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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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Babac Salmani

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
As a PhD candidate, I possess a strong academic background, with a focus on health behaviour change. I have demonstrated my expertise through publications in the Journal of Health Psychology such as my article on the effective behaviour change relating to vaping. Additionally, I have acquired valuable experience in my field through working as an injury prevention specialist with the Government of Canada, Canadian Armed Forces. These qualifications have prepared me well for a successful career in academia or industry.

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Baffour Agyeman Prempeh Boakye

PhD Student, University of Delaware
Baffour Agyeman Prempeh Boakye is a Doctoral student at the University of Delaware, and a Research Associate at the Elections Research and Resource Centre in Accra, Ghana. His research interests focus on democracy, elections and political parties. He holds both a Master of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Ghana.

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Bala Ramasamy

Dr. Bala Ramasamy has been Professor of Economics at CEIBS since 2006. Before joining CEIBS, Dr. Ramasamy was Professor of International Economics and Business and acting Director of Nottingham University Business School at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia. Previously, Dr. Ramasamy was a faculty member at both Massey University in New Zealand and University of Macau. He has been teaching at higher institutes of learning since 1988. He has had wide experience teaching students of different backgrounds and culture in mainland China, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Ghana and the UK.

Dr. Ramasamy received his Ph.D degree from University of Leicester, UK and his Master of Social Sciences from the University of Macau, both in Economics.

Dr. Ramasamy's research interest focuses on Asian economies, Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Social Responsibility and International Business Strategy. His research has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, World Economy, Journal of World Business, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Journal of Business Research, among others. His views are regularly sought by the media. He has been interviewed by CCTV, Bloomberg, AP, Al Jazeera, Channel NewsAsia etc. His comments have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, China Daily, Global Times and other newspaper around the world.

Outside academia, Dr. Ramasamy runs leadership and moral empowerment programmes for young teenagers.

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Balakumar Balasingam

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Windsor. From 2012 to 2017, I was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada in 2008. After my PhD, I held a postdoctoral position at the University of Ottawa from 2008 to 2010, and then a University Postdoctoral position at the University of Connecticut from 2010 to 2012. My research interests are in signal processing, machine learning, and distributed information fusion and their applications in autonomous systems; particularly, his close interests are in battery management systems. I founded the battery management systems lab (BMSLab, www.bmslab.org) at the University of Windsor in 2017. The BMSLab has several ongoing funded projects in collaboration with government and industry partners. My Book titled "Robust Battery Management Systems with Matlab" is in press and will be published by Artech House, Norwood, MA, in fall 2023.

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Baljit Nagra

Associate Professor, Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Dr. Baljit Nagra is a tenured Associate Professor in the Criminology Department at the University of Ottawa. She has previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Ottawa and at York University after receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. Her research aims to understand how racial discourses are rearticulated in the ‘War on Terror’. Her intellectual interest is in learning how racial boundaries are transformed through a language of gender, religion and security, creating ‘legitimate/desirable’ and ‘illegitimate/undesirable’ members of westerns nations, and reproducing past racialized nation state projects. Both her research and teaching are geared towards racial justice. Her research has been published in highly ranked refereed journals such as the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, British Journal of Criminology, Canadian Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is also the author of a book titled Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post 9/11 that was published by the University of Toronto Press. Her main areas of interest are in Race Relations, National Security and Surveillance, and Qualitative Research.

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Balsam Mustafa

PhD Candidate in Modern Languages & Politics, University of Birmingham

I started my PhD at Birmingham university in 2013. My focus is on translation, media, and politics, particularly with regards to Islamic State in Iraq. I completed my BA and MA in translation and interpreting studies in Al-Mustansirriya university, Baghdad, Iraq.

I also worked as a lecturer in the Translation department , Faculty of Arts, Al-Mustansirriya University, from 2006 to 2013 when I was awarded a scholarship to pursue my PhD study at Birmingham University.

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Bamidele Olajide

Lecturer, University of Lagos
My areas of research interest include environmental and energy politics, aspects of the environment as political theory, international relations and African studies (films and politics).

