Research Officer, Riddet Institute, Massey University
Dr Nick Smith holds degrees in mathematics and in nutritional science from Swansea University (UK) and Massey University (NZ). His expertise is in mathematical modelling of complex systems, with particular focus on human nutrition. His former research interest was in predictive models for dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome, and the influence on host health and wellbeing. He now studies the dynamics of the global food system and their impact on the nutrition of the global population.
Dr Smith is currently a Research Officer at the Riddet Institute, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by Massey University. The focus of the Riddet Institute is upon food science, food technology, and human nutrition. Dr Smith’s current research is part of the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative, a program providing evidence for the sustainable food system debate and ensuring that human nutrition is seen as a key aspect of sustainability. His focus is on the continued development of the DELTA Model: a world-leading and freely available tool to investigate sustainable nutrient production and what is possible, practical and optimal from the global food system.
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Assistant Professor of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle
After graduating in 1993 from Northumbria University with a Master of Arts Degree in the Conservation of Fine Art Nicola Grimaldi spent many years working in private practice. Clients have included many Regional and National Museums and Galleries, organisations such as National Trust, and Chatsworth Trust. From 2004 she was employed by Tyne and Wear Museums as the painting conservator for a collection of around 3000 easel paintings. During this period she was involved in overseeing major projects such as National Gallery Partnership Exhibition with Tyne and Wear Museums.
Nicola has been involved with the preparation of loans and courier duties for many National and International organisations including the Teniers Exhibition in Germany in 2006 and an exhibition of work by Paul Gauguin and Van Gogh in Dallas Museum of Art 2006. She supervised and advised on care of collections, including storage, packing and handling and was also involved in training internal and external museum staff as part of Renaissance in the Region project in aspects of care of easel paintings and general collections care. She is currently employed by Northumbria University as Senior Lecturer for the Masters Degree in Conservation of Fine Art teaching aspects of painting conservation as well as supervising MA dissertation projects. Nicola is also involved in external work for the University including research and consultancy.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
Research interests
Public international law, human rights law, secularism and religious freedom, anti-discrimination law, politics, consumer issues and consumer law.
Professional memberships
Queensland Law Society
Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law
International Law Association (Australian branch)
Australasian Law Academics' Association
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
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Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
I am a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Originally from Denmark, I was awarded an AHRC Block Grant to undertake PhD research at the University of Liverpool investigating subsistence strategies and craft production at the Ramesside fortress site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. I obtained my PhD in 2016.
I have excavated in Europe, Turkey and Egypt, and I am currently the field director of the University of Liverpool Tell Nabasha Survey Project, which conducts archaeological investigations of the ancient city of Imet located in the north-eastern Nile Delta. I have published several peer-reviewed papers, as well as more public-oriented articles and I am the author of 'Pharaoh Seti I' (2018), 'From Mummies to Microchips' (2020, co-authored w/ Professor Joyce Tyldesley) and 'Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Egypt' (2020).
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Full Professor of Physics, University of the Western Cape
Nico Orce is a nuclear physicist whose passions are novel science and true transformation. Nico's research involves fundamental nuclear physics and includes 150 publications (~1/3 led by him) in Physics mainly, but also in top Mathematics, Biology and Astronomy journals. He has broadly explored the nuclear chart using a variety of nuclear techniques and theoretical calculations and discovered new types of collective excitations and shell phenomena in nuclei. Nico and collaborators recently discovered changes in nuclear polarization that narrow down the reaction network for element production in stellar explosions, which may explain the universality of elemental abundances in our universe [https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/525/4/6249/7259922]. As PI, he has secured research funds worth over R50M, led to the completion of African-led experiments at CERN and the implementation of major infrastructure research projects in South Africa:
1. the GAMKA spectrometer at iThemba LABS; and
2. Modern African Nuclear DEtector LAboratory at UWC.
Prof Orce has active experiments and observations at different laboratories and observatories around the world, including iThemba LABS, SALT, TRIUMF and CERN. He is the chair of the Tastes of Nuclear Physics conference series and the Science Research Open Day 2013, bringing in 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Serge Haroche, to UWC. He is the referee of most nuclear physics journals and a proud Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, he has given talks at CERN, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford, and was nominated for the Margarita Salas Award in 2021, aimed “to recognize international impact, contributing to social progress in an exemplary and extraordinary way”. His postgraduate students are world-trained and find jobs in the local and international nuclear energy, big-data and machine-learning industries as well as in national research facilities such as the National Metrology Institute and iThemba LABS or Universities in Japan, China, Canada or India.
