Associate Lecturer in Architecture, Western Sydney University Dr Parisa Ziaesaeidi is an architect with experience in both academia and industry. She holds a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. In addition, Parisa is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Parisa's research interests focus on social sustainability and neighbourhood design. She has experience in conducting qualitative studies using visual methods. Her expertise in this area is reflected in publications in international journals, conferences, and architectural magazines such as WAC, where she has established herself as an architectural journalist. Additionally, Parisa serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. Parisa's accomplishments and background demonstrate her dedication to the field of architecture and her passion for promoting sustainable and inclusive design practices.
Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, Carleton University I am an assistant Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. My research explores the interactions of life and the surface environment over the course of Earth history. To do this I sample ancient rock formations and apply cutting edge geochemical techniques to explore this history. Before arriving at Carleton I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Harvard University and the Weizmann Institute of Science which I began after completing my PhD at McGill University.
Chargé de cours à l’université de Strasbourg, laboratoire « Mondes germaniques et nord-européens », Université de Strasbourg Historian, Sociologist Ph D at the EHESS Paris Member of the Advisory consultative committee of the Council of Europe's Observatory on History Teaching Official at the European Economic and Social Committee (Brussels)
Visiting Researcher & Co-Director Chevening African Media Freedom Fellowship, University of Westminster I have been a Visiting Researcher at University of Westminster in London since 2019, researching types, drivers and effects of misinformation and the status and effects of policies intended to counter misinformation. At the same time, I am Co-Director of a course on media freedom in the UK and Africa, run in partnership with the UK's Chevening Foundation. My professional background since 1990 has been is in journalism. In 2012, I devised and founded the fact-checking organisation Africa Check in a partnership with the Journalism Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and ran it until 2019.
Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities, Open University, The Open University Patrick Wright received his PhD in English from the University of Manchester in 2007. He also holds two MAs, in English and in Creative Writing, from the same institution. His AHRC-funded doctoral thesis focused on the sublime within a broader discourse on the sacred, making use of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. This project was supervised by Professor Terry Eagleton and Dr Anke Bernau. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and he has a pamphlet, Nullaby, published by Eyewear. His full debut collection, Shadows on the Ceiling, will be published in 2020 by the same publisher. His poems have been published in several anthologies and magazines, most recently Agenda, The Reader, Iota, The High Window, and Wasafiri. He is studying towards a second PhD in Creative Writing, focusing on innovative ekphrastic responses to modern art, supervised by Siobhan Campbell and Jane Yeh. Research interests include literature from 1800 to the present, modern and contemporary poetry, art history, place writing, and issues of genre and translation. He teaches on A111, A105, A233, and A335, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has also taught English, at the University of Manchester and the University of Salford, and Art History and Visual Culture, at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is especially interested to hear from students looking to pursue literature or creative writing routes. Email address: patrick.wright@open.ac.uk
Assistant Professor of Marketing, San Diego State University My research examines how cognition and motivation interact to produce behavior. In particular, by investigating the cognitive underpinnings of goal-pursuit, I hope to advance understanding of self-regulation - how people manage complex goal arrays. In doing so, I hope to provide insight as to why people behave in ways that are counter to their goals, as well as identify ways to boost functional self-regulation.
