Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
Jessica Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Her research focuses on the cultural and religious history of the southern Italian region of Campania, especially the area around Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei. She is interested in how the traces of Greco-Roman antiquity co-exist and intertwine with other elements of local history and geology, particularly the material culture and practices of vernacular Catholicism. In 2024 she has a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship - during this year, she is writing a book about the Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in the modern town of Pompeii, and its evolving relationship with the neighbouring archaeological excavations.
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Associate Professor of Health Systems and Population Health, Epidemiology, University of Washington
Dr. Jessica Jones-Smith investigates socioeconomic causes and correlates of obesity risk in both high- and low/middle-income countries. Past and current research pertains to income- and ethnicity-based health disparities in obesity; early life risk factors for obesity; and the nutrition transition and increasing obesity prevalence in low- and middle-income countries.
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Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
I am lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, specialising in gender, sexuality and intimacy. In my work with the Boys Studies research group I explore the relationship between boys and feminism (learn more at https://boysresearch.org/)
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Lecturer in Ecology, Trinity College Dublin
Jessica Knapp is an ecologist interested in how our landscapes can best support biodiversity and ecosystem functions, particularly pollinators and pollination services.
Knapp completed her DPhil with Juliet Osborne at the University of Exeter before moving to Lund University, Sweden, where she worked as a Researcher. Now, at Trinity College in Dublin, Knapp works as an assistant professor in Ecology.
Impact-driven, Knapp enjoys transdisciplinary research, where her projects combine ecological and social sciences to understand the drivers and mitigators of biodiversity decline.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Jessica Korte advocates the best way to create good technology is to include end users in the design process. That technology can then improve lives and meet the real needs of the people who use it. When people who are disempowered or disabled by society establish what a technology should be, do, look like and behave then society as a whole will benefit from that technology. Jessica’s research currently serves to co-design sign language AI technologies with and for the Australian Deaf community.
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Lecturer in Indonesian Studies and Linguistics, The University of Western Australia
Jess Kruk completed a PhD in Linguistics in 2015 and is currently working as a lecturer in Indonesian Studies and Linguistics at UWA, research focuses on identifying and addressing the exclusion of marginalised people from social, economic, and cultural life in the Asia Pacific. Her current projects include an investigation of the languages and identities of ethnic Chinese minorities in Indonesia, an exploration of how extreme metal musicians in the Asia Pacific write 'metal' lyrics using non-English languages, reimagining, and reinvigorating Indonesian language teaching and enhancing language communication to fight prejudice in the general public.
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Research Director of the People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
Jessica Lasky-Fink is a Research Director of The People Lab. Much of her research focuses on using insights from behavioral science to improve the delivery of government services and programs, with a particular focus on the social safety net. Jessica holds a MA in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins SAIS, a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Nottingham
Jessica Lloyd May is a doctoral researcher in History and Folklore at the University of Nottingham, specialising in the exploration of community, identity and history through folk customs. Her research particularly focuses on the Randwick Wap of Gloucestershire as a study of the complexity and value of folk customs as both a part of community life, and as a unique historical source. This study spans the documented history of the custom into present day, bringing historical narratives together with contemporary oral histories for a comprehensive view of a folk custom.
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Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University
Jessica is an Anthropologist and has worked with non-profit service organizations serving community members experiencing food insecurity in New Zealand, and people living with HIV in Nova Scotia. She has also collaborated on work surrounding testing for sexually-transmitted and blood-born infections in Atlantic Canada. She is currently a Research Assistant at Saint Mary's University, and a Project Manager at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology; a collaboration of IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health Authority, and Dalhousie University, in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Miꞌkmaꞌki (Nova Scotia).
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Jessica, Newcastle born and bred, is a NERC-funded PhD candidate. They are studying at both Northumbria and Newcastle University under the ONEPlanet Doctoral Training Partnership. Jessica’s project focuses on the reconstruction of Oligocene to Miocene terrestrial ecosystems and climates on the northwest edge of Europe. By studying this, Jessica’s project aims to contribute to the understanding of the impact of oceanic dynamics on terrestrial palaeoenvironments.
