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I am a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and trainee Psychotherapist. A Socio-Cultural Psychologist, I specialise in gender, organisations, mental health, child development and identities. I use a variety of qualitative methods in my research and draw on dialogical theories.
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I work on disaster interventions and humanitarian aid in different countries, and with different types of disasters. I head the Disaster Interventions and Humanitarian Aid programme at the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland, the UK. I am a sociologist and social/community work practitioner and keen to meet up with others sharing these interests in policy, practice and research.
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Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships and urban living labs.
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Mrs. Samatova is a psychologist, gestalt therapist, coach, writer, columnist and full member of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League.
Mrs. Samatova co-founded one of the first private shools in Russia. The cycle of her interdisciplinary research "School for Parents" has been repeatedly recognized as the winner of the All-Russian competitions of educational and methodological developments. For her active educational and social activities, she was awarded the title of Honored Educator of the Russian Federation.
Mrs. Samatova's motto: "If a family, then happy!"
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I am a sociologist, writing and teaching in the broad areas of Global Inequality, Neoliberalism's impact on Human Society and Culture, Diaspora and Transnational Issues in North America, Gender and Caste Based Inequalities, and Postcolonial Societies and Cultures. I have more than twelve years of experience in academic research and teaching. Prior to joining academia, I spent five years working as an applied social researcher in different parts of South Asia, namely India and Bangladesh.
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My preliminary research focuses on pollutants detection, removal, biodegradation, wastewater treatment, and other frontier areas of environmental biotechnology. The findings of my research work were published in more than 20 national and international journals of high repute. I am also associated with the member of various national and international professional bodies and reviewer of prestigious journals including Wiley and Bentham publications. Also, I have delivered more than fifty conference/seminar presentations at different national and international platforms in different capacities and received many awards and accolades; some of which include young scientists and the best presentation award.
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I am an Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History at Aalborg University in Denmark, where I head the Language and International Studies programs. I have authored the books "13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics" (2017) and "Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights" (2020), as well as a range of other books and articles on human rights, culture, and international politics. Seeing students and outreach as the focal point of my work, recent projects include a policy point-counterpoint with students in International Social Science Review (2021) on "Should Political Representation in a Nation-State be Reserved only for Citizens, or Should it Encompass all Residents Regardless of Status within a National Polity?"
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I am a social anthropologist specialising in:
1) Healthcare at the intersection of gender and protracted displacement.
2) Participatory arts methods and creative engagement with migration and displacement.
3) Intangible cultural heritage and human–environment relations in protracted displacement contexts.
4) Indian Ocean islands (particularly Chagos, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Maldives).
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Dr Katharine Jewitt is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University in four faculties at The Open University (Business and Law; Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics; Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies and The Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnership) tutoring on access, undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also works as a Validator with the Digital Schools Company to guide and implement its ongoing strategy to promote digital skills in Nursery / Primary / Special Education / Secondary schools & organisations.