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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PhD Candidate, Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
Committed to advancing Indigenous rights and interests in the Laurentian Great Lakes and beyond through ethical fisheries research.
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Research Fellow in Logic or Applied Logic, UCL
I hold an MMath in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and a PhD in Computer Science from University College London (UCL) . I am a member of the London Mathematical Society and an associate member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. I am currently Research Fellow in Logic or Applied Logic at UCL.
I have published several articles in leading conferences and journals on logic and its applications, across mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. I am the founder of the international symposium on Proof-theoretic Semantics.
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Lecturer and Co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
I have recently completed a PhD (awaiting formal conferral) at the University of Cambridge on issues concerning the law of evidence, human rights, civil procedure and criminal procedure.
I currently teach Trade Marks and Related Rights, the Law of Evidence and Legal Foundations at the University of Auckland and am enrolled barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (not currently practising).
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Research Assistant, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Alexandra Beukens is an MSc student in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She has worked as a research assistant with SFU’s Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society, as well as the One Health - Health Implementation Science Collaborative. Her MSc research applies a One Health approach to explore the combined health and social impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza and natural disasters on farmers.
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Associate Professor of Cultural and Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
After receiving my PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University in 2006, and prior to joining Laurier, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University (2006-2008). My research and scholarly work falls within the fields of Communication and Cultural Studies. I was on-site chair of the Canadian Association for Cultural Studies from 2012-2016. I am currently book review editor for TOPIA: Canadian Journal for Cultural Studies. I am also currently the president of the Canadian branch of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music).
My research is generally concerned with the intersection of media, technology, and identity within the context of religious, social and cultural movements. I have worked extensively within the field of religion and media with my own work exploring Haitian Vodou in the diaspora, how new media and technology shape diasporic experience, and representations of Vodou and Voodoo in popular culture.
Other research focuses on social networking around conceptualizations of the Black diaspora and Black technologized subjectivity. This work takes many forms, most extensively in an examination of hip hop as both alternative media and public discourse in Canada.
Recent work on social networking and alternative media explores discourses of alternative health.
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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 Associate at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Georgetown University
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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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Mathematical epidemiologist, UNSW Sydney
Dr Alexandra Hogan is an infectious disease epidemiologist at UNSW Sydney. She uses mathematical models of respiratory virus transmisison to estimate the burden of disease and predict the value of vaccination strategies. Dr Hogan is a member of the World Health Organization Immunization and vaccines related implementation research advisory committee (IVIR-AC).
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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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Professor and Head of the School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate in Behavioural Ecology, Monash University
I am a PhD candidate exploring the costs of colour signals and seasonal colour change birds. In particular, I am interested in the evolution of colour signals, their physiological costs and behavioural strategies to mitigate these costs.
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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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Professor of Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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PhD Candidate, Department of Health, Aging & Society, McMaster University
Alexandra Nychuk (she/her) is Michif and a Citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. She is a PhD. Candidate and 2023 Vanier Scholar in the Department of Health, Aging & Society at McMaster University under the supervision of Dr. Chelsea Gabel. Alexandra's Doctoral research to focus on connection between Métis identity and Inflammatory Bowel Disease using an Arts-based Body Mapping Method.
Having worked in governmental and non-governmental sectors, Alexandra is dedicated to using strength-based, rights-based, and community engaged participatory methods to improve Indigenous health through addressing anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare, reforming medical education, and designing Indigenous health policy.
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
Dr. Alexandra Phelan is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University. Her research interests include insurgent governance and legitimation activities, insurgent women and gender, political violence, illicit financing and organised crime with particular focus on Latin America. She has published on insurgent legitimation strategies, the Colombian conflict, and women in terrorism. She is the author of the book, The Combination of All Forms of Struggle: Insurgent Legitimation and State Response to FARC (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2024) and the editor of the book Terrorism, Gender and Women: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda (Routledge, 2021). She currently serves as an associate editor for the journal, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. She is also a Small Wars Journal- El Centro Fellow, and an Associate Fellow with RUSI's Terrorism and Conflict group.
