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Ramit Debnath
Cambridge Zero Fellow, University of Cambridge
Dr Ramit Debnath is the inaugural Cambridge Zero Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is also a visiting faculty associate in Computational Social Science at Caltech, and a sustainability fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
Ramit works at the intersection of data science and public policy to support climate action. Primarily focussing on developing novel approaches to natural language processing, machine learning, AI and qualitative analysis to enable a people-centric and just net-zero transition. In addition, he is interested in exploring how the public, industry and policymakers make decisions for energy and climate justice. At the same time, developing design-driven solutions to counter misinformation and distributive injustices.
He is currently co-leading a work package with UNEP on developing a decision-making system for sustainability in the built environment. He has previously worked with the International Energy Agency, Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Ramit has a background in electrical engineering and public policy, an MPhil and PhD from Cambridge as a Commonwealth and Gates Scholar. He is the recipient of the 2022 Enrichment Award from the Alan Turing Institute, UK.
In Cambridge, he has affiliations with multiple research units like the Energy Policy Research Group (Judge Business School), Centre for Natural Materials Innovation (Architecture), Centre for Climate Repair (Engineering), Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab (Psychology) and the Bennett Institute of Public Policy (POLIS) as a Research Associate.
Ramit has received over £400,000 in research grants and prestigious fellowships. And published in over 30 peer-reviewed journals and conferences
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Ramona Alaggia
Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto
Ramona Alaggia’s work is focused on mitigating the long term effects of trauma, violence and abuse on children and youth. Through her studies on gender and violence; child sexual abuse disclosures and mental health effects; intimate partner violence and structural barriers she promotes ways to foster resilience processes in children and youth exposed to violence, and advocates for the use of trauma informed approaches for service delivery.
Dr. Alaggia holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family, contributing to leadership in research and evaluation on the wellbeing of children, youth and their families. This Chair supports prevention and intervention programs, and helps develop new innovative models of service to enhance children’s mental health. The Chair provides training on trauma and resilience informed approaches to children’s mental health services for ensuring leading edge research for families, communities and systems to support the optimal growth of children.
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Ramos Asafo-Adjei
Associate Professor, English and Communication Skills, Takoradi Technical University
Ramos Asafo-Adjei holds a PhD in English language (ELT) from the University of Venda in South Africa and is an Associate Professor at the Takoradi Technical University, Ghana. His research interests are: English Language Assessment and Evaluation, Pragmatics, English Language Pedagogy and Andragogy, Academic Literacy and Discourse Analysis
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Randal Claytor
Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Nutrition and Health, Miami University
Dr. Claytor’s research interests have evolved over the years to include the study of physical activity, physical fitness and exercise training, as these conditions relate to or affect a variety of factors, such as: cardiovascular stress reactivity, childhood overweight/obesity and neurocognitive performance. Much of this work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NHLBI & NICHHD), the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Ohio Departments of Health and Education.
More recently, Dr. Claytor has been studying the use of a unique combination of aerobic and resistance exercise training (from both an acute and chronic perspective) to determine the physiological and perceptual responses and adaptations to this type of exercise and to determine whether this type of exercise (training) is viable for various groups, such as overweight/obese youth, individuals diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and those with a high likelihood of developing Type 2 Diabetes.
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Randall Stephens
Randall Stephens is a Reader in History/American Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. He is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008) and The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, co-authored with Karl Giberson (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).
In spring 2012 he was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway. He has also written for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Atlantic blog, Salon, and the Christian Century. Follow him on Twitter: @Randall_Stps.
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Randall W. Parkinson
Research Associate Professor in Coastal Geology, Florida International University
Dr. Randall W. Parkinson is a coastal geologist specializing in the effects of climate change and urbanization on the built and natural environment. He is a Registered Professional Geologist (P.G.) with more than 35 years' experience working along the coasts of the northern Gulf of Mexico, Florida peninsula, Georgia Bight, Costa Rica and wider Caribbean. Dr. Parkinson's research interests in the natural environment are focused on the effects of past, present, and future sea-level rise on the inner continental shelf, barrier islands, indigenous shell works, wetlands, oyster bioherms, lagoons and estuaries. He is especially interested in the processes of above- and below-ground sediment and soil accumulation that effect surface elevation, hydroperiod, and landscape evolution under conditions of accelerating Anthropocene sea level rise. Dr. Parkinson is also experienced in conducting vulnerability assessments and preparing adaptation action plans for coastal areas subject to climate change stressors (i.e., sea level rise, increasing storminess).
