Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College
I am a quantitative criminologist and study gun violence, victimization, and drugs. I got my PhD in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, where I also got my MA degree in Statistics. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Boston College.
I was born and grew up in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. After high school, I moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where I got my BA degree in Sociology from Saint Petersburg State. Shortly after finishing my Master's in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg, I joined the Institute for the Rule of Law there, where I studied how Russian police plant drugs, conducted the first Russian Crime Victimization Survey, and had a really good time.
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PhD Candidate, Psychology (Personality Psychopathology), Nottingham Trent University
Alex Lambert is a PhD candidate and a graduate teaching assistant at Nottingham Trent University. Her interests lie in the area of personality psychopathology. The aim of her PhD programme is to develop a new psychometric measure of maladaptive overcontrol.
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Lecturer in German, Aberystwyth University
M.A. in English Literature, German Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (English) from Augsburg University (Germany); MSc in Psychology (Chester, UK); PhD in Theatre Studies (Wales). I am currently Lecturer in German at Aberystwyth University. I am a Fellow of the HEA and a graduate member of the BPS.
My research focuses on performance philosophy and contemporary politics (especially Zizek and performance), post-1956 European Drama, theatre translation and on Easy German Grammar.
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Bristol
Alex has been Professor of Public Policy and Head of the School for Policy Studies since 2007.
Alex's research encompasses a wide range of topics in the field of housing studies, particularly concerned with policy in the social and private rented housing sectors and with issues of regulation.
His research interests include the use of economics in the policy process and the application of heterodox economic ideas to the analysis of housing markets. His interest in housing policy is both substantive and for the insights it can offer into broader questions of policy-making and the policy process.
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Associate Professor, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney
Alex Munt is a screenwriter/director and academic. He leads the Creative Practice Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at UTS.
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Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Adjunct Professor, International Human Rights Law, University of Ottawa, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I am an international human rights lawyer, with over 35 years of experience, including serving as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada for 21 years.
I am currently a Senior Fellow with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow with the Atlantic Human Rights Centre at St. Thomas University. I am an adjunct professor of international human rights with the faculties of law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University. In the past I have been a visiting professor and a sessional lecturer with Osgoode Law School at York University and for several years was a lecturer with the capstone seminar in international human rights law and policy with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
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Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Toronto
I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toronto (same university where I obtained my PhD). My lab studies how mutations affect our genomes and how this affects evolution. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Desai at Harvard University, where I developed several synthetic biology tools to interrogate cells and observe evolution at extremely high resolution.
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Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston and a masters degree in Physics from Odessa National University in Ukraine. Prior to joining Lehigh's faculty, Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy served as an assistant professor at the University of Memphis, where he taught graduate Macroeconomics and Econometrics, and conducted research on monetary policy analysis.
Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy's papers have been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and others. He has been the recipient of several research grants and his research has been referred to at the U.S. Congress.
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
Dr. Alex Sévigny, APR is an associate professor of communication studies and communication management at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an expert in public relations, communication management, and data-driven communication strategies, most recently using AI, augmented and virtual reality. Dr. Sévigny is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Professional Communication and the chief examiner of the Accredited in Public Relations program for the Canadian Public Relations Society. His research interests include the use of artificial intelligence and big data in communication, political communication, and strategic communication. He is currently finishing a book with co-author Martin Waxman on how AI is transforming strategy and workflow in the creative professions. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Sévigny is also an active public relations practitioner and consultant.
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Research Associate in Epidemiology, University of Manchester
Dr Alex Trafford was awarded his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Manchester in 2022. His PhD focused on examining the risk of cancer and cancer mortality in individuals with psoriasis. He is currently a Research Associate at the University exploring mental health outcomes, and opioid prescribing.
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Graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994 with a BA in Natural Sciences. After competing a PhD in Neuroscience at University College London he moved to Stanford University to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in human brain imaging specializing in the neural computations underlying our perception of colour. Continued this research as a Principle Investigator at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco until moving to York in 2011. Current research interests include visual attention, the representation of colour and contrast in the human brain and the way in which these processes are affected by neurological diseases.
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Lecturer in Sports Therapy, University of East London
Alex Walker is a graduate sports therapist with a Master's in Sport and Exercise medicine. Her background is in the prevention of musculoskeletal injury. She gained six years of clinical experience in the field, before stepping into academia.
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
Dr Alex Wodak AM was Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney (1982-2012) but is now an Emeritus Consultant. Dr. Wodak is President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, and a Director of Australia21 and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association (1996-2004). He helped establish the first needle syringe programme and the first medically supervised injecting centre in Australia (when both were pre-legal) and often works in developing countries on HIV control among injecting drug users.
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Postgraduate Researcher in Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath
I am a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath. My research focuses on the adversarial responses of mainstream political parties, in Europe and The USA, to populism. Specifically, I am concerned with how these responses have had the double effect of both marginalising dissent from neoliberal governance, and mainstreaming far-right ideas through euphemising racism as 'populist'.
