Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kerri Evans, Ph.D., LCSW, is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and earned her Ph.D. from Boston College School of Social Work.
Dr. Evans' research stems from her social work experience with refugees and unaccompanied immigrant children in the US. She has held many roles including an in-home bilingual case manager, a program manager for immigrants in foster care, a cross-border permanency specialist for immigrant families impacted by the child welfare system, a community organizer working to increase access to higher education for immigrants, and an ESL teacher. Dr. Evans remains a licensed social worker.
Utilizing partnerships with nonprofit organizations, Dr. Evans works to answer service providers' questions to improve service delivery and make policy recommendations that will improve the lives of immigrants and refugees in the US. Topically, most of her research focuses on unaccompanied and refugee children's well-being, school welcome for immigrants in K-12 settings, and higher education access. Dr. Evan’s also does research around teaching pedagogy and hopes to increase knowledge gain and satisfaction among university students.
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Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on child and family policy with an emphasis on understanding how policies affect fertility, family formation, and family violence. My research is interdisciplinary and draws on principles from program evaluation, economic demography, and applied microeconomics.
I am the Co-Director of UConn’s Gun Violence Prevention – Research Interest Group (GVP-RIG) and the Co-Leader of the Connecticut Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. I was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and completed my doctoral degree in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2013.
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Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Arizona
Dr. Kerri Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. As the director of the HAB (Human-Animal Bond) lab, her research explores the role and impacts of the human-animal bond for both human and animal well-being across a variety of settings, populations, and contexts. Dr. Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in Human-Animal Interaction from the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2020, completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Human-Animal Bond In Colorado at Colorado State University, and joined the University of Arizona in 2023. She has led projects investigating the benefits of assistance dogs for individuals with disabilities, the effects of therapy and facility dogs on staff and client/patient wellbeing, and the potential stress-buffering effects of dogs. Her work has been highlighted in media outlets such as the BBC, Washington Post, New York Magazine, People Magazine, and National Geographic.
Dr. Rodriguez is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of human-animal interaction, with appointments on the advisory boards of Fetch Pet Insurance, Pet Partners, and American Humane. She has served on the board of the International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) since 2019 and is on the editorial board of the journals Human-Animal Interactions and Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Dr. Rodriguez has also served as a subject matter expert for leading HAI organizations, including the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) and the Association of Animal-Assisted Intervention Professionals (AAIP).
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Research Associate, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University
Ph.D. from the University of the Sunshine Coast Australia. Broadly my research explores sustainability at the nexus of food security and health through a lens of social-ecological change. I work with Indigenous Peoples, their food systems and their health. To date, my research has been largely focused on Pacific Island Countries including Fiji.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6019-5522
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Kerrie Sadiq is a Professor of Taxation in the School of Accountancy at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Taxation Law and Policy Research Group, Monash University, and a Senior Adviser to the Tax Justice Network (UK). She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Queensland, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from The University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from Queensland University of Technology, and a PhD from Deakin University. Kerrie is a Chartered Tax Adviser as designated by the Tax Institute. Prior to joining Queensland University of Technology, Kerrie spent 20 years at the University of Queensland, as a member of both their Law School and Business School.
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Associate Professor Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University
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Professor of Social and Health Psychology, Massey University
Kerry Chamberlain is a social researcher with interests in health and illness, food and health, medications, and qualitative research methodology and arts-based research.
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Associate Professor of Film Studies, Miami University
Kerry Hegarty received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2006, with a focus on Latin American culture and film studies. She teaches courses in film history, film theory and Latin American cinema, among others.
Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Studies in Hispanic Cinema, South Atlantic Review, Journal of Latin American Popular Culture, Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, and FlowTV.org. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines visual language in its global & digital contexts.
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Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Indiana University
Professor Kerry Krutilla is a specialist in the theory and practice of benefit cost analysis. He is currently coauthoring a book on the economic evaluation of air pollution, energy, and climate regulations. Another project is assessing ways to represent distributional accounting formats in benefit-cost analysis. Professor Krutilla recently conducted research on the principles of efficient cybersecurity investment, and completed a study on uncertainty evaluation methods relevant for benefit-cost analyses used to evaluate seabed mining leases.
