Professor of Neurology, Gov. Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research, UMass Chan Medical School Dr. Gao is currently the Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research and Professor of Neurology at the UMass Chan Medical school. He received his PhD degree from Duke University and did postdoctoral trainings at UCL and UCSF. He started his own lab at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at UCSF in 2000 and moved to UMass Chan in 2010. Dr. Gao received a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the NINDS/NIH and a McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award from the McKnight Foundation. He was also a Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience and a Klingenstein Fellow in Neuroscience.
Directeur de l'EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, EDHEC Business School Frederic Blanc-Brude, Ph. D., est directeur de l'EDHEC Infrastructure Institute et de l'EDHEC Asie-Pacifique. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en finance (King's College London) et titulaire d'un diplôme de la London School of Economics, de la Sorbonne et de Sciences Po Paris. Il représente également l'EDHEC Business School au Conseil consultatif du Fonds mondial pour les infrastructures de la Banque mondiale.
Lecturer in Literature and Migration, University of Bristol My main research interests lie in colonial and postcolonial literatures and film, especially South Asian writing in English and the work of Salman Rushdie, British South Asian history, literature and film, Indian popular cinema and its representation in South Asian fiction. More broadly I am interested in twentieth-century and contemporary literatures and the development of the novel. My monograph, Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's novels and the Cinematic Imagination highlights the way in which Rushdie draws on the conventions, style and politics of Indian Popular Cinema in his exploration of the postcolonial subcontinent and the South Asian diaspora in fast-changing economic, social and global contexts. I have also published extensively on South Asian British history, including the case of Udham Singh, Aubrey Menen, South Asian soldiers in the First and Second World Wars, and South Asian seafarers. I have edited special issues for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing - India in Britain: Cross-Cultural Encounters, which highlights the vibrant South Asian publishing culture of 1930s-40s Britain; and a special issue on Writing Hong Kong (co-edited with Jeffrey Mather). I have completed the editing of a major new collection of essays for Cambridge University Press, Salman Rushdie in Context which is published in April 2023. Historically invested, my research draws extensively on archival collections in Britain, India and the USA.
Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen Dr Francesca Farrington is a Lecturer of Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen. Her research analyses the relationship between legal reforms and development outcomes from a global and pluralist legal perspective by adopting critical approaches to law and economics, comparative law, and jurisprudence. In addition, her research investigates the substantive and procedural barriers to the attainment of justice, with especial emphasis on transnational proceedings involving power asymmetries which may shield corporations from scrutiny. She is a member of the Anti-SLAPPs Research Hub at the University of Aberdeen and the Rule of Law and Economic Development (ROLED) Working Group at McGill University. She was recently appointed as an Associate on the POPBACK project (funded by the NORFACE network) which examines democratic backsliding and the crisis of the rule of law in the European Union from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She received her PhD from Cardiff University in 2000. She conducts research mainly in the areas of policing, violence and homicide. She is also interested in narrative and visual criminology. She has extensive experience of conducting in-depth interviews with violent offenders as well as with detectives and forensic scientists. She has undertaken ethnographic research of homicide investigation in the UK and US, which has included spending hundreds of hours shadowing homicide detectives, and following cases from crime scene to court. Fiona has over 80 publications including those in international journals and numerous chapters in edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making (Oxford: 2017), In Their Own Words (Oxford: 2013) and Narrative Criminology (New York: 2015). She is lead editor of the Handbook of Homicide (Wiley: 2017) and author of Understanding Homicide (Sage: 2022) (2nd edition). Fiona is Director of the Criminal Investigation Research Network (https://criminology.research.southwales.ac.uk/cirn/). CIRN aims to advance knowledge on the theory and practice of major crime investigation. The network brings together leading academics from around the world with expertise in major crime investigation and senior investigating officers and practitioners at the forefront of developing practice and strategy. Fiona is a member of a Home Office Expert Advisory Panel on Serious Violence Policy and Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University Femke is a social scientist working in the field of disaster and humanitarian studies. She specialises in knowledge management for disaster mitigation, response and recovery – with a special focus on localised, participatory and inclusive approaches. She has a university teaching qualification (UTQ). Femke has a background in organisation sciences and social anthropology. Her research focuses on knowledge management (KM) in disaster and humanitarian settings. To date, she has studied disaster KM in the context of earthquakes, climate change, global health (esp. HIV/AIDS), conflict and displacement. She is trained and experienced in both qualitative and quantitative social research methods. Femke has over 15 years of experience in programme management and policy research for government and global NGOs. Spoken Languages English Dutch (native) Spanish (professional working proficiency) Research interests Disaster management Knowledge management Sociology of disasters Humanitarian studies Organisation sciences Social anthropology Qualifications PG Dip Social Research Methods, The Open University MA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London BA International Development and History, SOAS University of London Memberships, editorial boards Advisory Board Member, DATAWAR project, Sciences Po Lille, France Member, International Humanitarian Studies Association, International Institute of Social Sciences, the Netherlands Guest editor, Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies, Disaster Prevention and Management (2022) 31(1-2).
