Lecturer, University of Exeter
Paul is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter and a Research Associate at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT). He also manages the Animal Welfare & Ethics Committee (AWEC) for WWT operations, conservation and other activities.
Paul teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with subject specialisms of animal behaviour, animal welfare, conservation biology, zoo animal management and animal health. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Paul is a member of the IUCN Giraffe & Okapi Specialist Group and of the IUCN Flamingo Specialist Group (www.facebook.com/FlamingoSpecialistGroup) and actively engages with colleagues working in flamingo management and conservation. Paul also has a strong zoo research background, and is Co-Chair of the BIAZA Research Committee, and is the Research Officer for the BIAZA Bird Working Group. He also runs the social media for the BIAZA Research Committee. Paul is a member of the Zoos Expert Committee for the UK Government.
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After graduating law school Mr. Rosenzweig clerked for Judge R. Lanier Anderson, III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Since then he has held positions working in all three branches of the Federal government, most recently (from 2005-09) as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security.
He is a Senior Editor of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and as a member of the Advisory Committee to the ABA’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security. He also serves on the District of Columbia Bar’s ethics Rules Review Committee and has a private practice within the District.
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Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
Dr. Roundy studies waves of the tropical atmosphere and ocean and how these waves interact with one another and with atmospheric moist deep convection to modulate global weather and climate. Areas of emphasis include analysis of observations to study modulation of tropical cyclogenesis and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by convectively coupled waves and intraseasonal oscillations.
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Dr. Roundy studies waves of the tropical atmosphere and ocean and how these waves interact with one another and with atmospheric moist deep convection to modulate global weather and climate. Areas of emphasis include analysis of observations to study modulation of tropical cyclogenesis and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by convectively coupled waves and intraseasonal oscillations.
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Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide
Paul Sendziuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Classical Studies at the University of Adelaide, with expertise in the histories of immigration, labour, disease and public health. He is the author of 'Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS' (UNSW Press, 2003), and co-author of 'A History of South Australia' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and 'In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia's Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis (UNSW Press, 2021).
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Strategy & International Business, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
I embarked on an academic career in 2009 after completing a PhD in Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute, I also possess an MBA (Distinction) from Warwick Business School and an MSc in Finance from Leicester University.
Before completing my PhD, I enjoyed a 30-year career in industry, primarily in finance, with a number of leading UK public companies including RMC Group plc, BTR Group plc and Britax International plc where I specialised in international M&A including the successful acquisition and integration of automotive components and aircraft interiors companies in the UK, Germany, America and South Korea.
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Principal Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dr Paul M. Smith is an exercise physiologist within the School of Sport and Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and the Higher Education Academy. His main research specialism focuses upon the development and applications of exercise tests associated with upper body exercise, with particular emphases on arm crank ergometry and handcycling.
Paul has worked within the sphere of disability sport and physical activity for more than 20 years and has considerable knowledge of the Para sport of handcycling. He has published extensively within a broad area of disability sport and, as well as supporting disabled athletes in preparation for competition he has played an integral role during high-profile, ultra endurance sporting challenges, including two successful Races Across America and a World record solo ride by a double amputee handcyclist from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Paul completed his PhD by published works, while he worked within the Chatham Maritime School of Sciences at the University of Greenwich. Within current projects he attempts to bring experts from different fields together to create multi- and interdisciplinary research proposals. More recently, Paul has turned his attention to issues of inclusion and accessibility of secondary and higher education opportunities for individuals with physical needs.
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Associate professor of oceanography, University of Tasmania
Paul specialises in ocean climate modelling. He uses geophysical fluid dynamics to understand the ocean’s role in global climate.
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Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Spiegel, a Canadian physician by training, is internationally recognized for his research on responding to humanitarian emergencies, with a focus on refugee crises. Paul is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Professor of the Practice in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH).
Before JHSPH, Dr. Spiegel was Deputy Director and Chief of Public Health at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
He previously worked as a Medical Epidemiologist in the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a Medical Coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde in refugee emergencies, as well as a consultant for numerous international organizations.
Dr. Spiegel was the first Chair of the Funding Committee for Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (2013-2018). Dr. Spiegel has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles on humanitarian health and migration. He has served as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for Migration and Health and the Lancet Commission on Syria. He is currently co-chair of Lancet Migration and co-director of the EQUAL consortium.
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, San Diego State University
My research examines how cognition and motivation interact to produce behavior. In particular, by investigating the cognitive underpinnings of goal-pursuit, I hope to advance understanding of self-regulation - how people manage complex goal arrays. In doing so, I hope to provide insight as to why people behave in ways that are counter to their goals, as well as identify ways to boost functional self-regulation.
