Professor of Psychology, Amherst College I received my Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University in 1973. I joined the faculty at Amherst College in 1975 where I am currently the Clarence Francis (1910) Professor in Social Sciences (Psychology). For my first 20 years at Amherst College, my research interests focused on gender and communication. I authored Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Differences (Oxford University Press, 1996). My research interests shifted to issues of race and class. I carried out 12-year interview study of affluent Black, affluent white, lower-income Black, and lower-income white students of Amherst College looking at the challenges they faced on campus due to their race and class and what they learned from the race and class diversity in the student body. I completed two books about their college experiences and learning: Race and Class Matters at an Elite College (Temple University Press, 2008) and Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College (Temple University Press, 2013). I did follow-up interviews with the participants at age 30 examining participants' reflections on what they learned from exposure to race and class diversity during college and how that learning has impacted their lives. My new book, The Impact of College Diversity: Struggles and Successes at Age 30 will be published by Temple University Press in April, 2023.
I am currently an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School, that I joined in October 2021, after obtaining my PhD degree in management science at ESCP Business School in management sciences. My research develops around two streams. One stream focuses on the organizing mechanisms of internet platforms and social media, and the mechanisms by which cross-platform organizations emerge, such as social movements, that I studied through the case of QAnon, the conspiratorial social movement. Another stream is interested in the manner by which artificial intelligence (AI) shapes organizations and society, focusing specifically on the socio-technical imaginaries of AI. Originally, I a trained engineer, I hold a master degree (2013) from a French Grande École, ENSIMAG, and carried my last year at Imperial College (mathematics department). During my studies, I carried two research internships, one at INRIA in bioinformatics (4 months), and one at Imperial Colleger in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department in theoretical machine learning (6 months). From 2013 until 2017 I worked in industry as a data scientist and a quantitative analyst.
Emilija Pundziūtė-Gallois, docteure en science politique et relations internationales, est actuellement chercheure à l'Université Vytautas Magnus de Kaunas, Lituanie, et docteure associée au Centre d'Études et de Recherches de Sciences Administratives et Politiques (CERSA) à Paris Panthéon-Assas. Elle est spécialiste en relations internationales, sociologie de la politique étrangère, action diplomatique, sécurité européenne et résolution des conflits avec un focus sur la Russie et sur la région baltique.
Senior Lecturer Criminology, University of East London I am thoroughly enjoying my work at the fabulously diverse University of East London. As a working class academic I have adopted an intersectional feminist approach to my research, teaching, and engagement which tackles some of the most urgent problems across policing. I am interested in how police culture remains toxic, how stop and search impacts community relations and how policewomen continue to undertake their role and responsibilities, remain resilient and stay in policing even given their own lived-experiences. At its heart, my scholarly activities are driven by a pursuit of equality, diversity and social justice and my work has made important contributions to our understanding of the history of women’s integration in policing and the arguments of sameness and difference which were used and applied to women, contributing to a deeper understanding of the challenges women in policing face and have faced. I have been asked by different media outlets for my expert comments for articles in The Guardian and INEWS, and I have made appearances on T.V programmes such as BBC NEWS Channel, Sky News, Channel 5 News and on the radio for 5 Live, BBC Wales and BBC Hertfordshire and Worcester. In working for UEL I have become involved in networks, blogs, and in writing short articles for the Sunday Times and Open Access Government articles about policing, misogyny and the toxic culture recently exposed in policing. I am asking questions about participation, in/exclusion, and using creative methods and approaches to present a more nuanced and complicated picture of policing problems.
Reader, Development Economics in Africa and Director, African Leadership Centre, King's College London Dr Eka Ikpe is Director and Reader (Development Economics in Africa) at the African Leadership Centre at King's. Her research offers a critical understanding of socio-economic transformation processes which advances concept-building that centres spaces in Africa and parts of the Global South across the fields of economic development and peace and security. Current themes of interest include, developmentalism, industrial development and structural transformation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and the economic costs of conflict and creative economies. Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-Global Challenges Research Fund, the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the International Development Research Centre. Eka is Co-Editor of Peace, Society and the State in Africa and African Perspectives of Leadership and Peacebuilding (Bloomsbury Press) and on the editorial boards of Africa Development, African Security Review and Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies. She is on the Research Advisory Committee of Women for Women International. Eka's research has supported the work of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the Economic Community of West African States, UK Ministry of Defence, UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa, UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (formerly DFID). Eka has commented on development, peace and security in Africa for BBC World News, BBC Radio 4, Al Jazeera and Radio France International. Eka holds a BA in Economics from the University of Leeds, MSc in Economics (with reference to Africa) and a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Senior Research Officer and Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Dr Elisha Josev is a Senior Research Officer at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. She is also a practicing Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist. Dr Josev has a special interest in the neuropsychological and neurological effects of disruption to normal brain development, and the impact of chronic health conditions on adolescent brain functioning and behaviour. She currently coordinates the Paediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Research Program at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
