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Rob Bell
Teaching Fellow, Environmental Planning Programme, University of Waikato
Rob Bell has 42 years’ experience in coastal and estuary engineering, risk from coastal hazards, the impacts of climate change on coastal lowland communities and infrastructure and adaptive planning for climate adaptation (including managed retreat).
Rob, formerly with NIWA, was the Lead Author of the 2017 coastal guidance for local government published by NZ’s Ministry for the Environment for planning adaptation to climate change and contributed to the forthcoming 2023 revision. The guidance pivots around the Dynamic Adaptive Pathways Planning approach to deal with the deepening uncertainty from coastal climate impacts.
Rob was a Contributing Author for the IPCC Working Group II 6th Assessment Report on climate change impacts for Australasia (2022). Rob's primary research interests are coastal hazards, sea-level rise, risk assessments and climate adaptation approaches.
Rob is a certified Resource Management Act Hearings Commissioner and Chartered Professional Engineer (Environmental).
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Rob Branston
Senior Lecturer in Business Economics, University of Bath
My primary research interests surround the governance and regulation of organisations, with a particular focus on the provision of public utilities and other key sectors, most notably the global tobacco industry. I have researched the conduct, performance, and market impact of transnational companies, and appropriate regulatory measures that might be applied to such companies in order to secure the public interest. More recently I have developed an interest in the conduct and performance of micro-firms, especially in the area of regulation.
I have worked with and have been funded by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), The Irish Cancer Society, The Irish Heart Foundaction, The Royal Economics society, the National Insitute for Health Research, and Cancer Research UK. I have shared my expertise with the Houses of Parliament, HM Treasury, and the Department for Health in the UK, and the Ministry of Finance in the Republic of Ireland, and I and my work have been featured in various national media outlets.
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Rob Bray
Rob Bray is a Research Fellow in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Prior to his commencement at the university he had long career in the Australian Public Service as a policy analyst and researcher. In 2010 he was awarded the Public Service Medal in recognition of his work on poverty and hardship.
Rob's current research includes the measurement of well-being and the role of the welfare system and its interelationship with participation. Recent publications include the first report of the Evaluation of New Income Management in the Northern Territory, and on the characteristics and outcomes of young carers in Australia.
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Rob Davidson
Postgraduate Researcher in Human Geography, UCL
Rob Davidson is a PhD candidate in the UCL Department of Geography, co-funded by the ESRC and The Health Foundation. He is also a research assistant at the UCL Centre on US Politics. He previously worked as a visual and data journalism intern at the Financial Times and a consultant for the Inter American Development Bank.
His research focuses on the use of data visualisation to communicate health and social inequalities in the UK.
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Rob Evans
Professor in science and technology studies, Cardiff University
My academic home is in the field of Science and Technology Studies, and my interests are in the nature and use of expertise. This translates into questions about the sorts of knowledge needed to make decisions, who possesses it, and how it is shared and acted upon.
Within STS, my work has played a central role in founding what has been called 'Studies of Expertise and Experience' or the 'Third Wave of Science Studies.' The characteristic features of this approach are a more 'realist' approach to expertise that emphasises the role of tacit knowledge and the development of a more explicitly normative approach through which STS scholars can contribute to technological decision-making in the public domain.
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Rob Geist Pinfold
Lecturer in Peace and Security, Durham University
Dr. Rob Geist Pinfold joined the School of Government and International Affairs in 2022. Alongside his role at Durham, he is a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague and a Senior Fellow at Charles University's Herzl Center for Israel Studies. Rob holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa.
Rob is a scholar of international security whose research intersects the study of strategy and territorial conflict. His existing work has focused on two key themes: (i) military occupation and exit dilemmas and (ii) how 'grand strategy' is studied within the academy. His work has been published in International Studies Perspectives, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Mediterranean Politics. His full-length book manuscript, Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
Research interests
Israeli foreign and security policy
Military interventions and occupations
Strategy and grand strategy
Territorial conflict
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Rob Livingstonre
For more than three decades Rob Livingstone has amassed senior managerial experience, substantially as CIO in multinational corporations. He is also an author, columnist, speaker and regular news media commentator on the implications of new and disruptive technologies.
