Dr. Stephen Appiah Takyi is a planning educator whose research interest is in the area of Development Policy, Urban Policy, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Social Policy Planning.The complex interrelationship between economic, social and environmental goals makes it necessary to have scholars with strong academic background and research interest in economic, social and environmental policy discourse. Dr. Takyi’s approach to research acknowledges the complexity of societal problems in our world today. He therefore emphasizes on the need to approach complex societal problems from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The academic background and stream of work of Dr. Takyi at the undergraduate level focused on Development Policy Planning with emphasis on economic planning. Dr. Takyi’s specialization at the master’s degree level was in the area of urban and regional planning whilst his doctoral research focused on environmental planning with the scope being in the area of parks planning and management. In terms of work experience, Dr. Takyi taught Introduction to Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment at the UNBC School of Environmental Planning from 2012 to 2016. Within the same period, he was in charge of the editorial desk of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR), a scholarly blind refereed journal which has published for over 33 years. Stephen also worked as a Writing Tutor at the UNBC Academic Success Center. Additionally, Dr. Takyi has held a number of positions at the consultancy and administrative level. These include serving as an Assistant Planning Officer for the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly, Consultant for Padane and Fame Management Consult and Marketing and Communication Assistant for the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department. Through his work as a consultant, Stephen assisted in the preparation of development plans for local government areas in Ghana. He also assisted in the organization of capacity building programs for local government officials in the area of plan preparation and implementation. In the area of communication, Dr. Takyi worked as a Marketing and Communication Assistant at the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department from 2009 to 2011. This, coupled with his experience in public consultation has contributed immensely to my strong communication skills.
Dr. Stephen Appiah Takyi is a planning educator whose research interest is in the area of Development Policy, Urban Policy, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Social Policy Planning.The complex interrelationship between economic, social and environmental goals makes it necessary to have scholars with strong academic background and research interest in economic, social and environmental policy discourse. Dr. Takyi’s approach to research acknowledges the complexity of societal problems in our world today. He therefore emphasizes on the need to approach complex societal problems from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The academic background and stream of work of Dr. Takyi at the undergraduate level focused on Development Policy Planning with emphasis on economic planning. Dr. Takyi’s specialization at the master’s degree level was in the area of urban and regional planning whilst his doctoral research focused on environmental planning with the scope being in the area of parks planning and management. In terms of work experience, Dr. Takyi taught Introduction to Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment at the UNBC School of Environmental Planning from 2012 to 2016. Within the same period, he was in charge of the editorial desk of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR), a scholarly blind refereed journal which has published for over 33 years. Stephen also worked as a Writing Tutor at the UNBC Academic Success Center. Additionally, Dr. Takyi has held a number of positions at the consultancy and administrative level. These include serving as an Assistant Planning Officer for the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly, Consultant for Padane and Fame Management Consult and Marketing and Communication Assistant for the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department. Through his work as a consultant, Stephen assisted in the preparation of development plans for local government areas in Ghana. He also assisted in the organization of capacity building programs for local government officials in the area of plan preparation and implementation. In the area of communication, Dr. Takyi worked as a Marketing and Communication Assistant at the Queen’s University Marketing and Communication Department from 2009 to 2011. This, coupled with his experience in public consultation has contributed immensely to my strong communication skills.
Prof Sarala Krishnamurthy is a professor of literature and applied linguistics in the Department of Communication in the Faculty of Commerce, Human Sciences and Education. She was dean of the faculty for more than 11 years. Now, she teaches at the post graduate level and has supervised more than 20 Masters, 12 MPhils and 9 PhDs in postcolonial literature, feminist literature, English language teaching and stylistics. She has published widely and presented papers at several international conferences all over the world. She has co-edited two major volumes - Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition and Coming of Age which present the best of critical writing on Namibian literature. She completed two major research projects in 2021. These were the P3ICL project, funded by the European Union, to protect, preserve and promote indigenous culture and languages, and Herero Genocide Survivor Narratives, funded by Basler Afrika, Bibliographien. The latter is path-breaking because it records interviews of genocide survivor families and presents heart-rending tales of trauma and resilience of the Otjiherero people of Namibia. In 2020, she also published six books which are collections of folk tales and plays in the Oludhimba, !Kung and Sifwe languages of Namibia. Currently, she is working on a new book - Nama Genocide Survivor Narratives - along with colleagues in the department.
Sara N. Burke is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Director of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Center (CAM) at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She received her PhD in Neuroscience & Pharmacology in 2009 from the University of Arizona and went on to complete a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2013) at her alma mater. The overarching goals of her NIH-funded research program are to 1) pinpoint alterations in how different brain regions communicate over the lifespan and how this contributes to loss of function in advanced age, and 2) to design therapeutic strategies for alleviating cognitive dysfunction in order to promote positive health outcomes in the elderly.
I am a Lecturer in Private and Commercial Law. I hold a PhD from LSE, LLM from Cambridge, and LLB from LSE. I currently sit on the Law and Technology committee in the Scottish Law Society.
Sally has spent the last fifteen years investigating the influence of circadian rhythms on human activities. Her particular focus is the interaction between work hours, sleep and wake patterns and what that means for people's safety, health and well-being. Sally publishes, supervises students and gets out of the office as often as possible