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Randy Morin
Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Randy Morin is from the Big River First Nation, located on Treaty 6 territory in central Saskatchewan but currently lives in Saskatoon where he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He continues to work in the field of language revitalization and reclamation working on many research projects with various colleges within the university and other organizations throughout the province. Randy has also helped to create 2 Cree Apps. The first App he helped to create was with the University of Winnipeg and one with the University of Saskatchewan called Nisotak. He is also writing Cree his 4th Childrens book that will be in both Cree and English.
Randy is a father of 3 children and enjoys spending time with them by practicing and living traditional Plains Cree ceremonies and traditions. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Regina, a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Master’s Degree in Language revitalization from the University of Victoria.
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Randy L. Friedman
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Professor Randy Friedman has taught at Binghamton University since 2006. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies, with a concentration in Contemporary Religious Thought, from Brown University in 2005. Professor Friedman teaches courses in philosophy of religion, including Faith and Reason, and American Jewish Thought. He is currently the director of the Center for Israel Studies at Binghamton University.
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Rani Tesiram
PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
Rani Tesiram (They/She) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland. Their research looks at narrative in concept albums, personal identities connected to music, and creative writing. Rani is a host of two 4ZZZ Radio shows (Zed Games and Randomizzzed), their own podcast (The Rainy Sundays Podcast), and previously hosted the Project 37 Podcast on Indigenous Health Rights. Their passions are in creative practice and storytelling. Rani's writing and art highlights interpersonal relationships and the Australian landscapes.
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Ranjini Bhattacharya
Ph.D. Candidate in Integrated Mathematical Oncology, University of South Florida
I completed my Bachelors's degree in Biotechnology with a minor in Physics from Shiv Nadar University, India. At present, I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at the University of South Florida, specifically in the Integrated Mathematical Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center.
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Raphaël Belmin
Chercheur en agronomie, photographe, accueilli à l’Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA, Dakar), Cirad
Quels sont les facteurs naturels et anthropiques qui conduisent à une fragilisation de l'agriculture africaine ? Dans quelle mesure l'agroécologie apporte-t-elle des réponses convaincantes ? Comment travaillent les chercheurs, les paysans et les militants qui portent le projet agroécologique pour l'Afrique ? Pourquoi la transition agroécologique tant espérée tarde-t-elle à survenir ?
Pour moi, science et photographie constituent deux moyens complémentaires et indissociables pour aborder ces questions complexes. J’utilise régulièrement la photographie dans le cadre de mes missions de terrain, afin de témoigner des déséquilibres qui touchent les systèmes agro-sylvo-pastoraux africains, et pour mettre en valeur les personnes porteuses de solutions comme l'agroécologie. Au démarrage, tout cela n'était pour moi qu'une passion pour l'image. Mais progressivement, la photographie a pris toute sa place dans ma palette d'outils de chercheur de terrain. Je l'utilise aujourd'hui comme un moyen complémentaire de la méthode scientifique pour produire des connaissances et alimenter une réflexion transversale sur l'agriculture africaine.
Agronome de formation, j’ai appris le métier de chercheur-photographe au contact du terrain, à travers de longues périodes d’immersion en brousse. Mes premieres missions m’ont conduites à étudier le fonctionnement des systèmes agraires et des filières agroalimentaires (« de la fourche à la fourchette ») dans divers contextes : Tanzanie (2009), Rodrigues et Maurice (2010), Yémen (2011), Kenya (2012) et enfin la Corse (2013-2016) lors de mes années de doctorat. Ces missions de longue durée (6 mois par pays en moyenne, sauf pour la Corse) ont été autant d’occasions pour aiguiser mon regard de chercheur et pour apprendre l’art de photographier. J’ai publié pour la première fois mes photos dans un ouvrage que j’ai rédigé à l’issue de ma thèse. L’ouvrage raconte, images à l’appui, l’histoire de la filière clémentine de Corse, et la manière dont cette dernière a su se démarquer en valorisant le terroir et la typicité.
J’ai été recruté en tant que chercheur au CIRAD en 2017, puis affecté au Sénégal en 2018. Ma mission consiste à comprendre et appuyer la transition agroécologique au Sénégal et en Afrique subsaharienne. Depuis lors, je me déploie partout au Sénégal ainsi que dans d’autres pays (Kenya, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire) avec un travail qui s’organise en trois volets.
