Assistant Professor in Psychology , Northumbria University, Newcastle Dr McNeill is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and has been working at Northumbria University since 2013. His work explores social psychological factors in diverse contexts including intergroup conflict, design of social media, and public health. He is a strong advocate of mixed-methods approaches to psychology. He did his PhD in the discursive psychology of post-conflict victimhood at Queen's University Belfast (2010-2013).
Professor of Sociology, University of Washington I am a sociologist who uses a mixed-method approach to study institutional decision-making. My research interests focus on social stratification processes and racial and ethnic disparities. I investigate how contact with varying institutions (educational, juvenile and criminal justice and economic) impact individuals' life chances. Frequently, my work combines data types in order to illustrate both the macro context of the problem at hand, and at the same time investigate the micro processes leading to outcomes. Using participant observation, interview, and statistical methods my work has investigated how institutional actors assess, label, and process individuals and groups, and how those processed respond. My aim is to produce research that is theoretically informed and empirically rich, and research that is of value in local, state, and national policy arenas. Teaching I have taught undergraduate courses on race and ethnicity (soc 362), social problems (soc 270), juvenile justice (375), and special topics courses (soc 401 one on credit markets, one on criminal sentencing and currently prepping one on sports, higher education and race). I also teach the graduate-level research methods course on qualitative research methods (soc 519 and 520) and have taught juvenile justice. Current Research Projects A Pound of Flesh documents the contemporary relationship between the United States' systems of social control and inequality. Using a mixed-method approach (court observations, interviews with court actors and defendants, review of legal statute and cases, and statistical analysis of court automated data), I analyze the particular policies and mechanisms used within the criminal justice system to impose and monitor sanctions to poor people who do not pay their legal debts, and I examine the consequences of this process. I explicitly outline how local community and court culture and financial constraints influence contemporary notions of who should be held accountable for their actions by the criminal justice system. Put simply, monetary sanctions serve as a punishment tool that permanently penalize and marginalize the poor.
Assistant Research Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Drexel University Amanda NeMoyer, JD, PhD, is an assistant research professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University and a member of the Juvenile Justice Research & Reform Lab. NeMoyer earned her PhD in clinical psychology with a forensic concentration from Drexel University, completed a clinical internship in Health Service Psychology at Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Health System and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, with support from Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Mental Health. With training in both psychology and law, Dr. NeMoyer conducts interdisciplinary research aimed at helping to create a more developmentally appropriate approach to juvenile justice that promotes positive youth outcomes. She has a passion for evaluating current juvenile justice practices and advocating for evidence-based policy change, with a particular focus on alternatives to detention and incarceration, including youth diversion and probation reform initiatives. Dr. NeMoyer has authored and co-authored more than 35 professional publications and more than 35 conference presentations. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and other national and local organizations.
Lecturer, South Eastern Kenya University Dr Andriannah Mbandi teaches at the School of Engineering and Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department of the South Eastern Kenya University, Kitui, Kenya. She is also the Global Lead, Waste, Climate Champions. Dr Mbandi is a chemical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in air pollution, climate change, waste and mobility. She is an atmospheric scientist conducting research on air quality as an associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute and sits on various scientific advisory groups including the Implementing Committee of the African Group of Atmospheric Sciences (ANGA), the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Scientific Advisory Group on Reactive Gases. She has delivered on projects and consultancies for Africa and South Asia governments working with national, city and local governments, development partners including UNEP, Royal Academy of Engineering, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Africa Union Commission, US State Department and Climate Champions. She has built partnerships including Community of Practice of scientists and policy makers with the inclusion of private sector, civil society, INGOs, community members, youth and women. She is an alumnus of the Faculty for the Future fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation for women in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM). She received her PhD from University York, UK where her research sought to support evidence-based air quality management policies by assessing the impact of road transport emissions on human health and the environment with a focus on African cities.
Associate Lecturer, University of Nairobi Dr Alice Akinyi Kaudia attained her PhD qualifications in 1996 from the University of East Anglia, the United Kingdom. She served at Kenya Forestry Research for 1.5 decades (1988-2003). Her sequent focus on development oriented reassert include : (i) Associate Lecturer at Institute of Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi (2016 to date) with focus on teaching post graduate students, research supervision and review of research proposals by post graduate students. (ii) She is also an affiliate at Tangaza University College where she has been one of the four Africa juries (2022 and 2023) for small research grants through the Service Learning program. This program covers Catholic Higher Education Institutions in seven region across the word. It aims at enabling students to apply lessons learnt in classroom situation to real life for experiential learning. The research grants are awarded competitively. Alice has published in the field of agroforestry, wetlands management, and climate change, climate change insurance as adaptation measure and air pollution.
Honorary fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Arthur Wyns is a biologist and climate change researcher, and an Honorary fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures. He is the climate change and health advisor to the COP28 presidency. Since 2019, Arthur has been a climate change advisor to the World Health Organization.
