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Karen Steinmetz Pater

Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh

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Karen Zoszak

Accredited Practising Dietitian, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong
Karen is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has worked in the public hospital and private community settings. She is passionate about enabling people to make positive dietary changes, leading to improvements in health and wellbeing. Karen has previously worked in the information technology industry, having also completed a bachelors degree in applied mathematics and computer science. She is now bringing both skillsets together to undertake a PhD at the University of Wollongong, where she is exploring the role of diet in multiple sclerosis, aiming to improve the lives of people living with MS.

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Karen A. Patte

Canada Research Chair in Child Health Equity and Inclusion and Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Brock University
Dr. Karen A. Patte is a Canada Research Chair in Child Health Equity and Inclusion and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Brock University.

Dr. Patte’s research focuses youth health and equity, with a particular focus on mental health and ill-health. Her research program aims to advance understanding of how different contexts and exposures shape health trajectories over time, to inform more effective and equitable preventative practice, policy, and programs.

With training in the health sciences, psychology, public health, and counselling, and collaborating across varied disciplines, her research draws from multiple approaches. Primary methods and designs include longitudinal population-level surveys, mixed and multi-methods, youth engagement, Integrated Knowledge Mobilization, and quasi-experimental designs.

She has published over 100+ peer-reviewed research articles on youth health and leads several related grants with pan-Canadian research teams, including funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), SickKids Foundation, and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

She is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Cannabis, Obesity, Mental health, Physical activity, Alcohol, Smoking, and Sedentary behaviour (COMPASS) Study (www.compass.uwaterloo.ca) with Dr. Scott Leatherdale. COMPASS Is an ongoing prospective cohort study that annually collects data from over 70,000 Canadian secondary schools and the 130+ secondary schools they attend. COMPASS uses a hierarchical quasi-experimental design to evaluate how programs, policies, and built environments impact various youth health behaviours, outcomes, and correlates (e.g., substance use, mental health, eating behaviours, physical activity, screen use, sleep, bullying and discrimination, school connectedness) over time.

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Karen A. Spiller

Thomas W. Haas Professor in Sustainable Food Systems, University of New Hampshire
Karen A. Spiller is the Thomas W. Haas Professor in Sustainable Food Systems and Affiliate Faculty in the Social Work Department at University of New Hampshire, Durham. Karen is engaged in scholarship on the intersection of disciplines, networks and racial equity across the campus and its surrounding community, extending to higher education partners nationally and internationally.

As Principal of KAS Consulting, with a focus on racial equity and intersectionality, Karen works with local, state, regional and national organizations committed to creating equitable public health and sustainable food systems. Involved in state-wide and regional food system work, Karen is a backbone and steering committee member of and the Massachusetts Ambassador serving as lead coordinator of the Ambassador Team for Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a six-state network focused on food system transformation with racial equity at its core. Celebrating its 9th year of national and international participation, Karen co-leads the FSNE’s 21 -Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge designed to “build skill and will” and action to address racial inequities, through a food system lens.

Karen serves organizations and their missions in various roles that include board membership of the Boston Food Forest Coalition, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts, Northeast Organic Farmers Association: Massachusetts Chapter (NOFA/Mass) and American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) and is an Advisory Council member of the Global Council of Science and Environment (GCSE) Leaders’ Alliance. Karen is also a founding member of Southern New England Farmers of Color Collaborative (SNEFCC).

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Karen E. Smith

Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
My main area of research is the ‘international relations of the European Union’, and I have written extensively on the formulation and implementation of common EU foreign policies. I have examined the EU’s pursuit of ‘ethical’ foreign policy goals such as promoting human rights and democracy, and policy-making within European states regarding genocide. For over a decade I have also analysed EU-UN relations. I am also currently leading the Women in Diplomacy project at LSE IDEAS, and I co-edit a new Palgrave Macmillan book series on Global Foreign Policy Studies. In 2012-13, I served as Co-Chair of the Task Force on EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities, an initiative of the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. The Task Force’s report, ‘The EU and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities: An Assessment of Strengths and Weaknesses’ was published on 4 March 2013.

