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I am a Professor of Global Development and Accountability at the Essex Business School. My research has moved away from arbitrary disciplinary constraints towards an interdisciplinary learning process to understand the global challenges, particularly in developing/emerging country contexts. Over the years, the research aims to understand, theorize and tackle the problems created by the uneven relationships between business, society and economy in an interdisciplinary framework. I have extensively worked in finance and development and microfinance. Currently, I am working on Fintech, financial inclusion, climate change and sustainability.
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I am a lecturer in Sustainability and Business Ethics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. My research aims to explore the role of sustainability in socio-economic development and responsible business management. I have a very strong interest in social innovation and the role of institutions in addressing gender, poverty and other forms of structural inequalities with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. In the summer of 2021, I led a collaborative team of researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, Makerere University Business School and Makerere Lung Institute, and, we conducted research on the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare professionals in Uganda. I am very keen to contribute to policy debates that focus on inclusiveness whilst addressing pressing challenges facing society without compromising on ethical issues.
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I have been involved in several interdisciplinary research projects on the management and governance of climate change. I have also studied the management of the first phases of Covid-19 in Italy and new forms of digital vulnerability in times of pandemic. I have also investigated digital inequalities in the UK, and I am currently investigating environmental awareness and digital experience. I am exploring the Bourdieusian concept of habitus in relation to the combination of technological competencies, environmental awareness and existing socio-economic-cultural backgrounds. This research interest comes from my background in both sociology and media and communication. My first PhD focused on sociology, whilst the second PhD research explores media construction of climate change narratives.
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I am a historian of late twentieth century Britain (broadly conceived) specialising in anti-racist activism, social movements, students and youth, immigration and decolonisation. My research interests lie in the intersection between education, technologies, and civic engagement for social justice and inclusion. In the last 15 years, I have researched how educational decision-making processes and how educational institutions 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 the inclusive and diversity frameworks to foster equity in education (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, social class, neurodiversity, etc.), including anti-racist technologic design.
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Mark Alter, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Psychology at NYU and the founding chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning, serving for 14 years. He has an extensive record of publications, workshops, and funded grants in special education. Dr. Alter is a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Vietnam and a recipient of NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award. Internationally, he has engaged in discussions on special education, and teacher education in Romania, Crete, Brazil, Italy, and Argentina.
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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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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.