Head of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida
I am the Curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica and a Joint Faculty member of the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida. In addition to managing and developing the Price Library, I was recently a PI on a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, raising a $2 million endowment in support of preserving, collecting, and promoting Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to moving to Florida, I worked as a Research Associate in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library. My personal research continues to focus on the history of Hebraica and Judaica library collections, particularly the discovery and distribution of the Cairo Genizah manuscripts. My book on this subject, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: the History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive, was published by I. B. Tauris in 2022.
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Professor of Religion Emerita, Temple University
Rebecca T. Alpert is Professor of Religion Emerita at Temple University. She attended Barnard College before receiving her Ph.D. in religion at Temple University and her rabbinical training at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach, author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition and Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism as well as several edited volumes and numerous articles. Her specialization is religion in America, and with a focus on sports, sexuality, and race. She has recently taught courses on religion in American public life; Jews, America and sports, and sexuality in world religions. Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2011. Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies was published by Columbia University Press in May 2015. An edited anthology with Arthur Remillard, Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sport, was published by Mercer University Press in November 2019.
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Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Pickering Wood joined the School of Arts and Humanities at NTU in 2019 and contributes to scholarly activity, module leadership and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on BA (Hons) History and MA Museum and Heritage Development. She is also a PhD Supervisor facilitating studies that bridge historical and creative disciplines.
Her academic interests include the development of digital skills and narratives, utilising technology as a tool for enhancing experiential learning and practice, seeking to rethink pedagogical approaches for online-learning. Her background in creative design supports her interest in developing creative assessments approaches within humanities focusing on the use of film, audio and visual methods to showcase historical understanding and interpretation. Dr Pickering Wood also seeks to address the lack of representation of minority groups and working-class narratives within Higher Education disciplines through challenging divisive rhetoric and establishing new approaches to inclusive assessment.
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Clinical Academic, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
I graduated from The University of Queensland Gatton Campus in 1994, taking my first position within the School of Veterinary Science in 1994. I am an experienced Veterinary Technical Officer, qualified Veterinary Nurse and Workplace Trainer and Assessor. I have a strong background in animal husbandry and welfare, behaviour, and ethics with more than 25 years' experience in varied animal and veterinary research paradigms. Following 18 years as Manager of the Clinical Studies Centre (CSC) within the School of Veterinary Science, I moved into an academic position and was appointed Academic Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Veterinary Technology degree at UQ (2013 - 2019). Concurrently, I held the position of Director of the CSC from 2013 – 2018. I teach primarily into the BVetTech and BVSc programs but also contribute to several other animal-related programs at the UQ Gatton Campus. My passion for teaching, and commitment to instil a desire in all students to embrace life-long learning underpins my teaching and mentoring philosophy.
Myspeciality research areas include the psychology of human – animal relationships, animal behaviour and animal-related occupational trauma and healing. Having lived experience of occupational trauma and compassion fatigue, I present extensively in these subject areas as well as in psychological wellbeing and emotional intelligence. Further to presentations, I also provide interactive, thought-provoking seminars and workshops within all sectors of animal-related industries and occupations.
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Quinnipiac University
Rebekah Stein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Physical Sciences at Quinnipiac University. She primarily teaches courses in Environmental Sciences and Natural Sciences. Her research interests are in the interface of the biosphere and atmosphere in times of climate change, including the past, present, and future. She uses biogeochemical tools, including a range of stable and clumped isotopes, to evaluate biological responses to climate stress, and has published a number of articles in reputable journals, from Paleoclimatology & Paleoceanography to PeerJ to JGR Atmospheres. She has received a number of grants and awards to support her research including from the National Science Foundation and Geological Society of America.
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Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong
Rebekkah is an experienced academic and researcher in the School of Nursing at the University of Wollongong. Her key focus is person-centred learning, teaching and practice. In particular, Rebekkah has interest in researching person-centred approaches to leadership, facilitation, older people in community, the impact of nature on workforce, and to Nursing curriculum. Understanding how to effectively translate person-centred theory into practice is central to her research.
