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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 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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Robert Herian
I hold a BA(hons) in American Studies from King's College, London, and an LLM from Birkbeck College, London, where I am also in the final stages of a PhD examining the law of equity via critical theory, including psychoanalysis.
I am a lecturer in law at the Open University and also a guest lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London.
I have written, presented and published on a wide range of topics, including papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and also in edited collections on law and its relationships with cultures and societies.
I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and one of the founders of the Equity & Trusts Research Network.
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Robert Hortle
Research Fellow, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
Rob is a researcher and consultant with over ten years of experience in international development and academia in Australia and the Pacific. Prior to returning to his home state of Tasmania, Rob worked in international development, health, education, and government consultancy across London and Canberra. Between 2014 and 2019, he completed a PhD and Masters in International Development at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Robert House
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Robert House is a materials chemist working on next generation rechargeable battery technologies. His research focuses on new materials for lithium-ion, sodium-ion and beyond Li batteries and understanding the fundamental charge storage mechanisms and structural transformations which determine cell performance.
Dr House is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. In 2021, he was awarded an independent research fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering to work on developing lower cost, more sustainable alternatives to the Li-ion battery. Before this he was a Faraday Institution Research Fellow working on the CATMAT project researching high energy density cathode materials for next generation Li-ion batteries.
He has a first degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and completed his DPhil in 2020 at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof Sir Peter Bruce. In 2023, Dr House was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Science & Healthcare professionals in Europe.
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Robert Kalin
Chair Professor, Environmental Engineering for Sustainability, University of Strathclyde
Professor Kalin’s 35 year academic and professional career has focused on Environment Science and Engineering to underpin global sustainability. His scientific experience ranges from Hydrogeology and Water Resources evaluation of local to regional scale groundwater – surface water systems, study of global biogeochemical cycles and climate change, to isotope hydrology and geochemistry for water resource management. Prof Kalin's environmental engineering credentials include application of site specific groundwater treatment technologies, contaminated land remediation design (including sustainable remediation methods), and development of new chemical analysis techniques for soil, air and water to better manage risk to humans and the environment.
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Robert Kelchen
Robert Kelchen's research interests focus on higher education finance and accountability policies, including areas such as student financial aid, college rankings, and program evaluation. His teaching interests include financial administration, research methods, institutional research and planning, and organization and governance. His research has recently been published in The Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Education Finance, and Journal of Student Financial Aid. Kelchen’s research and commentary has been covered by outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR, Politico, and Newsweek, in addition to appearances on MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, and KABC radio. His work as the methodologist for Washington Monthly magazine’s annual college rankings recently won an award for best data journalism from the Education Writers Association.
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Robert Knobel
Associate Professor, Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen's University, Ontario
For over 2 years I've been leading the outreach and education efforts at Queen's University in preparing for the solar eclipse in April 2024. I was kept inside during a solar eclipse in 1979 to keep our school safe - and as a space-fascinated 12-year-old I was devastated. At Queen's we've been working to help the community safely see the eclipse, but also using it as a springboard for deeper understanding and inspiration for learning about astronomy and science for the whole community.
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Robert Kopp
Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers University
Robert Kopp serves at Rutgers University as an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and as Associate Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute. His research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change and on the interactions between physical climate change and the economy. He served as the lead scientist for the Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus (Columbia University Press) and was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Prof. Kopp served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Policy and International Affairs and as a Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in geobiology from Caltech and his undergraduate degree in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago. He is a Leopold Leadership Fellow and a recipient of the International Union for Quaternary Research’s Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal and the American Geophysical Union’s William Gilbert Medal.
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Robert Macdonald1
Research Fellow in African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Robert Macdonald is a research fellow working on the 'Local Perceptions and Media Representations of Election Observation in Africa' project. The project investigates the perceptions of observation missions and the ways in which information about these missions circulates in countries hosting observation missions. His broader research interests are in African politics and elections, with a particular focus on Tanzania. He has also been working on the UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund 'African Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic' project, which looks at ways of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on African elections.
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Robert MacIntosh
Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
I am a specialist in strategy and organizational change. I take a particular interest in what people do in the development of strategy and have therefore studied away days and workshops as well as conducting longitudinal studies with a range of FTSE-listed organizations, major public-sector organizations and SMEs. My recent book "Strategic Management: strategists at work" (Bloomsbury, 2023) offers advice on how to develop strategy.
I Chair the Chartered Association of Business Schools, was formerly the Chair of the charity Turning Point Scotland and am a non-executive board member of Revenue Scotland, the devolved tax authority of the Scottish Government. I am a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy of Management.