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Bamini Gopinath

Principal Research Fellow, Sensory Loss Epidemiology, Westmead Institute, University of Sydney

Associate Professor Bamini Gopinath is an epidemiologist who has been actively involved in developing and conducting numerous population health studies. To date she has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers, several of which have been in high-ranking medical and health journals (with over 1600 citations to her name). Her publications have attracted >400 media stories with an estimated audience of 210 million people worldwide. Using large population datasets Bamini has provided novel community-based evidence on the health determinants and health outcomes associated with a range of chronic diseases and disability. Her research work is primarily focused on sensory loss epidemiology, which aims to assess the modifiable lifestyle determinants and impacts of age-related sensory impairments. Her ongoing research in the public health field aims to translate key study findings into health policy and practice, with the intention of targeting current gaps that exist in Australian healthcare.

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Bancy M. Mati

Professor of Agricultural Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Eng. Bancy Mati is the founder Chairperson of the Association of Irrigation Acceleration Platform (AIAP). A Professor at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), she is an expert on land and water management with particular interest in irrigation, water harvesting, and the technologies, approaches and policy support that enhance upscaling and expanding irrigated agriculture in Kenya and in Africa.

She holds a PhD degree on Agricultural Engineering, Food Production and Rural Land Use from Cranfield University of United Kingdom; MSc degree in Land and Water Management and BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering, the latter from University of Nairobi. She is a registered Consulting Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (FIEK) and Lead Expert in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Prof. Mati is member of the UN Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). She is in the Board of Management of the Upper Tana Nairobi Water Fund (UTNWF), and in the Steering Committee 2 of the Kenya Water for Industry Association (KWIA). She is on the Advisory Board of the FogNet Alliance. Previously, Prof. Mati served in the Advisory Committee of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNUFLORES)

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Banita Lal

Associate Professor in the School of Management, University of Bradford
Dr. Banita Lal is an Associate Professor in Responsible Management, Director of the Masters in Management Portfolio and Programme Leader for the MSc Management programme. She gained her PhD from the Department of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, UK before moving on to work at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Bedfordshire. At the latter, Banita was Course Coordinator for the BSc (Hons) Business Studies and six pathway programmes and had overall responsibility for over five hundred students in the UK and Vietnam. She has been instrumental in new course development with a strong emphasis on employability and a practice-based approach to teaching and learning.

Banita's research interests are in the area of adoption and diffusion of technology and include: social media technology, ICT for Development and ICT-enabled flexible working arrangements. She has published in conferences and journals in the field of Information Systems which include: Information Systems Frontiers, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology and People, the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) and the Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Banita currently serves as a programme committee member for IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) 8.6 Group - an international group concerned with the diffusion, adoption and implementation of information (and communication) technologies.

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Barath Raghavan

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Barath Raghavan received his PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego in 2009 and his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2002. Before joining USC in 2018, he split his time between industry and academia working on a wide range of projects in core Computer Science areas such as computer networking, security, and distributed systems and on socially-focused topics such as rural Internet access and sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Raghavan's research has focused on a wide range of topics in systems and networking, including network protocol design, congestion control, network security, datacenter networking, high-performance networking, wide-area networking, wireless networking. In addition, he has pursued research on a number of socially-focused topics such as rural Internet access, energy efficiency, and computing for sustainable agriculture.

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Barb Hamilton-Hinch

Associate Professor, School of Health and Human Performance, and Assistant Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion, Dalhousie University
Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch is from the historical African Nova Scotian communities of Beechville and Cherry Brook. Barb is currently employed at Dalhousie University as the Assistant Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion and an Associate Professor in the in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University. Her work examines the impact of structural, systemic and institutional racism on diverse populations, particularly people of African descent.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Recreation Management, Masters of Arts, (from Dalhousie University) a Bachelor of Education (secondary) from Mount St. Vincent University and a PhD from Dalhousie University. She is said to be the first African Nova Scotian to graduate with a PhD from Dalhousie University.

Barb’s current research projects include: Closing the Opportunity Gap for African Nova Scotian Learners, Optimizing Services for Families Living in Communities that have been Marginalized, Examining the Impact of Racism on the Health and Wellbeing of People of African Descent, The benefits and challenges of Culturally Relevant Programs for Post-Secondary Students, Racialized Bodies and Elite Sports, and Mobilizing Supports and Programs for Incarcerated Individuals Integrating Back in to the Community and Exploring support for Care Givers of individuals with dementia

At Dalhousie University Dr. Hamilton-Hinch holds a number of positions she is the co team lead for the Improving the Health of People of African Descent Research Cluster with Healthy Populations Institute, she is one of the founders of Imhotep Legacy Academy (ILA-a program that is developed to increase the number of students of African descent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), co-chair of Promoting Leadership in Health for African Nova Scotians (PLANS a program to increase the number of students of African descent in Health).