As a Fellow of the University of Technology, Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering and IT, Rob lectures to higher‐degree students on leadership, strategy and innovation. He is also a Research Associate at UTS's Communications Law Centre, an independent non‐profit, public interest centre specialising in communications, media and online law and policy.
Since 2010, Rob has been running his advisory practice, Rob Livingstone Advisory Pty Ltd, and is now a sought‐after mentor, consultant and industry advisor.
Rob’s latest book 'Direction through Disruption', deals with one of the most serious career challenges facing us today – how to plan and pursue a successful knowledge intensive career in the age of globalisation and disruptive digital technologies.
His earlier book, 'Navigating through the Cloud', has provided invaluable insight to a wide range of corporations weighing up the risks and rewards that so many new technologies embody.
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Rob Newton
Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University
Professor Robert Newton, PhD, DSc, AEP, CSCS*D, FACSM, FESSA, FNSCA is a Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Professor of Exercise Medicine in the Exercise Medicine Research Institute at Edith Cowan University Perth, Western Australia. Current major research directions include: reducing decline in strength, body composition and functional ability in cancer patients; cancer related fatigue and the influence of exercise; exercise medicine and tumour biology.
Professor Newton has published over 1000 papers including 520 refereed scientific journal papers, two books, 17 book chapters and has a current Scopus h-Index of 94 with his work being cited 32,500 times. As of 2024 his research had attracted over $50Million in competitive research funding. In 2018 he was awarded the Cancer Council of Western Australian Career Achievement Award and in 2019 was named the Western Australia Premiers Scientist of the Year.
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Rob Nicholls
Dr Rob Nicholls is a lecturer in business law at the UNSW Business School.
He was previously a research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology where he worked on spectrum policy matters and a research fellow at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation where he researched the intersection of competition law with financial services regulations. His research applies system and network analysis techniques, commonly used in networked industries, to examine error amplification. Rob is the Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator in a regime established to deal with wholesale disputes arising over both legacy services and migration to the NBN. He has had a thirty-year career concentrating on regulations and governance, particularly in networked industries. He has worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and Gilbert + Tobin.
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Rob Skinner
Professorial Fellow, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
Professor Rob Skinner AM is a Professorial Fellow with MSDI Water.
He is also Chair of WaterAid Australia and Chair of WaterAid International; Deputy chair of the CRC for Water sensitive Cities; Deputy Chair of Yarra Valley Water; and Director of the International Centre of Excellence for Water Resources Management.
Rob is also Lead Chair of the Andrews Government’s new Metropolitan and Regional Water Forums which puts communities at the heart of storm and recycled water management for Victoria.
In 2019 Rob was recognised by UN-Water as the official Australian contact point for SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
Rob was Managing Director of Melbourne Water from 2005 to 2011. Prior to joining Melbourne Water, Rob was Chief Executive Officer of the Kingston Council – a large municipal council in metropolitan Melbourne – during which time he also held a number of key positions in the water sector as chairman or member of boards or government advisory committees.
He has been a Board member of the Water Services Association of Australia. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Water Association and Chair of the Association’s Cities of the Future Program.
Whilst at Melbourne Water Rob initiated a number of collaborative relationships between Melbourne Water and agencies in Singapore, UK, Israel and Timor Leste.
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Rob Wells
Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Maryland
I was a full-time journalist for 26 years, primarily covering business and politics, at The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires, and The Wall Street Journal. I was the Washington bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires and then the Deputy Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal in Washington. I began teaching at the Merrill College in 2010. I left the newsroom in 2011 to pursue a second career in academia.
I have authored two books: “The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism” (University of Illinois Press, 2019), and "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
I earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at St. John's College in Annapolis and then a Ph.D. in Journalism Studies at the Merrill College. During the 2011-12 school year, I helped launch a business reporting program at the University of South Carolina while serving as a Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professor.
After earning my Ph.D. in 2016, I taught for five years at the University of Arkansas, where I rose to the rank of associate professor and led Arkansas' journalism graduate program. While at Arkansas, I ran ArkansasCovid.com, an award-winning statewide daily data and news website reporting on the pandemic. I also partnered with Merrill’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism on multiple projects, including the award-winning “Nowhere To Go” homelessness investigation. I returned to the Merrill College in the Spring 2022, where I teach data journalism, basic reporting and an investigative reporting course in Baltimore.