For more information about Nico’s work please visit: https://nuclear.uwc.ac.za or the group’s GitHub @ https://github.com/UWCNuclear
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Lecturer in Orbital Mechanics, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey
Nicola Baresi started his Astrodynamics career with a MSc thesis on “Optimal Control of Formation Flying Satellites”. After graduating full marks in Physics from the University of Padova in 2011, he moved to Israel where he worked as a postgraduate researcher for the Distributed Space Systems Laboratory of the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology.
Starting from 2013, Nicola moved to the United States of America as a US-Italy Fulbright scholarship awardee and pursued his PhD studies on spacecraft formation flying and dynamical systems theory. He was later awarded with a PhD in Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation Systems from the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as with an outstanding graduate research award from the department of aerospace engineering sciences of the same university.
Following graduation, Nicola was employed at the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), working on small and large scale satellite missions to the Moon and Mars. He eventually joined the University of Surrey in 2019, first as a Surrey Research Fellow and now as a lecturer in Orbital Mechanics at Surrey Space Centre.
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Research fellow, Monash University
Nicola Helps is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Nicola holds a PhD in criminology from Monash University. Nicola’s current research examines identification and responses to domestic and family violence perpetration. Nicola also works on projects examining early intervention and prevention of workplace sexual harassment.
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PhD Candidate, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
Nicola's PhD research focuses understanding the impact of the military's response on the bereaved military family following a death in the line of duty. She has a background as a mental health nurse, specialising in working with psychological trauma. In addition to her research activities, she works as an advisor to both statutory and non-statutory organisations, in the UK and overseas, to support the development of trauma informed organisational responses following a traumatic incident.
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Director and Senior Research Fellow, Global Finance Group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Dr Nicola Ranger is the Director of the Global Finance and Economy Group at the ECI and of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab. She is also Executive Director of the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative, co-Director of the UKRI Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking of the Oxford Martin School.
Her research addresses the advancement of finance and policy to address critical societal challenges across climate, nature, food, water, economic development and human well-being. She brings two decades of experience working in senior roles across government, research, international financial institutions and the private sector, and holds multiple advisory roles, with substantial experience in working to drive change both locally and globally and deep technical expertise in data, risk, analytics, scenario analysis, environmental sciences, economics, policy and decision science.
In 2023, Dr Ranger founded the Global Finance and Economy Group in the ECI that acts as a hub for world-leading research at the intersection of finance, climate, nature and analytics in close collaboration with financial institutions, Central Banks and government. She is deeply involved in developing approaches to stress testing and scenario analysis for government, financial institutions and regulators, including working with the IMF, World Bank, NGFS and UK Climate Financial Risk Forum. She is particularly passionate about mobilising sustainable investment in Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs) and deeply involved in the development of taxonomies and frameworks to mobilise investment for a net-zero, nature-positive and resilient transition. She also works extensively on systemic resilience, including global systems for tracking, assessing and managing major systems-level crises, with an analytics, risk governance and finance lens. Her interdisciplinary research brings a strong quantitative risk analytics, economics and decision science lens on issues such as assessing systemic risks, measuring the impact of investments, mobilising finance for sustainability, green fiscal policy, sustainable finance, financial regulation and supervision, the role international financial institutions and designing global crisis risk financing mechanisms.
Nicola also holds several leadership and advisory roles beyond Oxford, including: a Senior Advisor for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Deputy Director, Secondment) on Sustainable Finance and Resilience; co-Chair of the Resilient Planet Data Hub with the High Level Climate Change Champions, the UN and the Insurance Development Forum; a member of the TRASE Advisory Group; a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance in Low and Middle Income Economies; a member of the UK Green Taxonomy Advisory Group; an expert member of the UK Climate Financial Risk Forum working groups on Adaptation and Scenarios; a member of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; and a former Senior Advisor to the World Bank and Visiting Researcher at the Bank of England. Nicola holds a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Cetex.
