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Peter Thisted Dinesen
Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Peter Thisted Dinesen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and an Honorary Professor of Political Science at University College London. His primary research interests include responses to immigration, social trust, political participation, and mental health.
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Peter Viggo Jakobsen
Associate professor, Royal Danish Defence College
Peter Viggo Jakobsen is a professor at the Institute for Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College, and a professor (part-time) at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He has written extensively on civil-military cooperation and the integrated approach, coercive diplomacy, NATO, peace and stabilisation operations, the UN and the use of military force. He has been an advisor and consultant for several governments and international organisations, and frequently comments on defence and security issues in international media. He holds a PhD from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in international relations.
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Peter W Halligan
Hon Professor of Neuropsychology, Cardiff University
Prof Halligan's research covers a range of disciplinary fields and methods, including clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neurology, cognitive neuroscience, health psychology and social science.
At Oxford he was a research fellow in the Department of Clinical Neurology and later MRC Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology before moving to Cardiff’s School of Psychology as a Distinguished Research Professor in 2000.
While at Cardiff University, he was responsible for establishing Cardiff’s University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), and played a key role in establishing Wales Research and Diagnostic Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Centre (PETIC), Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, the Cardiff Cognitive Neuroscience International Seminar Series, the School of Psychology’s MindArt project, the Haydn Ellis Distinguished Lecture Series and the Cardiff University Interdisciplinary Research Institutes.
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Peter Yongqi Gu
Associate Professor, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Peter Yongqi Gu is a language education expert at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has extensive experience working at the tertiary level in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR (China), Singapore, and New Zealand. Dr Gu specialises in language learning strategies and educational assessment.
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Petra Meier
Professor of Politics, University of Antwerp
Petra Meier is professor of politics and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp (Belgium). She is a political scientist specialising in gender issues, and studies the (re)presentation of gender and other social markers in politics and policies, with a focus on the (re)production of (in)equality.
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Petra Skeffington
Lecturer/ Psychologist/ PTSD Researcher, Curtin University
Dr. Petra Skeffington holds an Honours Degree in Psychology from the University of Western Australia, a Master of Counselling from Murdoch University and a Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and PhD from Curtin University. She currently practises as a Clinical Psychologist Registrar in Perth and is a sessional academic in the School of Health Professions at Murdoch University. Dr. Skeffington’s research experience includes PTSD, resilience to trauma, treatment of non-suicidal self injury, and OCD. Dr. Skeffington has worked extensively in the field of trauma, including treatment of PTSD and the impact of trauma on individuals, partners and families.
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Petrina Coventry
Professor, University of Adelaide
Petrina Coventry is Industry Professor and Director of Development with Adelaide University Faculty of Professions and Business school.
Petrina has spent over twenty years working in Asia, the United States and Europe performing global leadership roles with The General Electric Company, The Coca Cola Company, Proctor and Gamble and Santos Ltd. She has worked across multiple industry sectors including energy, oil and gas, education, fast moving consumer goods and financial services.
Her work in the area of ethics and governance, transformation and change, organization design, human capital planning and policy has led to increased involvement with governments, industry associations and consulting groups across the Asian region.
Petrina is an ethicist by background and has been appointed as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute. She is a Non-executive director of AHRI, a Non-executive director of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, and a Non-executive director of Beston Global Food Company Ltd.
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Petya Ventsislavova Petrova
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Petya holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Specialising in Transport Psychology, her applied research primarily focuses on hazard perception in driving. She has published a number of journal articles and for academic and non-academic audiences.
Petya is dedicated to improving hazard perception and prediction skills in both UK and international drivers. She collaborates closely with various government departments to identify effective strategies for tailoring hazard perception testing to suit the specific requirements of individual countries and their driving evaluation processes. Furthermore, Petya evaluates the development of training resources designed to encourage the safe implementation of micromobility.
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Phaik Yeong Cheah
Professor of Global Health, University of Oxford
Phaik Yeong Cheah is a bioethicist and Professor of Global Health at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, University of Oxford
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Phelim Kine
Adjunct professor, Roosevelt Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York
Phelim Kine is an adjunct faculty member in the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College at the City University of New York. He lectures on human rights developments and challenges in Asia.
Mr. Kine is also Deputy Asia Director at Human Rights Watch in New York where he supervises the organization’s work on Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Philippines.
