Reader in Human Resource Management, Cardiff University Rachel is a Reader in the Management Employment and Organisation section Cardiff Business School. Her research interests relate to the experiences of employees, with a particular emphasis on the veterinary sector and healthcare. Before joining Cardiff Business School she held HR roles in the NHS, and manufacturing and was Head of HR for a large law firm in Cardiff. Rachel is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a Chartered Member of the CIPD. Her teaching has included HRM modules on postgraduate and executive programmes, she is responsible for CIPD accreditation and is Admissions Tutor for BSc Business Management programmes.
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University Radhika Balakrishnan is a professor emeritus at Rutgers University and was a professor of women's and gender and sexuality studies from 2009-2024. She holds a PhD in economics from Rutgers University. Formerly, she held the role of faculty director at the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers. Radhika currently sits on the board of the Global Initiative of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and is a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of the Care Economy. Throughout her career, her roles include serving as a commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equity for the City of New York and participating in the Global Advisory Council for the United Nations Population Fund. She was president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2020 to 2021. She has chaired the board of the United States Human Rights Network and the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her prior academic experience includes a professor of economics and international studies position at Marymount Manhattan College from 2003 to 2009. Additionally, she contributed her expertise to the Ford Foundation as a program officer in the Asia Regional Program from 1992 to 1995. Radhika Balakrishnan is the co-author of Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The radical potential of human rights with James Heintz and Diane Elson (Routledge, 2016). She is the co-editor with Diane Elson of Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account (Zed Books, 2011). She edited The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a Global Economy (Kumarian Press, 2001) and co-edited Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions, with Patricia Jung and Mary Hunt (Rutgers University Press, 2000). She is the author of Why MES with Human Rights: Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights (Marymount Manhattan College, 2005) and has authored numerous articles in books and journals. Her research and advocacy work has sought to change the lens through which macroeconomic policy is interpreted and critiqued by applying international human rights norms to assess macroeconomic policy.
Associate Professor; Head of Translational Research, University of the Witwatersrand BSc Hons, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) Associate professor of internal medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand Speciality: using scientific research to directly benefit patients, particularly those of African ancestry.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. My research focuses on human rights and state repression. I am particularly interested in why countries cooperate in transnational repression, measuring human rights using machine learning and text analysis, and examining public opinion and human rights. Additionally, I work on the Sub-national Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP).
PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology Rebecca is a first year PhD (Clinical Psychology) candidate at Swinburne University of Technology. Her PhD research examines the relationship between negative affect/mood (i.e., anxiety, distress, depression) and alcohol hangover, as well as the functional impairments (i.e., reduced driving capabilities) associated with hangovers. She also works as a research assistant with Summer Foundation in neurological disability research, specifically in co-design, housing, and well-being outcomes. Her previous research work also includes research in gambling disorders and other behavioural addictions at Deakin University.
Senior Lecturer Nottingham in the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University Rob Flint is an artist and an educator. He studied at Sussex University, Royal College of Art, and University of the Arts London. His research and artistic practice explores how the senses relate to one another and how the voice directs our experience. His work takes place in a range of contexts, including gallery, cinema screenings, printed word, and music and sound performance. His participatory performance 'Like Work' was performed in the Research Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Rob teaches Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, where he is working with colleagues in other disciplines to create teaching experiences addressing new and old combined media and immersive spaces.
