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Augustine Aboh
Ph.D. candidate in Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts
Augustine Aboh is a Global Governance and Human Security doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, U.S.A. He works as a Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Researcher for the Office of Strategic Preparedness and Resilience (National Early Warning Centre of Nigeria) and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Calabar, Nigeria. His research interests include the intersection of democracy and technology, defense and security governance, strategic studies, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, human security, global governance, radicalization, extremism, terrorism, and organized crime.
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Augustine Kiptum
Research Student, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
Augustine completed his PhD in geography at the University of Sussex, UK. His research focused on understanding the nature, drivers, and predictability of flood events in the Tana River, Kenya. Through his research, Augustine led two peer-reviewed publications (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3117-9368). A holder of an MSc in hydrology and groundwater resources management and a BSc in meteorology, both from the University of Nairobi, he has extensive data analysis skills using Python and R, which are key in the analysis of large climate datasets.
Augustine has also worked at the Kenya Meteorological Department's (KMD) National Meteorological Centre section for the last eight years, where he has been involved in the generation of seasonal forecasts through the running of climate models, including WRF. He is also involved in the running of rainfall/runoff models over the Nzoia River Basin and subsequent flood warnings over a shorter lead time (three days).
Currently, he is providing technical support in the risk data on a consultancy basis for the United Nations University-Environment & Human Security (EHS), VARMAP division, Bonn, Germany, under the project "Early Warning for IGAD."
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Augusto Riveros
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University
PhD in Educational Policy Studies (2013) from the University of Alberta. Currently investigating the availability and accessibility of educational opportunity in urban centres. Recent publications explore the effects of overcrowding and enrolment pressures in Ontario schools.
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Aulo Gelli
Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Aulo Gelli works as a senior research fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His main interests and experience intersect food policy and nutrition, with a particular focus on evaluating the impact of child health and nutrition interventions. Aulo trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, then gained a MSc degree in information processing and neural networks at Kings College London working on semantic memory models, and then studied human perception and cognition at the Laboratory of Neurobiology at University College London. He transitioned his career towards food policy, gaining a MA in development economics and food security at the University of Rome, and a DPhil from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. Prior to working at IFPRI, Aulo worked as a research fellow at Imperial College (2009-2013), as policy analyst at the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (2007-2009), and as a statistician at the World Food Programme (2004-2007).
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Aurélien François
Maître de conférences en management du sport, Université de Rouen Normandie
Aurélien François est Maître de Conférences à l'Université de Rouen Normandie en Management du Sport.
Ses travaux de recherche portent sur les questions de responsabilité et d'utilité sociale abordées analysées au travers d'approches économiques et managériales.
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Aurelien Mondon
Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bath
Aurelien Mondon (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in politics at the University of Bath.
His research focuses predominantly on the impact of racism and populism on liberal democracies and the mainstreaming of far-right politics through elite discourse.
His first book, The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?, was published in 2013 and he recently co-edited After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech published with Zed. Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream, co-written with Aaron Winter, was published with Verso in 2020. The Ethics of Researching the Far Right, co-edited with Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune and Meghan Tinsley will be out in March 2024 with Manchester University Press.
His work has been published in various mainstream and expert outlets around the world, including CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Libération, Newsweek, Le Soir, Mediapart and Al Jazeera.
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Aurélien Restelli
Doctorant, sociologie, CESDIP, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
Ancien élève de l’ENS Cachan, détenteur d’un Master 2 de sociologie de l’EHESS et auteur d’un mémoire de recherche sur le Service Volontaire Citoyen (sous la direction de Cédric Moreau de Bellaing), Aurélien Restelli prépare une thèse intitulée « Coopérer en maintien de l’ordre : la police à l’épreuve de la pluralisation », sous la direction de Jacques de Maillard.
Dans les pays occidentaux, on assiste à une logique de pluralisation des activités policières. Cela touche notamment le domaine de la police des foules ; en effet, de plus en plus d’unités, dont l’organisation et les modes de fonctionnement peuvent parfois être très différents, sont amenées à participer aux opérations de maintien de l’ordre. La question se pose donc de savoir comment, aussi bien en bas de la hiérarchie qu’au niveau de l’état-major, elles échangent, se jugent et se coordonnent pour mener à bien les opérations de maintien de l’ordre.
