Professor of Technology Law, University of Bradford Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo is a Professor of Technology Law at the University of Bradford School Of Law. She is also a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University for the 2022-2023 academic session. Before joining the University of Bradford, she was an Associate Professor of Law, and the Head of Law at the School of Business and Law, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom. Her teaching and research interests focus primarily on the intersection of law and technology, especially the governance of digital technologies, digital rights, and rule of law in cyberspace. Nnenna is internationally recognised for her expertise in areas related to law and technology. She has also been actively involved in shaping academic and policy discourses on the governance of digital technologies. She was a member of the International Law Association Steering Committee on Digital Challenges for International Law. The Committee recently delivered a White Paper on Digital Challenges for International Law available at: Digital Challenges for International Law - Ila Paris 2023. She was recently appointed the Chair of the Cybercrime Working Group of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) and is also a member of the Research Committee of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). She is the Vice-Chairperson of the African Union Cyber Security Experts Group (AUCSEG) and has been actively involved in advising the African Union Commission (AUC) and African Member States on international, regional and national legal frameworks related to cybersecurity and rule of law in cyberspace, as well as promoting cyber governance in the region. Nnenna has also been invited to address international organisations, heads of governments and events organised by various foreign ministries and governmental bodies. She presently serves as an African Union delegate to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes and the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on ICTs. She has written for a range of research projects, journals and media publications, including engaging in various media conversations on issues related to the governance of digital technologies. She has also partnered with various organisations on the delivery of research projects and recently authored a commissioned mapping project on ‘Digital Financial Inclusion’ for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and also authored a commissioned report on the National cybercrime laws of Commonwealth Member States for the Commonwealth Secretariat, United Kingdom. She also serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various academic journals and organisations. She is a member of the Chatham House Cyber Capacity Building Advisory Group, a contributing editor for the ‘Directions’ of the Cyber Direct Project of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, a member of the editorial board of the Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal and a member of the advisory board of the African Journal of Legal Issues in Technology. Nnenna has served as an expert or consultant for notable organisations such as the Chatham House, the Commonwealth, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). She is presently the lead consultant for the UNECA cybersecurity projects. She also served as a consultant for the Chatham House Africa and Asia-Pacific Programme on Digital Cooperation – 2021-2022. She was invited by the Commonwealth Secretary General to join an Election Pre-Assessment Mission on election technology and cybersecurity in 2022. She has been a recipient of various awards and fellowships. In 2020, she was named amongst 50 Individuals leading Legal Innovation in Africa at the Africa Legal Innovation Awards.
Postdoctoral researcher, Wageningen University I am a behavioural ecologist, often combining intense field work with detailed observations on marked animals. I got my BSc and MSc degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. For my MSc, I travelled to the Seychelles to study interspecific competition between birds, and to the Kimberley (Western Australia) to study benefits of group living in endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens. I have continued working with the purple-crowned fairy-wrens ever since. For my PhD at Monash University, my research focused on the benefits of cooperation and living in social groups and explains why subordinate fairy-wrens help raise others’ offspring and defend against predators. I continued as postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University, conducting research with a conservation focus, investigating environmental impacts on breeding success and survival. My current research at Wageningen University (the Netherlands), focuses on understanding why many animals stay at home to live in social groups instead of dispersing to breed independently elsewhere.
Adjunct fellow, Macquarie University I am an Adjunct Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Macquarie University, with a research interest in applied ethics, specialising in Nietzsche studies, friendship and practical philosophy. I work as the Faculty Executive Director for the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. I am the author of Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics: Friendship as Contest. I also run an Instagram account for people interested in philosophy and publish a weekly newsletter (http://neildurrant.substack.com) on practical ethics.
Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester I am a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Originally from Denmark, I was awarded an AHRC Block Grant to undertake PhD research at the University of Liverpool investigating subsistence strategies and craft production at the Ramesside fortress site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. I obtained my PhD in 2016. I have excavated in Europe, Turkey and Egypt, and I am currently the field director of the University of Liverpool Tell Nabasha Survey Project, which conducts archaeological investigations of the ancient city of Imet located in the north-eastern Nile Delta. I have published several peer-reviewed papers, as well as more public-oriented articles and I am the author of 'Pharaoh Seti I' (2018), 'From Mummies to Microchips' (2020, co-authored w/ Professor Joyce Tyldesley) and 'Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Egypt' (2020).
Associate Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Nik De Dominic is the author of Goodbye Wolf (The Operating System '20) and Your Daily Horoscope (New Michigan Press '15). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, where he was an Alabama Prison Arts + Education Fellow. His essays and poems have appeared in Guernica, Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. De Dominic is a founding editor of the The Offending Adam and the Poetry Editor of the New Orleans Review. With Kate Levin, De Dominic co-founded and co-directs the Dornsife Prison Education Project.
Research scientist, University of Sydney Dr Nural Cokcetin is a microbiologist based at the University of Sydney. Her research interest is in understanding the relationship between bees, the environment and medicinal honey with the aim of supporting the apiary industry, pollination, and human health. Nural leads research on the bioactive properties of honey, specifically into its use as a topical treatment for infections caused by antibiotic resistant superbugs and as a prebiotic food to promote a healthy gut microbiome. She works closely with the Australian beekeeping and wider agricultural industries to ensure her research leads to improved health outcomes and other benefits for society and industry. Nural is equally passionate about doing research that drives positive changes as she is about communicating her research as broadly as possible. She is a frequent public speaker on topics around medicinal honey, bees, gut health and antibiotic resistance. Nural has received many awards for her research excellence and impact, as well as her dedication to the promotion of science. She was named the best young science communicator in Australia and the international runner-up in the FameLab science communication competition and one of the TEDxSydney Top Five Young Change-Makers. She appears regularly in the media as a thought leader in her research areas. Although not that kind of doctor, Nural is often heard dishing out her favourite bit of advice “have you tried putting honey on that?”
