Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Michigan Roshanak Mehdipanah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health. Dr. Mehdipanah is the co-lead for the Public Health IDEAS for Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities and the Director of the Housing Solutions For Health Equity initiative. She completed her PhD at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain and her M.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mehdipanah's research focuses on urban health including urban renewal, gentrification and their impacts on health inequities. She is particularly interested in examining the health impacts of housing policies. She specializes in innovative research methods including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health.
Senior Researcher, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst My current research with the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst focuses uses mixed methods to study large internet platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and TikTok. It began as an effort to better understand harmful speech on these sites, but quickly turned into a large project to address major gaps in research. To start, how can we talk about how much harmful speech is on YouTube if nobody seems able to properly characterize YouTube as a whole. We devised a random sampling method which we used to publish what we think is the best characterization of YouTube to-date. We're now using our methods to study differences between language communities (how does English YouTube compare to Hindi or Russian YouTube, for example). I'm also affiliated as a researcher with Media Cloud, a news database and media analysis platform. At NCSU, my work primarily focused on Wikipedia, its community dynamics, and the systems of rules which enable it to work. My dissertation examined what I called the "production of encyclopedic authority" throughout the history of encyclopedias and on Wikipedia in particular. While a grad student, I taught media studies and communication courses and worked for a few years running programs at a nonprofit bridging Wikipedia and higher education.
Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King's College London Rajan Basra is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He researches how terrorists think and act, focusing on the terrorist threat in Europe, the relationship between regular crime and terrorism, and the role of prisons in radicalisation and recruitment. Dr Basra has presented his research at the United Nations Security Council, the European Council, and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and is a member of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). He completed his PhD in War Studies at King’s College London, for which he won a 2021 King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize. He holds an MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King’s College London and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick.
Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, MacEwan University I have a varied background that has nurtured my skills and knowledge, allowing me to undertake an innovative and relevant research program, looking at science and technology development for the biomass conversion industry. This is inclusive of research looking at biomass conversion and value adding, use of CO2 in extraction/separation, development of novel catalysts, novel analytic tools and techniques, process analytics and alternative process tools for green and flow chemistry.
Professor of Negotiation, The University of Western Australia Arising out of his work as an industrial relations conciliator in UK, Ray has had a longstanding practical interest in how managements and unions, and organisations in general negotiate and resolve their differences. The need for a practical understanding of how negotiations ‘work’ has led to the development of a reflective practice approach to the management of negotiations, an approach that is now central to his teaching.
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Rebekkah is an experienced academic and researcher in the School of Nursing at the University of Wollongong. Her key focus is person-centred learning, teaching and practice. In particular, Rebekkah has interest in researching person-centred approaches to leadership, facilitation, older people in community, the impact of nature on workforce, and to Nursing curriculum. Understanding how to effectively translate person-centred theory into practice is central to her research. Rebekkah is recognised for her leadership and person-centred approaches to nursing and education, investing in the future of the nursing profession. She strives to deliver professional, current academic knowledge to nursing students, to role model excellence in nursing skills and knowledge, to demonstrate person-centred leadership qualities and cultivate them in others.
