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Associate Director, Senior Research Economist at EBRD
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Dr Eghosa Ekhator is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. He was previously a lecturer in law at the University of Chester. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) and PhD in Law from the University of Hull. Eghosa has also been called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His main research areas include international environmental law (with focus on the African Union and developing countries) and natural resources governance. He has also published extensively on these research areas. Eghosa’s academic papers have been cited by a plethora of organisations and international agencies including the United Nations Refugee Agency and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) ‘Responses to Information Requests (RIR) report (NGA106371.E) on Nigeria’ amongst others.
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Professor and IRB Chair at Lone Star College. I am an environmental scientist who volunteers in environmental justice issues related to water security.
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Nico Carpentier is Extraordinary Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020-2023). He is also a Research Fellow at Loughborough University. His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research is situated in the relationship between communication, politics and culture, especially towards social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. His latest monographs are The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York) and Iconoclastic Controversies: A Photographic Inquiry into Antagonistic Nationalism (2021, Intellect, Bristol).
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Faculty of Education and Psychology, Dept. of Information science and knowledge studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
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Dr Russell Kennedy is an academic and practitioner of communication design and filmmaking at Deakin University, Australia. He served as President of the International Council of Design (2009 and 2011). His research areas includes cultural identity and best practice policy as it relates to Indigenous representation in design practice. Dr Kennedy is the co-author of the multi award winning Indigenous Design Charters (Australian and International). In 2017 he was a committee member of the City of Greater Geelong's successful bid to join the UNESCO Creative City Network as a City of Design.
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I am a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. I undertake research in inclusive health communication policies and practices. I also lead investigations into assistive technology, telehealth/mHealth, and service experience. I'm passionate about the inclusion of service users and people with lived experience in research and policy setting, and I love implementing inclusive research, co-design and usability methods into my own work, and supporting others with these approaches.
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Dr Laura Bedford is a Lecturer in the Criminology at Deakin University. Laura has a PhD in Criminology awarded by the University of Queensland. Her thesis, Randomised Controlled Trials in Policing: An Organisational Learning Perspective, focused on the challenge of translating rigorous criminological research into evidence-based policy and practice in police organisations. She has led and contributed to a range of collaborative research projects and programs of research, and written numerous research reports and scholarly papers. She worked as an embedded criminologist at the Queensland Police Service (QPS), where she was the lead researcher on a two-year randomised controlled field evaluation of the role and impact of frontline mobile technology. Currently, Laura is working to advance knowledge related to green criminology, environmental crime, resistance and activism. Laura has worked for many years in complex, multisectoral contexts where she has gained a solid understanding of the challenge of engaging stakeholders to initiate and implement high quality, inclusive policy research, and translate good research into sound, implementable and effective policy.
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Dr Monique Mann is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Dr Mann is an Adjunct Researcher with the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Centre at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Mann's research expertise concerns three main interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) new technology for policing and surveillance, (2) human rights and social justice, and (3) governance and regulation. She is author of ‘Politicising and Policing Organised Crime‘ (Routledge, 2020), ‘Biometrics, Crime and Security‘ (Routledge, 2018), and editor of ‘Good Data‘ (Institute of Network Cultures, 2019).
Mann has contributed to advancing Australia’s national research agenda through her activities not only as an academic and author, but also as an advocate, media commentator, and expert policy advisor.
She is Vice Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation and Vice President of Liberty Victoria.
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Heritage Consultant from Sydney Australia