Senior Research Fellow in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide I am an evolutionary biologist, interested in understanding how the Earth's biodiversity came to be. In 2011, I completed a PhD at the Natural History Museum, London, on a group of cryptic amphibians called caecilians. They are limbless, head-first burrowing animals, and I used museum-based collections and cutting-edge imaging techniques to investigate how their skull evolved. Since then I have held research appointments at institutions including Harvard University, Australian National University and University of Adelaide. I have studied a diversity of animals including rabbits, bivalved scallops, lizards, frogs and their tadpoles, and sea snakes. I am an expert in the statistical analysis of organismal form, a software creator, and a passionate educator.
Reader, Aberystwyth University I am a historian of early modern Wales, with special interests in religion, culture and society. I have published extensively on eighteenth-century Wales in particular, but have also worked on print culture in Wales more broadly and on early Welsh Nonconformity. Other interests include the history of crime and of landownership, especially in south-west Wales. I am the editor of Ceredigion, the journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society. I am also a member of a number of editorial boards, including for 'Studies in Welsh History' for the University of Wales Press.
Sustainability Researcher, Queen's University, Ontario I am Sustainability Researcher with other 15 years of work experience. Over the years, I have worked with several international development agencies including the Government of Tanzania and international development organizations including The World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), German Development Agency (GIZ), and Pathfinder International and others where I was engaged in programs management, monitoring and evaluation, research, policy advisory for the development of forestry, agriculture and renewable energy sectors in Tanzania. In research, I have a passion for and interest in agriculture-food related research with a focus on small-scale farming systems in Africa. My broad areas of interest are to explore how policies can propel agriculture innovations (technologies) and their adoption, acceptance, and use among under-resourced farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa. As a researcher, I employ qualitative techniques to explore and understand socially and economically sound solutions addressing day to day livelihood and environmental challenges of rural communities. I am also a Founder of MAVUNO LAB, one of the first post-harvest innovation centers based in Morogoro, Tanzania, with a mission to develop low cost and affordable technologies, products, and services to mitigate post-harvest food losses in Tanzania. We work with young graduate engineers to design and come up with affordable solution to prevent and reduce food loss and waste in Tanzania.
Professor in Drama Studies, University College Dublin Eamonn Jordan is Professor in Drama Studies and former Subject Head (2011-2014) at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. His book The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997) is the first full-length study on McGuinness's work. In 2000, he edited Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. He co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories (2006). His book Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre was published in 2010 by Irish Academic Press. In 2012, he co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Conor McPherson:' Right beside the Beyond'. In 2014 his monograph From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh was published by Irish Academic Press. In 2016 he introduced and selected with Finola Cronin The Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader for Carysfort Press, a publication with over 70 essays. September 2018 saw the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, a work he co-edited with Eric Weitz. The Theatre and Film of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities has been published by Methuen Bloomsbury in February 2019. In 2020, Justice and the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh was published by Palgrave as part of its Pivot series of publications.
Immunologist, FNRS Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles Master en Sciences Zoologiques (orientation biologie moléculaire) à l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgique. Doctorat en Sciences Zoologiques (immunologie cellulaire) à l'ULB (1992-1997). Spécialisation postdoctorale en biochimie (1997-1999, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Moléculaire, ULB), en parasitologie (1999-2002, Laboratoire de Parasitologie, ULB) et en immunologie infectieuse (2002-2004, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM URM 6097, Nice, France). Présentement Maître de recherche au F.R.S.-FNRS., attaché au laboratoire de Parasitologie de la Faculté de Médecine de l'ULB et collaborateur scientifique à l'Unité de recherche en biologie des micro-organismes (URBM) de l'Université de Namur (UNamur). Je me consacre principalement à l'étude théorique et expérimentale de la relation hôte pathogène, ainsi qu'à l'enseignement de l'Immunologie. Je tente également de contribuer au développement de la théorie de l'évolution.
Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario I have an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario. I am currently a fellow at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. I have held that position since 2011. I have been awarded three year-long fellowships: the Southam Fellowship at Massey College at the University of Toronto in 1986-87;the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT and Harvard in 1996-1997, and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy in 2006. This award is a collaborative project of the Atkinson Foundation, the Honderich Family and Toronto Star. The focus of my fellowship was a series of articles on how climate change is reshaping the Arctic. Since 2009, I have been a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360, an international online journal offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people. Yale 360 is published by Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. To view my articles, go to: http://e360.yale.edu/authors/ed-struzik Since 2016 I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, a citizens' organization dedicated to the long-term environmental and social well-being of northern Canada and its peoples. CARC has been a major voice on Arctic issues for the past 40 years. I have written five books, four of them on the Arctic. Future Arctic, Fields Notes From A World on the Edge was published by Island Press in Washington D.C. in 2015. I have also contributed chapters to several other books. Two of the most recent are: Reflections of Canada, Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150 years, (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 2017) and It’s All Happening So Fast, which was published in 2017 by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. I have played the role of advisor for the World Wildlife Fund of Canada’s Arctic Program. I was also on one of the selection committees for the International Polar Year conference that was held in Montreal in 2012. The IPY From Knowledge to Action Conference was one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. Keynote presentations, thought-provoking panel discussions and workshops involved hundreds of scientists from around the world. My long list of awards includes the U.S.-based Grantham Prize for environmental writing, the Michener Deacon Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, which goes to one person each year who has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of science in Canada. My articles on the Arctic have appeared in journals such as Foreign Policy Review, Arctic, Conservation Biology, The World Policy Institute’s Arctic-in-Context and Conservation Biology, to name just a few
