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Melissa K. Merry
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville
Melissa Merry received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, with specializations in American Politics and Public Policy. Before joining the faculty at University of Louisville, she spent one year as a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research interests include environmental politics and policy, interest groups, and political communication. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Politics Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Online Information Review, Review of Policy Research, Policy & Internet, and Policy Studies Journal.
Melissa is the author of two books, one examining environmental groups’ communications in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, and the other examining the policy narratives of gun control and gun rights organizations. Her current research focuses on health care policy and involves analysis of public comments submitted between 2016 and 2018 in response to proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program.
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Melita Jazbec
Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Melita is a Research Principal at UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures and leader of the Resource Flows team. Her main work and research focus on circular economy in Energy, Water and Resources sectors.
Melita's research aims to identify the transition pathways to a circular economy, including development of policy, modelling resource streams and identifying options and practical solutions for businesses and governments.
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Mellissa Prunty
Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University London
Mellissa is the Divisional Lead for Occupational Therapy at Brunel University London. She is a children's Occupational Therapist by background. She qualified from the MSc (pre-reg) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. She previously completed a BSc (Hons) in Kinesiology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, while on athletic scholarship for women’s basketball. She completed her PhD on handwriting difficulties in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), which she undertook at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Prof. Anna Barnett, Dr. Mandy Plumb and Dr. Kate Wilmut. Mellissa has worked in a variety of children's' services and specialises in working with children with coordination difficulties. She founded the children's occupational therapy research clinic (Kidspace) at the university which investigates key skills and participation in childhood including handwriting, activities of daily living and cycling. The clinic currently offers placements to occupational therapy students at the university.
Membership and affiliation
Mellissa is a Professional Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She is Chair of the National Handwriting Association (NHA) . She has developed a West London Handwriting Interest Group, which brings together local parents, teachers and therapists to discuss issues concerning the teaching and learning of handwriting in children.
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Mélodie Anderson
Auxiliaire de recherche en agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables, Bishop's University
Je suis auxiliaire de recherche en Agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables (ASAD) à l'Université Bishop's, en territoire non cédé de la nation abénakise connu comme Sherbrooke, Québec.
Enrichie de mon expérience dans le milieu communautaire comme éducatrice, je m'intéresse présentement à la souveraineté alimentaire, et partculièrement aux modèles alternatifs et coopératifs de production et de mise en marché ainsi qu'à l'insécurité alimentaire. Dans le cadre de ma dernière année comme étudiante en ASAD et dans une perspective décoloniale, je réalise actuellement un projet de recherche sur la place des chercheur.euse.s en support à la souveraineté alimentaire autochtone en context canadien.
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Mélodie Beaujeu
Consultante et chercheuse, affiliée à l'Institut Convergences Migrations, Sciences Po
Actuellement consultante indépendante spécialisée sur les enjeux de migrations internationales, cofondatrice de l'association Désinfox-Migrations et membre de l’Institut Convergence Migrations, je travaille et mène des études et recherches depuis plus de dix ans sur les enjeux liés aux migrations internationales en lien avec diverses organisations (ONG, institutions publiques, organisations internationales, centres de recherche).
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Melodie McGeoch
Professor, La Trobe University
Melodie McGeoch is an ecologist that works on biodiversity change, combining theory and analytics to address central environmental challenges, including climate change impacts and biological invasions. She works across taxa and regions, including in the Antarctic, is active in the translation of science for biodiversity policy and holds multiple professional leadership positions in Australia and internationally.
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Meltem Weger
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Meltem Weger is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of A/Prof. Frederic Gachon at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland. Meltem is interested in the understanding of the role of the stress axis and the circadian clock for (patho-) physiology and metabolism.
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Melvyn Levitsky
Professor of International Policy and Practice, University of Michigan
Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, a retired Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Professor of International Policy and Practice at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is Senior Fellow of the School's International Policy Center and a member of the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC) and a Faculty Associate of the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2006, Ambassador Levitsky taught for eight years as Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Relations at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Maxwell School's Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. He has also taught as a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
In 2003 Ambassador Levitsky was elected by a vote of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to a seat on the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent body of experts headquartered in Vienna and responsible for monitoring and promoting standards of drug control established by international treaties. He served on the INCB until 2012.
