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Ru Xie
Associate Professor in Finance, University of Bath
Ru Xie's main research areas lie in empirical money & banking studies and asset pricing. Recently, she has been working on various research projects in the area of monetary policy and financial uncertainty, including negative interest rate policy, financial crisis and funding & market liquidity risk. She has previously worked at Goethe University Frankfurt and Bangor Business School and has held visiting positions at: Bank of Finland and Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Ruan Veldtman
Senior Scientist at SANBI, Stellenbosch University
Ruan Veldtman is a senior scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute and a research associate at the department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University. He works in the field of applied biodiversity research, specialising in ecological entomology. His research deals with those entomological aspects linked to services provided by ecosystems and the impact of biological invasions. Other interests include wild silk moth ecology, plant-insect interactions, biological control of plant invasions, pollination ecosystem services and invasive wasp management. He is also a supporter of interdisciplinary exchanges around entomology such as agricultural economics and sustainable agricultural production.
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Ruar Elkington
Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
For over a decade, Dr Ruari Elkington’s industry engagement and academic research has been driven by questions around how screen content connects with discrete audiences in markets increasingly under pressure through creative and commercial tensions. His screen industry experience centred on the acquisition, marketing and distribution of documentary, feature film and innovative digital content to theatrical and online audiences.
He is a Chief Investigator with QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre and has published in the field of screen distribution, screen studies and education. Ruari is a Fellow, and Associate Fellow (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2021 he was nominated and approved by Council as a member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
In 2018 Dr Elkington was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate new initiatives connecting Creative Industries students and online video creators in collaborative work. His real-world engagement is evidenced in his 2019 peer reviewed appointment to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network (Future of Information and Entertainment) building on his 2016 AMP “Tomorrow Maker” award and funding.
Over the last five years external leadership work within the screen sector has also included National Executive Committee Membership (2019) to the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA), and institutional membership and ongoing student mentorship and screening facilitation for the Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA) /Australian Film Institute (AFI).
He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty. QUT is currently ranked as Australia's best young university in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings and was the world’s first University to establish a Creative Industries faculty in 2001.
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Ruby Acquah
Research Fellow, Economics of Trade, University of Sussex
Dr.Acquah is a Research Fellow in Economics of Trade at the University of Sussex
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Ruby Cain
PhD Candidate, Anglia Ruskin University
Ruby has an interest in exercise physiology, currently looking at the benefits of exercise on cognitive and physical health for individuals with Down syndrome.
She has a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from Anglia Ruskin University.
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Ruby Ekkel
PhD student in Australian History, Australian National University
Ruby Ekkel is a PhD candidate at Australian National University. Her research focuses on changing attitudes towards and interactions with native animals, especially as mediated by women. After completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history at the University of Melbourne, Ruby achieved a Masters degree in global history at the University of St Andrews. She has published, taught and presented on topics spanning animal history, environmental history, and women's history. She was recently awarded the Ken Inglis Prize by the Australian Historical Studies Journal.
Ruby is an HDR Representative for the Australian Historical Association Executive, and a co-editor of the ANU Historical Journal II. Outside the university setting, she co-edits a podcast about Australian environmental history, The Bush Bash.
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Ruby Heard
PhD candidate in energy justice, The University of Melbourne
Ruby holds a bachelor of electrical and electronic engineering from Victoria University and has been working as a consulting engineer for over a decade. Her early career involved working for Arup in both Melbourne and San Francisco.
Ruby is the founding director of Alinga Energy Consulting, a small firm providing energy research, feasibility and design services with a focus on affordable and sustainable off-grid systems which improve livelihoods for Indigenous communities. She is also a member of the steering committee for the First Nations Clean Energy Network, a non-profit working to ensure First Nations participate in, and benefit from the clean energy transition.
Over the years Ruby has contributed to publications on the topics of microbial fuel cells, DC power in buildings and microgrid applications for public transit in the United States. In 2020 Ruby became a PhD candidate with the University of Melbourne. Her research centres on energy justice for remote Indigenous communities and using traditional Indigenous values to augment energy service delivery in Australia.
In 2019 she was awarded as Young Professional Engineer of the Year – Victoria by Engineers Australia and was also featured in their top 100 Engineers Making a Difference list.
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Ruby Mendenhall
Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning and Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ruby Mendenhall is an Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. In 2004, Mendenhall received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy program from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. For her dissertation, Black Women in Gautreaux’s Housing Desegregation Program: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks in Economic Independence, she used administrative welfare and employment data, census information, and in-depth interviews to examine the long-run effects of placement neighborhood conditions/resources on economic independence.