Le premier volet consiste à comprendre la réalité du monde agricole africain au travers d’enquêtes menées chez les producteurs et les acteurs des filières agroalimentaires. Je mobilise des cadres analytiques et méthodologiques issus de l'agronomie système et des études de transition afin de comprendre les causes de blocage qui freinent le déploiement des innovations agroécologiques, que ces dernières émanent du monde de la recherche ou bien du monde paysan. Le second volet de mon travail consiste à accompagner les équipes de chercheurs qui conçoivent des innovations agroécologiques (outils de lutte biologique, systèmes de culture sans pesticides…). Mon rôle est de proposer des méthodes de co-conception qui prennent en compte les réalités et les contraintes les paysans africains. Le troisième volet de mon travail consiste à accompagner les mouvements sociaux qui émergent autour de l’agroécologie au Sénégal et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
À ce titre je suis particulièrement impliqué dans la vie de la Dynamique pour une Transition Agroécologique au Sénégal (DyTAES), mouvement social que j'accompagne à la fois en tant que scientifique et que photographe. La DyTAES est un réseau sans reconnaissance légale, mais structuré, qui a réussi l'exploit de fédérer l'ensemble des acteurs de l'agroécologie sénégalaise (ONG, recherche, organisations paysannes, élus engagés…) dans un seul but : promouvoir l’agroécologie par le plaidoyer, la sensibilisation et l’accompagnement des territoires en transition. C’est la première fois qu’une alliance d’une telle nature apparait en Afrique.
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Raphaël Chavardès
Postdoctoral fellow, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Raphaël a reçu son MSc et son PhD de l'Université de Colombie-Britannique et il a fait son postdoctorat à l'Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Sa recherche se focalise sur l'écologie des incendies de végétation. Raphaël est actuellement analyste en recherche sur les incendies de végétation avec le Service canadien des forêts.
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Raphael Didham
Professor of Ecology, The University of Western Australia
Raphael Didham is Professor of Ecology in the School of Animal Biology at the University of Western Australia, with a joint research position at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences. Professor Didham received his PhD from Imperial College of London in 1997 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware, USA, before holding a faculty position at the University of Canterbury, NZ, for 10 years. The goal of Professor Didham’s research is to quantify the synergistic effects of multiple drivers of global change on biodiversity and ecological resilience of remnant natural ecosystems within production landscapes, with a particular focus on conserving invertebrate biodiversity and maintaining natural pest control services.
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Raphael Gunawan Hasudungan
Raphael is an Economist for Brain and Mind Centre, at the University of Sydney in the field of mental health and wealth of people. Previously, he worked as a policy analyst for the Fiscal Policy Agency, at Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Raphael Viscarra Rossel
Professor of Soil & Landscape Science, Curtin University
I am a soil scientist interested in understanding and predicting how soil functions respond to environmental and anthropogenic change. I am particularly interested in questions around climate change and carbon sequestration, the preservation of biodiversity, nutrient cycling and food production.
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Raphaela Stadler
Associate Professor for Tourism and Event Management, MCI Management Center Innsbruck
I am Associate Professor for Tourism and Event Management at the Mangement Center Innsbruck, Austria. My PhD investigated knowledge management and knowledge practices within festival organisations, a topic I have widely published on over the last decade. Other research interests and areas of expertise include
knowledge management, community events and festivals, power and empowerment, events and wellbeing/quality-of-life.
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Raquel Aldana
Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017 to serve as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity with a law faculty appointment. She returned to full time law teaching in 2020.
Aldana is a graduate of Arizona State University (earning a bachelor’s degree in English and another in Spanish) and Harvard Law School. She was a professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before joining the McGeorge School of Law faculty in 2009. From 2006 to 2007, Aldana was a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala.
Aldana has led multiple research projects and programs around gender violence, transitional justice, criminal justice, sustainable development, immigrant justice, and immigrant trauma. She has authored or edited five books and published over thirty law review articles or book chapters on transitional justice, criminal justice, sustainable development, inter-cultural legal sensibility, and immigration. She is the recipient of several research grants, including serving as Principal Investigator of Building Bridges: Narrowing the Legal-Scientific Divide in Immigration Forensic Assessments, UC Davis Academic Senate Interdisciplinary Grants 2019-2020. For more information about this collaboration, please visit the website, Compassion in Immigration.
Aldana’s research has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights.
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Raquel Espín-Palazón
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University
Raquel Espin Palazon is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University (ISU), Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
In 2008, she received her B.S. from the University of Murcia (Spain), where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She was an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Victor Mulero studying the role of Tumor Necrosis alpha during viral infections.
