Profesora asociada, Facultad de Filología y Comunicación, Universitat de Barcelona Olena Vasylets es Profesora Asociada en la Universitat de Barcelona. El foco prinicipal de su investigación son los aspectos cognitivos en adquisición de segundas lenguas. Su trayectoria investigadora incluye participación continuada en proyectos de investigación financiados en convocatorias competitivas, publicaciones científicas, participación en congresos internacionales y organización de encuentros científicos. Sus publicaciones han visto la luz en varias obras colectivas publicadas por editoriales internacionales (Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Routledge) y en revistas de prestigio, incluidas Journal of Second Language Writing (Q1/índice de impacto: 6.1), Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (Q1/índice de impacto: 4.3), Language Learning (cuartil/índice de impacto: 5.2), Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (Q1/índice de impacto: 1.9), Studies in Second Language Acquistion (Q1/índice de impacto 5.4).
Professor of Statistics, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) Olushina Olawale Awe is an experienced data scientist and statistician. He is the vice-president of Global Statistical Engagements of the USAID-sponsored LISA 2020 Global Network with headquarters in Colorado, USA, and over 35 centres in 10 developing countries. Prior to this, he had considerable experience in the industry, research and academic sectors. In 2013, he was the only statistics leader selected out of 108 applicants from 34 developing countries to be trained in the United States as a Google-funded Statistics and Data Science Ambassador. He has over 15 years of professional working experience spanning international development, public and private sectors, both in the United States and Africa. As a global statistics leader, he has overseen several data management and capacity-building activities across many statistical training centres and sub-regional organizations. He has mentored several statistical offices/training centers in developing countries like Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, and India. He established the first LISA 2020 Statistics and Data Science Laboratory in Africa in 2014. He has travelled widely and presented academic papers on various topics in statistics in five continents. He has also paid short academic visits to top universities like Oxford University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of London, LSE, Virginia Tech, UNICAMP, USP, UFBA Brazil, Harvard University, MIT etc. He is a country coordinator (Nigeria) of the International Statistical Literacy Program. He is an elected fellow of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), an African Academy of Sciences affiliate member. He was recently elected as a vice-president of the International Association for Statistics Education, having served on the council of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics for two terms. He has published over 70 research articles in local and international journals in the areas of applied statistics, computational statistics, econometrics, machine learning, time series analysis, data science, and statistics education. His recent book (with Kim Love and Eric Vance) is titled Promoting Statistical Practice and Collaboration in Developing Countries. He is a dynamic, creative, and innovative professional who is highly motivated by new innovations.
PhD Candidate in Modern Greek & Byzantine Studies specialising in Byzantine art and literature, University of Sydney Olympia Nelson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, with a research focus on the history of emotions in Byzantinum, drawing upon literary as well as visual material. Her academic interests include hagiography, Komnenian art and the Komnenian novella genre, art history and iconoclasm.
Research Fellow in Social Science and Geography, University of Nottingham Olivia is an anthropologist and an artist specialising in visual methodologies, gender, and health related fields. Her work in Kenya and Tanzania has covered livelihoods, indigenous medicines, informal alcohol brewing, WASH and One Health. Olivia uses and explores novel and visual methods in her work, which is primarily ethnographically informed, as well as working with transdisciplinary study design and reflexive techniques. At Nottingham, Olivia is a Research Fellow on the Invisible Women, Invisible Workers project with Dr Sabina Lawreniuk, where she is the in-country lead for Ethiopia. Olivia has supervised a number of postgraduate students, taught masterclasses on social science study design, methodologies and analysis, created and curated visual art exhibitions based on research findings, and is passionate about the use of art in social science both as method and as public engagement.
Associate Professor of Mangement, The University of Queensland -Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management (2003) UQ -MBA (1997) UQ -Management Discipline Leader at the UQ Business School (2020-2021) -Australian and New Zealand Academy of Mangement (ANZAM) Board Member: Representing -QLD and NT Universities on the Board (2016-2017 and 2023-2024) -Editor In Chief: Journal of Management & Organization (JMO), 2020 till present
PhD Student, Philosophy Department, Western University I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the philosophy department at Western University and a graduate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. I work in the areas of philosophy, psychology, and media theory, and my work has recently focused on social media mental health communities and their impact on psychiatry and its concept revision.
