Professeur en GRH et relations professionnelles, HEC Montréal Vincent Pasquier est professeur à HEC Montréal. Après avoir travaillé plusieurs années en France comme consultant pour les comités d’entreprise, il a obtenu un doctorat à Grenoble Ecole de Management. Sa recherche porte sur le renouveau de la démocratie sociale au travers des nouvelles technologies. Elle interroge comment les nouveaux outils du numériques peuvent favoriser une plus large participation des salariés au dialogue social. Elle questionne également la manière dont les syndicats s’emparent d’outils qui viennent bousculer frontalement leur rôle d’intermédiaire politique. En parallèle de ses travaux sur la démocratie sociale 2.0, il s’intéresse également à la l’économie du partage et à son potentiel créateur de nouvelles solidarités.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory I have spent years studying the composition and expression of human scent from its use as a forensic identifier to the underlying indications it yields about human health. I completed my doctoral studies at Florida International University where I established an instrumental method (using gas chromatography- mass spectrometry) that allows human scent samples to be associated to one another. Further development of tools like these will eventually allow us to quantify the similarity between two samples of human scent evidence and say how similar or dissimilar they are to one another.
Secretary of the Dharriwaa Elders Group, Indigenous Knowledge Virginia Robinson (BA/LLB/GDHM/RN) is a Gamilaraay woman from Walgett and Secretary of the Dharriwaa Elders Group. Virginia grew up and was educated in Walgett, before moving to Sydney to work as a registered nurse and midwife, and then Melbourne to study and work in criminal and constitutional law. She returned to live in Walgett in 2003 and has since then been leading efforts with the Dharriwaa Elders Group to advocate for culture, language and heritage issues and improving access to justice for the Aboriginal community in Walgett. Virginia is an author of multiple publications including the Briefing Paper on the core principles underpinning the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW which are being community-led, culturally connected, holistic, strengths-focused and rights-based. https://www.dharriwaaeldersgroup.org.au/images/downloads/Yuwaya_Ngarra-li_Core_Principles_Research_Brief_final.pdf
Professor in Employment Studies, University of Bristol Vanessa works at the University of Bristol Business School. She gained her degrees from Brunel (BSc), Keele (MPhil) and Birmingham (PhD) and worked at the University of Leicester before joining Bristol. Vanessa has published on issues relating to older workers; the extension of working lives following the abolishment of the default retirement age; unemployment and underemployment.
Research Associate, Deakin University Vanessa Barolsky is a Research Associate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She works across several disciplinary areas including sociology, anthropology and criminology to tackle questions related to social conflict and its transformation. This includes critical engagements with social cohesion, truth, reconciliation and questions of justice and decolonisation. Her work is informed by her research in South Africa on political conflict where she worked at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and participated in writing the Commission’s final report. She subsequently completed a PHD on the Truth Commission’s conceptualisation of political conflict. She is currently working on several studies on community truth-telling in Australia with partners, including Reconciliation Australia.
Professor emerita, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham Vivien Lowndes is Professor Emerita at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research examines the dynamics of public institutions, particularly at the local level. She is interested in how institutions reproduce power relationships and how they can be reformed to secure new settlements. Vivien's research has focused on gender, migration, citizen participation, urban renewal and local government. She is the author, with Mark Roberts, of 'Why Institutions Matter' (Palgrave) as well as many articles on related themes. In 2021, Vivien was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin prize for a lifetime contribution to political studies.