Professor Krutilla has served as an economic consultant for a variety of international and environmental organizations, including the World Bank and the Environmental Defense Fund, and for U.S. federal agencies such as the Agency for International Development and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture. He has consulted for the Brazilian Ministry of Transportation and the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian National Congress, and for the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Development, the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, and the City Council of Hanoi.
Professor Krutilla teaches benefit-cost analysis in several formats. He has conducted executive trainings at the World Bank, the Escola National de Administração Pública in Brasilia, the Vietnamese National Academy of Public Administration in Ho Chi Minh City, and offered executive training courses in Hanoi under the sponsorship of the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Development. He has taught short course at Vietnam National University in Hanoi and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. From 2012-2014, Professor Krutilla co-directed a summer overseas study program jointly offered by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and two universities in Pamplona Spain. At the O’Neill School, Professor Krutilla offers graduate and undergraduate courses in benefit-cost analysis and environmental economics.
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Torrens University Australia
My doctorate was Construction Supply Chain Procurement Modelling and was completed at Melbourne University in 2005. The thesis was an analysis of the construction industry industrial organisation economics describing the structural and behavioural characteristics of 13 subsectors. The descriptions were then translated into a computer cognition model explaining relationships between various aspects of the actors in the supply networks underpinned by procurement practices. This deep understanding of the industry and its institutional economics has enabled a platform for my research in academia to investigate areas such as technology adoption, ethical behaviours, cultural norms, collaborative human robotics, building information modelling governance and education, off site manufacturing collaborative business practice and internationalisation of design. I have led numerous national and state government funded projects including seven ARC projects. I also was an ARC College of Experts Panel member. My research is informed by my engagement with industry and government through various initiatives and roles including invited Ministerial memberships (Built Environment Industry Innovation council and NSW Architects Registration Board) and President/Board Chair Chartered Institute of Building Australasia and Lean Construction Institute of Australia. I co-created the Australian Housing Supply Chain Alliance and am a current member.
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
I have over 20 years of clinical experience as a physiotherapist and hold the following qualifications: Doctor of philosophy (behavioural science), Master of Clinical Science (evidence-based practice), Post-Graduate Certificate in Sports Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physiotherapy.
My research is focused on mitigating sports related head and neck injuries particularly in football (soccer).
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Associate Professor and Executive Director, Entry-to-Practice Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
Dr. Kerry Wilbur is a pharmacist whose research program includes the study of interprofessional education and the practice of collaborative care among different professionals with patients. She is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of Entry-to-Practice Education at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
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Associate Research Professor of Food Science, Penn State
My program provides technical support to the dairy industry and delivers outreach programs focused on improving the safety and quality of dairy products. I direct and lecture in our annual short courses on dairy preventive controls and food safety, dairy basics for small-scale dairy processors, cheese making, pasteurizer operations, and cultured products, and assist with the ice cream short courses. I also provide customized training to domestic and international audiences.
My research is focused on creating tools for small-scale cheesemakers to improve the safety and quality of their cheese and meet food safety regulations. The tools include guidelines and spreadsheets and worksheet templates that processors can customize to meet their needs. Another area of my extension program is working with Value-Added Dairy Foods Working Group to create resources and assist small and medium-scale processors and entrepreneurs with value-added dairy foods processing and food safety.
I have a strong interest in the sensory evaluation of dairy products and judge cheese and dairy products at several national competitions, coach the Penn State Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Team, and Chair the Pennsylvania Farm Show Cheese Competition.
I support the industry as a faculty advisor for the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Food and Environmental Sanitarians (PAMFES) and the Pennsylvania Cheese Guild, and am on the Board of Directors for the American Cheese Society and the Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest.
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Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Dr Kerryn Drysdale is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. She conducts research at the intersection of social inquiry and public health, particularly in the experiences and expressions of health and wellbeing among marginalised communities.
