Associate Professor of International Development, Dublin City University Niamh was appointed to DCU's School of Law and Government in 2009 where she is currently an Associate Professor of International Development. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Maynooth University, and an MSc in Rural Development and a BSc (hons) in Botany and Mathematics, both from University College Dublin. She has worked with a number of development agencies and NGOs conducting field research and project evaluations in Africa and Central Europe. Her research focuses on how social and political inequalities are produced and reproduced. Her work to date has focused on exploring the conditions under which more marginalised groups and communities wield political influence at local and national levels. She has conducted field research in a wide range of African countries (most recently, Burundi, DRC, Rwanda and Malawi), as well as in Ireland. Her recent book (2022), Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development is published by Routledge and is freely available on Open Access here. She is currently (2022-2023) working on a co-edited book on the history of development education in Ireland. This is co-edited with Eilish Dillon (Maynooth University), Gerard McCann (Queen's University) and Stephen McCloskey (Centre for Global Education, Belfast). Niamh also serves on the editorial board of Policy and Practice - a Development Education Review. She also regularly serves as a reviewer for a wide range of international journals and book publishers. Research interests The politics of development, participation and governance - in Africa and in Ireland; civil society and community; media and development.
Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College Nicholas Dagen Bloom is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. His research analyzes long-term planning outcomes in essential urban systems such as subsidized housing and mass transportation. He is the author of Suburban Alchemy (OSU, 2001), Merchant of Illusion (OSU, 2004), Public Housing That Worked (Penn, 2008), The Metropolitan Airport (Penn, 2015), and How States Shaped Postwar America (Chicago, 2019). He is co-editor of four edited collections, including the prize-winning Public Housing Myths (Cornell, 2015) and Affordable Housing in New York (Princeton, 2015). Professor Bloom has been quoted extensively on housing and other topics in media outlets, including WNYC, The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post. As a frequent contributor to Gotham Gazette, he has written extensively on issues related to public housing; his editorials have also appeared in Newsday, The Daily News, and City Limits. As a co-curator of housing exhibitions at Hunter College and the Skyscraper Museum, he has highlighted overlooked dimensions of community life. Bloom frequently joins panel discussions on issues of concern to planners, historians, architects, and the general public. He has taught urban affairs courses to thousands of students in previous positions at NYIT, NYU, and Tulane. His new book, The Great American Transit Disaster: Austerity, Autocentric Planning, and White Flight (University of Chicago Press) will be published in May of 2023
Background: I have a degree in Psychology, an MSc in Applied Psychology and PhD in Human Geography. I am a Chartered Psychologist and also work as an Intersectional Psychotherapist in private practice. I have worked in community organisations and held various research and teaching positions in universities across England and Wales. I hold positions at a number of charities across the UK. My research interests are areas of expertise: human behaviour, mental health, inequalities, equality and inclusion, ageing, ethnicity, religion (esp Muslims in the UK), gender and place, racism and representation in Higher Education My particular interest is in the dynamic interaction of people and place, how people transform the spaces the inhabit, and in turn and changed by those spaces. My current research focuses on developing trauma informed care and decolonisation of the curriculum.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, La Trobe University Nasya Bahfen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at La Trobe University. She has taught at Monash University, UNSW, and RMIT and was previously a a radio and online journalist and producer for ABC Radio Australia and SBS. Her freelance writing and commentary includes feature articles and opinion pieces for the Age, Daily Life, the Far Eastern Economic review, and the Brunei Times; and hour-long radio documentaries for ABC Radio National and ABC Grandstand Digital. Nasya has postgraduate qualifications (PhD) in the sociology of the media, and extensive media and communications teaching and research experience. She has a first class honours degree in media from LaTrobe University and an undergraduate degree in journalism from RMIT. Research Summary Nasya's doctoral dissertation and research activity reflects the theme of internationalisation and diversity in the media and online, including the media of southeast Asian (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore) and Australia. Teaching Nasya teaches subjects in the coursework Master of Journalism and supervises higher degree by research students.
Senior Lecturer, RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Niamh is a Senior Lecturer in the RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management. She has been researching health workforce issues for the past 17 years and currently leads a HRB-funded research project focused on hospital doctor retention and emigration.
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, University of Southampton I am a social psychologist who uses neuroscientific tools to investigate the nature of the self. Among the topics i study how the self is represented in the brain as well as what guides and drives the self.
