Senior Research Associate in EU Environmental Politics, University of East Anglia
I studied sustainable development and European Union politics throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in France, Denmark and the UK (2005-2010). After two years at a leading French environmental think tank (IDDRI) I went back to academia to study for a PhD in EU environmental politics at the University of East Anglia (2012-2016). I am now a Senior Research fellow at UEA working on environment and the EU referendum.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Viviane Seyranian is a social psychologist who researches how communication and narrative content can be framed to optimize influence and behavioral change, particularly in the environmental and health realm. Her award winning research on her theory called Social Identity Framing (Seyranian, 2013, 2014) provides support for the idea that implicating social identity in communication helps to garner support for social change.
In addition to her research in social influence, Dr. Seyranian also develops and tests a wide variety of interventions seeking to empower minority populations. Her research utilizes diverse methodologies ranging from lab and field experiments to qualitative methods such as manual and computerized content analysis.
Dr. Seyranian earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in social psychology from Claremont Graduate University and her B.A. cum laude in psychology and government from Claremont McKenna College. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California.
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Professor emerita, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham
Vivien Lowndes is Professor Emerita at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research examines the dynamics of public institutions, particularly at the local level. She is interested in how institutions reproduce power relationships and how they can be reformed to secure new settlements. Vivien's research has focused on gender, migration, citizen participation, urban renewal and local government. She is the author, with Mark Roberts, of 'Why Institutions Matter' (Palgrave) as well as many articles on related themes. In 2021, Vivien was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin prize for a lifetime contribution to political studies.
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Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University
Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is full professor of psychology in the school of psychology, Dublin City University, and professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges.
He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017). He authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Research Fellow in Applied Machine Learning, The University of Melbourne
Dr Vlada Rozova is a data scientist and a machine learning practitioner passionate about developing automated systems to improve patient care. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at the University of Melbourne. Vlada works with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds to build solutions that address user needs. She enjoys the interdisciplinary challenge and loves seeing the development and implementation of tools from start to end.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
I am a critical political scientist interested in political elites, class, left parties, transnational politics, and the EU. Currently, I work on the Changing Elites project, hosted by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Here, I focus on the impact of class background on the ideology and decision-making of power elites.
At the same time, I am developing a research agenda around the class character of right-wing populist parties in Western Europe. I am interested, in particular, in their economic policymaking and the class background of their party elites.
My work is rooted in a historical materialist approach and has been published so far in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Capital & Class, New Political Science, Qualitative Research, and European Political Science. My first book, "Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe: The Radical Left's Lost Decade", was published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
Dr. Vladimir Chlouba, assistant professor of leadership studies, researches the conditions that underpin political order in weak states. In particular, he is an expert in traditional leadership with a regional focus in sub-Saharan Africa. He also investigates the long-term ramifications of colonialism and the enduring effects of early statehood on the African continent. Having conducted extensive field research in several African countries, including Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Malawi, he is keen to involve his students in hands-on research experiences in the developing world.
Dr. Chlouba received his doctorate in political science at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the Jepson School in 2023, he was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. At the Kellogg Institute, he explored how norms habituated by inhabitants of precolonial African states continue to shape ordinary people's attitudes toward politics today.
Dr. Chlouba’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Historical Political Economy, and others. Outside of academic work, he has co-authored several policy-oriented reports published by the World Bank. To learn more about Vladimir Chlouba’s research and teaching, visit his personal website.
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Volodymyr received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and held short-term appointments in South Korea, Germany, and France. Volodymyr's research covers various issues in economics of the aviation sector. He has published over 30 papers in scholarly journals. He co-edits Journal of Air Transport Management, and has advised The Netherlands Competition Authority and the European Commission.
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Doctoral Student in Physics, Concordia University
Vrinda Nair is a doctoral student in physics and is currently working on the drug design of small molecules by implementing deep learning and machine learning models. Her project focuses on Antibiotic Resistance (ABR) and aims to find new antibiotic hybrids. She holds a Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in biotechnology and was awarded the Young Investigator Award for her bachelor's thesis project on making biocolours. She also serves as the treasurer of the Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) at the American Physical Society. She is a published author-poet, artist, science communicator, and STEM mentor. She actively supports many causes, like women in STEM and supporting sci-artists, has worked with various organizations, and has offered her volunteering services. Her doctoral research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Research Chairs (CRC), and Concordia University. She is also working on her internship through the Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship at Molecular Forecaster.
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
Dr Vuyisile Moyo is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at ACDI, University of Cape Town. Dr Moyo is a researcher and development practitioner focusing on communities' adaptation and transformation to climate change. His mission is to promote sustainable biodiversity and co-existence, balancing political ecology, political economy, and sustainable livelihoods in Africa. This entails that people have to live in harmony with their natural environment and vice versa to cater for the future of the upcoming generations.
