Postdoc Research Fellow - Digital Governance and Media, University of the Witwatersrand My name is Dr Maxwell M. Maseko. I hold a PhD in public administration from the University of the Western Cape and have 26 years of experience working as a journalist in various news media organisations in South Africa. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the newly established Tayarisha Centre at the Wits School of Government. The centre conducts academically rigorous, cutting-edge research on the challenges and opportunities presented by digitalisation, especially in the public sector. My research interests lie in the fields of media and governance, particularly in areas of democracy, digitalisation in the public sector, protests, and citizen participation. I am interested in researching new methods of governance, innovation, politics, and protest.
Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter I am a Research Fellow based at the University of Exeter. My research focusses on high impact weather associated with extratropical cyclones in the mid-latitudes, with a particular focus on Europe. My interests are on understanding historical variability, and also how weather events and associated extremes will change under climate change. I work extensively with those in the insurance/risk sector and provide research and tools for quantifying weather and climate extremes.
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia Marine ecologists studying biodiversity change and climate impacts on Canada's coastal ecosystems
Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University Mererid Hopwood is Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. Before that she had been Professor of Languages and the Curriculum Cymreig in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has spent her career in the fields of languages, literature, education and the arts. She won the National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Chair, Crown and Prose Medal and Welsh Book of the Year prize for poetry in 2016 for her collection of poems, Nes Draw. She has been children’s poet laureate of Wales (Bardd Plant Cymru) and in 2018 won the Tir na n’Og prize for her writing for children. She was awarded the Hay Festival Poetry Medal in 2023. Mererid has composed words for musicians, visual artists and dancers, and has taken part in literature festivals in Europe, Asia and South America. She has translated many works of literature into Welsh including plays from Spanish and German for Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. She is Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Academi Gymreig, and Honorary President of the Waldo Williams Society. She is Secretary of the Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales' peace institute).
Founder and Executive Director, Center for Violence Prevention Research; Affiliate Faculty with the Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire After completing her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Georgia, Dr. Bright spent eight years on the faculty at the University of Florida in both the College of Medicine and College of Education. While at UF, she led evaluations of Florida’s Medicaid programs for children and developed a multidisciplinary research agenda around family violence and social determinants of health. As her research program advanced, she found the most important part of her work to be partnerships with community-based, direct service providers. More and more she became disenchanted with the distance between her academic position and the community organizations she cared about. In short, the structure of university-based research was not supportive to community-based research. In 2021, Dr. Bright left academia to found the Center for Violence Prevention Research. Her goal was to create a research organization that was accessible to non-researchers and that conducted research with immediate implications for practice. Dr. Bright’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Psychosomatic Society, AcademyHealth, and several not-for-profit organizations. She has published dozens of papers in high impact scientific journals including JAMA Pediatrics and the Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Consultant psychiatrist and PhD candidate, Deakin University Malcolm is a consultant psychiatrist and psychogeriatrician. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). He is currently pursuing a PhD in the aetiology of late-life depression at Deakin University.
