Researcher of Economics, Health, and Governance, United Nations University Tatenda Zinyemba is a researcher at United Nations University -MERIT and a fellow at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Her research mainly focuses on development issues related to inequalities in health, education, gender. She engages her research on various platforms and networks such as academic journals, conferences, televised news, newspapers, blogs and social media. She also engages with development agencies such as the UN on various evaluation projects related to her research interests. She has cofounded and participated in nonprofit initiatives that target combating inequalities in health and education access. Tatenda has a PhD in Innovation, Economics, Governance and Sustainable Development from United Nations University-MERIT/Maastricht University, a Master's in Public Affairs from Indiana University , a Master's in Economics from the University of Kansas, and a Bachelors in Mathematics from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Professor of Health Sciences, Brock University My research takes a population perspective, focusing on the social and structural determinants of mental and physical health and behaviour across the life course with an emphasis on childhood. My work is interdisciplinary in nature linking social determinants to emotional, cognitive, social, and physiological development.
Lecturer, Kenya Methodist University Titus Mutwiri is a lecturer at Kenya Methodist University, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences. He is a Kenya registered medical laboratory technologist. He has a BSc in microbiology from Kenya Methodist University and an MSc in medical microbiology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. His MSc thesis was on “Genetic characterisation of Echinococcus granulosus strains from humans in the Turkana community in Kenya”. He has interests in molecular epidemiology and project management. Titus is on a funded DAAD PhD programme through ILRI. He is a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Institute of Tropical Medicine. His PhD research project focuses on “Cystic Echinococcosis in Western Kenya: Distribution and Genetic Diversity”. This project is housed by the ILRI ZooLinK programme.
Researcher Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo Tony Sandset is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. He has published three books including "Color that Matters: A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism." His current research focuses on HIV care and prevention. Specifically, his focus is on how evidence is generated in HIV prevention and how new medical technologies informs subjectivities, desire and sexuality. Recent publications and research areas have been sustainable health care within sexual health, HIV prevention and a focus on how evidence is made and used in support of sustainability. As part of this research lies an interest in health disparities and how we can make healthcare more equitable.
Professor in Theatre, University of York I am a Professor in Theatre and Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students in the Arts and Humanities Faculty. As Associate Dean I lead on the management, strategic initiatives and development of learning and teaching across the faculty. Within the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, I teach on the BA in Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance and the MA in Theatre-Making as well as supervising doctoral research students. My research addresses questions of performance, approaches to theatre-making and acting processes. To date, I have published four books on acting. I am currently co-editing The Theatre-Maker’s R&D Sourcebook for Bloomsbury and researching the work of the National Theatre Studio. My recent publications have explored acting processes for television, including Acting in British Television and Exploring Television Acting, both written with Christopher Hogg, and documentary theatre, including Acting in Documentary Theatre and Playing for Real, alongside a number of articles. I have held visiting professorships at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and Concordia University, Montreal, where I was scholar-in-residence at the Acts of Listening Lab. My research interests include: acting theory and practice, television performance, verbatim and documentary theatre and television, modern British political theatre, and approaches to research and development in theatre-making. My research addresses questions of performance and, in particular, acting processes. To date, I have published four books on acting. Recently, I have been researching acting processes for television with Christopher Hogg (University of Westminster), and have published a number of articles on this theme. Our work is the first detailed research into how actors approach the specific demands of television. Most research views performance via textual analysis of the finished product. By contrast, we use interviews with celebrated television actors to focus on their process, and how they bring their skills to bear on this particular medium. We have recently published Acting in British Television (Palgrave, 2017) and an edited collection, Exploring Television Acting, for Bloomsbury (2018). My previous research has focused on how actors approach playing real people. I co-edited Playing for Real with Mary Luckhurst (Palgrave, 2010), which is a collection of interviews with high-profile actors who have portrayed real people on stage and screen. Interviewees included Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey and Joseph Mydell. I continued to pursue my interest in the challenges of playing real people in my monograph, Acting in Documentary Theatre, which was published by Palgrave in 2013. Including new interview material with over forty actors, directors and writers, my book was the first to explore the challenges of acting in documentary theatre.
