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Active member of the Milieux Institute’s Media History Research Center.
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I am a Political theorist and postdoctoral researcher at in the department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths College. I was formerly an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University. I research citizenship, human rights and migration, and I recently started a new Volkswagen Stiftung funded project on cultural heritage and migration. I gained my doctorate at Goldsmiths College and my thesis was titled Citizenship as Method: A post-foundational approach to the problem of rightlessness. I have extensive lecturing experience at both Goldsmiths and Aberystwyth University.
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Dr. Etzel is an internationally-known pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist. She is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, an influential book that has helped thousands of doctors to better recognize, diagnose, treat and prevent illness in children from environmental pollution. From 2009 to 2012 she led the World Health Organization’s activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She worked for 12 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she founded and directed the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch. She conducted investigations of numerous epidemics, including outbreaks of sudden deaths in Sierra Leone due to parathion poisoning and of sudden deaths in Guatemala from paralytic shellfish poisoning. She designed and oversaw studies that identified the cause of epidemic asthma in Barcelona and New Orleans, as well as investigations of the health effects of exposure to serious air pollution in Central and Eastern Europe and Mexico City. She was sent to Kuwait immediately after the cessation of hostilities in 1991 to determine the health impact of the more than 750 oil well fires burning near Kuwait City.
Notably, Dr. Etzel performed the first study to document that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposure to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She discovered the link between exposure to water-damaged, moldy homes and fatal infant pulmonary hemorrhage, for which she received the Clinical Society Award from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association.
In 2007 the U.S. EPA honored Dr. Etzel with the Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award for outstanding leadership in protecting children from environmental health risks. She received the Distinguished Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service, the Don C. Mackel Memorial Award from the CDC, and the prestigious Arthur S. Flemming Award. She is a courageous leader in bringing environmental health risks to public attention and working collaboratively towards solutions. For her persistence in speaking truth to power, she is known as an “inconvenient” pediatrician.
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My research centres on community resilience as well as the role of social work in combating the climate crisis. This often takes the form of looking at community mental health, trauma and eco-grief. I have experience working with vulnerable populations as well as community groups within a research and teaching capacity. I primarily work within interdisciplinary settings and work with ecologists, health psychologists, public health, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. I work within the umbrella of qualitative methods and have experience with focus groups, in depth interviews, photo-voice and autoethnography. I have extensive international networks in Canada, Japan, Botswana, Colombia, USA, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand
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W. Douglas Evans is currently Professor of Health Communication and Social Marketing at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. Doug does research on Social and Behavior Change Communication, Social Marketing, Digital Health, Branding, and Applied Experimental Research Methods. He has ongoing projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and major foundations, and he works both in the United States and in Low and Middle Income Countries worldwide.
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Professor of Social Policy, expert in disability gender and age and comparative care policy
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Betül Seda is a researcher working on migration, multilingualism and endangered languages. She has a MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Stirling. She is the academic advisor on a project to promote and raise awareness about the endangered languages of Turkey.
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Stefanos is an environmental economist by training with focus on water resources and climate change aspects. He initially acquired a 3-years of postdoctoral experience in India and Ethiopia as a staff member of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Subsequently, Stefanos did research on climate change and agriculture in South Asia, based at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy (NIBIO), and worked as Head of the Water and Energy Security Unit at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office in Tajikistan. He further became Senior Researcher in the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan leading activities on water-energy-food and environment nexus in the region while in May 2018 he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy in Nazarbayev University based in Kazakhstan. He is in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Water Resources Development, Hydrology Research Journal, and the Central Asian Journal of Water Research, while he is in the Management Board of the International Water Association’s Specialist Group on Statistics and Economics.
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i teach courses on good governance and anti-corruption. My research focuses on political parties, party system change and legislative oversight
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Jamel Stambouli holds a Ph.D in management from HEC Montreal. His current research interests include immigrant entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and the development and management of social and solidarity economy organizations. He has also an interest in diversity and inclusion within organizations. Many of his writings have been published in the form of articles, conference proceedings, reports, and book chapters. He also has professional experience in the industry and has been a consultant to national and international organizations. He has also acted as a coach for several entrepreneurs.