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Karen S. Acton

Lecturer, Educational Leadership and Policy, OISE, University of Toronto
Dr. Karen Acton is an educator with diverse experience as a science teacher, department head, principal, and an education officer at the Ontario Ministry of Education. Dr. Acton subsequently earned her PhD at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), studying the supports and barriers of environmental teacher leadership. She mobilized this knowledge as an Environmental Sustainability Lead Principal to enact positive changes in policy and procedures in her school board. Dr. Acton subsequently worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education at Western University teaching courses on curriculum and pedagogy in biology, environmental science and STEM, with a focus on active and inquiry-based learning.

Dr. Acton was formerly an assistant professor at OISE in Educational Leadership and Policy, and continues to conduct research and teach graduate courses at OISE on leadership, research methods, program development, and implementing school change. Dr. Acton additionally works as a consultant for the charitable organization Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF). Her most recent publications focused on principals as change agents, critical issues in environmental education, transformative pedagogies, and perspectives of Canadians on climate change education.

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Karen Schucan Bird

Associate Professor of Social and Political Science, UCL
Karen is an interdisciplinary social scientist who tackles real-world issues through collaborative research. She draws on mixed method approaches and has expertise in systematic reviews. At present, Karen’s ESRC funded research focuses on domestic abuse and interventions that promote, enhance, or create informal support for victim-survivors. This refers to support provided by friends, family, neighbours, or colleagues of individuals experiencing abuse.

Karen’s academic background is in Political Science, and she teaches politics to undergraduate social scientists. Karen supervises students at all levels and works with students and colleagues to develop evidence-informed initiatives that advance inclusive practices in higher education.

Relevant recent publications include:
Schucan Bird, K., Stokes, N., Tomlinson, M., Rivas, C et al., (2023) Training informal supporters to improve responses to Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Schucan Bird, K., Stokes, N., Tomlinson, M., & Rivas, C. (2023). Ethically Driven and Methodologically Tailored: Setting the Agenda for Systematic Reviews in Domestic Violence and Abuse. Journal of Family Violence.

Schucan Bird, K. L., Stokes, N., Rivas, C., & Tomlinson, M. (2022). Protocol: Informal social support interventions for improving outcomes for victim‐survivors of domestic violence and abuse: An evidence and gap map. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18 (3),

Schucan Bird, K., & Pitman, L. (2019). How diverse is your reading list? Exploring issues of representation and decolonisation in the UK. Higher Education.

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Karen Van Nuys

Executive Director of the Value of Life Sciences Innovation program; Fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center, University of Southern California
Karen Van Nuys, PhD, is the executive director of the Value of Life Sciences Innovation program and a fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center. Her recent research focuses on the social value of novel therapies, the flow of funds in the pharmaceutical distribution chain, and the impact of supply chain intermediary practices such as spread pricing and copay clawbacks on the utilization and cost of prescription drugs. Her work has been published in leading journals in economics, medicine, finance and health policy.

She has held positions across both industry and academia, including as principal and priority service offering director at Booz Allen Hamilton, senior research economist at Precision Health Economics, national fellow at the Hoover Institution and an assistant professor at the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester. She has consulted with Fortune 50 companies ranging from insurance providers and life sciences companies to automotive manufacturers and media conglomerates. She received her PhD in economics from Stanford University, and her MA and BA degrees from the University of California, San Diego.

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Kari Lancaster

Scientia Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
Kari Lancaster is Scientia Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales, and Honorary Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Kari is an interdisciplinary qualitative social researcher, with a background in law and public policy. Working at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), policy studies, and public health sociology, she leads a program of research focused on the development of critical approaches to the study of evidence-making practices and intervention translations in health. Kari is currently undertaking research on drug policy, viral elimination, and outbreak science in the governance of health.