In 2013, she received her Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Victor Mulero at the University of Murcia. Her dissertation was on the in vivo functional characterization of the Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha receptors.
From 2013-2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. David Traver in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She studied the role of pro-inflammatory signals during hematopoietic stem cell formation.
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Rashmee Singh
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
Prior to completing my PhD, I received my BSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and my MA in Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Toronto. In addition to my academic experience, in the early 2000's, I worked for a non-profit organization focused on reforming the criminal justice response to domestic violence. I also worked for the Ministry of the Attorney General's court based, Victim Witness Assistance Program, where I engaged in front line work with complainants in domestic and sexual violence cases.
My current research includes projects on domestic violence, university sexual violence, and specialized prostitution courts. I teach courses on feminist legal theory, law and society, and the governance of crime. My emerging areas of interest include contemporary politics and the 'culture wars,' particularly in relation to how they are impacting universities.
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Raúl Rivas González
Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología. Catedrático de Microbiología, Universidad de Salamanca
Raúl Rivas González. Catedrático de Microbiología en la Universidad de Salamanca. Licenciado en Biología (1999) y Doctor en Microbiología (2003). Director del grupo de investigación reconocido "Interacciones Microbianas" de la Universidad de Salamanca. Investigador del Instituto de Investigación en Agrobiotecnología (CIALE), investigador de una Unidad de Excelencia de la Junta de Castilla y León y científico vinculado al Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Ha sido investigador de la Universidad de Gent en Bélgica y profesor visitante en la Universidad Austral de Chile. Su investigación está relacionada con la microbiología, la biotecnología, la biodiversidad bacteriana y las interacciones microbianas. Su experiencia se puede resumir en la participación en 60 proyectos y contratos de investigación, siendo en 40 de ellos el investigador principal. Autor de 4 patentes, 5 licencias de derechos, 246 comunicaciones científicas en congresos, 200 publicaciones científicas (artículos de investigación, artículos técnicos y capítulos de libros), 33 artículos docentes y 158 artículos de divulgación. Es subdirector del Departamento de Microbiología y Genética de la Universidad de Salamanca y ha sido editor en jefe de la revista "Microbiology Insights" (2008-2017) y editor asociado en otras revistas internacionales. Evaluador de proyectos científicos nacionales e internacionales. Miembro de comités científicos de reuniones y congresos. Asesor científico de empresas. Ha alcanzado la evaluación de Excelente en el Programa Nacional Docentia (2007-2012 y 2013-2016). Ha participado en 23 proyectos de innovación y mejora docente siendo en 14 de ellos el investigador principal. Ha supervisado 14 Tesis Doctorales, 9 Tesis de Grado, 37 Trabajos de Máster, 71 Trabajos de Grado, 4 alumnos de formación, 8 prácticas en empresa y 3 alumnos con becas de colaboración en departamentos universitarios. Ha sido director de 43 cursos de formación permanente y especializada. Imparte docencia en la Universidad de Salamanca en los grados de Farmacia (Microbiología), Ciencias Ambientales (Biotecnología Ambiental), y Criminología (Métodos microbiológicos y de biología molecular en investigación criminalística), así como en el Máster oficial en Evaluación y Desarrollo de Medicamentos. Ha sido profesor de los Campus Científicos de Verano (FECYT, 2016-2018) y del Programa Interuniversitario de la Experiencia de Castilla y León (2015-2018). Ha recibido varios premios y menciones entre los que destaca el Primer Premio Nacional de Fotografía Científica (Gobierno de España y FECYT, 2015). Es miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología, de la Sociedad Española de Fijación de Nitrógeno, de diversas comisiones docentes y ha intervenido en numerosos tribunales nacionales e internacionales para la evaluación de trabajos académicos de diversa índole. Participa activamente en la difusión y divulgación de la Microbiología y de la Biotecnología a la sociedad impartiendo charlas, talleres o cursos de formación e interviniendo en actividades como la “Semana de la Ciencia en Castilla y León”, el festival “Pint of Science” o “La Noche Europea de los Investigadores” entre otras. Desde el año 2015 hasta 2018 dirigió y condujo el programa de radio semanal “El Viejo Verde” (http://radio.usal.es/) emitido por internet y por la 89.0FM Salamanca y dedicado a la divulgación científica. En el año 2019 publicó “La maldición de Tutankamón y otras historias de la microbiología” y “El asesino que envenenó a Napoleón y otras historias de la microbiología”, en el año 2021 publicó "Las sirenas de Colón y otras historias prodigiosas de la biología" y en el año 2022 ha publicado "La penicilina que salvó a Hitler y otras historias de la microbiología" todos ellos del sello Guadalmazán de la editorial Almuzara.