Alex was the Deputy Director of the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre (Monash GPS) between 2020-2022, where her research at GPS focused on gendered approaches to understanding terrorism and political violence.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College
Originally from New York City, Alexandra Plakias graduated from Hamilton College in 2002 before moving to Santa Cruz, Calif., where she received a master’s from the University of California. She then completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland. Her research focuses on issues in moral psychology, such as the role of evolution and culture in our moral values. She has also written about moral relativism and about the role of empirical research in philosophical theorizing.
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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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Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
Alexandra is a lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University and a member of RMIT’s Academic Board. With a PhD in sociology from the University of Sheffield and a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from UCL she explores the role of material and visual culture in relation to identity and processes of identification. She is also interested in the value of Indigenous knowledge systems for teaching ethical and sustainable fashion and textiles practices.
Between 2010 and 2013 Alexandra worked as the postgraduate researcher on the ESRC-funded research project 'If the Shoe Fits: Footwear Identity and Transition' at the University of Sheffield. Her doctoral research explored the social lives of Clarks Originals shoes. In 2021 she founded the Footwear Research Network to support the ongoing development of academic enquiries into shoes and to enhance academic/industry collaboration.
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Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Anatomy, James Cook University
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PhD Candidate, Management of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, McMaster University
Ali Lefcoe’s research focuses on barriers to work (i.e., major obstacles to quality employment) and barriers at work (i.e., difficulties experienced in carrying out work) and how workers cope with these barriers. These research areas overlap in the sense that some workers (e.g., individuals with disabilities, precarious workers) face both barriers to quality employment, and barriers in the completion of their work with deleterious consequences. Ali has an interest in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and applies these approaches in her current projects. She has defended her thesis proposal and is scheduled to complete her PhD in early 2024.
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Assistant Professor in Climate and Health Epidemiology , University of California, San Diego
I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences. My research focuses on the relationships between climate change and human health.
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Professeur d'Affaires internationales, ESSCA School of Management
Diplômé de Sciences Po Bordeaux, Alexandre Bohas est docteur en économie politique internationale de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Il est également membre du centre d’études et de recherches transnationalistes, Chaos international, pour lequel il a écrit de nombreuses notes d’analyse publiées dans des ouvrages collectifs. Ses recherches portent sur les sphères de la culture et leurs enjeux de pouvoir. Il s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux firmes transnationales de l’entertainment, à la prépondérance américaine dans ce domaine et aux soft power des pays émergents. Par ailleurs, tirant profit d’une expérience professionnelle de dix ans dans une entreprise multinationale, il s’est spécialisé dans les domaines du management international sur les sujets ayant trait au leadership global et aux investissements directs à l’étranger.
En 2008, il a coécrit avec Josepha Laroche un ouvrage intitulé Canal+ et les majors américaines. Une vision désenchantée du cinéma-monde. Deux ans plus tard, il a publié le livre Disney. Un capitalisme mondial du rêve, qui a fait l’objet, en 2016, d’une réédition augmentée et actualisée en anglais sous le titre The Political Economy of Disney. The Cultural Capitalism of Hollywood. Il est aussi l’auteur d’articles parus dans différentes revues académiques telles que Review of International Political Economy et Global Society.
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Doctor Europeus en droit (mention histoire du droit – label européen) / chercheur post-doctoral, Université de Bordeaux
Doctor Europeus en Droit (label européen —mention Histoire du droit ; thèse accessible librement en suivant ce lien : https://cutt.ly/Iwi4tHSp).
Chercheur post-doctoral au sein du projet financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche HLJPGenre, Université d’Artois (https://hljpgenre.hypotheses.org) et au sein de l'Observatoire des politiques publiques en situation épidémique et post-épidémique (OPPEE : https://oppee.u-bordeaux.fr).
Chercheur associé à l’Institut de recherche Montesquieu (UR 7434), université de Bordeaux et au CDEP (UR 2471), Université d’Artois.
Codirecteur d'une revue à Comité de lecture, en libre accès, « Crises et Société » (https://www.crisesetsociete.com) et Ambassadeur des métiers pour la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, il cherche à décloisonner les savoirs pour les faire sortir des enceintes universitaires.
Ses travaux visent la compréhension systémique et linguistique du droit, et plus particulièrement du droit pénal, dans une perspective historique mêlant sociologie, sciences de la psyché, médecine légale, sciences criminelles, outils prédictifs ou encore linguistique.
