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Aífe Hopkins-Doyle
Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Surrey
Dr Aífe Hopkins-Doyle is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Her research explores how people understand and experience the social world with a particular focus on the social-cognitive and ideological factors influencing the accuracy of our judgements about gender relations, social issues, and political actions.
She is the co-lead of the Psychology of Gender and Sexuality Lab at University of Surrey.
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Aileen Editha
PhD Candidate in Law, Queen's University, Ontario
Aileen started her PhD at Queen's Law School in 2021, after obtaining her LLB (Hons) and MJur (without corrections) from Durham University, UK. Her research explores ownership over human biological materials from critical race and feminist lenses. Born and raised in Indonesia, Aileen is an avid reader, serious embroiderer, and serial pet petter.
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Aileen Ionescu-Somers
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Université de Lausanne
Dr. Aileen Ionescu-Somers is currently a Lecturer (Chargée de Cours) at University of Lausanne, Faculté de Hautes Etudes Commerciales. Her academic interests are around entrepreneurship, innovation and business sustainability, and she teaches on topics such as strategic sustainability and strategic innovation. Aileen is also Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s Executive Director and one of the annual GEM Global Report authors. Prior to this, she led research on sustainability at IMD Business School in Lausanne.
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Aimee Bailey
Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University
I am a discourse analyst interested in the relationship between language and identity, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality.
My research looks at how gender and sexuality are constructed through digital and news media. It makes use of queer theory, feminist theory, corpus linguistics and (multimodal) critical discourse analysis.
I am especially interested in the role of language in issues of inclusion and exclusion, and have examined this in contexts such as queer women's online spaces and the representation of trans athletes.
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Aimee Brett
Lecturer in Ecology & Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
I am a lecturer in Ecology and Conservation at Nottingham Trent University. I am interested in plant ecology and soil science especially in agricultural habitats.
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Aimee-Marie Dorsten
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Point Park University
Aimee- Marie Dorsten is a professor who teaches Media Ethics,
Communication Law and Policy, Journalism, and Media Studies at Point Park University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her current research in the feminist political
economy of communication critiques the received historiography of the field
of communication. Her future political economy of communication research
examines representation of the US foster care system and implications
for policy. Her work has appeared in Communication Theory and The
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy.
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Ainnoun Kornita
Interaction Designer, University of Technology Sydney
I graduated from University of Technology, Sydney and my current job is a UX Researcher in Indonesian government. I have helped the Indonesian government to conduct the research and deliver policy briefs.
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Aino Lilja Petterson
Postdoctoral Fellow of Psychology, University of Oslo
Aino's research interests are mainly in the field of social psychology, specifically, political ideology, and intergroup relations. She is especially interested in different factors that influence people's attitudes toward different groups.
She is a postdoctoral researcher on a project entitled ‘Downplaying difference? How ethnic minorities navigate discrimination in Norway’.
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Ainslie Heasman
Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ontario Tech University
Dr. Ainslie Heasman is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist in Ontario with over 17 years of experience engaging in the assessment and treatment of adults with sexual behaviour problems and/or atypical sexual interests. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Forensic Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 2005. She is employed full-time at the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, ON and maintains a private practice. She recently led the development of Canada's first national and federally funded child sexual abuse perpetration prevention program, Talking for Change, housed at CAMH. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the Ontario Psychological Association and is the President-Elect of the Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA).
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Aiora Zabala
Lecturer in Economics and the Environment, The Open University
I joined the OU Economics Discipline as a Lecturer in January 2022. Prior to that, I was Senior Editor at the journal Nature Sustainability before launch and during its first years. I've taught environmental policy, economics and methods since 2013, mostly at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, where I'm also Senior Fellow.
I've published research on a range of sustainability policies from environmental and ecological economics perspectives, such as environmental and conservation programs in rural areas in Mexico and South Africa, deforestation drivers at large scales, peatland fires in Indonesia, and public policy for sustainable transport to industrial estates.
