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Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
PhD in Cultural Research
College of Experts Member: Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Policy Fellow: Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Coordinator: Culture and Creativity Policy Network - University of Southampton.
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Fudie Zhao is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, affiliated with St Antony’s College. Her research focuses on the digital transformation of cultural materials in East Asia, with emphasis on knowledge equity, multilingual access, and inclusive open data platforms such as Wikidata. She holds degrees from Oxford and UCL, and has conducted academic work in China, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, and the UK.
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I’m a mixed methods researcher, social scientist and evaluation practitioner with nearly 20 years of global experience. I lead innovative, high-quality research and evaluation programs and that build our collective understanding of immigration trends and outcomes, social inclusion and community resilience.
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Dr Flavia Ferreira Santos is a media researcher, media literacy educator, and founder of iConnect Lab. She is dedicated to advancing media literacy within communities, with a particular focus on supporting digital well-being and media education for young children. She holds a PhD in Media and Communication from NOVA University of Lisbon, was a visiting researcher at the University of York, and has led media training programs with Deutsche Welle in Germany. Currently, she is conducting research on media literacy for early childhood and leading media training initiatives across Europe and USA.
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Dr John Sunday Ojo is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Intelligence in the Global South (GLOBALINT) research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His research focuses on the political economy of armed conflict, concentrating on non-state armed groups, including both jihadist and non-jihadist armed groups operating in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin region. His work also addresses the intelligence culture of state and non-state armed groups, foreign military bases, climate change - resource conflict - terrorism nexus, and African security.
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Nadja Skaljic is a senior legal and strategy executive, based in Switzerland, operating at the intersection of the green, finance and technology industries.
She is a full member of The Club of Rome, the leading global think tank advancing systems-level solutions for a sustainable and inclusive global economy.
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I am Professor Wilfred Lameck working with Mzumbe University in Tanzania. My research areas; public administration, decentralisation and governance studies, citizens participation and public policy
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Heba M Khalil is Assistant Professor of Sociology & Criminology at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She worked in the field of human rights, labor rights, and economic development in the MENA region for a number of years, working with the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights and Regions Refocus, and cofounding Egypt Social Progress Indicators, and Social Justice Platform. Her current research focuses on legalism and social change.
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Siddhartha Paul Tiwari is an academic, technologist and researcher. He leads Google Asia Pacific's Mobile Policy and Planning based out of Singapore. Previously he spearheaded Google's global learning and development initiatives from Tokyo. He’s widely recognized for pioneering strides in educational innovation, mobile tech, digital strategies, and ICT. An Elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Asiatic Society, Tiwari has significantly contributed to social sciences, higher education, and Asian studies.
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I am an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.