours include: University of Otago Rowhealth Trust Award and Carl Smith Research Medal (2018), NZ Association of Scientists Hill Tinsley Medal (2018), and NZ Scholar Fulbright Award (2023). I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Bioarchaeology International, on several editorial boards, and a keynote and invited speaker >40 times.
*Shared first author with student
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Sian Moore is Professor in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management and Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Employment (CREW) at the University of Greenwich. She is co-Editor in Chief of Work in the Global Economy published by Bristol University Press and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her work focusses upon gender and class.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University
I am a conservation social scientist with a focus on human-primate interactions.
I am also the Vice Chair of IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section for Human-Primate Interactions & Director of Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation.
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PhD student, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
I'm a PhD student specializing in recommendation systems and their pivotal role within on-demand transit systems, particularly in suburban regions.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield
Sibel Oktay's research focuses on the foreign policy decision-making and behavior of coalition governments, primarily in Europe. Other research interests include political leadership and voting behavior within the context of democratic foreign policy, as well as Turkish-EU relations. Her work employs qualitative and quantitative methodologies, particularly comparative case studies, events data and content analysis. Oktay received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She also holds an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. She was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies between 2012 and 2014. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of European Public Policy and European Political Science. She is the 2013 winner of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section’s Alexander George Award and has been serving for the section as an officer-at-large since 2015.
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Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
I hold a PhD in inclusive education, and my research focus is disability and gender. I am a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, at Ali Mazrui Centre of higher education.
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Senior lecturer, University of Johannesburg
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, particularly interested in social justice, minorities, and corrections.
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Researcher, University of South Africa
Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Health Studies. Senior Lecturer in Health Services Management previously worked in public health services as a Chief Director Clinical Support Services and Technical Advisor for Primary Health Care to South African Government. Research Area is Health System Strengthening and Quality of Care.
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Graduate Researcher in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
I have a Masters in Neuroscience from King's College London, 2 years of research experience at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, and have been pursuing a PhD in Ecology from the University of Minnesota since 2018. Here, I have worked with my advisor Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido on several projects centered on visually driven hunting behavior in invertebrates
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Frank U. Fletcher Chair in Law, Wake Forest University
I've written ten books, contributed chapters to sixteen additional books, authored or co-authored over fifty-five articles. I am also the Vice-President and founding member of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization,Before coming to Wake Forest, I taught at the University of Kansas where I was a distinguished professor. I have also been a distinguished visitor at Oxford University, University of Padua, the law schools at the University of Texas and the University of North Carolina, and the School for Policy and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), University of Indiana, Bloomington.
My latest book, coauthored by Joseph Tomain Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law in the University of Cincinnati College of Law, is How Government Built America, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in June, 2024.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University & Chair Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton, McMaster University
I have held senior management roles in academic health institutions, community hospitals, research institutes and universities in Ontario. I am a Fellow of the Canadian College of Health Care Leaders and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. I received the Innovation Award from the University of Toronto, Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation for my work in launching the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board and the Order of Hamilton for advancing suicide prevention initiatives for our city. I was also awarded the Kim Harper Service Award by The Hamilton Academy of Medicine for city-wide suicide prevention work.
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Sien van der Plank is currently a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. She has researched environmental management across conservation, political, mining and hazard contexts since 2014. She has been a member of staff in Geography and Environmental Science since 2020.
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Lecturer of Political Science, University of Mpumalanga
Sifiso Ndlovu is political science lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga. She previously held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS)-University of Johannesburg and Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI). Her PhD project at the University of the Witwatersrand broadly examined intersections and divergences in the articulations of belonging to ethnic identity and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa in the culturally heterogeneous KwaMhlanga region. She also holds MA in political studies, an honours degree in political studies and a BA in political studies and sociology, all from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include ethnic identities, particularly Ndebele ethnicity, the state in Africa, African politics, public policy, democratisation, social justice and the politics of nation-building, belonging and citizenship. She has published journal articles and book chapters on Ndebele material culture, the politics of belonging and nation-building. She has received academic awards and scholarships, including the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa doctoral fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand’s Council Postgraduate Merit Scholarship, National Research Foundation (NRF) bursary, and University of the Witwatersrand’s Postgraduate Merit Award Doctoral Scholarship.
