Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Sarah Charlton is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her experience in municipal government, the non-profit sector and consultancy included informal settlement upgrading and low-income housing policy and practice. Her research explores the interfaces between urban infrastructure and people’s practices, state development initiatives and urban governance. It has included work on urban peripheries and collaborative research in Ethiopia and Mozambique. She has a doctorate from the University of Sheffield and is a Research Associate of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. She serves on the boards of the journals African Studies, International Development Planning Review, and the International Journal on Homelessness.
Reader at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff University Dr Sofia Gameiro is a mathematician and clinical and health psychologist. Her academic work aims to support people in all steps of achieving their parenthood goals or, when this proves impossible, in coming to terms with an unfulfilled wish for children. She conducts research and publishes in the best peer-review journals on the topic, trains health care professionals worldwide and participates in multiple events to raise awareness about the emotional aspects of (in)fertility. She chaired the first European evidence-based guidelines for delivering routine patient psychosocial care at fertility clinics, has been on the editorial boards of Human Reproduction (ESHRE) and Fertility and Sterility (ASRM), and coordinated the Psychology and Counselling special interest group of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). She is a certified Clinical Psychologist and a senior lecturer in Health Psychology at Cardiff University.
Director of Environmental Law and Policy Clinic; Professor of Practice, Wake Forest University Scott Schang is an expert on environmental law and governance. He is a Professor of Practice at Wake Forest where he directs the School's Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. He is also senior advisor on corporate engagement at Landesa, an international land rights NGO, where he advises on Landesa's work on responsible investment in land. He has extensive experience working with corporations, multilateral investment banks, international development agencies, international and local civil society partners, and community members in designing and implementing socially responsible practices and in designing and assessing the efficacy of environmental legal systems. He is past Acting President and Executive Vice President at the Environmental Law Institute, former Editor of the Environmental Law Reporter, and was in private practice with Cleary Gottlieb, and Latham & Watkins.
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the West of England Dr Sam Bourton is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Steering Board Member of the South West Fraud Forum. She teaches on the LLB and LLM programmes, with modules including the Law of Financial Crime and Regulation and International Financial Crime. Sam’s research interests lie in the law of financial crime, particularly tax evasion, fraud, and money laundering. Sam is currently writing a monograph for Routledge, which examines the law and enforcement policies pertaining to tax evasion in the United Kingdom and United States.
Research Fellow, University of Bristol I am a social scientist with expertise in the field of applied health research. I use qualitative and mixed methods in my research to understand the experience of health and illness, and of participating in and delivering clinical, psychosocial, and behavioural interventions. My particular research interest is in vulval disease. I am Chief Investigator for the Living with Vulval Lichen Sclerosus: A Mixed Methods Study, funded by the Economic and Research Council. I am growing my portfolio of research in this field and I am interested to hear from potential collaborators in the area of vulval dermatological conditions. I work in Bristol Trials Centre as part of the qualitative research team, using qualitative methods to understand the experiences and perspectives of people within the trial, to improve trial recruitment and processes, and to understand the context of trial results.