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Ravi Malhotra
Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I teach disability rights and labour law. I am interested in globalization and have coauthored many books about disability rights and disability history.
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Ravi Naidu
Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle
Professor Ravi Naidu is a global leader in contamination studies, studying agricultural and industrial impacts on the environment
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Ravisha Jayawickrama
PhD candidate, School of Population Health, Curtin University
Ravisha Jayawickrama's PhD is examining weight stigma in health-care students.
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Rawan Nimri
Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality, Griffith University
Dr Rawan Nimri is a passionate Early Career Researcher and Lecturer with industry experience in the discipline of Tourism and Hospitality with multiple publications in leading journals. She was granted her PhD from Griffith University in April 2019. Rawan’s research interest lies in the area of consumerism, behaviour change and sustainability. Rawan is also interested in research on staff employment experiences and wellness. Dr Nimri has expertise in quantitative methodologies and in applying and reviewing indicators and performance measurements in the tourism industry. She has worked on several projects with the Government of Jordan and for diverse organizations such as USAID and international and local NGOs.
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Ray Block Jr
Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and associate professor of political science and African American studies, Penn State
Ray Block Jr., PhD, is the Brown-McCourtney Early Career Professor, McCourtney Institute; and an Associate Professor, Political Science and African American Studies Departments, Penn State University. He specializes in the areas of racial and ethnic group politics, political behavior, and public opinion. Ray’s current research explores how members of non-dominant demographic groups translate their psychological attachment to politics into political actions. He is also the RAND Corporation's inaugural Michael D. Rich Chair for Countering Truth Decay.
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Ray Kerkhove
Associate Professor (Adjunct), School of Education., University of Southern Queensland
BA, MA & PhD from University of Queensland. Independent professional historian - Associate with the Australian Centre for Genocide Studies; Adjunct with USQ; casual research historian with two departments @ UQ. Employed by 4 universities, 5 shire councils, 2 museums and many Indigenous, arts and heritage bodies. Historian-in-Residence Sunshine Coast (2022), Noosa (2020); Visiting Fellow at Griffith University (2017, 2018); Governor's Gold Award (National Trust of Queensland 2011); Helen Taylor Award for Local History (2010). Published 13 books, 11 book chapters, 22 peer-reviewed academic articles, 5 book reviews, 70 heritage reports, 4 commemorative booklets, 11 online essays.
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Ray Moynihan
Senior Research Fellow, Bond University
Dr Ray Moynihan is an award-winning journalist, author, documentary-maker and academic researcher, based in Australia with a global reputation. Reporting across print, radio, television and social media, Ray has worked at the ABC TV’s investigative program, Four Corners and the 7:30 Report, ABC Radio’s Background Briefing and The Australian Financial Review.
Since winning a Harkness Fellowship, based at Harvard University in 1999, in addition to his journalism, Ray has developed an impressive body of academic work resulting in articles in the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Medical Journal of Australia, PLoS Medicine, and the British Medical Journal, BMJ, where he is a Visiting Editor. Since 2006 he has been a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle, in Australia. Internationally recognized for his work on the business of medicine, Ray is regularly interviewed by media globally, and invited to give presentations at universities, conferences and workshops around the world.
Ray is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Bond University, where he completed his PhD on overdiagnosis. In recent years he has published or broadcast his stories in The Australian, Crikey.com, ABC Radio National, ABC’s The Drum online, and The Saturday Paper.
The winner of many awards for his investigative journalism, Ray’s 2005 book Selling Sickness was described in the New York Times as a “compelling case” and has been translated into a dozen languages. His fourth book, Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals was released globally in late 2010 and is generating widespread interest internationally.
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Ray Nickson
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle
Dr. Ray Nickson is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle. Prior to completing a PhD at The Australian National University, Dr. Nickson was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia and practiced in criminal law. Dr. Nickson is also a legal practitioner in NSW. Dr. Nickson's research has focused on international criminal justice and transitional justice, restorative justice, and criminal law. His research projects have included an assessment of the impact that a mass literacy campaign for members of remote Aboriginal communities had on interactions with the justice system, and an extensive collaboration with Native American tribes to study their restorative justice practices. Dr. Nickson's current research explores the role of public-funded criminal defence lawyers and their professional experiences in providing justice for the most marginalised members of our communities.
