Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol I am a medically-qualified clinical neuroscientist and anatomist, based at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol. I initially graduated from Bristol with a BSc in Neuroscience, before proceeding to the University of Warwick to study medicine at graduate entry. I returned to my home in the South West of England to undertake Foundation and General Practice specialist training within the Severn Deanery. I qualified in 2016 and have been working in primary care in the BNSSG region ever since. My main clinical interests and expertise are in neurology and ophthalmology, musculoskeletal medicine and paediatrics. I joined the University of Bristol as an academic in 2016, becoming a Lecturer at the School of Anatomy in 2018. I was appointed Senior Lecturer at the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience in 2023. I teach across the medical, dental and vet programmes, as well as widening participation and BSc students studying health and life sciences, including Neuroscience, Anatomy and Physiology. I supervise final year science students for dissertation projects across a wide range of clinically associated topics. My academic interests lie within the teaching of clinically-orientated biomedical disciplines, and their relevance to body function, and both medical and surgical practice across the three professional programmes. I also contribute to pedagogical research, and outreach/public engagement initiatives, promoting the value and importance of life sciences through presentations and writing.
Professeur des sciences de l'information et de la communication, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France Divina Frau-Meigs est normalienne, agrégée et professeur à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Boursière Fulbright et Lavoisier, elle est diplômée de l’université de la Sorbonne, de l’université de Stanford (Palo Alto) et de l’Annenberg School for Communications (université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie). Sociologue des médias, elle est spécialiste des contenus et comportements à risque (violence, pornographie, information, paniques médiatiques, radicalisation…). Elle travaille aussi aux questions de réception et d’usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication (acculturation, éducation, réglementation, identité, diversité culturelle…). Elle détient la chaire UNESCO « savoir-devenir à l’ère du développement numérique durable : articuler usages et apprentissages pour maîtriser les cultures de l’information ». Elle a dirigé l'ANR TRANSLIT (convergence entre éducation aux médias, à l'information et à l'informatique). Elle a été un des porteurs du consortium européen ECO qui a pour but de créer des MOOCs à des fins d’usages pédagogiques des médias et du numérique. Elle a piloté également le projet Erasmus+ ECFOLI qui vise à la résolution de conflit par l'éducation aux médias et à l'information (Chypre, Maroc, Palestine, Portugal). Elle a présidé le Défi 8 de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche "Sociétés innovantes, intégrantes et adaptatives". Elle est à présent présidente de l'ONG Savoir*Devenir (www.savoirdevenir.net), qui porte des projets en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et à la citoyenneté numérique et s'adosse à la Chaire UNESCO "Savoir Devenir à l'ère du développement numérique durable". Savoir*Devenir propose des formations en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et littératie numérique pour les enseignants, les éducateurs, les bibliothécaires et les formateurs. Les projets internationaux remportés par S*D sont: Youcheck! (vérification de faits et littératie visuelle), YouVerify (MOOC et jeux sérieux pour lutter contre la désinformation), Play Your Role (jeux sérieux pour combattre le discours de haine), JAMIL (formation de formateurs et montage de centre EMI en Tunisie), Crossover (pour promouvoir l'algo-littératie). D'autres projets sont en cours: ENID-TEACH (MOOC pour former aux méthdologies numériques), ALGOWATCH (quizz et jeu pour former à l'algo- et IA-littératie), GENDER-ED (pour former aux représentations de genre) et AIDEMEDIA (pour créer un festival d'éducation aux médias et journalisme) A cela s'ajoutent des expertises pour le CoE, l'UE et l'UNESCO ainsi qu'un certain nombre de gouvernements et institutions dans le monde.