Dr Moyo is currently working on the Heat Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable Groups in Africa (HABVIA) project to address some of the large evidence gaps on the human health and wider social outcomes of heat adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study intends to co-produce and implement heat adaptation interventions for low-income/informal housing and manual labour in four heat-vulnerable communities in South Africa and Ghana, gathering high-quality cohort data on the human physiological and mental health response to heat, alongside climate, environmental and qualitative information, building on well-established health-research partnerships.
Dr Moyo is a former research fellow at Stellenbosch University, Rufford Foundation, Research Platform in Production and Conservation in Partnership (RP-PCP), CIRAD, and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) at the University of Zimbabwe.
Other areas of expertise include social research, workshop facilitation, training, strategic communications, conducting participatory monitoring and evaluation covering themes such as climate change resilience and transformation, artisanal small-scale mining, human rights, governance, key populations, sustainable development, gender, migration, and health in Africa.
Dr Moyo has also worked on projects funded by organizations such as WHO, USAID, UNDP, UNFPA, and PEPFAR.
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David's principal research interests are in the areas of health economics and well-being, labour economics transport economics and open economy macroeconomic modelling. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in September 1995, David spent three years teaching at the University of Keele. Before that he was a Research Fellow, first at Warwick Research Institute, and then at Warwick Business School Research Bureau. He obtained his first degree in Economics from the University of Hull, his Masters degree in Economics from the University of Warwick, and his PhD. from the University of Keele. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in September 2000, and became Assistant Director of the Centre for European Labour Market Research (CELMR) in November 2001. He also served on the Quality Assurance Agency for Scotland’s Enhancement Themes Steering Committee for the First Year Experience Enhancement Theme. In August 2010 he was appointed Director of Learning and Teaching in the Business School. He received the HEA Economics Network eLearning Award in 2006 in recognition of innovative good practice in the use of eLearning to enhance economics teaching. In the July 2009 graduation ceremony he received the (student-nominated) College of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching. In September 2011 he was awarded the Student Nominated Teaching award from the Economics Network.
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Distinguished Professor, International Relations, University of Alberta
W. Andy Knight is Provost Fellow, Black Excellence and Leadership at the University of Alberta and former Chair of its Department of Political Science. Knight has served as Director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR), The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad & Tobago where he co-founded and directed the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean (DAOC). He is past co-Editor-in-Chief of the African Security Journal and International Journal, both globally prestigious peer-reviewed publications, and founded the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy in 2013 during his secondment in the Caribbean. Professor Knight was co-editor of another highly regarded and award-winning journal — Global Governance -- from 2000 to 2005. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), he was named by Venture Magazine among Alberta’s top 50 most influential people and, by the Black Business and Professional Association of Canada, the Harry Jerome Trailblazer. He served as an Advisory Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children and directed the Peace and Post Conflict Studies Certificate Programme in the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (OIS) at the University of Alberta. In March 2007, Dr. Knight was appointed by the Canadian Foreign Minister to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and served in that position until 2011. He was appointed Distinguished Professor at the University of Alberta in 2021 and was awarded the 2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International and Area Studies at Yale University. In March 2023, Professor Knight was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his valuable contributions to the province of Alberta and McMaster University bestowed on him an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) honoris causa.
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Associate Professor of Literacy Education, College of Charleston
Dr. W. Ian O’Byrne is an associate professor of literacy education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His research focuses on the dispositions and literacy practices of individuals as they read, write, and communicate in online and/or hybrid spaces. Ian is the author of many journal articles and book chapters focusing on initiatives ranging from online and hybrid coursework, integrating technology in the classroom, computational thinking, and supporting marginalized students in literacy practices. His work can be found on his website (https://wiobyrne.com/) or in his weekly newsletter (https://digitallyliterate.net/).
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W. Rocky Newman (Ph.D. The University of Iowa, MBA & BS-BA Bowling Green State University) has been a professor of supply chain and operations management at Miami University since 1987. Newman teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and manufacturing strategy. His research interests include manufacturing strategy, organizational issues in supply chain management as well as supply chain management strategy. His work has been published in many journals including: International Journal of Production Research, The Journal of Production and Inventory Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, American Journal of Business, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, The Journal of Manufacturing Systems, The International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Mid American Journal of Business, The International Journal of Operations and Production Management, The International Journal of Production Economics, The International Journal of Forecasting, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, The Journal of Supply Chain Management, and others.
He is on the editorial board of several academic journals and has served as the editor in chief of the American Journal of Business.
He has authored several popular textbooks in the field of Supply Chain Management. He coordinates the Farmer School of Business’ highly ranked Supply Chain Management Program at Miami University.