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Rob Wortham
I am currently undertaking a Computer Science PhD at the University of Bath researching autonomous robotics, with a focus on domestic applications and ethical considerations. What models do humans form when interacting with AI systems, and how do we make the behaviour of these systems more understandable? I am interested in real world AI for real world problems.
I am also Founder and CFO of RWA Ltd, a major international supplier of IT systems to the leisure travel industry for over 20 years.
I have a wide experience of developing technology and systems, including electronics, chip design, systems and applications programming in many languages and environments.
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Robbee Wedow
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science, Purdue University
I'm an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science at Purdue University, with lots of other connections that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of my research. I am also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Before coming to Purdue, I did my PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and my postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. My main research interest is in sociogenomics, which lies at the intersection of sociology, demography, and statistical & computational genetics. I am interested in how social forces and environments interact with genetics (gene-by-environment interactions). Using recent advances in genetic data collection and methodological developments in statistical genetics, I leverage large-scale genetic data to explore how sociological outcomes change across context, across time, and across outcome measurement. I am also deeply dedicated to clearly and sensitively communicating the findings from my work in an ethically-engaged and community-based fashion. My work outside of social science genetics focuses on population health, health disparities, and quasi-experimental designs and methodologies.
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Robbie Morgan
Lecturer and Consultant in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
I joined the IDEA Centre as a Teaching Fellow in September 2021 and became a Lecturer and Consultant in August 2022. Prior to this, I worked as a University Teacher in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Sheffield and as a Hearings Support Officer in the fitness to practise directorate of a professional regulator. Additionally, I have experience in pastoral support and governance within higher education.
In 2019, I completed my PhD at The University of Sheffield under the supervision of Christopher Bennett and Jennifer Saul. Before this, I completed a BA and MA in Philosophy, also at The University of Sheffield.
Research interests
My research focuses on issues in the philosophy of sex, particularly as this intersects with feminist philosophy. I am currently writing on language change, conscientious objection in medicine, the metaphysics of touch, and the value of consensual sex.
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Robbie Sutton
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kent
Robbie is interested in the social psychology of justice and (in)equality, including:
Just-world beliefs
These refer to the extent to which people believe they, and others, receive the treatment and life outcomes they deserve. These are related to psychological health, functioning, and a raft of social attitudes (for more information, see Hafer & Sutton, 2014; Sutton & Douglas, 2005; Sutton & Winnard, 2007; Sutton et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2013 in the publication list).
Conspiracy beliefs
Robbie collaborates with Professor Karen Douglas on conspiracy belief (see Douglas & Sutton, 2008, 2011, Sutton & Douglas, 2014. Their work examines the psychological mechanisms that cause people to entertain such beliefs.
Immanent justice reasoning
Robbie collaborates with Mitch Callan (University of Essex) on why people tend to perceive that a person's misfortune must be attributable to some prior misdeed of theirs, even when the two cannot be related (Callan et al., 2010, 2013, 2014).
Gender, sexism and inequality
Robbie has studied several aspects of gender inequality, including gendered fear of crime (Sutton & Farrall, 2005, 2008; Sutton, Robinson & Farrall, 2011), sexist intrusions on the autonomy of women during pregnancy (Murphy et al., 2011; Sutton, Douglas, & McClellan, 2011), and gender inequality in educational attainment (Hartley & Sutton, 2013).
He is interested in social communicative approaches to these and other questions, such as intergroup relations (e.g., Douglas & Sutton, 2003, 2010; Sutton, Elder & Douglas, 2006). A related interest is in environmental psychology.
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Robbie Williams
Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge
Robbie is the founder of FIRE LORE, a cultural burning organisation based in northern New South Wales
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Robbin Mellen Jr.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Florida
My teaching and research interests revolve around the presidency and the interaction between the executive branch, legislative branch, and the judiciary. I focus most closely on the president and their activities, especially during midterm elections. I have published multiple articles focused on what presidents do during the midterms and how effective their efforts are. I also examine the collaboration and conflict between the branches that either leads to or precludes effective government. I am a big fan of the late Richard Neustadt and his theory of presidential power, which exists in the ability to persuade according to him. The reliance on command authority is a sign of a failure to lead effectively.