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Barbara Farquharson

Barbara is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Stirling. Her research interests relate to the psychological aspects of health. She worked for 15 years as a Registered Nurse, including as a British Heart Foundation specialist cardiac nurse.

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Barbara Franchi

Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literature, Durham University
I work on contemporary fiction, with a special focus on cultural memory, material feminism, postcolonial historical fictions, and their intersections with the current ecological crisis. I have published articles and book chapters on A. S. Byatt, David Mitchell, Eleanor Catton, Rose Tremain, and Isabel Allende, and co-edited a collection of essays on imperialism in Victorian travel culture. I obtained my PhD in English from the University of Kent in 2017, where I wrote a thesis on A. S. Byatt and intertextuality. I hold an MA in English and Postcolonial Studies, and a BA in English and French, both from Ca' Foscari University Venice (Italy). I am Teaching Fellow at Durham University since 2021.

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Barbara Huber

Doctoral Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Barbara’s doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute and the University of Tübingen investigates the global dimensions of the dispersal of ancient aromatics and spices throughout Asia and East Africa using biochemical and biomolecular analyses to characterize organic remains. Her current projects aim at reconstructing the use of smells and scented plants in the past using biomolecular profiling of plant secondary metabolites, lipids and proteins. In 2020, Barbara was awarded an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science from the Joachim Herz Foundation for her PhD research. She also won a 2022 AEA Small Research Grant awarded by the Association for Environmental Archaeology to fund her project titled “Reconstructing olfactory landscapes of ancient Arabia using biomolecular approaches”.

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Barbara Mintzes

Dr Barbara Mintzes is a research scientist specialising in the study of pharmaceutical policy. Her research focuses on the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and other forms of pharmaceutical promotion on the prescribing and use of medicines. She also performs systematic reviews of clinical trial evidence regarding the health effects of medicines, including both benefit and harm, in terms of outcomes of importance to patients’ health. Dr Mintzes has has a doctorate in Health Care and Epidemiology and was Associate Professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada prior to joining the University of Sydney in April 2015. At UBC, she worked with the Therapeutics Initiative, a research group that evaluates new drugs as a background to provincial reimbursement decisions and produces an educational bulletin on drug treatments. Currently, she is the lead investigator on an international comparative study examining the influence of national regulations on the amount of safety information that pharmaceutical sales representatives provide to primary care physicians. Dr Mintzes was a lead member of an international WHO and Health Action International (HAI) project that involved developing an educational manual on drug promotion, for pharmacy and medical students. This manual has been translated into Spanish, Russian and French, and incorporated into education curricula in a range of settings. Dr Mintzes maintains strong community engagement, having worked for many years with women’s health and consumer groups, including DES (diethylstilbestrol) Action Canada, and Women and Health Protection (a Canadian non-profit organization). She co-authored the book “Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals” with Ray Moynihan, published in 2010.

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Barbara Myers

Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
Dr Barbara Myers is an Associate Professor and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Management, HRM, Global Mobility and Careers for AUT’s Department of Management. Barbara has held a number of roles at the University including Associate Dean Academic, Head of Department and Senior Lecturer.

Barbara’s research is about work (paid and unpaid) and careers in different contexts (e.g. global mobility, self-initiated expatriation (SIE), organisations and universities) drawing on diverse lenses e.g. (gender, life-course) and predominantly qualitative methodologies and frameworks. An inter-disciplinary approach best informs the research she conducts around the nexus of work and life.

Barbara has published in a range of journals including the Journal of World Business, Journal of Global Mobility, Personnel Review, Gender, Work and Organization, International Perspectives on Equality and Diversity, Career Development International and Studies in Higher Education. Barbara also reviews for a wide range of respected journals and conferences at an international and national level.