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Western Sydney University
Dr Paul Strutt is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia. His clinical and research interests span topics including ADHD, traumatic brain injury, including repetitive head injury, and investigation of modifiable lifestyle risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia.
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Head, Climate and Ocean Geosciences, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
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Paul Watson is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Digital Institute. He is PI of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data and also directed the £12M RCUK-funded Digital Economy Hub on Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy. He graduated in 1983 with a BSc in Computer Engineering from Manchester University, followed by a PhD on parallel graph reduction in 1986. In the 80s, as a Lecturer at Manchester University, he was a designer of the Alvey Flagship and Esprit EDS systems. From 1990-5 he worked for ICL as a system designer of the Goldrush MegaServer parallel database server, which was released as a product in 1994.
In August 1995 he moved to Newcastle University, where he has been an investigator on research projects worth over £40M. His research interest is in scalable information management with a current focus on Cloud Computing. He sits on the board of Dynamo North East, an industry-led organisation created to grow the IT economy of the region. Professor Watson is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee. He received the 2014 Jim Gray eScience Award.
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
My research interests involve examining the nature & significance of political participation, particularly electoral participation, & also in understanding the causes & effects of public opinion on politics.
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Professor in Animal Microbial Ecosystems, Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol
I am Professor of Avian Infection and Immunity. My research interests are in the infection biology of bacterial infections in the chicken both relating to foodborne infection (Salmonella and Campylobacter) and animal health from the perspective of both the pathogen and host response.
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Professor of Palaeoenvironments, University of Leeds
Professor Paul Wignall lectures in palaeontology and sedimentology. He obtained his first degree at the University of Oxford and his PhD at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Professor Tony Hallam and has been a lecturer at Leeds since 1989.
He has collaborated with numerous colleagues both nationally and internationally, especially at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), during his wide ranging field expeditions. Wignall has published over 240 research articles and 4 books,including: The Worst of Times" How Life on Earth Survived 80 Million Years of Extinctions, published by Princeton University Press and enjoys investigating a very broad spectrum of topics that range from flood basalt eruptions to palaeoecology.
He has supervised nearly 40 PhD students and received several awards including the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Model of the EGU and the Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society. He has served on the REF panel, been editor of several geological journals, been president of several geological societies and appeared in over a dozen science documentaries.
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Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Paul Winters is associate dean for academic affairs and the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Winters’s research and teaching focus on rural poverty and food insecurity and the evaluation of policies and programs designed to address these issues. He has published numerous journal articles and working papers in the areas of rural poverty and food insecurity, rural development, small-scale agriculture, inclusive and sustainable food systems, agricultural data, impact evaluation, migration and social protection programs. He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in economics from the University of California at San Diego and a BA in non-Western studies from the University of San Diego.
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Paul Xavier McCarthy is an author, speaker and observer of technology and its global impacts. His new book ''Online Gravity'' is about how the web is transforming the way we work, learn and play is published by Simon and Schuster in New York, London and Sydney.
McCarthy is CEO of Online Gravity Consulting a specialist corporate innovation and technology strategy advisory firm. He is also adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Previously, he was Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at Sirca—a global technology company based in Sydney that provides online services for data-intensive researchers and analysts in financial services and other domains. McCarthy is also co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, NSW Government and CSIRO—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi.
McCarthy received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Graduate DipArts in Fine Arts both from the University of Sydney, where he won the Ian Langham Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Science, his Master of Design in Digital Media from the University of Western Sydney and his MBA from Macquarie University, where he won the MGSM Award for Advertising and Marketing.
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I’ve enjoyed a varied career ranging from early days in pure science (principally geology), through water resources and environmental engineering (especially groundwater engineering), on through mining environmental engineering to energy engineering. There are several persistent threads running through all of these experiences, mainly to do with quantitative geoscience, numerical modelling of fluid flow and reactive mass transfer, and the translation of high-level conceptual principles into hands-on engineering solutions, invariably for purposes which I believe are socially and environmentally benign. I owe my formal education to two universities: Newcastle University in the UK (BSc and PhD), and Oklahoma State University in the USA (MS), where I spent two very happy years as a Harkness Fellow (1984-86), taking advantage of burgeoning activities in the then-National Centre for Groundwater Research and the EPA’s RSKERL Lab in Ada.
