Assistant Professor of Vet Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University Researcher investigating differences between infants and adults immunologically with respect to why the young often get more sick with viruses. Investigating new mRNA vaccines and protein vaccines for diseases that infect humans and ag animals especially focused on coronaviruses, influenza (seasonal and high path), RSV, and parainfluenza. Investigating basic nucleic acid structures in RSV and competition between Sars-CoV-2 and RSV for infection in the same individuals.
Senior Lecturer in Law, London South Bank University I am a lecturer in law with the department of Law and Social Sciences. I joined LSBU in September 2021, having previously worked in a Hong Kong law school and at the University of Nottingham. My research investigates business-related human rights issues with a focus on socio-economic rights and markets for essential resources. I have published extensively in the field of business and human rights, including in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Business and Human Rights Journal, and Transnational Legal Theory. I co-edited the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business, and I currently lead the Human Rights and Political Economy research group at the Business and Human Rights Global Scholars Association.
Research Fellow in Health Economics, Monash University Danusha Jayawardana is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. Her current research focuses on mental health, economics of child and adolescent development and healthcare service use. Her other research interests extend to broad areas of Applied Microeconometrics and Development Economics, with a particular focus on adverse effects of issues such as child labour, child marriage in developing countries, and the effectiveness of social protection programs in addressing such issues. Danusha received her PhD in Economics from the University of Adelaide in 2020 and was awarded the Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Prior to joining Monash, Danusha was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.
Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London Dina Matar is professor of Political Communication and Arab media at SOAS. She teaches and researches on critical issues on global media and communication with a focus on the Global South. She is specifically interested in the intersection of communication and politics, political cultures, communication and conflict/.war, social movements and media; digital activism; strategic communication and gender and media in the Arab world. She is co-author of the Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (Hurst, 2014) and author of "What it Means to Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (I.B. Tauris, 2010). She is co-editor of "Narrated Conflict in the Middle East (2013) and Gaza as Metaphor (2016). She is also founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (since 2008) and book series editor of "Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (2022) and the SOAS Palestine Studies Series, both published by Bloomsbury Academic, London. She is co-editor of the Media, War and Conflict journal. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a senior visiting research fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre..
Operational Meteorologist : Bureau of Meteorology (South Australian region) 2002 to 2008 Senior Climatologist : Bureau of Meteorology ( South Australian region) 2008 to 2019 Consulting climatologist : 2020 to present PhD candidate (paleoclimate) : University of Adelaide 2021 to present Principal Climate Change Analyst : Dept of Environment and Water South Australia 2022 to present
Associate Professor of Communication, Lesley University Donna L. Halper is a former deejay, music director, and radio consultant, who spent more than three decades in broadcasting before reinventing herself as a professor and a media historian. She came to Lesley University in 2008 to develop and teach courses related to the study of communication and media, including Media Analysis, Introduction to Communication, and Introduction to Journalism. A devotee of a school of thought called Media Ecology (which focuses on the media as environments), Donna’s teaching is informed by her knowledge of popular culture, media history, and media effects. She is the author of six books and many articles, and she has been widely quoted by reporters seeking information about local and national media trends. Her research interests include the study of representations of women and minorities in media; early baseball history; and unsung heroes and heroines in the history of broadcasting. Donna is often a guest on local radio talk shows, and she has also been heard on a number of podcasts and seen on numerous webcasts. In addition to teaching, Donna is the editor of the Lesley Public Post (Lesley University's student newspaper). She is also a blogger, and a frequently-published freelance writer whose articles have appeared in print and online. She has given many guest lectures at libraries, civic organizations, and other universities, both in-person and on Zoom. And she is known for having discovered the classic rock band Rush, who dedicated two albums to her; she can be seen in the 2010 documentary “Beyond the Lighted Stage.” In 2023, Donna was chosen for induction into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, where she received the Pioneer Broadcaster Award. Donna’s hobbies include reading, stamp collecting, and collecting rare memorabilia about media history. Donna Halper holds a BA in English from Northeastern University, an M.Ed in Counseling and an MA in English from Northeastern University, and a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