I use a range of methods and tools, including R statistical language, Q methodology, econometrics, multi-criteria decision methods, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data visualisation.
Research focused on challenges for implementation and effectiveness of environmental and sustainability governance across scales, particularly on two areas: understanding the diversity of views on controversial or conflictual issues, and the spatial variability of impacts. This includes adoption and diffusion of sustainable land-use practices, social implications of biodiversity indicators and drivers and motivations of behavioural change.
I approach these questions using a pluralistic methodological approach. Topics include, among others, the social and economic implications of a large wetland restoration program in South Africa, the political economy of rural livelihood change in Mexico, discourses about peatland fire solutions in Indonesia, the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in the tropical forest frontier, and multi-criteria evaluation of sustainable transport policies.
Recent work includes analysing acceptability of waste-to-energy facilities (with Univ. of Basque Country), barriers for sustainable aquaculture certification (with Univ. of Tokyo), and the sustainability of post-pandemic recovery policies.
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Aisha Lofters
Associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Aisha Lofters is a family physician and Chair in Implementation Science at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Women's Cancers at Women's College Hospital in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society.
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Aisha Malik
Casual Academic/ Research Administration Officer, University of Sydney
Dr Aisha Malik is an academic and research administration officer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Under the supervision of Professor Lee Wallace, she completed her PhD titled 'Feminist Edutainment and the Pakistan Televisual Commons: A multi-site Ethnography of Urdu Serial Drama'. Aisha is a Fulbright scholar having completed her MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at Northwestern University; she writes about gender, sexuality, media and race.
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Aisha Moolla
Health economist, University of Sheffield
After completing a medical degree at the University of Cape Town, I did a Master's degree in public health with a focus on health economics.
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Aisling Hegarty
PhD Researcher, Endocrine Oncology Research Group, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Aisling Hegarty is a specialist breast cancer research nurse with the Endocrine Oncology Research Group at Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre. Working closely with the Breast Family History Clinic in Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, Aislings’ research is focused on patients with inherited mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.
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Aislinn O'Connell
Senior Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Aislinn O’Connell is a senior lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on the interaction of intellectual property law with technology and culture, looking at a range of topics including IP's negative spaces, image-based sexual abuse, technology-based violence, and the intersection of law and technology.
Her current research projects focus on aspects of technology-based violence, including legal regulation of stalkerware, takedown mechanisms for images online, and tortious remedies for image-based sexual abuse.
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AJ Wood
Professor of law, Australian National University
Dr Asmi Wood has been an academic advisor to the ANU College of Law since 2002 and holds a position in the College as Senior Lecturer.
Asmi gained a Bachelor of Engineering/Science (BE) from The University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with Honours from The Australian National University. He completed his PhD in 2011 and his doctoral thesis is titled The regulation of the use of force by non-State actors under international law. He is also a practising barrister and solicitor in the ACT.
Asmi Wood received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence from The Australian National University in 2010.
Before commencing work at the College, Asmi worked in private practice and in government, both in Australia and overseas.
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Aja Murray
Reader in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh
Reader in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Specialises in mental health and neurodiversity from a developmental perspective.
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Ajay Chaudry
Research Scholar, New York University
Ajay Chaudry is a research scholar at New York University’s Institute for Human Development and Social Change and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Services. His work in public policy research and analysis focuses on improving children’s well-being and development, early care and education, human services programs, and immigration. From 2012 to 2015, Chaudry was a political appointee in the Obama administration, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy in the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. He also previously served as Deputy Commissioner for Early Childhood Programs at the NYC Administration for Children Services, Director of the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute and as a faculty member at the New School for Social Research School of Management and Urban Policy.