My education was extended – and continues to be – by industrial experience, with Yorkshire Water, the National Rivers Authority, Centro Yunta (La Paz, Bolivia), NIREX, Northumbrian Water, Project Dewatering Ltd, Cluff Geothermal Ltd, Five-Quarter Energy Ltd and various consultancy missions worldwide. I spent just under 20 years at Newcastle University, where I: taught water and environmental engineering; founded and led the HERO research group (which won the University the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the first time in 2005); established what is now the Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research; founded and Directed the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability; served as the University’s Public Orator; and was the UK's first-ever Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement. I joined Glasgow University in August 2012.
I currently serve as Chair of the Global Scientific Committee of the Plant Earth Institute, an intermational NGO (of which I am also a Trustee) which aims to promote South-South collaboration in science-based projects that further the cause of 'scientific independence for Africa'. I am also a Trustee of Arran Community Energy, which is striving to implement renewables in a manner compatible with the important tourist industry of that beautiful Scottish island.
My current research is entirely focused in the energy sector, and besides engaging with the broad challenges of keeping the lights on and homes and businesses warm whilst decarbonising our energy systems, I focus specifically on three areas in which my particular skills and experience can be put to best use: geothermal energy, underground coal gasification tightly coupled to carbon capture and storage, and hydropower.
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Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Dr Paul (Mac) McDermott teaches into the Bachelor of Music Studies (Contemporary Music Practice) program. In 2021, he was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts which focussed on creating a unique compositional voice fusing Electronic Dance Music traditions with experimental practice. His research interest focuses on Australian dance music history, building on his practice history as a participant in the EDM scene. As a solo artist, he has been awarded a Best Dance Release ARIA for “Just the Thing” (2021), and as half of rave pioneers Itch-E & Scratch-E, he was awarded the same for their track “Sweetness & Light” (1995). He has collaborated with silverchair frontman Daniel Johns onThe Dissociatives(2004). As one half of Stereogamous he has been commissioned to remix artists including Kylie Minogue, Sia, George Michael, and Rufus du Sol. His most recent work,The Rise & Fall of St. Georgehas been performed at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall (2020) and the Sydney Festival (2021).
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Kennesaw State University
Dr. Paul (Seung Yup) Lee is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kennesaw State University. At KSU, he is leading Translational Biomedical Optical Laboratory that aims to develop the next generation of optical imaging and spectroscopic technologies for clinical diagnostics and health monitoring.
Dr. Lee received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2004, his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from SNU, in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor in 2015. From 2006 to 2010, he was a research engineer in Korea Electrotechnology Research Institutes. From 2016 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech (GT) and Emory University.
He has received several fellowships and awards including American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019), Best Scientific Poster Award at the Southeastern Pediatric Conference (2018), Best Oral Presentation Award at the GT Postdoc Symposium (2018), Petit Scholar Mentorship (2017) at GT and Rackham Centennial Fellowship at the UM (2013).
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Director School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
Professor Paul Fitzgerald is the Head of the School of Medicine and Psychology at the Australian National University. He is an academic psychiatrist with a MBBS degree, Masters of Psychological Medicine and research PhD from Monash University. He has conducted an extensive range of experimental studies and clinical trials, focused on the development of novel treatments options for patients with depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, PTSD, autism and Alzheimer’s disease with a special interest in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). He has had continual NHMRC grant support for 20 years and over $10 million in research support in the last 5 years. He has published several books, over 500 journal articles and been cited over 25,000 times. He has established multiple clinical rTMS services, founded several device and clinical service companies and led a national application to MSAC in the Federal Department of Health which resulted, in 2021, in Medicare funding ($280 million in year 1) for rTMS therapy for patients with depression.
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Conjoint Professor in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Conjoint Professor Paul Robinson is the Deputy Director of the Children's Health Environment Program within the Child Health Research Centre (CHRC), and Senior Staff Specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at the Queensland Children's Hospital. His research program performs translational research outlining the role of peripheral airway function tests in early lung disease detection and ongoing monitoring of established disease.
He has led the development and standardisation of novel measures of lung function across the entire age range from infancy onwards, facilitating the development of commercial equipment available for widespread use. His research focuses on defining the clinical utility of two specific peripheral airway function tests (Multiple breath washout, MBW, and oscillometry) in important obstructive lung diseases (e.g., asthma, cystic fibrosis, and post bone marrow transplant pulmonary graft vs host disease) and in understanding the impacts of environmental exposures. Structure-function relationships have been explored using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, with the aim of also developing new strategies to reduce any radiation exposure associated with these to advance incorporation into clinical care (e.g., ultra-low dose CT).