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Kari Leibowitz

Kari began her PhD in Social Psychology in 2015. She is interested in understanding how best to promote mindsets that increase psychosocial well-being, with a particular emphasis on understanding compassionate mindsets in various populations. Kari received her BA from Emory University in 2012. After graduation, Kari spent two years as the Program Coordinator for the Emory-Tibet Partnership and coordinated the visit of the Dalai Lama to Emory in 2013. Kari also spent a year studying wintertime mindset above the Arctic Circle in Norway under a Fulbright research grant. In her spare time, Kari enjoys visiting her friends abroad and reading fiction novels.

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Karim Khan

Professor, Department of Family Practice and the School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia
I'm a UBC Professor (on faculty since 2000, Professor since 2008). My area of research is in health sciences with a focus on sports injuries and physical activity promotion--I'm MD and PhD trained. I'm also a CIHR Scientific Director (one of 13).

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Karin Kvale

Senior Scientist, Carbon Cycle Modeller, GNS Science
I am a Senior Scientist at GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. I have worked as a postdoc at the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. I hold a PhD in Climate Science from the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I have a MSc. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I have a BSc. in Environmental Science from Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

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Karin Modig

Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
I finished my PhD at the Department of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet in Sep 2010. I did my postdoc at IMM and is currently a research group leader and an Associate Professor at the division of Epidemiology at IMM. My research group, Ageing and Health, concerns the ageing population, the driving force of longevity and old age health, and the consequences of it. I have worked for many years with the national population registers in Sweden and have an interest in the validity of these. I am a member of the steering group for SINGS (The Swedish INterdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-Based Research) and lecture about epidemiological methods and register based research both at graduate and post graduate level.

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Karin Pfeffer

Professor, Infrastructuring Urban Futures, University of Twente
Karin Pfeffer is Professor of Infrastructuring Urban Futures and Vice-dean Research at the Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands (NL). She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Physical Geography from Utrecht University in 2003 and worked in the Social Sciences domain at the University of Amsterdam, the NL, prior to her appointment at ITC in 2017. With her team, she investigates how research can engage with, and participate in, the development of new urban planning practices addressing issues of urban sustainability. Key questions are how urban governance actors (state, corporates, citizens, academia) develop, organize and practice access to urban infrastructure and how geo-spatial technologies can enhance the analysis and planning of and access to urban infrastructures balancing sectorial priorities and social goals. She has participated in several Dutch and EU-funded research programmes, e.g. on spatial information infrastructures and spatial knowledge management in India. Her current projects focus, among others, on emerging urbanisation patterns in India, on informal economies and creative industries strategies in Indonesian Kampongs, on access to urban infrastructures or the design and planning of public spaces. She has published in the field of Urban Studies, Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation; has been Co-Editor of the book Geographies of Urban Governance; and Guest Editor of the Special Issues of Geo-Information and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Remote Sensing-Based Urban Planning Indicators. She coordinators the faculty-wide course on Global challenges, local action.

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Karin Verspoor

Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Dr Karin Verspoor works at the intersection of Science and Technology, applying computation to analysis and interpretation of biological and clinical data, particularly unstructured text data.

Karin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Deputy Director of the University's Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre.

She was previously a Principal Researcher at NICTA's Victoria Research Lab and served as the Scientific Director for Health and Life Sciences. Karin headed a research team at NICTA in Biomedical Informatics.

Karin moved to Melbourne in December 2011 from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Computational Pharmacology and Faculty on the Computational Bioscience Program. She also spent five years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, nearly five years in start-ups during the US Tech Bubble, and a year as a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rice University (Houston, TX) and her MSc and PhD degrees in Cognitive Science and Natural Language from the University of Edinburgh (UK).

