Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Dal Yong Jin is a Distinguished SFU Professor. After working as a journalist for many years, he completed his Ph.D. in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois in 2005. Jin’s major research and teaching interests are on digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. He is the author of numerous books, including Korea’s Online Gaming Empire (MIT Press, 2010), New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media (University of Illinois Press, 2016), Smartland Korea: mobile communication, culture and society (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age (Routledge, 2019), and Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia (ed. Routledge, 2020). Jin has also published many articles in scholarly journals, such as New Media and Society, The Information Society, Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Communication, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New Media, Games and Culture, and Information Communication and Society. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia while directing the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at SFU.
Lecturer, University of Oxford A biomedical scientist who made the jump into Higher Education, and Health Professions Education, research, theory and practice. A lecturer and researcher at the University of Oxford's Department of Education (Medical Education), and honourary research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technology (BEAHT) Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences. Academic qualifications: BSc (Human Physiology and Genetics), BMedSc(Hons) and MScMed (both in Medical Cell Biology), PhD (Health Sciences Education) ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-4973-0699
Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte Danielle N. Boaz is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she offers courses on human rights, social justice, and the law. Dr. Boaz is the author of Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora and Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur. Her website, www.religiousracism.org, tracks cases of discrimination and violence against religious communities in North America and Brazil. Dr. Boaz is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Africana Religions. From 2023-2024, Dr. Boaz is a public fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute.
PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University Danielle (Dani) Howe is a PhD Candidate at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. Her PhD is focused on the Endo@Work project: developing and evaluating employer guidelines for supporting those with endometriosis in the workplace. Her PhD work is in partnership Endometriosis Australia and under the supervision of Dr Mike Armour, Dr Michelle O’Shea and Dr Sarah Duffy. Dani has nearly a decade of industry experience working in the community and international development sectors working in monitoring, evaluation and learning, working across Canada, UK, Australia, the Gambia, Sierra Leonne, Togo, Zambia, Occupied Territory of Palestine, and Bangladesh. Through her work she maintained a special interest in developing and integrating inclusive menstrual health education initiatives into wider community public health, education & primary prevention of gender-based-violence programs. Upon her return to academia, Dani’s research interests are in improving inclusive menstrual literacy, and reproductive and menstrual-related health outcomes. She is concerned in understanding and illuminating how inequities in menstrual health are reproduced in broader organisation and institutional contexts, ultimately driving gender inequity.
Professor of political science, University of New Hampshire Dante Scala is an expert on the New Hampshire Primary, presidential politics, NH politics, political campaigns and debates, and the U.S. presidency.
Associate Professor of Marketing, Texas Tech University Deidre Popovich is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. She earned a Ph.D. in Marketing from Emory University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on consumer psychology, including how decision contexts and information cues can influence consumer decision making and self control. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Behavior Research Methods, among others. Her previous industry experience includes working as a marketing research manager for a national nonprofit organization and as a strategy consultant for a top-ten healthcare consulting firm.