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, University of Worcester
Jessica is a Lecturer and Applied Sport Scientist who has research interests aligned to optimising athlete and occupational workers for competing and working in hot climates using novel, sustainable, accessible and effective strategies. She has a particular interest in understanding the additional challenges female endurance athletes may face associated with hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle. Jessica is a British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) accredited Sport Scientist has a range of experiences working with and preparing national and international level athletes for competition.
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Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, The Open University
Jessica is a Senior lecturer in Sport and Fitness at the Open University. She has worked as an academic at the university since October 2011. Prior to that she worked as an associate lecturer at the Open University since 2008 and as a lecturer in sport and exercise science within the FE sector.
Jessica's specialist area is sport and exercise sociology in particular the topics of female sports participation and the family in sport. Jessica's research interests lie within the sociocultural influences of the family within sport participation. Jessica PhD investigated the socio-cultural influences on female participation in netball across the lifespan.
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Dr. Jessica Ray (she/her) is the Robert O. and Irene V. Sylvester Family endowed assistant professor in Water Resources within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.
Ray joined the University of Washington in January 2019. Previously, Ray was a Miller Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley investigating low-cost engineered adsorbents for removal of trace contaminants in urban stormwater. This research was part of the NSF Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) engineering research center at Berkeley.
Dr. Ray received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Upon graduation, Ray remained at Washington University in St. Louis to obtain a M.S. degree (2010, funded by the NSF GK-12 Graduate Research Fellowship) and a Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (2015, funded by the EPA Students to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship).
During her Ph.D., Ray employed surface chemistry techniques to investigate interfacial reactions of nanomaterials in water. At the University of Washington, Ray's research program utilizes a multidisciplinary platform that bridges materials science, and environmental and surface chemistry to increase urban water supply sustainability.
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PhD Student, Aquatic ecology, Carleton University
Jessica Robichaud is a graduate student at Carleton University. She completed her Master's degree studying the overwintering ecology of freshwater turtles in 2022, and is now pursing her PhD studying marine fish ecology in the Caribbean.
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Senior lecturer, Flinders University
Jessica Shipman is a health sociologist from the UK with experience of research, teaching and advocacy in gender, health, and affirmative practice. Jessica’s main interests are gender, sexual health, families and relationships, and young people’s access to care and care transitions.
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Initial Teacher Education Lecturer , University of Canterbury
ITE Lecturer, University of Canterbury
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Waikato
I am a sociologist with a research interest in racism and settler colonialism, especially at their intersections with housing and urban inequality and diversity. Over the past decade I have worked as a lead researcher on several multi-year research programmes. I am currently Senior Research Fellow on the WERO Working to End Racial Oppression research team.
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Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Jessica Trounstine earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from UC San Diego in 2004 and is a Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.
She previously served as the Foundation Board of Trustees Presidential Chair of Political Science at UC Merced and as assistant professor of politics and policy at Princeton University. She is the author of two award winning books, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities (Cambridge University Press) and Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers (University of Chicago Press), and numerous articles and book chapters.
Professor Trounstine's work studies the process and quality of representation in American democracy. She is focused on the ways in which formal and informal local political institutions generate inequalities. Professor Trounstine's scholarship is mixed-method; reliant on historical analysis, case studies, experiments, and large-n quantitative analyses. She has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, city governments, and various community organizations; and serves on numerous editorial and foundation boards.
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Lecturer in Conservation Science, Monash University
I'm a conservation ecologist, researching how to improve the effectiveness of conservation management and policy for threatened species and ecosystems. I specialise in evidence-based conservation, knowledge exchange, cost-effectiveness analyses, and decision-support tools.
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Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Cork
Jessica Wax-Edwards is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College Cork. Previously an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, her research interests include memory, violence and politics in twentieth century and contemporary Mexican visual culture. She has published articles on Latin American fiction and documentary cinema, graphic art and photography and her first monograph Documenting Violence in Calderón’s Mexico: Visual Culture, Resistance and Memorialisation was published 2023. Jessica was also a selected participant in the 8-month AHRC-funded mentorship scheme Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH); her resulting short film Storylines___ was published 2024.