Barbara has a special interest in narrative methodologies not just as a researcher but also as a teacher in a range of courses and programmes that she teaches and supervises on at undergraduate and postgraduate level. There she also draws on personal and organisational story telling to support wider business and commercial strategy, incorporating history and change into the way we look at a changing world of work and how we reflect on and consider career possibilities and change.

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Barbara Quayle

Vice-president of the Menindee Aboriginal Elders Council, Indigenous Knowledge
Barbara Quayle is a Barkindji Elder from Menindee, New South Wales.

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Barbara Rossi

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics), University of Oxford
Barbara Rossi joined the University of Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics). Prior to this, she was an associate professor in Engineering Technology at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she led a research group exploring the structural behaviour of metallic structures, with a special interest in stainless steel and harsh environments, where corrosion plays an important role. Over the last ten years she also branched into the research area of life-cycle analysis and sustainability appraisal of (metal) structures.

Today, Barbara leads the Sustainable Metal Structures Research Group at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the role of metals in structures to improve the construction sector sustainability and resilience. Her team studies materials such as ultra-high strength steel, stainless steel, aluminium, or a combination of these, used in structures such as bridges, windmills, radioactive waste disposal facility, and wastewater treatment plants. Advanced analytical and computational analysis are combined with experimental methods to perform both fundamental and applied research. Full-scale experiments are conducted on structures or part thereof in her former laboratory at KU Leuven and in the new Sustainable Metal Structures Laboratory, at Begbroke Science Park.

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Barbara Sahakian

Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge

Barbara Sahakian's research is aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in order to develop more effective pharmacological and psychological treatments. The focus of my lab is on early detection, differential diagnosis and proof of concept studies using cognitive enhancing drugs. She is President of the International Neuroethics Society.

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Barbara Tesio-Ryan

Information Services Supervisor, The University of Edinburgh
Dr Barbara Tesio-Ryan currently works as Information Services Supervisor for the libraries of the University of Edinburgh, where she previously held a post as Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature and as a Danish Literature tutor. She holds a PhD in Scandinavian Studies, an MSc in Comparative and General Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in Literature and Performing Arts from the Sapienza University of Rome.

Barbara’s PhD thesis ‘Reassessing Karen Blixen’s Gengældelsens Veje/The Angelic Avengers: a Novel Challenging Gender, Totalitarianism and Colonial Practices’ offers a multidimensional and comprehensive reassessment of the Danish author Karen Blixen’s less known works. Blixen’s novel Gengældelsens Veje/The Angelic Avengers is used as a starting point to explore the historical context of publication of the text (Denmark under Nazi occupation), its transmission and reception into the cultural context of post-war United Kingdom and United States, as well as Blixen’s use of gothic genre as a way to subvert the concept of gender, totalitarianism and colonial practices.

Barbara’s current research interests include Scandinavian Studies, Comparative Literature, Postcolonial studies, Storytelling, Gothic Studies, Library and Information Science.

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Bàrbara Baraibar Padró

Investigadora posdoctoral Beatriu de Pinos en Malherbologia, Universitat de Lleida
Bàrbara Baraibar (PhD). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-7731, Researcher ID: U-3119-2019, Scopus ID: 26040476600. Ingeniera agrónoma por la Universidad de Lleida (2005). Mi carrera investigadora se ha centrado en dos temas fundamentales: la depredación de semillas de arvenses y el uso de cultivos cubierta para el manejo de malezas y la provisión de otros servicios ecosistémicos. Este último aspecto lo he llevado a cabo mayoritariamente en sistemas de producción ecológica en Estados Unidos. Después de doctorarme (Universidad de Lleida, 2011, 5 artículos publicados) y una corta etapa post-doctoral en la Universidad de Lleida (2013-2014), trabajé como investigadora post-doctoral en Penn State University (EUA) durante casi 5 años (2014-2019) en los que fui co-IP de un proyecto financiado por el USDA, OREI (Organic Research and Extension Iniciative). En dichos años, diversifiqué mis líneas de trabajo para explorar la relación entre malas hierbas y nutrientes del suelo y puse las bases para posteriormente, a mi vuelta, conseguir un contrato como investigadora Beatriu de Pinós (BdP) este 2020. Como investigadora BdP (grupo de investigación reconocido de Malas Hierbas y Ecología Vegetal de la UdL) lidero un proyecto que explora el efecto del suelo, fertilización y microbioma en la relación cultivo – mala hierba. Además, también soy co-IP de un proyecto que explora innovaciones tecnológicas en la producción de soja ecológica para maximizar la producción y conseguir un buen manejo de las malas hierbas (2020-2021). Hasta la fecha, he publicado 21 artículos científicos, con un total de 470 citas (Scopus). Igualmente, soy co-autora de un capítulo de libro científico y numerosas publicaciones de transferencia. Soy editora de la revista Weed Research y revisora de diversas revistas (últimos 3 años en https://publons.com/researcher/1612806/barbara-baraibar/peer-review/). He tutorado varios trabajos finales de carrera y de master.

