Senior lecturer in law, University of the Free State Larisse Prinsen is a senior law lecturer at the University of the Free State. Her areas of research interest are in medical law and aspects of medical biotech regulation. Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/LarissePrinsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-4586 Larisse is part of the Quote This Woman+ database of experts! They work towards ensuring gender diversity in the media and beyond, by curating a database of voices like hers for journalists to use when they need an expert opinion.
Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health, The University of Melbourne I am a research fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Mental Health, where I progress dual research agendas in mental health and sport psychology. I have a PhD in sport psychology from RMIT University and have held several professional data scientist roles in government and university settings.
Assistant professor in political science, Tel Aviv University Dr. Lior Sheffer studies elite political behavior. His research focuses on executive decision making, exploring if and how people who run for office differ from non-politicians when they solve problems and reason about the policy choices they have to make. He specializes in fielding large scale experiments with incumbent politicians as participants, across different contexts and countries. His broader substantive interests are in elections and campaigns, the role of personality in politics, and legislative behavior. Methodologically, he is interested in survey and field experiments, survey design, and application of psychological modules and insights in the study of politics. Lior received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Cognitive Science and an M.A, in Public Policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, and Political Research Quarterly, among other journals.
Principal Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Brighton I am a Principal Lecturer in Physical Geography within the School of Applied Sciences (SAS). My teaching and research interests are: – glacial and periglacial processes – cold climate geomorphology – sedimentology and micromorphology – reconstructing Quaternary Environments – Arctic blue carbon – artistic engagement with the environment (art-science). With a PhD (Queen Mary University of London) and Batchelor with Hons (University of Reading) in Physical Geography, I am passionate about the environment and inspired by the outdoors – particularly mountainous and cold environments. My research has taken me to many exciting, and often breath-taking, locations in both the UK (e.g. Scotland, Wales, Dartmoor, Norfolk, The Lake District etc.) and abroad (e.g. Austria, Arctic Russia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Svalbard etc).
Lecturer in Finance, Bangor University I am a Lecturer in Finance here at Bangor University and Lead of the Institute of European Finance’s “Financial Innovation and Data Analytics” research group. My current research focus is on: Modelling dynamic systems to explore how they respond to regulatory and external changes, Retail investor behaviour Predictive data analytics in a variety of business settings to enhance decision making. I also have research interests in: Labour Economics, Data Analytics, Stock Recommendations, Credit Ratings, Regulation and policy impact. My background includes: Head of Data and Analytics at a Financial Technology start-up analysing the performance of stock recommendations PhD was in Banking and Finance where I investigated the impact of new regulation on Credit Rating Agency and Bank behaviour and applied a dynamic computer modelling technique to the task (Dynamic Structural Estimation modelling and Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming). Held roles both in data scientist and as a mathematician/statistician. The Alun Turing Institute’s Bangor Theme Champion for “Economy and Finance, Autonomous Systems”. Undergraduate BSc (Hons) in Physics from University of Warwick.
Professor of Maternal and Reproductive Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp I am a quantitative population health scientist with training in management, economics, Middle East studies and demography/epidemiology. From 2014 to 2018, I served as a co-investigator on the Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where I led the SAGE (Secondary data Analysis for Generating new Evidence) team. Previously, I headed operations in a start-up company in eldercare in the United States and worked as project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières in Nigeria, the West Bank and South Sudan. I was responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of the health pillar of a conditional cash transfer program in Egypt between 2008 and 2010. I have a keen interest in health-seeking behaviour, maternal health research, and evaluation in low- and middle-income countries. I hold an MA in Middle East studies (American University in Cairo), MSc in Demography and Health (LSHTM), and PhD in Population Health (LSHTM). I teach on Masters course modules and supervise PhD students. My research focus is on health-seeking behaviour in general and reproductive/maternal health in particular. Within these areas, I am interested in innovative methods to capture decisions and steps in health-seeking, validity of self-reported health-seeking indicators, and coverage of care contact and content.