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Auriba Raza
Research in Epidemiology, Stockholm University
I am a researcher in Epidemiology Unit at the Stress Research Institute. I have a PhD in environmental epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. I was trained as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Stress Research Insitute, Stockholm University and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. My research investigates how changing weather patterns impact mental health of Swedish and Finnish working population. My research also includes the impact of environmental characteristics around home and workplace on behavior-related health of Swedish working population. I have substantial experience of working with register-based data and large longitudinal surveys.
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Auxtova Auxtova
Lecturer in Marketing, University of Edinburgh
Dr Kristina Auxtova is a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Edinburgh. She has previously also worked at the University of Dundee and University College Cork.
Kristina's research interests revolve around questions of ethics and sustainability in advertising and consumption, particularly within the public and non-profit contexts. Her work on advertising focuses on advertising offence and how advertising issues are regulated. Within the sustainability domain, she looks mainly at second-hand consumption and the charity shop context, exploring ways to overcome consumer aversions towards clothing reuse. Kristina is also interested in pedagogies for integrating ethics and sustainability within the classroom.
Kristina completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh Business School in 2019. She also has an MGE (Master Grande École) in International and European Business from EM Strasbourg, and a BA (Hons) in International Management and Intercultural Studies from the University of Stirling. Since 2022, she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Ava Green
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, City, University of London
I am a Chartered Psychologist and Lecturer in Forensic Psychology. My area of expertise is narcissism in women, and I explore this link in relation to diagnostic assessment, aetiological factors, and offending behaviours.
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Ava Kalinauskas
Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Ava Kalinauskas is a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre.
Ava sits on the Youth Advisory Council to US Consul General Christine Elder. She was previously a Program Assistant at Women In International Security Global (WIIS), a Washington DC-based organisation dedicated to advancing the UN “Women, Peace and Security” agenda.
Ava holds a Bachelor of Arts Dual Degree from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Sydney.
She graduated from Sciences Po with Cum Laude Honours, majoring in Political Humanities. At the University of Sydney, she was a Dalyell Scholar and a recipient of the IPAA NSW GC Remington award.
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Avalon Tissue
Associate Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney
Avalon is a Clinical Psychologist and academic based at the Clinical Psychology Unit (Brain and Mind Centre) at the University of Sydney. Her areas of interest are in refugee and asylum-seeker mental health and the intergenerational impacts of trauma in families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She currently shares her time between research, supervision, and teaching at the University of Sydney and clinical practice in a community health setting.
She has previously held roles as Clinical Lead for the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program (The University of New South Wales) and as Priority Populations Care Navigator leading mental health equity projects with the Sydney Children's Hospital Network (SCHN) HARK Refugee Clinic. She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sydney.
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Avery Beall
Researcher, Faculty of Arts and Science, Nipissing University
I have a MA and BA in Sociology from Nipissing University. I have been an academic researcher since 2021, working with Dr. David Zarifa, at Nipissing University. I am also an Analyst with Statistics Canada, since January 2022.
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Avery Paxton
Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Paxton is a Research Marine Biologist at NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), where she focuses on coastal resilience and restoration. She quantifies ecological functions of created, restored, or impacted habitats to learn which interventions can best achieve intended ecological outcomes (e.g., coastal resilience, ecosystem services, community structure).
Paxton’s current research evaluates how natural and nature-based infrastructure (e.g., salt marshes, coral reefs, living shorelines) can boost coastal resilience. A major pillar of Paxton’s research is conducting regional and global syntheses to gain new insight from previously collected data. Earlier in her career, Paxton determined ecological functions of human-made reef habitats, including artificial reefs and historic shipwrecks, and tested whether artificial structures provide similar fish habitat to natural reefs.
