Senior Research Fellow, University of Salford Dr Pål M. Vik is a Senior Research Fellow in sociology at Salford Business School and director of the research unit Community Finance Solutions. His research focuses on how households and businesses excluded from accessing banking services manage their money, the consequences for society and individuals, and the ethical alternatives to commercial high cost credit. Over the past 15 years, he has worked on over 40 funded research projects on the topic and has published over a dozen academic papers
Research Scientist, Environment Research Group, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Dr Pauline Treble is a research scientist within the Environment research group at ANSTO, where she works with a multi-disciplinary team of atmospheric scientists, hydrologists, groundwater and paleoenvironmental scientists. Pauline specialises in constructing stalagmite-based paleoclimate and palaeofire records using ANSTO’s Isotope Tracng in Natural Systems and Synchrotron facilities. She has established cave monitoring programs that use caves as a natural laboratory to understand surface to cave drip water processes, develop novel palaeoenvironmental proxies and to track rainfall recharge to groundwater under a changing climate. She supervises Honours and PhD level as well as early career researchers on these projects.
Directeur de recherche CNRS, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Directeur de recherche l'Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (CNRS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Formé d’abord en mathématiques, il s'est spécialisé dans la philosophie de la biologie, en particulier évolutive, et de l'écologie. Il a écrit de nombreux articles sur des questions relatives au concept d'organisme, à la sélection naturelle, l'écologie théorique ou aux modalités de l'explication biologique, et il a entre autres publié "Métaphysique et biologie. Kant et la constitution du concept d'organisme" (Kimé, 2008), "Pourquoi? Une question pour découvrir le monde." (Flammarion/Autrement 2020) et codirigé "From groups to individuals" (avec Frédéric Bouchard; MIT Press 2013), "Les Mondes Darwiniens" (avec Thomas Heams, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein; Matériologiques, 2011), "Challenging the Modern Synthesis" (Oxford University Press, 2017) avec Denis Walsh, et “Temps de la nature, nature du temps“ (CNRS Ed ) avec Christophe Bouton. Publications disponible sur http://philippehuneman.wordpress.com Responsable de de l'équipe "Philosophie de la biologie et de la médecine“ de l'IHPST, et du GDR CNRS Sapienv "les savoirs de l'environnement", il dirige actuellement le projet ANR-DFG "Generalizing Darwinism“ avec Thomas Reydon (Hanovre) , et prépare un livre sur le scientisme et un autre sur ce qu'il nomme "les sociétés du profilage".
Professor of music theory, Hunter College Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His research specialties include race studies in music theory, Russian music theory, Russian opera, modal theory and history, twentieth-century music theory, and hiphop and popular music. As a public music theorist his scholarship has been featured in Adam Neely’s YouTube channel, the BBC, Die Zeit, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and WQXR’s Aria Code, among others. Philip's monograph, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, which appeared with the University of Michigan Press’s Music and Social Justice series in Spring 2023, takes an antiracist approach to music education for the twenty-first century. He is also under contract at W. W. Norton to coauthor a new music theory textbook, The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century, which will be a modernized and inclusive textbook based on recent developments in music theory pedagogy, with a projected publication date in 2024. Philip is the editor of the Oxford University Press book series Theorizing African American Music, which launched in Fall 2022. For more information on Philip visit his website, philipewell.com.
Chair: School of Medicine and Head of Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of PretoriaProf Soma-Pillay holds a Ph.D. in Obstetrics from the University of Pretoria and is a member of the global NIHR-funded PRIME research study group. Her research interests include preventing pre-term birth. The appointment marks yet another significant milestone in Prof Soma-Pillay’s illustrious career; she has served on numerous committees and boards of national bodies, including the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of South Africa, the South African Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SASOG) and International Federation of Gynaecologist and Obstetrics (FIGO).
Associate Research Scientist, Nursing, Saskatchewan Polytechnic I have been a Faculty member at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in the Nursing program for the past 9 years. I completed my BN degree with distinction July 2022 after 30 years as a diploma RN in many domains of nursing. I consider myself a baby researcher, but I am part of a fantastic research team studying older adults and my skills are improving in this area all the time.