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Karin van Niekerk

Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, University of Pretoria
Karin van Niekerk qualified as an occupational therapist in 2000. She completed her Masters and PhD at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the University of Pretoria and joined the staff of the CAAC as a junior lecturer in 2008. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Occupational Therapy Department of the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on early childhood intervention, with a specific research interest in the utilisation of assistive technology and environmental modifications to improve the participation of children with disabilities in society.

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Karine Scheuermaier

Associate Professor in Physiology, Chair of Science Committee, South African Society for Sleep and Health, Member of the World Sleep Society, University of the Witwatersrand
I am an associate professor at the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I trained as a clinical haematologist in Paris, France and subsequently did a postdoctoral fellowship in sleep and circadian rhythms at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. I started my academic career at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and built a research focus on sleep and circadian physiology and how modifications in sleep and circadian rhythms are associated with non-communicable diseases, in particular immunological, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
I have combined the use of precise laboratory experiments to investigate sleep and circadian rhythms and population epidemiological studies to investigate the association between sleep disturbances and HIV, and how this may modulate cardiometabolic risk.
I have received funding from the NIH, the South African Medical Research Council, the South African National Research Foundation and recently from the Wellcome Trust to sustain those areas of expertise.
I have joined the Ndlovu Research Consortium from University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) as a scientific coordinator and assistant professor of global health to better investigate in longitudinal studies the relationship between sleep disturbances, chronic immune activation and cardiometabolic diseases (ongoing).
I am also part of a stimulating collaboration with Prof von Schantz (Northumbria University) and Prof Gomez-Olive (Wits School of Public Health) investigating sleep and circadian rhythms in a large random sample of older rural South African adults. In another exciting collaboration with Prof Venter and Dr Chandiwana at Ezintsha (Wits clinical trials unit), we are currently investigating the contribution of obstructive sleep apnoea to chronic immune activation and cardiometabolic risk in a large cohort of treated HIV positive participants (the ADVANCE study, NEJM, 2019). Sleep issues are also a hallmark of long Covid. Together with the Ezintsha team, we are investigating the effects of long Covid on sleep after asymptomatic, mild and severe Covid 19 infection, and their association with chronic inflammation and mental health. Finally, we have partnered in a South African nation-wide collaboration during the Covid lockdown, with Drs Rae and Lipinska at University of Cape Town and Drs Davy and Wells at Rhodes University, which has set the ground for the founding of the South African Society for Sleep and Health (SASSH). As a group we have been the successful recipients of a large Wellcome Trust 5-year grant (2023-2027) to investigate the association between sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health in adolescents in South Africa and in the United Kingdom.
I have supervised 15 MSc students and 5 PhD students and served as an external examiner to several academic programmes and postgraduate theses. My publication list can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=scheuermaier&sort=pubdate . More CV details can be found on ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-3397-543X

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Karishma Patel

Teaching Fellow in Economics, Aston University
Karishma Patel is a Teaching Fellow in Economics at Aston University.

Her research interests lie in the areas of industrial organisation and competition policy.

She has taught competition policy, introductory business economics and statistics for economics. Karishma is a Fellow of Advance HE and the host of Aston's Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship department's learning and teaching podcast, which aims to share insight, innovations and best practice.

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Karl Beaulieu

PhD student in Social Work, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Karl is a PhD student in Social Work at UQAM. His work focuses on inequalities and the criminalization of social problems.

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Karl Blanceht

Co-coordinator of Public Health in Humanitarian Crises, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Karl Blanchet is a Senior Lecturer on health systems Research. Karl is also co-founder and coordinator of the Public Health in Humanitarian Crises Group. Karl is also one of the Theme Leaders of The Centre for Evaluation.

Karl has a background in public health and extensive experience in health system strengthening in Asia (Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal) and Africa (Niger, Rwanda, Ghana, Togo, Mali, Somaliland). He has 15-years of experience working with humanitarian NGOs, including in Cambodia during the Khmer rouge, the war in Sarajevo, the genocide in Rwanda, in Palestine and more recently in Lebanon. He is currently working in Lebanon with Syrian refugees documenting Syrian-led initiatives in health.