Paxton began her career by earning a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, where her undergraduate thesis on shipwreck ecology stemmed from her time as a NOAA Hollings Scholar. After working as a research technician at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs studying rocky reefs and kelp forests, she earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied how reef fishes rely on rocky reefs, artificial reefs, and shipwrecks. Paxton conducted a joint postdoctoral fellowship with a nonprofit, a consortium of aquaria, and Duke University, studying reliance of a large coastal shark on artificial habitats before spending three years conducting research under contract to NCCOS through CSS-Inc.
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Avi Shankar
Professor of Consumer Research, University of Bristol
I am Professor of Consumer Research, University of Bristol Business School. Previously I worked for 18 years at the School of Management, University of Bath.
My current research explores consumption phenomena related to the global research grand challenges of sustainability and climate change; equality, diversity and inclusivity; and health and well-being.
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Avidan Kent
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia
Avidan Kent is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. Avidan’s research interests include the fields of Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Dispute Resolution, and International Environmental Law. Avidan holds an LLM from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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Avinoam Patt
Director, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut
Avinoam J. Patt, Ph.D. is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut. Until July 2019, he served as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he was also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization. Previously, he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, May 2009); co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of a collected volume on Jewish Displaced Persons, titled We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (Wayne State University Press, 2010); and is a contributor to several projects at the USHMM including Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1938-1940 (USHMM/Alta Mira Press, September 2011). He is also director of the In Our Own Words Interview Project with the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and is co-editor of an anthology of contemporary American Jewish fiction entitled The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (Wayne State University Press, 2015). He is co-editor of a new volume on The Joint Distribution Committee at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism (Wayne State, 2019) and recently completed a new book on the early postwar memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, to be published by Wayne State UP in Spring 2021). Together with David Slucki and Gabriel Finder, he is co-editor of a new volume Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (April 2020) and, with Laura Hilton, is co-editor of the new volume Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, July 2020).
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Aviroop Gupta
PhD Candidate, Curtin University
My research is on the state-sponsored violence perpetrated on the minorities of India, focusing mainly on the Hindu majoritarian Indian government’s policy of demolishing Muslim properties, on various pretexts, as a means of providing "collective punishment" to an entire community.
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Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Assitant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
Aviva Dove-Viebahn joined the Film and Media Studies program in the Department of English in 2018, after six years as a faculty fellow in ASU's Barrett Honors College. She earned her doctorate in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester and her master's in art history at the University of Virginia. Prior to ASU, she taught film, women’s studies and the interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Northern Colorado. From 2012-2018, she was the Web Content Manager for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and an ex-officio member of its Board of Directors. Currently a contributing editor at Ms. magazine, she is responsible for its Scholar Writing Program and serves on the magazine's advisory Committee of Scholars. Ms. magazine frequently carries her essays and reviews in both its print edition and online. In addition to her scholarship and public writing, Dove-Viebahn has co-written several screenplays (with Brittany K. Fonte), one of which has been produced, with two other scripts in development.
Dove-Viebahn's academic interests concentrate on gender, race, and representation in popular culture; contemporary visual art and media, including film and television; and the role of the spectator in the digital age. Her book, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises," is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press in December 2023. It explores representations of feminine intuition, as a contested and ambivalent form of gendered power and knowledge, in contemporary media. She also co-edited, with Carrie N. Baker, the anthology "Public Feminisms," which was published by Lever Press in May 2023.
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Aviva Liebert
Professor of Biology, Framingham State University
Dr. Liebert's research has focused on the behavior, ecology, and genetics of social insects. She currently works with undergraduates to better understand native pollinator communities in urban and suburban habitat. Dr. Liebert also serves as an advisor for students training to be high school biology teachers and as an advocate for campus sustainability.
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Aviva Tugendhaft
Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
Aviva is Senior Researcher at SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA. sHE is a Health Sociologist with a background in Law and Political Science. Her interests lie in priority setting for health focused on NCDs and maternal and child health. She is a PhD candidate and her work explores the adaptation, implementation and evaluation of tools and methods to engage the public in priority setting for health. She has previous experience in programme and policy analysis and development, specifically with regard to community health initiatives.