During her career, Nicola has been involved in founding and leading many significant global initiatives related to sustainable finance and systemic resilience, including the G20-V20 InsuResilience Global Partnership, the Global Shield Financing Facility, the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and the Centre for Disaster Protection. Nicola joined the ECI from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment where she was Director, Climate and Environmental Analytics, UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment, and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Prior to joining Oxford, Nicola held senior roles in the World Bank and DFID (now FCDO). In these roles, Nicola worked with financial institutions, Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, International Financial Institutions and regional institutions to strengthen fiscal and financial resilience to climate and other crises, strengthen financial sector development, mobilise finance for resilience and put in place local, national and international systems to strengthen resilience to shocks and crises. At DFID, she also worked to strengthen national early warning systems, shock-responsive systems and integrate climate adaptation and disaster risk management into national policy and investment. Nicola also has a professional background in insurance and catastrophe risk modelling and has been involved in establishing insurance-based mechanisms, contingent financing and regional risk pools protecting multiple countries.
Nicola began her career as a scientific advisor on climate mitigation and adaptation policy and researcher on the science, economics and policy of climate change. Nicola completed her postdoctoral research in climate economics and policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a doctorate in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College London. In 2005/06, she was part of the HMT/Cabinet Office Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change team and has worked as a Scientific Advisor at Defra, HM Treasury and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. She has published extensively and contributed to major reports including two UK National Climate Change Risk Assessments, the first UNEP Emissions Gap Report, and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Professor of Education, UCL
I am currently Pro-Director of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, a role which gives me strategic oversight of the IOE’s portfolio of educational work. I am also co-founder and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education the aim of which is to significantly improve climate change and sustainability education within schools by providing free professional development for teachers of all disciplines, all phases and all career stages, underpinned by high quality research.
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Wellcome Lecturer in The Ethics of Human Reproduction, Lancaster University
Nicola Williams joined the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster in September 2014. Her research background is in the fields of Philosophy and Politics and her main academic interests lie in questions of reproductive ethics, transplantation ethics, personal identity and intergenerational justice. She graduated from The University of Reading in 2008 with a BA in Politics and Philosophy, The University of York in 2010 with an MA in Practical Ethics, and The University of Manchester in 2015 with a PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island
I teach comparative and international politics, with a focus on the role that religious, historical, and cultural narratives play in democratic development. My regional areas of expertise are Russia and Ukraine.
My latest book, The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach us About Conflict Resolution (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), looks at the conflict in Ukraine through the lens of classical Greek tragedy, highlighting its deep domestic roots. For the parties to move from confrontation to dialogue will require untangling these roots and embracing a change of heart or catharsis. To facilitate this process we should look to classical Greek tragedy, which once performed a similar therapeutic function in Athenian society.
As of 2024, I am also a Senior Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill University
Nicolas Ajzenman is an Assistant Professor at McGill (Economics Department) and an affiliated professor at J-PAL and IZA. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV. Ajzenman is an applied microeconomist, working at the intersection of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in top scientific journals such as the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Law and Economics, Economics of Education Review, and Health Economics. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Behavioral Economics Group of the Inter-American Development Bank. He has also worked and consulted for multilateral development organizations, such as the World Bank and the EBRD. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Sciences Po), a Master in Public Administration-International Development (Harvard University), a Master's degree in Economics (Universidad de San Andres), and a BA in Economics (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
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Professeur ordinaire à l’université de Lausanne (Unil), chercheur au Centre d’histoire internationale et d’études politiques de la mondialisation (Unil), co-directeur du Groupe de recherche Achac., Université de Lausanne
Nicolas Bancel, historien, professeur ordinaire à l’université de Lausanne (UNIL), codirecteur du Groupe de recherche Achac et chercheur au Centre de recherche d’histoire internationale et d’études politiques de la mondialisation (CRHIM) à l’UNIL. Il a notamment publié ou codirigé La Fracture coloniale, La Découverte, 2005 ; Sexe, race & colonies. La domination des corps, du XVe siècle à nos jours, La Découverte, 2018 ; Le Postcolonialisme, Presses universitaires de France, 2019 ; Décolonisations françaises. La chute d’un empire, La Martinière, 2020 et Décolonisations ? Élites, jeunesses et pouvoirs en Afrique occidentale française (1945-1960; Éditions de La Sorbonne, 2022 et Colonisation & propagande. Le pouvoir de l’image, Le Cherche midi, 2022.