He is the author of Putting Children First: How low-wage working mothers manage child care, co-author of Cradle to Kindergarten: A new plan to combat inequality. He received his A.B. from Columbia University, and M.P.P. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Akira O'Connor
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of St Andrews
I am cognitive psychologist who is interested in memory decision-making and subjective experiences of memory (e.g. deja vu and jamais vu). I have used a range of methods to conduct my research, including paper and pencil tasks, computerised tasks, pupilometry, and fMRI.
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Akosua Keseboa Darkwah
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Ghana
Prof. Akosua K. Darkwah is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and a former Director of the Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at the University of Ghana. She holds a B.A in Psychology and Sociology from Vassar College and a doctorate degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been teaching in the Department of Sociology Department at the University of Ghana since 2002.
Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure Ghanaian women's work. Over the last two decades, she has explored this question with various segments of Ghana's female working population; traders of global consumer goods, factory workers, domestic workers, oil sector workers and farmers. Her work is published in a range of scholarly outlets including Women's Studies International Forum, International Development Planning Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Contemporary Journal of African Studies, Journal of Contemporary African Studies and Feminist Africa.
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Akram Mahani
Assistant Professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina
Dr. Akram Mahani is an Assistant Professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina located on Treaty 4 Territory, and a researcher at Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU).
Akram has wide-ranging empirical interests and background with her research spanning across multiple health policy, population health, and health services research areas. She has more than 20 years of experience in research, teaching, administration, and leadership in multi-disciplinary and applied settings across seven universities in three countries: Canada, England, and Iran. She has published in the leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of health policy, public health, and health promotion. In 2013, Akram founded the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (known as IJHPM) and served as its inaugural editor-in-chief until late August 2021.
Akram’s current research focuses on healthy sustainable cities and communities for all with a focus on health equity. She has received funding from CIHR to examine the role of cross-sectoral collaboration to improve outcomes of children and youth in vulnerable context. In a project funded by SHRF, she investigated integration of health and equity into urban design and urban planning policies and decisions. Building on this research findings and in close collaboration with multiple stakeholders and knowledge users, she is currently co-designing a large-scale research project on the impact of urban design on health outcomes with a focus on mental health. In another project funded by SHRF, Akram is investigating how municipalities work in partnership with local public health systems to enhance population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Akram has led another project on the formalized partnerships between municipalities and academic institutions across Canada to see how these partnerships bridge the science-policy gap.
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Akram Ahmed Elkhalifa
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Khartoum
Dr. Akram is an associate professor of architecture and a licenced architect who has acquired over 23 years of extensive experience on architecture in Sudan and the linkage between education, research and practice in the field of architecture with specific focus on construction management and economics, technologies, and building materials. Dr. Akram is very active and interested in research and projects focusing on attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs), the field in which he conducted several studies and researches from different perspectives. He is a registered as a “Specialized Engineer” at the Sudanese Engineering Council and received recently the fellowship of the Sudanese Institute of Architects (SIA) of which has been been a member since 2001, this fellowship allows him to be registered as consultant engineer at the Engineering Council. Dr. Akram accumulated extensive experience in professional practice through his involvement in design and consultancy services, feasibility studies, real estate appraisal and investment, market analysis, etc. Through this extensive experience nationally and internationally, he managed to hold leading positions both in the academy as well as in the professional practice, as he was the former dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Khartoum (2019 – 2022) and he is also the co-founder and the General Manager of a consultancy firm “OPTIMA for Consultancy, Real Estate Valuation, and Management”. As a way of linking education, research, and practice he delivered and coordinated multiple CPDs courses in different fields within the scope of architecture and construction management. He has many publications in international journals and international conferences proceedings.
Academic Qualifications:
- 2000 BSc. Architecture; Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, UofK.
- 2004 MSc. Real Estate Management; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- 2012 Ph.D. Architecture; University of Camerino, Italy.
