Associate Professor, meteorology department, University of Nairobi
Prof Ouma is the coordinator of the Institute for Climate Change & Adaptation (ICCA) and an Associate Professor in the department of meteorology at the University of Nairobi. His specific area of specialization is remote sensing and satellite meteorology. His current interests include the use of earth observation data in improving early warning systems for climate change adaptation; optimizing early warning systems for adoption and use by vulnerable communities; and exploring the role of disaster risk management in the sustainability of food and nutrition security for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. He has run and participated in several adaptation projects working directly with vulnerable communities using participatory action research and trans-disciplinary approaches. Some of these projects have focused on the efficient use of climate information products through the promotion of co-production and collaboration. He has explored the roles that climate information developers and users play in the successful utilization of the information, and how indigenous knowledge enhances the process of adoption of climate information as an adaptation strategy.
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Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mídia e Cotidiano (PPGMC), Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
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Professor of Crop Science, University of Cambridge
My research focuses on understanding the signalling and developmental processes in plants that allow interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that facilitate the capture of nutrients from the environment. My mission is to eradicate the need for inorganic fertilisers in agriculture, through the use of these beneficial microbial associations. We aim to achieve this through optimising the use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that form associations with most crop plants and through the transfer of the nitrogen-fixing association to the many crop plants that lack this association. Greater use of these beneficial microbial associations in agriculture has much potential for enhancing the sustainability of agriculture in high and middle-income countries and providing sustainable productivity for farmers in low-income countries.
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Head of the School of Performance, London South Bank University
Professor Gill Foster is Head of Performance Arts at London South Bank University. Gill’s work focuses on actor training using performative pedagogies and creative rehearsal processes to develop students’ agency and socio-cultural resilience. Gill combines teaching with her own artistic practice as a director and dramaturg and has created a wide range of inclusive, interdisciplinary projects operating at the intersection of actor training and professional theatre. She has developed numerous innovative partnerships with acting training institutions, theatres, and industry professionals both nationally and internationally, and has worked in China, Europe, the US and in Canada. In 2018, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of her work in developing transformative outcomes for students. In 2020 she was short-listed for the Times Higher Education ‘Most Innovative Teacher’ Award and in 2021 awarded the Music and Drama Education Drama Inspiration Award for an academic practitioner who has ‘made or continues to make a real and significant difference to the lives of their students’.
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Professor of Employment Relations, , Queen Mary University of London
Gill Kirton’s academic career spans around 25 years. Prior to joining Queen Mary University of London in 2003, she worked in the business schools of University of Hertfordshire and University of North London (now London Metropolitan University). Gill had a previous career in non-profit organisations advocating and campaigning for workplace equality, experience which has influenced her academic research interests. Gill has taught a range of subjects/modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the field of HRM focusing in particular on Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualifications and on equality, diversity and inclusion.
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Directeur de recherche CNRS émérite, biogéochimie territoriale, Sorbonne Université
Gilles Billen a effectué le début de sa carrière à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, où il a dirigé le Groupe de Microbiologie des Milieux Aquatiques pendant 15 ans. Il a été pendant toute cette période très actif dans le domaine de la modélisation des processus microbiens en zones estuarienne et marine, en relation avec les cycles du carbone et des nutriments. Après son intégration au CNRS, il a été le directeur du Programme Interdisciplinaire de recherché sur l’environnement de la Seine (PIREN-Seine). Ses recherches ont été alors centrées sur le développement d’outils de modélisation permettant de faire le lien entre l’activité humaine dans les bassins versant et la qualité de l’eau dans les réseaux hydrographiques, principalement sur la Seine mais aussi sur l’Escaut, la Moselle, la Loire, le Danube, le Fleuve Rouge (Nord Vietnam) et la Nam Kahn (Laos), dans le cadre de plusieurs programmes européens et de coopération.
Plus récemment, le champ de ses travaux s’est élargi à l’étude des relations entre la demande alimentaire urbaine et l’agriculture des territoires qui les nourrissent, avec l’introduction du concept de foodprint et de bassin alimentaire. L’élaboration de scénarios alternatifs de relocalisation de l’approvisionnement alimentaire des villes et de conversion de l’agriculture à des modes de production plus respectueux de l’environnement est au cœur de ses recherches actuelles.