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Baris Celik

Baris' research mainly surrounds global governance, security and defence cooperation in Europe, and international environmental politics. His research on these topics is published in outlets including the Journal of European Integration, European Security and Global Affairs. His teaching areas include international security and defence, international climate politics, European Union and Middle East politics, international relations theories, research methods in political science, and diplomacy.

Research interests include:
Global governance
International security and defence policies
International organisations
Climate change
Organisational theory

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Barnaby Haran

Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
Dr Barnaby Haran teaches and researches American art and visual culture, with an emphasis on photography and radical cultural practices. He is interested in transnational cultural relations, especially the American and Soviet interchanges of the interwar years, which is the subject of his monograph 'Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union (Manchester University Press, 2016). He has written and delivered papers on the photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the painter Alice Neel, and the curator Jane Heap in relation to politics, work, and gender. His current research concerns radical photography and racial injustice.

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Barret Michalec

Research Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University
Barret Michalec, PhD, is the Director of ASU’s Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research and Associate Professor at the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.

As Director, he promotes and enhances ongoing CAIPER initiatives and programs, cultivates productive collaborative partnerships, as well as identifies and expands interprofessional learning and practice opportunities for students, faculty, and community members.

As a sociologist, Barret brings unique and novel perspectives on various aspects of IPE/IPCP, with a keen eye on evaluation and assessment. His research focuses on socialization and professionalization processes and mechanisms within health professions education, disparities in health and health professions, intergroup and interpersonal processes, as well as empathy, emotional contagion, and humility.

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Barry Avery

Barry Avery is an Associate Professor in the Informatics and Operations department and is the course director for the MSc in Business Information Technology. Prior to moving into the academic sector, he was an IT consultant and worked for companies such as Unilever and Thomson Reuters, as a systems analyst and programmer.

Barry Avery has recently completed his PhD at Lancaster University, which examines the use of Technology Enhanced Learning with Assessment.

Expertise

Internet and Web technologies
Web Application Building
Database Systems
Programming
Knowledge Management
Mobile Technologies
Technology Enhanced Learning
Research Interest(s)

Avery's research interests are in Technology Enhanced Learning, in particular the use of technology and social based pedagogies.

Teaching

He teaches a variety of subjects to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, including in:

Programming and server side scripting
Database technology
Business Information Architecture
Using Personal Learning Environments and Networks (PLE and PLNs)

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Barry Borman

Professor, Massey University
My research interests include epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, birth defects epidemiology, public health, health surveillance.

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Barry Brown

Professor of Human Computer Interaction, Stockholm University
Professor Barry Brown is a research Professor at Stockholm University and a Professor at the University of Copenhagen, within the HCC group. At Stockholm he helps to run the STIR group – Stockholm technology and interaction research group. His two most recent books have been published by Sage and MIT Press, focusing on how to research the use of digital technology, and the study and design of leisure technologies. His research has been covered in the international press including the Guardian, Time, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Voice of America and Fortune Magazine.

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Barry Hayes

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Power Systems Engineering, University College Cork
Dr. Barry Hayes is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems Engineering at UCC. Prior to joining UCC in 2018, he was a Lecturer at the University of Galway (2016-2018), and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at IMDEA Energy in Madrid (2013-2016). He holds a PhD in Electrical Power Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (2013), and has held visiting researcher positions at National Grid UK (2011) and at the University of Tennessee (2016).

Barry leads a research team at UCC focused on the grid integration of sustainable energy technologies, and the operation and planning of future power systems.

