Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University I am an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, and a Research Fellow at University College London. My research and teaching lie at the intersection between Strategic Management and Public Policy. Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My most recent research agenda is focused on exploring the evolution, dynamics and challenges of voluntary carbon markets. My research was published in academic journals such as the Journal of Management and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, and is frequently featured in prominent media outlets such as the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the BBC. I was the Principal Investigator on the UKRI funded project “Hybrid Organising in the Railway Sector”. In addition, I am a collaborator on Croatian Science Foundation funded project “Resilience Enhancing Policies: Exploring the Role of Public Grants” and on the British Academy funded project "The Great Post Office Scandal". In addition to academic research, I act as a policy and strategy advisor for several private and public sector organizations, and serve as an active member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
Professor of journalism and media studies, University of Colorado Boulder Professor Michael McDevitt teaches courses in political communication, research methods, journalism studies, and opinion writing. He joined the CU faculty in 2001 after teaching at the University of New Mexico. Prior to his teaching career, he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Where Ideas Go to Die: The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism (Oxford). Prof. McDevitt is published in journals in communication, political science and education. He is a recipient of the International Communication Association’s Outstanding Public Policy Research Award. He holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in communication from Stanford. He returned to Stanford in 2015 as a visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Education.
Reader in Community Health, University of East London Marcello is a reader in community health at the Institute for Connected Communities. His main role is to develop research in public health, from securing funding to conducting research and publishing its results, primarily in peer reviewed academic journals. He has 15 years work experience in research and evaluation of community health interventions, social enterprise, asset based approaches to health, and social prescribing. It has used a range of methodologies and approaches to evaluation including realist evaluation, social network analysis, asset mapping and used approaches to systematic reviews including meta-narrative and systematic mapping to study health interventions and communities. He is a co-founder of the social prescribing network and of the social prescribing youth network. He also co-delivers an accredited Level 3 certificate in social prescribing. Marcello supervises PhD students working in the areas of health inequalities. He would welcome supervising doctoral research looking at alternative approaches to promoting health and well-being as well as the economic and social determinants of health and mental health.
PhD candidate in History, University of Warwick Mia Edwards is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses upon exploring the intersections between masculinity, disability, and physicality for enslaved men within the 19th century U.S. South. In particular, her research explores the lives of enslaved men who were physically disabled, whether congenitally or from age, sickness, or injury, within a range of contexts such as labour, community cohesion, and interpersonal conflict. This research seeks to understand how these men were treated and viewed by others, how they viewed themselves, and how their experiences of disability interacted with conceptions of masculinity during the period. This work is framed within wider discussions and conceptions about disability, race, and masculinity that were occurring during the antebellum period.
Investigador postdoctoral en ingeniería de seguridad contra incendios, Universidad de Navarra Mohd Zahirasri is very active in the field of fire safety engineering. He is currently attached as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Permanently, he is employed in Universiti Putra Malaysia as a Senior Lecturer. In the field of fire safety engineering, he has published 30 research papers in fire science best journals including Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials, and Fire Science Reviews. He also has been involved in safety engineering research which resulted in several top publications as well. He is an active member of International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) which gathers top fire scientists around the world. In terms of acquiring research grants, as a Principal Investigator/Project Leader in total, he has received around RM 2,000,000.00 from local and international grant funders up until now. As of current, he has taught fire engineering and chemical engineering courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2015 as a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). In terms of supervision of research students, he is currently the main supervisor for 8 PhD students and 2 Masters by research students. His students are working on PV system fire safety, tropical peat soil fire dynamics, radiation heat transfer and CFD fire simulation.
Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University London Mellissa is the Divisional Lead for Occupational Therapy at Brunel University London. She is a children's Occupational Therapist by background. She qualified from the MSc (pre-reg) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. She previously completed a BSc (Hons) in Kinesiology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, while on athletic scholarship for women’s basketball. She completed her PhD on handwriting difficulties in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), which she undertook at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Prof. Anna Barnett, Dr. Mandy Plumb and Dr. Kate Wilmut. Mellissa has worked in a variety of children's' services and specialises in working with children with coordination difficulties. She founded the children's occupational therapy research clinic (Kidspace) at the university which investigates key skills and participation in childhood including handwriting, activities of daily living and cycling. The clinic currently offers placements to occupational therapy students at the university. Membership and affiliation Mellissa is a Professional Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She is Chair of the National Handwriting Association (NHA) . She has developed a West London Handwriting Interest Group, which brings together local parents, teachers and therapists to discuss issues concerning the teaching and learning of handwriting in children.
