Professor of Global Environmental Governance, Wageningen University
Aarti Gupta is Professor of Global Environmental Governance at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the contested politics of transparency and accountability in global environmental and climate governance, and the challenges of anticipatory governance of novel technologies, such as biotechnology and climate engineering. She has published widely on these topics, including Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives (2014, MIT Press). She is principal investigator of the TRANSGOV research project on the Transformative Potential of Transparency in Climate Governance (https://trans-gov.org/) and co-lead of the REIMAGINE consortium project on anticipatory climate governance in vulnerable regions of the global South. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance (ESG) research alliance, and series co-editor of the Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance, published by Cambridge University Press. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from Yale University, with a background in political science, international relations, and science and technology studies.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
My current research trajectory focuses on the attention economy; the economies constructed for information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the internet and social media. My book Attention and Alienation: Reflections on the Many promises of ICTs for Social Progress is under contract with Columbia University Press. This book presents quantitative data on internet and mobile penetration across the world from 1990-2020 to unpack the historical impacts these technologies have had on different elements of global change, including international development and social movements. Throughout the book, I weave narratives about my own experiences growing up as a young millennial girl during the Nepali Civil War. These narratives provide the contexts, positions and perspectives that inspire my analysis of the data.
Expanding on my interests in the phenomena of technology and attention, my newer projects focus on the study of meditation and mindfulness as radical tools to reclaim our attention from “big tech” firms and social media platforms. As a teacher, I am especially keen to uncover this line of inquiry to support my students for whom digital and social media are integral aspects of living. My next book project will be at the nexus of the study of attention, mindfulness and the future of technology.
Finally, I am also continuing my work on communication technologies and society through interdisciplinary collaborative projects on the social dimensions of rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and language models.
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education, UCL
I am a Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
My educational background is in Sociology with an undergraduate degree from York and a master’s degree from Oxford, and a doctorate degree in Social Intervention also from Oxford.
My work is focused on cohort studies that follow large group of individuals through life. I have worked extensively with the Millennium Cohort Study, which involves around 19,000 participants born in the UK around the millennium. I am particularly interested in children’s and adolescent’s social, behavioural and health outcomes and the underlying factors causing these, with the aim of informing policy.
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Clinical Radiation Oncology Consultant, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dr Abba Mallum is a Clinical Radiation Oncology consultant and honorary clinical fellow in academic training at the University of KwaZulu-Natal/Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in South Africa. He also serves as an honorary consultant and visiting lecturer at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, where he earned his medical degree. As the founder of Global Onco Care South Africa, Dr Mallum has helped bridge the gap between public and private healthcare by providing accessible, high-quality, low-cost healthcare, particularly in South Africa's North-West region where public oncology services are limited. He obtained a Master’s in Medicine from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is currently pursuing his doctoral training at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Assistant Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University
Abbey Stockstill received her B.A. in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University. Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and identity in the medieval Mediterranean, particularly in the region of the Islamic West known as the Maghrib (comprising present-day Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). Her first book manuscript, Marrakesh & the Mountains: Landscape, Identity, and Urban Planning in the Medieval Maghrib (forthcoming), addresses the way the landscape of Marrakesh helps define the ethnosocial identities of two medieval dynasties, the Almoravids and the Almohads. This research has been supported by a number of international institutions including the American Institute of Maghrib Studies, the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections and the École Nationale d’Architecture du Maroc.
She welcomes applications from prospective M.A. and Ph.D. students with interests in Islamic art and architecture, especially those whose topics may fall under the research categories listed below.
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PhD Candidate in Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Abbie Cohen is a PhD candidate at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies in the Urban Schooling division. Abbie is a critical qualitative researcher focusing on the intersection of youth-serving community-based education non-profits and private philanthropy in public education. She uses participatory methods to explore issues of race, class, power, and privilege in educational institutions and organizations.
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Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Abbie Liel is a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado. Her interests include seismic collapse performance prediction of structures and structural systems; building code provisions for extreme loads, such as earthquakes or snow; nonlinear modeling of structures, particularly non-ductile reinforced concrete; propagation of modeling and design uncertainties in structural performance assessments; life safety risks and economic losses associated with extreme loading; and earthquake performance of housing and schools internationally.
