Assistant Professor, Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez (she, her, ella) is a Latinx Assistant Professor in Labour Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at SFU. As a community engaged scholar and Public Sociologist, Dr. Encalada Grez has mobilized her migrant-labour research through various media including documentaries and given talks in venues such as Parliament Hill, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and at the United Nations in New York. Currently Dr. Encalada is working on mobilizing research findings from community-engaged research she led on the systemic discrimination of Internationally Trained Physicians in British Columbia. She is also conducting research on the invisible labour undertaken by community workers and organizers who support migrant farmworkers, particularly during the height of he pandemic.
Research Associate, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University I am a Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, working on several research projects. My most recent projects include examining the re-licensing experiences of internationally trained physicians in British Columbia, and the uptake and evaluation of an equity, diversity, and inclusion community of practice within the institution. I recently joined the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society (PIPPS) as a Research and Engagement Coordinator, where I conduct qualitative research to examine the role of community knowledge brokers in sharing COVID-19 information with priority populations.
Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University Professor Dame Heather J. McGregor is the Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Professor McGregor has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong in Structured Finance and is an experienced writer and broadcaster, including writing for the Financial Times for 17 years under the pseudonym 'Mrs Moneypenny'. She is also the founder of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which works to promote diversity in the communications industry, and a founding member of the steering committee of the 30% Club, which is working to raise the representation of women at senior levels within the U.K.’s publicly listed companies. Professor McGregor is a non-executive director of two public companies, and the author of eight books, including Careers Advice for Ambitious Women (Penguin, 2012). In 2009 Professor McGregor received an Honorary Degree from the University of East London for her work to support diversity in employment. Professor McGregor was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to diversity and employment in the New Year Honours List 2023. In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Research Fellow in Criminology, The University of Edinburgh Dr Murray is a criminal justice researcher, with a background in policy-based research, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She completed her doctoral research on police use of stop and search in 2014, for which she received the Economic and Social Research (ESRC) Outstanding Early Career Impact prize. She has since undertaken a range of projects, including research on children’s experiences of offending and victimization, public confidence in Scottish policing, the devolution of railway policing and the age of criminal responsibility. She has also worked on the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey. She also writes on the formulation of policy and legislation relating to sex and gender identity in Scotland, as part of the MurrayBlackburnMackenzie Policy Analysis Collective.
Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University Santiago Fouz Hernández is Professor of Iberian Studies and Film Studies at Durham University. His research explores issues of gender, the body, sexualities and national identities in contemporary Spanish cinema. He is the author of Cuerpos de cine (Bellaterra, 2013), co-author (with Alfredo Martínez-Expósito) of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2007) and editor of five books including Spanish Erotic Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Mysterious Skin. Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2009). Since 2015 he coordinates (with Betty Bigas) ‘The Bigas Luna Tribute’, a series of retrospectives, exhibitions and other events to help promote internationally the work of the late Spanish filmmaker. He also produces and co-presents the podcast 'El legado cinematográfico de Bigas Luna', title of the book he edited in 2020 for Tirant lo Blanch publishers. He is currently completing a monograph on filmmaker Bigas Luna for Manchester University Press.
Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of North Dakota Allison Kelliher, MD, is Koyukon Athabascan, Dena, from Nome, Alaska. She is the Director of the American Indian Collaborative Research Network (AICoRN), a Practice-Based Research Network at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences where she is also an Assistant Professor. She also serves as faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine and University of Alaska Anchorage and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of American Indian Physicians. She is the first and only physician trained as a Traditional Healer in a Tribal Health setting and weaves this into her practice as a Family and Integrative Physician. She is a board member for the Association of American Indian Physicians, and University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumnus of the year. She recently published a chapter in a textbook Walking Together, Working Together Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being.
