Postdoctoral Researcher in Armenian-Turkish Relations, University of Cambridge Sahika Erkonan completed her PhD at the Institute of Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, London. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Armenian-Turkish Relations at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her main research interests are in politics of memory, diaspora studies, creative practices, dialogue, archive studies, visual and material culture, genocide studies and denialism.
Senior Lecturer Management and Marketing, University of Dundee Dr Schreven is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Marketing at the University of Dundee School of Business. Stephanie is also co-director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Dundee and recently became one of the Associate Editors for the journal Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (QROM). Before joining her colleagues at Dundee, Stephanie has held positions at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, as well as the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Stephanie started her academic career in the Netherlands, at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, in Mass Communiation, and via a second master’s, in Business Administration at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, she ended up in upstate New York, with a PhD in the Social Sciences from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Stephanie's research areas span Management and Marketing, focusing on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Consumer Society respectively.
Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Otago I am an internationally recognised pioneer in bioethics and the bioarchaeology of social justice, central to steering biological anthropology’s focus to social marginalisation, climate change, and developing the theoretical approaches to support this research. I am the first in NZ and among the first globally to tell the life stories of individuals from historical anatomical skeletal collections (Southorn*, Halcrow* et al. 2024), who were otherwise treated as teaching ‘specimens’. I inform ethical guidelines for studying human remains in bioarchaeology and anatomy. My work has transformed our understanding health impacts of climate and environmental change and the agricultural transition through studying the most vulnerable population, infants and children. My papers are key references in the bioarchaeology of childhood used in university curricula globally (e.g., Halcrow and Tayles 2008). I have led the field’s emphasis on the mother-infant nexus to understand human evolution, health, epigenetic change, and human development. E.g., Gowland and Halcrow (2000), The Mother-Infant Nexus in the Past is the most downloaded of the book series per annum. Since 2007, I have >140 publications in high impact journals and books and >7 million in research funding, e.g., Wenner-Gren, National Geographic, Fulbright, Australian Research Council, FONDOCYT (Chile), Marsden. Selected honours include: University of Otago Rowhealth Trust Award and Carl Smith Research Medal (2018), NZ Association of Scientists Hill Tinsley Medal (2018), and NZ Scholar Fulbright Award (2023). I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Bioarchaeology International, on several editorial boards, and a keynote and invited speaker >40 times. *Shared first author with student
Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College I graduated from St. Olaf College, summa cum laude, in 2006 with a double major in English and Women's Studies and a historical concentration in 19th century women's history. In 2009, I earned an MA in Race & Resistance from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), and then I completed my PhD in History at the University of Leeds in 2013.
Professor of City Making, College of Built Environment, Birmingham City University I am a Professor of City Making and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI). With an interdisciplinary background in Architecture and Urban Planning, my academic ethos centres on understanding cities as complex socio-economic, physical, environmental, and political systems. Addressing urban challenges for lasting sustainability requires integrating diverse knowledge and employing innovative methodologies. My distinctive approach to city-making emphasizes active citizenship, gendered well-being, and fostering diverse, creative, and inclusive communities through transdisciplinary practices.