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Associate Professor of History, UMass Lowell
Expertise
Early American History, Public History
Research Interests
Legal and Political History, the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Atlantic world, and Material Culture.
My current book project examines rebellions in 1760s British North America from both local and imperial perspectives.
Education
Ph D: History, (2008), University of Maine at Orono - Orono, ME
Dissertation/Thesis Title: At the Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636-1718
MA: American History, (2002), University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, MA
Supporting Area: Public History
BA: History, (1996), Colby College - Waterville, ME
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PhD Candidate in the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
Abby Gilsenan is currently a fourth year PhD student in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her research is focused on the impact of statutory sex education in Catholic secondary schools on the lives and experiences of young women. She is particularly interested in the way youth sexuality is problematised and understood within policy contexts, and the ways we can centre young peoples’ voices within research. Her work draws on feminist sociological work, education policy and youth studies.
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My study focuses on the relationship between violence and state capitalism in post-authoritarian Indonesia.
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Head of Medical Entomology and Parasitology, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)
Prof. Abdoulaye Diabaté is head of Medical Entomology and Parasitology at the Research Institute in Health Sciences (Institut de Recherche en Science de la Santé (IRSS) /Centre Muraz) in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso and the principal investigator of Target Malaria Burkina Faso. Prof. Diabaté joined Target Malaria in 2012 when he established Target Malaria Burkina Faso. He has since become a leader in malaria research and in genetic approaches to malaria reduction in Africa. Prof. Diabaté was trained as a doctor of animal biology and ecology at the University of Ouagadougou and obtained his PhD in parasitology from the University of Montpellier II (France) in 2003. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in 2005/2009 at the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA. He returned to Burkina Faso in 2009, where he now works at the Research Institute in Health Sciences heading the medical entomology laboratory.
Professor Diabaté has been an invited speaker in several prestigious universities including Harvard University to catalyse a lasting collaboration between IRSS and other research centres or universities across the world. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Pfizer award 2013, was awarded the Grand Challenges Star in Global Health grant and the MRC/DFID African Leader Scheme grant, the PAMCA award for his contribution to the medical entomology field and the “Chevalier des Palmes académiques” of the Government of Burkina Faso in recognition of his significant contribution to scientific research in Burkina Faso. He was interviewed by several prestigious international and national media, including the BBC, Netflix, The New York Times, the National TV channel of Burkina Faso. He is a member of the African Academy of Sciences.
Professor Diabaté and his team of eight researchers based in the United States and Burkina Faso received the 2019 Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For more information, please read this blog by Raymond J. Monnat, Jr. M.D.
More recently, he has been named as one of the 10 global winners of the prestigious Falling Walls Science & Innovation Prize 2023. An interview was published on the Falling Walls website titled ‘ERADICATING MALARIA: GENETIC SOLUTIONS AND AFRICAN LEADERSHIP‘.
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Associate Professor in finance and Dean of Research, ISG International Business School
Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou is Associate Professor at ISG International Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences and is specialized in the field of Finance.. His current professional activity is teaching and research? His areas of publication are Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation. His teaching specializations are Financial Markets and Institutions, Portfolio Management, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Cash Management.
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Professor and Director of Aston Digital Futures Institute, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University
Professor Sadka is a Chartered Computer & Communications Engineer (CEng) with 27 years' worth of research leadership, business engagement and significant contributions to the area of AI-enabled visual media technologies. He is the founding Director of Aston Digital Futures Institute. This is a nationally leading powerhouse of research and innovation expertise, making strides in developing groundbreaking generative AI solutions to automate industry workflows and enhance the customer's quality of experience.
Professor Sadka previously served as the Director of the Institute of Digital Futures at Brunel University London (2020-23) and as the Lead Academic of Brunel Fellowship Academy 2022-23, reporting directly to the Provost in both roles.
He served as the founding Director of “Brunel Digital Science & Technology Hub” (2018-20) and as the Director of the Centre for Media Communications Research (2012-18). Professor Sadka is also the former Head of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Digital Media (2006-12).
During the period 2020-23, he chaired the Government-supported West London FE-HE Partnership Group, representing seven Universities and 6 FE Colleges, developing the post-COVID skill and knowledge transfer agenda for the UK digital industries. Professor Sadka led the development of the L7 degree apprenticeship and L6 top-up programmes in digital specialisms such as data analytics and EEE. He served on the Steering Board of the NEM technology platform, which shapes the European strategic research agenda in networked media.