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, Murdoch University
I am an atmospheric scientist with an interest in drivers of climate variability, severe weather, and multi-hazards interactions.
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Part-time Instructor, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
I graduated in 2020 with a PhD in Business Administration from the Organizations and Social Change track of the College of Management of the University of Massachusetts Boston, but my work spans business history, society and politics in the 20th century. I have been a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto and currently am a Part-Time Instructor at York University in Toronto, Canada. I am affiliated with the Academy of Management and have served as a longstanding reviewer for AoM and for several business history journals, in addition to reviewing books for the Intelligence and National Security Journal.
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Professor of Food Bioprocessing, University of Reading
Keshavan Niranjan, better known as Niranjan, is the Professor Food Bioprocessing at the University of Reading. He is a chemical engineer trained at UDCT (currently ICT Mumbai) and has been a faculty member at University of Reading since October 1989, after completing post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, and the immediate Past President of the International Society of Food Engineering. He served as an Editor of the Journal of Food Engineering from 2007-2019, and is currently a Subject Editor of the Food and Bioproducts Processing Journal (Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part C). He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2016) and Distinguished Service Award (2019) from the International Association of Engineering and Food. In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He is currently the cochair of the Education Committee of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
Professor Niranjan has a strong publication track record with over 150 peer reviewed research papers to his credit. He researches in the broad area of food processing/process engineering for health and environment. His current research projects cover the following areas:
1) formation and stability of bubble included foods,
2) engineering strategies to lower fat uptake during deep fat frying,
3) development of compostable packaging, active or otherwise,
4) high pressure processing of foods, and
5) processing techniques for separating health positive ingredients.
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My research focuses on the relationship between religion and politics in modern South Asia.
In particular, my work brings history into dialogue with anthropology in order to consider Hindu devotional traditions of service and Hindu nationalism.
I am very interested in how Hinduism and Hindu nationalism relate to beef consumption, conversion, and 'love-Jihad' in modern India. Especially how non-elite actors think about these issues.
I am currently writing a monograph on the means by which Hindu nationalism emerges in everyday spaces as a conservative project of moral reform.
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Kevin’s research interests are in the areas of public policy, criminology, and forecasting.
Kevin Albertson is co-author of the “How to Run the Country Manual” http://bit.ly/1FlLp56
His other books include “Justice Reinvestment: Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?” http://bit.ly/1NSH2o0
and “Crime and Economics: An Introduction” http://bit.ly/1BBSygQ
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Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester
Kevin is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). Kevin engages widely with governments, industry and civil society, and remains research active with publications in Climate policy, Nature and Science. He has a decade’s industrial experience in the petrochemical industry, is a chartered engineer and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. He was Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, the US Sister organization of Anti-Slavery International and is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and has now been published in ten other languages. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it “a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery”. In 2008 he was invited to address the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Paris, and to join in the planning of the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative.
In 2006 his work was named one of the top “100 World-Changing Discoveries” by the Association of British Universities. The Italian edition of Disposable People won the Premio Viareggio for services to humanity in 2000, and the documentary based on his work, which he co-wrote, Slavery: A Global Investigation , won the Peabody Award for 2000 and two Emmy Awards in 2002. Other awards include the Laura Smith Davenport Human Rights Award in 2005; the Judith Sargeant Murray Award for Human Rights in 2004; and the Human Rights Award of the University of Alberta in 2003. He was also awarded a Prime Mover Fellowship by the Hunt Alternatives Fund in 2009 and a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa , by Loyola University Chicago, in May 2010.