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Professor of Information Systems, Australian National University
Sigi Goode is a Professor of Information Systems. Sigi’s research interests lie in information security behavior, services and technology adoption, policy and use. His research toolkit includes more than fifteen years’ experience designing and managing online information platforms. Sigi’s research has been funded by organisations including the Department of Defence, AustCyber and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. He has published papers in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Business Ethics, Information & Management, and European Journal of Operational Research. Sigi is also an Associate Editor of Information & Management, Behaviour & Information Technology, the Pacific Asia Journal of Information Systems, and the Australasian Journal of Information Systems.
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PhD candidate in archival and communication studies, Sessional lecturer and research assistant, Université Laval
Siham Alaoui is a PhD candidate in archival science and public communication at Université Laval, Québec (Canada). She holds a bachelor's degree in Information Science (obtained in 2013 from the School of Information Science, Morocco) and a master's degree in Information Science (obtained in 2015 from the University of Montreal). She is interested in digital documentary mediation (information and data management), particularly in the current context of the universities’ digital transformation. She is an author of several scientific and professional articles published in specialized journals in information science (e.g. Archives, Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Documentation et Bibliothèques, Comma). She has also given papers and lectures at conferences and symposiums.
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Associate Professor in Irish Language and Literature, University of Limerick
Síle de Cléir lectures in Irish in the School of English, Irish and Communication, University of Limerick. She has been researching, writing and lecturing in Irish folklore and ethnology for some years, combining this with a career in public libraries until 2008. She studied folklore and ethnology in University College, Cork, and attended the Folklore Fellows' Summer School in Turku in 1993.
Her research MA (UCC, 1992) was centred on Irish cloth and dress traditions and complemented an earlier period spent studying fashion design in LSAD and working for three years in the fashion/ clothing sector. Her MLIS (UCD, 1999) included a study of popular religious reading in early 20th-century Ireland, and her PhD (UCC, 2011) was a study of popular religious culture in Limerick city during the same period.
Publications on dress include Creativity in the margins: identity and locality in Ireland's fashion journey' in Fashion Theory, Vol 15, Issue 2, June 2011 and on popular religion, Ritual and the city context', Béascna 6 (2010). A book on this same topic, entitled Popular Catholicism in Ireland: locality, identity and culture was published in 2017.
She has also researched the heroic storytelling tradition in twentieth-century Ireland, and an article based on this research Gaisce, greann agus grá: Conall Gulban agus féidearthachtaí na scéalaíochta gaisciúla', (Heroism, humour and love: Conall Gulban and the scope of heroic storytelling') has been published in Béaloideas, 82 (2014).
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PhD Candidate , University of Cape Town
Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu is a doctoral student with the University of Cape Town's Centre for Actuarial Research. Her research focuses on adolescent sexual and reproductive health empowerment and gender equality. She holds a MPhil degree in Demography from the University of Cape Town and a BSc (Honours) in Operations Research and Statistics from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe.
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Professionnelle de recherche en sciences des aliments, Université Laval
Silvia Dominguez est une ingénieure alimentaire spécialisée dans l'évaluation des risques liés à la innocuité alimentaire, la gestion des allergènes, l'analyse statistique et la modélisation de données. Elle est titulaire d'une maîtrise et d'un doctorat en sciences des aliments de l'université Rutgers (New Jersey, États-Unis). Elle a travaillé comme microbiologiste alimentaire pour l'industrie alimentaire aux États-Unis, avant de retourner au domaine académique. Elle est actuellement professionnelle de recherche à la Plateforme d'analyse des risques et d'excellence en réglementation alimentaire, hébergée par l'Institut de la nutrition et des aliments fonctionnels (INAF) de l'Université Laval (Québec, Canada), où elle gère des projets de recherche sur les allergènes, les contaminants chimiques et la fraude alimentaire, des activités de formation pour l'industrie alimentaire, et des initiatives de renforcement des capacités en matière de innocuité alimentaire pour des autorités compétentes à l'échelle internationale.
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Professor of City Making, College of Built Environment, Birmingham City University
I am a Professor of City Making and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI). With an interdisciplinary background in Architecture and Urban Planning, my academic ethos centres on understanding cities as complex socio-economic, physical, environmental, and political systems. Addressing urban challenges for lasting sustainability requires integrating diverse knowledge and employing innovative methodologies.
My distinctive approach to city-making emphasizes active citizenship, gendered well-being, and fostering diverse, creative, and inclusive communities through transdisciplinary practices.
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An academic, researcher and a lecturer.
