Research Fellow in Demography, School of Demography, Australian National University I am a demographer currently based at the ANU School of Demography. Prior to joining the Australian National University, I worked mainly at the major universities in Moscow (Russia), and was a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. My main research interests are mortality and population health. I have worked extensively on understanding geographical and socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy in Eastern Europe, high-income countries and now Australia; examining the contribution of causes of death to changes and differences in longevity; and estimating mortality associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and non-optimal weather conditions.
Principal Research Fellow, University of Nottingham Sabina is a human geographer interested in the intimate geopolitics of gender, health and activism at work in the global garment and footwear industry. Prior to becoming a Nottingham Research Fellow in July 2020, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017-2020) in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has a PhD in Geography from King's College London, an MA in International Development from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and a BA in Politics from Durham University. Across this work, she retains a long-standing area focus on the political economy of Cambodia. Her first co-authored book (with Dr. Laurie Parsons at Royal Holloway, University of London) entitled 'Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality' was be published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. It brings together a decade of fieldwork spanning my MA to PhD, exploring the uneven geographies of Cambodia's integration into the global economy. Sabina works across academic, policy and practice fields, building collaborations with grassroots groups including Cambodian trade unions and feminist organisations, as well as partnerships and consultancies with international organisations (ILO, UN Women, and UNDP) and NGOs (Care International, Transparency International, ActionAid). You can follow her on X @SabinaLawreniuk.
Principal Research Fellow, University of Nottingham Sabina is a human geographer interested in the intimate geopolitics of gender, health and activism at work in the global garment and footwear industry. Prior to becoming a Nottingham Research Fellow in July 2020, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017-2020) in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has a PhD in Geography from King's College London, an MA in International Development from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and a BA in Politics from Durham University. Across this work, she retains a long-standing area focus on the political economy of Cambodia. Her first co-authored book (with Dr. Laurie Parsons at Royal Holloway, University of London) entitled 'Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality' was be published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. It brings together a decade of fieldwork spanning my MA to PhD, exploring the uneven geographies of Cambodia's integration into the global economy. Sabina works across academic, policy and practice fields, building collaborations with grassroots groups including Cambodian trade unions and feminist organisations, as well as partnerships and consultancies with international organisations (ILO, UN Women, and UNDP) and NGOs (Care International, Transparency International, ActionAid). You can follow her on X @SabinaLawreniuk.
PhD Candidate in Architecture and Global Heritage, Nottingham Trent University Simona is a Doctoral Researcher at the School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Her PhD work, Community Uses of Tangible and Intangible Heritage Resources for Sustainable Development in India, investigates community engagement with heritage for sustainable local social and economic development and works with urban and crafts communities in Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Her research interests cut across the cultural heritage field, including World Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, tourism and the wider creative industries, focusing on heritage's capacity to transform people's lives and its contribution to achieving broader sustainable development goals, such as poverty reduction and social inequalities. She is a research assistant expert in heritage-based design, working in heritage and tourism-led development projects, and a part-time lecturer at NTU and previously at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She holds an MA in World Heritage Studies from the University of Birmingham, an MA and BA in Product Design from Politecnico di Milano, and professional experience as a graphic/UX and content designer. Simona nurtures a personal cultural and spiritual interest towards Indian culture, motivating her works and travels across the Country.
Professor of Economics, College of Business and Law, RMIT University Simon Feeny is professor in RMIT's School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and is a co-director of the University's Centre for International Development.
Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis Dr. Susan Neely-Barnes is professor of social work and chair of the School of Social Work at the University of Memphis. She has eleven years of experience directing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) training grants and has received over $12 million in grant funding. She is also an accomplished researcher focusing primarily on building the knowledge base in social work around effective supports for people with disabilities and their family members and improving the education and training of social work students. She has authored thirty-seven peer-reviewed publications and five book chapters and given more than fifty juried presentations.
