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I am an interdisciplinary urban researcher who works on the intersection of cities, technology, and justice, with a focus on sustainability, visualization, digitalization, communication, and mediatization. Although an Egyptian-born and raised woman, given my international experiences across Africa, Europe, the USA, and Asia, I define myself as a cross-border global citizen who is inspired by local stories. My personal vision is to tackle global inequalities by producing and transferring impactful knowledge for the design of sustainable and equitable smart cities.
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Alistair obtained his DPhil in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 2005, was a lecturer at Queen’s College Oxford then helped lead the neural impedance imaging group at UCL, London while teaching in Electrical Engineering. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at Philips Forshung labatorium (Germany) in medical signal processing before moving back to Sydney in 2009 to start his research group in paediatric, cardiac and neural bioelectronics at University of Sydney. He is passionate about engineering technology innovation to solve problems of real clinical need. His research focuses on harnessing advancing technology and innovation to accelerate the search for new and improved treatments and interventions for childhood disabilities and illnesses.
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I am Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education and Social Work (2012-16) at the University of Sussex. Currently I am Guest Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Karlstad University in Sweden where I work with the ROSE research group - 'Research on Subject-specific Education'. As part of this collaboration, I am a Co-Investigator for the KOSS Network: "Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education” supported through an Educational Sciences network grant (2018-03603) from the Swedish Research Council (2019-2022).
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Lecturer in Development Economics at Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UK
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I am a part-time Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction research project, which is investigating violence reduction in Scotland and England. My particular focus for the project is violence reduction in London.
Alongside this, I am a youth and community worker in North East London, for Hackney Quest. My focus in that role is providing intensive support to young people (and their families) who are experiencing complex difficulties, especially in relation to the education system. I have also set up a number of youth-led community change initiatives, such as the Hackney Wick Through Young Eyes research project and Build Up Hackney, a project which gave a team of young people the power to transform a prominent public space.
Between 2016 and 2021, I was Head of Strategy at Reach Children's Hub, a charity based within Reach Academy Feltham which provides cradle-to-career support for local children, young people and families.
I am involved with a number of criminal justice charities: I am a trustee and volunteer for Haven Distribution, and a volunteer for Longford Trust and New Bridge Foundation.
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My research interests are in studying the determinants of inequalities in health, with a focus on life course effects. I am particularly interested in understanding the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities. This work has mostly focused on examining the association between marginalisation, oppression, and health, in order to understand how experiences of discrimination pattern people's health and social outcomes, as well as that of their children. I am also interested in understanding how the accumulation of experienced discrimination across people's lives determines their health as they age. I study these processes in relation to racism, homophobia, and heterosexism as systems of oppression.
I am a Social Epidemiologist by training, and take an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach to my work. I collaborate with quantitative and qualitative Sociologists, Psychiatrists, Geographers, Demographers, and other Epidemiologists.
I joined Sussex in August 2018 having previously worked at the University of Manchester (2010-2018), where I retain an Honorary position. At Manchester I was an ESRC/MRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Joint Hallsworth/ESRC Future Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Social Statistics. Prior to that I held research posts at Northeastern University (Boston, US), and at UCL. I obtained my PhD in Social Epidemiology from UCL, and my Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health.
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Dr Joanne Tippett is a lecturer in Planning and Environmental management in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. She began working in the field of community participation and ecological planning in the mid 90s in Southern Africa. Her PhD funded research into participatory river basin planning led to the development of a hands-on toolkit for stakeholder engagement and active learning, Ketso, now in use in over 83 countries. She is currently leading on innovative community engagement in the Carbon Landscape, which is restoring and connecting habitats across the post-industrial landscape in Greater Manchester.
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My main research questions are related to the source and the magnitude of emissions linked to air pollution, ozone depletion and climate change, as well as the impacts of these emissions on humans and on society. I am also interested in what policy measures are available to reduce these emissions, and how politics play a role in policymaking process. My current projects are: 1) assessing the impact of agricultural practices on soil GHG/ammonia fluxes; 2) using low-cost air quality sensors to measure air quality; 3) creating a prototype of anaerobic digestion for reducing food waste on campus; 4) assessing the impact of plastic burning on human health and ambient air quality in Guatemala; 5) assessing the link between air quality exposure and asthma and 6) understand and mitigate the current and possible future soil heavy metal and metalloid and other chemical contaminant exposure among children in the Westside of Atlanta.
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Ian is a Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester.
Ian has worked in academic, government, practitioner and consultancy roles in the UK, Europe and internationally examining Green Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) . This has enabled him to bring together Local Government and practical policy-making/delivery experiences into the teaching and research environment through a practical understanding of how policy is formed, how decision-making occurs, and how implementation is delivered.
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Karlstad University Sweden and Carlsberg visiting fellow at the Department of Law, University of Copenhagen. Dr. Harder publishes on legislative representation, parliamentary institutions, gender equality, and indigenous politics, and her work has appeared in journals such as Scandinavian Political Studies, Representation, and Parliamentary Affairs. In 2021 her paper “Pitkin’s Second Way: Freeing Representation Theory from Identity”, won the Representation best paper prize 2000. She holds a PhD. in Social Science from Roskilde University (2018). Before entering graduate school, Dr. Harder was a political consultant at the Danish Parliament, the Danish Chamber of Commerce, and the Danish Nurses Union among others.