He has served on the Midwest DSI board for many years in a variety of roles including president and program chair for the MWDSI annual conference in 2003 and 2009. He served on the board of directors for the Supply Chain Council (www.supply-chain.org) from 2008-2014. He is SCOR-S certified and has incorporated SCOR-S into his teaching with over 250 of his students certified through 2014. He has served on the APICS Board of Directors (2014) and now serves on the APICS Supply Chain Council Board of Directors.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
Wacango Muguro Kimani is a post-doctoral researcher and teacher educator in the field of inclusive education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Wade Chumney joined the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics in August 2014. Prior to that he was employed at Georgia Tech as the Cecil B. Day Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Law in the Scheller College of Business since 2009. He was previously an assistant professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Professor Chumney also spent five years in private practice before embarking on an academic career.
His research agenda focuses on the interplay between business ethics, law and technology: focusing on intellectual property, data privacy and security, and the impact of the Internet. Professor Chumney has been an invited speaker at several prestigious universities, including: the University of Michigan Patent Law Colloquium in 2012, ICN Business School International Business Seminar in 2012, and the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Spring Privacy Speaker Series in 2011. Additionally, he has been invited to present his research at numerous peer-reviewed conferences to discuss his areas of interest. He has also received several honors for his research. In 2011, he was awarded the SEALSB Young Scholar Award of Excellence by the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business. In 2009, he was awarded the Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award by the Belmont University College of Business Administration. The same year, he received a best paper award from the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE). In 2008, he accepted a Distinguished Proceedings Paper Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB). Additionally, he was honored with the Holmes-Cardozo Best Paper Award from ALSB, the highest honor given by the academy to a piece of legal scholarship in a given year.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Professor Chumney has a Juris Doctor from the University Of Virginia School Of Law, a Master of Science in Information Systems from Dakota State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College.
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Research Assistant, University of Basel
I currently hold a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Njala University, Sierra Leone, and I am currently studying for the Master of Art in African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. In recent years, my main research role has been on an EU-funded multi-country and multi-disciplinary research project entitled 'ALIVEAfrica" which focuses on the role of animals in the livelihood strategies of people in sub-Saharan Africa, and the implications of these relationships for multi-species health and wellbeing.
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PhD Candidate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
Wajiha Mehdi is a PhD Candidate at Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Islamophobia, nationalism, geographies of violence and struggles of Muslim women in India. Her work exists at the intersection of postcolonial, critical Muslim studies, intersectional feminist work to develop an understanding of how ideas of belonging and citizenship are reinscribed spatially during violent nationalist moments.
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Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Carleton University
The history of political thought from classical to contemporary. German Idealism. Statesmanship and political leadership. Liberal Education and citizenship. Tyranny, terrorism and extremist politics. Books published on Platonic political thought, the manly virtues, great political leadership, ancient and modern tyranny. Topical journalism on political and cultural affairs.
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Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
I am a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne where I currently co-lead the Human-Computer Interaction Group. My research examines the psychological and social dimensions of new digital technologies through design-based investigations in collaboration with organisations and communities. Current and recent projects explore the nature of AI-based deception, people's use of technologies to manage their emotions, the creation and sharing of public histories online, and the design of technologies for health-related change. .
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Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Walter Gillis Peacock is professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he has been a member of the faculty since 2002. He is also working at the U.S. Census Bureau as a Research Survey Statistician, in the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, Small Area Modeling & Development, with the Community Resilience Estimation Program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He is internationally known for his research on disaster recovery, community resiliency, and social vulnerability.
In 2009 he was awarded the Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory, acknowledging significant theoretical work in disaster and hazards research. Between 2008 and 2012 he was the holder of the Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professorship in Housing and the Homeless and in 2012 he was awarded the Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair at Texas A&M. In 2014 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M, an award sponsored by the Association of Former Students. He has conducted research in Florida, Texas, California, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Turkey, and India.
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Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Reading
I am a Lecturer of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Reading. Originally from Hong Kong, my research specialty is in parliamentary politics and career of politicians, with a focus on UK politics.
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Associate Professor of Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
I am doing research in the fields of Agricultural Economics and Development Economics. My research outputs have covered a wide range of topics, such as sustainability and economies of agrifood systems, food production and marketing, farmer organization, agribusiness, rural development, rural-to-urban migration, climate change and adaptation, land transfer, agricultural technology adoption, information technology adoption, welfare and well-being, productivity and efficiency, income growth, farmer subjective well-being, and rural energy transition. According to the economists ranking based on the past 10 years publishing at IDEAS, I was ranked "Top 10 Economists" (Authors 10) in New Zealand (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.newzealand.html).
