Senior Lecturer in International Business, Anglia Ruskin University As senior lecturer in international business, I am interested in macroeconomics, economic innovation, economic growth and economic productivity. I am also leading Centre for Student Success (CfSS) which focuses on student engagement and implement various intervention across the academic year to support students and increase the student's success rate. I am also active researcher in this area.
UoM-BSL Principal Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Sue Olney is the UoM-BSL Principal Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and a Visiting Fellow in the Public Service Research Group in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra. Her research examines the impact of market-based reform of public services on marginalised citizens, with a focus on disability services, employment and the welfare-to-work service system. Sue has worked in universities, government and in the not-for-profit sector, and been involved in a range of cross-government, cross-sector and interdisciplinary research projects, government and community sector initiatives, committees and working groups to promote access and equity in employment, education, training and disability services in Australia and internationally. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and is the Director of the social policy discussion platform Power to Persuade.
Visiting Scholar of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University Stephanie is a Research Associate at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute and an Assessment Measurement and Evidence Consultant at UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. She is a Visiting Scholar at the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University. She has worked at a local, federal, and international level to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations. Previously, Stephanie directed the Bureau of Homeless Services, Emergency Shelter, and Housing for the Boston Public Health Commission and served as a Policy Analyst and National Public Information Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Stephanie was a United States Presidential Management Fellow. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Gordon College and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Stephanie hails from Southern California, considers Boston home, and currently lives in Florence Italy with her husband, two kids, and six bikes.
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara I am a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century West Africa, with a focus on Ghana. While my first book, Making Men in Ghana, explored the history of masculinities in Ghana by foregrounding the life histories of eight men, my new monograph, A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana, is a history of Ghana’s largest development project, the Akosombo Dam, completed in 1965. A Dam for Africa is accompanied by the documentary film Ghana’s Electric Dreams (dir. R. Lane Clark). I am currently embarking on a new book project about the ecologies and infrastructures of Ghana’s Volta Lake. In addition, I remain curious in and engaged with historical questions about gender, sexualities, development and technology, Africa’s environments, and the practice of oral history in Africa and beyond.
Assistant Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne Dr Sonja Petrovic is lecturing and teaching in the Media and Communication program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her academic work focuses on addressing dynamics of communal belonging and public trust in digital spaces and in the context of crisis and disasters. Sonja is currently researching Japanese young women’s self-expression and self-actualisation practices in short-video formats and apps like TikTok; specifically, how this growing platform can accommodate new modes of expression and empowerment for young women through public self-staging, while considering intersecting themes of emotional labour, fandom, and online identities.
