Lecturer, RMIT University Thembi is an enthusiastic, agile and forward-thinking academic who enjoys working with others, trying out new ideas and developing high-impact outputs to meet the challenge of future Australian tertiary education needs. She is skilled in designing and leading innovation for the integration of educational technologies and digital pedagogies into F2F, online and blended learning environments, and completed a PhD in teaching and learning within the tertiary education sector, exploring the efficacy in teaching and learning leadership within Australian universities.
Postdoctoral research fellow, Coventry University I am a research fellow at Coventry University, with a multidisciplinary academic background. I hold a PhD in Sociology (LSE), and postgraduate degrees in Forced Migration Studies (U. Witwatersrand) and Applied Linguistics (Birkbeck). Much of my professional life has been dedicated to research, policy and knowledge mobilisation around issues of community relations, migration and integration. I have worked in the UK and South Africa across the government, NGO and academic spheres.
Professor of Health Policy and Equity, York University, Canada Dr. Tamara Daly is a political economist and health services researcher, a Professor at York University int he School of Health Policy and Management, the Director of the York University Centre for Aging Research and Education, and the Director of the SSHRC Partnership for Age-Friendly Communities within Communities. Her scholarship highlights health care access and outcomes; public accountability; working, living and visiting conditions in long term residential care; and promising practices, principles and policies to improve access and health equity for older adults and for those who provide their care. She has authored over 100 academic and plain language publications, is the recipient of teaching and research awards, and actively supervises graduate students in research and publication.
Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Simon Fraser University Terri Griffith holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. She spent two decades in the Silicon Valley and in 2012 was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri helps her students and their organizations accelerate performance and prepare for the futures of work. Terri brings energy and evidence-based innovation to organizational design and technology management through her research, teaching, speaking, and writing. Her current research focuses on remote and hybrid work strategies, especially the bottom-up application of automation and artificial intelligence. For over 30 years she has partnered with universities as they provide executive education to organizations such as Oracle, IBM, Cisco, ESADE, Sonera, SIM APC, and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. She serves on advisory boards for startups and advisory groups and served as the 2022 President of ISSIP - The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals. She's now joined the ISSIP Strategy Council. Through her blog, Technology and Organizations, and freelance work (Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review Blog, Women 2.0, MIT’s Sloan Management Review), Terri follows organizational trends and the leaders who bring them to life. Terri's award-winning book, The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive, offers clear examples and frameworks for succeeding now and in the future -- not just leadership, not just technology, but a powerful combination that leverages all your resources. Her academic work is published in top journals such as: Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE – Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Academy of Management Review. Some of this research has been funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Terri has served as senior editor for Organization Science and associate editor for MIS Quarterly. She is currently an editorial review board member for Organization Science and Organizational Psychology Review. Her undergraduate degree is from UC Berkeley; her MS and PhD are from Carnegie Mellon.
Professor of Economics, University of Essex I am a Professor of Economics at The University of Essex and also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL, and at IZA. I previously worked at the University of York (2015-2019) and at University College London (2008-2015). My research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, in particular Labour and Education Economics.
Researcher, Lagos State University of Education Tope Shola Akinyetun teaches political science at Lagos State University of Education, Lagos State, Nigeria. He is a PhD student in Comparative Politics and Development Studies at the University of Benin. He has MSc in Comparative Politics & Development Studies from the University of Benin. His research interest includes – but is not limited to – identity politics, terrorism, crime, development studies and technology. In addition to being a Rosalind Member of the London Journal Press, he also reviews notable journals like New Media Society (SAGE), African Security Review (Routledge), Third World Quarterly (Routledge), the African Journal of Terrorism and Insurgency Research, the African Journal of Governance and Development etc. which are captured on his Publons profile. He has published several articles in notable peer-reviewed international journals and presented papers at noteworthy conferences such as the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, the International Association for Political Science Students (Ukraine), the Slovenia Social Science Conference and the African Research Universities Alliance. He is a member of MPSA, IPSA, IAPSS, African Studies Centre Leiden and African Studies Association. He contributes regularly to The Renata and has featured in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance (Springer) and other significant platforms.
