Professor and Department Director, School of Criminology, Université de Montréal Full Professor at the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, Samuel Tanner is also a regular researcher at the Observatoire International sur les Impacts Sociétaux de l’IA et du Numérique (OBVIA) and a member of CÉRIUM. He is the founder and head of the research laboratory on technology, activism, and security, LarTAS. His recent research interests focus on digital vigilantism, as well as the role of digital platforms in the production and dissemination of far-right discourses.
Professor, School of Social Work and Criminology, Université Laval Professor of Criminology, Laval University. Over the last 25 years I have published books, papers and chapters on state and mass crime, extremism and terrorism, policing, national security, intelligence, technology and surveillance.
Practice to Research Associate, UNSW Institute for Global Development , UNSW Sydney Somali is a gender equality expert with an international profile with over 15 years experience in research and policy in Australia, the UK at the OECD and United Nations. Some key career achievements include: - Leading the 20 and 25 year global review of implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for action for UN Women and the UN Secretary General - Developing and co-authoring the first global monitoring report for the Sustainable Development Goals from a gender perspectives - Leading the review and analysis for the 2012 OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index, measuring gender inequality in over 100 countries and working with national statistical offices in India, South Africa and Uganda to tailor the index to their specific contexts. At UNSW, Somali is leading a project on Gender and Just Transitions which aims to envision how a transition to a carbon neutral future can also accelerate progress on gender equality. Somali is also an Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, and a board member of ACON. She has a BA (UTS) and a Master of Science (Human Rights) (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Lecturer in Finance, Risk and Banking, University of Nottingham Sam undertook his Ph.D., entitled ‘Foreign Investors in the Chinese Stock Market’ at Nottingham University, during which he won several scholarships. He is now an award-winning business school lecturer at Nottingham, in addition to being a recipient of a Lord Dearing prize. He has taught Masters Students, including MBA students in empirical methods, corporate governance, quantitative approaches to research in business and finance, in addition to personal professional development, corporate risk and consumer ethics. He was formerly a module convenor and teaching fellow at King's College London's Lau China Institute where he was complimented on many occasions for his contribution to the China and Globalisation programme. Sam has advised and led projects as a specialist in economic and social research to a number of UK Government departments and arms-length bodies, across a number of high profile national and international policy programmes. Prior to this he was awarded a business and international relations degree with Chinese language at the Sheffield School of East Asian Studies. Sam specializes in bringing advanced analytical economic and financial skills and capabilities to complex, data- and policy- driven projects in multi-disciplinary teams, requiring project management, research, teamworking, stakeholder engagement and delivery to tight timescales.
Research Fellow in Transport Electrification, RMIT University My research interests include data analysis of public transportation electrification, electric vehicle drive control, electric vehicle battery degradation studies, optimisation algorithms for battery health estimation, and impact of electric vehicle penetration on grid.
Senior Lecturer in International Business, Auckland University of Technology My research interest concerns corporate sustainability in international business, sustainable business strategies, circular economy, business ethics and corporate social responsibility. My main research contribution lies in exploring tensions in sustainability and key strategies for managing them in an international business context, in particular between Chinese and New Zealand business partnerships.