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Phil Godsiff
Phil Godsiff is a Senior Research Fellow at the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy, (CoDE), part of the Business School at the University of Surrey, UK. CoDE was formed to study the impact of digital technology on business, the economy, and society. Working closely with businesses, CoDE adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing the broad economic, organizational, and sociological changes brought about by the advance and spread of digital technology. His research interests include the effect of developments in the digital economy on industries, such as financial services, where existing business models may no longer be appropriate, and where new forms of currency and organization, such as crypto- and personal currencies, have the potential to emerge leading to profound effects on the economy and wider society.
He is an Investigator on a recently awarded UK Research Council grant titled “CREDIT”, which is examining the nature and practices of these crypto currencies, and will be defining the future research agenda. The main themes of the research are to explore the effect of these “currencies” on the digital transformation of business models, and to clarify issues around governance, standards and regulation. He took part in ministerial roundtable discussions at the UK Treasury after the UK Chancellor’s 2015 Budget announcement of an expanded research programme into Digital and Crypto Currencies.
He was a member of the expert panel comprising practitioners and academics which advised Sir Mark Walport, the UK Government Chief Scientific Officer, during his preparation of his report “Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain” published in January 2016. Phil contributed the chapter on disruptive potential which explored the way blockchain technology might spark the next industrial revolution, and the implications for the economy and society.
He holds an M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, and a PhD in Management from Exeter University. He received his PhD in 2013 with a study on “wicked problems”, (those without a rational solution), and how they impacted the operations of a government agency. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and spent 30 years working at a senior level in in the Financial Services industry.
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Phil Lewis
Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
Prof Phil Lewis is the Director of the Centre for Labour Market Research (CLMR) and Professor of Economics at the University of Canberra. Phil is among the best-known economists in the area of employment, education and training in Australia and is the author of over 100 journal articles, books and book chapters. Apart from a distinguished academic career he has worked in government and has produced a number of major reports for the private and public sectors. He has an extensive track record of economic analysis and econometric analysis. He has over 30 years experience of management of research projects in universities and in government research organisations such as BLMR and ABARE. He is Past National President of the Economic Society of Australia, Past President of the Western Australian and Canberra branches of the Society and in 2008 was made Honorary Fellow of the Society for his contribution to the economics profession.
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Phil McNally
Research Fellow in Electricity Markets, UCL
Research Fellow at University College London focusing on electricity markets and the reforms required to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to a low-carbon system. Passionate about developing pragmatic, radical policy solutions to drive the transition to a sustainable future. Also interested in the politics of climate action and how solutions can underpin a progressive society that benefits all.
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Phil Tomlinson
Phil Tomlinson is Professor of Industrial Strategy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) in the School of Management at the University of Bath. His research explores the interplay between economic governance, innovation, regional development and place-based industrial strategy. He has published widely and extensively, with over 80 career research publications in leading academic journals, books and book chapters, industry reports and media outlets. Professor Tomlinson has held several external appointments including with the UK All- Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group (APMG), the Independent Local Industrial Strategy Review Panel for Swindon and Wiltshire LEP (SWLEP) and he is currently a member of the West of England’s Skills Advisory Panel (SAP). He is an Editor for the journal Competition and Change, and he is the Policy Debates Editor at Regional Studies.
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Philip Boyd
Professor of Marine Science, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
After graduating with a PhD in Marine Microbial Ecology from the Queen’s University of Belfast (Ireland), I commenced my career as a postdoctoral researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) where I was a part of the seminal Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). This led to a four year postdoctoral position at the School of Oceanography (University of British Columbia, Canada), followed by an appointment as a Phytoplankton Ecologist with the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA, New Zealand). In New Zealand, I established the NIWA Centre for Chemical and Physical Oceanography – based at the Chemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin. In 2013, I took up my current appointment as a Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (Australia). I currently lead an ecological project “Biological Responses” within the Ocean Carbon and Ecosystems programme of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) Co-operative Research Centre (CRC).
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Philip Conaghan
Director, Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds
Professor Philip Conaghan MBBS PhD FRACP FRCP is Director of the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre and until recently was also Director of the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine (a EULAR Centre of Excellence) at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on understanding the causes of, and developing effective therapies for, common joint problems. He has previously chaired NICE osteoarthritis clinical guidance, is co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology and has co-authored over 650 publications as original research, reviews and book chapters. He has received multiple international research awards including the Carol Nachman award for Rheumatology, the OARSI Clinical Research award and the Elise Jourdevant prize.
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Philip Corr
Prior to joining City University London in 2013, Professor Corr held Professorial positions at the University of East Anglia (2009-2013; where he was Head of Psychology) and Swansea University (2004-2009; where he served as Head of Department); and previously, he was Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. His professional affilations include: Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol.) of the British Psychological Society (BPS; and also an Associate Fellow); Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA); and a Chartered Scientist of the Science Council (CSci). Professor Corr is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Professional activities
Professor Corr is one of the Co-Founding Presidents (along with Professor Eammon Ferguson, Nottingham University) of the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID), which has the aim of furthering the scientific study of individual differences in the UK.
