Associate Professor, Public Health Dietetics, University of Plymouth Clare Pettinger is an award winning Registered Dietitian, Public Health Nutritionist and experienced educator, who is actively engaged in community-focussed research around food systems, poverty and social justice. She is passionate about radical creative approaches to tackle local (and global) health, (in)equality and social well-being challenges.
Emeritus Professor in Business, University of Otago I thoroughly enjoyed a 40 year career as a business school academic, both at Otago and before that at Victoria in Wellington. My research and teaching never strayed far from questions of competition between firms and the ways in which firms might possibly sustain an advantage over their competitors. I am greatly privileged to have led a large 10-year funded research programme into the competitiveness of New Zealand firms in global markets. In later years, I also became interested in the application of complex systems theory to organisations, and this has given me a perspective on the enormous challenges presented to New Zealand and the world by climate change.
Sociologue, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) Clémence Schantz is a sociologist and a midwife, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) - Ceped UMR 196. Her research focuses mainly on cancers in West Africa and South-East Asia, and she is heading the SENOVIE project "Therapeutic mobility and breast cancer" funded by the Convergences and Migrations Institute (ICM - 2021-2023), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF - 2022-2025), the National Cancer Institute (INCa - 2022-2025) and the French Ambassy in Cambodia (2023-2024). She is also conducting research on HPV vaccination in France (metropolitan France and Reunion Island). Finally, her research focuses on maternal health through the biomedicalisation of childbirth in different contexts (Cambodia, Mali, Benin, France), on women's claims (particularly through the concept of "obstetric violence") and on the alternatives proposed (birthing centres and "humanised" childbirth projects).
Adjunct Research Fellow, La Trobe University Christopher Simmonds is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University. His PhD was in United States political and economic history, focusing on the 1980 election and the rise of modern conservatism.
Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Chiara is a professor in political science (specialising in International Relations) at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po. Before moving to Paris, she was an associate professor at the Swedish Defence University and an academy fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Her research is about multilateralism on the ground, peacekeeping operations, norms, cultures and civil-military relations. In particular, her research agenda revolves around multilateral governance and management of peace and security across different regions. Her two main areas of expertise are (1) multilateralism on the ground, multinational governance and management of peace and security (UN peacekeeping, dynamics of transformations of multinational interventions with increased participation of non- Western contributors, and search and rescue missions at sea in particular) and (2) civil – military relations and the transformation of the state. She has also written about methods, in particular about case studies and what causality means in qualitative research. Chiara studied political science, international relations and political sociology at the Sant 'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. She received her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence and conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Belfer Center (Harvard Kennedy School). She held visiting positions at the University of Victoria (Canada) and at the University of Warwick (UK) and has given talks in a several universities, such as the Catòlica Universidad de Chile, the RSIS in Singapore, the Reppy Centre at Cornell University, the University of Reading, Oxford University, the University of Southern Denmark. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission, the European Commission, the Swedish Research Council, the Royal Swedish Academy. Her work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, Armed Forces and Society, Security and Defence Analysis, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Comparative European Politics, among others. Her first book Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. Her second book (with Vincenzo Bove and Andrea Ruggeri) Composing Peace. Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping was published by Oxford University Press in April 2020. Chiara is an editorial board member of Security Studies (and its ethics committee as well as one of the mentors to increase submissions from the Global South) and Armed Forces and Society.
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication Dr. Chelsea Butkowski is an Assistant Professor of Data, Media & Identity in American University's School of Communication. Their research examines the relationship between media technologies and identity, including the social practices and effects of everyday social media use. Butkowski's research interests include feminist and queer media studies, platforms and algorithms, visual cultures, and political communication. Recent work has involved analyses of digital popular culture during U.S. elections and legacies of gender stereotyping in selfies. They are currently undertaking a multi-year study of social media and identity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Butkowski draws from a background in art history, material culture, and museum studies to situate contemporary digital and visual media within wider historical contexts of communication practice. They also specialize in social scientific media research methods, including content analysis and in-depth interviewing. Butkowski's research has been recognized with support from major funding organizations and awards at national and international conferences. Their work can also be found in a number of leading communication journals, including New Media & Society; Social Media + Society; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Communication, Culture & Critique; and Feminist Media Studies. Butkowski is also affiliated with the UNC Center on Information Technology and Public Life (CITAP) and the UPenn Center on Digital Culture & Society (CDCS).
