Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Gordon is a Research Director with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) focusing on sustainable finance. Gordon has worked across financial systems in a variety of capacities over a thirty-year career and was one of the first employees of the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, founded what is now the PRI Academy and in 2020 co-authored the Australian Sustainable Finance Roadmap released by the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton Dr Gillian Kennedy is currently a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. Previously she was a a Leverhulme Fellow at King's College London, where her research focused on diaspora networks among British-Egyptians, while also providing foreign policy analysis for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her book ‘From Independence to Revolution: Egypt’s Islamists and the Contest for Power’, was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press and released in 2017.
Reader in Engineering, King's College London Grazia's research focuses on solving the challenges related to the integration of power electronics devices in transmission and distribution systems, focusing on power quality issues. She has professional experience in addition to her academic accolades, and is also active in public engagement activities, with the aim of promoting STEM subjects within groups that are currently under-represented.
Senior Lecturer of Sociology, University of Ghana I specialise in sociology of development and migration. I currently teach principles of social organisation, diversity of peoples and cultures, and culture and development at the University of Ghana Selected Publications Ampah Geraldine Asiwome (2022). Matched sampling methodology reconsidered: The role of trust in studying remittance transfers between Ghanaian immigrants in the UK and their relatives in Ghana. African Affairs, 121(482) pp. 131-150. Kandilige Leander and Ampah Geraldine Asiwome. (2022). Gaps in protection for West African migrants in times of crisis: The role of a multi-stakeholder platform within a partnership in preparedness model? In Joseph Teye (Ed.) Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader. Gewerbestrasse Cham: Spirnger. Bjola Cornelius, Manor, Ilan, and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2022). Diaspora Diplomacy in the Digital Age. In L. Kennedy (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy. Oxford: Routledge. Kandilige, Leander and Ampah, Geraldine Asiwome (2022). ‘Door‐to‐door’: An emerging transnational business model along the Global North‐Global South migration corridor. Population, Space Place. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2597 Geraldine Asiwome Adiku & Leander Kandilige (2021) Co-creation of transnational livelihoods through ‘door-to- door’ shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridor, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1901674 Kandilige, Leander and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2019). The Quagmire of Return and Reintegration: Challenges to Multi-Stakeholder Co-ordination of Involuntary Returns. International Migration. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12644 Kandilige Leander and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2019). ‘Returns of failure: Involuntary return migration and social change in Ghana’. In Paolo Boccagni, Remus Anghel, and Margit Fauser (Eds) Transnational return and social change: Social hierarchies, ideas, and social identities. (pp. 63-81). Anthem: London. Kandilige Leander, Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome, Setrana Mary, Teye Joseph and Peterson Maame. (2019). The role of door to door shipping operators in Ghanaian international migration. Research Report for the University of Ghana. Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2017). ‘Negotiating transnational intimacy: A study of Ghanaian couples.’ Ghana Social Science Journal 14(1) pp. 161-192. Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome and Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya. (2016). Patriarchal norms in reverse remittance behaviour among Ghanaian transnational couples. Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana Reader.
Professor of Management, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University Grant Michelson is Professor of Management in Macquarie Business School. He is an elected member of Macquarie University Academic Senate representing the Business School from 2021 until the end of 2024 (two terms of two years). His research interests include business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), organisational behaviour (especially the role of communication in organisations), and how people experience work.
Assistant Professor, Human Plurality, Université de l'Ontario français Guillermo Candiz is a Ph.D. in geography from Université Laval, an assistant professor in human plurality at the Université de l’Ontario français, and a member of the Canada Research Chair on Global Migration Dynamics. His research focuses on the migratory projects and trajectories of irregular migrants in Americas and Morocco. His doctoral and post-doctoral work was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et culture (FRQSC). Dr. Candiz has also conducted research on migrant farmworkers in the Quebec region and Mexico, and on intergenerational care. He has published several scientific research articles in academic and popular science journals and books. His most recent publications are "The right to the city or the right to mobility? Central American asylum seekers waiting in the urban space of Tijuana". The Canadian Geographer (2021); Intensity and Uncertainty: Performing Border Conflicts at the US-Mexico Borderlands. Population, Space and Place (2021) and Containing mobile citizenship: changing geopolitics and its impact on solidarity activism in Mexico. Citizenship Studies (2020), co-authored with Tanya Basok.