During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Levitsky was Ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Executive Secretary of the State Department, Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights.
Ambassador Levitsky also served as Director of the State Department's Office of UN Political Affairs and as Officer-in-Charge of U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relations. Earlier in his career he was political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a Consul at U.S. Consulates in Belem, Brazil and Frankfurt, Germany.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa.
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Melvyn F Ternan
Senior lecturer in animation and digital media production, Sheffield Hallam University
My taught subjects include stop motion animation, animation project development and production and experimental stop motion. In 2013 my first book, Stop Motion Animation, was published by Barrons educational books and translated into six different languages for sale around the world. My research areas include production temporality, animation technique, idea genesis and animation method identification.
I previously worked as a studio animator and compositor for many years, co-founding two animation studios in Bristol before working as a freelance animator and project facilitator. During my time as a freelancer, I worked on over 150 projects covering animation, live action, online production and media distribution. I also work as a voice artist on short, award winning animations.
Since working at Sheffield Hallam University, I have realised a hidden passion for teaching animation, for helping others grow their understanding and development of this creative art form. I am honoured to have been one of the recipients of the Sheffield Hallam University Inspirational Teaching award in 2017 as well as being recipient of the college level award in 2012, 2018 and 2021.
Specialist areas of interest
Pre-Production for Animation
Stop Motion Animation
Visual Techniques within Animation
Post-Production for Animation and Animation Project Management
Melvyn also enjoys studying idea genesis, technique identification and enjoying the freedom of his motorbike.
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Mendita A. Ugembe
PhD in the Sustainable Energy Systems project in the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics, and Energy, Science Faculty, Universidade de Lisboa
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Meng (Matt) Wei
Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Meng (Matt) Wei is an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. His lab work on topics include geodesy, fault mechanics and natural hazards. Wei completed his Ph.D. in earth sciences at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
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Mensah Adinkrah
Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University
Mensah Adinkrah is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University. His current research interests focus on homicide, suicide, masculinities, death studies, and witchcraft. His newest book, Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana (August 2015), was published by Berghahn Books.
Professor Adinkrah holds academic degrees in sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a senior Fulbright research scholar to Ghana during 2003-2004.
Born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Dr. Adinkrah speaks and reads Twi (Akan).
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Meredith Gore
Professor, University of Maryland
I am a human geographer.
I advance understanding about the human dimensions of global environmental change such as biodiversity loss and climate change. The majority of my research uses risk concepts to explore human-environment interactions and all of my efforts are designed to build evidence for action. I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to a range of conservation issues such as wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing and illegal logging.
I am on the faculty of the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. I received my PhD in Natural Resource Policy and Management from Cornell University, MA in Environment and Resource Policy from George Washington University, and BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Brandeis University. From 2006-2020, I was on the faculty at Michigan State University.
I am an American Geographical Society Council Member, a National Academies of Sciences Jefferson Science Fellow, US Department of State Embassy Science Fellow and Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader.
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Meredith J C Warren
Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
Meredith Warren is Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield, and is a member of SIIBS, the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. She directs the SIIBS research theme, Embodied Religion.
Warren completed her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at McGill University and from 2013–2015 held a postdoctoral position at the University of Ottawa funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et Culture. She has taught classes on women in early Judaism and Christianity, Koine Greek, ancient Mediterranean religions, and the early church. Meredith’s primary research interests lie in the cultural and theological interactions among the religions of ancient Mediterranean, especially early Judaism and Christianity. In particular, Meredith is interested in how shared cultural understandings of food and eating play a role in ancient narratives, including the Pseudepigrapha, Hellenistic romance novels, and the Gospels.
Meredith’s doctoral work, recently published as My Flesh is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51–58 (Fortress 2015), investigates how the Gospel of John makes use of Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Roman attitudes about sacrifice, divinity, and the consumption of human flesh in order to make claims about Jesus’ divinity.
Her current book project, titled Hierophagy: Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature, examines how characters in literature are transformed by eating otherworldly food. An article emerging from this research, “My Heart Poured Forth Understanding: 4 Ezra’s Fiery Cup as Hierophagic Consumption,” was recently published at the journal Studies in Religion.