He was honoured to be elected by Society members to the offices of President-Elect (2013-2015) and President (2015-2017) of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), which is the main international scientific society in this area of psychology.
Professor Corr holds editorial positions with several scientific journals in the field of personality and individual differences.
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Philip Dalinjong
Lecturer and Researcher in Public Health, Torrens University Australia
Dr Philip Dalinjong is a lecturer and researcher in the Public Health Department at Torrens University. His research is focused on ensuring optimal use of scarce health resources for the benefit of all, and that all have access to health care services when needed.
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Philip Di Salvo
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, University of St.Gallen
Dr. Philip Di Salvo is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) Switzerland. Philip’s main research interests are investigative journalism, Internet surveillance, the relationship between journalism and hacking, and black box technologies. At HSG, Philip is involved in the Human Error Project, dealing with the fallacies of algorithms in reading humans. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)’s Department of Media and Communications (2021-2022) and he held different research and teaching positions at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)’s Institute of Media and Journalism (2012-2021). Philip received his PhD in Communication Sciences from USI with a dissertation about the adoption of encrypted whistleblowing platforms in journalism in the summer of 2018. Philip has also worked as a Lecturer at NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy (2018-2020). As a freelance journalist, Philip has written for Wired, Motherboard/Vice, Esquire and other publications covering the social impact of technology and hosts a weekly radio show on technology on Milan-based Radio Raheem. Philip has authored two books: "Leaks. Whistleblowing e hacking nell’età senza segreti" (LUISS University Press, Rome, 2019) and "Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism. Encrypting Leaks" (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020). He’s also a member of the board of DIG Festival, an international investigative journalism event based in Italy.Dr. Philip Di Salvo is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) Switzerland. Philip’s main research interests are investigative journalism, Internet surveillance, the relationship between journalism and hacking, and black box technologies. At HSG, Philip is involved in the Human Error Project, dealing with the fallacies of algorithms in reading humans. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)’s Department of Media and Communications (2021-2022) and he held different research and teaching positions at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)’s Institute of Media and Journalism (2012-2021). Philip received his PhD in Communication Sciences from USI with a dissertation about the adoption of encrypted whistleblowing platforms in journalism in the summer of 2018. Philip has also worked as a Lecturer at NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy (2018-2020). As a freelance journalist, Philip has written for Wired, Motherboard/Vice, Esquire and other publications covering the social impact of technology and hosts a weekly radio show on technology on Milan-based Radio Raheem. Philip has authored two books: "Leaks. Whistleblowing e hacking nell’età senza segreti" (LUISS University Press, Rome, 2019) and "Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism. Encrypting Leaks" (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020). He’s also a member of the board of DIG Festival, an international investigative journalism event based in Italy.
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Philip Empey
Associate Professor of Pharmacogenomics, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Philip Empey is the Associate Director for Pharmacogenomics of the Pitt/UPMC Institute for Precision Medicine and leads the PreCISE-Rx and Test2Learn teams to implement pharmacogenomics clinical, research, and educational initiatives. He also directs the University of Pittsburgh - Thermo Fisher Scientific Pharamcogenomics Center of Excellence which is deploying population scale preemptive pharmagenomics testing (to >150,000 patients) in western Pennsylvania. As a clinician-scientist in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Dr. Empey conducts NIH-funded clinical and translational research aimed at understanding the mechanisms of the variability in drug response to improve medication-related outcomes in critically-ill patients.
He received his PharmD from the University of Rhode Island and completed PGY1 and PGY2 residencies in Pharmacy Practice and Critical Care at the University of Kentucky. He earned a PhD in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kentucky before completing postdoctoral research training at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Philip Ewell
Professor of music theory, Hunter College
Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His research specialties include race studies in music theory, Russian music theory, Russian opera, modal theory and history, twentieth-century music theory, and hiphop and popular music. As a public music theorist his scholarship has been featured in Adam Neely’s YouTube channel, the BBC, Die Zeit, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and WQXR’s Aria Code, among others.
Philip's monograph, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, which appeared with the University of Michigan Press’s Music and Social Justice series in Spring 2023, takes an antiracist approach to music education for the twenty-first century. He is also under contract at W. W. Norton to coauthor a new music theory textbook, The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century, which will be a modernized and inclusive textbook based on recent developments in music theory pedagogy, with a projected publication date in 2024. Philip is the editor of the Oxford University Press book series Theorizing African American Music, which launched in Fall 2022.
