AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham Dr Sam Hirst is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham, working on displays and events for the bicentenary of Byron's death. They work on Gothic literature and theology and intersections of LGBTQIA+ history and literature. Their monograph The Theology of the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834 was released in 2023. They run an interdisciplinary online education project Romancing the Gothic, which runs free online classes, reading groups, and events You can listen to them discussing Byron's letters here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OneUYJw_E&t=15s
Lecturer in History, UNSW Sydney I am a lecturer in History at UNSW Sydney. Trained as a historian and urban planner, my research has focused on histories of cities, infrastructure and imperialism in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Global French Empire. I am currently revising my PhD dissertation for publication under the provisional title of Contesting Concessions: Infrastructure, Imperialism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Syria. I was a co-editor of the 2015 volume Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb, a collection of essays on the meanings of modernity in the Middle East. My work has been published in Radical History Review, Arena, Al Jazeera, Jadaliyya and The Conversation. My new research project, commenced through the Laureate Centre for History and Population at UNSW, seeks to chart the history of population as an object of state-formation, policy and debate in the Middle East and North Africa across the twentieth century.
Senior lecturer, University of Ghana Selorm Yaotse Dorvlo is an agricultural mechanisation expert and a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Ghana. His research focuses on developing sustainable agricultural mechanisation strategies for smallholder rice farmers in Ghana, assessing the potential of biomass conversion to energy within the agricultural production sector, and designing innovative and suitable agricultural machinery. Selorm is also a professional engineer registered with the Ghana Institution of Engineering. He has been involved in various research projects through grants he has received, such as the post-doctoral fellowship with the Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa), the Feed the Future Grant for Early Career researchers, and the ARUA-CCNY Early Career research fellowship. He is on a one-year research fellowship at the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Pretoria. His educational credentials are as follows: a doctorate in agricultural engineering obtained in 2018 from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a Master of Philosophy in agricultural engineering with specialisation in machine systems acquired in 2013 from the University of Ghana, and a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering, earned in 2010 from the University of Ghana.
Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam I am a legal anthropologist with ten years experience working in India and the British South Asian diaspora. My work analyses the social life of hate crimes and explores what success, justice and hope mean for communities and individuals who seek justice through hate crime and hate speech legislation in the South Asian context. In particular, I examine how legal institutions and actors engage competing visions of history and contested landscapes of social memory when evaluating claims of hate, discrimination, identity- based violence. My first book, which explores the social life of India's only hate crime law - the 1989 Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act - will be published by Stanford University Press in June 2024 (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=36293). The book explores what it means for hate crime laws to be successful and analyzes how hate crime laws can be actively dismantled and even weaponized against minorities by police and courts, while, simultaneously opening up new avenues of hope and restitution in the inetrstices of daily life.
Head of Research at Institute of Alcohol Studies, Visiting Researcher, King's College London Sadie is Head of Research at Institute of Alcohol Studies, where she leads on the delivery of IAS’ research strategy. This includes conducting and supervising in-house research, co-ordinating commissioned projects, and managing the IAS Small Grants Scheme. Sadie is an experienced alcohol researcher who joined IAS in August 2019. Her research interests relate to health inequality, young people, and measuring alcohol consumption. Before joining IAS, Sadie worked as a research fellow on randomised controlled trials in the addictions field at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. Sadie completed a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL in 2013. She also has a Master’s degree in Health Sciences from Newcastle University and a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University.
Professor, Management, Strategy & Innovation, MCI Management Center Innsbruck As a professor specializing in strategy and innovation, I bring 20 years of combined experience from both academia and industry. My expertise lies at the crossroads of strategy, technology, and innovation, with a keen focus on the transformative potential of Human-AI-Collaboration. Passionate about impactful research and teaching, I deliver classes on digital work, strategy, and research methods. In my research, I’m passionate about exploring and designing the future of work and business with AI. Based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, I’m dedicated to mentoring a new generation of thinkers who are equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-driven workplaces.As a professor specializing in strategy and innovation, I bring 20 years of combined experience from both academia and industry. My expertise lies at the crossroads of strategy, technology, and innovation, with a keen focus on the transformative potential of Human-AI-Collaboration. Passionate about impactful research and teaching, I deliver classes on digital work, strategy, and research methods. In my research, I’m passionate about exploring and designing the future of work and business with AI. Based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, I’m dedicated to mentoring a new generation of thinkers who are equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-driven workplaces.
