Director (Regional Diplomacy and Capacity Building) Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, The University of Queensland Dr Noel M. Morada is former Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. In 2005, he was commissioned by the Canadian Embassy in Manila to undertake research on responses to R2P in Southeast Asia from which a R2P Roadmap in the region was published and has served as a guide to the work of the Centre. He has been engaging stakeholders in Southeast Asia as part of his work in the Centre and has conducted lectures and seminars on R2P for government officials, civil society groups, and academia in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. He is an advocate of a bottom-up approach in building awareness and constituency around R2P in the region, focusing on the importance of Pillar 1 (prevention) and Pillar 2 (capacity building) of the norm. He has also delivered lectures on atrocities prevention and participated in various seminars, conferences, and public forums in Australia and Southeast Asia, as well as in New York, Geneva, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, and Costa Rica among others. He has also organised and delivered lectures in education and training seminars for diplomats in Africa (between 2011-2013). In 2018, he delivered lectures on R2P and atrocities prevention in training seminars in Bangkok in cooperation with Mahidol University's Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies; and in Auschwitz, Poland under the Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar on Genocide Prevention organised by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Apart from his research and advocacy on R2P, he is also involved in regional security research and dialogue specifically dealing with terrorism, maritime security, and non-traditional security issues in Southeast Asia. He has also done research and publication on ASEAN external relations, the ASEAN Regional Forum and cooperative security in the Asia Pacific, as well as human security and human development in the region.
Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Surrey I am a Lecturer in Media and Communication in the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Surrey in September 2020, I researched and taught at Bournemouth University, Birmingham City University, the University for the Creative Arts, and Roehampton University. I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies from Roehampton University. My research is situated within the field of feminist media studies, with a focus on formations of feminism and postfeminism in popular culture and media. I am especially interested in the construction of these formations in popular music on the one hand, and political communication (in its broadest sense) on the other. At Surrey, I teach on the undergraduate modules on the BSc Media and Communication and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Neil Box is a cancer researcher and community educator with expertise in p53 pathway biology as it applies to skin, hematologic and other cancers who is passionate about increasing public awareness for cancer prevention. Interests include using human subjects and model systems to understand how gene variants work together with environmental exposures to influence normal and disease phenotypes in humans.
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Dr Nicole Andrews is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of pain management and an experienced clinician. Dr Andrews currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the RECOVER Injury Research Centre, The University of Queensland and as a clinical Occupational Therapist at the Tess Cramond Pain and Research Centre. Dr Andrews' PhD focused on overactivity in the context of chronic pain (i.e. activity engagement that severely aggravates pain). Her research has increased our understanding of the relationship between pain, activity and daily function in a chronic pain populations and led the development of an innovative award winning mobile health platform called Pain ROADMAP. Dr Andrews' research continues to focus on the development, use and evaluation of innovative and cutting edge technology solutions to improve the management of a variety of heath conditions including acute and persistent pain following Trauma.
Research Technician in the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex Nick is a researcher at the University of Sussex. He is an applied and behavioural ecologist working primarily with agroecological systems.
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business History, University of Glasgow Professor Niall G MacKenzie FRSA is a three-time graduate of the University of Glasgow. He currently serves as the joint Editor in Chief of Business History. Prior to re-joining the University, he worked at the universities of Cambridge, Wales and Strathclyde in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. To date he has raised over £10m in research income. His research interests are in the areas of business history, entrepreneurship, innovation, and regional development with a particular focus on Scotland and Scotch whisky.
