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Ayodele Oloko

Ayodele Oloko

Researcher, University of British Columbia

Researcher, University of British Columbia I am a Yoruba-speaking Nigerian woman who has lived and studied in Africa and abroad. My academic training so far has focused on the application of both natural and social science methodologies to critically examine human-ecological interactions within rural communities, where small-scale fishing and agriculture are both essential components of rural livelihood sustainability. My interest in this research topic stems from decades of research on traditional ecological knowledge, gender, climate change adaptations, and fisheries sustainability. I have been involved in international research collaborations, including the Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the Asian Fisheries Society, the Food Climate Biodiversity Project, and the Illuminating Hidden Harvests project, a collaboration between the FAO, World Fish, and Duke University. I own responsibility and have a passion for speaking for vulnerable fisherfolk and indigenous people in fisheries through my scholarship and publications. Presently, I am a research assistant at the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Institute for Oceans and Fisheries (UBC). I am also a biology undergraduate diversity research mentor. I mentor, coordinate, and supervise undergraduate research programmes. My doctoral research revolves around the impacts of climate change and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing on women fisherfolk and fishermen. Education Bachelor of Science: Fisheries and Aquatic Biology: Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria (2012) Master of Science: International Studies in Aquatic Tropical Ecology University of Bremen, Germany.(2019). PhD, Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2022-present) Research Institutions/Affiliations Undergraduate Research Assistant Lagos State University, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Biology (2008-2012) Research Assistant Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Project (Lagos State Case Study) (2015) Researcher The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany Funder: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) - German Academic Exchange Service (2018-2019) Researcher Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the Asian Fisheries Society.(2019-Present) Researcher Illuminating Hidden Harvests project, a collaboration between the FAO, World Fish, and Duke University (2019-Present) Researcher Too big to ignore (2020-Present) Research Consultant Gender and Fisheries, World Fish (Malaysia) (2020) Researcher Fisheries Economic Research Unit-Institute for Oceans and Fisheries (UBC) (2022-Present) Researcher: West Africa Case Study Food Climate Bio-diversity Project at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia (2022-present)

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Agnès Maillot

Agnès Maillot

Associate Professor, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University

Associate Professor, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University My main area of research is the conflict in Northern Ireland, and more particularly Sinn Féin and the IRA, on which I have published many books and articles. I also work on post-conflict politics, covering areas such as victims and reconciliation, the legacy of violence, I also research contemporary Irish society, as well as multiculturalismalism in France and Ireland, and am I currently working on issues of asylum seekers in the French and Irish contexts.

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Anne Rutherford

Anne Rutherford

Adjunct Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, Western Sydney University

Adjunct Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, Western Sydney University My research explores how the cultural, social and ideological dimensions of a film are inextricably intertwined with the aesthetic strategies of the film. I argue that, if we want to understand how cinema takes up cultural or thematic issues, we must consider how film produces sensory-affective experience for the spectator. My writing on film attempts to draw the reader into both an understanding of these dynamics and an experience of them, through the writing. I have written extensively on the centrality of affect and embodiment in cinema spectatorship. I have published a book and numerous journal articles on the role of affect and the senses in narrative, mise-en-scene, genre and film sound, through case studies of Korean detective film, classical Japanese cinema, modern Greek cinema, independent American cinema, and animation. More recently my work has considered how spectatorship is transforming, as the moving image is increasingly exhibited in the gallery space and integrated into hybrid multimedia installations. I have published my research on the hybrid moving image work of artist William Kentridge and the multimedia documentary installations of Indian artist Amar Kanwar. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I have a particular interest in the strategies for scriptwriting and directing that enable a filmmaker to cross cultural barriers. In recent years, I have conducted studies of ‘animate thought’ in ethnographic film and photography, and the dynamics of intercultural collaboration, focusing on the film, Ten Canoes. I have an ongoing research project and have published on the film work of acclaimed Australian Indigenous director, Ivan Sen, exploring how his approach to cinema enables him to draw audiences into a close engagement with Indigenous experience. I have also published on the film work of Indigenous directors, Tracy Moffatt and Darlene Johnson. My research into documentary cinema has focused on exploring the imbrication of the cultural and affective-aesthetic dimensions of documentary film, through published studies of avant-garde French documentary, Indonesian political docudrama and Indian documentary, and postcolonial historiography in Australian television documentary. http://uws.academia.edu/AnneRutherford

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