Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
Dr Stephanie Klarmann is a Conservation Psychology researcher based in South Africa. Her work has focused primarily on envisioning a conservation psychology that is relevant in the South African context with a stronger focus on justice and diversity. Her research interests lie in capacity building, photographic storytelling and promoting diverse worldviews in conservation. She is also the Campaign Coordinator for Blood Lions NPC, a South African campaign working against the captive predator industry.
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Dr. Stephen Appiah Takyi is a planning educator whose research interest is in the area of Development Policy, Urban Policy, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Social Policy Planning.The complex interrelationship between economic, social and environmental goals makes it necessary to have scholars with strong academic background and research interest in economic, social and environmental policy discourse. Dr. Takyi’s approach to research acknowledges the complexity of societal problems in our world today. He therefore emphasizes on the need to approach complex societal problems from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The academic background and stream of work of Dr. Takyi at the undergraduate level focused on Development Policy Planning with emphasis on economic planning. Dr. Takyi’s specialization at the master’s degree level was in the area of urban and regional planning whilst his doctoral research focused on environmental planning with the scope being in the area of parks planning and management.
In terms of work experience, Dr. Takyi taught Introduction to Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment at the UNBC School of Environmental Planning from 2012 to 2016. Within the same period, he was in charge of the editorial desk of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR), a scholarly blind refereed journal which has published for over 33 years. Stephen also worked as a Writing Tutor at the UNBC Academic Success Center. Additionally, Dr. Takyi has held a number of positions at the consultancy and administrative level. These include serving as an Assistant Planning Officer for the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly, Consultant for Padane and Fame Management Consult and Marketing and Communication Assistant for the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department. Through his work as a consultant, Stephen assisted in the preparation of development plans for local government areas in Ghana. He also assisted in the organization of capacity building programs for local government officials in the area of plan preparation and implementation. In the area of communication, Dr. Takyi worked as a Marketing and Communication Assistant at the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department from 2009 to 2011. This, coupled with his experience in public consultation has contributed immensely to my strong communication skills.
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Dr. Stephen Appiah Takyi is a planning educator whose research interest is in the area of Development Policy, Urban Policy, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Social Policy Planning.The complex interrelationship between economic, social and environmental goals makes it necessary to have scholars with strong academic background and research interest in economic, social and environmental policy discourse. Dr. Takyi’s approach to research acknowledges the complexity of societal problems in our world today. He therefore emphasizes on the need to approach complex societal problems from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The academic background and stream of work of Dr. Takyi at the undergraduate level focused on Development Policy Planning with emphasis on economic planning. Dr. Takyi’s specialization at the master’s degree level was in the area of urban and regional planning whilst his doctoral research focused on environmental planning with the scope being in the area of parks planning and management.
In terms of work experience, Dr. Takyi taught Introduction to Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment at the UNBC School of Environmental Planning from 2012 to 2016. Within the same period, he was in charge of the editorial desk of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR), a scholarly blind refereed journal which has published for over 33 years. Stephen also worked as a Writing Tutor at the UNBC Academic Success Center. Additionally, Dr. Takyi has held a number of positions at the consultancy and administrative level. These include serving as an Assistant Planning Officer for the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly, Consultant for Padane and Fame Management Consult and Marketing and Communication Assistant for the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department. Through his work as a consultant, Stephen assisted in the preparation of development plans for local government areas in Ghana. He also assisted in the organization of capacity building programs for local government officials in the area of plan preparation and implementation. In the area of communication, Dr. Takyi worked as a Marketing and Communication Assistant at the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department from 2009 to 2011. This, coupled with his experience in public consultation has contributed immensely to my strong communication skills.
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Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Avery, Ph.D. is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine and director for the Global Health Catalyst. Dr. Avery is Director of the Masters and Post-Graduate Certificate programs in Medical Physics located in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on quality assurance and safety in proton therapy treatment delivery, treatment planning techniques and dosimetry of irradiators used in radiation biology research. Dr Avery actively supports diversity and inclusion initiatives within radiation oncology and develops strategies with middle to low-income countries to address the future of cancer treatment and research.