Rebekkah is recognised for her leadership and person-centred approaches to nursing and education, investing in the future of the nursing profession. She strives to deliver professional, current academic knowledge to nursing students, to role model excellence in nursing skills and knowledge, to demonstrate person-centred leadership qualities and cultivate them in others.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Agriculture Science (Sensing and automation, Digital agriculture, Precision agriculture), Dalhousie University
I am an ambitious and dedicated data scientist with 10 years of experience, currently undertaking doctoral studies at Dalhousie University in Canada, where I am focusing on applying sensing technology and automation in agriculture. I hold a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Hokkaido University in Japan.
In addition to my academic credentials, I have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements through my work in environmental infrastructure projects in Palestine. I have worked with prestigious international organizations, including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), where I contributed significantly to the successful completion of various projects.
My extensive experience in the environmental engineering sector has helped me develop a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing the industry. Data science and automation are my passion, and I am committed to leveraging my skills and knowledge to drive meaningful change and contribute to the advancement of the agricultural industry.
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Associate Professor Reema Harrison (BSc hons Psychology; MSc Health Psychology; PhD in Psychology of Patient Safety) is a mixed-methods researcher with a strong track record of translational health systems and services research. A/Professor Harrison leads a program of research investigating how increasing stakeholder engagement can contribute to improved healthcare quality, experiences and outcomes. Her work has sought to generate, investigate and evaluate models of care through a lens of diversity, specifically in relation to culturally and linguistically diverse communities and people with intellectual disabilities. With a background in Psychology, A/Professor Harrison has devised and validated tools to evaluate patient and clinician experiences of care in a range of contexts. She has also published on the use and quality of peer support, mentorship and co-design approaches for creating change to enhance healthcare experiences and outcomes.
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Extended Sessional Instructor, English and Comparative Literature, MacEwan University
Hi, I'm Regan, and I have taught English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University since Fall 2017. My research deals with Holocaust literature, Russian-Jewish immigration experiences, and refugee narratives.
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Research Associate, focus on health rights, laws and policies, Simon Fraser University
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Universityof Hohenheim
Regina Birner is Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her research focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy processes and on the role of governance and institutions in agricultural development, with a focus on smallholder farming. Regina Birner is a member of the Advisory Council on Agricultural Policy of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and a member of the Advisory Council on Bioeconomy. She has been consulting with international organizations, including the World Bank, FAO and IFAD.
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Social Justice Practitioner in Residence/Senior Lawyer, University of Sydney
Regina Featherstone was a 2023 Social-Justice-Practitioner-in-Residence, University of Sydney and is a Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre.
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford
I am interested in behavioural and evolutionary biology. I am driven to try to understand the evolutionary consequences of environmental and social complexity for different traits including life-history traits, mate choice, and sperm traits.
I am driven to explore new avenues to understand key drivers of the evolution of traits such as behavioural variation and its link to environmental changes and learning abilities. I am also interested in broad questions that can be addressed through meta-analyses. I have always been intrigued by female cryptic choice and how males can modify their sperm to influence their reproductive success.
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Associate researcher, University of Antwerp
Reginas Ndayiragije is an associate researcher and PhD candidate in development studies at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerpen (Belgium). His research interests are post-conflict institutional design, peace, and conflicts. He is in his fourth year of his PhD. His research outputs can be accessed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hAOjiu8AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
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Professor in Strategic Management and Innovation, ESCP Business School
Regis Coeurderoy is Professor in Strategic Management & Innovation, ESCP Europe. Doctor in management (HEC France) and HDR (French Qualification for Ph.D. Supervisor), he is the Scientific Director of the PhD programme (France). He is past President of the French-speaking strategic management association (AIMS, 2011-2013).
Regis is the author of numerous articles at the crossroads of strategic innovation, entrepreneurship and international business. He has studied, e.g., market strategies by innovators, internationalization processes of New Technology-Based Firms and, more recently, the strategic role of motivational systems on corporate value creation. His research articles are published in international journals like Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing or Strategic Management Journal.
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MA Student, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Masters Student with the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba, with a particular focus in the area of genocide studies.