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Chercheur en Écologie Tropicale à l'UMR AMAP, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Chercheur en Écologie Tropicale à l'UMR AMAP, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Assistant Professor of Geology, University of California, Riverside
Though my research interests span many aspects of geology, at the core I aim to improve our understanding of active faults and the evolution of landscapes. I strive to employ a multi-disciplinary field-based, lab-supported, collaborative approach to explore far-reaching, broader picture research that is widely beneficial and societally relevant. My research is currently focused on the New Zealand and California plate boundaries.
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Chercheur en Toxicologie, Inrae
Après une thèse en sciences des aliments, option toxicologie de l’Université de Bourgogne, j’ai passé trois ans à l’Université Tufts à Boston (USA) pour étudier les effets néfastes du bisphénol A après une exposition périnatale à (très) faibles doses sur les paramètres de fertilité, développement et fonctionnement de la glande mammaire. De retour en France, j’ai fait un second post-doc dans l’unité Inra «Xénobiotiques» puis «Toxalim» pour mettre en place des approches globales de métabolomique pour l’étude des effets à faibles concentrations de perturbateurs endocriniens sur le métabolisme. J’ai ensuite été recruté en 2011 dans cette unité Inrae pour m’intéresser au rôle de la bioactivation métabolique dans les mécanismes d’action toxique des contaminants alimentaires et environnementaux de type perturbateur endocrinien.
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Géologue, PhD, BRGM
Docteur en géologie, Nicolas Charles est géologue au BRGM, le Service géologique national. Il participe à de nombreux projets à l'international et en France sur la cartographie géologique et les ressources minérales. Depuis 2016, il coordonne un projet européen de formation en géosciences en Afrique (PanAfGeo) visant à renforcer les partenariats entre services géologiques européens et africains. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages de médiation scientifique sur le patrimoine géologique français, il anime aussi des conférences sur la géologie et les ressources minérales.
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Researcher in marine ecology, James Cook University
I am a marine biologist with Biopixel Oceans Foundation and James Cook University from which I recently received my Doctorate degree. For over 8 years I have worked on marine ecology projects, specifically regarding the migration patterns of marine megafauna species such as sharks. In this time I have lead over 100 research expeditions and tagged over 1000 sharks of multiple species to track their movements. From this data, many scientific publications arose. Overall, my passion is addressing pressing research questions regarding how marine animals use their habitats in the face of global change, such as climate change.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
I have over 15 years at the bedside and in hospital leadership positions as an RN in the Southwest and Midwest United States. I am a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Fellow and completed my PhD in the RWJF nursing and health policy collaborative at the University of New Mexico. My current research focuses on how community coalitions address substance use and the meaningful use of technology in healthcare. The latter includes the development of software solutions and Narcan delivery drones.
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Nicole's research focuses on transport policy and governance for city regionas. Nicole is currently a researcher at LSE Cities' New Urban Governance project as well as a doctoral student at the Centre for Transport at UCL. Nicole is also currently supporting the Horizon 2020 funded project CREATE looking at the evolution of transport policy in cities in Europe.
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Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
Nicole Basaraba received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland with a specialisation in digital media narratives and digital humanities. Her research focuses on evaluating and finding best practices for creating interactive digital narratives in non-fiction genres. She is particularly interested in how participatory digital culture impacts storytelling practices in cultural heritage and tourism contexts, such as in creative and digital place-making. Basaraba also has a Master of Arts in Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta, Canada. She has presented at over 20 conferences worldwide and her work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals.
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Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
Nicole Bernhardt is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research focuses on human rights policy as a response to structural racism in policing. She has worked as a policy advisor for the Anti-Racism Directorate and an investigator with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. She received her PhD in politics from York University and was awarded the Abella Scholarship for Studies in Equity. Nicole teaches courses on Canadian government and public policy, and currently serves on the executive for the Black Canadian Studies Association.
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Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
Dr Nicole Cook is an urban geographer with research interests in urban restructuring, urban governance, power and participation, social movement and resident activism, housing and home. She specialises in theoretically-driven urban case studies and qualitative research methods.