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Anthropologist, University of Cape Town
Wangui Kimari is an anthropologist affiliated with the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. Her work draws on many local histories and theoretical approaches in order to think through urban spatial management in Nairobi from the vantage point of its most marginalised residents. Wangui is also the participatory action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC), a community-based organisation in Mathare, Nairobi, and a contributing editor to the online publication Africa Is a Country (AIAC). She is also a co-founder of the Nairobi-based critical urban studies forum: UTA-Do African Cities Workshop, an Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Trustee, and on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Africa and Nokoko. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from York University, Canada.
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Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Wanning Sun researches and supervises research students in a number of areas, including Chinese media and cultural studies; rural to urban migration and social change in contemporary China; soft power, public diplomacy and diasporic Chinese media. Wanning is the author of three single-authored monographs Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (Routledge, 2009), and Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She has edited numerous volumes, including Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce (Routledge, 2006). She is a member of the editorial board for several journals, including Media International Australia (ANZCA), Asian Journal of Communication, and Communication, Culture & Critique (ICA).
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford Climate Journalism Network, University of Oxford
Waqas Ejaz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. He earned his PhD at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. His research interests include studying digital media effects, climate change, political, and computational communication.
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Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
Warren Clarke is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba in the Anthropology department. Warren's focus is in sociocultural anthropology. Warren’s research is situated in youth cultures, social citizenship, neoliberalism, gentrification, race & ethnicity, anti-colonialism, and masculinity.
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Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Massey University
Warren McNabb is a Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the Riddet Institute. The Riddet Institute is one of New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE) which is hosted by Massey University. His research interests include nutrition for health, sustainable nutrition, and physiology and metabolism.
Warren joined the Riddet Institute in 2016. Warren currently supervises 17 PhD students and 4 Postdoctoral Fellows. Warren has published >220 peer-reviewed scientific papers with >17,000 citations and an h-index of 64 (Google Scholar).
Warren completed his B. Agric. Sci (First Class Honours; 1986) and PhD at Massey University. Prior to joining Massey University, Warren joined AgResearch in 1993 as a Research Scientist and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in 2004. Warren was promoted to Science Team Leader in 2000, Science Section Manager in 2005, General Manager in 2009 before becoming AgResearch’s Research Director in 2011.
At the Riddet Institute, Warren leads several programmes including the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative (SNI; www.sustainablenutritioninitiative.com) and the MBIE-funded programmes, New Zealand Milks Mean More (NZ3M) and Kai anamata mō Aotearoa – exploring future food system scenarios and impacts. Warren is also a Principal Investigator in the Riddet Institute CoRE Research programme (www.riddet.ac.nz) and an Associate Investigator in the HVN National Science Challenge (www.highvaluenutrition.co.nz) priority research programmes’, Healthy Digestion, and Infant Health.
Warren has been elected to a number of international committees including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to be a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee guiding the process leading to a comprehensive and evidence-based global assessment of the contribution of livestock to food security, sustainable food systems, nutrition, and healthy diets, and to represent NZ as a member of the World Farming Organisation (WFO) Scientific Council by Federated Farmers NZ.
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Research Leader Pastures an Rangelands, The University of Melbourne
Dr Warwick Badgery is a research leader with NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) with over 15 years’ research experience improving the profitability and sustainability of grazing systems and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions under a changing climate. He is currently the Program Leader for the Feedbase Theme of the national Livestock Productivity Partnership, is a board member of Monaro Farming Systems and has adjunct positions with Melbourne University and China Agriculture University.
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Director of Trauma and Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Children's Hospital
Associate Professor Warwick Teague
DPhil Oxford, FRACS, FRCSEd
A/Prof Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma, Clinical Lead for Burns, and Academic Paediatric Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Warwick is active in discovery science and clinical research, building on the expertised gained from a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is Co-group Leader of Surgical Research within the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, and his clinical research interests focus mostly on paediatric trauma care, epidemiology and prevention.
Within the State of Victoria, Warwick is a member of various trauma and injury prevention focused committees for the government, Kidsafe Victoria, WorkSafe Victoria and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and he chairs the Victorian State Trauma Registry Monitoring (VSTORM) Steering Committee.
Nationally an internationally, Warwick is considered a leader and key advocate in the fields of paediatric major trauma care and childhood injury prevention. Warwick has engaged widely with media and community groups to promote practical steps towards safer and healthier childhoods for all our children.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Journalism, Quinnipiac University
Wasim Ahmad is an assistant teaching professor teaching journalism at Quinnipiac University. He's worked at newspapers in Minnesota, Florida and upstate New York, and has previously taught multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University and Syracuse University.
Wasim also has photography industry experience, having previously worked as a technical specialist at Canon USA, and he is also a senior staff writer at Fstoppers.com.
Wasim is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University. His work has been recognized by the Freedom Forum and the Center for Innovation in College Media, but by far the award he's most proud of is the 2013 "Seniors' Choice" award for best professor in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.
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