PhD Student, University of Leeds Andi Misbahul Pratiwi is a researcher at the Gender Research Center of the University of Indonesia. She pursued her Master's degree in Gender Studies at the University of Indonesia from 2016 to 2018. From 2015 to 2020, she worked as an editor at Jurnal Perempuan, an accredited feminist academic journal in Indonesia. In 2021, she joined the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) in the Law and Policy Reform Sub-Commission. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, UK, focusing on Gender, Sexuality, and Climate Change in the Global South, with UKRI studentship.
PhD Candidate, Management of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, McMaster University Ali Lefcoe’s research focuses on barriers to work (i.e., major obstacles to quality employment) and barriers at work (i.e., difficulties experienced in carrying out work) and how workers cope with these barriers. These research areas overlap in the sense that some workers (e.g., individuals with disabilities, precarious workers) face both barriers to quality employment, and barriers in the completion of their work with deleterious consequences. Ali has an interest in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and applies these approaches in her current projects. She has defended her thesis proposal and is scheduled to complete her PhD in early 2024.
Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow, Department of History, University of the Free State André Wessels joined the staff of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) as a Lecturer in 1988, and retired as a Senior Professor in 2021; but he continues his association with his Department and the UFS as a Research Fellow. His main research focus is the military history of twentieth-century South Africa, with special emphasis on the history of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, and the history of the South African National Defence Force and its predecessors. He is the author, co-author or editor of eleven books, and has also published some 150 articles in peer-reviewed accredited academic journals, many articles of a more popular nature, some 150 book reviews, and about twenty chapters in books. His latest book publication is 'A century of South African Naval history: The South African Navy and its predecessors 1922-2022' (Naledi, 2022).
Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University Amy Luers is affiliate professor at Concordia University and Global Lead for Sustainability Science at Microsoft. Previously, she was Executive Director for Future Earth, the Assistant Director for Climate Resilience and Information at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Senior Environment Program Manager at Google. Before that she led the climate program at the Union of Concerned Sciences California Office. Luers started her career in Latin America as co-founder and the first executive director of Agua Para La Vida (Water for Life), working with rural communities to enhance access to potable water. She has published in both academic journals and in the popular media on issues related to vulnerability to global environmental change, data, sustainability, climate policy, and science communication. A respected scientist and data innovator, Luers has been recognized as a PopTech fellow, a Switzer Environmental Fellow, Heinz Environmental Scholar, and has been a leader in advising the California state government, the White House, and the United Nation on topics related to the intersection of research, policy and data. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on committees of the National Academies of Sciences. Luers holds a Ph.D. in environmental science and an M.A. in international policy studies, from Stanford University; a B.S. and M.S. in environmental systems engineering from Humboldt State University; and a B.A. in philosophy from Middlebury College.
Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto András Tilcsik holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society and is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on organizations, occupations, and work. His research has been recognized with several awards from the American Sociological Association, including the W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship and the Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology. His book Meltdown (New York: Penguin Press, 2018), coauthored with Chris Clearfield, received the National Business Book Award, the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award, and the Bracken Bower Prize, and was named one of the books of the year by the Financial Times.