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Research fellow, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University
Dr. Gillian Dale is a Research Associate with the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and a member of the Water Resilience Lab. She holds a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience, and has over 15 years of experience with complex research design, instrument development and validation, advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis, and individual differences research. As an environmental psychologist, Dr. Dale’s research primarily focuses on understanding how individual differences in cognition and emotion explain variations in environmental perceptions.
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Professor Emerita of Law, King's College London
Research interests
Professor Douglas is a researcher in family law, focusing on the relationship between law and social change across the family life-course. Her work has ranged from examining access to treatment for assisted reproduction through to public attitudes to inheritance law and the courts' approach to challenges to wills. She has conducted a number of empirical studies which have focused on the impact of relationship breakdown on family members, including on the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren and on how children’s views can be taken into account when courts are dealing with parental disputes. She is currently a co-investigator on a study of financial arrangements on divorce, led by Professor Emma Hitchings at the University of Bristol and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Gillian Douglas has an LLB from Manchester University and gained an LLM at the London School of Economics. In 2011 she was awarded the degree of LLD (Doctor of Laws) by Cardiff University. She has taught at the University of Bristol, the National University of Singapore, Cardiff University and King's College London, where she was Executive Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law. She is a past Secretary-General of the International Society of Family Law. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2018. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Learned Society of Wales and the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Gillian England-Mason is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary.
She is an interdisciplinary researcher who is interested in examining the complex biological, environmental, and psychosocial factors that impact development. Her primary research objective is to examine the associations between early environmental exposures and child neurodevelopment. Her secondary research focus is to inform and evaluate evidence-based interventions which target emotion regulation in young children.
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Professor of Comparative Cognition, University of Sussex
Gillian is a comparative psychologist interested in human and non-human primate cognition. Her research involves the integration of modern technology and the convergence of methodologies across multiple disciplines. Gillian began her research studies in primate cognition as an undergraduate in cognitive science at the University of California San Diego. She subsequently earned a D.Phil. from Oxford University where she investigated the neural correlates of human language and attention using neuroimaging methods (EEG, PET, fMRI).
As a postdoctoral student, Gillian honed her developmental psychology knowledge running behavioral and imaging studies of infant cognitive development at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development under the direction of Mark Johnson. Using knowledge of human cognition and quantitative neuroscience techniques, a second postdoctoral position awarded by the Daphne Jackson Trust at the University of Sussex, provided an opportunity to develop a new multidimensional method (MDM) to investigate naturalistic behavior across disparate populations. This research focused on gaining a better understanding of both the evolution and the development of human and non-human primate nonverbal communication skills through the quantitative assessment of western lowland gorilla behavior.
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton
Dr Gillian Kennedy is currently a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. Previously she was a a Leverhulme Fellow at King's College London, where her research focused on diaspora networks among British-Egyptians, while also providing foreign policy analysis for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her book ‘From Independence to Revolution: Egypt’s Islamists and the Contest for Power’, was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press and released in 2017.
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Senior Lecturer, University College Cork
Gillian is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research explores cognitive processes in applied settings, in particular misinformation, memory distortion and attention failures.
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Gillian came to Royal Holloway in April 2012 as Professor of Organization Studies). Previously she has held lecturing and research positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of Cardiff and the University of Sheffield. She has research interests in identity at work, work-life boundaries, volunteers and voluntary work, rhetoric and rhetorical analysis, technological development and change in organizations, the technological mediation of work, sociomateriality, and the implications of smartphones and social media for working practices and organizational processes. In the recent past she has investigated the implications of smartphone use for identity, communication and information sharing (with Dr Katrina Pritchard, Birkbeck, and supported by British Academy grant SG-54143).
Currently she is involved as co-investigator on a multi-institution EPSRC-funded project examining the relationship between work-life balance, use of digital technologies and identity (see the project website http://www.digitalbrainswitch.org.uk.). She also has a research interest in the working practices of academics, particularly qualitative research methods and on-line qualitative research.
