Associate Professor of Marketing, EM Lyon Business School In my research I adopt the sociocultural perspective as a framework for understanding consumption experiences, with the particular focus on globalization, consumer mobility, acculturation and consumption in digital service settings. I seek to go beyond consumer subjectivity in investigating the broader market and sociocultural dynamics that intertwine with consumer experiences, using in-depth interviews, ethnographic methods, discourse analysis and digital research in order to uncover how lived experiences of consumers are being shaped by broader macroenvironmental forces, and how consumer lifestyles emerge as a response to the challenges of their daily lives.
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Point Park University Aimee- Marie Dorsten is a professor who teaches Media Ethics, Communication Law and Policy, Journalism, and Media Studies at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her current research in the feminist political economy of communication critiques the received historiography of the field of communication. Her future political economy of communication research examines representation of the US foster care system and implications for policy. Her work has appeared in Communication Theory and The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy.
Honorary Reader in the Department of International Development, University of Birmingham I have extensive worldwide experience of teaching, research and consultancy on public administration reform, decentralisation, and the regulation of privatised public utilities. My most recent research has focussed on decentralisation and conflict prevention, the management of urban water supply, and the relationship between language, governance and citizen participation. I am a regular writer for several subscription-only publications, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica and IHS Markit. I also write for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2011 I have been external trainer for the Peace and Security Division of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) in Turin, Italy, for which I teach face-to-face courses on the role of decentralisation and local governance in the peacebuilding process of post-conflict countries (Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Yemen, Bangla Desh, Ethiopia) as well as at UN HQ in New York. In 2013/14 I wrote a distance learning (DL) version of the course for the UNSSC and to date have taught 14 editions (most recently in April 2021).
PhD Candidate at the Research Department Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy I am a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, passionate about pulsars and neutron stars. As a part of the Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy group, my work focuses on the study of pulsars in globular clusters with the MeerKAT radio telescope. This includes the long-term monitoring of pulsars in relativistic systems to study their properties and evolutionary scenarios. I am also a part of the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration.
PhD Candidate, Curtin University My research is on the state-sponsored violence perpetrated on the minorities of India, focusing mainly on the Hindu majoritarian Indian government’s policy of demolishing Muslim properties, on various pretexts, as a means of providing "collective punishment" to an entire community.
Professor of Science & Technology Policy in the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex With a background in astronomy and 'science studies' and a masters in archaeology and social anthropology (Edinburgh 1984), my PhD is in 'science and technology policy' (Sussex 1995). Having worked earlier for Greenpeace (including as an international and national board-member), I’ve also been employed as a building labourer, laboratory technician, hospital porter and factory, farm and mental health care worker. My 'transdisciplinary' research, teaching and policy advisory work at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex focuses on issues of power, uncertainty, diversity and democracy across different areas of science, technology and innovation. A member of the Sussex Energy Group, I was formerly Research Director for SPRU (2006-13) and the Sussex Management School (2009-2012) and for fifteen years (2006-2021) co-directed the ESRC Centre at Sussex on Social Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS). Formerly a member of the Research Council of the ESRC and of the Sociology sub-panel in the 2020 Research Excellence Framework, I have served as an advisor for the UK, for other national governments and for the European Commission on issues including energy policy, radioactive waste, nuclear power, toxic substances, GM foods, uncertainties, science advice, ethics of new technologies and science and society. I am presently an independent advisor to the official evaluation of the UK Government's Nuclear Innovation Programme.