Karl has specific interests in studying resilience issues in global health and more specifically in post-conflict and conflict-affected countries. Karl has developed innovative research approaches based on complexity science, system thinking and social network analysis. Karl also applied innovation theories to understand the routinisation process of health interventions. Karl was one of the contributors of the Chapter on General Health Care of the World Report on Disability published by the World Health Organisation and is now a member of the Expert Committee at WHO on rehabilitation guidelines. Karl was also the lead evaluator of the global strategy of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme and the Special Fund for the Disabled of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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Karl Harrison

Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Cranfield University
Dr Harrison is the National Forensic Specialist Advisor, within the National Crime Agency’s Major Crime Investigation Support team, where he provides advice to all British police forces for the most challenging of major crime scenes. Prior to this appointment, he was one of the UK’s foremost operational forensic archaeologists, a founder director of Alecto Forensics and a Reader in Forensic Sciences at Cranfield University.

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Karl Lofgren

Professor of Public Administration, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Karl Löfgren is Head of School and Professor (Public Administration) in the School of Government. Prior to taking up his current post with Victoria University of Wellington, he held academic positions with Copenhagen University (Denmark), Malmö University (Sweden) and Roskilde University (Denmark). He has been teaching in a number of subfields of political science including comparative politics, public administration/management, public policy and European Union studies. Current research interests include electronic government and service delivery, democratic audit of new forms of local democracy, utilisation of knowledge in policy, and policy implementation/organisational changes/reforms in public sector organisations. He has been involved in a number of national and international research projects/networks including being prime investigator for a Nordic research network (2009-2012) and two European COST-actions.

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Karl Matikonis

Lecturer at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast
I am a lecturer at Queen’s Management School. My PhD and subsequent research focus on taxation, including windfall taxes and domestic and non-domestic property taxation. It also extends to how policy decisions impact businesses, in particular small and medium sized enterprises.

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Karl Morgan

PhD Candidate, University of Bath
I am a current PhD student at the University of Bath. My background is in human physiology, and I am investigating the topic of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), which affects people after a serious knee injury such as an ACL tear.

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Karla Ghartey

Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student, University of Toronto
current student in the inaugural Doctor of Public Health class at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto

Professor, Nursing and Emergency Services, Cambrian College, Sudbury, Ontario

founding member of the Sudbury Temporary Overdose Prevention Society (STOPS)

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Karla Kaun

Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
Karla Kaun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University. She is a behavioral neurogeneticist fascinated with the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory and addiction. Her team investigates how alcohol and drugs of abuse influence the molecular mechanisms underlying memory formation to induce cravings by combining behavior with in vivo imaging, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry and bioinformatics in Drosophila. Dr. Kaun is currently President for the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society and an Associate Editor for the Genetics Society of America peer-reviewed journal Genetics. She is the 2023 recipient of the National Association of Biology teaching Genetics Education Award and is an advocate for innovative teaching methods to decolonize STEM.

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Karolina Zarzyczny

PhD Candidate, Marine Tropicalisation, University of Southampton
I am a PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre (University of Southampton), using traditional surveys and molecular techniques to document how coastal species change their distributions in response to climate change, and how that impacts them on the ecological and genetic levels.

My research interests range from changes in global biodiversity patterns, through to ecosystem and population level changes. My Master’s dissertation at the University of Leeds focused on herbivory across subtropical and tropical coral reefs. Aside from my passion for research, I am also interested in sustainability and education.

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Karolos A Papadas

Associate Professor of Marketing, University of York
Karolos is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of York, U.K.. He has been a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School, University of Vienna and University of Athens. His main research and teaching interests lie in the areas of strategic marketing, corporate sustainability, sustainable/green marketing and branding. His research has been published in leading marketing journals including Journal of Business Research and International Marketing Review, while his work has been regularly presented at the leading marketing conferences across the globe such the American Marketing Association and European Marketing Academy. He also serves as member the editorial review board of Journal of Business Research (CSR & Business Ethics section).