For more information on Philip visit his website, philipewell.com.
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Philip Fearnside
Biólogo e Pesquisador titular (Departamento de Ecologia), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
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Philip Hancock
Professor of Work and Organisation, University of Essex
Philip Hancock is a Professor of Work and Organisation at Essex Business School at the University of Essex. Before joining Essex Business School he was an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.
His academic background is in theoretical and qualitative sociology, and he holds an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory from the University of Warwick and a PhD from Keele University.
His research interests include practices of organisational aestheticisation, the architectural management of space and place, practices of interactive service work and, in particular, the production and reproduction of socio-economic and organisational relations at Christmas.
He has published widely in leading journals in the field of organisation studies and sociology and has published the books The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction (Open University Press), Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Sage), Art and Aesthetics at Work (Palgrave), Understanding Corporate Life (Sage), The Management of Everyday Life (Palgrave), Work and Organization: The Aesthetic Dimension (ISCE). He is a member of the editorial boards of Organization Studies (Sage), Organization (Sage) and Work, Employment and Society (Sage).
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Philip Hulme
Distinguished Professor in Pest Management and Conservation, Lincoln University, New Zealand
My primary research focus is predicting the risks arising from plant invasions and recent work has examined the traits that underpin the success of invasive species; clarifying the main routes by which these species are introduced to a region; assessing their rates of spread; gauging the vulnerability of habitats to invasion, quantifying the impacts of invasive species and predicting the potential impact of climate change on invasive species distributions. However, my research also includes wider assessments of biological invasions and increasingly the importance of human perspectives such as the role of trade and wealth creation on invasion rates as well as the importance of appreciating the non-market costs of alien species impacts. I apply a wide range of approaches to address these issues including modelling, experiments and field surveys with research undertaken across the world from the forests of North America and East Africa to the montane ecosystems of Italy and New Zealand. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Philip Johnstone
Research Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex
I am a Research Fellow working on a three-year project on the Governance of Discontinuity in Technological Systems (DiscGo). Stemming from research on socio-technical transitions this project studies the under-examined ‘flip side’ to innovation – how technology governance can address the crucial task of disengaging from well-established socio-technical systems. The project is in collaboration with colleagues at the INRA in Paris, TSG in Dortmund and led by Stefan Kuhlmann in Twente. The Sussex case study is civilian nuclear energy, where the governance patterns of France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK will be examined.
I am also the Tyndall Centre Coordinator for the University of Sussex, a leading research network on climate change and sustainability involving several Universities in the UK as well as one in China. Prior to joining SPRU I completed an MSc in Environmental Governance with Distinction at the University of Manchester, before completing a PhD on Public Engagement with Nuclear Power in the UK. Whilst writing up I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the ESRC Biosecurity Borderlands project, and then the ESRC Visualising Climate Change project also at Exeter.
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Philip Klinkner
James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
Philip Klinkner is an expert on American politics, including parties and elections, race relations, Congress and the presidency. He is the former director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. Klinkner has written extensively on a variety of topics related to American politics. His books include The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993 and Midterm: The 1994 Elections in Perspective. His book The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (with Rogers Smith) received the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award from Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B DuBois Institute. He received his doctorate from Yale University.
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Philip Lloyd
Research Professor: Energy Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town; Fellow: SA Acad of Engineering ; Fellow & Past President, SA Institution of Chemical Engineers; Fellow, SA Institute of Mining & Metallurgy; Fellow: SA Chemical Institute (SACI);
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Philip Matich
Instructional Assistant Professor of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University
Philip Matich, Ph.D., is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M at Galveston. His research has focused on the life history, habitat use, movement and feeding ecology of coastal sharks, including bull sharks, and large non-game fish species.
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Philip Nel
University Distinguished Professor of English, Kansas State University
Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author or co-editor of thirteen books, including: "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017), four volumes of Crockett Johnson’s "Barnaby" (co-edited with Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020), a double biography of Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss (UP Mississippi, 2012), "Keywords for Children’s Literature" (2nd edition co-edited with Lissa Paul and Nina Christensen, NYU P, 2021), and "Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature" (co-edited with Julia Mickenberg, NYU P, 2008).
His forthcoming book, "How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic," will be published in November 2024 by Oxford University Press.
The fifth and final volume of Crockett Johnson's "Barnaby" will be published in February 2025 by Fantagraphics Books.
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Philip Osano
Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
Philip Osano is Africa Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute.