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Robert Ackrill
Professor of European Economics and Policy, Nottingham Trent University
Rob's role at NTU embraces the full range of academic activities. His main teaching is on the Economics of European Union but, in most years, he contributes to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on international and applied economics. He has also taught introductory level Economics and Industrial Economics. Rob places a great emphasis on research-informed teaching.
Within the Division of Economics Rob is currently Module Leader for the Level 3 module Jean Monnet Europe and the World Economy, and Module Leader for the Level 3 Research Project in Economics. He is also the Division's Placement co-ordinator. He is a member of the NBS Research Policy Group. He chairs the NBS School Research Ethics Committee and is a member of the College Research Ethics Committee.
Rob's teaching on the Economics of the EU has received financial support from the European Commission. In 2004 he was awarded 'Jean Monnet' funding to support the creation and initial years' teaching of his module Europe and the World Economy. In 2010 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Studies, again with funding which supports his teaching and his teaching-related research activities.
In 2012 Rob was awarded Nottingham Trent Students Union's Outstanding Teaching Award, 2012, for NBS.
In 2013 Rob was one of only two academics at NTU to receive the inaugural Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award.
Rob's research is in applied economics and public policy analysis. He has particular expertise in EU policies, the WTO and agricultural trade policies, and biofuels policies.
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Robert Ackrill
Rob's role at NTU embraces the full range of academic activities. His main teaching is on the Economics of European Union but, in most years, he contributes to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on international and applied economics. He has also taught introductory level Economics and Industrial Economics. Rob places a great emphasis on research-informed teaching.
Within the Division of Economics Rob is currently Module Leader for the Level 3 module Jean Monnet Europe and the World Economy, and Module Leader for the Level 3 Research Project in Economics. He is also the Division's Placement co-ordinator. He is a member of the NBS Research Policy Group. He chairs the NBS School Research Ethics Committee and is a member of the College Research Ethics Committee.
Rob's teaching on the Economics of the EU has received financial support from the European Commission. In 2004 he was awarded 'Jean Monnet' funding to support the creation and initial years' teaching of his module Europe and the World Economy. In 2010 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Studies, again with funding which supports his teaching and his teaching-related research activities.
In 2012 Rob was awarded Nottingham Trent Students Union's Outstanding Teaching Award, 2012, for NBS.
In 2013 Rob was one of only two academics at NTU to receive the inaugural Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award.
Rob's research is in applied economics and public policy analysis. He has particular expertise in EU policies, the WTO and agricultural trade policies, and biofuels policies.
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Robert Attenborough
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Bioanthropology, Australian National University
Papua New Guinea has been the focus of most of my recent research on health, nutrition and demography. This has been both at the level of nationwide and historical reviews, and of local research with Dr Don Gardner amongst the Mianmin of the highlands fringes of Sandaun (West Sepik) Province, where life expectancy is short, and health and child growth are generally poor, but where these also vary with local variation in altitude and ecology.
In a different kind of human biological research project (also ARC-funded), I have recently focused with Prof Simon Easteal and others on the anthropological genetics of Papua New Guinea. In this project we are exploring genetic variation in both the female and male lines for clues as to the long-range histories of Papuan-speaking populations: questions include how the island of New Guinea was originally populated; whether genetic variation correlates with linguistic variation; and whether particular population groups may have expanded with the expansion of language families agricultural practices.
In earlier research I studied population processes, ecology and nutrition in Zangskar valley, Jammu and Kashmir Province, northern India.
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Robert Black
Lecturer in Information Activities, Cranfield University
Rob Black is a Lecturer in Information Activities at Cranfield University, at the UK Defence Academy. He teaches on the Ministry of Defence’s Cyberspace Operations MSc and his interests are focused on the nexus of cyber, intelligence and warfighting, deception and the legality of cyber operations. He is the former Deputy Director of the UK’s National Cyber Deception Laboratory which explored the potential cyber deception has to offer for cyber defence. Previously, he worked for the MoD developing cyber capabilities supporting the delivery of UK cyber operations.
Additionally, Rob is the Director of the UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, a university student competition focused on building the next generation of cybersecurity leaders competent in strategy, policy and technology.