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Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Stephen’s PhD was based on investigating age differences in associative memory: Older adults can perform well at remembering individual pieces of information but struggle more relative to young adults when combining information (e.g., associating a name to a face). More recently his research has developed to investigate how older adults can use their knowledge and experience to reduce age deficits in memory. Stephen is open to collaborative opportunities and PhD applications related to cognitive ageing and memory.
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Professor of Global Affairs, University of East London
Stephen Barber is Professor of Global Affairs at the University of East London. With academic interests at the intersection of political economy, public policy, government, business environment and public leadership. He has published widely on topics including the fourth industrial revolution, Brexit, governance and leadership.
His latest book is Reclaiming the Revolution: extraordinary adventures in politics and leadership at the inflection point of industry 4.0
http://tinyurl.com/dz84fkr7
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Over 25 years experience in front-line healthcare in Australia and in the United Kingdom. LLB (Hons) and an LLM in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice as well as a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice.
PhD graduate focussing on paramedics and children exposed to domestic violence.
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Visiting Associate Professor of English, University of Richmond
Professor Brauer’s scholarship focuses on American literature and culture. He teaches a variety of courses in English and American Studies, including ones on American Modernism, crime narratives, and sport and sport culture.
He is the author of "Criminality and the Modern: Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America" (2022, paperback 2024), a monograph focused on the representation of criminality in American culture as influenced by the rise of the social sciences in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He has published articles on Fitzgerald, Faulkner, detective fiction, and higher-education pedagogy in the 21st century.
Professor Brauer is currently at work on a manuscript on the last 100 years of American sports writing and sports broadcasting that considers the varying ways that writers and broadcasters imagine and tell the story of the game.
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Stephen joined the Monash Business School on 1 January 2016. Appointed on a 0.4 basis, he will spend four months each year at the Monash Business School while transitioning to emeritus status as the David S. Loeb Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business.
Stephen has published widely in a range of high quality journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business. He is the author of five books, two of which have been translated into Japanese. As well as serving on a number of editorial boards, Stephen was a founding editor of the Review of Financial Studies (A*) and has just stepped down as Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (A*).
Stephen has recently been appointed Executive Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. The FAJ is a leading publication with a print subscription of 130,000, and an ever growing online presence with article downloads reaching over 800,000 in the past financial year. This journal has a significant impact in the investment management community world-wide, due to its practitioner-relevant focus.
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Adjunct Professor of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
STEPHEN BUCHMANN, is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees, and an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.
A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and eleven books, including The Forgotten Pollinators, with its prescient (1996) warning of global pollinator declines, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in the Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona, with his life partner, estate planning attorney Kay Richter.
Buchmann is a frequent guest on many public media venues including NPR’s All Things Considered, and Science Friday. Reviews of his books have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Discover magazines and other national publications. He is an engaging public speaker on topics of flowers, pollinators, and the natural world. His many awards include the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book.
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
Stephen Chan was awarded an OBE for "services to Africa and higher education" in the summer of 2010, alongside receiving the 2010 Eminent Scholar in Global Development award of the International Studies Association.
Professor Chan has published 27 books on international relations and more than 200 articles and reviews in the academic and specialist press, as well as over 100 journalistic feature articles. His books include Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence, Kaunda and Southern Africa: Image and Reality in Foreign Policy, and Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai. His most recent work is The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism.
He participated in the transition to independence of Zimbabwe, the reconstruction of Uganda after the fall of Idi Amin, and also advised and trained government ministries in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Kenya. He established a consortium that trained the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately before and after independence in 1993. He was also part of a consortium that trained the parliamentarians and ministers of post-Dergue Ethiopia from 1998-9. From 2006-7 he was a member of the Africa-China-US Trilateral Dialogue, an effort to establish a common set of principles to help govern the emerging trade wars involving the three continents.