She has edited several qualitative research method compendia (with Prof Catherine Cassell, Leeds University Business School), the latest of which Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges was published by Sage in April 2012 (http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235422?siteId=sage-us&prodTypes=any&q=symon+and+cassell&fs=1 ). Catherine and Gillian are founding editors of the journal Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/qrom.htm). Gillian is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
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Professor in Health Equity, Southern Cross University
Gillian Gould is Professor in Health Equity and recently completed an NHMRC Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellow, co-funded by Cancer Institute NSW, at Southern Cross University. She is an active vocationally registered GP with >30 years' experience, and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist.
Her clinical work is at the Coffs Harbour Refugee Health Clinic which she co-founded in 2006. Previously a founding academic at UNSW Faculty of Medicine Rural Clinical School 2002-11, Head of Campus Rural Clinical school, senior research fellow.
Gould is committed to supporting regional research.
Gould’s focus had been to improve tobacco smoking risks for Indigenous Australians. She co-developed, over a decade, multiple innovative strategies to tackle smoking with Aboriginal communities. Gould co-developed and led the first national trial for Indigenous pregnant smokers – SISTAQUIT (Supporting Indigenous Smokers To Assist Quitting) (Global Alliance for Chronic Disease (GACD)/NHMRC).
This intervention was followed by an implementation phase called iSISTAQUIT in 40 health services supported by major funding from the Federal Department of Health. Gould will take iSISTAQUIT to full national scale up in 2023-2026 and explore the translation to Indigenous populations globally. Impressively, Gould leads this key intervention from formative research to national scale in less than 7 years. The intervention aimed at health providers in antenatal care has potential to Close the Gap on Indigenous Smoking and improve the lives of Indigenous children.
Gould is currently collaborating to design multi-behavioural approaches to aid refugees to address smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity.
Gould is also qualified in arts therapy (MA), drama, and media and uses her expertise in both medicine and the arts to excellent effect through innovative media.
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Principal Museum Scientist, National Museum, Bloemfontein
I am an entomologist with an interest in the systematics and biogeography of dung beetles and related scarab beetles. I am cataloguing and describing the impressive biodiversity of Afrotropical dung beetles to address broader evolutionary questions, such as the role of geological uplift and climatic changes in the late Cenozoic in the diversification and possible extinction of scarab beetles. Currently, I hold a research appointment as Principal Museum Scientist at the National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Research Postgraduate, Imperial College London
I am a PhD student in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. My research focuses on how natural hazards and conflicts result in infectious disease outbreaks and how global change may alter this, with specific interests in drought, armed conflict, cholera, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I am currently on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. I am also a visiting PhD student in UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
I recently graduated from University College London with an MSc Climate Change and my background is in veterinary medicine, climate change and conservation.
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Associate professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Gina Dimitropoulos joined the Faculty of Social Work as an Assistant Professor in 2015. She has over 20 years of clinical experience in both tertiary care and community based settings delivering family based treatments, group therapy and individual counselling for adolescents and adults with mental health issues. She teaches graduate level clinical and research courses. Gina also has extensive research experience in various methodologies including randomized controlled trials, mixed methods analyses, health services research and qualitative research.
She has three broad areas of research that all aim to promote inter-agency collaborations to support young people with mental health issues and their families. Gina is involved as a principal investigator or co-investigator on leading national and international studies evaluating family based treatments for children and adolescents with eating disorders. Secondly, Gina works with researchers to develop and evaluate best practices for transitioning young people with complex health needs and mental health issues from adolescent to adult services in Alberta. Finally, Gina is involved in research to identify the longitudinal impact of child maltreatment and child pornography on the psycho-social development of children and adolescents.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Brown University
My research focuses on sleep, social environments, and human cognitive development. In prior work, I studied how social factors predict attention and sleep in infants and children, and how sleep's neural properties support early emotion and memory. My current work examines links between sleep, brain, and learning in typical and atypical development (e.g. ADHD), as well as how perinatal sleep may predict parent mental health and parent-infant dyadic outcomes.
