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Sylvester has field and research experience in adolescents and young adults sexual behaviour and its psychological and sociocultural determinants. His research and community services are foregrounded on sexual health promotion and risk reduction among young people and evidence-based interventions and policies. Sylvester also conducts research on migrant health, health equity and the social aspects of emerging infectious diseases. He has worked in UNICEF and MacArthur Foundation funded projects on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/STIs prevention initiatives.
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Dr. Carole Durussel works at the OSPAR Commission as Deputy Secretary responsible for cross-cutting issues (including climate change, ocean acidification and international cooperation). Dr. Durussel has several years of experience working on issues related to ocean governance, the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in ABNJ, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining OSPAR, she was co-leading the STRONG High Seas project (Strengthening Regional Ocean Governance for the High Seas).
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I currently study Public Health and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and focus on health equity, health policy, and medicine in my work.
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My expertise lies in the interlinking fields of science, public health and environmental communications and social change with over 20 years experience of research and teaching at Brunel University London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Currently I am leading research and knowledge transfer in the emerging global issue of plastics pollution (UK. Nigeria, Indonesia, Vietnam). I am a member of high- level academic panels (UKRI /EPSRC; UKRI/NERC) and provided scientific advice to inform European Commission policy on the regulation of microplastics, leading on media and communications aspects (2018-19, SAPEA. 'Microplastics in Nature and Society'). I contributed to the DEFRA evidence review on UK marine pollution policy and the UN Environment Program International Resource Panel on marine plastic litter (commissioned by the Government of Japan to support delivery of the G20 Osaka Blue Vision). I regularly share my research with industry at key events (Plastics Europe, British Plastics Federation).
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Rusi Jaspal is Professor of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. He is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Jaspal has been appointed Adult Social Services & Public Health Advisor to Wandsworth Borough Council, London, UK.
Much of his current research focuses on the social psychological and psychiatric aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rachael Webster is a Lecturer in the Nottingham Institute of Education (NTU), teaching modules in the fields of Special & Inclusive Education, Early Years care and education and educational leadership and management across undergraduate professional and academic courses. She is also involved in community and industry partnership projects to promote diversity and inclusion, as well being a qualified advisory teacher specialising in PMLD, inclusive communication, sesnroy impairments, and multiple disabilities including health and care.
Before joining Nottingham Trent University in 2018 Rachael had been teaching for 13 years, with 10 years in specialist SEND settings working with learners who have complex needs and multiple disabilities in schools in Leicester and Coventry. For the last 3 years Rachael was working in senior leadership roles as a department lead and an assistant headteacher. She has worked as an advisory teacher within a MAT supporting staff working with learners who had multiple disabilities, complex needs or sensory impairments. Rachael has devised and delivered training packages to schools, MATs and local authorities.
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OLUSEGUN O OLADEINDE, PhD (Rhodes University, South Africa).
I am Lecturer/Researcher at Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria. My research interest focuses on Sociology of Work and Development. More specifically, my research work is on Comparative Political Economy of Public /Social Policy.
Fellowships and Awards
2019 Research Laureate: CODESRIA Higher Education Leadership Institute (HEPI) Accra, Ghana, 19th -30th June 2019.
2018 German Academic Exchange Services (the DAAD) Award: International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany, 1st OCT-31ST DEC 2018.
Exceed/DIE Conference Laureate: “Rethinking Development Cooperation”, a joint conference of Exceed and DIE, BONN, Germany, 18th – 19th Sept 2018.
2018 Research Laureate: CODESRIA Democratic Governance Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 18th -29th June 2018.
• Visiting Research Fellow: Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, June -Dec. 2016.
• Research Fellowship on Contemporary Political Economy Analysis; Sponsored by Partnership for Social and Governance Research (PASGR), Nairobi, Kenya, and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK: October 2015.
• Volkswagen Stiffung Fellowship: Herrenhausen Conference “Re-Thinking Social Inequality”, Hannover, Germany, May 2014
• Academic Visit: Center for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) University of Leeds, April 2012
• XV International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) World Congress, Sydney Australia, 2009
• CODESRIA Research Methodology Laureate, University of Ibadan, 2008
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I am a research methodologist and very much interested in inclusion policies and equality issues. As a research methodologist I hope to be able to contribute to increasing and building knowledge on the topic.
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I am a Chevening Fellow (UK) in Cyber Policy, Fellow of Cloud Security Alliance (US), Senior Member of IEEE and Editor, Rapporteur at ISO/IEC and IEEE SA. I am author of the award winning book "Internet of Things, for Things and by Things" (Taylor and Francis, US; 2018).
I have 17+ years of consulting and research experience, and specialize in Digital Governance, Policy, Information & AI Ethics, Security Privacy GRC of IoT, Smart Cities, Edge & Cloud.
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Building on an academic interdisciplinary background in Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, I have developed expertise in the translation and application of both fundamental and observational research into policy, which I share through my teaching and research with the aim to tackle the Global Challenges related to mismanaged chemical emissions from the technosphere to the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and ultimately biosphere.