Karolos is the co-editor of the book “Ethical Consumption” which was published in May 2023. To date, he has gained a funding of £250,000 in total for research projects with environmental and social impact in Europe and West Africa. In his current funded project, Karolos teamed up with a Ghanaian SME and a local University towards the development and branding of a new cereal product. This project is anticipated to make a positive impact on areas such as the education inclusivity, poverty alleviation and local community regeneration in the Northern region of Ghana.

Karolos has also served as advisor on sustainability to CEOs (APIVITA, Landmark Environmental) and he has extensive experience in executive education in the energy and banking sector. In the past, he has been invited to deliver keynote speeches to academic and business organisations (Open University of Cyprus, University of Ljubljana, National Bank of Greece, Allianz, PUIG Group, among others).

He has been a regular contributor to British and Greek Media both for press and TV.

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Karume Baderha Augustin Gang

Doctoral Candidate, Université Evangélique en Afrique
Gang Karume is a DRC native Bio-environmentalist with more than two decades of humanitarian and development work experience in both operations and programming. He has worked both as national and international staff serving in various positions including Emergency Operations Director, Regional Operations Director and Country Director in Chad, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, the Great Lakes Region, South Sudan, Congo Brazzaville…He has worked with many international research institutions and Universities including Transition International, 3Ie (The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation), Columbia University, Tufts University. With Transition International, he contributed to the evaluation of humanitarian aid in DRC for the period between 2003 and 2013.
With 3Ie, Gang contributed to the impact evaluation feasibility study design for a Community Driven Emergency Response and Reconstruction in return areas. With Gang contribution, Columbia University team has published in South and Nork Kivu provinces several research reports using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Reports include the UN1612 human rights violations, access to formal and informal education, improving surveillance of attacks on children education, Non-food items post fair evaluation…to name a few. Gang has an exceptional knowledge of the great lakes' region, its context and power dynamics and carried out many assessments related to peace and regional integration. He is currently supporting a national non-profit organization Rebuild Hope for Africa (RHA) as Technical Advisor and just coming from Central Africa Republic where he spearheaded a countrywide mortality survey. See https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-023-00514-z

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Karyn Amira

Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
Karyn Amira joined the Department of Political Science in August of 2015. Her research interests are in American Politics and Political Psychology with specializations in ideology, public opinion, media influence, political behavior and experimental methodology. She teaches courses in Media and Politics, Political Psychology, Research Methods, Political Parties and Capstone.

Her current research agenda is centered on affective polarization and candidate perception, although she has also been involved in recent projects on authoritarianism and Donald Trump's effects on the Republican Party. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, The Journal of Experimental Political Science, The Journal of Political Science Education and International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. View more information here: www.KarynAmira.com

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Kata Farkas

Environmental Virologist, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University
I competed my PhD in microbiology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2014. My research focused on the fate and behaviour of enteric viruses in groundwater. After finishing my studies, I was involved in various project that uses viral metagenomics approaches to identify viruses (both known and novel) in various ecosystems. Since 2015, I have been working at the Bangor University, on the Viraqua Project (www.viraqua.uk; 2015-2018) and at the Shellfish Centre (2019-2022) and on th eimplementation of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for SARS-CoV-2 and other viral pathogens (2020, ongoing).

My research focuses on the ecology and survival of viruses in the aquatic environment with a special interest in the fate of enteric viruses. Enteric viruses are responsible for the majority of gastroenteral illnesses globally putting an enormous burden on healthcare systems and the wider economy. These pathogens are often found in water reservoirs (recreational and drinking water sources, shellfish harvesting areas) and hence responsible for water- and foodborne outbreaks. I am also leading the R&D activities for the Welsh WBE programme.