Research interest:
- sustainable development, climate change resilience, construction technology & innovative materials, construction economics, and low-cost housing
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Akshay Vij
Associate professor, University of South Australia
Akshay Vij is an Associate Professor at UniSA Business. He has previously worked as lecturer and post-doctoral scholar at the University of California (UC) Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2013, also from UC Berkeley. Vij’s research has made significant contributions to the development of statistical methods for the study of human behaviour, and their application to different contexts, such as transport, urban and regional development, and labour markets. Since his move to Australia in 2015, Vij has collaborated extensively with industry and government partners on research grants totalling roughly $4.5 million to undertake research that has addressed major practical challenges facing these different sectors.
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Al-Tamini Tapu
Geoscientist, The University of Queensland
Completed BSc (Hons - 1st class), MS by research (1st class) and PhD in Geology. PhD completed in Dec 2022 studying the eastern Australia hotspot volcanic chain. Currently working as a Geoscientist at the Geological Survey of Queensland.
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Alain Naef
PhD Candidate in Financial History, University of Cambridge
Alain Naef is a PhD student in financial history at the University of Cambridge and a Teaching fellow in the economics department. He is pursuing a PhD on central bank intervention on the foreign exchange market. He has been teaching at the Economic History department of the London School of Economics and was a research associate at Judge Business School. He holds a bachelor in History, an MBA (Geneva and Wharton) and an MSc in Economic History (LSE). He won the Hunt price for best LSE economic history dissertation and was awarded a price by the Cambridge Society of Applied Research (CSAR) for his work on central bank intervention.
His research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and he has been awarded various grants from the Bank of France, Santander, the Economic History Society and St Edmunds college. His main research interest is to understand how central banks influence exchange rates.
Email address: an445[at]cam.ac.uk
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Alan Bain
My work is focused on the whole-of-organization challenge of making schools and universities better at learning and teaching. I have been engaged in the design and/or leadership of major organizational change projects in Asia, the Americas, and Australia. My approach has attracted grants, contracts and direct funding for software system development, transforming learning spaces, human resource models, curriculum innovation, and comprehensive organizational design.
My books include Transforming the Measurement of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Routledge (Bain & Drengenberg, 2016); Rising to the Challenge of Transforming Higher Education. Springer (Bain & Zundans-Fraser, 2016); The Learning Edge: What technology can do to educate all children. Teachers College Press (Bain & Weston, 2011); The Self-Organizing School. Rowman & Littlefield (Bain, 2007). I am currently co-writing the higher education sequel to the Self-Organizing School, The Self-Organizing University (Bain & Zundans-Fraser, forthcoming 2017).
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Alan Bollard
Professor of Economics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Alan Bollard is a Professor of Practice at the School of Government, Wellington School of Business and Government, and inaugural holder of the Chair for Pacific Region Business. The Chair is intended to help the Business School focus on Asia-Pacific economies.
In addition, he is Chair of the newly-formed Infrastructure Commission, Chair of the cross-university Centres for Asia-Pacific Excellence, and Chair of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. He is NZ Governor of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.
From 2012 - 2018 Alan was the Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat based in Singapore, the world’s largest regional body that promotes trade, investment and sustainable economic growth in the Asia-Pacific. In 2021 APEC will be hosted by New Zealand.
Prior to joining APEC, Dr Bollard was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand from 2002 to 2012. In that position, he was responsible for monetary policy and bank regulations, helping steer New Zealand through the global financial crisis.
From 1998 to 2002, Dr Bollard was the Secretary to the New Zealand Treasury. As the government’s principal economic adviser, he managed the Crown’s finances and helped guide economic policy. He has served as New Zealand’s Alternate Governor to the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
From 1994 – 2008, he was the Chairman of the New Zealand Commerce Commission. Prior to this from 1987 to 1994 he was Director of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Auckland.
Dr Bollard has helped rebuild the famous MONIAC hydraulic model of the British economy. He has also designed a computer simulation game called OIKONOMOS where you play at being Minister of Finance.
He wrote a best-selling account of the GFC called Crisis: One Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse. He has published several novels: The Rough Mechanical and The Code-cracker and the Tai Chi Dancer. He has also written a biography of famous economist Bill Phillips, and a popular economics book Economists at War.