Completed a PhD at Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute on the topics of transglobal activism and migrants' (dis)connecions with nature. Lecturer in sustainable development and in other humanities disciplines for the Office of teaching and learning. Previously lecturing International Political Economy (Curtin University) and Asian Studies (University of Notre Dame Australia).
Employed previously as a researcher at John Curtin Centre of Public Policy and a sustainability consultant.
Currently working at Ethics, Equity and Social Justice office, developing and implementing strategies towards equity in higher education.
A devoted life-long Go player.
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Senior Research Specialist and Associate professor, Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet
I am research group leader and Docent (Associate Professor).
I have defended my PhD at the University of Bologna in 2011 and did my postdoc at KI. I have been working within the neuroscience field in relation to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) since my PhD and my work is based on investigating the mechanisms for risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease focusing on ApoE, cholesterol metabolism and oxysterols.
I have extensive knowledge in the field of mouse behavior and mouse models of neurodegenerative disease and I am Facility Coordinator for the Animal Behavior Core Facility (ABCF) at KI. In addition, I work with different molecular biology techniques.
Research
My research is focused on understanding the biological mechanisms behind risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with a focus on sex-differences.
Changes in brain cholesterol metabolism occurs in early stages of the disease and are considered important drivers of the neurodegenerative cascades in AD. AD risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, lifestyle, affect brain cholesterol metabolism. I study the role of cholesterol metabolites and transporters in the brain during neurodegenerative processes by using in vitro and in vivo models, as well as human samples. In addition, I am interested in the connection between cholesterol metabolism and sex hormones. Sex hormones, including estrogen and testosterone, originate from cholesterol and promote neuroprotective functions in the brain. Both cholesterol and sex hormones are shaped by genes and the environment (for example medications, diet), serving as potential preventive and therapeutic targets for AD.
Another topic in the lab is multi-medication therapies and related sex-differences. We study the effects of different combinations of drugs commonly used in AD comorbidities using mouse models and human data from different clinical cohorts
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Fisheries Science, University of Strathclyde
I am an Italian living in Scotland since 2019, currently postdoc at the University of Strathclyde, where I also did my PhD, which I am about to finish. I did my BSc in Aquaculture at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (IT) and my MSc in Marine Biology at the University of Bremen (DE). The broad area of my research is fisheries science, at the moment I am focusing on mathematical modelling of fish population. Food security, and especially seafood security, is a challenge I feel very committed to and will be the focus of my future research.
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Associate Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
Associate Professor Silvia Serrao-Neumann is the convenor for the Environmental Planning Programme. She is co-leading a team of researchers in the MBIE Endeavour project 'Reducing flood inundation hazard and risk across Aotearoa-New Zealand' ($15.5m, 2020-2025). She is also a partner investigator in the Australian Research Council Discovery (DP160103371) “Managing environmental change through planning for transformative pathways” (AU$581,000), and in the BIOTA SYNTHESIS - Nucleus of Analysis and Synthesis of Nature-Based Solutions (FAPESP 2020-2025). She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Cities Research Institute, Griffith University, Australia.
Before joining The University of Waikato she was a Senior Research Fellow for the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities at the Cities Research Institute, Griffith University, Australia. Her association with the CRC-WSC involved the investigation of catchment scale landscape planning for water sensitive city-regions in light of climate change. Since 2009 she has participated in many interdisciplinary research projects relating to climate change adaptation, including the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative (SEQ-CARI), a 3-year multi-sectoral study of climate change adaptation in South East Queensland, focusing on the sectors of urban planning and management, coastal management, physical infrastructure, emergency management and human health; and the Climate Change Adaptation for Natural Resource Management in East Coast Australia.
Her research also focuses on community planning for disaster recovery and resilience, scenario planning, and action/ intervention research applied to planning for climate change adaptation.
She has published widely on topics related to water resource management, climate change adaptation, and urban and regional planning.