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I am a theoretical physicist working at the University of Bath. I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in 2007 and have subsequently held research fellowships at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in the National University of Singapore and Keble College, Oxford, as well as a senior scientist post at the Clarendon Laboratory in the University of Oxford. My current research focuses on the dynamical properties of so-called strongly-correlated many-body systems, e.g. ones where interactions and cooperative emerging effects are dominant. Systems I study range from ultra-cold atoms to solid-state materials like high-temperature superconductors.
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Chair of Department of Music, Royal Holloway University of London
Steve Downes is a musicologist and pianist whose interests lie in the broad area of analysis, history and aesthetics of music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His work on the music of Central and Eastern Europe (Mahler, Weill, Hans Werner Henze, Scriabin, and especially Poland - Chopin, Karlowicz, Szymanowski and Gorecki) has won several awards and grants. He has also published on Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten, and Frank Bridge. Steve's work characteristically addresses repertory or topics marginalised or devalued by dominant historical and critical discourses. He was a founding member of the editorial board of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2002-9), an editor of Music & Letters (2013-20), a member of the AHRC Peer Review Panel (2012-15), and Director of the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) (2017-20). Previously Head of Music and Sound Recording and Deputy Head of the School of Arts at the University of Surrey he has twice served as Head of Department of Music at Royal Holloway. His seven monographs include major studies of eroticism, decadence, romantic ideas of redemption, and sentimentalism. In his most recent book the significance and meaning of the sentimental is examined in music from the Victorian salon and concert hall, early twentieth-century European modernism, and songs by Burt Bacharach, Tom Jobim, Barry Manilow, Carole King and Jimmy Webb. He is currently working on a critical biography of Mahler.
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Stephen is a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University with a productive research history studying insect chemosensory systems and animal behavior. His research, which has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, has helped us better understand the role of chemical cues in mediating important insect behaviors, such as aggression in ant societies and disease-transmission in vector mosquitoes. His discovery of the molecular mechanism regulating aggression in ants was promoted on the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology and subsequently featured in popular science magazines such as Scientific American and Cosmos Magazine. Stephen continues to share his passion for scientific discovery through his writing, teaching, and presentations at national and international events.
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews
Before taking up his post at the University of St Andrews Stephen Gethins served as the MP for North East Fife. During his time in parliament, Stephen was twice selected to sit on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. He was also the SNP spokesperson on Europe and International Affairs. He worked on issues such as the UK’s response to the war in Syria, relations with Russia, the Syrian refugee crisis and the conflict in Libya among others. He was also closely involved in cross party efforts to deal with Brexit and was one of the few UK parliamentarians to have worked in the EU institutions.
Stephen has made regular appearances in UK and international broadcast media as well as writing for print media. He has also written about Scotland’s Foreign Policy footprint and raised the issue in the House of Commons. Before entering Parliament Stephen worked in democratisation and peace-building in the western Balkans and South Caucasus. He was also a Special Adviser to Scotland’s First Minister on EU and International Affairs as well as Energy and Climate Change.
Stephen was a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee over two parliamentary terms from 2015 to 2019. The Committee published reports on military operations in Syria, China, Russia, Libya, South America and the Rohingya crisis, amongst others. He also led and participated in committee delegations to a number of countries, including Iran, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
During his time in Parliament Stephen was an Office Bearer on the All Party Groups for Refugees, Climate Change, Georgia and Bosnia among others. He has made visits to Refugee Camps along the Syrian border as well as areas affected by conflict such as those in Georgia and Ukraine. He also co-authored cross party legislation around Brexit in October and November 2019 along with colleagues from other political parties such as Dominic Grieve, Keir Starmer, Phillip Hammond and Jo Swinson.
Stephen Gethins is on the Board of Trustees of the John Smith Trust and a Special Adviser to Beyond Borders Scotland. He is also a member of the Judging panel for the Civility in Politics Awards. Stephen was a Special Adviser to Scotland’s First Minister from 2009 to 2012 focusing on issues such as International and EU affairs, Energy and Climate Change among other issues.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University
Stephen ‘Steve’ Hay is a research and teaching academic in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Since completing his PhD in 2009 (winning the Deans Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis 2009), Steve has focused his research program, HDR supervision and teaching in areas that advance social justice within and beyond the field of compulsory education. Steve’s research and teaching expertise addresses:
• Sociology of Education
• Inclusion and social justice in education for students with disability
• Globalisation and its impacts on education policy in compulsory education
• Schooling to employment transitions for young people, particularly school leavers not intending to progress to university
• Health and Physical Education curriculum and pedagogy
• Education research methodology.