In 2012 he was honoured as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He is a Fellow of the NZ Royal Society. He also has honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Auckland and Massey University.
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Alan Davison
Associate Professor and Head of School, Arts, University of New England
I am a career academic with training in musicology. Most of my early research was on portraits of musicians, then music and visual culture more generally. Most recently I am working in neuroaesthetics, brain cognition and music.
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Alan Dorin
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Alan Dorin is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Here he leads the Computational and Collective Intelligence group in the Department of Data Science and AI. His research covers Artificial Life and spans ecological and biological simulation, artificial chemistry and biologically-inspired electronic media art. Alan also studies the history of science, technology, art and philosophy, especially as these pertain to Artificial Life. He is (co) editor-in-chief of the journal, Artificial Life (MIT Press).
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Alan Duffy
Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
I'm a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, investigating how galaxies form, the nature of dark matter and the large scale properties of the Universe.
To study the evolution of galaxies and their interaction with dark matter, I create billion-particle model universes on supercomputers around the world.
This has resulted in numerous refereed research articles, public interviews and presentations at both Universities/Conferences and public outreach events ranging from planetarium shows to pubs.
I am particularly excited by spreading the latest discoveries to as wide an audience as possible.
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Alan Gregory
Alan Gregory is a Professor of Corporate Finance. Prior to taking up this position, he held professorial positions at both the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Glasgow. In addition to his position at Exeter, he was a full panel member of the Competition Commission for two successive for year terms until September 2009 and is now External Advisor to the Commission‘s Finance and Regulation Group.
His consulting experience includes acting as advisor to one of the largest accounting firms on a number of issues, advising HM Treasury, and consulting for fund managers on investment strategies and asset allocation strategies. His work at the Competition Commission involved being a panel member on a number of inquiries, including a regulatory inquiry into airport pricing, market inquiries into domestic bulk liquid petroleum gas and the UK grocery market, and merger inquiries relating to the GUS / Littlewoods mail order operations and the takeover bids for the London Stock Exchange by Euronext and Deutsche Börse. In addition, he has acted as a consultant to other inquiries including the mobile phone and storecards inquiries. He has also undertaken expert witness work for the Treasury Solicitors’ Department, and in connection with Australian Gas Distribution pricing cases.
My current research interests are as follows:
The general area of market-based empirical research, particularly with regard to the robustness of conclusions that can be drawn from such studies in the light of documented risk factors. At present, this interest principally focuses upon the areas of take-overs and mergers together with returns to, and valuation of, corporate social responsibility agendae. Related work has focused on market reaction to directors’ trading activity, and the success of initial public offerings. A Leverhulme research grant of approximately £78k funding work on directors’ dealing around takeovers has recently been completed.
The empirical estimation of cost of capital, which has included the award of a an ESRC Grant of approximately £300k (started in December 2012). Outputs to date include a recent JBFA paper the empirical testing of the Fama-French and Carhart models in the UK, and a working paper to be presented to the BAFA Conference later in 2016 on beta estimation. Both these papers are with Dr Rajesh Tharyan and Dr Shan Hua, with whom I provide downloadable data on Fama-French style portfolios and factors for the UK and the ESRC grant is, inter alia, to to support the regular updating of these data for benefit of UK academic researchers via the Xfi website. I am lead researcher on the grant with three other co-reaserachers at Exeter.
My interest in CSR has included two studies of the performance of ethical and non-ethical UK unit trusts which were published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (JBFA). Current work is investigating the returns to, and market valuation of, CSR in relation to the US and two papers have been published in Journal of Business Ethics on this theme. A final paper on eranings persistence and firm value is forthcoming in JBFA.
I have had a long standing interest in the long run returns to UK acquirers. This led to me being invited to give a keynote paper at the 2015 ICAEW “Better Markets” Conference. The paper, “How far does financial reporting allow us to judge whether M&A activity is successful?” is forthcoming in Accounting and Business Research.
