Researcher, University of Notre Dame Halkano Boru is a peace and conflict prevention practitioner and researcher with a decade of experience in the support, development, and implementation of governance, peacebuilding, and conflict prevention, including projects preventing and countering violent extremism in Kenya and Ethiopia. At the Keough School, Halkano studies the intersection of violent extremism, non-state armed groups, organized crimes, migration, illicit financial flows, and state fragility. He is an MGA '24 international peace studies graduate, Keough School of Global Affairs. Halkano graduated from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology with a BS in disaster management and international diplomacy. He has served as peace and cohesion cluster coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme in Kenya, where he worked to implement the Deepening Foundations for Peacebuilding and Community Security program with government agencies. Halkano is skilled and experienced in conducting participatory research on natural resource management, conflict, governance, and violent extremism. He is also an alumnus of the YALI Regional Leadership Center, East Africa program, a US Department of State initiative that trains young African leaders. As a master of global affairs student, Halkano is the recipient of a Thomas D. McCloskey Peace Fellowship.
Professor of Child Health, University of the Witwatersrand Haroon Saloojee is a Personal Professor at Wits University. He is the head of the MBBCh curriculum. He is a paediatrician and previous head of the Division of Community Paediatrics at Wits. He serves on the Ministerial National Advisory Group on Immunisation.
Research Assistant, Department of Criminology and Social Justice, Toronto Metropolitan University 2023 - Present: Research Assistant for the department of Criminology and Social Justice at Toronto Metropolitan University 2023 - Present: Grading Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University A dedicated and motivated individual with goal oriented research experience, both academically and professionally. A creative thinker with a positive attitude, providing strong skills in data collection, literature reviews and reporting. Proven with the ability to analyze data, develop insight findings, and suggest informed decision options.
Emeritus Professor of Literature and Literary Theory, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria Hein Willemse studied Law and Afrikaans literature at the University of the Western Cape. He has earned the following qualifications: BA (Hons) (Cum Laude), MA (Cum Laude), MBL and D.Litt. He has published widely on Afrikaans language, literature and orature studies. He has also taught for extended periods in Mexico, the USA and Namibia. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a stringer for South and Vrye Weekblad. He contributed to New Era and Mayibuye and served on the editorial committees of Ons Leer Mekaar and Die Suid-Afrikaan. Willemse is a Professor of Literature in the Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria and the current editor-in-chief of the multilingual African literary journal Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (www.letterkunde.up.ac.za). His books include the award-winning More Than Brothers — Peter Clarke and James Matthews at 70 (Kwela, 2000) and Aan Die Ander Kant — Swart skrywers in die Afrikaanse letterkunde (Protea, 2007).
Research Assistant in Public Health, Swansea University Harriet is a researcher in Autistic people's experiences of gynaecological and reproductive health. Her PhD focused on interactions between Autistic and non-Autistic people. She has written two books: 'My Brother Tom Has Superpowers' and 'University: The Autistic Guide'. Harriet is a qualified teacher, and school governor at a local federation of three schools.
Senior Lecturer - Forensic Anthropology, Western Sydney University Dr Hayley Green is a forensic anthropologist at Western Sydney University. She obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales and a BSc (Anatomy and Histology) from the University of Sydney. She did her PhD at the University of New South Wales, with a focus on modern cranial shape differences around the world. She has been particularly interested in investigating the comparability of Northern Hemisphere ‘time since death’ identification methods in Australia and the impact of climate on decay and identification of bodies. She is working with the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) at University of Technology Sydney to develop time since death methods which are applicable to the specific characteristics an Australian climate. Hayley is studying how bodies decompose in different microclimates and the resultant weathering patterns that can be seen on bones. She is also investigating the use of multidisciplinary techniques to find and identify remains. This includes using analytical chemistry to identify potential chemical signatures in bone samples, which may be able to determine time since death. This has the potential to allow for identification of individuals in situations where there are multiple skeletons that may have become mixed. As well as observing physical changes to the body as it decomposes, Dr Green undertakes multidisciplinary research with collaborators in the School of Science to investigate the impact of the environment on decomposition and in turn, how the body leaves it mark on the environment.