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Stephen H. Jones is a sociologist with interests in religion and social change, faith-based political participation, religion and education and the impact of public policy on religious organisations. He specialises in Islam in the UK. He is currently Research Fellow at Newman University, Birmingham, where he is researching religion and evolutionary science.
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Stephen King is a Professor of Economics and former Dean at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a part-time member of the Economic Regulation Authority of WA and the National Competition Council.
Prior to joining Monash University, Stephen was a Member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Before that, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne and a Professor of Management (Economics) at the Melbourne Business School.
Stephen’s main areas of expertise are in Trade Practices economics, regulation and industrial organization. While at the ACCC, Stephen chaired the Mergers Review Committee and was closely involved with a wide range of merger decisions. He was involved in the full range of activities undertaken by the Commission. These included both on-going functions – such as authorisation decisions, regulatory determinations and enforcement actions under the Trade Practices Act – and ad hoc activities undertaken by the Commission. For example, Stephen was one of the three Commissioners who undertook the Part VIIA inquiries into the price of unleaded petrol in Australia and into the Australian grocery industry. He was also one of the two Commissioners presiding over the Services Sydney-Sydney Water Access Dispute. This was the first arbitration completed under Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act.
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Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia
Stephen Kinnane is a Marda Marda from Mirriwoong country in the East Kimberley. He has been an active writer and researcher for more than 25 years as well as lecturing and working on sustainability, politics and history with a focus on regional and local community resilience, belonging and connections with place.
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Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham
I undertook my undergraduate degree, ESRC-funded doctorate and Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Since moving to Nottingham in 2005 my research has been funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, an AHRC Research Grant and an Indepedent and Social Research Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship. I have also taken up visiting research fellowships at Queen Mary, London, the State University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study at JNU, New Delhi
The summer of 2015 saw the launch of a major AHRC funded project. Running for five years, "Conferencing the International: a cultural and historical geography of the origins of internationalism (1919-1939)" studied liberal, radical and imperial forms of internationalism as manifested in their conference spaces in the years between the wars. Work is continuing on the outputs from this project (see https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/interwarconf/home.aspx). Current and future work addresses interwar Delhi as an anticolonial and communal space.
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Research Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
Stephen Lezak is a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Scott Polar Research Institute and Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
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Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication, University of Southern California
Stephen Lind is a Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication at USC's Marshall School of Business, where he teaches courses in business communication. His teaching encompasses strategic messaging, technology in communication, consulting, and refining speaking and writing skills for business contexts.
Prof. Lind is an award-winning educator, recognized with the Marshall Teaching Excellence Award for his contributions to the business classroom. He teaches across Marshall programs, from the school's top-ranked undergraduate and graduate programs to high school immersion courses and traveling global programming.
Lind's research interests lie in business communication technology and the nuances of communication choices, such as the use of video for business and the use of religious messaging in entertainment commerce. He is the author of the internationally recognized creator-biography and industry-insights book, “A Charlie Brown Religion.” Before joining USC, Dr. Lind was hired to build the business communication initiative at Washington and Lee University's commerce school. He received his PhD, with distinction, from Clemson's transdisciplinary Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program.
Outside of academia, Dr. Lind runs BizComm Ally, a consulting firm that assists businesses with their communication needs. He works with a range of clients, from multinational corporations to local L.A. entrepreneurs. His consulting work includes strategy development, content direction, and offering training workshops that drive business growth.
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Lecturer, Master of Screen Producing, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Stephen Luby has been a film and television producer for 30 years. His work includes documentary, comedy and drama across film, television and streaming. Highlights include iconic feature film comedy 'Crackerjack', acclaimed ABC mini-series 'The Secret River', based on Kate Grenville's best selling novel of the same name, and 'Rostered On' a comedy series which found its way from 2017 viral YouTube success to Netflix.
