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Associate Professor, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, with a background in psychology, epidemiology and public health. I conduct research on healthy ageing and wellbeing with a focus on brain health promotion across the lifespan and risk reduction and prevention of age-related functionality (esp. cognitive functioning) in later life. My work is interested in studying social determinants of health in relation to modifiable health and lifestyle factors for brain health to develop, evaluate and implement equitable public health policy from a planetary health perspective.
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Professor of Geography and GeoInformation Science at the University of Ghana and the administrator of the Remote Sensing and GIS Applications Laboratory. I hold PhD in Earth Systems and GeoInformation Science, Three Masters degrees in Geography and Resource Development, Environmental Science and Policy and International Affairs. Current research covers land use and land cover change analysis, urbanization in Developing World, Climate Change, Land Degradation and Agricultural development in Africa. Also have additional works in Disease and development. I have worked in the US, Ghana, Nigeria.
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Michelle Maroto is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include social stratification, gender and family, race and ethnicity, labor and credit markets, and disability studies. Her recent projects address the many dimensions of wealth inequality, the complicated dynamics behind social class in Canada, and economic outcomes for people with different types of disabilities..
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Currently I am the Director General of the National University of Education and before assuming duties I was attached to the Department of Education, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya. Inclusive Education is one of my major specializations and I am teaching the subject more than 20 years at Peradeniya
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Associate Professor Vivienne Anderson is Dean of the University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand. Vivienne has a PhD in education and anthropology and is a former teacher. Her research utilises qualitative and participatory approaches to interrogate questions relating to education pathways and social justice – currently, with refugee-background young people.
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Director of Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy
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Dr Tim Legrand is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of The Architecture of Policy Transfer (Palgrave, 2022) and Banning Them, Securing Us (MUP, 2021). His work has been also published in Policy & Society, Public Administration, Political Studies, Security Dialogue and other leading international journals.
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MA(Hons,), MSc, PhD, FHEA
Associate Professor, Migration theme lead, Intercultural Research Centre
Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
My background is in Languages and Politics. I have published papers on intercultural dialogue, racism and hate speech, language and heritage, and an edited volume on Multilingualism and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). I have led funded projects on racism, discrimination, and online hate speech, and two language & culture apps, for newly arrived migrants and refugees, and for endangered languages.
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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare is a lecturer in the politics of race and decolonial studies at the University of Liverpool and a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales’ International Centre for Policing & Security. Her current research profile remains centred on using anti and postcolonial IR theory to explore how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions and terror.
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I am an Assistant Lecturer at Gulu University, Uganda, where I teach Environment and sustainable development, Natural resources and sustainable development, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate Change and disaster risk management, Local economic development and Project planning and Management