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Science historian with a specific interest in the history of social psychology., The University of Melbourne
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Editor of the feminist academic blog BroadAgenda at the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at University of Canberra., University of Canberra
Ginger Gorman is editor of the feminist academic blog BroadAgenda at the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. Ginger is also in the team delivering the "Pathways to Politics" program at UC. She's a global cyberhate expert and author of the bestselling book, 'Troll Hunting.' Ginger is currently researching and writing her second book about the strength of older women. She's the recipient of a 2023 Edna Ryan Award for making a feminist difference in the field of Media and Communication. For three years she hosted the "Seriously Social" podcast for the Academy of Social Science in Australia. She's also is a 2006 World Press Institute Fellow (Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA). Ginger has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from RMIT.
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DPhil Candidate, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Gino is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with a clinical specialism in selective mutism at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
He was awarded the NIHR Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) in 2018. During this fellowship, he carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of nonpharmacological interventions for children and adolescents with selective mutism.
He was awarded the NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF) in 2022. He is currently doing his DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research uses mixed methods to co-design a therapist led online programme to support children with selective mutism. The project is known as the Preschool and primary school intervention for selective mutism (PRISM) study.
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Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University
Registered Clinical Social Worker. Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. Gender affirming care and mental health care. 2SLGBTQIA+. Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.
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Senior lecturer in economics, University of Strathclyde
Gioele is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is interested in regional economics, international and interregional trade and economics of energy and climate change.
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in HRM & Future of Work, University of Bristol
Giorgos Gouzoulis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in HRM & Future of Work at the University of Bristol, School of Management since 2021. His research focuses on how globalisation and financialisation affect wage bargaining, workforce casualisation, and industrial conflict, focusing on advanced and emerging economies.
His work has appeared in world-leading academic journals, including the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Economic and Industrial Democracy, the Industrial Relations Journal, the Socio-Economic Review, and Sociology of Health & Illness, among others. Also, Giorgos is a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society.
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Dr Navarria's research interests include the relationship between authoritarian regimes in Asia and the language and tactics of democracy; the role new communication media have in politics; the meaning of representation and the role of civil society in contemporary democracies. He is also interested and work on issues related to current Italian politics.. He is currently working on a research project focusing on the effects communication media have on prevailing power-dynamics between state and citizens in China. He is also co-editor of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation. The material published in this series aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. Dr Navaria and John Watson (Politics and Society Editor at The Conversation) coordinate the project. He is the convener of SDN fortnightly research seminars series. He has a PhD in Politics and Media from the University of Westminster and a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Catania.. I hold a PhD in Politics from the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, and a MA Degree in Philosophy from the University of Catania, Italy.
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Professor of Social Psychology and Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London
I am Professor of Social Psychology and Criminology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Power, Crime, and Society at Royal Holloway, University of London. In my research, I investigate the legitimization of criminal governance, political radicalization, and the implications of cultural ideologies across countries. In 2021, I was awarded the European Research Council StG grant for his project “Secret Power” (funded by UKRI), which examines how communities respond to criminal authority in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
I am an NHMRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney. My work aims to improve musculoskeletal health in Australia and internationally.
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Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
Giridhar Kalamangalam, MD, DPhil, is Wilder Family endowed professor and the Division Chief of Epilepsy at the UF College of Medicine. He was recruited by UF Health to his current position in September 2017.
Dr. Kalamangalam was born and raised in India, where he completed medical school at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherri. He was a Rhodes scholar to Oxford University, England, where he earned a master’s degree (MSc) in applied mathematics and a research doctorate (DPhil) in mathematical biology. He obtained clinical training in internal medicine by rotation in various hospitals in the British National Health Service and completed a general neurology residency at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow. He was fellowship trained in epilepsy and EEG at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Kalamangalam’s career has been devoted to the care patients with epilepsy and research in the science of, and around, epilepsy. His publications have appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and his work has been funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as well as the American Epilepsy Society, among others.