He was a Trustee of Anti-Slavery International and a consultant to the United Nations Global Program on Trafficking of Human Beings. He has been invited to advise the US, British, Irish, Norwegian, and Nepali governments, as well as the governments of the Economic Community of West African States, on the formulation of policy on slavery and human trafficking. He edited an Anti-Human Trafficking Toolkit for the United Nations, and published, with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley, a report on forced labour in the USA, and completed a two-year study of human trafficking into the US for the National Institute of Justice. His book Understanding Global Slavery was published in September 2005. He is the author of New Slavery: A Reference Handbook (revised 2nd ed. 2005). In 2007 he published Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves , a roadmap for the global eradication of slavery which won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Promoting World Order. In 2008, with Zoe Trodd, he published To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves ; and with eight Magnum photographers, Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery . In 2009 he published with Ron Soodalter The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today , the first full exploration of contemporary slavery in the United States. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between slavery and environmental destruction, and with Jody Sarich a book on forced marriage.
He gained his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics.
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Graduate Research Fellow for BSL, Deaf Studies and Linguistics, York St John University
I am profoundly Deaf was born to Jamaican parents in London. I made my debut on BBC’s See Hear – Black Deaf Special (1992) and appeared on numerous TV programmes such as BSL Zone’s award-winning Double Discrimination documentary (2014) and my Close-Up interview from also BSL Zone (2018) about my lived experience through my personal journey.
I was a representative for Black Deaf UK (BDUK), a Black Deaf led organisation which was inspired by Black Lives Matter (BLM) representing British Black Deaf people from African and Caribbean family backgrounds. After a long and through discussion with some Black Deaf people, the organisation was set up in July 2020 to challenge the societal attitudes towards racism and audism and educate, empower and liberate Black Deaf people living in the UK.
Previously, I worked as a community support worker for Deaf Adult Community Team, (DACT), an NHS specialist community mental health service working with Deaf people with mental health issues in Springfield Hospital, London. In 2018, I gave a presentation about the history of BSL (British Sign Language) in colonial Jamaica to celebrate 70 years of Windrush and the NHS.
I have recently been voted as one of the 50 nominees for Signature’s Hall of Fame for my long contribution to British Black Deaf Community.
I was graduated MA in Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity from Birkbeck College, University of London from Oct 2012 to Sep 2014. My dissertation title was ‘Race’, Deafness and Inequality in Higher Education’ focusing how Black Deaf students navigate themselves in the world of higher education.
I am now working as a Graduate Research Fellow (part graduate teaching assistant and part student researcher) for BSL, Deaf Studies and Linguistics under the School of Education, Languages and Psychology in York St. John University.
I now teach Deaf Cultures and Accelerated BSL (British Sign Language) Level 1, and I am currently working on my PhD thesis focusing on Black Deaf people’s experiences about the dual oppression of racism and audism based on intersectionality, using interview and autoethnography methods.
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I am Director of the MSc in Investment Analysis at the University of Stirling and a Visiting Professor at the University of Gdansk.
My most recent work has been in the following areas: earnings management around IPOs, the share price reaction to stock dividend announcements, the impact of board gender diversity on firm valuation, the value of ‘comply or explain' corporate governance disclosures and the financial consequences of CSR.
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Senior Lecturer, Environment & Systems, The Open University
I joined the OU in 2001 after completing my PhD and postdoc work at UCL, London. I have worked on a range of individual and collaborative research projects exploring systems and social learning approaches to managing water in the UK, EU and internationally. My teaching is focused on environmental management and in particular using systems ideas to develop new ways of thinking and enabling environmental managing.
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Kevin Davis is Professor of Finance at University of Melbourne, Research Director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and Professor at Monash University.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Melbourne in 1987, he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Adelaide.
His primary research interests are in the areas of financial institutions and markets, financial engineering and corporate finance.
He is co-author/editor of sixteen books in the areas of finance, banking, monetary economics and macroeconomics and numerous journal articles and chapters in books. He is on the Board (and previously Chairperson) of the Melbourne University Credit Union, and has developed and presented numerous training programs for banks and businesses.
He has undertaken an extensive range of consulting assignments for financial institutions, business and government. Most recently (2014) he was a panel member of the Financial System (Murray) Inquiry.
Kevin was the inaugural Director of the Melbourne (now Australian) Centre for Financial Studies from July 2005-December 2008.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Kevin DeLuca is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of American Politics (CSAP). His research interests include political institutions and the political economy of media, with a focus on election laws and the role of local newspapers in politics.