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Meredith Ralston
Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
My research work has been mainly in the areas of women and politics, slut-shaming and sex work in Canada and the Philippines.
In my new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution published by McGill-Queen's University Press in June, I examine the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the traditional patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and anecdotes, I show how women will achieve sexual equality only when the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as “whores” are destigmatized. Illustrating how women’s sexuality is policed by both men and women, I argue that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, the book calls out Western society’s hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.
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Meredith Richards
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University
Meredith P. Richards is an associate professor of Education Policy at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on exploring the effects of educational policies on equity and stratification in schools and situating policies in their metropolitan and geographic contexts.
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Meredith K. Ginley
Assistant Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University
Dr. Meredith Ginley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her undergraduate degree at Tufts University, her Ph.D. at The University of Memphis, and her clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Her research focuses on efforts to improve outcomes and retention in treatment for substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. Specifically, she is interested in how targeting individual differences can improve treatment uptake and retention and how providing adjunctive interventions such as motivational interviewing and contingency management can improve overall treatment outcomes. She has over 20 publications specifically related to gambling and has been engaged in the treatment of individuals with gambling disorder as either a clinician or a clinical supervisor since 2011.
Dr. Ginley is a co-investigator at The Institute for Gambling Education and Research and Director of The Gambling Clinic East. She is currently a co-investigator on a grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to facilitate expanded access to gambling prevention and treatment services for all Tennesseans.
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Merewalesi Yee
PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environment Sciences, The University of Queensland
I am a Fijian woman pursuing a PhD at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. My project seeks to advance understanding of opportunities and challenges for transformative mobilities where mobility contributes to climate change adaptation and positive development outcomes across multiple scales, places of origin, destination and transition. My research site is Fiji. Standing on the shoulders of three Giants that form my advisory team A/Prof Karen McNamara (UQ), A/Prof Celia McMichael (Unimelb) and Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar (QUT). Prior to my PhD journey, I have worked at USP as a regional teaching assistant/facilitator for students around the Pacific. During my PhD , I have been privileged to be part of several projects funded by the Australian Research Council as a research assistant and project officer using Talanoa research method to investigate climate change and adaptation, voluntary immobility, planned relocation, place-belongingness and gender food security and disaster resilience in the context of climate-related risks. I have conducted fieldwork in 8 communities in Fiji from 2021 to 2022. I am also a fellow with Australia Climate for Change organisation whose main aim is to help everyday Australians to have a better conversation about climate change and to take action.
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Meriem Naili
PhD candidate, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter
Meriem, a PhD candidate at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies, has spent recent months conducting interviews as part of her research on the conflict in Western Sahara. The interviews took place in London and New York where she gained valuable insights from, among others, Aminatou Haidar, one of Africa’s most prominent human rights activist and Nobel Prize nominee.
Meriem’s research focuses on the absence of an explicit human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). In April 2019, the United Nations Security Council unanimously extended the mandate of MINURSO for the 45th time since its creation in 1991, but once again did so without entrusting the Mission with any human rights monitoring responsibilities. This makes MINURSO the only post-Cold War UN peacekeeping mission without a human rights monitoring mandate. This is despite the fact that, according to reports from major international NGOs, human rights abuses have been committed by both parties to the long-running conflict in Western Sahara.
Against this background, Meriem is evaluating the extent to which human rights monitoring and protection mechanisms can play a part in advancing the current process towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the Western Sahara. She has a particular interest in the issue regarding the right to access natural resources and their management by a people living in a Non-Self-Governing Territory. To that effect, she has been invited to join a panel at the next World Congress of the International Political Science Association due to take place in Lisbon next summer under the title: “Why do natural resources matter in the Western Sahara conflict: Actors and Strategies”.
In addition to working on her thesis, Meriem has participated in a number of high-profile conferences and meetings on the subject of the Western Sahara throughout Europe. She is a member of the steering committee of the International Academic Observatory on Western Sahara at the University of Paris Descartes. As such, she has participated in a pluri-disciplinary colloquium in Amiens earlier this year on the legal, economical, anthropological and social questions raised by the situation in Western Sahara.
Meriem has recently been offered a placement at the European Parliament in Brussels where she will be working closely with the Human Rights Advisor to the Greens/EFA group, looking specifically at the relations between the EU and Western Sahara.