Thus far, he has worked on over £15m worth of research projects as Principal Investigator, and supervised more than 50 Research Assistants and PhD students to completion. Professor Sadka has published widely, with over 300 papers in refereed journals and conferences, three patents and four books, including a seminal textbook titled Compressed Video Communications, published in 2002.
He frequently serves on industry advisory boards and evaluation panels, and provide consultancy services to the tech industry in the area of digital media, AI and data analytics. He has had several entrepreneurial business engagements with particular success in the health tech and real estate sectors. He is a fellow of the HEA, IET and BCS.
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Associate Professor in Development Finance & Insurance, University of Cape Town
I have a PhD in Insurance Finance from University of Cape Town with research focus covering the industrial organisation of financial services industry (banks, insurance) in Africa and the broad area of development finance.
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PhD student, researcher and conservationist, Jimma University
I have been working on people-bird interaction studies for the past couple of years, focusing on indigenous people's relationships with local bird populations and ethno-ornithology. My research has taken me to remote communities (i.e., the Nuer community in western Ethiopia), where I have witnessed firsthand the deep and harmonious connection these people have with the birds around them. I am passionate about learning from these communities and using my research to help conserve both the birds and the traditional knowledge of the people who live alongside them. Through my work, I hope to contribute to bridging the gap between Western science and indigenous ways of knowing, ultimately leading to more holistic and effective conservation efforts. I am excited to continue learning and making a contribution at the intersection of ecology, culture, and conservation.
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology, Jimma University
My PhD was in Environmental Science and was obtained from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I have been working as a full-time professor at Jimma University, Ethiopia and visiting professor at Vrije Univeristiet, Brussels. The courses that I have mostly offered are pollution prevention and control, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Nature Based Solution for Sustainable Development and Water and Sanitation. I am currently active on research and project management.
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Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town
Abebe Shimeles is currently Honorary Professor at University of Cape Town and Senior Economic Advisor. Previously Mr Shimeles has worked for The African Development Bank, The World Bank, UNECA, ACTIONAID, and Addis Ababa University in different capacities. His recent research interest includes macroeconomic policy analysis, tax reforms, poverty , labor market integration, migration issues in Africa and impact evaluation of policy interventions. He holds a PhD in economics from University of Goteborg, MSC from Delhi School of Economics and undergraduate degree in economics from Addis Ababa University.
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PhD Doctor with international mention, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Doctor en Historia Medieval. Graduado en Historia, máster en Historia medieval, contratado predoctoral Xunta de Galicia, con anterioridad también becario JAE-Intro del Consejo Superior de Investiaciones Científicas. He sido contratado predoctoral Xunta de Galicia (2019-2022) desarrollando labores docentes y de investigación vinculadas a mi proyecto de tesis doctoral "Horcas y azotes. Categorías sociales y genealogía del castigo en el noroeste ibérico en la Alta Edad Media (700-1200)". En el curso 2021-2022 fui Visiting Scholar en la Faculty of History de la Universidad de Oxford. Mis principales intereses en la investigación son el análisis social del castigo corporal y la violencia en las sociedades altomedievales del noroeste hispano.
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Dr. Abhimanyu Thakur, PhD, is a biomedical scientist who loves to dig into scientific research questions and invent feasible solutions to broadly pertinent scientific questions with multidisciplinary methods. In particular, he is working to better understand the role of exosomes in diverse aspects of science, including cancer biology, theranostic, and stem cell biology. Exosomes are nanovesicles (30-200 nm) found in extracellular space of various cell types, and in biofluids; having diverse functions including intracellular communication in physiological as well as pathological conditions. Dr. Thakur has expertise in exosome, cancer research, biosensing, drug delivery, neurodegenerative diseases, and biomedical applications of machine learning.
He holds three patents and his research work have been published in top-tier peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Science Advances (IF: 14.14), Nature Communication (IF: 14.92), Protein and Cell (IF: 15.328), Biosensors and Bioelectronics (IF: 12.545), Bioactive Materials (IF: 14.119), Advance Functional Materials (IF: 19.92), Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 16.744), Journal of Biomedical Sciences (IF: 12.771), CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics (IF: 7.035), and Brain Behavior Immunity (IF: 19.23).