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Scientia Associate Professor of Philosophy and ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
I am currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, working on economic sanctions after the Cold War. I am interested in understanding why the period of economic freedom also saw the intensification of economic coercion, particularly in the form of economic and financial sanctions. My research examines the relationship between liberal ideas of economic peace and the reality of economic warfare, and asks how sanctions came to be understood as a non-violent alternative to war. This current project builds on my most recent book The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2019), which examined the role of neoliberal thinkers in promoting a distinctive version of human rights in the second half of the twentieth century. My broader research interests include human rights and humanitarianism, political philosophy and the relation between international law and politics.
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Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
Jessica Wolfendale is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame (with Matthew Talbert, Oxford University Press, 2019), Torture and the Military Profession (2007), co-editor of New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World (2011), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including security, torture, terrorism, bioethics, and military ethics. Her work has appeared in journals including Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, American Journal of Bioethics, and the Journal of Military Ethics. She is currently working on a book on torture and terrorism in America.
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PhD Candidate in Criminology, Deakin University
Jessica Woolley is a PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Sessional Tutor in Criminology at Deakin University. Jess’ PhD examines how the Victorian justice system responds to technology-facilitated domestic violence through family violence intervention orders. Jess has completed her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at Deakin University in 2021, and Bachelor of Arts/Laws (Hons) at Monash University in 2020. In 2022, Jess was a recipient of the Research Student Award issued by the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime.
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Course coordinator, University of South Australia
Jessica Yi (she/her) is a Lecturer in accounting at the UniSA Business and a course coordinator of Financial Accounting 2 and Contemporary Issues in Accounting. Jessica has a PhD in credit risk assessment in financial instruments from University of Adelaide and a Master by reaserch from University of Adelaide. She has subtantial expertise in accounting and more than 10 years of teaching accounting in multiple Australian universities.
Jessica' academic career focusses on the development of high quality and engaging courses for the second and third year accounting students studying on-capmus, online and internationally. Her teaching philosophy centres on the premise that as facilitators of students' learning, academics should provide learning opportunities and guidance to students.
Jessica's research covers the field of credit risk assessment and accounting education. Especially, her principal research interests lie in the prediction of financial distress, such as loan default and corporate bankruptcy and innovation in accounting education and career readiness. In PhD thesis, an innovative and interdisciplinary technique is employed to identify relevant predictors and thus to better explain the characteristics of loan defaulting firms. Her passion for the innovation in accounting education is well reflected in her multiple research and involvement in the innovative accounting education research projects. Her focus on the students' career readiness is well reflected in her continous work with the industry partners and successful outcomes.
With over a decade of teaching experience at both University of Adelaide and University of South Australia, Jessica is very passionate about teaching and focused on enhancing students' engangement and learning ability. Her passion was aknowledged by students' high satisfaction rate.
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PhD Student Investigating Child and Youth Mental Health, Brock University
Ms. Jessica Goddard is currently a PhD student at Brock University working under Dr. Karen Patte and Dr. John Krzeczkowski. She has also completed a Master of Science under Dr. Karen Patte.
Her research has mostly focused on child and youth mental health and mental health program evaluation. Jessica takes pride in facilitating meaningful youth engagement throughout the entirety of the research process, especially on matters that directly affect youth. She also continuously works to create knowledge mobilization tools for youth and schools to disseminate knowledge effectively and improve the mental health literacy of youth.
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Doctoral Student in Health Psychology, University of California, Merced
Jessica Marino is a doctoral student in health psychology at the University of California, Merced. She obtained her B.A. in Psychology from UC Merced in 2016 with a minor in Cognitive Science. Marino’s research focus is on the development and expression of maternal behavior. Specifically, she studies how hormones impact maternal behavior, and the intergenerational effects that the mother-child relationship can have on health. Her ultimate goal is to find protective maternal factors that may mitigate health risks in vulnerable children.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
Jessica Schoenherr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, which she joined shortly after receiving her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2020. Her research interests are in American political institutions and the U.S. federal court system, particularly the Supreme Court. She specifically addresses three different but related questions: (1) Who is represented in the federal judiciary? (2) Who influences the decision-making process? and (3) How do people learn about and respond to judicial decisions? She approaches these questions using different data and techniques, including experiments, surveys, text analysis, and original observational datasets.
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Research Scientist, Psychology, University of Virginia
Dr. Jessica Stern is a Research Scientist in the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where she studies human relationships, attachment, and empathy across the life span. She is especially interested in how first-hand experiences of love and connection allow children, teens, and adults to "pay it forward" through their treatment of other people.