Rob is also an Associate Programme Director at Wilton Park, an agency of the UK FCDO, where he enables policy dialogues on key issues in defence and national security, cyber and intelligence.
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Robert Boucaut
PhD Candidate & Tutor, Media Department, University of Adelaide
After completing my double degree and my Honours in Media in 2015 I have been consistently employed as a casual tutor and course coordinator at the University of Adelaide across a range of Bachelor of Media subjects. In 2020 I commenced my PhD, aiming to look at the cycles of influences between awards shows, filmmaking industries, and their audiences. The working title is "Oscar Bait: Exploring Links Between Oscar's Identity and Perceptions of Oscar-Worthiness".
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Robert Brose
Assistant Professor at the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin City University
Dr. Robert Brose is an Assistant Professor at the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). He got his Bachelor and Masters at the Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin and was awarded his PhD from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2020.
Before starting his position at the Dublin City University in 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (2020-2022) and a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023).
His research focuses on high-energy astrophysics in the context of supernova remnants and gamma-ray astronomy. He is one of the lead-developers of RATPaC (Radiation Acceleration Transport PArallel Code) and was/is involved in the very-high gamma-ray observatories VERITAS and H.E.S.S..
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Robert Brulle
Professor of Sociology, Brown University
Robert Brulle is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate Professor of Public Heath in the School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has also taught at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, at the University of Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden, and George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. In addition, in 1996 and 1997 he served as a consultant to U.S. National Research Council/Marine Board regarding their studies of maritime risk.
He has a BS degree in Marine Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, an MS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Sociology from George Washington University.
His research focuses on the U.S. environmental movement, critical theory and public participation in environmental policy making. He is the author of over fifty articles in these areas and is the author of Agency, Democracy and the Environment: The U.S. Environmental Movement from the Perspective of Critical Theory, as well as co-editor, with David Pellow, of Power, Justice and the Environment.
In his current position he developed and implemented two academic programs leading to both a BS Degree in Urban Environmental Policy and an MS Degree in Environmental Policy. Prior to his employment in the academic field, Brulle served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for twenty four years, where his area of expertise was in the field of environmental response and pollution prevention.
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Robert Carr
Researcher, Western Sydney University
Dr Robert Carr is a Researcher at Western Sydney University. He has published scholarship on history and politics and lectured at various Australian and international universities.
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Robert Caudle
Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Neuroscience Division, University of Florida
My research focuses on the molecular and physiological processes that initiate and maintain chronic pain. In particular, we are examining alterations in the function of the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) class of excitatory amino acid receptor in the spinal cord and the vanilloid receptor – the protein responsible for detecting the burning sensation produced by hot chili peppers – in the periphery following persistent stimulation. The NMDA receptor performs the function of an amplifier in the spinal cord to enhance pain signals, whereas the vanilloid receptor detects pain from heat, inflammation, and chemicals throughout the body. These studies examine changes in the phosphorylation status of these two receptors and alterations in subunits and splice variants as a result of painful experiences. These studies also examine the interaction of the NMDA receptor and vanilloid receptor with endogenous neuropeptides that are released during chronic pain. The ultimate goal of our work is to develop novel strategies to avoid the induction of chronic pain and new therapies to treat chronic pain once it is established.
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Robert Chris
Honorary Associate, Geography, The Open University
Robert is an independent researcher with a special interest in systems thnking for climate policy and geoengineering. He is an Honorary Associate of The Open University (Geography) and an Associate of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge.
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Robert Crammond
Dr Robert James Crammond (PhD in Entrepreneurship Education) is Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). His teaching activity and research publications focus on enterprise and entrepreneurship education, leadership, organisational development, and university-related stakeholders.
He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), and a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) with the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). He currently leads, or is involved in, a number of CPD consultancy, knowledge transfer, and small business projects across many sectors. A business mentor and occasional keynote speaker, he champions enterprising initiatives connecting national business support, incubation, or accelerator programmes with UWS staff and students. He is also a regular research supervisor and external examiner with several Scottish universities.
Occasionally, he writes for a number of higher education-relevant organisations in the United Kingdom. These include contributions to Advance HE, CABS, the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), The Conversation, and Wonkhe. His first book, Advancing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities: Concepts and Practices for Teaching and Support, was released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. His second title, Entrepreneurship & Universities: Pedagogical Perspectives and Philosophies, was released in early 2023.