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee
Nicole Eggers’ research interests include 20th-21st Century Congolese history, health and healing, refugees, and religion and politics in Central Africa. Her first book, Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo (Ohio University Press, 2023) follows the history of the influential religious movement Kitawala from its colonial beginnings in the 1920s to its present-day influence in some of the most conflicted parts of Eastern Congo. The study highlights practitioners of Kitawala as intellectuals and innovators and considers broad theoretical questions about how they have historically drawn on and reformulated practices of spiritual and social healing in times of upheaval, creating a historically situated framework for understanding how they and their communities have experienced and understood power and violence. In the process, the book engages a number of fields of inquiry: health and healing, violence and power, religion and rebellion, intersections of gender and power, colonial incarceration, prayer and spiritual agency, and nationalism and the post-colonial imagination.
Eggers’ second book, tentatively titled Refuge in the Spirit: Religion in the Lives of Congolese Refugees, is a collaborative project centered around oral histories of Congolese refugee communities. For this project, Eggers and her collaborator, Dr. Roger Alfani, are investigating the significance of religion at different junctures of the Congolese refugee experience. With funding from an NEH Collaborative Grant, they have conducted interviews among Congolese refugees living in refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi, as well as among those who have left the camps to be resettled in Knoxville. The project seeks to illuminate how religion has functioned both as a space for building community for people who have lost their social safety net, as well as its role in addressing gaps — material, social, psychological, and spiritual — that state and international organizations too often neglect. Central to their investigation is the question of how people connect their experiences of social and physical security and insecurity to their understandings of spiritual security and insecurity. They argue that in-depth study of the religious lives of refugees is inherently valuable as a form of social and intellectual history that illuminates the complex inner lives and communal connections of people who are frequently viewed exclusively through the lens of trauma and crisis.
In the classroom, Dr. Eggers is dedicated to teaching students how to ask evocative questions, think critically, and write effectively. One of her main goals is to teach students to reevaluate what they think they know about Africa and the study of history by introducing them to historical methods and narratives that highlight African experiences and voices. Dr. Eggers encourages active and creative student engagement with course themes and materials - both within and outside of the classroom - and strives to teach students that even when they are learning about places and peoples that are perhaps unfamiliar, they can learn to become critical consumers and producers of knowledge.
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Associate Professor of Marine Biology, Swansea University
Nicole is a marine ecologist with a focus on tropical coastal ecosystems and 20 years’ experience of working in integrated coastal zone management with NGOs, public and private agencies in the UK, Caribbean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean. She gained practical conservation management experience as a Manager of a Caribbean National Marine Park for eight years whilst producing and coordinating Management Plans, Biodiversity Action Plans and Environmental Impact Assessments,
Based at Swansea University, Nicole's research interests lie in improving our understanding of spatial and habitat use by marine fauna, with a focus on sea turtles and fish. Current research projects include increasing our understanding of movement of sea turtles in the Western Indian Ocean, impacts of marine debris on sea turtles and tracking salmonid fish movements using acoustics in the Bristol Channel. Nicole teaches modules on tropical marine ecology and conservation and skills to assess marine biodiversity via a range of tools and applications.
Nicole is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Marine Turtle Specialist Group and has been appointed by DEFRA UK to the Western Indian Ocean sea turtle task force. She has an ongoing personal interest in co-management of natural resources, stakeholder engagement within conservation management and communication of conservation and research activities to the wider public.
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Instructor of Physics, Quinnipiac University
Nicole Granucci received her B.S. in Physics from UCONN, a M.S. in Science Education from the University of New Haven and M.S. in Applied Physics-Optics at Southern Connecticut State University. She has taught both public and private high school physics and astronomy for over 10 years. She came to Quinnipiac as an Adjunct Professor of Physics in 2015 and became a full time Instructor of Physics in Fall 2019. She has worked on several astronomy research projects through NITARP (NASA/IPAC Teacher Achieve Research Program) where she has taken students to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meetings to present posters in astronomy research. She is continuously looking for new ways to engage students in authentic astronomy research and traveling to present their research.