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Postdoctoral associate, University of Florida
I earned my BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sheffield (UK) with a year abroad at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA). I was then lucky enough to complete an internship at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science in Australia, working with the team leading the Marine Cloud Brightening initiative to mitigate coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. In 2017 I joined the University of Florida's Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, where I completed my PhD focusing on investigating the fibropapillomatosis (FP) panzootic in sea turtles, with a particular emphasis on the application of environmental (e)-DNA. After graduating in 2022 I went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, and then returned to the Whitney Laboratory to continue my postdoctoral work in eDNA and sea turtle conservation.
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Associate Professor, University of Warwick
I am Associate Professor in Political Science and Peace Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. The core of my current research agenda concerns the political, economic and social impact of UN peace operations and their contribution to state-building and post-conflict development.
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Associate Professor, Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Dr Jessica Weir is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University.
Dr Weir investigates the social-cultural dimensions of environmental management, spanning issues of natural hazards, fresh water, native title, climate change and decolonial ethics. Dr Weir learns from Indigenous peoples' knowledge and governance practices, to draw out insights for public sector governance and academic knowledge generation. She works with Indigenous communities, leaders and academics in southeast and western Australia. Dr Weir worked for ten years in the Native Title Research Unit at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr. Jessica Mackelprang is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to relocating to Australia, she earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA) and completed postdoctoral fellowships in rehabilitation psychology and trauma research at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA).
Dr. Mackelprang's research studies psychological (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder) and physical trauma (e.g., traumatic brain injury) among populations that have been marginalised, with a focus on supporting community members affected by homelessness and the frontline workers who serve them. Her work aims to reduce inequities in health service access and improve health outcomes among these populations. She also studies gender equity in academia. Her research involves a combination of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.
A Clinical Psychologist by training, she has delivered psychotherapy in community health and hospital settings to individuals across the lifespan who are affected by life-altering injury or chronic illness, in addition to mental health difficulties. Alongside providing postgraduate research supervision, she teaches into undergraduate and postgraduate courses in psychology and counselling on topics related to health, trauma, and grief and loss.
Dr. Mackelprang is an Associate Editor for Clinical Psychologist, a Member of the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project Community of Practice, Past Chair of the Swinburne Indigenous Psychology Committee, and a Deputy Leader for the Swinburne Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Promotions Program.
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Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
Jessica Adler, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University, researches and teaches about health care, war and society, and incarceration in the United States.
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Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University
Jessica L. Waters, J.D., has 25 years of experience as a lawyer, scholar, teacher, and higher education executive.
Waters currently serves as the Director of the American University School of Public Affairs (SPA) Leadership Program where she focuses on equipping students with experience, skills, and knowledge to prepare them for leadership roles in public service. Professor Waters is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for University Excellence, which brings university research expertise to pressing problems in the public domain.
Waters recently served for seven years as American University’s first Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Academic Student Services (2016-2023) after holding multiple leadership positions at the university. As Vice Provost and Dean, she was the leader and principal decision-maker regarding American University’s undergraduate curriculum and academic supports and was charged with strategic decision-making and risk assessment for university-wide undergraduate policies and procedures.
Waters holds faculty appointments in the American University School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law. Her research focuses on reproductive rights law and policy, particularly exploring questions related to the legal impact of women’s medical decisions during pregnancy and childbirth, abortion regulation and access, state control of reproductive decision-making, employment-based conscience protections for reproductive health care providers, and reproductive rights of employees working for religiously affiliated employers. Her work has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Waters is a frequent media expert and commentator for local, regional, and national outlets (CNN, Fox News, NPR, NBC, VOA, BBC). She delivered a 2016 TedX talk, Changing the Reproductive Rights Conversation, and has recently authored op-eds for The Hill and USA Today.
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies, University of Central Lancashire
Jess is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies and Research Degree Tutor in the School of Sport and Wellbeing, UCLAN. She teaches on the undergradute Sport and Physical Education and Sport Business Management degree programmes and supervises postgraduate research students. Jess was awarded her PhD, entitled 'Women's Football in Scotland: An Interpretive Analysis', from Stirling University in 2004. Since then she has worked as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at UCLAN. Her research focuses primarily on equity and equality in sport, with a particular focus on gender and disability.
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