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Aviya Naccarella
PhD Candidate, Deakin University
Aviya is an ecologist with an interest in ecosystem processes. Her research is cross-disciplinary, and her passion lies in bringing together researchers, land managers and communities to work towards common conservation goals. Aviya’s PhD at Deakin University focuses on understanding ecological interactions between mammals, plants, soils, and fungi. Her research explores how we apply this knowledge to conservation projects aimed at restoring ecosystem function.
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Ayako Miyashita
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles
Ayako Miyashita Ochoa is an Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare. She serves as Co-Director of Luskin’s new Center, UCLA Hub for Health Intervention, Policy and Practice (UCLA HHIPP). UCLA HHIPP’s mission is to co-create research that informs policy and practice and addresses intersecting oppressions in order to improve community health. As Co-Director for the Southern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center (SCHPRC), Professor Miyashita collaborates on interdisciplinary research with community and academic partners to bring the most relevant and timely evidence to bear on California’s efforts to develop and maintain efficient, cost-effective, and accessible programs and services to people living with or at risk for HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and overdose. Her research interests focus on HIV and other related health disparities at the intersection of race/ethnicity, sexual and gender identity, and migrant status.
In addition to serving as a faculty representative to the LGBTQ Affairs Committee at UCLA, Professor Miyashita is Co-Director of the Policy Impact Core for UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) as well as a Faculty Affiliate of UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR). Her teaching includes courses at UCLA Luskin, including LGBTQ Health, Law and Public Policy, Education and the Law, and Social Welfare Law and Ethics—a newly designed course.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA Luskin, Professor Miyashita directed the Los Angeles HIV Law and Policy Project, a legal services collaborative dedicated to addressing the unmet legal needs of primarily low-income people living with HIV (“PLWH”) in Los Angeles County. As a Director in the Clinical and Experiential Learning Department at UCLA School of Law, Professor Miyashita taught courses on the attorney-client relationship, client interviewing and counseling, and HIV law and policy. As the HIV Law and Policy Fellow at the Williams Institute in 2013-2015, her research included studies on HIV criminalization, unmet legal needs of PLWH in addition to issues related to HIV privacy and confidentiality.
In her legal practice, Professor Miyashita provided direct legal services to low-income clients living with HIV in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles counties. This included assisting clients in obtaining disability benefits and other supports necessary to live independently. Her legal expertise runs a broad spectrum of public benefits including income support, health coverage, and other support services necessary for individuals living with disabilities. Professor Miyashita regularly provides training and education to clients, advocates, health and social service providers, and legislative and policymaking bodies.
Professor Miyashita earned her Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley School of Law and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2009.
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Ayden Scheim
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.
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Ayesha Scott
Senior Lecturer - Finance, Auckland University of Technology
Ayesha is an interdisciplinary researcher, with an agenda that spans violence against women, empirical finance, personal finance and financial econometrics. Her work (particularly on KiwiSaver and personal finance) has generated media interest within Aotearoa New Zealand, and you will find her commentary in outlets such as the NZ Herald and stuff.co.nz.
Ayesha is passionate about healthy financial relationships and has ongoing projects exploring the impact of financial and economic abuse in the context of intimate partnerships. This is a critical social issue that must be addressed in NZ and internationally, and her current work aims to give voice to women facing this evasive, invasive and poorly understood form of intimate partner violence.
She is also interested in the personal financial literacy and capability of New Zealanders, including vulnerable populations, and how we might improve the financial fitness of individuals. Poor financial literacy (knowledge of financial concepts) and capability (the ability to use that knowledge to make better decisions) has a significantly negative social and economic impact on a nation, both in terms of the macro economy and individual welfare.
Broadly, her doctoral research focused on the volatility and correlation dynamics of financial assets such as stocks. The near-continuous flow of price and trade data of financial assets presents researchers with opportunities, as well as unique challenges, to capture the return dynamics of these assets individually and as a group. Such models may lead to insights regarding optimal portfolio allocation decisions, information that will directly benefit investors.
