Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Steve Swerdlow is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, heading the organization’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and founding its Kyrgyzstan field office. Swerdlow has worked as a consultant with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Earlier Swerdlow was a fellow in the U.S. State Department’s Young Leaders for Public Service program in Russia and worked as a human rights monitor for the Union of Council for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) as their Caucasus monitor in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Russia. Swerdlow practiced law in San Francisco at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Judge Dean Pregerson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Swerdlow publishes regularly on human rights issues in Eurasia and US foreign policy. Swerdlow received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a certificate in Post-Soviet Studies from the Harriman Institute.
Postdoctoral Fellow at The Injury and Violence Prevention Program, Virginia Commonwealth University I earned my Ph.D in Communication from The Ohio State University (2023). I obtained my M.A. in Psychology from the University of Oslo (2019) and my B.A. in Psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2017).
Doctoral Candidate - School of Business and Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University I'm a doctoral candidate in the DBA (Doctorate of Business Administration) program at Royal Roads University and have developed curriculum based on my research to teach in the Graduate Certificate Program on Financing Social Impact. Previously (before retirement from 40 years of full-time work) I was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Administration at Vancouver Island University. I am a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), registered in BC. My doctoral program supervisor is Dr. Heather Hachigian, PhD, Oxford and Assistant Professor at Royal Roads University.
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Sunil Bhar is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology. He is Director of the Swinburne Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults, a free counselling service for aged care residents. He is a clinical psychologist and has won more than $8M in grants as chief investigator focused on mental health programs for older adults. His research and contribution to practice has been recognised through several awards. In 2014, he was awarded the Alastair Heron Prize for excellence in ageing research and practice by the Australian Psychology Society. In 2015, he was awarded a citation for outstanding contribution to student learning in geropsychology by the Office of Learning and Teaching. In 2018, he won the Swinburne Dean’s award for research, and in 2019, he won Swinburne’s research impact award. Alongside his research and teaching activities, Professor Bhar has maintained a clinical practice for 30 years.
PhD Candidate, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork Sebastian Dohm-Hansen is a PhD student in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork. He holds BSc’s in Psychology and Molecular Biology from Lund University, Sweden, and a MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London, UK. Throughout his time in academia, Sebastian has specialized in the science of memory, adult neurogenesis, psychiatric genetics, aging, and exercise. His main interest lies in bioinformatics and data science. Prior to all of this, he dabbled in music.
Científico atmosférico, Universitat de Barcelona Licenciado en Ciencias Ambientales por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona en 2008 Máster en Meteorología por la Universitat de Barcelona en 2010 Doctor en Física, especialidad meteorología en la Universitat de Barcelona en 2019 Ha trabajado como meteorólogo en la Agéncia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET) desde 2010 y formó parte del Grupo Antártico de la AEMET des de 2016. Actualmente realiza un postdoctorado en el Instituto para el estudio de la Nieve y las Avalanchas en Davos, Suiza y forma parte del grupo de investigación ANTALP associado a la Universidad de Barcelona. Ha realizado 3 campañas Antárticas, una campaña en las montañas del Pamir y distintas en montañas de Europa.