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Ruediger Schack
Professor of mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London
Ruediger Schack is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in 1991 and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the University of Southern California, the University of New Mexico, and Queen Mary and Westfield College before joining Royal Holloway in 1995. His research interests are quantum information theory, quantum cryptography and quantum Bayesianism.
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Rufus Rock
Researcher, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
I’m Rufus, an undergraduate history and philosophy of science student at UCL. I’m interested in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and technology. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work as a research assistant at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) under the wonderful Ilan Strauss, Tim O’Reilly and Mariana Mazzucato. At the IIPP, my contributions were largely dedicated to the algorithmic attention rents research project. In three recently released working papers we theorise and empirically demonstrate how big tech platforms are able to exploit their market power by controlling user attention.
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Rui Diogo
Associate Professor of Anatomy, Howard University
Rui Diogo is Associate Professor at Howard University and Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of GWU. He won several prestigious awards and is renown worldwide due to his multidisciplinary approach to address broader questions and societal issues using state-of-the-art empirical data, what some nowadays call "experimental philosophy" or "scientific philosophy". He is the author of more than 100 papers in top journals and about 20 books, including one adopted at medical schools worldwide, "Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology", and one often listed among the ten best evolutionary books in 2017, "Evolution driven by organismal behavior".
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Rui He
Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
Working as a cross-cultural psychologist at Manchester Institute of Education (University of Manchester), my research interests focus broadly on international and intercultural education and cross-cultural and developmental psychology, particularly on international students’ acculturation experiences, bio-ecological development, and (im)mobility; mental health and psychological wellbeing; mundane studies; social connections and interactions; Study Abroad (Exchange) Programmes (Residence/Year Abroad Programme); language, culture, and identity; and creative research methods.
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Rui Silva
Lecturer in Economics, University of East Anglia
Rui is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of East Anglia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Milan and taught before at UCL and Queen Mary, University of London. His current research focuses on issues related to democratic decision-making (e.g., voting), the demand and supply of populism and other radical ideologies (mainly in Europe), and the relevance and persistence of institutions (i.e., the "rules" of the political game).
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Rui Yuan
Industry PhD Candidate, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide
Rui is an industry PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. He has a bachelor's degree in telecommunication engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourn. He works as a research engineer at WattsAS, Denmark.His research interests include modelling power consumers' behaviours, data mining, and smart grid flexibility.
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Ruifeng Wang
PhD Student in Supply Chain Management, University of Maryland
Ruifeng (Brett) Wang began the PhD program in Fall 2020. Prior to joining the PhD program, Brett received a Master of Science degree in Global Logistics from Arizona State University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information System from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Previously, Brett worked as an operations specialist with Meritek Electronics Corporation. His primary research interests are digital transformation, technology innovation, and retail operation. Brett has a publication on International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.
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Rumayya Rumayya
Dosen di Departemen Ilmu Ekonomi, Universitas Airlangga
As an Assistant Professor at Universitas Airlangga, I have accumulated over 14 years of extensive experience as a researcher and educator in the field of economics. My primary areas of expertise include regional development, public policy, and political economics. I hold a PhD in Economics from The University of Western Australia and a Master of Regional Development from The University of Queensland, which have equipped me with robust quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
In recent years, my research focus has expanded to encompass sustainability, circular economy, and regenerative economy, with the goal of addressing critical environmental and social challenges in Indonesia and beyond. I have successfully secured multiple research grants at both national and international levels, collaborating closely with government entities, industry partners, and donor institutions.
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Rungpaka Amy Hackley
Senior Lecturer in Marketing , Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Rungpaka Amy Hackley is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Hackley is a known international authority on Asian perspectives in interpretive consumer research. Her work has generated unique insights into Asian cultures, values and contradictions from a consumer perspective, and also into digital sociology, promotional strategy, media regulation, creative production and marketing ethics in international markets. She is interested in accessing and theorising consumer experience with particular regard to how consumption (of brands, experiences, media) inflects consumers’ senses of identity and meaning.
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Rupert Harwood
PhD Candidate, Swansea University
I became ill with a number of systemic autoimmune diseases in 2016 which took until 2021 to get diagnosed and left me with a wish to contribute to efforts to speed-up the diagnostic process and reduce its adverse impact on patients.
I began working as a patient researcher on the Cambridge University lupus and related connective tissue disease studies in 2019 and in 2022 began a part-time PhD in Swansea University Medical School. My study is exploring the role of patient-clinician interactions, and their organisational context, in the sustained misdiagnoses of neuorologically mediated systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
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Russell Blackford
Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle
I am a philosopher, legal scholar, literary critic, author, and editor, based at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Recent books include:
* 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; co-edited with Udo Schuklenk).
* Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
* 50 Great Myths About Atheism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; co-authored with Udo Schuklenk).
* Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (MIT Press, 2014).
* Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; co-edited with Damien Broderick).
* The Mystery of Moral Authority (Palgrave, 2016).
* Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017; co-edited with Damien Broderick).
* Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics (Springer, 2017).
* The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (Bloomsbury, 2019).
* At the Dawn of a Great Transition: The Question of Radical Enhancement (Schwabe, 2021).
* How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration (Bloomsbury, 2024).
I'm a prolific essayist and commentator with interests including legal and political philosophy, philosophical bioethics, philosophy of religion, and debates involving visions of the human future.
I have also had some success as a science fiction and fantasy author, including my fantasy story "The Sword of God" (which won both a Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award in 1997) and an original trilogy written for the Terminator franchise. I've won the William Atheling, Jr., Award for Criticism and Review (in the fantasy and science fiction field) on three occasions, including for my co-authored book Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (Greenwood Press, 1999; co-authored with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen).
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Russell Blackford
I am a philosopher, literary critic, editor, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
My recent books include: 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; co-edited with Udo Schuklenk), Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 50 Great Myths About Atheism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; co-authored with Udo Schuklenk), Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (MIT Press, 2014), Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; co-edited with Damien Broderick), and The Mystery of Moral Authority (Palgrave Pivot, 2016)..
I'm a prolific essayist and commentator with interests including legal and political philosophy, philosophical bioethics, philosophy of religion, and debates involving visions of the human future.
I am a Fellow with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolution and Technology.
I have also had some success as a science fiction and fantasy author, including my fantasy story "The Sword of God" (which won both a Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award in 1997) and an original trilogy written for the Terminator franchise. I've won the William Atheling, Jr., Award for Criticism and Review (in the fantasy and science fiction field) on three occasions, including for my co-authored book Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (Greenwood Press, 1999; co-authored with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen).
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Russell Dean Covey
Russell Covey, professor of law, focuses his research on criminal law and procedure. He is the author of numerous articles on topics including the death penalty, police interrogation, crime and popular culture, jury selection, and plea bargaining. As a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Covey has filed amicus briefs and represented pro bono clients in criminal appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prior to joining the College of Law, he clerked for Judge Allyne R. Ross of the U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y., practiced law specializing in criminal and civil litigation at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and taught law at Whittier Law School in Southern California. Covey teaches courses in domestic and international criminal law and criminal procedure. He received his J.D. at Yale Law School, M.A. at Princeton University and A.B at Amherst College.
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Russell Fewster
Lecturer in Performing Arts, University of South Australia
Russell Fewster has directed, written and taught theatre for near 40 years with his work best known in the independent, youth arts and tertiary sectors. He is interested in the healing nature of theatre that addresses societal and health issues. He trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and emphasis on physical performance is notable in his work. His stage aesthetic combines projected imagery with live action. He is currently writing, directing and producing an original work based on Christopher Orchard’s paintings for the 2024 Adelaide Fringe, entitled Two of Them.
In 2023 he edited the translation of exiled Iranian Playwright Mammad Aidani ‘s work 'What I said to the Bird' for the 2023 season at La Mamma theatre in Melbourne. His own latest work, 'The Minister for UnAuthorised Arrival's, received a professional playreading in Sydney in early 2023.
Since 2019 and together with colleague Brad West, Russell runs Self@arts a performing arts program delivered to Australian Defence Force personnel undergoing rehabilitation for physical and psychological injuries, in both Darwin and Adelaide. This a short workshop-based program that exposes participants to a variety of theatre based creative expressions and facilitates participants to produce and perform their own original creative work. The aim of program is to broaden and strengthen participants’ self-expression and communication skills, and in doing so enhance mental and emotional well-being. See https://www.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2019/july/story11/
Other theatre highlights include his adaptation of 'The Glass Rabbit' by Toshiko Takagi – a true story of a survivor of the wartime bombing of Tokyo premiered at the Come Out Festival and toured to Japan (1999). 'Perish The Thought' by Susan Harris Holden Street Theatre a moving stage portrayal of the effects of dementia on family life. (2012). In 2014 he wrote a promenade adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: 'Nosferatu' which premiered in the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe. In 2015 he directed the opera 'Six Swans' in collaboration with Tutti Arts. In 2018 he wrote and directed 'Earshot' a ballad opera that dramatised the healing nature of WW1 battlefield pilgrimage.