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Robert MacIntosh
I am a specialist in strategy and organizational change. I take a particular interest in what people do in the development of strategy and have therefore studied away days and workshops as well as conducting longitudinal studies with a range of FTSE-listed organizations, major public-sector organizations and SMEs. I have published extensively on these topics including "Managing change: enquiry and action" (Cambridge University Press, 2012 with Nic Beech) and "Strategic Management: strategists at work" (Palgrave, 2015 with Donald MacLean). I hold a PhD in engineering, am a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and of the Chartered Management Institute as well as sitting on the Council of the British Academy of Management. As Head of School at Heriot-Watt I am responsible for staff and students at our campus locations in Edinburgh (UK), Dubai (UAE) and Putrajaya (Malaysia).
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Robert Marks
Originally trained as a structural engineer (with a Master's from the University of Melbourne), Robert completed a PhD in economics at Stanford. He was a founding faculty member at the Australian Graduate School of Management, where he taught economics, game theory, and ethics from 1977 to 2006, when it was dissolved.
Since then he has been a professor (full, visitor, and emeritus) of economics at UNSW, and latterly a professorial fellow at his alma mater, involved with the Centre for Ethical Leadership. For thirteen years he was the General Editor of the Australian Journal of Management.
His research interests range from energy and environmental policy, drugs policy, to oligopolistic behaviour and the validation of simulation models. He has been involved in many consulting projects with private and government bodies. In 1997 an entry of his won the Second M.I.T. Competitive Strategy Tournament. He presented the Fourth Herbert Simon Seminar Series, on Agent-Based Computational Economics and Market Design, in Taiwan in 2005.
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Robert Mattes
Professor in Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, and Adjunct Professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
Professor Mattes is Senior Adviser to, and co-founder of Afrobarometer, a ground-breaking regular survey of public opinion in 37 African countries.
He is also the co-author (with Michael Bratton and E. Gyimah-Boadi) of Public Opinion, Democracy and Markets In Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the co-editor (with David Denemark and Richard Niemi) of Growing Up Democratic: Does It Make A Difference? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016).
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Robert McCauley
Professor at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University
Professor Robert McCauley is a research scientist at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Professor McCauley has been studying how the noise from seismic survey signals impacts marine fauna since 1992 and has been involved with experiments of seismic impacts on plankton, scallops, lobster, squid, octopus, fish, sea turtles and whales. McCauley has spent a career listening to Australia's ocean: trying to understand the numerous biological signals recorded, how they are made and detected by the animals concerned, why they are made and how us humans can use the sounds to study or monitor fauna; plus understanding the myriad of complexities of how sound behaves in the ocean and natural physical ocean noise.
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Robert Merkel
Robert's primary research interest is in software engineering, and specificially software testing and reliability.
His work on adaptive random testing has been cited in the latest version of the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), guide to "generally accepted knowledge". The IEEE is the global professional organization of software engineering practitioners and researchers.
He has also conducted research into testing web applications, as well as the social and psychological aspects of testing and broader software engineering practice.
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Robert Nkuna
Professor of Practice, North-West University
Robert Nkuna is the Director-General of the Department of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation in the Presidency of South Africa. He joined the department after serving in the same position in the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services for four years.
He has a wealth of experience in public administration, communication and policy development. His vast leadership experience dates back to his days as a student activist and advisory roles in government. He served as an advisor to the Ministries of Telecommunications, Transport & Energy in the Republic of South Africa. Between 2006 and 2010, he was a councillor at the communications regulator - the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa. He also served on various boards including South African Post Office and the Media Development & Diversity Agency.
He holds a Master’s degree and is currently pursuing his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, focusing on the regulation of administered prices in Infrastructure and utility industries.
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Robert Nyenhuis
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Robert Nyenhuis is an associate professor in the Political Science department at California State University, Pomona. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on populism, voting behavior, and public opinion in the developing world. He has published in the Journal of Modern African Studies, African Studies Review, and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Robert currently serves as an Associate Editor at the African Studies Review.
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Robert Oakes
Senior Researcher, United Nations University
Dr. Robert Oakes works in the Environment and Migration: Interactions and Choices (EMIC) Division at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). He researches the reasons for, and outcomes of mobility including evacuation, displacement, voluntary migration, planned relocation in addition to those who are unwilling, or unable to move. In so doing, he hopes to contribute to understanding in which circumstances mobility should be considered a form of adaptation, and when it represents loss and damage. He undertook his PhD at the University of Sussex where he investigated evacuation decision-making.
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