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Ayesha Tabassum
PhD Candidate, School of Human Resources Management, York University, Canada
Ayesha Tabassum is a PhD Candidate at the School of Human Resources Management at York University. Her research interests are at the intersection of telework/work from home, use of technology at the workplace, gender, and work-nonwork balance. Currently, she is working on her dissertation examining the impact of telework on employee innovative behaviors. Her research has been published in various journals including Gender in Management and Canadian Journal of Family and Youth. Ayesha presented her academic work at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management and the Midwest Academy of Management Conference among many other.
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Ayeshah Haque
Fellow, Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
Ayeshah Haque looks for creative ways to channel her passion for community health to make an impact. Through her work, she is committed to empowering people with health information by sharing compelling stories that can reach a wide audience. She has completed the Translational Research Program (TRP) at the University of Toronto, and the Midwifery Education Program (MEP) at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is currently a Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact fellow at the University of Toronto.
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Ayobami Precious Adekola
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Africa
Ayobami Adekola is a public health scholar. Through his research, teaching, and engaged scholarship in health literacy, health promotion, and gender studies, he addresses determinants of health, advances adolescents' sexual and reproductive health, and promotes health equity and disease prevention, contributing to the achievement of the United Nations' sustainable development goals.
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Ayodele Oloko
Researcher, University of British Columbia
I am a Yoruba-speaking Nigerian woman who has lived and studied in Africa and abroad. My academic training so far has focused on the application of both natural and social science methodologies to critically examine human-ecological interactions within rural communities, where small-scale fishing and agriculture are both essential components of rural livelihood sustainability. My interest in this research topic stems from decades of research on traditional ecological knowledge, gender, climate change adaptations, and fisheries sustainability. I have been involved in international research collaborations, including the Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the Asian Fisheries Society, the Food Climate Biodiversity Project, and the Illuminating Hidden Harvests project, a collaboration between the FAO, World Fish, and Duke University. I own responsibility and have a passion for speaking for vulnerable fisherfolk and indigenous people in fisheries through my scholarship and publications.
Presently, I am a research assistant at the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Institute for Oceans and Fisheries (UBC). I am also a biology undergraduate diversity research mentor. I mentor, coordinate, and supervise undergraduate research programmes. My doctoral research revolves around the impacts of climate change and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing on women fisherfolk and fishermen.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Fisheries and Aquatic Biology:
Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria (2012)
Master of Science: International Studies in Aquatic Tropical Ecology
University of Bremen, Germany.(2019).
PhD, Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2022-present)
Research Institutions/Affiliations
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lagos State University, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Biology (2008-2012)
Research Assistant
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Project (Lagos State Case Study) (2015)
Researcher
The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
Funder: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) - German Academic Exchange Service (2018-2019)
Researcher
Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the Asian Fisheries Society.(2019-Present)
Researcher
Illuminating Hidden Harvests project, a collaboration between the FAO, World Fish, and Duke University (2019-Present)
Researcher
Too big to ignore (2020-Present)
Research Consultant
Gender and Fisheries, World Fish (Malaysia) (2020)
Researcher
Fisheries Economic Research Unit-Institute for Oceans and Fisheries (UBC) (2022-Present)
Researcher: West Africa Case Study
Food Climate Bio-diversity Project at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia (2022-present)
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Ayoush Lazikani
Lecturer in Medieval English, University of Oxford
Ayoush Lazikani is a SEDA-accredited tutor, teaching and lecturing in Old English and Middle English. Her research considers English, Arabic, Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Persian texts, and she has particular interests in literature written for solitary contemplatives. She has published widely in these areas. She is currently working on her third book, The Medieval Moon, which is about medieval encounters with the moon from around the world.
Ayoush’s first book, Cultivating the Heart: Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts (University of Wales Press, 2015), studies the languages of feeling—especially the interrelated affections of compassion, love, and sorrow—in texts and church wall paintings.
Her second book, Cry of the Turtledove: Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, c. 1100-1250 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), is situated within the growing emphasis on 'globalization' in medieval studies, and it offers close comparative analyses of emotion in medieval Arabic and English contemplative texts.