Philip leads SEI’s research, policy engagement, and capacity strengthening on environment and development in Africa. Prior to joining SEI, he was a Technical Consultant at the African Union Commission supporting the development of the Implementation Strategy and Roadmap for the
Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP). He has interest in environmental policy, development, and international affairs with over 20 years of experience in applied research, project coordination, policy analysis, and university teaching on diverse topics including biodiversity conservation, climate change, agricultural policy, water and land management, and integrated environmental planning. Philip has published and co-authored more than 50 publications.
A Jean Sauvé Fellow in Public Leadership, he holds a PhD in Geography from McGill University in Canada, an MSc in Conservation Biology from the
University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a BSc in Environmental Science from Egerton University in Kenya.
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Philip Resnick
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of British Columbia
I taught political science for over 40 years at the University of British Columbia. In the course of my academic career, I published ten books and scores of academic articles and chapters in books on topics ranging from Canadian and Quebec politics to democratic theory and comparative nationalism.
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Philip Riris
Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling, Bournemouth University
Philip Riris is a Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling at the Institute for Modelling Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, UK. He earned his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2015. Between 2015 and 2019 he held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, latterly a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, as well as a Visiting Fellowship at the Sainsburys Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. His research focuses on socio-environmental relationships in the ancient past, in particular population history, food production systems, and landscape archaeology in tropical South America. He has also contributed toward rock art studies in the Amazonian and Orinocan lowlands.
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Philip Slavin
Associate Professor of History, University of Stirling
I was born in St Petersburg, Russia and began my university career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I pursued two concurrent degrees in History and Violin Performance. I received my PhD in Medieval History from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto (2008). Before joining Stirling in 2018, I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Economic Growth Center, at Yale University (2008-10), three years as a Mellon Fellow and faculty lecturer at McGill University, Montreal (2010-3) and five years as a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Kent (2013-8).
When outside a classroom or his office, I enjoy listening to and playing music (be it Classical, Jazz, Rock or Folk), tasting ales and whiskies (the more obscure the better), cooking, and hiking (the further away from 'Civilization' the better). I love languages and have always been attracted to their beauty, written or spoken.
My scientific creed and research interests
Rather than seeing myself as an historian in the ‘traditional’ sense, I view myself as a ‘scientist of the past’, trained to work across disciplines and collaborate with colleagues in sciences, to promote a unified knowledge and science of the past. In my research, I use historical knowledge as a powerful tool to understand some of the most important issues and challenges that the human race and its wider bio-ecological environment face today.
My principle research interests fall into two main categories. Firstly, I am interested in the history of natural environment, economy, health, and society of the late-medieval world, with a particular focus on the British Isles within the wider North Atlantic context, and Central Asia within the wider Eurasian context. My first monograph Bread and Ale for the Brethren: The Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c.1260-1536 (2012) offers a re-interpretation of the decline of feudal system in England, through the prism of food production and consumption by local landlords. My second monograph Experiencing Famine: A Fourteenth-Century Environmental Shock in the British Isles , recently published with Brepols, examines the Great European Famine of 1315-17 (arguably the single worst subsistence crisis in Europe in the last two millennia) as a case-study to answer the most pressing question ‘What creates famine?’ In addition, I have authored (and in some cases co-authored) 34 articles on various topics related to environmental, economic and social history of late-medieval world.
Secondly, in recent years I have expanded my interests in these topics to a global ‘deep history’ perspective, all the way from early hunters-gatherers to our contemporary world. These topics are among the most pressing and complex socio-economic, environmental and political issues that scientists, NGOs and policy makers are struggling with today. Before these issues can be solved, we need a better understanding of their determinants and dynamics in a long-run historical context. I am currently working on two large-scale monograph projects. The one will examine the historical roots of global economic inequality, in a very long run. It argues that we cannot fully appreciate the phenomenon of global economic inequality, unless we study the development of socio-economic and cultural institutions from a ‘deep history’ perspective, which follows this development from early hunter-gatherer societies to our contemporary world. The other monograph is a global history of the single most notorious killer: plague - all the way from the Late Neolithic Period until sporadic outbreaks in the 21st century. This book, too, takes a deep history perspective, to answer some most pressing questions related to the phenomenon of ‘emerging diseases’, such as ‘What makes some diseases so deadly?’ ‘What is the relationship between emerging diseases and a wider bio-ecological and climatic environment?’ ‘What makes those diseases fade and disappear – or, by contrast – re-emerge again?’
I welcome enquiries from prospective research students interested in the environmental, economic, social and medical history of late-medieval and early modern British Isles and other parts of the European and North Atlantic world.
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