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Rania Labaki
Directrice de l’EDHEC Family Business Centre, EDHEC Business School
Dr Rania Labaki est directrice de l’EDHEC Family Business Centre, professeur associée de management à l’EDHEC Business School et affiliée à Smith Family Business Initiative de Cornell University. Parmi ses engagements actuels auprès d’organisations internationales dédiées aux entreprises familiales, elle est experte académique et coordinatrice des comités d’études auprès du Family Business Network (FBN) France, éditrice de l’Entrepreneurship Research Journal, membre fellow du Family Firm Institute (FFI), membre du Board de l’International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) et du groupe d’experts en conseil des entreprises familiales de Lansberg Gersick & Associates. Auteur de nombreuses publications académiques et professionnelles en France et à l’international, Rania contribue régulièrement aux rubriques expertes en entreprises familiales dans Les Echos Solutions et la Revue Droit et Patrimoine. Elle a reçu de nombreux prix internationaux en reconnaissance de ses contributions au domaine des entreprises familiales. Ses centres d’intérêt actuels gravitent autour de la relation entre les dynamiques émotionnelles familiales et les décisions entrepreneuriales, financières, de transmission et de gouvernance.
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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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Raphael Bradenbrink
PhD candidate, University of Oxford
Raphael is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Refugee Studies Centre and the Oxford Department of International Development. His work explores how refugees navigate economic challenges, the role of private sector donors in humanitarianism, refugee mental health, and the broader political systems that shape humanitarian responses. As a member of the Refugee Economies Programme, he undertook research on the economic lives of refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya. He is also a documentary filmmaker.
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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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Raphaël Fischler
Professeur titulaire à l'École d'urbanisme et d'architecture de paysage, Université de Montréal
Raphaël Fischler mène depuis 1994 une carrière qui allie la recherche, l’enseignement, la pratique professionnelle et l’administration. Il a été formé en architecture et en urbanisme à la Eindhoven University of Technology et au Massachusetts Institute of Technology et a mené des études doctorales en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire ainsi qu’en sciences sociales à UC Berkeley.
Après un stage postdoctoral au Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, il devient professeur à l’École d’urbanisme à l’Université McGill, dont il fut le directeur pendant plus de six ans et le directeur des études supérieures pendant une quinzaine d’années. Il a également mené des projets de planification et de réflexion à la Faculté de génie et à l’université McGill. Il a occupé le poste de doyen de la Faculté de l’aménagement du 1er juin 2018 au 31 mai 2023.
La recherche de Raphaël Fischler porte sur l’histoire, la théorie et la pédagogie de l’urbanisme, ainsi que sur les pratiques et politiques de l’urbanisme à Montréal. En histoire de l’urbanisme, Raphaël Fischler a développé une expertise sur le zonage, technique de régulation urbaine dont il a fait la généalogie avant le 20e siècle et l’analyse de son adoption au début de ce siècle. En théorie et pédagogie de l’urbanisme, il s’intéresse en particulier à la pratique réflexive et à l’acquisition d’aptitudes qui permettent au professionnel d’agir dans des situations uniques et complexes dans lesquelles règnent incertitude et conflits de valeurs. À ce titre, il accorde une grande importance à l’enseignement par projet.
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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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Raphaël Lavoie
Chercheur scientifique, Environnement et Changement climatique Canada, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Je suis actuellement Chercheur scientifique à la Direction générale des sciences et de la technologie à Environnement et Changement climatique Canada. Je suis aussi professeur associé à l'Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Je travaille sur les contaminants et autres facteurs de stress environnementaux chez la faune, en particulier les oiseaux aquatiques. Je travaille sur un large éventail de contaminants et j'utilise des techniques de terrain avancées pour évaluer l'exposition et les risques pour la faune.
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I am currently a Research Scientist in the Science and Technology Branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). I work on contaminants and other environmental stressors in wildlife, particularly aquatic birds. I work on a wide range of contaminants and use advanced field techniques to assess exposure and risks to wildlife.
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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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Raquel Meyer
Adjunct lecturer, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
As Director of the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care at Baycrest, Dr. Raquel Meyer leads the design, implementation, scaling and evaluation of educational innovations to strengthen the current and future workforce. Raquel completed her doctorate in nursing health services research at the University of Toronto. She was the recipient of a Nursing Early Career Research Award through the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Dr. Meyer’s scholarly activities focus on educational innovation, health human resources, leadership and care models. Raquel is an enthusiastic proponent for the relevance of research to clinical practice, education, leadership and policy development.