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Ph.D. in international relations, Université de Toulon
I hold a doctorate in law from the Université de Toulon in France, directed by Professor Louis Balmond and co-directed by Professor Pierre Binette of the Université de Sherbrooke. The subject of his thesis was “Relations between NATO member states and Russia in the 21st century”. I also hold a master's degree in business administration. I am an associate researcher of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Montreal.
In 2017, I completed a research stay at the School of Applied Politics at the Université de Sherbrooke. In connection with his areas of expertise and doctoral research, I made several trips to Central Europe (Poland and the Czech Republic) in 2018. During these trips, I was able to meet officials and former ministers from the Visegrad group of countries, and speak with some of them.
My main research areas focuses on : American foreign policy, Central European politics, Geoolitics of Russia International defense and asymmetric conflicts, and the use of Artificial Intelligence in cyber conflicts.
I speak French and English.
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Alexandre is a PhD student in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment. Alexandre has a strong interest in environmental sustainability through design and his research is looking at optimised lifespans for passenger cars: more specifically, how automotive design can contribute to and influence the reduction of material demand through strategies such as structure modularity, re-use of (more) parts, upgradability, improved manufacturing and re-manufacturing.
Alexandre's interest stemmed from reflection on the automotive industry as a whole, producing more than 80 million cars a year worldwide, and how vehicles are used and disposed, often too soon, despite their potential to last longer. Also the impending scarcity of raw materials due to an expected rise in global population and a growing middle class who will demand more new products and put more pressure on an already polluted and saturated environment.
Alexandre's research will address the design stage and its influence on product use, durability, longevity and new forms of personal mobility; it will also consider assembly and disassembly processes and business models in order to understand how this interconnected relationship of three processes / disciplines can contribute to reducing material demand from a product longevity perspective and divert materials from end-of-life and give them an extended life. A design framework will be devised to assist automotive designers to incorporate optimised lifespans throughout the development of passenger vehicles.
In order to accomplish this Alexandre interviewed key people in the automotive industry who have influence in car design and development. The data gathered from experts will be analysed and will inform the design framework.
Alexandre has an automotive industry background and a degree in automotive product design. Alexandre also studied business administration and lectured in Product Design and Marketing for two years. Alexandre is also a storybook author with a published anthology.
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Professor of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
Dr. Johnson’s work has tackled a wide range of topics and scientific methods including airborne measurements of water vapor in pre-depression areas over the Atlantic, laboratory studies of water ice nucleation in the atmospheres of Earth and Mars, and high-resolution single cloud models for comparison with maritime cumulus observations. Her current research interests span clouds in atmospheres on Earth, Mars and Exoplanets, the formation, presence, and properties of clouds in the early Lunar atmosphere, and Titan Methane-Ethane-Nitrogen cloud microphysics. Most recently she has developed a novel single particle light scattering instrument to directly measure how atmospheric particulates (clouds and aerosols) interact with radiation across diverse planetary atmospheres.
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Professorial Lecturer of Politics, Governance & Economics, American University School of International Service
Dr. Wilson-McDonald holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida with graduate certificates in European studies and gender studies. Her specializations include comparative politics, public policy & administration, European studies, and gender studies.
Dr. Wilson-McDonald’s research focuses on the politics of gender in Central Eastern Europe. She examines the gendered elements of democratic backsliding and social movement activism in the region. Specifically, her research examines feminist movements in the region and their discursive strategies. Her current project analyzes the contemporary framing of gender-based violence by gender equality activists across Central Eastern Europe and the relationship between feminist social movement actors, conservative actors, and the state. Her peer-reviewed research has been published in the journals Communist and Post-Communist Studies and Feminist Review. Her recent essays have also been published online in Ms. Magazine. She has conducted extensive field research in Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland, where she was affiliated with the Faculty of Sociology at Masaryk University, Czechia and the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Wilson-McDonald has been awarded numerous research grants, including a Fulbright Research Grant, Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, a Rothman Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, and a postdoctoral research grant by the Kosciuszko Foundation. She teaches courses in comparative politics, European politics, identity and politics, and research methods.
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