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Robert Eaglestone
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway University of London
I’m Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and I’ve published widely on contemporary literature, European philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. I also write for non-academic audiences, and have spoken at many literary festivals and public events.
My most recent books are: The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Oxford UP, 2017), Literature: Why it matters (Polity, 2019) and Truth and Wonder: a literary introduction to Plato and Aristotle (2022) and, as editor or co-editor, Brexit and Literature (London: Routledge, 2018), English: Shared Futures (English Association Essays and Studies: Boydell and Brewer, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Twenty First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge, 2019).
I’ve also written a free-access policy pamphlet ‘Powerful knowledge’, ‘cultural literacy’ and the study of literature in schools (Oxford: Wiley, 2021) for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
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Robert Ekelund
Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
I have, for a full half century, been interested and published in the areas of economic history, history of economic ideas, applied microeconomics. Most recently, the latter interest has interested me in the "new" areas of cultural economics, including religion and art. I am the author (with J. Jackson and R. Tollison) of "The Economics of American Art: Art, Artists and Market Institutions" to be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
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Robert France
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Landscape Studies, Dalhousie University
Robert France is a leading environmental and landscape scholar and professor at Dalhousie University who has written on pilgrimage and sacred landscapes and had commentaries about the Great War read on CBC Radio. In June 2018, he organized a memorial service held on the Halifax waterfront on the centenary day of the departure of the hospital ship, the Llandovery Castle, which would go one to be torpedoed and result in the largest loss of lives of nurses in the Great War, and be regarded as the most serious war crime of that conflict. He is currently at work on a book derived from his walk along the Western Front.
Robert has published research on animals from bacteria to whales, in locations from the High Arctic to the tropics, much dealing with their relationships to anthropogenic stress. His humanities research concerns landscape architecture and the history of sacred landscapes, pilgrimage, and environmental history and ethnobiology.
Robert has published more than twenty books and over two hundred journal articles in four decades of research. While a faculty member at Harvard University, Dr. France's work received awards of international distinction. A native of Manitoba, he was the recipient of the province's highest honour in 1992.
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Robert Garland
Garland was a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies from 1985-86, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Spring in 1990 and the Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bristol University in 1995. He is the author of many books, including The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World (Bristol Classical Press 2nd ed. 2010), Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace of Western Civilization (Sterling 2013), and Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great (Princeton University Press 2014).
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Robert H. Nelson
Robert Nelson worked in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1975 to 1993 and is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management.
Dr. Nelson is the author of more than 100 journal articles and edited book chapters. He is also the author of eight books: The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (Penn State University Press, 2010); Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government (Urban Institute Press, 2005); Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (Penn State University Press, 2001); ); A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995); Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991); The Making of Federal Coal Policy (Duke University Press, 1983); and Zoning and Property Rights (MIT Press, 1977).
The New Holy Wars was the 2010 Winner of the Grand Prize of the Eric Hoffer Book Award for the best book of the year by an independent publisher; and also silver medal winner for “Finance, Investment, Economics” of the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (the “IPPYs”). Dr. Nelson has written widely in publications for broader audiences, including Forbes, The Weekly Standard, Reason, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Denver Post.
He worked in the Office of Policy Analysis of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior from 1975 to 1993. He has served as the senior economist of the Congressionally chartered Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing (Linowes Commission) and as senior research manager of the President's Commission on Privatization.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution; visiting senior fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; research associate at the Center for Applied Social Sciences of The University of Zimbabwe; visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo; visiting professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires; visiting professor at the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines in Manila; and senior fellow of the Collegium for Advanced Studies of the University of Helsinki. He was also previously a senior fellow at the The Independent Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, scholarly research and educational organization that sponsors in-depth studies of critical social and economic issues. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University (1971).
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Robert Hanner
Robert Hanner is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. His research program in ecological genomics is largely focused on the detection of environmental DNA and has applications in biomonitoring and food security. He collaborates with a variety of researchers, both in Canada and internationally across academic, industrial, not-for-profit and regulatory disciplines. His lab currently receives support from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Genome Canada, the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission (GLFC) and various industry (e.g. Kirkland Lake Gold Corp) sources.
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