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Merissa Daborn
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
Dr. Merissa Daborn is a white scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba where she researches at the intersections of food, technoscience, surveillance, policing, policy, and whiteness.
Her latest research is focussed on the relationship between citizen surveillance, policing, and grocery stores as carceral spaces in Winnipeg.
Merissa is a member of the Indigenous STS Lab in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is dedicated to research in the areas of urban Indigenous studies and Indigenous STS (science, technology, and society).
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Merissa Elizabeth Hickman
Postgraduate Researcher in Preconception Health and Genetics., University of Leicester
Merissa Elizabeth Hickman is a current PhD student at The University of Leicester. She is a Wellcome Trust Genetic Epidemiology Doctoral Training Programme Candidate. Her research focuses on Responsibilisation Practices in the Preconception Period. She is taking on the role of Secretary for the UK Preconception EMCR Network as of January 2024.
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Merja Myllylahti
Project manager and author for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Research Center, Auckland University of Technology
Merja Myllylahti is a researcher at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Her research interests lie in digital media economy , online news business models and media ownership. She is also a project manager and author at the AUT Center of Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). She is experienced financial journalist and TV reporter having worked 15 years in London for newspapers, TV and online media.
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Merle A. Williams
Professor Emerita of English and Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand
Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English in the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS). Her main interests lie in the relations between literature and philosophy, trauma theory and Holocaust writing, as well as Romantic poetry and fiction from the nineteenth century to the present.
Merle has published widely on the canonical author Henry James, including 'Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing' (Cambridge University Press, reprinted in 2009). She is currently completing a critical text of 'The Awkward Age' for 'The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James'. She has also edited literary-theoretical collections entitled 'Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South' (Routledge 2020) and 'Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance' (Routledge, 2022). A co-edited volume on the interplay between literature and identity is in progress.
Merle has held visiting research positions in Germany, Sweden and the United States. Through ACSUS she is involved in a range of international academic collaborations, notably teaching a course on 'Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, Colonialism and Gender' for the Open Society University Network (OSUN).
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Merrilyn Goos
Adjunct Professor of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast
I am a mathematics educator and mathematics education researcher with doctoral and Master's degrees in this field. I was formerly a secondary school mathematics teacher, following a first career in industry as a food technologist.
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Mervyn Jackson
Associate Professor, STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
PhD brought together three inter-related areas: Psychology, Tourism, and, Criminal Victimisation
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Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane
Professor of Development Planning and Urban Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane was appointed lecturer in the Planning Programme (department then) in 1996. He is currently a Professor of Development Planning and Urban Studies. He is the director of the Planning Programme, a chairperson of the Committee of Planning schools (CHoPS), a board member of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) and a member of the South African Council for Planners (SACPLAN). He has been a member of Gauteng Development Tribunal and has worked with various communities in the country. Fana is the first PI on the Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab. His research interests spread over a wide range of theoretical, applied and policy arenas in the global as well as African realms of development. The research encompasses principally the interface between development Planning and urban studies largely within the context of the poignant dynamics of the political economy in Africa. His main interests include: African city and African Urbanisms, African Political economy, Dynamics of Globalisation and Local Economic development, Urban change and the political and cultural economy, Traditional Leadership, theories and Discourses of Urbanisation. Through her base in CUBES, Marie has engaged in policy debates and networks nationally, regionally and globally.
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Mhairi Morris
Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Loughborough University
Mhairi (“Vari”) Morris graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Medical Biochemistry in 2004, then took up a PhD scholarship with Professor Lawrence Young at the University of Birmingham, investigating the role of the viral oncoprotein, latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1), in modulating epithelial cell invasion and metastasis. On completion of her PhD in 2008, Mhairi continued her LMP1 research at Birmingham.
Following a brief career break from 2010-2013, Mhairi returned to academia as a Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she attained her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) with distinction. Mhairi was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2014, and awarded DMU Teacher Fellow status in 2016, prior to joining Loughborough University in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences in February 2017.
Mhairi currently supervises 2 PhD students at Loughborough University. She previously held an Eric Reid Methodology Award from The Biochemical Society, and currently sits on the editorial board for the Pathogens and Frontiers in Physiology journals.
