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Ikechukwu Obiaya is affiliated to the School of Media and Communication (SMC) of the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, Nigeria, where he lectures. He is also the director of the Nollywood Studies Centre, a unit of the SMC. His first and second degrees are in English Language. His Ph.D. thesis is a study of the impact of state intervention, through the National Film and Video Census Board, a government parastatal, on distribution in the Nigerian film industry. Obiaya’s research interest lies in the creative industries. He is also interested in audience analysis and has carried out some studies on the audience of the Nigerian film as well as on technical workers in the industry.
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Managing Director, Work & Equalities Institute (WEI), University of Manchester.
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Aisling Swaine is Professor of Gender Studies in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She was named by A-Political as one of the world's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021. Prior to joining UCD, Aisling was Associate Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University, Washington DC. Aisling holds a PhD in law from the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, Ulster University. Her research is interdisciplinary engaging with the fields of feminist legal theory, transitional justice, conflict-related violence against women, gender peace and security and gender in global governance. Prior to her academic roles, Aisling worked with the United Nations and international NGOs in humanitarian and post-conflict recovery settings, including Kosovo, Burundi, Timor-Leste and Darfur, Sudan and has undertaken consultancy work in a broad range of development and peacebuilding contexts globally.
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Healthcare Management with research interests and expertise in organisational & institutional issues in healthcare; public sector policy making; and professions/professionalisation/leadership and/or management by/for/of professionals, notably within the medical profession.
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Arkadiusz Wiśniowski is a Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in Economics. His interests are in integrating traditional and new forms of data to better measure populations, especially international migration. He also has general interest in statistical modelling and forecasting.
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My name is Hani Al Rached, I am a Doctor of Law, (University of Zaragoza-Spain), of Syrian nationality. I hold a doctorate in Law, Summa "Cum Laude", with experience in teaching and managing studies and research at a national and international level in Law. My specialist areas related to International Law, International Relations, Criminal Law, Family Law and subjects related to Political Science and Conflict Studies.
Doctorate in Law / PhD, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2016, "Summa Cum Laude".
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A professor of Mass Communication. I'm interested in media and information literacy and risk communication.
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Ph.D in Migration Studies at the University of Granada (Spain). In her dissertation she analyses the official narratives and legal treatment of asylum claims based on gender grounds in Spain, examining how race, nation and gender are intertwined as devices to exclude applicants from membership. She holds a MA. in Gender Studies and a MA. in Human Rights. She has been research assistant in the School of Gender Studies at the National University of Colombia, and national consultant for issues including gender-based violence in armed conflict, gender and access to land, and the social movement of indigenous Amazonian women.
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Guangwen Kong received her Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the University of Southern California in 2013. She started her academic career as an Assistant Professor of the Industrial& Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and then joined Fox School of Business, Temple University. Her research studies emerging problems in sharing or on-demand platforms using models, experiments, and data analysis, with a strong focus on behavior, incentive, and their implications to policies and operational decisions. She has published her papers in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing &Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. She is an editorial review board member of Production and Operations Management, associate editor of Journal and has served as an NSF panelist in 2014. She received the M&SOM Meritorious Service Award (2018, 2019, 2020) and Management Science Meritorious Service Award (2018, 2019).
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Work on issues of conflict, peace, identity and identity change, and situations where change occurs