Since 2017 Stephen has also lectured in the Master of Producing degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne
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Steve Monk was appointed in 2007 and has research interests in novel neutron detector design, Human replacement robotics in decommissioning environments, and general radioactive environment characterization. He has supervised four PhD students within the subject areas of neutron spectrometry, robotics in decommissioning, Post Operational Clear Out (POCO) at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant and the design of neutron reflecting blankets for fusion reactors. Before taking up the lectureship, Steve undertook a research associate post building a novel neutron spectrometer with a PhD building a ultra sensitive ethane detector before that.
Steve also teaches three undergraduate modules; Nuclear instrumentation, general instrumentation and 2nd engineering projects (know nas the robot project). as well as being the rep. for Lancaster's part of the Nuclear Technology Educational Consortium (NTEC). Steve has a publication record which features this work as well as more left field subjects such as the generation of Bessel beams using an axicon.
His work over the years has taken him to such locations as TRIUMF (Vancouver), Los Alamos National Labs (New Mexico), The Jungfraujoch laboratory (Switzerland), The COMSATS institute (Lahore) and The Fukushima research centre (Japan).
When not at work, Steve likes to play football with the graduate team and play badminton with the Bailrigg badminton slub.
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Literature lecturer, Kenyatta University
Stephen Muthoka Mutie, PhD, is a lecturer and a researcher based at Kenyatta University, Kenya. His research focuses on gender studies, intersectionality studies and social media communication.
He is an editor, peer reviewer, researcher and a published author.
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Professor of History; Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
My work studies nationalism and propaganda in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union during the 19th and 20th centuries. My current research project is entitled Communism's Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Lives and Deaths of Boris Efimov. Efimov (1900-2008) was the most significant political caricaturist in Soviet history. His career began in Civil War Ukraine when he was just a teenager before he moved to Moscow in 1922 and worked as a cartoonist for major Soviet publications such as Izvestiia and Krokodil. He continued to draw caricatures for them until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Efimov, as my biography explains, lived at least four lives and suffered at least three deaths during his 108 years. It is also a biography of the Soviet experiment as well as a history of modern propaganda. Making use of Efimov’s personal archives in Prague and Moscow, I hope to rethink the conventions of the biographical genre and tell a story of not just one person, but an entire century.
In addition to this biography, I am also the co-lead scholar on an NEH-funded project, “Postcards of the Siege.” Using an unparalleled collection of postcards produced during the Siege of Leningrad (1941-44) and held at the Blavatnik Archive in New York City, this project will result in the creation of an immersive website and in-depth look at how propaganda, art, and communication fused together during a time of total war.
Finally, I continue to collaborate on a project entitled “Creative Horizons: Art in the Post-Soviet Era.” Working with colleagues from the Melikian Center at Arizona State University and the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of South Florida, “Creative Horizons” spotlights the work of artists in the former Soviet world. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led us to focus on Ukrainian artistic resistance. You can find all the videos produced in the series on the Melikian Center’s website. As part of this project, I have also produced two short videos in collaboration with videographer Ari Gajraj on the Ukrainian author Yevgenia Belorusets and the Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa.
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Professor and Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science and Director of the Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge
Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FRS, is Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science and Director of the Medical Research Council Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge which is part of the broader University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories which he also directs. On the wider Cambridge Biomedical Campus, he is Scientific Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Head of the University Department of Clinical Biochemistry.
He was elected FRS in 2003, to the National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2011, has received five honorary doctorates and numerous scientific awards including the 2002 Heinrich Weiland Prize, the 2005 Luft Prize, the 2007 Feldberg Prize, the 2010 InBev-Baillet Latour Prize for Health, the 2014 Debrecen Prize, the 2014 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, the 2015 Edward K Dunham Lectureship, Harvard Medical School and in 2015 was the first recipient of the EASD/Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence. More recently he was the 2016 Harveian Orator RCP of London, in 2019 received the Taubman Prize for Excellence in Medical Science, University of Michigan, USA, the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, American Diabetes Association and the Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research, Japan. In 2020 the Rank Prize for Nutrition and in 2022 the Royal Society Croonian Medal (jointly with Professor Sadaf Farooqi). In 2013 he was made Knight Bachelor "for services to medical research".
