Medical Student, Queen's University, Ontario Jose Navarro (he/him) is a medical student at Queen's University in Kingston, ON with an interest in social medicine. He obtained a BSc in Medical Sciences at Western University, London, ON during which he was involved with research in trans health, social paediatrics, and cardiac oncology. Jose also is heavily involved in the acappella and musical theatre community as a music director and performer.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Drexel University Dr. Scheim is a social epidemiologist interested in understanding (and ultimately, transforming) the impacts of social, policy, and healthcare environments on the health of stigmatized populations. He conducts community-engaged research with LGBT populations and people who use drugs, as well as methodological research on measuring intersectional social positions and experiences of discrimination. Currently, Dr. Scheim leads community-based participatory research surveys with transgender populations in India and Canada funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is also PI of an NIH-funded study to cognitively and psychometrically evaluate intersectional discrimination measures in English and Spanish. Dr. Scheim holds adjunct appointments in the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto, Canada) and in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University (London, Canada). Dr. Scheim received a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2017) from Western University in Canada where he was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellow.
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University Greta Bauer received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2003, following a Master's of Public Health. She is an adjunct professor in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in London, Canada, and serves as Director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health in the University of Minnesota Medical School. Her work bridges the biological, behavioural, and social, with a focus on health care access, HIV/STIs, mental health, substance use, and the health-related effects of social marginalization.
Professor of Human Geography, Aberystwyth University My work lies at the intersection between political, historical and cultural geography and focuses in particular on the various geographies of the state and its related group identities. I have addressed the geographies of the state in a variety of contexts, ranging from the various organisational, territorial and cultural changes associated with the state-making process in medieval Wales to the more contemporary processes of territorial and functional restructuring affecting the UK state. My work on these themes has appeared in a variety of different journal articles as well as a monograph - People/States/Territories - published by Blackwell as part of the RGS-IBG Book Series. I have also examined the geographies of group identity in a number of different contexts. Work here includes my research on the emergence of ethnic identities in medieval Wales and my more current research on the geographies of Welsh identity in the late twentieth century. This latter work has recently appeared in a book entitled Placing the Nation (with Carwyn Fowler). My research, to date, has been supported by funding from the ESRC, the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy and the University of Wales' Board of Celtic Studies. I teach on a number of these research themes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Most of teaching is done through the medium of Welsh but I also teach on some English-medium modules in the field of political geography. I have also sought to consolidate my competence in teaching through publishing a textbook entitled An Introduction to Political Geography (with Martin Jones and Mike Woods). My competence in teaching was confirmed when I received an Aberystwyth University Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.
Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York Research Associate at the University of York, UK, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. My qualifications include a PhD from the University of York and Masters degrees in African Studies (University of Oxford), Creative Writing (Royal Holloway, University of London), English Literature (University of Cape Town) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Publishing (Oxford Brookes University). I was lead editor of the 2018 NIHSS award-winning volume 'Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present' (Wits Press, 2016), together with Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson. My book in progress is on Black South African Travel, Textual Cultures, and the Politics of Mobility. I have published in a wide range of journals and books on literary and intellectual history of South Africa and African travel studies. My research is complemented by my work as an editorial director in academic publishing with a keen interest in the humanities and Africa.
Lecturer in War Studies, University of Hull James R. Pritchett teaches War Studies at the University of Hull, including classes on airpower, strategic theory and history, small wars, intelligence studies and defensc policy. He is also the university's program director for Politics and International Relations.
