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Evan is the Learning Technologist at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In his 27 year career he has been Head of E-Learning at Bloomsbury Institute, St George’s University of London and Queen Mary University of London (maternity cover), after roles at University of Arts London, Birkbeck, University of Surrey and Richmond American University in London. For 10 years he was a Higher Education Adviser for Jisc and provided Digital Learning strategic visioning and input to 60+ UK universities and colleges. He has provided consultancy to universities in Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, Malta, Romania and Spain. He holds an MA degree in Policy Studies in Education, with a dissertation focussing on technology and the marketisation of the UK HE sector. Recognised as a Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow (2018), he is also an internationally published writer on music and opera.
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I'm a Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at Kingston University. My research interests lie at the intersection of education, technologies, and civic engagement for social justice and inclusion. In the last 15 years, I have researched how educational institutions and decision-making processes can foster young people's empowerment to participate in social, scientific, and political issues through technologies. In the past 4 years, I have been working on implementing inclusive and diversity frameworks to foster equity in education (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, social class, neurodiversity, etc.), including anti-racist technology design.
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Ifeyinwa Awagu has degrees in Law, Psychology; Media and Communication. She is passionate about growing a society where justice and equity reign. She has been involved in activism and advocacy on the preservation, protection and promotion of human dignity particularly in the areas of the rights of families, women and children. Some organizations like the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), through the Nigerian affiliate Nigeria Association for Family Development (NAFAD); the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria have been effective platforms where her services to humanity come to bear as an officer, a volunteer facilitator, counsel and counselor. Ifeyinwa Awagu is currently a lecturer at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos-Nigeria at the Institute of Humanities where she is also the Acting Director of the Institute. Her research interests explore the areas of cultural studies, social policy, media ethics and media advocacy.
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Lisa Jack ACCA is Professor of Accounting at the University of Portsmouth, and also former President of the British Accounting and Finance Association (2015-2020). She is one of the few accounting researchers to investigate the agri-food industry. Her work considers the effects of accounting and performance measurement practices on the industry, and on society more widely. In particular, she examines fraud in the food and drink industry, and has recently completed a report for the Food Standards Agency in the UK on measuring the cost of food crime. Lisa’s many publications include ‘Benchmarking for food and farming: creating sustainable change’.
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https://law.temple.edu/contact/37342/
Laura Bingham, J.D., M.A., directs the Institute on Law, Innovation, and Technology, based at Temple Law School. Working with faculty from across the law school and Temple University, she designs and executes the strategic direction, associated curriculum, research, and programming of the center.
Laura is a globally recognized expert on nationality and migration law and human rights and joins Temple after extensive experience in international human rights litigation.
As a legal practitioner, Laura has led complex investigations and transnational human rights litigation in every major regional system as well as many national courts. Representative matters include a landmark ruling on children’s right to nationality, legal personality, and effective remedies in Zhao v. The Netherlands before the U.N. Human Rights Committee (2020); a judgment nullifying the roll-out of a national biometric digital identification program for failure to respect the right to privacy (Kenyan High Court, 2021); a significant monetary award for members of six Roma families whose village was unlawfully razed by Russian authorities (European Court of Human Rights, 2018); and a groundbreaking decision from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the arbitrary denial of nationality in Anudo v. Tanzania (2018).
Prior to joining Temple, Laura served as senior managing legal officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. She established and led a global program on data, technology, and human rights, which covered content moderation and hate speech, equity and non-discrimination, the right to privacy, data governance, and digital transformation of state and private services. She also managed teams working on global migration, nationality law, and structural discrimination. Beginning in 2020, Laura created and co-managed an organization-wide fund on digital identification, and served on the steering committee of a campaign on global health, technology and surveillance during Covid-19.
Laura has written and contributed to stories on a range of legal issue from major technical and general audience publications, including World Politics Review, The Intercept, The New York Times, Just Security, and IEEE Spectrum. Recent longform publications include Unmaking Americans: Insecurity Citizenship in the United States (2019), Human Rights in the Context of Automatic Naturalization in Crimea (2018), and Documenting Citizenship and other Forms of Legal Identity: A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide (2018). She also co-authored the Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure (2020), and accompanying legal commentary, which are endorsed by more than a hundred eminent legal scholars and civil society organizations from around the world.
Since 2017, Laura has taught courses on human rights and forced migration as an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. She has also lectured, spoken, and taught around the world on human rights, strategic litigation practice, equality law, law and technology, and migration and nationality law.
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Composer-theorist Leila Adu-Gilmore’s compositions have been played at The Kennedy Center and Ojai Festival; singing and performing globally with over twenty releases including five solo albums. A Ghanaian New-Zealander born in London, Dr Adu-Gilmore is passionate about black and indigenous music, decolonization and social change. She has been published in Critical Studies in Improvisation journal and the Music Technology Cookbook (Oxford University Press), and has presented at Zhejiang Conservatory, Huddersfield University, and EHESS & IRCAM. Dr Adu-Gilmore received her BMus from Victoria University, NZ; Phd from Princeton University, and is an Assistant Professor in New York University’s music technology program. Composer Site: http://www.leilaadu.com/ & NYU site https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/leila-adu-gilmore
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I am a health sociologist with a particular interest in including the excluded.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service - New York University, Wagner Graduate School, Center for Global Affairs: Primary coursework - Economics of International Development and Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Global Affairs.
Independent evaluation consultant - Poverty, health & human development. How do we design better interventions to address poverty & health; how do we learn how to deliver them better.
Research focus: Identifying critical interventions at the home-based level to prevent child deaths from diarrhoea, malaria & pneumonia, including delivering interventions through community health workers (CHWs).
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I work as a lecturer in an Initial Teacher Education Programme.
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Lecturer in Construction Management, University of Strathclyde. Dr Zhen Chen, known as George, is the Lecturer in Construction Management, Academic Leader of Digital Construction Research Unit, and Course Director for MSc Advanced Construction Technologies and BIM in the Department of Architecture at Strathclyde. Through his academic and professional services at companies, organisations and universities worldwide, he has developed specialty interests and expertise in architectural engineering, construction engineering and management, and facilities management with regard to the dependable built environment. He has engaged in more than 80 funded research projects, and has more than 200 authored publications with over 100 plenary lectures and presentations at national and international events. He was the management committee member of COST Action on the effective design and delivery of megaprojects in the European Union, and serves on technical committees at ADS, ASCE, BIFM, BSI, CEN, CIBSE, ISO and RICS. He is the Specialty Chief Editor in Construction Management at Frontiers in Built Environment.