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Currently postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal on interdisciplinarity, scientific careers and the social stratification of science, symbolic hierarchy of epistemologies in the biological sciences. Previously postdoc at the Swiss Elite Observatory, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on the power elite with both a sociological and a historical approach, with a focus on power through relations such as kinship, residential proximity, interlocking directorates and careers. Areas of expertise: scientific elites, social stratification in science, interdisciplinarity, public policies.
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Lucila Carvalho is an associate professor at the Institute of Education at Massey University (Auckland), New Zealand, where she is also co-director of the Equity Through Education Research Centre. Lucila’s research interests are at the intersection of sociology, design, digital technologies and learning (in both formal and non-formal settings). Her research explores how knowledge and social structures shape the design and use of technology, and the web of elements – tasks, people, digital and material tools – that come together to influence social and educational experiences.
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Dr Tim Legrand is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of The Architecture of Policy Transfer (Palgrave, 2022) and Banning Them, Securing Us (MUP, 2021). His work has been also published in Policy & Society, Public Administration, Political Studies, Security Dialogue and other leading international journals.
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MA(Hons,), MSc, PhD, FHEA
Associate Professor, Migration theme lead, Intercultural Research Centre
Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
My background is in Languages and Politics. I have published papers on intercultural dialogue, racism and hate speech, language and heritage, and an edited volume on Multilingualism and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). I have led funded projects on racism, discrimination, and online hate speech, and two language & culture apps, for newly arrived migrants and refugees, and for endangered languages.
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Program manager in the cultural field, collaborating with non-profit organizations in Milan and Amsterdam, where I currently live.
Since 2021 I have been sharing the culture of my country on Alle Italiaanse (Dutch for All Italian) through topics accessible to all: introducing the traditions, customs and language. At the same time, practice my Dutch and English grammar - the two languages in which the site is published.
Before this experience I managed programs for organizations in the field of European culture, usually through advocacy and funding of artistic and activist projects.
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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare is a lecturer in the politics of race and decolonial studies at the University of Liverpool and a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales’ International Centre for Policing & Security. Her current research profile remains centred on using anti and postcolonial IR theory to explore how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions and terror.
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Kwamena Sekyi Dickson holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Population and Health. He is a lecturer at the Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, where he teaches and supervises project works and theses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research and expertise focus on technical and social demography, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, and healthcare financing, of which he has produced over 50 scientific peer-review publications in reputable journals.
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Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, leading the Institute's work on tax-benefit microsimulation (SOUTHMOD project)
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I am an Assistant Lecturer at Gulu University, Uganda, where I teach Environment and sustainable development, Natural resources and sustainable development, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate Change and disaster risk management, Local economic development and Project planning and Management
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Senior lecturer in the University of Ghana School of Pharmacy with over 13 years teaching/research experience. I hold a Ph.D in Microbiology as well as the licensure certificate of the Pharmacy Council of Ghana. Additionally, I hold an MPhil. degree in Pharmaceutical Microbiology and a post graduate certificate in Drug Supply Management from the Roberts Gordon University, Aberdeen. My teaching covers the broad areas of Microbiology, Immunology and Procurement/Health Supply Chain Management. My research Antimicrobial Resistance & Biofilms, Drug Quality Evaluation and Natural Products Research.