Professor of Crop Science, University of Cambridge My research focuses on understanding the signalling and developmental processes in plants that allow interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that facilitate the capture of nutrients from the environment. My mission is to eradicate the need for inorganic fertilisers in agriculture, through the use of these beneficial microbial associations. We aim to achieve this through optimising the use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that form associations with most crop plants and through the transfer of the nitrogen-fixing association to the many crop plants that lack this association. Greater use of these beneficial microbial associations in agriculture has much potential for enhancing the sustainability of agriculture in high and middle-income countries and providing sustainable productivity for farmers in low-income countries.
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art , The University of Edinburgh I'm an award-winning author and historian of Islamic architecture, art, and history in the age of the caliphs (c. 650-1250 CE). As founding leader of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections I work with industry, academic, and GLAM partners to make Islamic art and history visible and accessible to all. I provided historical expertise on the new Assassin's Creed Mirage video game, forthcoming from Ubisoft. I've published two books, co-edited volumes, and numerous essays on the art, architecture, and social history of the medieval Islamic lands with a focus on Córdoba. Currently I'm Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. I earned my PhD at MIT in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Dr Gemma McKibbin is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne, working with Prof Cathy Humphreys in the Violence Against Women and Children research team. Gemma has a background in gender studies and a PhD focused on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people. Along with an interest in harmful sexual behaviour, Gemma’s research focuses on preventing child sexual exploitation and dating violence, as well as on adult perpetration-focused prevention. She leads a number of child sexual abuse prevention and response action research projects, including Power to Kids with MacKillop Family Services and the Worried About Sex and Pornography project with Jesuit Social Services. Gemma specialises in trauma-informed, child-focused research interviews with vulnerable children and young people. She is passionate about supporting children and young people and providing them with a voice to government.
PhD Student, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Gayatri is currently a 1st year Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is interested in researching how global Indigenous pedagogies and the anti-colonial praxis of spirituality can be applied to teacher education programs to decolonize education. Gayatri previously worked in various roles pertaining to education and has always been deeply passionate about encouraging growth through diverse spaces of learning. She recently completed her Master of Education and has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
Co-fundador com Mônica Herz do projeto MUDRAL (Multilateralismo e Direita Radical na América Latina), Pesquisador no Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron (CESPRA), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Giancarlo Summa foi diretor de comunicação da ONU no Brasil, México e África Ocidental; atualmente é Pesquisador no Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron (CESPRA) da École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale (EHESS), em Paris.
Professor of Practice in Public Policy and Law, University of Virginia Gerard Robinson is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy and Law at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and has a joint appointment at UVA Law School. His areas of expertise are K-12 and higher education, criminal justice reform, race in American institutions and the role of nonprofit organizations in civil society. Examples of his scholarship include two co-edited books, Education for Liberation: The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America’s Prisons (2019) and Education Savings Accounts: The New Frontier in School Choice (2017), as well as an essay published in the Virginia Law Review (2023) and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change (2022). He has been published or quoted in CNN Opinion, Forbes, Newsweek, The Hill, The New York Times, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and U.S. News & World Report. Between 2020-23, Robinson co-hosted the popular “Learning Curve Podcast” with Dr. Cara Candal, through which they interviewed university professors, think tank scholars, entrepreneurs, elected officials, public and private sector leaders, and 13 Pulitzer Prize winners. Robinson, a first-generation college graduate, earned an Ed.M. from Harvard University, a B.A. from Howard University and an A.A. from El Camino Community College. He is married and has three daughters. https://batten.virginia.edu/people/gerard-robinson