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Professor in International Relations, University of Sussex
Kevin Gray is a Professor in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. His research expertise relates to the political economy of East Asian development. He is author (with Jong-Woon Lee) of North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development (Cambridge University Press, 2021), as well as Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (Routledge, 2008), Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution (Routledge, 2015). He is also editor of (with Barry Gills) Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance (Routledge, 2018); (with Barry Gills) People Power in an Era of Global Crisis: Rebellion, Resistance, and Liberation (Routledge, 2013); (with Craig Murphy) Rising Powers and South-South Cooperation (Routledge, 2018); (with Barry Gills) Post-Covid Transformations (Routledge, 2022). His work has also appeared in New Left Review, Capital and Class, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Review of International Political Economy, Pacific Review, Critical Asian Studies, New Political Economy, and Third World Quarterly.
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Lecturer in Macroecology, University of Galway
I earned my PhD in 2015 researching macroecological questions relating to the evolution of lifespan in animals and birds, the evolution of venom in snakes and the evolution of time perception in vertebrates. I held two post doctoral positions, one studying population dynamics at Trinity College Dublin and a following one as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews where I developed energetic models of scavenging foraging behaviors. In 2019 I started as a Lecturer in Zoology at the university of Galway Ireland, where my macroecology research group is based. I have over 25 published papers on topics relating to Macroecology published in journals such as Natural Ecology and Evolution and Ecology Letters and I am currently an associated editor for the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography
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Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
Kevin Hearty is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work (SSESW) and an Associate Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute at Queen's University Belfast. His main interdisciplinary research interests lie in Transitional Justice, Human Rights, Political Violence, Memory Politics and Policing.
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Associate Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, UMass Chan Medical School
Kevin Houston, OD, M.Sc. is a Doctor of Optometry with specialized training in low vision and neurological rehabilitation, focusing on restoration and rehabilitation in neurological diseases. His research focuses on restoring movement and repairing ocular structures paralyzed by stroke and other neuro-pathologies. Dr. Houston's ocular rehabilitation research has pioneered using rare-earth static magnetic materials including neodymium in prosthetic devices. Focusing on the need to develop solutions for visual impairments, Houston's Lab has combined innovative engineering and visual therapeutic technologies to diagnose and investigate the benefits of virtual reality-based oculomotor rehabilitation, perceptual motor training, spatial neglect, magnetic actuators for restoring ocular movements, magnetic prosthesis for VI nerve palsy, and improving low vision.
Houston, OD, collaborates with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, and other non-profit foundations to develop new prosthetic and assistive devices and create restorative movement therapies to promote visual system recovery through continuous funding. As a clinical research specialist, patients can participate in vision rehabilitation exercises including vergence and oculomotor therapy, and prism adaptation therapy, while trialing new optic and prism glasses developed from Dr. Houston’s Vision Rehabilitation Laboratory. The goal of vision rehabilitation therapy is to develop solutions for visual impairments caused by neurological diseases.
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Vice President of Clinical Analytics, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Kip has experience and interest in managing large observational epidemiological studies and clinical trials, primarily in the areas of cardiovascular diseases, novel psychotherapies, and COVID-19. He also has research interests in psychoneuroimmunology, complementary and alternative medicine, and epidemiological methods.
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My research is in: machine learning, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, scientific method, Bayesian inference and reasoning, Bayesian networks, artificial life, computer simulation, epistemology, evaluation theory.
See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~korb/ The page is out of date, but accurate as far as it goes.
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Emeritus Professor , UNSW Sydney
An Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Kevin McConkey has worked in universities in Australia, Canada, China, and the USA. His publications span psychology and management. His recognition includes appointment as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has experience in the governance and management of universities in Australia and overseas, including in the roles of President, Academic Board, University of New South Wales and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle. Since leaving full-time employment, he has undertaken higher education and other consultancies in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, in areas such as governance, management, strategic direction, quality assurance, international relationships, research activities, and risk management.
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