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Research Review Writer, Nuffield Politics Research Centre, University of Oxford
I am a research review writer at the Nuffield Politics Research Centre, and a PhD student in political science at the London School of Economics. I research the political consequences of technological change, ranging from the rollout of BBC radio in 1920s England to recent expansions of mobile phone networks across Sub-Saharan Africa. I'm also interested in how voters respond to economic and political information, forming the basis of a range of work in Britain. Before moving to the LSE, I studied for an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.
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Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, McGill University
Research Interests: Alex has been involved with the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, long-standing CBPR project since 1994 which has been associated with PRAM. His research and academic interests include diabetes prevention, Indigenous health promotion, community mobilization, mentorship, personal empowerment and Indigenous research methodologies.
Projects: Alex is Director of the Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network, Director of the Kahnawake Indigenous Youth Mentorship Project, part of a larger national CIHR Pathways 2 project. He is an active participant with the SPOR Diabetes Action Canada project as a patient partner. Alex is also a co-investigator with the new Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research which will be hosted by McGill University.
Alex is also involved with Indigenous focussed curriculum development for medical residents to develop and nurture cultural safety when working with Indigenous patients and community, and is a coordinator in the development of a partnership between Family Medicine, McGill University and the Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtiake.
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PhD in Civil Engineering (Transport), Monash University
MA in Social Psychology, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Criminology, Saint Mary’s University
Dr. Alexa Dodge is a critical criminologist and socio-legal scholar with research and teaching interests in the areas of digital criminology, technology-facilitated violence, sexual violence, feminist criminology, criminal law, and restorative justice.
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Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Alex Carter is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for STEMM in Culture and Society (ISTEMMICS).
Alex has worked for over a decade as a researcher and practitioner in the fields of anti-racism, counter-extremism, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). He has published research on terrorism, extremism, radicalisation, the Northern Irish Troubles and fascism & anti-fascism.
His first book, Cumulative Extremism: A Comparative Historical Analysis, was published in Routledge's Fascism and the Far Right book series.
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Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Alexander Crizzle is a Gerontologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan. His interests are within the field of road safety that includes assessments for determining the ability to drive safely, commercial motor vehicle safety and alternative transportation, particularly in rural areas. He is leading a large CIHR team on developing evidence-based fitness to drive guidelines (funded by CIHR), as well as leads multiple studies on truck driver health and wellness and its impact on driver performance (Funded by WorkSafe BC and Alberta's Ministry of Labour). He's also leading a provincial study on developing a proposed alternative transportation system that is feasible and sustainable (funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation). Dr. Crizzle is a member of the dementia and driving team, as part of the larger Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration and Aging initiative, to develop interventions for driving cessation in those with early to mid-stage dementia and their caregivers. He is also a member of the Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly (Candrive), an interdisciplinary health-related research program dedicated to improving the safety of older drivers.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
I am studying the microbiome of ancient and modern metagenomic samples that are associated with humans.
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Senior Lecturer in Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
My background is in molecular biomedicine and I have invested several years of research in host-pathogen interaction. In addition to this, I have been involved in a number of studies that focus on the microbiome in parasite infections in Ghana. However, the increasing prevalence of infectious diseases in Ghana and other African countries ignited my passion to focus on the use of bioinformatics tools to understand underlying genomic and immunology presentations of diseases and other medical conditions, as well as the use of social determinants to understand how people perceive the disease. I am excited to contribute to the training of postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows.
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University
Alexander McClelland, PhD., is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University. His current research is funded by both CIHR and SSHRC, where he examines issues of incarceration, surveillance, public health, and policing. He was a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa.
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Adjunct Researcher, Karolinska Institutet
After graduating from the study programme in psychology in 2011 with a MSc I worked as a clinical psychologist at an outpatient psychiatric care unit and as an adjunct lecturer at the Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet. I became a Licensed Psychologist in Sweden in 2012 and have continued doing part-time clinical work in different settings ever since. I finished my PhD at the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University in 2017 with a doctoral thesis on the negative effects of Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy. After my dissertation I spent almost two years as a researcher at the Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health at University College London. I completed a post doctoral position at the Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet in 2021, where I am presently an Adjunct Researcher, doctoral supervisor, and principal investigator for the implementation of patient-controlled admissions to inpatient care in Region Stockholm. Since 2021, I am an Associate Professor and Study Director at the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University, and since 2022 I am the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Australian National University
I am a evolutionary biologist and biogeographer currently working as a postdoc in the Macroevolution and Macroecology Group at the Australian National University (ANU). Before this, I did a postdoc in the Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution Group at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), and a PhD at the ANU.
