Senior Lecturer of Exercise Physiology, University of Botswana Dr Dawn Tladi, Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, department of Sport Science. PhD, Movement Science (Exercise Physiology) from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in exercise science. Research interest: the use of physical activity and exercise interventions as a modality for disease prevention and promotion of healthy living. She has done research in the area of epidemiology of lifestyle diseases and the effects of exercise particularly, the metabolic syndrome among Batswana adults. She is currently involved in physical activity research in various populations and for various purposes in communities. Has done research on the effects of long term HIV/AIDS treatment on cognition, nutrition and physical fitness among adolescents in Botswana. She is currently leading a survey on the physical activity, dietary intake and physical fitness of school going age children in Botswana. With the event of COVID - 19, which brought to a stop of all the physical data collection, she embarked on an online COVID - 19 survey determining the impact of the lockdowns on physical activity, wellness and mental health of Batswana adults. She has quite recently brought down the physical activity research to early childhood in collaboration with the Sunrise international study. She has expertise in the field of exercise testing in general, be it for general fitness, high sports performance or research purposes. She is also an advocate for provision of physical education to all school going age children. She is currently the Botswana report card leader for the Global Matrix 4.0.
Professor of Political Science, Toronto Metropolitan University I am a professor of political science specializing in political economy and political behaviour. I design, implement and analyze large scale field experiments to answer questions about the impact of institutions, social, economic and political conditions on behaviour and attitudes.
Staff Tutor in History, The Open University I am military historian who has published extensively on warfare in the late Middle Ages (particularly on the Wars of the Roses) but also on modern armoured warfare. I am the author of books on both the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2 tanks.
Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, Binghamton University, State University of New York David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, SUNY. He has written widely on human rights, democracy, conflict, and ethics and foreign policy. His 2007 book with Rodwan Abouharb, "Human Rights and Structural Adjustment," (Cambridge University Press) demonstrated the negative human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF program lending in developing countries. He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Until 2012, he served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project, the largest and most widely used human rights data set in the world. Presently, he his colleagues are working in collaboration with the United States Political Instability Task Force on a successor to the CIRI project, which will be called the “C-RIGHTS” data project. He currently serves as the Co-director of the Binghamton University Human Rights Institute.
Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology, Oklahoma State University Devanshi Patel is a pre-internship graduate student in the Clinical program. Her research explores social perceptions of parenting and investigates stigma toward parents. Her thesis examines whether – and why – parents of children with "obesity" are stigmatized, and her future work will take intersectional approaches to understanding the role that body shape – along with target identity features (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity) – play in weight stigma.
Professor of Urban Studies, Georgia State University Dan Immergluck is Professor of Urban Studies at Georgia State University. His research concerns housing, race, neighborhood change, gentrification, segregation, real estate markets, and community development. Dr. Immergluck is the author of five books, and over 120 scholarly articles, book chapters, and research reports. He has consulted to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the US Department of Justice, philanthropic foundations, and local legal aid and other nonprofits and government agencies. Professor Immergluck has been cited and quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, WABE Radio, and many other international, national, and local media outlets. He has testified several times before the U.S. Congress and the Federal Reserve Board. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington, D.C. Recently, Dr. Immergluck served on Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ Transition Committee. His most recent book, Red-Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First Century Atlanta, was published in October 2022 by the University of California Press.