His honors include prestigious awards or grants including UChicago CORE Grant Award, National Science Foundation Funded I-Corp at Polsky, University of Chicago, a Young Investigator Award by American Association for Cancer Research, Korean Cancer Association, Global Young Scientists Summit Award by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the Chow Yei Ching Research Award, and Outstanding Academic Performance Award by the City University of Hong Kong.
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Research Assistant at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Abhiram (Abhi) Reddy is a Research Assistant on the CyberAI Project at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). At CSET, Abhi conducts research on election-focused disinformation campaigns, the impacts of AI-generated content, and foreign influence operations on social media.
Abhi is also pursuing a M.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, concentrating in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a certificate in Asian Studies. At Georgetown, Abhi focuses on studying AI governance, Indo-Pacific foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the effects of emerging technologies on political systems.
Previously, Abhi worked as a Senior Digital Strategist at MissionWired where he implemented innovative digital programs for political campaigns and international non-profits. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and is based in Washington D.C.
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Lecturer in Marketing, University of Essex
Dr Abhisek Kuanr is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing at Essex Business School. Before joining EBS, he worked as an Assistant Professor, Marketing at the Jindal Global Business School, India. He also has more than 15 years of Industry experience working as a sales and marketing professional. His research interests have revolved around consumer behaviour, anti-consumption and influencer marketing. His work thereby includes the pursuit of determinants of anti-consumption behaviours, drawn from a diverse set of psychology, sociology, and marketing theories. His work has been published in leading journals such as Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and International Journal of Information Management Data Insights.
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Associate Director at the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, EDHEC Business School
Abhishek is an Associate Director at the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute and the Head of infraMetrics® Product Development. He has more than 10 years of experience in asset management and alternative investments including stints at Goldman Sachs and Partners Group. He holds a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Business School and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology. Ten years in alternative investment research. Partners Group & Goldman Sachs alumnus.
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Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of Southampton
Abhishek is a lecturer at Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton. He teaches on international banking and advanced time series analysis. His research interests include commodity prices and balance sheet crises in emerging economies, structural macro-econometrics, new Keynesian models and applied econometrics.
Abhishek worked as Associate Fellow at CSEP (Brookings India) from 2021 to 2022 and was a visiting researcher at the University College London (UCL) from 2019 to 2020. He is currently a non-resident Associate fellow at CSEP.
In the past, he has worked as a Consultant for Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, Asian Development Bank (Manila) and UNU-WIDER. He also worked as a Project Associate at the National Institute of Public finance and Policy (NIPFP), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, and National Health Service, UK. Abhishek finished his PhD at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, in 2022. He has M.Phil. degrees from IGIDR and the University of Delhi, and postgraduate and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Delhi.
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Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, George Mason University
Dr. Abhishek Ray is an assistant professor at the Information Systems and Operations Management Area at the Costello College of Business, George Mason University. Dr. Ray holds a Ph.D. (MIS) from Purdue University and a B. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from NIT Allahabad and an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. Dr. Ray worked in IT consulting for five years before entering academia. His research interests include digital and decentralized social networks, game-theoretic policy concerns in online platforms, and big data computational challenges. He uses economics, linear/nonlinear optimization, operations research, and machine learning for his research. He has presented at leading conferences such as ICIS, IEEE Blockchain, and EVOCOP. His work has been published in top journals such as Information Systems Research, IISE Transactions and Journal of Management Information Systems.
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Postgraduate Researcher, University of Southampton
I am a PhD student researching the biology of Mesozoic birds at the University of Southampton, with an emphasis on reproductive biology and osteology. I completed an MPhil in the Earth Sciences department at University of Cambridge researching the morphology of the mandible of crown-group and crownward stem-birds.
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Professor of Creative Writing, York St John University
Abi is Professor of Creative Writing at York St John University. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and Somerset Maugham Award for her poetry collections, The Glass Delusion (Salt, 2013) and Unexpected Weather (Salt, 2009). Abi has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing, she joined York St John in 2010 and was Subject Director for Creative Writing until 2017, and is now co-ordinating the MA and MFA programmes.