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Katarina Kovacevic

PhD student, Social and Personality Psychology, York University, Canada
Kat is currently a PhD student of the Social and Personality Psychology Program at York University and runs Kat Kova Therapy, a group psychotherapy practice in Toronto, ON. She holds a Masters of Science Degree in Couple & Family Therapy Program from the University of Guelph, an Honours BA Degree in Psychology from York University and a Certificate in Sexuality Studies from York University. She is an Associate Member of BESTCO (Board of Examiners of Sex Therapy and Counselling in Ontario). Her research is centred on how romantic partners can maintain relationship and sexual satisfaction, and has been published in the Journal of Sex Research. She has presented her research at The International Association for Relationship Research, The Canadian Psychological Association, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, SEXposium, and gave an award-winning talk on her research at the Canadian Sex Research Forum conference in 2022.

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Katarzyna Zechenter

Associate Professor in Polish Literature and Culture, UCL
Dr Katarzyna Zechenter is an Associate Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. Katarzyna specializes in Polish contemporary literature and the history of ideas, specifically suffering and cultural trauma in Poland. She is the author of the first English language monograph of Tadeusz Konwicki ("The Fiction of Tadeusz Konwicki: Coming to Terms with Post-war Polish History and Politics"), and the editor of a highly popular book on bilingualism ("Bilingual and Bicultural: Speaking Polish in North America') that ran to three editions - two in the UK and one in the USA.
She has written on the transformation of post-1989 spatial identity; the concept of suffering; memory and identity formation, on Polish-Jewish literature, and bilingualism.

Katarzyna is also an award-winning poet whose poems regularly appear in major literary journals in Poland. Her last volume of poetry, 'There and Here', (Tam i tutaj: Poznań 2019) was nominated for *Orfeusz Literary Prize for 2019* and won *The Best Book Award of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad*. Her poems in English appear in The Bangalore Review or in Bhutan (Tashi Delek).

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Kate Anderson

Associate Head of School, Teaching and Learning (Health, Disability & Inclusion), Deakin University
Dr Kate Anderson is a senior lecturer and researcher at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kate grew up in a family of educators and is driven by her passion for education and inclusion across the lifespan. Kate is a qualified speech pathologist and has worked in the areas of cerebral palsy, autism, and assistive technology. Her primary research explores how communication about health services and technologies can be made more accessible for people with disability or diversity. She is passionate about co-design and consumer consultation, and teaches inclusive design methods to students from a wide range of disciplines. Kate is also a Fellow of Deakin's Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE).

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Kate Andrias

Professor of Law, Columbia University
Kate Andrias teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, labor law, and administrative law. Her scholarship probes the failures of U.S. law to protect workers’ rights, examines the efforts of historical and contemporary worker movements to transform legal structures, and analyzes how labor law and constitutional governance might be reformed to enable greater political and economic democracy. Drawing from constitutional law, administrative law, and legal history perspectives, she also has explored the relationship between law and the perpetuation of economic inequality. She frequently provides advice on policy initiatives to legislators and workers’ rights organizations and works on related litigation. Andrias is a co-director of the Columbia Labor Lab and the Columbia Law School Center for Constitutional Governance.

Prior to law school, Andrias worked for several years as an organizer with the Service Employees International Union. After receiving a J.D. from Yale Law School, she clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 on the U.S. Supreme Court. Andrias practiced political law at Perkins Coie and served as associate counsel and special assistant to President Barack Obama and as chief of staff in the White House Counsel’s Office.

She joined the faculty of Michigan Law School in 2013 and was the recipient of its L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016. She joined the faculty of Columbia Law School in 2021 and also has served as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School and taught American Constitutional Law as a visiting professor at L'Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Andrias served as a commissioner and the rapporteur for the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, is a member of the American Law Institute, and sits on the Board of Academic Advisors of the American Constitution Society.

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