Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Africa I am a social scientist with extensive experience in academic, economic and development research. I hold a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. I have a passion for research and development programming and my areas of interest are agricultural development, value chain development, livelihood security, entrepreneurship, green energy, and behavioural economics. My experience was earned from supporting various governments, research institutions and development partners across several Southern African countries.
Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of Lagos Unwana Samuel Akpan lectures at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. He was a postdoctoral research fellow/visiting scholar in the School of Communications and Media Studies, Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. Unwana also taught at the Programmes Production Department, National Broadcast Academy, Ikeja, Lagos. He does research in communication and media, examining, understanding, disrupting and disseminating ideas on how communication and culture intersect. With innovative research initiatives and decades of industry experience, his research and teaching investigate and explore broadcast content, sports and communication, African communication systems, media literacy, corporate speech writing, media aesthetic, the intersections of popular culture and media studies, particularly as they address genre transformation, popular media, and theories of realism and spectacle.
Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Stirling Umair Choksy is a Senior Lecturer in Management at University of Stirling Management School. His research interests are in the areas global value chains, governance and supply chain resilience. This includes work on the knowledge connectivity, power and governance, absorptive capacity, sustainability and economic upgrading in global value chains. He has published International Business Review, Management International Review, R&D Management and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
Doctoral candidate- Environmental Science, Rhodes University Uzziah Mutumbi is a sustainable energy researcher and a PhD candidate at Rhodes University, South Africa. His thesis title is "Barriers and enablers of solar energy adoption in South African households". Uzziah Mutumbi's supervisors are Prof Gladman Thondhlana and Dr Sheunesu Ruwanza. http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:56838?site_name=GlobalView https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/7/2320 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7271 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=uzziah+mutumbi&oq=#d=gs_qabs&t=1672659007813&u=%23p%3Dk_SbYBJ2pOoJ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30937
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University I hold an MA in philosophy of psychology (distinction), an MSc in psychology and neuroscience of mental health (distinction), and a PhD in philosophy from King's College London. Before becoming an assistant professor in philosophy at Utrecht University, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. I work on cognitive biases, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and meta-scientific questions.
