Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms, Bayes Business School, City, University of London Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), as well as Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. She has dedicated almost 30 years to researching professionals, professionals, and the professions. Her research focuses on issues of leadership, governance, culture, identity, and complex change processes, all in a professional context. Alongside her publications in leading academic journals, she has published a series of books with Oxford University Press – her latest is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas. She published regularly in Harvard Business Review, has made a documentary for the BBC, and co-presents the podcast series, Leading Professional People. She advises many of the world’s leading law, accounting, and consulting firms. From 2013 to 2016 she served on the Board of KPMG LLP (becoming Chair of the Independent Non-Executives). She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD and MBA from London Business School.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University Dr Lauren Pearson is a Research Fellow within the Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Dr Pearson leads a large body of work with the aim of improving accessibility in bike riding, with a particular focus on gender equity. Dr Pearson also manages the Australian activities of an international program of research about implementation of sustainable transport interventions.
Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University Lori Brown’s research focuses on relationships between architecture and social justice with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. Her two books include Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture and Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals. Her two current book projects include Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies and co-editing the Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture with Dr. Karen Burns. She is co-founder and director of ArchiteXX, www.architexx.org, a women and architecture group working to bridge the academy and practice in New York City. She is a Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University and a registered architect in New York state.
Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester I am a Clinical Lecturer and Chartered Clinical Psychologist working at the University of Manchester and Pennine Care NHS Trust. I have predominantly worked with older people in mental health services and research in the areas of behaviour and distress in people with dementia, trauma and complex presentations in older people.
Researcher of Geography, Penn State I am a health geographer and demographer with training in public health and public policy. My research focuses on how place-based inequities produce and reinforce health disparities and how to alleviate those disparities. In my interdisciplinary work, I seek to understand contexts of health and place as foundational to perpetuating health disparities, as well as opportune for promoting health, through social engagement, built and natural environments, and multi-level policy infrastructures. In particular, I currently study neighborhood inequities and stress, and the potentials for urban planning strategies as means of mitigation; and substance use and landscapes of addiction using demographic, geospatial, and mixed research methods. I have designed and implemented numerous studies involving primary data collection, including probabilistic household surveys of hard-to-reach populations, ecological momentary assessment studies, observational studies, and community-based participatory research projects.
Associate Professor Health Sciences, University of Waikato PhD health sciences (2008) currently lead a number of large HRC-funded studies in primary healthcare and chronic disease (with equity focus) executive board member of NZ Society for Study of Diabetes associate member Royal Society of Medicine