She currently is the physics lab coordinator for Phy101L, PHY110L, and PHY111L. She teaches PHY101L Lecture during the semester and has taught PHY110 and PHY111 lecture as well. She interested in Physics Education and strives to produce an engaging environment for learning. She is introducing a new course called Physics of Music where it is an interdisciplinary study of the merging between understanding music and sound with the physics behind it. She will discuss the mathematics of sound, how instruments produce sound and how digital music is produced using physics. She plays string bass & trumpet in the Southern Connecticut University Band and plays electric bass & sings for a rock cover band. She has an extensive music background and likes to play piano and produce in her free time.
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Gudjala and Girramay leader, Indigenous Knowledge
Ms Nicole Huxley is a proud Gudjala woman with a strong connection to her cultural heritage. Ms Huxley is well known for her long history of fighting for recognition of First Nations people, particularly throughout North Queensland. Currently Nicole is on the North Queensland Land Council Board of Directors and also represents her traditional country of Charters Towers as a Director on their RNTBC. As Community Manager for Jumbun Ltd (current role) Ms Huxley is leading progress on community-determined priorities and bringing the community together through the Gumbudda in our Mala (GoiM) program, which was designed by community for community. GoiM is a truth-telling, healing and empowerment program that outlined the aspirations and goals of the community. Ms Huxley is a recognised and respected leader with strong skills to effectively engage and maximise participation with Queensland First Nations people.
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Professor of Marketing, Cardiff University
I am a Professor of Marketing at Cardiff Business School. My research addresses the theoretical debates, drivers and barriers surrounding sustainable behaviours relating to domestic consumption, access-based consumption, and festival/event attendance with a focus on events/ festivals as agents of sustainable behaviour change. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and an Affiliate of CAST (Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations).
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University
Associate Professor Lovato is a Senior Practitioner Research Fellow and Psychologist (provisional) at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University. She has extensive experience in insomnia and circadian physiology. Her research is particularly focused on the development of new, innovative therapeutic interventions and models of care for the management of chronic insomnia and circadian rhythm sleep disorders and associated chronic mental and physical ill-health. She works closely with consumers, primary care, and other key stakeholders to translate this knowledge to make best-practice sleep healthcare accessible and cost-effective for the community.
She is co-Chair of the Chronobiology Council of the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA), Australia’s peak advocacy body representing clinicians, scientists, and researchers in sleep medicine. A/Prof Lovato’s professional leadership has shaped practice change with the inclusion of chronobiology in education modules and guidelines for the management of chronic insomnia. She is co-inventor and holds patents for a sleep disorders diagnostic tool.
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Clinical Nurse Specialist and Visiting Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
Nicole Lynch, DNP, MSN, CNS/APN, RNC-OB, CNE, serves as a Visiting Professor at Purdue Global. Holding certifications as a Clinical Specialist and Nurse Educator, Lynch's impactful contributions span clinical practice, nursing education, publication, and curriculum development. With over two decades in Maternal Child Nursing and certification in Inpatient Obstetrics, she brings extensive experience to her endeavors. Lynch's authority extends to her authorship of articles and presentations on pregnancy, parenthood, and nursing leadership. Her commitment further shines through volunteering for the Postpartum Depression Alliance of Illinois. On a personal level, Lynch confronted her own Postpartum Depression and Anxiety following the birth of her children 17 and 19 years ago. Through outpatient treatment, she witnessed the profound effects of this mental health condition firsthand.
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PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, Dalhousie University
Nicole MacKenzie is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Dalhousie University. She is also a scholar in Dalhousie's OpenThink training initiative. Her research is focused on knowledge mobilization and implementation science within the field of pediatric pain. Her current research is interested in how different health care partners (e.g., health professionals, researchers, patient/caregivers) work collaboratively to put evidence into action within children's pain.
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Associate Professor of Elementary and Middle School Education, Mississippi State University
Nicole C. Miller is an associate professor of elementary and middle level education in the Department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Mississippi State University. She engages in research and service activities focused on teacher preparation, middle level education, rural education, technology integration, and teaching with primary sources.
Miller holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction from Mississippi State University. She holds a Master of Arts in Education degree with a concentration in instructional technology from California State University, Northridge. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
Ph.D. Law and Society (UVic), LL.M. (McGill), LL.B. (Saskatchewan), B.A. (Hons) (Regina), B.Sc. (Queen’s)
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