She has also published numerous essays in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, the Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, Leeds Studies in English, and various edited collections.
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ayoush-lazikani#/
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Ayse Coskun
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
I am currently a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University (BU). I received my PhD degree from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California San Diego in 2009.
My research interests are broadly in design automation, computer architecture, and computer systems, particularly focusing on energy efficiency, thermal challenges, and using ML-powered analytics for system management. I received the Ernest Kuh Early Career Award in 2017 for my contributions to energy-efficient system-level design and an IBM Faculty Award in 2020 for my work on applying AI-based methods for DevSecOps.
Current research directions include (1) design of future energy-efficient computer systems using new integration technologies (e.g., 3D-stacking, silicon photonic networks-on-chip, emerging on-chip cooling), (2) applied machine learning for improving cloud and HPC performance, and (3) sustainability in data centers via integration into smart grid programs.
Prior to joining BU, I worked at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), San Diego. My recent industry partnerships include projects with the Red Hat Collaboratory at BU, IBM Research, Intel, AMD, Oracle, and others.
I direct the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and serve in the Steering Committee of the Hariri Institute of Computing at BU. I am a core faculty member of the BU Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). I also serve as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design.
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Azfar Adib
Public Scholar & PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University
Azfar Adib is a Public Scholar and a doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. Azfar has more than eight years of professional experience in the telecommunications sector. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Azfar regularly promotes constructive aspects of technology through writing, public speaking and community engagement.
Azfar’s research focuses on developing age-verification systems using electrocardiogram (ECG). Age-verification is the process of validating age-segment (adult and minor) of users before delivering certain age-appropriate products to them. Recently, online age-verification has become a crucial need worldwide to protect children from exposure to inappropriate content. However, traditional methods of age-verification, using ID cards and other official documents, are incapable of protecting users’ privacy. Azfar’s research seeks to develop an anonymous method of age verification which can safeguard privacy. He has received several research grants and awards, including MITACS Accelerate.
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Azhar Potia
Research Fellow, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
Azhar is a behavioural, experimental and applied economist with a keen interest in addressing issues of societal disadvantage and inequality. He especially seeks opportunities to explore real-world problems in the field of education and matters relating to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. Azhar has a strong understanding of, and experience in using, empirical research methods to evaluate programs and administrative data. He has developed an extensive aptitude for designing and implementing experimental studies in field and lab settings alike, as well as using sound econometric analysis techniques to evaluate the outcomes of such experiments. Azhar completed his Ph.D. from the Queensland University of Technology in 2019, and his research was aimed at assessing the framing effects of different incentive structures and student commitments on educational outcomes of Indigenous Australian high school students.
Prior to his Ph.D. work, Azhar spent an extended period living and working in remote Indigenous communities on Queensland's Cape York where he designed and implemented financial literacy programs for the benefit of socially-disadvantaged residents. This experience was a key driving factor in his decision to study and address real-world issues. Azhar is particularly passionate about bridging the gap between academic research and industry. For a social organisation working on matters affecting disadvantaged people in the real world, incorporating a strategic research component into their work is crucial in his eyes and he strives to develop such collaborative links and networks.
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Azmat Abbas
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University
I am a doctoral candidate at the Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo Joint-PhD in Religion and Culture.
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B Camminga
Research associate, University of the Witwatersrand
B Camminga (they/them) is a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, and a research associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University. They have held several visiting fellowships, including at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. They work on issues relating to gender identity and expression on the African continent with a focus on transgender migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Their first monograph, Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa, received the 2019 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies (with Aren Azuira) and honourable mention in the Ruth Benedict Prize for Queer Anthropology. They are the co-convenor of the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN), which aims to advance scholarship on all facets of LGBTQI+ migration on, from, and to the African continent by bringing together scholars, researchers, practitioners, and activists to promote knowledge exchange and support evidence-based policy responses. B is co-editor of Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in Africa’s ‘Gay Capital’ (2019) with Zethu Matebeni, and Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Diaspora, and Asylum (2022) with John Marnell. Their work has appeared in journals including Sexualities, The Sociological Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.
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