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Christina Stringer

Christina Stringer

Associate Professor, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Associate Professor, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Christina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business. In 2008, she undertook a project for New Zealand’s Ministry of Fisheries (now Ministry of Primary Industries) which looked at the extent that New Zealand caught fish was being processed in China and exported to key markets. This project led in 2010, to Christina and colleagues investigating the use of forced labour on board New Zealand foreign chartered fishing vessels. This research, in turn, led to a Ministerial Inquiry, a major shift in government policy, and the enactment of a law requiring all foreign charter vessels to be reflagged to New Zealand by 1 May 2016. In 2012, Christina and her two co-researchers (Dr Glenn Simmons and Professor Hugh Whittaker) received the Dean's Award: a special award recognising the impact of research concerned with human rights issues on-board foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand's waters. In 2017, the fisheries team (Dr Glenn Simmons, Professor Hugh Whittaker, Associate Professor Christina Stringer, Associate Professor Manuka Henare and Professor Nigel Haworth) received a Research Excellence Award for Strategic Impact in Research. This research, in turn, led to research undertaken on behalf of the Human Trafficking Research Coalition (comprising Stand Against Slavery, Hagar New Zealand, Préscha Initiative, ECPAT NZ) and the release of the ‘Worker Exploitation in New Zealand: A Troubling Landscape’ report in 2016. Most recently in 2019, Christina completed research with Professor Francis Collins (University of Waikato) into the exploitation of temporary migrant workers in New Zealand, and with Professor Snejina Michailova research into exploitation in the jurisdictions New Zealand compares itself to (Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom). This research fed into the extensive review undertaken by New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), into migrant worker exploitation in New Zealand.

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Courtney W. Mason

Courtney W. Mason

Professor and Canada Research Chair, Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities, Thompson Rivers University

Professor and Canada Research Chair, Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities, Thompson Rivers University Courtney Mason is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities. He is cross appointed between Natural Resource Science and the Tourism Management Departments at Thompson Rivers University. Courtney's research examines rural and Indigenous land use development with a focus on tourism economies and park or protected area management. He is the author of Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park (U of Toronto Press, 2014) and the co-editor of A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario (U of Manitoba Press, 2017).

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Crystal A. Kolden

Crystal A. Kolden

Assistant Professor and Pyrogeographer, University of Idaho

Assistant Professor and Pyrogeographer, University of Idaho My research is on the integration and understanding of the human and ecological aspects of wildfire under climate change, particularly understanding what determines how severely a wildfire burns. I try to understand how we can develop more sustainable, science-based approaches to wildfire management, and how we communicate those approaches to gain acceptance.

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Chantal Radimilahy

Chantal Radimilahy

Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Antananarivo, Université d’Antananarivo

Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Antananarivo, Université d’Antananarivo Chantal Radimilahy is senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Antananarivo, and former director of the Institute of Civilizations/Museum of Art and Archaeology in Antananarivo. She holds a PhD degree from the Sorbonne University and a second PhD degree from the University of Uppsala. She has worked on ancient iron metallurgy and has undertaken archaeological research in many parts of Madagascar, including Mahilaka.

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Charlotte Coleman

Charlotte Coleman

Deputy Head of the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University

Deputy Head of the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University Dr Charlotte Coleman is a Forensic Psychologist whose main research focus is the prevention of youth violent crime, working on programmes that reduce the risk of becoming a victim or an offender. Charlotte has experience of working on both large and small evaluations using a range of methodologies. For example large scale YEF funded RCTs to reduce school exclusions and to improve familial relationships through therapeutic interventions, and small scale qualitative IPE evaluations of local domestic abuse programmes aimed at reducing controlling and coercive behaviours in young people. She has extensive experience in working with the police and other agencies, undertaking activity related to violence and youth crime/behaviour. For example, she sits on the Evidence Based Policing panel for South Yorkshire Police and is involved in ongoing research with police forces and Violence Reduction Units around anti-knife crime messaging, the impact of Covid 19 on policing domestic abuse, youth organisations around crime and reducing exploitation risk and recidivism, and working with schools to evaluate interventions designed to prevent offending behaviour. Charlotte completed her PhD in Children’s Eyewitness Testimony and therefore has theoretical and practical experience of generating reliable information from children and young people in interviews and working with vulnerable children. She also has expertise and experience in research methods and analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, and draws upon both academic and professional experience of analysing and working with data.

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