PhD Candidate, School of Human Resources Management, York University, Canada Ayesha Tabassum is a PhD Candidate at the School of Human Resources Management at York University. Her research interests are at the intersection of telework/work from home, use of technology at the workplace, gender, and work-nonwork balance. Currently, she is working on her dissertation examining the impact of telework on employee innovative behaviors. Her research has been published in various journals including Gender in Management and Canadian Journal of Family and Youth. Ayesha presented her academic work at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management and the Midwest Academy of Management Conference among many other.
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University I am a PhD student and PR/Marketing specialist with over 20 years experience. As a PR/Marketing consultant, I have elevated the brand awareness, performance and profitability of several global brands as well as start-ups. I specialise in developing consumer focused, holistic and integrated communication/marketing strategies across multiple sectors. As a PhD student, My overarching interest is in how information can be disseminated and interpreted, understanding the impact of culture, religion and language and how to utilise them in ensuring the correct messages are not only being communicated effectively, but done so, ethically and respectfully. Currently I am researching the reflections of the specific practices and norms in Libya with regards to the communication and education of HIV and in particular, to Libyan women. Although my research focuses on Libyan women, its relevance and impact are universal as the learnings can be applied to Muslim women, Arab women, women in developing countries as well as migrants and refugees, as the challenges they face are similar.
PhD researcher, University of Sydney I'm a neuromorphic engineer with a PhD from the University of Sydney. I have 3+ years experience in designing AI learning tasks and algorithms for neuro-inspired systems. My main research focus is on the interplay between structure and function in neuro-memristive nanowire networks. I also have degrees in psychology (with a computer science minor) and philosophy, as well as a First-Class honours in neuroscience. My interests lie at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, nanotechnology and philosophy; in areas such as brain-computer interface, neuroengineering and neuromorphics.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Sustainable & Resilient Structures Research Group of the School of Science and Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway. My research focuses on optimising indoor conditioning energy while improving occupants’ indoor experience, towards comfortable, healthy, smart, low energy buildings. My interests include indoor climate quality in healthy, low energy buildings, occupant thermal comfort, HVAC systems, IoT in the built environment, and human thermoregulation. I am currently working as a part of the HEAT CHECK project. The project aims to investigate the relationship between energy consumption, indoor environmental quality, occupant behaviour, and occupant comfort in residential buildings through a combination of in situ monitoring and building performance simulations. The goal is to improve energy audit and energy certification procedures, with the DEAP and NEAP energy compliance tools in mind. In the long term, the findings are expected to lead to comfortable and energy-efficient homes utilizing high performance renewable solutions.
Law lecturer , University of Calabar Anne Agi is a lawyer of 17 years post-call and a law lecturer at the University of Calabar. She has authored a series of literature and engineered several projects on Space Law and Policy. In 2018, she led her Faculty/University team to win the African Regional Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Competition and to represent her continent at the World Finals in Washington D. C., USA where her team emerged as Best Oralists of the Competition and were 1st Runners Up.
Associate Professor in Public Health and Policy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington I am based at Victoria University of Wellington and teach about health policy and health systems. I am currently leading the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ - a multi-community policy intervention to prevent chronic illnesses. I have a keen interest in complexity theory and its application to social systems and the empirical evidence on health. My research focus to date has mainly been examining interventions to address population health challenges, including the social determinants and equity, to better understand their potential effectiveness. I am an Principal Investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini, the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for complex systems.
