PhD Candidate & Tutor, Charles Darwin University Huda Syyed has worked in academia and the non-profit sector and hopes to actively contribute to research and development efforts in the future. Her current topic of research focuses on the practice of ‘Female Genital Cutting’ and explores the lack of data, political activism and understanding regarding it in Pakistan. Her main academic interests include gender, culture, and politicised religion. She is currently a PhD candidate and casual tutor at Charles Darwin University. She completed her undergraduate degree from University of Karachi and pursued a Master’s degree in International Relations at QueenMary University of London. In between, she completed a certificate course at The Graduate Institute Geneva. In the past, she has worked as a Research Assistant for academic projects and on issues of Gender-Based-Violence. She was visiting faculty lecturer at Bahria University and taught the course of “International Organisations”. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol24/iss1/18/ Twitter Handle: @hsyyed88 https://twitter.com/hsyyed88 Research Portal: https://researchers.cdu.edu.au/en/persons/huda-syyed
Research Fellow, CERC Migration and Integration program, Toronto Metropolitan University Hari KC is a migration scholar with his broad research interests in the politics of migration pertaining especially to migration and mobility, labour migration (mainly along South Asia-Middle East corridors), migration policy and governance, and gender and migration. In his doctoral research, he explored the issues of Nepali women migrant domestic workers in the Gulf countries in Asia. This research was based on six months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nepal, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates with the funding support of the IDRC Doctoral Research Award. Hari has also collaborated on several research projects, including the “Gender + Migration Hub” (https://gendermigrationhub.org) which seeks to enhance the capacity of governments, civil society and other stakeholders in designing and implementing gender-responsive migration policies and programs. Hari is also associated with the International Migration Research Centre at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses on migration, citizenship, and global justice, among others. Before joining the CERC, Hari was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University with his work looking at the nexus between labour migration and food in/security from a gender perspective in the context of South Asia. He has also taught at Tribhuvan University in Nepal and also worked, in various roles, for the BBC Media Action, Embassy of India, and the Carter Centre. Hari has a PhD in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, and master’s degrees in English and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo.
Research Associate at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London Hyunseon Lee, Ph.D. habil., is a London based film and media scholar. She is a Privat-Dozent in Media Studies and Modern German Literature at the Department of German, University of Siegen, and a Research Associate at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London. She is also a Professional Researcher at the Institute of Humanities, Yonsei University in Seoul. She has lectured and published widely in the fields of German and comparative literature, film, and media studies, and held various scholarships and fellowships at Yonsei University and Seoul National University, Columbia University in New York City, and Chuo University in Tokyo, and at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies/ School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is author of the books Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Interkulturelle Liebschaften zwischen Literatur, Oper und Film (Heidelberg: University Press Winter, 2020), Geständniszwang und ‘Wahrheit des Charakters’ in der Literatur der DDR. Diskursanalytische Fallstudien (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2000), Günter de Bruyn – Christoph Hein – Heiner Müller. 3 Interviews (Siegen, MuK 95/96) as well as numerous articles on film, popular culture, gender, German literature and media aesthetics from a transcultural intermedial perspective. She is co-editor of Mörderinnen (2013), Akira Kurosawa und Seine Zeit (2005), and Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture (2015), and solo editor of two books Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural flows (2022) and Korean Film and History (2023), both published by Routledge.
Research assistant, James Cook University Miss Hannah Mason is a lecturer, researcher, and HDR student at the College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. Hannah has worked on a broad range of public health and safety research projects, including exploring the impact of heatwaves on health systems, arc flash safety, mobile plant safety, and rural road safety. Hannah’s research interests include health systems management, climate resilience, and rural and remote health.
Research Lead, Fisheries and Oceans Canada My research focus over the previous 15 years has been on understanding changes in population dynamics for species of conservation concern. Questions with practical application to fisheries management or those that increase our understanding of changes in population status are my primary interests. I have concentrated on two general areas: first, on the development of methods to best generate data to support life history modeling or fisheries assessment; and second, on the integration of assessment methods or statistical techniques used outside of fisheries research to enable new ecological inference from historical data collections. Results from my research have been directly incorporated into multiple regional fisheries assessment programs (salmon, river herring, American eel, shark), and used to develop recovery strategies for species at risk (salmon, shark), for regional government departments, non-government organizations, and international RFMOs.
Professor and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Leeds I am Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Leeds and consultant surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. My clinical interest is management of patients with hip /knee arthritis and my research is aimed towards understanding the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis, optimising patient pathways and ensuring right treatment is offered to the right patient (suffering with osteoarthritis) at the right time and by the right person. I am a NIHR senior investigator, member of various specialist societies including American Knee Society, European Knee Society and British Society for Surgery of the Knee. I lead a multi-disciplinary research team and currently my work involves pain management in patients undergoing knee replacement, use of wearable and implantable sensors, fractures around joint replacement and disease modifying treatments in patients with different types of arthritis.