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Research Fellow, Macquarie University
Dr Lystad is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University. Dr Lystad is an injury epidemiologist with a particular interest in sports injury, traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, paediatric trauma, and combat sports. His research is centred around conducting large population-based cohort studies using data linkages of administrative data collections to investigate health outcomes following injury and to guide improvements in health service delivery and health policy.
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Chercheur en Science du sol et Agronomie, Cirad
Soil scientist and agronomist at CIRAD, currently based at the University of Zimbabwe. Broad interest in complex agroecosystems such as agroforestry systems, conservation agriculture or intercropping. My research activities concern soil organic matter dynamics, carbon stabilization, root turnover, nutrient cycling, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and food security.
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Professeur de médecine et de nutrition, Université de Montréal
https://www.ircm.qc.ca/fr/chercheurs/remi-rabasa-lhoret
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Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University
Dr. Remy Davison is Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics at Monash University. He is a Global Expert for the United Nations, New York, and a former member of the Council on Optimising Government Performance.
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Lecturer, School of Aviation and Security, Buckinghamshire New University
Renan de Oliveira is affiliated with Buckinghamshire New University, where he works in the School of Aviation and Security.
His research has been involved in areas like media discourse analysis, with a focus on social issues such as sexual harassment in industries like airlines, hotels, and spas. This multidisciplinary approach highlights his interest in safety, security, and social challenges within aviation and related sectors.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
Dr Renata Alexander has been a permanent senior lecturer with the law faculty since 2000 teaching the Family Law and Practice as well as the Ethics and Negotiation components of the PDLP course. Prior to that she taught undergraduate family law on a sessional basis.
Renata has always been a legal practitioner since admission to the Supreme Court in April 1979. She worked as an in-house family lawyer/solicitor with Victoria Legal Aid from before working as the Deputy Registrar for the Family Court of Australia. Renata then went to the Victorian Bar in November 2002 where she practices on a part-time basis given her teaching and academic commitments.
In 2003, Renata received a Centenary Medal from the Prime Minister for her work in voluntary legal services as she has been a voluntary lawyer with community legal centres since 1975. Furthermore, Renata has also won a PILCH award for similar services.
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Professor and Lead of Critical Mental Health, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
Renata is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of critical mental health studies, critical social theory and medical humanities. She utilises qualitative research methods, with particular expertise in narrative approaches to mental health. She is co-founder and director of Healthtalk Australia, a unique digital archive of mental health narratives, promoting personal narratives of mental health as evidence for improving mental health support in the community.
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Maître de conférences en psychologie, Université de Lorraine
Renaud Evrard est maître de conférences HDR en psychologie à l'Université de Lorraine, et psychologue clinicien au Centre Psychothérapique de Nancy. Il est responsable de l'axe "Psychopathologie clinique et projective" (PsyCliP) du laboratoire Interpsy. Il a co-fondé en 2009 le Centre d'Information, de Recherche et de Consultation sur les Expériences Exceptionnelles.
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Professor of Strategy, Director EDHEC Chair for Foresight, Innovation and Transformation, EDHEC Business School
René Rohrbeck is professor of strategy and director of the chair for foresight, innovation and transformation at the EDHEC Business School, France. He is best known for his pioneering work on future preparedness of organizations.
Having worked in two disrupted industries, automobile and telecommunication, he wanted to understand how leading organizations use foresight to anticipate future markets and develop agile strategies. He has developed the future FITness model, which measures the ability of organizations to use foresight to drive innovation and transformation.
René Rohrbeck is also partner in the Berlin-based consultancy Rohrbeck Heger where he leads the practice on scenario planning and strategy and the industry verticals energy and mobility.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Physics, Utrecht University
René van Westen, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher in climate physics and an expert in high-resolution climate modeling and AMOC dynamics.