These novel lung function tools are used not only in the hospital setting but also in the school and home setting, enabling the successful development of a parent-supervised remote monitoring strategy for asthma which has been shown to reflect clinically meaningful outcomes missed by conventional approaches. In collaboration with industry, this strategy is now being employed in a series of research projects.
Involvement in longitudinal birth cohorts has outlined the early lung function trajectories in health, and the identification of risk factors affecting normal lung development and contributing to the early development of asthma. Studies investigating environmental health have highlighted the adverse effects of ultrafine particle air pollution.
Professor Robinson's standing as an international expert, both in terms of clinical and research experience, has led to broader leadership roles across national and international levels.
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Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Paul F. Jacques is Senior Scientist and Team Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology Team at the HNRCA. His research interests include B vitamins, whole grains, flavonoids, hydration, diet patterns and diet quality, and their relation to maintenance of metabolic, cognitive and physical function with aging. Jacques has published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts of original research over his career and has made many important discoveries in the field of nutritional epidemiology.
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Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
PAUL G. HARRIS is the Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong and a Senior Research Fellow in the Earth System Governance global research alliance. His research explores climate governance, global environmental politics, ecological justice and international ethics.
Professor Harris is author/editor of Pathologies of Climate Governance (Cambridge University Press), Global Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh University Press), Climate Change and Ocean Governance (Cambridge University Press), What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Polity), the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Routledge) and 20 other books.
For more information, visit the following website: www.paulgharris.net
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I lecture at the University of Portsmouth’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ). Prior to this, I served for nearly 20 years in the UK police service, most recently as a detective specializing in criminal investigations. I am involved in a range of research and teaching activities within economic crime, organised crime and policing.
My research focuses on issues of secrecy, offshore finance, and beneficial ownership transparency. I am intrigued with understanding the characteristics of offshore jurisdictions, the methods used to conceal beneficial ownership, and how governments and regulatory bodies attempt to control illicit offshore activities.
I am also interested in the financial regulation of crypto assets (such as, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies); and the role of blockchain technology in registers of beneficial ownership, smart contracts, the metaverse, and decentralized finance (DeFi).
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Professor of Japanese, University of Washington
Paul S. Atkins is professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. His specialization is the literature, drama, and culture of medieval Japan.
Publications include the monographs Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017) and Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku (Center of Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006) as well as peer-reviewed articles in journals including Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of the American Oriental Society, and Japanese Language and Literature.
Professor Atkins was awarded the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize by Cornell University in 2021 and the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize by the University of Chicago in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford University, studied at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright dissertation fellow, and has held visiting faculty or research appointments at Kyoto Prefectural University, Nanzan University, Hōsei University, and Keiō University.
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Rap Lyricist and Lecturer in Music Performance at Confetti Institute of Creative Technology, Nottingham Trent University
My critical-creative doctoral thesis, ''Nothing New Under the Sun': Literary Allusion, Intertextuality, and Lyrical Performative Quotation in Hip Hop Lyricism' explores how several rap artists from key eras in hip hop culture have utilised the techniques of literary allusion and intertextuality to impact their work in multiple meaningful ways. The creative component of the thesis (comprising a trilogy of rap LPs) provides a template/framework for future research in these areas through a practice-based, creative-led focus on the use of intertextuality in rap to identify and artistically illustrate the sophisticated uses of these techniques. Case studies included in this thesis focus on: Nas’s use of creative patrilineage (Higgins, 2007) to form modes of lyrical transcendence, epistolic legacy, and religious and thematic allusion (Ch. 1); Kendrick Lamar’s engagement with intertextuality to explore loss and trauma, and his revision of the postmortem sampling trope (Williams, 2013) (Ch. 2); and the technique of lyrical performative quotation through the lyrics of J.I.D., Kemba, Saba, Earl Sweatshirt, and MIKE and Navy Blue (Ch. 3).
Whilst intertextuality in hip hop has been defined in recent years (e.g., Williams, 2013; Diallo, 2015), academic research into how it (alongside literary allusion specifically, and the innovative technique of lyrical performative quotation) is employed artistically to translate modes of vulnerability such as trauma and grief and affect methods of personal and communal catharsis is limited. Using my own understandings and experiences of loss and trauma, I develop upon this research through a critically-informed and deeply personal artistic reflection into universal aspects of the male experience, men’s mental health, and masculinity in contemporary society.
‘NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN’: LITERARY ALLUSION, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND LYRICAL PERFORMATIVE QUOTATION IN HIP HOP LYRICISM: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49298/1/Paul%20Adey%202023.pdf
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PhD Candidate in Criminal Law & Criminology; Lecturer of Criminology, University of Chester, Liverpool John Moores University
I am currently a School of Law research student at LJMU investigating Moral Panic of Islamist Terrorism, Conspiracy theories, and the impact of support for British values.