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Professor of Art Therapy Research, Drexel University
Dr Girija Kaimal (EdD, MA, ATR-BC) is Associate Professor, Interim Chair and Assistant Dean for the Division of Human Development and Health Administration at the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions. She serves as interim Chair to the oldest creative arts therapies department in the world preparing clinicians and researchers in art therapy, music therapy, dance movement therapy and counseling. In her Health, Arts, Learning and Evaluation (HALE) research lab, she examines the physiological and psychological health outcomes of visual and narrative self-expression. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers and published a book with Oxford University Press called The Expressive Instinct. Her research has been continually funded since 2008 by federal agencies like the Department of Defense, Department of Education, National Endowment for the Arts as well as foundation and academic centers and has been featured by NPR, CNN, The New York Times as well as a range of media outlets worldwide. In her current studies, she is examining outcomes of art therapy for military service members with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, narratives from Gulf war veterans, and arts-based approaches to mitigate chronic stress among patients and caregivers in pediatric hematology/oncology units. Additional international research projects include examining the therapeutic underpinnings of indigenous and traditional artforms and the creative self-expression in times of adversity across the human lifespan. Living out her research interests, she has been a lifelong visual artist and her art explores the intersection of identity and representation of emotion. Her service commitments at present include being the President of the American Art Therapy Association (a member organization of over 4,300 members) and faculty senate representative from CNHP. Dr. Kaimal has a doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Master of Arts from Drexel University and Bachelor's in Design from the National Institute of Design in India.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Dr Giselle Newton (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Giselle also holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney.
Giselle is a social researcher of technology, health and family with a background in sociology, media studies and linguistics. Giselle's research agenda focuses on how developments in digital and bio- technologies facilitate the emergence of new identities, communities and family structures; shifts in knowledge practices and positionings; and changes in power dynamics particularly between laypeople, experts and institutions. Giselle's current projects focus on DNA datascapes and 'dark ads' targeting health consumers on Facebook.
Giselle complete her PhD at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney in August 2022. Giselle's PhD study explored how digital technologies such as social media and direct-to-consumer DNA testing have afforded donor-conceived people new opportunities to bond, sleuth, educate and strategise. Giselle’s thesis entitled “Everyday belongings: Exploring Australian donor-conceived adults’ social, linguistic and digital practices across private and public domains” won Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses in 2022.
As a donor-conceived person herself, Giselle's advocacy is a critical aspect of her work. In 2019, Giselle was an invited delegate to the 30-year anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child at the United Nations with group of donor-conceived advocates. Following this monumental event, delegates devised the International Principles for Donor Conception and Surrogacy, world-first minimum standards in donor conception. At a national and state level, Giselle has contributed to several legislative reviews and inquiries including the Review of the Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 (WA), Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment Bill 2021 (SA), Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform Bill 2021 (AUS) and Inquiry into Matters Relating to Donor Conception Information 2022 (QLD). Giselle is also a member of the inaugural national peak body for donor-conceived people, Donor Conceived Australia.
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Researcher and PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
Giselle Woodley is a PhD Candidate and researcher under the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Australia. She is currently investigating teens' perspectives of Sexually-Explicit Materials (SEM), including pornography and their experiences of their Relationships and Sexuality Education (both at home, school and online). Giselle is a sexologist and has a background in Arts and Media. Giselle also works as a researcher under the School of Population Health at Curtin University investigating sexual violence and primary prevention strategies and also works as a Research Assistant at the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.
Giselle is a co-founder of Bloom-Ed (https://www.bloom-ed.org/) a Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) advocacy group. She is particularly interested in the benefits of RSE and real solutions that work in relation to these issues which ultimately increase individual wellbeing, supports healthy relationships and reduces sexual violence.
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I am an evolutionary biologist and wet lab scientist at ASU, working on attaining my Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. My research focuses on cooperation across different topics such as kombucha, the microbiome, and cancer.
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Research Fellow in Economics, University of Leeds
Dr Gissell Huaccha is a dynamic research fellow in economics. Her research agenda lies at the intersection of regional and urban economics, with particular interest in the interplay between regional spatial structure, productivity, business resilience, and regional development. She is currently working on unravelling the effects of energy efficiency issues on either alleviating or exacerbating regional disparities across the UK.
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