Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University Dr. Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, and a Stockholm Prize Laureate in Criminology. His most recent publications are “Black Success, White Backlash,” (The Atlantic, November 2023), an introduction to a new edition of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), and “The Fault Lines of Race and Space”: an interview by Jelani Cobb, published online in Vital City on 4/28. Other publications include “The Benevolent Despot” in the DuBois Handbook (forthcoming from Oxford University Press); Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (2022); Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003); and The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, (2011). Professor Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and three prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, including the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2021 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement. Dr. Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is formerly a vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Science and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, he served as a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior. In 2021, he was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the world’s most prestigious award in the field.
Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design + Temporary Practices, Auckland University of Technology Bachelor of Design (Spatial) Masters of Art + Design Doctor of Philosophy I have worked at Auckland University of Technology in a variety of roles (both academic and professional) for the last eight years. The academic role constitutes teaching within the school of Art + Design in the Spatial Design Major, and in the Temporary Practices Minor. My creative led interdisciplinary research practice fluctuates between installation-as-performance, object, sculpture, photography and moving image. My work circulates around questions of language, silence and ineffability in relation to mourning, the maternal and otherness. A keen focus on temporality and extended duration underpins my spatial practice.
PhD Candidate, Université de Dschang Miranda is receiving funding for her PhD through a grant from CLEAN-Air(Africa), which is based at the University of Liverpool https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4748-560X
Senior Lecturer at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University My research focuses on freshwater aquatic systems, particularly the Eurasian otter and British amphibians. I head the Cardiff University Otter Project (CUOP), a research and monitoring project run collaboratively with the Environment Agency. Using the otter as a model species, we address fundamental questions about freshwater systems and population biology. For example, molecular genetic analysis is used to explore the influence of landscape on population connectivity, and to allow epidemiological modelling of recently introduced biliary parasites; stable isotope analysis is applied to investigate nutrient cycling, and volatile analysis of gland material is used to investigate scent communication. Research in amphibian ecology focuses particularly on phenology and climate change, and the effect of environmental cues on behaviour.
Assistant Professor of Governance, Utrecht University Erna Ruijer is assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG). She worked as a researcher in the multidisciplinary EU Horizon 2020 project ROUTE-TO-PA. In this three your project she worked with 12 partners from 6 different countries. Her research activities focus on the re-use of open data for public problems, data and social equity, and data collaboratives. Erna teaches in the bachelor and master program. Erna obtained her Ph.D. in Public policy and Administration at the Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Before returning to academia Erna worked as a policy maker for the city of Amsterdam and as a consultant at a firm specialized in government communication.
Research assistant, University of Technology Sydney Emily Booth is a casual academic and research assistant at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Her PhD research explored how teenagers respond to adult influence on their reading practices in the contexts of leisure reading, school reading, and industry engagement. In 2019, she was awarded the UTS Social Impact Grant in-full for her project, ‘Investigating the publication of Australian picture books by and about people from diverse communities in 2018’, in partnership with Australian advocacy group Voices From the Intersection. In 2021, she received the Frances Henne Research Grant from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) for her project exploring connections between teenagers fiction reading and online misinformation practices. She is the inaugural student member of the UTS Human Research Ethics Committee, and is also a member of the University Student Conduct Committee (USCC) and Student Misconduct Appeals Committee (SMAC). She has published widely on diversity in Australia’s young adult fiction publishing industry. Outside of academia, she's worked in the publishing industry for a decade as a specialist in children's and young adult literature. She created and hosted the 'YABookmeet' event (2015-2020), hosting monthly interviews with 50+ local and international authors and academics and discussion groups with readers of all ages. In 2018, Emily became the first internationally-based contributor to global readers’ advisory service NoveList. She has presented at writers' festivals and conferences, and in 2019 she hosted the sold-out Sydney event for New York Times Best-Selling author Sarah J. Maas on her 'Kingdom of Ash' World Tour at City Recital Hall, at the request of Bloomsbury Australia. In 2021, she hosted the Australia and New Zealand event for Sarah J. Maas' 'A Court of Silver Flames' World Tour. In her role as a founding member of the Executive Board of the international YA Studies Association (YASA) (2020—), she has co-organised two international conferences in 2020 and 2022. The first featured 600+ attendees and presenters from 45 countries, 70+ individual pre-recorded papers, and 28 live events including roundtables, workshops, and social events.
