Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle Sebastian studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow and at the Bartlett, University College London graduating in 1998. After completing a Diploma in Professional Practice and Management at the University of Newcastle, he registered as an Architect in March 2000. Following graduation, Sebastian was employed by John Potter Architect in Newcastle upon Tyne, a practice specialising in Expert Witness and Litigation services, Building Pathology and in research and development consultancy. His projects included designing, supervising and filming of a research project into airtight construction at the Building Research Establishment (BRE), Garston, for DuPont de Nemours Buildings Products Division. In April 2004 Sebastian joined Ian Belsham Associates Limited, a commercial architecture practice based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, becoming an Associate in July 2006. He was project architect for a variety of projects ranging from a contemporary extension to a Grade II listed folly, fit-outs of premises for Anderson & Garland auctioneers and Tyne Tees TV reception, to speculative residential and office developments. In 2005, Sebastian co-founded studioMWM which undertake art projects and architectural competitions between 2005 and 2010. Prior to joining Northumbria University full-time, he was a visiting lecturer on the undergraduate Architecture courses at Northumbria University and the University of Newcastle. Between 2000 and 2002 he tutored part-time on the Architecture degree course at the University of Central England, Birmingham and from 2002 to 2003 at the University of Newcastle, whilst working in practice. Since 2006 Sebastian has also tutored a student undertaking the RIBA Examinations in Architecture for Office-based Candidates administered by Oxford Brookes University who was one of only two of the twenty students in his cohort to complete and pass the Part 1 Examination in May 2011. In January 2010, with Carol Botton, Director of Northern Architecture, and Matthew Margetts, a Director at +3 Architecture, Sebastian began a project to help Architecture graduates who were struggling to find suitable employment in the region after graduating. Since starting, the G.R.A.D programme has undertaken a number of ‘live’ and self-instigated projects, as well as offering mentoring to the participants. Of the initial group, who had all been unemployed for over 6 months before joining the G.R.A.D project, 80% found employment in Architectural practices.
Associate Professor of Business, University of Victoria Prior to pursuing his PhD, Sudhir spent 15 years working in large corporations e.g., Citibank as well as with entrepreneurial entities that he founded or co-founded. Sudhir’s research interests coalesce around international strategy. He is particularly interested in the reasons and consequences for individuals or businesses crossing organizational or geographic boundaries. Sudhir sees the idea of boundaries (both organizational and international) and the role they play of particular interest in a simultaneously globalizing and de-globalizing world that is also progressively becoming more specialized. The “when, why and how” firms seek to cross boundaries, thus becomes critical to understand how it impacts organizations and then to find ways to help these entities navigate these challenging issues. More recently, he has been researching the newcomer (immigrant and refugee) space in Canada from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Associate Professor of Communication, Baylor University Broadly speaking, I am a scholar trained to interrogate how rhetoric shapes public culture. My research primarily focuses on how texts (speeches, books, newspapers, movies, websites, social media) shape cultural understandings of race, gender, class, and (dis)ability. I also write, lecture, and offer expert input on various aspects of extremism and argumentation. My current solo-authored book project investigates the rhetorical practices of the Noble Drew Ali and Moorish Science Temple of America. My current co-authored book project considers the rhetorical construction of precarity and rape culture. My work has appeared in numerous communication outlets, including Argumentation & Advocacy, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Contemporary Argumentation & Debate.
Research Officer, Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town Dr Sabina Abba Omar completed her PhD in Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her PhD work focused on understanding the characteristics of cut-off lows, a synoptic system that can bring substantial rainfall to the Western Cape Region of South Africa. After completing her PhD she took up a postdoctoral position at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. There her work mainly involved analyzing regional climate model data from the CORDEX initiative and exploring whether the models are able to represent some aspects of the Southern African climate system. Currently she holds the position of research officer in the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town where some of her research involves high resolution regional climate model simulations of cities for heat and health information, impacts of climate change and solar geo-engineering on cut-off lows
Assistant Professor Psychology, Bond University I have a PhD in clinical psychology and am a generally registered psychologist and clinical psychology registrar. I am trained in multiple evidence-based parenting programs. My clinical work is in the area of severe disruptive behaviour in at-risk populations. My research work is in program evaluation and the development of emotion regulation within parent/child relationships.
Agent de recherche/coordonnatrice, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) Sylvie Bouchard détient un doctorat en biologie. Ses premiers travaux de recherche ont porté sur l'écologie comportementale des ours blancs en captivité (B.Sc.), du crabe des neiges (M. Sc.) et de chauves-souris africaines (Ph. D.). Elle a par la suite travaillé en milieu zoologique sur d'importants travaux de conservation de la biodiversité et réalisé des travaux de recherche dans les secteurs de la faune la flore et de l’environnement dans des laboratoires et sur le terrain pour des universités, des ministères et en partenariat avec l’entreprise privée. Elle a enseigné la biologie aux niveaux universitaire et collégial. Elle occupe un poste de coordonnatrice auprès de trois centres de recherche de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, soit à la Chaire en éco-conseil, Carbone boréal et l'Observatoire régional de recherche sur la forêt boréale.
