Lecturer in Engineering, King's College London Dr Laura Lander is a Lecturer at King's Department of Engineering. Laura's research focus aims to tackle the challenges of current energy storage systems and, ultimately, to develop high-performance sustainable battery devices. She applies a multi-scale research approach working at the interface between materials science and engineering including life cycle assessment and techno-economics across the battery value chain. Laura has a transdisciplinary background in energy storage technologies covering the design and characterisation of energy storage materials as well as the evaluation of environmental and economic implications of batteries in a real-world application context. She obtained her PhD from College de France in Paris and later joined the University of Tokyo, where she was awarded a JSPS postdoctoral research fellowship. She then moved to Imperial College London as a Faraday Institution postdoctoral researcher in the Electrochemical Science and Engineering group (Mechanical Engineering Department) before joining King’s College London.
PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool Louise Coyne is a PhD student at the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. She has recently submitted her thesis titled 'The Making of a Militant: How Ireland made Emmeline Pankhurst a Militant'. The thesis focused on the influence of Ireland on Emmeline Pankhurst and her policies as one of the leaders of the Women’s Social and Political Union (more commonly known as the suffragettes). The thesis analysed the tactics of the suffragettes, the Irish inspiration behind the tactics and the differing response by the Government to the suffragettes in comparison to Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists. Louise's research interests include: women’s suffrage, feminism, modern British history, modern Irish history and protest (violent and nonviolent).
Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College After 12 years working in administrative roles across career services, alumni affairs, and international education, and after earning an Ed.M. part-time, I returned to grad school to pursue a Ph.D. Since then, I have served as a consultant for the American Council on Education, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, and visiting assistant professor at Ohio University. My research interests include higher education access and experience among displaced populations; higher education governance; international alumni affairs; and cross-national constructions of "diversity."
Professor Extraordinarius, Stellenbosch University I obtained the following qualifications: 1974: BSc (Mathematics and Computer Science) (Stellenbosch University) 1975: BSc Hons. (Computer Science) (Stellenbosch University) 1980: BSc Hons. (Mathematics) (University of South Africa) 1981: MSc (Applied Mathematics) (University of Pretoria) Title of full dissertation: A global method for solving stiff differential equations, Supervisor Prof J A Snyman 1987: DSc (Applied Mathematics) (Potchefstroom University for CHE, now the North-West University) Title of thesis: Gauss-type quadrature formulas for spline functions Supervisor Prof D P Laurie. 2019-2021: Zulu I, II and III and Sepedi I, II and III (University of Pretoria) 2022-2024 (yet to be completed): MA (African Languages) (University of Pretoria) Title of dissertation: A Northern Sotho GF resource grammar: From grammar to corpus and Back Supervisor: Prof E Taljard.
Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Laurette has been researching and developing human language technology for the South African languages since 2009. Her primary interest is in developing high accuracy computational language resources for the South African languages and to apply these in ways that contribute directly to a sustainably multilingual South Africa.
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Delaware Lauren Bailes is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her scholarship focuses on the ways in which organizational, social-cognitive, and leadership theory unite to promote the success of school leaders and K12 students. Specifically, she addresses three distinct strands of research: social cognitive theory and the efficacy beliefs of school stakeholders, especially as they relate to school organizational characteristics; school leader preparation, placement, and evaluation; and shared influences of leaders and organizations on favorable conditions for student success. She received her doctorate in Educational Administration from The Ohio State University. Prior to receiving her doctorate, she taught middle school English Language Arts (ELA) in Brooklyn, New York, designed ELA curriculum and assessments for 5th-8th grade students, and served as a professional development and literacy coach in Columbus, Ohio.