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Raquel AB Duarte
Associate Professor; Head of Translational Research, University of the Witwatersrand
BSc Hons, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand)
Associate professor of internal medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand Speciality: using scientific research to directly benefit patients, particularly those of African ancestry.
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Rashid Seedat
Executive Director, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
I have a long career in urban development and planning and currently serve as the executive director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO). My journey began at the University of the Witwatersrand, where I completed four qualifications, including a BA degree, a Higher Diploma in Development Planning, an MSc in Development Planning, and a Master of Management in Public and Development Management. I also have a qualification in metropolitan and municipal management from the University College London.
My career has been marked by significant roles in both provincial and local government. For a decade, I held senior positions in the Gauteng Office of the Premier, where I led the Premier’s Delivery Support Unit and headed the Gauteng Planning Commission/Division.
In the post-apartheid era, I served in various senior capacities at the City of Johannesburg, including heading the Central Strategy Unit in the Office of the Executive Mayor for over a decade. My work in this role was instrumental in shaping long-term strategy and integrated development planning.
My contributions extend beyond his professional roles. I am a trustee of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, promoting non-racialism, constitutionalism, and researching the history of the struggle for freedom in South Africa. My intellectual interests lie in the history of minority communities’ struggles against apartheid and the social and spatial dimensions of their displacement and return in the democratic era.
In summary, my career is characterised by my commitment to urban development and planning, leadership in government roles, and dedication to social justice.
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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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Rauno Parrila
Director and Professor, Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Australian Catholic University
Professor Rauno Parrila is the Director of the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy at ACU. Dr. Parrila’s research focuses on psychological, linguistic, and social correlates of both typical and atypical development of reading skills. He has a keen interest in reading instruction and interventions, reading difficulties in different orthographies, and compensation of learning difficulties in both children and adults.
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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 Menon
Professor of Medical Biophysics, Western University
I direct the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Canada's national ultra-high field MRI facility. My training is in biophysics and neuroscience and I also co-direct Western's $66M Canada First Research Excellence Fund Award known as BrainsCAN. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. My research lies at the nexus of physics and neuroscience. We develop and apply new MRI techniques to answer challenging questions in fundamental and clinical neuroscience.
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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 Fells
Professor of Negotiation, The University of Western Australia
Arising out of his work as an industrial relations conciliator in UK, Ray has had a longstanding practical interest in how managements and unions, and organisations in general negotiate and resolve their differences. The need for a practical understanding of how negotiations ‘work’ has led to the development of a reflective practice approach to the management of negotiations, an approach that is now central to his teaching.
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Ray Kelly
PhD candidate, School of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
Ray Kelly is a proud Gamilaroi man and one of Australia’s leading health professionals, with over 33 years’ experience in the health and sports industries. He is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and with a Master of Teaching (PDHPE) and a Bachelor of Research where he focused on the reversal of type 2 diabetes in the Indigenous community. He is currently leading an MRFF funded study looking into the impact of lifestye programs and continuous glucose monitors on HbA1c for Aboriginal people living with type 2 diabetes.
Currently, Ray provides research-based training and education to GPs, nurses, and other health professionals working in Aboriginal health services. He then provides support as they embed these changes within their current treatments. This had led to decreases in blood pressure, HbA1c and the co-morbidities associated with these conditions. Often, patients also see a reduction in medications. Ray also co-hosted the 3-part series on remission of type 2 diabetes alongside Dr Michael Mosley for SBS.
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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 O'Neill
Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, Dublin City University
Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. He also is a registered practitioner as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with both APPI and the ICP.
His research work and clinical practice has been around male sexual abuse survivors, EDI intersectional concerns in Mental Health systems, education and individual's lives, the LGBTQ community, and transgenerational trauma within an Irish context.
Ray has written extensively on the gay minoritised position for both services users and service providers within mental health discourses and practices with his doctoral research with DCU exploring the subjectivities involved and imposed on men in being called ‘homosexual’.
As one of Ireland’s few male Agony Aunts, Ray works significantly (and sometimes with significance) with the media in discoursing love, relationships, and desire in the twenty-first century, as a regular contributor to The Ray Darcy Show, and his co-fronting of the RTE television show Then Comes Marriage.
Current research explores the relationships between shame and personal and cultural identities; and the individual and collective transmission of trauma across generations, with particular emphasis on impacts of the Irish Famine experience.
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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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