Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University Mensah Adinkrah is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University. His current research interests focus on homicide, suicide, masculinities, death studies, and witchcraft. His newest book, Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana (August 2015), was published by Berghahn Books. Professor Adinkrah holds academic degrees in sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a senior Fulbright research scholar to Ghana during 2003-2004. Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Dr. Adinkrah speaks and reads Twi (Akan).
Senior Lecturer in International Business, Sheffield Hallam University Dr Owens is a Senior Lecturer in International Business at Sheffield Hallam University. His research focuses on the intersection of business firms and political violence. He has published his research in Environment Planning A, International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management and Services Industries Journal. He has a PhD from the University of Ulster.
Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, Auburn University Miles A. Zachary, PhD is an associate professor of management in the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University. His research examines the social and cognitive aspects of organizations that affect strategic behavior, stakeholder relationships, and performance. Specifically, he is interested in how firms and stakeholders communicate with each other and how such communications affect independent and relational outcomes.
Associate Professor, Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Dr Marcello Ruta was a PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, and The Natural History Museum, London. He became a postdoc at UCL, and then moved to Chicago where he spent a few years as a postdoc at the University of Chicago and at the Field Museum of Natural History. After returning to the UK, he embarked on another postdoc at University of Bristol, before being hired at University of Lincoln in 2012. Marcello's interests revolve around phylogeny reconstruction, phylogenetic comparative methods, and shape analysis. He is primarily interested in early tetrapods, or limbed vertebrates
Senior Lecturer in Health and Exercise Physiology, Bournemouth University Malika joined BU in 2017 to complete her PhD in Health Sciences and joined the Department of Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences in February 2021 as a Lecturer in Health and Exercise Science. She is Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy and teaches physiology and innovation units on this programme. Her research interests are in women's health, especially related to maternal health, and in the areas of physical activity and non-pharmacological treatment methods. Malika is continuing to research in the field of her PhD area and has received internal Faculty pump-priming to run a feasibility trial investigating the feasibility of using slow and deep breathing to manage high blood pressure during pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension). After submitting her PhD in 2021, Malika joined the University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Moving Through Motherhood research team. The GW4 Alliance funded project supported a multi-disciplinary team and Malika's role was to organise and run a series of virtual workshops. Research Malika has received internal HSS pump-priming funding to complete the study 'Effects of slow and deep breathing on reducing obstetric intervention in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension'. Recruitment for this study will open in Jan 2022 at a local NHS Foundation Trust. Malika is part of the Moving Through Motherhood research group, which is a multi-disciplinary team from University of Exeter, University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and King's College London. Their aim is to improve information and resources for women related to physical activity during and after pregnancy. Using a co-design methodology, pregnant women, mother's and other stakeholders contribute as collaborators in the research process. Malika won the Early Career Researcher Award at the WiSEAN Conference (Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network) in Liverpool in June 2023, for presenting this work. The award is given for outstanding work in the field of women in sport and exercise science and Malika was selected for the award by members of the WiSEAN scientific committee and fellow Early Career Researchers.
Professor of English, Miami University Michele Navakas is a literary scholar who specializes in American literature and culture to 1900 with an emphasis on the environment, race, geography, and material culture. She is the author of two books: Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), and Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America (Princeton University Press, 2023).
