Service Assistant Professor in Family Medicine, West Virginia University Amie Ashcraft received her PhD from the Virginia Commonwealth University in experimental/social psychology. In 2006, she received her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of California. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in AIDS Prevention Studies at Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds My research interests include police governance, the role of experts in public and policing policy and diversity in policing. I join University of Leeds in May 2023. I have worked as Assistant Professor in Criminology and Policing at Northumbria University (2019-2023) and Associate Inspector for His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (2017-2021). I have written extensively about police governance arrangements in Scotland following the amalgamation of local forces and the creation of the Scottish Police Authority in 2013. I have also assisted HMICS with thematic inspections on police governance, training and development and local policing. More recently, I have conducted research examining the impact of English as an additional language (EAL) on police recruitment, progression and specialist roles, funded by the Policing Uplift Programme.
Research Associate in Economics, UCL Dr. Anna Adamecz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Research Institute of Economics (KRTK KTI), a Research Associate at the University College London Social Research Institute (UCL SRI), and a Fellow at the Global Labor Institute (GLO). She earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the Central European University (CEU). She is an empirical social scientist aiming to understand the world better by one small question at a time. Her research interests include labor economics, the economics of education, fertility, social and educational mobility, and gender inequalities.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University Andrea Gonzalez, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, Canada. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Family Health and Preventive Interventions and was recently inducted in the Royal Society of Canada as a New College Member. Currently, she is an Editorial Board Member for the journals Archives of Women’s Mental Health, Child Abuse & Neglect and Child Maltreatment and is a member of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Child Maltreatment Surveillance Working Group, as well as the World Health Organization’s Extending the Benefits Across the Life Course Working Group. Dr. Gonzalez received her PhD (2008) in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Toronto and completed her CIHR and Lawson Foundation funded postdoctoral fellowships at the Offord Centre for Child Studies (2012). Her research program focuses on the developmental consequences of early life adversity; the impact of traumatic experience on brain development, behavioral outcomes and health; the intergenerational transmission of risk; and developing and evaluating evidence-based preventive interventions. Her previous training encompasses psychology, neuroscience, and epidemiology with specific emphasis on assessing preventive interventions, maternal and child health, parenting, and family violence.
Assistant Professor, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University Alexander McClelland, PhD., is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University. His current research is funded by both CIHR and SSHRC, where he examines issues of incarceration, surveillance, public health, and policing. He was a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa.
Professor of Older People and Care, University of Sheffield I am currently Professor of Older People and Care in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this post I have had many years of experience conducting and applying research into healthcare. I have extensive academic, research, managerial and strategic experience gained from within both healthcare and University sectors. My academic background is in qualitative research in stand alone or mixed methods studies. I have an interest in accessing health care, public health and health inequalities, and patient experience research. I am the Co-director of the Mesothelioma UK Research Center at the University of Sheffield. My clinical background is nursing and I have an interest in evidencing the value of nursing practice, as well as the impact of nursing on patients and wider society. I have a proven track record of delivering academic results including obtaining funding for, delivering, disseminating and applying a mixed portfolio of creative and high quality research of an International standard. I have a legacy of research capacity building, working in and across settings and I am committed to developing evidence based healthcare practice.
