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James Sumberg

James Sumberg

Emeritus Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Emeritus Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies James Sumberg is an Emeritus Research Fellow at IDS. An agriculturalist by training, he spent most of his career studying small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly West Africa. Before joining IDS in 2009, he worked at the University of East Anglia, The New Economics Foundation, an international NGO in West Africa and three international agricultural research institutes. Since 2009 his research has focused on young people in rural Africa. He has published widely on technological change, policy and youth employment.

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Jeremiah Favara

Jeremiah Favara

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University Jeremiah Favara (he/him/his) is a feminist media studies scholar whose research and teaching focus on intersecting dynamics of gender, race, sexuality, and class in media production and representations. His work is guided by feminist theory, intersectionality, and queer of color critique and has been published in Communication, Culture, and Critique, Feminist Media Studies, Critical Military Studies, and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. He is currently completing a manuscript, titled Tactical Inclusion: Difference & Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising.

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Janya McCalman

Janya McCalman

Professorial Research Fellow, Jawun Research Centre, CQUniversity Australia

Professorial Research Fellow, Jawun Research Centre, CQUniversity Australia Janya McCalman co-leads the Jawun Research Centre at CQUniversity with Prof Adrian Miller. She has longstanding research relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, youth, education and other partner services, and her public health research focusses on how they provide services that enable resilience, empowerment and wellbeing through the development and evaluation of mental health and other complex interventions and/or the implementation of quality improvement approaches. Her methodological expertise lies particularly in participatory and action-oriented quality improvement research, grounded theory, systematic literature reviews, and research transfer and implementation. She has a Bachelor's degree in geography, a Masters degree in public health and a PhD in education. She received the Deans Award for her PhD.

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Jonathan Graffam O'Meara

Jonathan Graffam O'Meara

Tutor in Theatre, The University of Melbourne

Tutor in Theatre, The University of Melbourne Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara is a Tutor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne. He is an actor, writer and dramaturg with over 20 years of professional experience in the industry. Jonathan is completing a PhD in Theatre at Monash University with a project titled “Fat Dramaturgies: Queer strategies and methodologies in staging fat performance”, where he looks at examples of radical body size politics (embodied fatness) onstage. He specialises in the field of contemporary dramaturgy and popular performance.

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