Senior Lecturer, International Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, Auckland University of Technology Taghreed, a dedicated professional with a rich background spanning over two decades in the business world, coupled with a decade's worth of academic achievements, including a Ph.D. and an MBA in Operations Management and MBus, has leveraged her knowledge from both sides to establish valuable connections between these two realms. Understanding one another is the key to unlocking the maximum scientific and theoretical benefits from academia and implementing them in the real business world, and this has become her mission. Her hands-on experience on both sides has positioned her optimally to forge these links, ensuring that complex ideas and research findings are not confined to scholarly circles but are presented in an accessible, engaging, and informative manner for a broader and more engaged audience.
Professor of African Studies, University of Leeds I have worked as a British Academy Global Professor at the University of Leeds’ School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies since February 2023. I have also been a Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State in South Africa since 2017. Before joining the University of Leeds I was an Associate Professor in the English and Media Studies Department at Great Zimbabwe University, where I taught African literature. I received my PhD in African literature from Leiden University in 2015. Since then, I have held different research fellowships that include the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and Fulbright Research Scholarship in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California (Riverside) in the US. My research interests lie at the intersections of African/Zimbabwean literary and cultural studies, including onomastics, with a focus on questions of gender, sexuality, politics, power and (in)justice.
Research Fellow, Lancaster University Tim is a marine biologist at Lancaster Environment Centre, with research interests in coral reef ecology and restoration. He aims to understand the processes at work on healthy reefs, in order to guide efforts to restore degraded ecosystems. Tim studied has carried out research on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific region, and completed a PhD in reef bioacoustics at the University of Exeter in 2020. He started his current research fellowship at Lancaster in 2022, funded by the Royal Commission of 1851 and in collaboration with the Mars Coral Reef Restoration Programme.
Associate professor, Curtin University Trevor Mazzucchelli is a Senior Lecturer of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology. Trevor has been a registered and practising clinical psychologist since 1994. He has extensive clinical experience in providing empirically supported treatments for emotional and behavioural disorders having worked in various public and private settings including Western Australia’s Disability Services Commission, Western Australia’s Department of Health, Triple P International, and in private practice. He has developed programs to assist parents of children with disability prevent and manage commonly encountered behavioural and emotional problems, and trained many practitioners to support parents in using these programs.
Lecturer in Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Dr Tyrone Berger is a lecturer at Deakin Law School. Tyrone holds a PhD from Monash Law School, which won the 2019 Mollie Holman medal. He also has a JD from UTS and degrees in Arts and Commerce from the University of Sydney. Tyrone’s previous academic positions include roles at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and Monash. He has published widely in the areas of IP and technology law and presented his research at local and international legal conferences. Before arriving at Deakin, Tyrone worked as a policy officer at IP Australia, the national IP office, in the Domestic Policy & Legislation section. He advised on current and emerging IP matters, developed changes to legislation, and represented IP Australia locally and abroad. Prior to this, Tyrone practised as a Lawyer and Trade Marks Attorney for the national firm, MinterEllison. Tyrone is admitted as an Australian lawyer (NSW, Vic, WA) and was previously a registered Trade Marks Attorney.
Researcher and Scientific Writer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington Theresa A. McHugh, PhD, is a scientific writer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, where she focuses on neonatal and child health and disease expenditure research.