I’m interested in finding links between biogeographic diversity patterns and the macroevolutionary histories of the plant and animal clades that contribute to them. One of my main interests is the origins of biodiversity hotspots, such as those found in tropical rainforests, mountain ranges, or Mediterranean-type ecosystems. I am also interested in understanding how these regions, and the taxa found within them, are vulnerable to global change. To explore these topics, I analyse spatial, phylogenetic, and ecological trait data with simulation modelling and phylogenetic comparative approaches.
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Research Associate, Rhodes University
I am a coastal fisheries scientist focusing on recreational fisheries management and coastal fish movement ecology. I have PhD from Rhodes University (graduated in 2019), during which I investigated the coastal movement of a large iconic game fish species in Southern Angola. Following my Ph.D. I took up a position as a junior researcher at the CCMAR in Faro Portugal, where I investigated the movement behavior of a large coastal fish species using state-of-the-art electronic tagging techniques. I am currently holding a joint research position at Rhodes and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University College Dublin
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, PhD, is an assistant professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His truly international experience includes holding positions in the University of Helsinki’s major research centre in Russian and Eurasian studies, Aleksanteri Institute, and Russia's liberal European University at St. Petersburg, as well as research jobs at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Alexander studied sociology of law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Spain. Kondakov’s work is primarily focused on law and sexuality studies, more specifically on queer sexualities. His latest research on violence against LGBT people in Russia has gotten attention in the international and Russian media. Kondakov’s studies were published in such journals as Sexualities, Social & Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Studies, and European Journal of Criminology. The research on anti-queer violence concluded with an open-access book 'Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia'. The book is available for free download on UCL Press website, as well as in other formats for various prices.
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Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Design Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Alexandra Crosby is a lecturer in Interdisciplinary Design and a research fellow at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning.
Her research focuses on emerging forms of environmentalism and the the role of creative practices in culturally-specific forms of activism. She is a member of the Cities Network at Sydney University.
She speaks Indonesian and has worked extensively on cross-cultural art and media projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
Alexandra is a board member of Inside Indonesia and an artist for the Yurt Empire.
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Adjunct Assistant professor of Economics, University of Rochester
I graduated with a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge. After that I worked for a short time at the Economist as an assistant editor during which time I published articles on financial and economic history. I am now employed as an adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and as Assistant Professor of Economics at Minerva University. My co-writers are employed by Minerva University.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Wayne State University
A second-year doctoral candidate working with Dr. Hannah Schacter and the ARC lab, Alexandra has an M.S. in Clinical Research Methods from Fordham University and a B.S. of Cell & Molecular Biology from Tulane University. Her research interests include stress and inflammatory markers in contexts as well as relationships as protective factors.
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Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Ally Gibson (MRSNZ) is a senior lecturer and acting programme director in Health Psychology. Ally currently holds a Marsden Fast-Start Fellowship with the Royal Society - Te Apārangi, leading research on people's experiences of mobile dating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand.
She has over 10 years' experience conducting a range of qualitative research projects relating to health, illness, and the practice of medicine. Her work is interdisciplinary, bridging health psychology, the sociology of health and illness, and public health. She is particularly interested in: mobile dating and intimacy; sexual and reproductive health; issues of gender, sexuality and identity; people's experiences of and responses to pressing health challenges (e.g., cancer; COVID-19); and concerns and experiences of inequity, marginalisation, and vulnerability in health.
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Research fellow, University of Leicester
Alexandra Kviat is a Research Fellow at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology and the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester. She works across the fields of consumer and service research, cultural and media studies, urban sociology and human geography. Her interdisciplinary research projects have explored the relationship between digital technology, urban space and everyday consumption in the context of the hospitality, retail and leisure industries. Alexandra's work has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the University of Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and Chancellor's International Scholarship, and the Fulbright Program.
Alexandra's areas of expertise include:
- cafes and other 'third places';
- post-digital culture;
- digital disconnection and detox;
- board game culture;
- servicescape design.
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Associate Professor of Management, American University
Professor Mislin’s research focuses on negotiation and conflict management. She studies how aspects of social exchange (e.g., trust, reciprocity, emotions) influence cooperation and conflict. Her work bridges the fields of management, experimental economics, and social psychology, leading to scholarly as well as practical insights on organizational life.
Alexandra (Alex) Mislin’s interdisciplinary research is premised on the view that negotiated agreements alone do not lead to desired outcomes. She studies how trust violations and repair, the tracking of obligations, and social curiosity motivate cooperation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Economic Psychology. Her courses focus on negotiation strategy and conflict management.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
Dr Alexandra Ridgway is a sociologist of family, personal and intimate life with particular interests in family breakdown and divorce; family and sexual violence; death and bereavement; and other forms of biographical disruption. Much of her work has examined these issues in the context of migration. In addition, she has also written on topics pertaining to the fields of health, higher education, leisure sciences and urban studies. Alexandra has a particular passion for qualitative research and a strong interest in methodological and writing practices. She currently works for RMIT University and is a Fellow with the Centre for Criminology at The University of Hong Kong.
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