His main research area is the aetiology and pathophysiology of human metabolic and endocrine disease and how such information might be used to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of these diseases.
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Professor of Microbiology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Stephen committed to a career in microbiology at the age of 14 and became especially interested in the field of diagnostics, where the ability to recognise a pathogen quickly and accurately could be critical. His interests led to the completion of his PhD on ”Identification methods for rRNA superfamily VI” conducted at the Central Public Health Laboratory in London, England, whereafter he became a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute of Food and Veterinary Research in 1994 and moved to New Zealand in 2005 to become Food Programme Leader at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR). He moved to Lincoln University in 2015 as an Associate Professor in food microbiology, and was appointed as a Professor in 2022. He currently leads the Department of Wine, Food, and molecular biosciences and is Acting Director of the Centre for Foods for Future Consumers.
Stephen’s expertise is evidenced in over 170 research articles or book chapters, and membership of various National and International committees and advisory boards. He has won two awards recognising his contributions to bacteriology (2001, UK Society for Applied Microbiology and 2017, NZ Microbiological society) and another in 2014 recognising his success in winning the right to host an international microbiology conference here in NZ. His current projects span three major areas, including the characterisation of microbes involved in making wine – and whether or not we can predict if the wine will be good, or otherwise!
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Born and raised in southwestern Nigeria, I was educated at the University of Connecticut, USA; University of Sussex, UK; Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; and University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I have taught at Wesleyan University, Trinity College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all of which are in the United States.
Courses I teach include Introduction to Managerial Economics, Advanced Managerial Economics, Management of Innovation and Technological Change, Introduction to Microeconomics, and African Economic Development. My research interests are: the Technological Strategies of Firms, Small Business Development, Industrial Organization, and Global Economic Issues.
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Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman is Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental (Coastal) Sciences from the University of Virginia, and completed his undergraduate degree in Geosciences at North Carolina State University.
Prior to joining FIU, Stephen was Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at the University of Maryland; Director of the National Park Research Unit at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Boston University.
Stephen has authored or edited 16 books, including Sea Level Rise: Causes and Consequences; Barrier Island Handbook; Overwash Processes; Cape Cod: From Glaciers to Beaches; and America’s Best Beaches. He has also authored over 200 journal articles and technical reports, including articles in both Science and Nature.
Stephen has provided expert testimony multiple times for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He was also the on-screen host and co-producer of the 1992 film “Vanishing Lands”, winner of three international film awards, including the Golden Eagle.
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Stephen Parker is Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra. His previous positions include Dean of Law and then Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University. His research interests include legal ethics, law reform, civil procedure, contract law and family law.
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Lecturer in History, UNSW Sydney
I am a lecturer in History at UNSW Sydney. Trained as a historian and urban planner, my research has focused on histories of cities, infrastructure and imperialism in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Global French Empire. I am currently revising my PhD dissertation for publication under the provisional title of Contesting Concessions: Infrastructure, Imperialism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Syria. I was a co-editor of the 2015 volume Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb, a collection of essays on the meanings of modernity in the Middle East. My work has been published in Radical History Review, Arena, Al Jazeera, Jadaliyya and The Conversation. My new research project, commenced through the Laureate Centre for History and Population at UNSW, seeks to chart the history of population as an object of state-formation, policy and debate in the Middle East and North Africa across the twentieth century.
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Stephen Pudney is Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. His research interests include:
- Microeconometrics
- Poverty and the welfare benefit system
- Health and disability
- Survey measurement error
- The economics of crime and illicit drugs
- The measurement of wellbeing
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Course Director, MA in Songwriting, University of Limerick
Steve Ryan is the course director of the MA in Songwriting at the University of Limerick. He is also an experienced songwriter, guitarist, performer, educator, researcher, and community musician.
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