Her work often engages with other disciplines, such as visual art, science and history: she has worked with the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum and had poetry set to music by composers. Her writing explores such topics as mushrooms in Freud; the power of the squid in literature; the relationship between poetry and ventriloquism; climate change; ‘speculative elegy’, and pollination.
Abi's most recent work is a speculative fiction novel, The Headland, is published by Gold SF (Goldsmiths/Penguin)
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Postdoctoral Associate, University of Calgary
I obtained a PhD in political science from the University of Stellenbosch in 2020. My area of interest is in the area of gender and politics. I have worked briefly as an independent consultant for Pure Earth (formerly Blacksmith Institute), an NGO that identifies, cleans up and solves pollution problems.
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University
I am a PhD student and PR/Marketing specialist with over 20 years experience.
As a PR/Marketing consultant, I have elevated the brand awareness, performance and profitability of several global brands as well as start-ups. I specialise in developing consumer focused, holistic and integrated communication/marketing strategies across multiple sectors.
As a PhD student, My overarching interest is in how information can be disseminated and interpreted, understanding the impact of culture, religion and language and how to utilise them in ensuring the correct messages are not only being communicated effectively, but done so, ethically and respectfully.
Currently I am researching the reflections of the specific practices and norms in Libya with regards to the communication and education of HIV and in particular, to Libyan women. Although my research focuses on Libyan women, its relevance and impact are universal as the learnings can be applied to Muslim women, Arab women, women in developing countries as well as migrants and refugees, as the challenges they face are similar.
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Professor of Structural Engineering, Drexel University
Dr. Abieyuwa Aghayere is a Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering whose research focuses on structural design - concrete, steel and wood, structural failure analysis, retrofitting of existing structures, new structural systems and materials, engineering education. Dr. Aghayere has been cited as a structural failure analysis expert on CNN, CTV News and Voice of America regarding the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida. He has been featured in numerous articles in the Miami Herald, The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. His contributions regarding the Surfside condominium collapse have been included media stories and coverage that earned a team of reporters at the Miami Herald the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category. He has been featured on podcasts and in documentaries on The Discovery Channel, The BBC, and The Smithsonian Channel discussing the Surfside condominium collapse, and has delivered several invited lectures on the collapse, notably to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - the federal agency charged with investigating the Surfside condominium collapse.
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Associate professor, University of Liverpool
Abigail has a PhD from the University of Cambridge whereI also completed an MPhil and BA. She has worked as a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Universities of Manchester and Hull and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Abigail has published widely on Spanish and Catalan cinema and television with a focus on memory, national identity, gender and feminism. Her monograph 'Cinema at the Edges: New Readings of Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and Jose Luis Guerin' is published by Berghahn Books. She is currently working on a co-authored monograph, with Prof. Anja Louis, Sheffield Hallam, on Feminism and Femininities in Spanish TV Drama (under contract with Palgrave MacMillan) and co-editing a volume on Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America (under contract with Bloomsbury). Her current project focuses on mediating feminism in contemporary Spanish popular culture.
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Professor of Work and Employment Studies, Heriot-Watt University
Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Wellbeing (CroWW).
Dean's Representative for Exam Boards
Course Co-ordinator for Changing Trends in Employment, Critical Approaches to Management, Qualitative Research Methods
Teaching - Research Philosophy & Design
Abigail’s research interests focus on workplace and community identities, social class, the meaning of work and the ICT industry.
Abigail is on a number editorial boards including Work, Employment and Society, New Technology Work and Employment and the Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting.
She has held several visiting positions including the University of Melbourne, as well as a number of external examining appointments.
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Lecturer in Education, University of Sheffield
Abigail Parrish teaches on a range of programmes in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. A former modern foreign languages teacher, her research focuses on student motivation to learn a language, particularly in school settings, using Self-Determination Theory. She is also interested in student choice and multilingualism.
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Profesor de Psicología, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Profesional de la psicología desde el 2011. Profesora en la Universidad CEU San Pablo desde este mismo año. Doctorada en psicología en 2020. Especializada en personalidad, métodos concretos de investigación cualitativa, gestión emocional. Con años de experiencia terapéutica. Muy interesada en una mirada humanista y en el crecimiento personal integral.
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