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Ray Norris
Professor, School of Computing, Engineering, & Maths, Western Sydney University
Ray Norris is a British/Australian astronomer in the School of Computing, Engineering, & Maths at Western Sydney University, and with CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science. He researches how galaxies formed and evolved after the Big Bang, and the process of astronomical discovery with large data volumes. He also researches the astronomy of Australian Aboriginal people.
Ray was educated at Cambridge University, UK, and moved to Australia in 1983 to join CSIRO, where he became Head of Astrophysics in 1994, and then Australia Telescope Deputy Director before returning in 2005 to active research.
He currently leads an international project - the Evolutionary Map of the Universe - to image the faintest radio galaxies in the Universe, using the new ASKAP radiotelescope being built in Western Australia. He also leads the WTF project which is exploring machine learning techniques
He frequently appears on radio and TV, and has published a novel, Graven Images.
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Ray Purdy
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin
Ray Purdy is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, UCD (2022 -). Prior to this he held academic research positions at: University of Oxford (1995-1996, 2006-2022); Imperial College (1996-2003); and University College London (2000-2014).
His key area of academic expertise is in environmental law where has developed a substantial personal research profile of international standing on a wide variety of research subjects – particularly environmental compliance, legislative analysis and drafting, environmental monitoring and enforcement, climate change). He is probably best well known for his research on the use of space technologies as evidence and their capacity to monitor and enforce laws (particularly environmental ones). He has conducted funded research in this field for the European Commission, UK Space Agency, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council and European Space Agency. He has written guidance reports on this subject for: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), DG ENV European Commission, International Network on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) and the EU LIFE+ programme.
In 2014 after nearly 20 years of frustration of research not having the impact on the world that he hoped, he set up an academic spin off company called Air & Space Evidence, with a emeritus Professor of Earth Observation from University College London, and a former intelligence services analyst. This company, internationally recognized as the 'World's First Space Detective Agency," seeks to help move commercial remote sensing from the black world of intelligence uses by governments to the white world of commerce (and public good). It undertakes many different types of investigations and research using archived (and tasked) Earth observation data and designs environmental monitoring programmes using satellite imagery (and algorithms). The company was named by the leading US business and innovation magazine, Fast Company, as one their 12 World Changing Company Ideas for 2015. It won the Earth Observation Product of the Year Award 2017 (from the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies).
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Ray Rast
Associate Professor of History, Gonzaga University
I specialize in 20th-century U.S. history, with areas of focus that include cultural history, urban history, Latine history, and the history of the American West. I also practice public history, with an emphasis on historic preservation and interpretation. I have worked closely with the National Park Service and community stakeholders to create the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument and to preserve numerous other sites associated with Latine history.
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Raymond Boyle
Professor of Communications, University of Glasgow
Raymond Boyle's research projects include investigating the impact of digitisation and copyright on the sports media market; a study of the UK Film Council; sports journalism and coverage of the 2012 London Olympics and examining the changing relationship between factual television and representations of the world of business and finance. His forthcoming book is entitled 'Streaming the F1 Rivalry: Sport in the Platform Age' (Peter Lang).
His profile across academic, funded research and consultancy includes work within the broad areas of cultural and media policy. In particular he has developed an international reputation for research in the area of media and sports, which has included work on various aspects related to media policy (such as the relationship between new media and sports content) as well as the relationship between sport and its wider cultural and economic impact on society. He is currently working with UEFA and the University of Lausanne in the delivery of their Diploma in Football Management.
He has acted (2010 and 2011) as an academic advisor to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) on media and entrepreneurship issues and with the Byron Review (2008) into Children and New Technology, published by the Department of Children, Schools and Families/DCMS. He has been involved in a number of research and consultancy projects around media issues, these have been funded by the Broadcasting Standards Council (1998); the European Institute for the Media (1999, 2000); The Home Office (2001, 2002); The Scottish Parliament (2001); FIFA (2003); DCMS (2005) and the AHRC (2009/11, 2012 -).
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Raymond Evans
Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University
Raymond Evans is a well-known Australian social historian, specialising in such fields of research as race relations, war and society study, gender relations, convict studies, popular culture, conflict study, federation research, deviancy study and frontier relations.
In recent times, he has been concentrating historical research into various aspects of frontier study, such as assessing violent frontier death-rates, contributing to the genocide debate as well as determining historical culpability for the colonial dispossession process.
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