He blends practice with research and has widely published in this area. He lectures in Performing Arts at the University of South Australia.
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Russell Q-Y Yong
PhD candidate, Marine Parasitology, The University of Queensland
Dr Russell' Yong is a taxonomist who specialises in parasitic flatworms (trematodes) of fishes, having discovered and described several new species. Russell' is a graduate of The University of Queensland, Australia and currently pursuing a post-doc in North-West University, South Africa under a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also has a decade's experience identifying freshwater and marine invertebrates while working for an environmental consultancy. Outside of work, he is an avid pursuer of natural history and compulsive iNaturalist user.
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Russell Warhurst
Associate Professor in Management, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Russell is an Associate Professor in Management at Northumbria University and Adjunct professor with Aalto University in Finland
Russell is a Chartered Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Doctoral degree in Leadership and Professional Development
In addition to University research and teaching, Russell leads on business consultancy projects across a range of organisations from SMEs to MNCs and in the public and not-for-profit sectors
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Russell M. Gold
Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama
Russell Gold is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama where he teaches courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. He previously taught at NYU Law School and Wake Forest University School of Law. Before he began teaching, Gold practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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Ruth Dalton
Professor Dalton is an alumna of University College London. As a licensed architect, she has worked for Foster and Partners (London) and Sheppard Robson Corgan Architects (London) and key projects upon which she has worked include the Carré d’Art de Nîmes, in France, the Palaçio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain, and the Kings Cross International Terminal (unbuilt). She has taught at the Architectural Association, London, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Professor Dalton’s research interests are centred around the relationship between the spatial layout of buildings and environments and their effect on how people understand and interact in those spaces. Professor Dalton is an expert in space syntax analysis and is passionately interested in the use of virtual environments as a method for researching human factors in the built environment.
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Ruth Duffy
Research Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast
Ruth is a historian of medical and oral history. Her expertise lies in modern British and Irish history; the Troubles, medicine, Irish society and culture. She particularly focuses on using oral history as a method to uncover hidden or sensitive histories.
Ruth's first book on the experiences of the Northern Ireland Health Service during the Troubles will be published soon by Liverpool University Press.
Ruth is currently a Research Fellow at QUB working on a project investigating 'mixed marriage' in Ireland. They are actively looking for interviewees for the project. You can find out more here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/acts-of-union/
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Ruth Dunn
Senior Research Associate in Marine Ecology, Lancaster University
Ruth Dunn is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster Environment Centre. She researches the ecology and conservation biology of marine systems with a focus on marine predators.
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Ruth Knight
Researcher, Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Ruth Knight, a researcher and lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, specialises in managing nonprofit organisations and social enterprise. Using reflective practice and strategic thinking, her research focuses on leadership, social innovation, and evaluation. She is the co-editor of the internationally recognised Handbook of Research Methods for Organizational Culture and champions well-being at work and inclusive workplace environments.
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Ruth Lightbody
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
Ruth Lightbody is a senior lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She joined Glasgow Caledonian University in 2014 after completing an MSc in Political Research from the University of Strathclyde. She was awarded a PhD from the University of the West of Scotland in 2016 which looked at the role of public hearings in institutionalising deliberative democracy to promote environmental policy making.
Ruth's principle research interests are deliberative democracy, public participation and community engagement, and how they can be used to implement policy changes which tackle social inequalities and environmental issues. She has established a reputation as a renowned expert in the area of deliberative democracy and community engagement, providing guidance to the Scottish Government, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, What Works Scotland and other third sector organisations, policy actors and organisers of democratic innovations.
Ruth was awarded a Fellowship at the Scottish Parliament in 2023 exploring the core principles of participative democracy and developing a framework for measuring impact.
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Ruth Luzmore
Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Ruth is currently working on the Ideas-Informed Society, researching how and why people engage with information and evidence to make decisions in their daily lives. In addition she works a consortium EU Horizon funded project, MEGASKILLS, with the objective is to contribute to the development of the European Skills Agenda by bridging the gap between the educational offer and the labour market through the research and design of an innovative and affordable methodology for training and evaluating soft skills through gaming.
Ruth worked for just under twenty years in state schools in England in a variety of posts in Primary and all-through schools including teaching assistant, class teacher before eventually becoming a headteacher. Ruth has a strong interest in educational leadership in particular how school leaders design and enact continuing professional development in their settings and the nature of inter- and intra- professional learning networks in schools. After leaving full-time work in schools, she worked as a freelance researcher as well as supporting the research, writing and editing of books. She works part-time for National Institute of Teaching and Education as a part-time lecturer and mentor for school leaders on their MA in Educational Leadership
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