Graduate Director and Associate Professor, Master of Communications Management Program, McMaster University Dr. Terry Flynn is an Associate Professor of Communications Management in the Department of Communication Studies & Multimedia and lead professor and founding director of the Master of Communications Management (MCM) program. Terry joined McMaster University in 2004 after a 20-year communications consulting career, having built an international reputation specializing in crisis and risk communications and having worked with such organizations as: the Town of Walkerton, Ontario (e-coli crisis); the U.S. Navy Public Health Agency (leukemia cluster); the U.S. Army Centre for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (base closures and environmental cleanups); the Chemical Manufacturers’ Association; the American Gas Association; Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada; and the Vinyl Council of Canada. His advice and counsel has also been internationally recognized by: the Canadian Public Relations Society; the International Association of Business Communicators; the Community Relations Awards; and the United States Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. Terry’s scholarly work has been published in the Journal of Public Relations Review, Corporate Communications, Public Relations Journal and Journal of Professional Communications and has also been recognized by the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications and the Arthur W. Page Society International Case Study. Dr. Flynn is also an award-winning teacher having won a number of student teaching awards for his engaging, challenging and stimulating communication courses.
enseignant-chercheur, directeur du CREA, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Thierno Thioune est maître de conférences titulaire, directeur du Centre de recherche économiques appliquées (CREA) de l'université Cheilh Anta Diop de Dakar. Il est membre du Laboratoire d'Analyse, de Recherche et d’Etudes du Développement (LARED); Maître de Conférences Titulaire en Sciences Economiques Il est Docteur en Sciences Economiques, Diplôme obtenu entre l’université de Montpellier en France et l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, il a bénéficié du financement du Gouvernement Français avec séjour doctoral à l’Université de Montpellier, pour lequel il a été major des bénéficiaires à l’issue d’une procédure sélective et rigoureuse. Également, il a obtenu de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) et du Gouvernement Roumain le financement de « Eugen Ionescu » avec séjour doctoral à l’Université « Dunarea De Jos » de Galati en Roumanie. Le CODESRIA l’a également primé dans le cadre de son programme de subvention de Thèse. Thierno Thioune est l’actuel Directeur du Centre de Recherches Economiques Appliquées (CREA), depuis janvier 2022. Il a été l’ancien Directeur des études du Centre de Recherche et de Formation pour le Développement Économique et Social (CREFDES), de janvier 2017 à décembre 2021. Enseignant-chercheur chevronné, il intervient et dispense des cours dans les établissements publics et privés au Sénégal comme à l’étranger. Au Sénégal, en plus de ses enseignements à la Faculté des sciences Economiques et de Gestion, la FASEG, il intervient à l’Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique (ENSAE), au groupe SupDeco-IST, à l’Académie Internationale des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité (AIHES), au Groupe ESTEL, au CREFDES, à l’institut Supérieur de Finance (ISF). Sur le plan de la recherche, ses domaines de recherche portent sur l’économie de l’énergie, l’économie des réseaux, l’économie publique, l’économie industrielle, centres d’intérêts pour lesquels Docteur Thierno Thioune est expert et conseiller de plusieurs institutions publiques comme privées nationales et internationales. Dans ce cadre, il est l’un des expert de la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC) qui ont porté l’étude sur la tarification carbone au Sénégal. Par ailleurs, il est membre du Comité d’orientation de l’Observatoire de la qualité des services financiers (OQSF) du ministère des finances et du Budget du Sénégal.
Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst Tatishe Nteta is Provost Professor of Political Science and the Director of the UMass Poll at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is situated within the subfield of American politics and examines the impact that the sociopolitical incorporation of the nation’s minority population has on public opinion, political behavior, and political campaigns. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Fox News and his work has been published in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and Social Science Quarterly.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Student Success, University of Kent Triona Fitton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She's interested in charitable action, charity shops and second hand consumption and has published a number of articles in this area. She is also interested in intersectional inequalities and precarity in education, especially race and class.
Lecturer in History, University of Galway Tomás Finn is a lecturer in History at the University of Galway. He specialises in Irish and British history. An internationally recognised scholar, he is regarded as an authority on modern Irish political history. His research and publications have made a significant contribution to historical scholarship. The importance of his prize winning book on Tuairim in understanding the evolving intellectual climate in Ireland and its role in persuading governmental institutions to adopt new policies and a chapter on Donal Barrington, the Supreme Court Judge, in an edited volume have shown that public intellectuals in Ireland and among its diaspora, in fact, did influence the key policy decisions that shaped modern Ireland. This concern with intellectuals and social movements and the process of modernisation is reflected in his current work. He is currently co-editing two books and has chapters in each of these, one on Youth Political Parties and the other Muintir na Tire, the rural social movement. His work thus reflects the Department of History and School of History and Philosophy's ongoing research strengths in the areas of Activism and Justice, Religion and Society and Childhood, Youth and Family. He focuses on the intersection between intellectuals, civil society and church and state in understanding the process of modernisation.