Her current research interests include understanding the interactions between cancer cells and stromal cells in the tumour microenvironment, and how exercise may impinge on these interactions. In particular, Mhairi has an interest in using a novel 3D model system developed by her recently qualified PhD student for investigating the interactions between mesenchymal stem cells and 3D tumour spheroids.
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Mia Cobb
Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne
Dr Mia Cobb is an animal welfare scientist, science communicator and research fellow at the University of Melbourne's Animal Welfare Science Centre in Victoria. Her research explores human attitudes, housing and management practices, animal behaviour, stress physiology and how animal welfare relates to the sustainability of animal-based industries. Mia is also active in the exciting domains of science communication, emerging technologies, citizen science, welfare auditing, and all things dog.
Following an undergraduate science degree majoring in animal behaviour, she worked in animal welfare shelter and working dog industry for over a decade. In 2012, she founded a popular collaborative blog (Do You Believe In Dog?) with fellow canine scientist, Julie Hecht, who is based in New York.
Mia led the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy's working dog initiatives to advance the welfare of Australia's iconic working dogs and is a Director of the Australian Working Dog Alliance, a registered non-profit organisation that works with industry to improve the welfare of Australia's working and sporting dogs.
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Mia Edwards
PhD candidate in History, University of Warwick
Mia Edwards is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses upon exploring the intersections between masculinity, disability, and physicality for enslaved men within the 19th century U.S. South. In particular, her research explores the lives of enslaved men who were physically disabled, whether congenitally or from age, sickness, or injury, within a range of contexts such as labour, community cohesion, and interpersonal conflict. This research seeks to understand how these men were treated and viewed by others, how they viewed themselves, and how their experiences of disability interacted with conceptions of masculinity during the period. This work is framed within wider discussions and conceptions about disability, race, and masculinity that were occurring during the antebellum period.
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Mia Momberg
Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Pretoria
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Mia Angelica Powell
PhD Student in Department of Political Science, Penn State
Mia A. Powell is a doctorate student at Penn State University's political science program. She studies American politics, and her research focuses on racial/ethnic politics, political behavior, and voting systems. Powell previously earned her bachelor's in Sociology with a minor in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton.
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Mia Chen Ma
Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, China and the UK, University of Strathclyde
Dr Mia Chen Ma received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Wuhan University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign respectively.
She then earned her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from SOAS in 2022. She is currently revising her PhD thesis into a book, tentatively entitled Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction: Risk, Failure, and Solastalgia (Brill). Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, speculative fictions, and ecocriticism.
Her research articles and book chapters have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of scholarly journals and edited volumes, including Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces, The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, Extrapolation, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, SFRA Review, Vector, Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, etc. Her most recent research project focuses on cultures of care, and explores the intersection between medical and environmental humanities.
Research interests:
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction
Risk discourse and Contemporary Chinese Society
Literature and Medical Humanities
Posthumanism and Taoism
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Mia-Marie Hammarlin
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Associate Professor of Ethnology and fellow at The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities, Lund University
My 4-year research project 2020–2023, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, concerns the anti-vaccination movement. The growing vaccination hesitancy characterized by extensive discussions on the internet, constitutes the empirical focus. The project also has a method developing purpose in examining how quantitaive (language technology) and qualitative (ethnographic) methods can be combined to an effective tool for exploring how arguments are established, emitted and circulated on the internet.
Since 2009 I have been employed as Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies and Journalism, and was Head of Department for four years. I am a trained ethnographer with a theoretical interest in phenomenology. For many years I have studied mediated scandals with focus on the emotions these moral moments of drama arouse, both in the individual and in society. I am also a trained journalist, and have worked for the Swedish Public Service Radio and Television.
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Miao Yu
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
Dr. Yu Joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Empire Innovation Professor in January 2021. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from August 2017 to January 2021. He was an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) between 2012 and 2017. Before joining UofSC, he was an assistant research professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) from 2010 to 2012. He obtained B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2002) degrees from Tianjin University, China. He earned his Ph.D. degree from CU-Boulder in 2007, and subsequently worked in the same department as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2010. Dr. Yu has published >60 peer-reviewed papers, with two in Science and others in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS, Nano Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Communications, etc. He is a recipient of 2015 NSF Career Award.
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