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Profesora del Departamento de Lengua Española de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
Licenciada y doctorada en Filología Hispánica, es profesora Titular del Departamento de Lengua Española de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Valladolid. Como docente, ha impartido clases en el Grado en Español de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, en el Grado en Educación Primaria de la Facultad de Educación y en el Grado de Logopedia de la Facultad de Medicina, así como en el Máster en Español como Lengua Extranjera: Enseñanza e Investigación de dicha Universidad. Además, es profesora-tutora de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Es secretaria de la colección “UvaEle: español como lengua extranjera” y es responsable de los cursos sobre norma y corrección lingüística en la Escuela de Doctorado. Precisamente, una de sus líneas de investigación es el análisis de la competencia textual en el ámbito universitario. Sin embargo, su investigación más destacada gira en torno a dos aspectos. El primero de ellos es el estudio de las variedades del español en la prensa, que cuenta ya con varios análisis comparativos de distintos periódicos de habla hispana centrados en diversas cuestiones lingüísticas presentes en este tipo de textos, como por ejemplo, el análisis de determinadas formas verbales y el estudio de las formas de transmisión de la palabra ajena. En este ámbito, ha colaborado en proyectos de reconocido prestigio y ha participado en varios congresos de proyección internacional. El segundo es el estudio del lenguaje periodístico en la prensa decimonónica, principalmente en el espacio de la titulación, si bien su interés abarca cualquier etapa de la historia de la lengua.
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Senior Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
As a girl and a member of Afghanistan’s Hazara minority, Sima Samar was not born to power.
Even so, she rose to an unprecedented level of influence. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, she sat on advisory panels to the United Nations secretary-general and became Afghanistan’s first minister of women’s affairs and deputy prime minister of the Afghanistan Interim Administration in December 2001. She chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission from 2002 to 2019.
That couldn’t happen since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, she believes. “Growing up in Afghanistan, as a girl, I have to say that it was much better than it is today,” said Samar, a visiting fellow at The Fletcher School and a Tufts Scholar at Risk.
Today the Taliban, which retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and other international forces withdrew, has outlawed girls from attending school beyond sixth grade. The women employees of Shuhada, a network of hospitals and schools Samar founded, also face restrictions. Instructors have been asked to teach from home. Many women in medicine are allowed to keep practicing, due to the sensitivities of treating female patients, but “they are very, very careful,” said Samar, who started her career as a medical doctor.
“They dress the way they’re supposed to. They used to work long after dark, but now that’s not the case,” she said. “They’re not doing anything to give anyone a reason to cause a problem.”
For Samar, who once in addition to chairing the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission also headed the Commission on the Prevention of Torture, current conditions represent a painful break from more promising times.
She was in the U.S. in August 2021, when the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan for the first time in nearly 20 years. She had arrived in America that June with a coast-to-coast itinerary of visits to family she hadn’t seen during the height of COVID.
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Lecturer in economics, University of the Western Cape
Simbarashe Murozvi is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape. He previously worked at a law firm before joining the University of the Western Cape as a part-time lecturer in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing PhD studies and his research interest are in labour, International trade and development economics.
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
I have been educated in Iran (University of Tehran), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University), South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Germany (University of Freiburg). I worked at Humboldt University of Berlin for several years before moving to the UK. My books include: Social Movements in Iran: Environmentalism and Civil Society (Author, Routledge 2012), Understanding Southern Social Movements (Editor, Routledge 2016), Contemporary Megaprojects: Organization, Vision and Resistance in the 21st Century (Co-editor, Berghahn 2021) and Marxism, Religion and Emancipatory Politics (Co-editor, Palgrave-Macmillan 2022). I am currently president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements.
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Professor in English, Lancaster University
Simon Bainbridge's main research interest is in the relationship between the writing of the Romantic period and its historical contexts. He is the author of 'Napoleon and English Romanticism' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and 'British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars' (Oxford University Press, 2003) and the editor of 'Romanticism: A Sourcebook'. He has published widely on the evolution of mountaineering and its literature, particularly in the Romantic period, including the monograph 'Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836' (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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CITA National Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics, University of Victoria
Simon Blouin is a CITA National Fellow in astrophysics at the University of Victoria. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Université de Montréal (2019). He was previously a Banting Fellow at the University of Victoria (2021-23) and a Director's Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab (2019-21).
Simon uses a vast array of numerical simulation techniques to build improved physics models of white dwarfs. By comparing those models to astronomical observations, he uses white dwarfs as accurate cosmic clocks, probes of planetary evolution, and tracers of supernovae.
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Professor, Département d'analytique, opérations et technologies de l'information, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
PMP, Scrum Master, CBCI, BAA-Finance
Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
LEGO Serious Play facilitator,
Project management and team management
(collaboration, diversity, improvisation, etc.)
Innovation & Creativity
Operational risks
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Professor of Indonesian Law, University of Sydney
Professor of Indonesian Law, Sydney Law School
Associate Director of Centre for Asia and Pacific Law, University of Sydney, and member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
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