Associate Professor of Health Policy, Ohio University “People are sometimes surprised to learn that a political scientist is on faculty at a medical school,” Skinner said. “But politics is at the heart of the policy process, and shapes everything from how professional relationships are formed to changes in our health care system. We need to be politically astute to make good policy, and we need physicians to be involved in these decisions.” Skinner teaches a range of subjects, from the nuts and bolts of Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act, to more recent questions about cost, access, and quality in American health care, including in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. His teaching often emphasizes the challenges of navigating a political culture that is often at odds with what we know about best practices for delivering high quality health care to more and more Americans, as well as the complexity of the American health care system itself, which has a long history that is difficult to simply rework. Skinner oversees a required rotation that teaches fourth-year medical and other health professions students about the foundations of health care policy and politics, and co-directs the osteopathic profession’s national health policy fellowship, which trains mid-career osteopathic medical professionals about policy formulation, development, and advocacy. This experience has informed his understanding of how medical education, residency, and professional practice shape health professionals’ understanding of policy. He is currently writing a book on the history of physician advocacy and activism. Skinner provides a level-headed, balanced approach to policy in the political arena and can speak expertly on many topics, including the successes of--but also challenges presented by--the Affordable Care Act; the prospect of establishing a national health care system; the politics of American hospitals; and the role of physicians in policy, from climate change to reproductive health care. He is also deeply engaged in health policy within Ohio, and can speak to a wide range of topics and controversies. Skinner has significant professional experience in political communication, both as a consultant on political campaigns and as a scholar, which has led him to emphasize the importance of effective messaging and rhetorical strategy in health politics and policy, and public health. Prior to joining Ohio University, Skinner taught at Capital University in Ohio, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and City University of New York-Hunter College. He speaks regularly about health care and politics throughout North America and beyond, including as a Visiting Professor at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. Skinner is Editor-in-Chief of World Medical & Health Policy, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal; Co-Director of the Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship, a national policy training program for osteopathic professionals; and Director of Ohio University’s Comparative Health Systems--Cuba program, in which Ohio University students travel to Cuba to learn about the Latin American country’s health care system. Skinner also hosts "Prognosis Ohio," a weekly podcast about health and health care in Ohio, affiliated with the Central Ohio NPR radio station, WCBE. In addition to many peer-reviewed articles published in journals such as The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; The Journal of Rural Health; The Journal of Medical Humanities; The Review of Politics; and Public Administration Review, Skinner is author of Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), co-editor (with Ohio University professor Berkeley Franz) of Not Far From Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Ohio State University Press, 2019), and author (with Franz and UMASS sociologist Jonathan R. Wynn) of The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Skinner earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from City University of New York, The Graduate Center.
Associate Professor and Director of Research Communication in the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia David Girling is an Associate Professor and Director of Research Communication in the School of Global Development (DEV). He is a Chartered Marketer with over 25 years marketing and communications experience in the public and non-profit sector. David has been actively involved on a number of committees and judging panels including The Chartered Institute of Marketing Higher Education Group, The Chartered Institute of Marketing Charity Group, HEIST Awards for Marketing Excellence and the Rusty/Golden Radiator awards for online videos promoting best practice in development communication. His interests are multidisciplinary, but has particular expertise in strategic marketing, communications, PR, branding, digital and social media. David's research focuses on two main areas: social media for development and humanitarian communication. He is particularly interested in how imagery is used in development communications and led on a research study of visual communication in six African countries. His research Who Owns the Story, involves live financial testing of charity versus participant led storytelling in fundraising. He regularly tweet about issues in social media and international development.
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto David Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He holds the Albert Abel Chair of Law and was appointed in 2015 to the rank of University Professor. He has taught in South Africa, England, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Hungary, Mexico and the USA. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2014-15, he was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science in Cambridge. In 2016-17, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2020-21, he was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Professor Dyzenhaus is the author of Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy (now in its second edition), Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller in Weimar, and Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order. He has edited and co-edited several collections of essays. In 2004 he gave the JC Smuts Memorial Lectures to the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University. These were published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 as The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency. He is editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal and co-editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. His most recent book is The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, Hart (Cambridge, 2022).
Hudson T. Harrison Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, Wheaton College (Illinois) Denise is the inaugural Hudson T. Harrison Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Wheaton College (IL). Previously she was Professor of Management at Seattle Pacific University. She earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Washington. Her scholarly interests include meaningful work, Sabbath, leadership, gender, and motivation; her recent work has focused on how people understand and engage their faith at work.
