Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of the West of Scotland Dr. Dalia Alazzeh is a lecturer in accounting and finance at the University of West of Scotland (UWS) and Early Career Researcher (ECR). Dalia has completed her PhD degree at the University of Essex through Essex doctoral scholarship and her thesis contributed to the growing literature on public sector accounting in settler-colonial context. Dalia received her MSc in International Accounting and Finance from the University of Sussex through the HESPAL British council scholarship scheme. Dalia’s research interests focus on public sector accounting, environmental accounting, and management accounting research broadly. Dalia is an associate fellow of higher education and has almost 9 years of academic experience in the UK and overseas. Dalia has recently attended big data course with the university of Cambridge/2020. Other Professional qualifications include a diploma in IPSAS/CIPFA and CertPFM/ ACCA.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago Dennis is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Otago, the President of the New Zealand Association of Economists, and Associate Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Dennis is a theoretical macroeconomist by training but has both theoretical and empirical interests across various fields. His research activity is split between macroeconomic topics and the interaction between climate, environment and society. His research is interdisciplinary in nature and covers macroeconomics (especially monetary and fiscal policy), economic development, labour, health and environmental impacts. He earned a Diploma in (Theoretical) Economics from the University in Kiel and received his Doctorate (Doctor rerum politicarum) from the University of Hamburg. In between, he worked as a researcher for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute , The University of Edinburgh Deborah Fry is a Professor of International Child Protection Research at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Data for Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute. At the University, Deborah undertakes primary research to measure the magnitude, drivers and consequences of violence against children, barriers and enablers to appropriate prevention and response systems including in school settings and the effectiveness of existing interventions. Professor Fry leads the data division at Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute. The Data Institute, funded by the Human Dignity Foundation, aims to take a data driven, evidence-based approach to understanding the prevalence of child sexual exploitation and abuse across the globe and translating that data into sustainable action that safeguards children. The mission is to establish a world leading independent institute that gathers, translates and visualises the prevalence of child sexual exploitation and abuse across the world. The institute is supported by the University of Edinburgh’s scientific expertise, including the End Violence Lab which Professor Fry co-founded, the Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Data-Driven Innovation Programme and the Global Health Academy. From 2019 to present, Professor Fry serves as the academic lead for the University of Edinburgh for a Long-Term Agreement with UNICEF on child protection research, administrative data and training. Professor Fry leads studies commissioned by UNICEF offices globally on understanding the nature and drivers of violence against children and using this data for evidence-based programming and policy changes and recommendations. In addition, Professor Fry was the academic Principal Investigator of a multi-country study exploring the drivers of violence affecting children in collaboration with the UNICEF Office of Research, Innocenti from 2013 to 2018. And in 2012, Professor Fry secured a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship to longitudinally examine the knowledge, attitudes and perceived self-efficacy of new teachers in responding to issues of bullying and safeguarding in the classroom. Professor Fry also undertakes postgraduate teaching and administration and teaches courses on research methods and child protection research and is the Deputy Director of Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact for the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining the University, Professor Fry was Research Director at the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. During her time at the Alliance, she was the Principal Investigator (PI) on nine primary research studies on sexual violence and abuse in New York City ranging from participatory action research with immigrant communities to research with young people. Deborah has a PhD by Research Publications from the University of Edinburgh, a Master of Arts degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, her Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University. Professor Fry was also a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2001 to 2002 and a Marie Curie Fellow from 2012 to 2015.
Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria Dr. David Castle is a Professor of science, technology and innovation policy in the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria. His research focuses socio-economic aspects of biodiversity, especially natural capital accounting and access and benefits sharing of genetic resources. He is a Research in Residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Canada where he advises on science policy, open science, research security, major research infrastructure, and biodiversity. He Chairs the Science Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies and is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Science Council’s World Data System (WDS).
Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Cornell University I am interested in host pathogen interactions in human retrovirus infections, including HIV-1 and human endogenous retroviruses.
Senior Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College London I am a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics Section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. My research focuses on the complex mechanics of turbulent multiphase flows in civil and environmental engineering problems, such as the transport of plastics/litter in rivers or the hydraulics of high-head hydraulic structures. I am also interested in the role and risks of water infrastructure in the context of climatic and anthropogenic futures.