A former lecturer at The Brilliant Club Scholars Programme
Current Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Chester
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Modules I teach:
-Offender Management
-Theories of Crime & Justice
-State Crime & Resistance
-International (In)Justices & the Death Penalty
-Undergraduate dissertation supervisor
Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-french-msc-fhea-782927a5/
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Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
I am a Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. I am a three-time graduate student of the University of Manchester, earning an MA, PhD, and most recently a PG Cert in HE. I also hold a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. I research and publish most frequently in the general domain of higher education, with emphasis on assessment and feedback, theories of learning, academic literacies, and the experience of religious students in universities.
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Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
PhD Candidate in Sociology and Anthropology and 2023-24 Public Scholar / SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship Award Holder (Doctoral) / Research Communications Policy & Experience / Director in Sign Language accessibility and telecommunications.
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Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, City, University of London
I completed my PhD in 2009. I am also a fellow of the Higher Education Authority. I previously worked in the third sector with homeless persons who have drug and alcohol addictions. I teach health psychology, qualitative research methods and addiction.
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Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in Population Studies, University of Pennsylvania
I conduct research on family demography from a sociological perspective. My work focuses mostly on the causes of family change and its consequences for children in the United States.
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Principal Lecturer, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton, University of Brighton
Dr Paula Hearsum lectures in Media at the University of Brighton specialising in Popular Music and Journalism across five undergraduate courses: Media Studies BA (Hons), Music Business and Media BA (Hons), Media, Industry and Innovation BA (Hons), Environment and Media Studies BA (Hons) and Media Production BA(Hons) as well as on three postgraduate degrees: Digital Media, Culture and Society MA, Journalism MA and Sport Journalism MA. She is currently the Learning and Teaching Lead for the School of Art and Media.
As a practitioner and academic, Paula believes that media is something you do as well as think about. Her professional background includes a decade as a music journalist before moving into new media as an Editor and consultant appearing on TV, radio as well as many public speaking engagements. Having launched the UK's first and leading student community website, studentUK, in 1997, Hearsum went on to work for a variety of companies including BBC, Channel 4 and the Department Children, Schools & Families. She was a regular judge for the Guardian Student Media Awards and has run workshops on digital journalism for industry professionals. She has written for many magazines and websites on music as well having worked as an editorial web consultant specialising in education.
Hearsum’s journalistic career includes contributions in the following magazines and newspapers: Vox (Staff Writer), NME, The Times, Red, Everywoman (Music Editor), 1015 (The Times supplement), Sounds, The Mac, Home Entertainment, Enjoy, Leeds Other Paper, Practical Parenting and Juno. She has also published several pieces on parenting.
Paula has a degree in Communication & Cultural Studies with Public Media BA (Hons) Trinity & All Saints, 1989 and Women’s Studies (MA) University of Westminster, 1995. She completed her PhD at the University of Brighton in 2016 focusing on the media representation of the deaths of popular musicians. She is a member of MeCCSA (Media, Communication & Cultural Association) and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Paula has previously lectured at London Metropolitan University, Trinity & All Saints, Leeds, University of Westminster and the University of East London. She maintains and very much enjoys a relationship between academia and media practice through both streams of work and is continually inspired by her colleagues and students through her work at the University of Brighton.
Paula Hearsum’s main focus of research is the examination of the mediation of popular musician’s deaths as way to consider dominant social discourses and narratives. The legal, professional and ethical rules around writing about death are often broken when discussing popular musicians as a group and Paula’s research uses critical discourse analysis to demonstrate in what ways media institutions and the journalists as cultural intermediaries perform the roles of both reflecting and shaping social values.
Her practitioner background as a music journalist combines with her academic disciplines in Media Studies, Popular Music Studies and Journalism Studies within this body of work, which includes published research in intersecting areas within this work such as obituary journalism, gender debates and Death studies.
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Lancaster University
My research focusses on: the relationship between work, disability and health; barriers to disabled people’s employment; and interventions to support disabled workers’ employment, including workplace adjustments. Disabled people have lower employment rates than non-disabled people, and are also more likely to be employed in insecure, lower-skilled and low-paid work. These employment inequities have severe consequences for their financial independence, health and wellbeing, and provide a mechanism for producing and exacerbating social inequalities in health.
I am lead investigator on a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation exploring disabled people's experiences of remote and hybrid working and how employers can design remote/hybrid working to be inclusive of their need and preferences: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/inclusive-working/
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