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Alan Jern
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
I’m a cognitive scientist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. I use computational models and behavioral experiments to study how people think and reason. My primary research interest is social cognition: how people think about other people. I am also interested in how people learn and use concepts, and how people revise their beliefs after seeing new evidence.
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Alan Labas
Lecturer in Management, Federation University Australia
Alan Labas is a management lecturer in the Global Professional School, Federation University Australia. Alan’s research focuses on knowledge management with an emphasis on regional business advisory knowledge transmission. Specifically, he has examined the relationship between professional business advisor (PBA) knowledge and the knowledge transmission actions undertaken by such advisors when addressing the knowledge requirements of businesses. He has also collaborated on research in tourism, marketing, event management and circular economy solutions. Alan undertakes a practical application of the Critical Realist research paradigm to explain how human agency, social structures, and mechanisms interact in the process of causing an event.
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Alan Lester
Alan Lester's first degree was from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the University of London. He has been at the University of Sussex since 2000, becoming Professor of Historical Geography in 2006 and the University's first Director of Interdisciplinary Research in 2013. He has held visiting lectureships at Rhodes University and the University of Fort Hare, an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury and an inaugural fellowship in humanities at La Trobe University
His role is as director of Interdisciplinary Research, Professor of Historical Geography, and co-director of the Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Network
He has have facilitated projects in collaboration with Kew Gardens, the British Library, the National History Museum, the Met Office and various humanitarian and global health-oriented NGOs. As director of Interdisciplinary Research he is now engaged in a wide range of such collaborations.
His is also international partner on the Australian Research Council-funded project, 'Minutes of Evidence', based at the University of Melbourne. Working with a number of state and Aboriginal organisations, this has seen a performance of the play Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country in a number of venues including the Sydney Opera House. The play is a verbatim re-enactment of a nineteenth century colonial commission of inquiry into an Aboriginal reserve and it lays at the heart of new teaching materials and approaches in Victoria.
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Alan Llwyd
Professor of Welsh, Swansea University
Alan Llwyd is one of Wales’ most prominent poets for generations. In 2023, he won the Chair in the Llŷn and Eifionydd Eisteddfod. Previously, he managed to win the 'double', namely the Chair and the Crown in the same year - twice - in 1973 and 1976. He is the first poet since the relaxation of the ‘twice only’ rule to win the Chair for the third time.
Alan lives in Morriston, Swansea and was born in Dolgellau in 1948. He lived in the village of Llan Ffestiniog in Meirionnydd until 1953, and from the age of five he grew up on a farm in Llŷn. He spent the rest of his childhood as well as his adolescence in Llŷn. He was a pupil at Ysgol Botwnnog until 1967, when he went to the Bangor University to study Welsh.
He graduated in 1970, after which he worked in the Awen Meirion bookshop in Bala for two years, before moving to Swansea in 1976 to work as an editor for Gwasg Christopher Davies. Between 1980 and 1982 he worked for the Welsh Joint Education Committee in Cardiff, and from 1982, he worked full-time for Cymdeithas Barddas.
He worked for Barddas for almost thirty years, promoting poetry, and editing the Society's magazine and publications. He published more than 300 books during his periods as publisher and editor for various organisations. Alan Llwyd, together with the late Penri Jones, founded Llanw Llŷn, Pen Llŷn's local paper.
As a poet and writer, he has published more than 80 books, including three complete collections of poems. It won the Nonfiction-Creative Book of the Year category in 2013 and 2020, and the Poetry Book of the Year category in 2019. In 2018, it won the Cwlwm Cyhoeddwyr Cymru Award for a special contribution to the publishing world. He has won over 50 literary awards so far.
In 1993, he won the BAFTA Cymru award for Best Film Script in Welsh, namely the script of the film Hedd Wyn, which was nominated for an Oscar.
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