Barry is a Funded Investigator in the SFI MaREI Centre and has active research collaborations with the Irish energy industry and with international academic partners. He has given invited talks and keynotes in USA, UK, Spain, France, Croatia, Ethiopia, Japan, and China, and contributes regularly to public science and technology communication through Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ.

Barry is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is involved in the development of new IEEE standards on smart grid interoperability. Barry also works with energy communities around Ireland, providing technical advice on the development of community-owned renewable energy projects.

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Barry Langford

Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
I hold degrees from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Columbia University. My research interests include critical theory; representations of the Holocaust in film and television; theories of mass culture; urban studies; postmodernism; post-classical Hollywood; film genre, especially the Western, science fiction film, war films.

My major publications are Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). The essay collection Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (co-edited with Robert Eaglestone) was published in December 2007.

Recent and forthcoming shorter include essays on Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and the Holocaust; "revisionist" Westerns; suburban sexualities; narrative reversal as redemption in Holocaust film; Chris Marker’s politics; urban apocalypse and the theory of Michel de Certeau; time and narrative in The Lord of the Rings; national identity in George Lucas’ American Graffiti; the political unconscious of TV sitcoms; contemporary Holocaust film; and the theorisation of screenwriting.

I am currently preparing Darkness Visible, a study of Holocaust film.

I am also a practicing professional screenwriter. My original short screenplay Torte Bluma was filmed in New York in summer 2004, with a cast: including Stellan Skarsgaard and Simon McBurney, and premiered at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival. Torte Bluma was judged Best Drama at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Best Film at the 2005 Palm Springs International Shorts Festival. Torte Bluma can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaEEie66ZI. I am the co-creator and co-author of the 6-part ITV drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles (airing Autumn 2015).

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Barry A. Garst

Professor of Youth Development Leadership, Clemson University
Dr. Barry A. Garst is a Professor of Youth Development Leadership and the Coordinator of Youth Development Programs in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. Dr. Garst currently teaches graduate courses on program assessment and evaluation, creative and ethical leadership, employee and volunteer management, and nature as a developmental context for children and adolescents.

A nationally recognized summer camp scholar, Dr. Garst's applied research focuses on critical and emerging issues facing the out-of-school time community of youth, staff, parents, alumni, and program providers. Recent research has explored overparenting, parent anxiety associated with camp experiences, programs serving military-connected youth and families, summertime food insecurity, and camp health care practices to reduce the spread of communicable diseases including COVID-19.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine engaged Dr. Garst as an expert on youth out-of-school time experiences. From 2018 to 2019, he served on a consensus study committee to synthesize the state of the research evidence associated with the summertime experiences of children and adolescents in the areas of education, health, and safety outcomes.

Prior to joining Clemson University’s faculty, Dr. Garst was the Director of Program Development and Research with the American Camp Association from 2008 to 2014, providing leadership to research, education, and business development initiatives. From 2001 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist with Virginia Tech responsible for camp research and evaluation, curriculum development, and faculty and staff training and development.

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Barry C. Burden

Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Elections Research Center and is the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics.

His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, author of Personal Roots of Representation, and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies.

Burden is affiliated with the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, and the Election Administration Project.

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Barry John McMahon

Associate professor of Wildlife Conservation & Zoonotic Epidemiology, University College Dublin
Barry McMahon was appointed a Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation & Zoonotic Epidemiology in the UCD School of Agriculture & Food in 2011. Previously, he had been a post-doctoral researcher examining the interaction between agriculture and biodiversity. His current research focuses on diseases, including antimicrobial resistance, that are reservoired in or disseminated by wild birds and mammals. In addition, Dr McMahon continues to explore the interactions between agriculture and biodiversity. In addition, Dr McMahon is interested in understanding the population biology of Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus hibernicus) in Ireland and this research contributed to the Red Grouse Species Action Plan 2013. Overall, the theme of Dr McMahon's research relates to the One Health initiative.

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Bartholomew Stanford

Lecturer (Indigenous Knowledges) , Charles Darwin University
Bartholomew Stanford is a Torres Strait Islander and Lecturer (Indigenous Knowledges) at Charles Darwin University. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from Griffith University in 2022. His research is focused on Indigenous politics and representation, native title, and political parties. Bartholomew is currently studying agreement-making between Indigenous groups and State and Territory Governments in Australia.

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