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Conjoint Professor of Nicotine Addiction, Avondale University and, University of Notre Dame Australia
Respiratory Physiologist, 40 years of clinical and academic work in Nicotine Addiction and Smoking Cessation. Started the first "Smokers' Clinic" at St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney in 1979. Started and still Editor in Chief of the Journal of Smoking Cessation now published by Cambridge and Hindawi Press. Invited speaker nationally and internationally on Nicotine Addiction, most recently live in Belgium and The Netherland, September 2022 and webinar lectures in Prague, Czech Republic and Paris, France . Have publications and text books, monographs on management of nicotine addiction.
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Professor of Law, Politics and Society, Drake University
Professor Cramer earned her Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2001. Her dissertation, an examination of federal acknowledgement for American Indian tribes, was named 2001 Best Dissertation in Race and Ethnicity by the American Political Science Association's section on Race and Ethnicity; it was published in 2005 by University of Oklahoma Press, under the title Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment, and re-released in paperback in 2008.
Since 2004, she has been engaged in ethnographic and participant-observation field work with homebirth midwives, advocates for midwifery, and families who practice non-normative parenting (including homebirth). An article on her fieldwork methodology was published in 2009 by International Journal of Qualitative Research, and she is at work on a book related to midwifery regulation and activism, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Cramer teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary undergraduate legal studies courses, including Law and Social Change, Reproductive Law and Politics; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; and Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics. She is president of the national Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Studies Programs, is a team leader for Strategic Diversity Action at Drake University, and an open and affirming ally for all students.
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PhD candidate and research officer, La Trobe University
I am a researcher with a long-standing interest in public health. I am a PhD candidate at La Trobe University conducting breastfeeding research about low milk supply. My supervisors for my research are Professor Lisa Amir and Dr Meabh Cullinane.
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Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Renée McKibbin is a Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy.
She is the Co-Director of the Finance and the Macroeconomy research program and the Commodities and the Macroeconomy research program within the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Research (CAMA), and holds positions in research and forecasting at George Washington University, the US National Centre for Econometric Research; and the Norwegian Centre for Macroeconomic and Petroleum Analysis.
She is also a committee member of the UK-based Money, Macro and Finance (MMF) Research Group, a board member of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society, and is a steering committee member on the University of York Asian Research Network Meeting.
She was associate dean of research of the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific from 2014 to 2018.
Renée is editor of Economic Record, the research journal of the Economic Society of Australia.
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Lecturer, Communication and Media, University of Wollongong
Renée Middlemost is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is the co-founder of the Fan Studies Network Australasia, and has published extensively on celebrity, fans, cult cinema, and popular culture.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Health, Deakin University
Dr Renée Otmar HLM DE JMM* has been a professional editor since 1989 and has worked extensively in the publishing and related industries as a senior editor, managing editor, publisher, trainer and coach. She has conducted a parallel career in public health research and human research ethics, serving as a board director and on human research ethics committees since 2013. Renée regularly presents guest lectures, workshops and seminars on writing craft, editing practice, and writing and editing for diversity and representation. A certified coach, she provides training and professional supervision for editors and writers working with sensitive, explicit or distressing content. As a consultant and practising editor she works in academic, creative non-fiction and fiction genres (contemporary fiction, historical fiction, crime fiction and romance). She is a writer, ghostwriter and producer of life stories. Her publications include research papers in academic journals (e.g. Osteoporosis International and Lancet Oncology); In Cold Blood: The murder of baby Jordan (true crime, New Africa Books 2007); and Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A guide for professional editors (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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HLM – Honorary Life Member, Editors Victoria, a branch of IPEd, 2000
DE – Distinguished Editor, IPEd, 2008
JMM – Janet Mackenzie Medal, IPEd, 2022
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology, Western Sydney University
Dr Renée Marchin Prokopavicius’ research aims to improve predictions of the effects of climate change on terrestrial and urban ecosystems. Two global changes that affect plant productivity are increasing temperature and drought. She primarily use ecophysiological approaches to understand how plant traits determine which species or genotypes succeed in changing environments. Her research has focused on plant functional traits related to water relations and growth, such as phenology, stomatal conductance, and photosynthesis. She has worked in a diverse range of terrestrial ecosystems, from temperate forests to subalpine grasslands, and from agricultural cropping systems to urban forests.
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