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Aman Vats is Professor and Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies (MRIIRS), Faridabad, India. He has a doctorate in communication studies from the University of Pune. Prof. Vats has worked with prestigious organisations like the National Film Development Corporation; Doordarshan; Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has published over 35 research papers in reputed journals like the Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Environment Protection, and Indian Journal of Science and Technology. He has successfully supervised seven PhD scholars. He currently spends time training future broadcasters, and guiding doctoral research scholars.
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I’m an Associate Professor in the English Language at the Department of English at Aarhus University, Denmark. My research interests lie primarily in the areas of language variation and change, sociolinguistics, and phonetics and phonology. https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/mia-hejn(6c70e9eb-839f-49fb-b791-367762742a4f).html
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Gaia Narciso is Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. After gaining her MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she started her PhD in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. During her PhD she worked as a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC. Gaia joined the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2007, soon after completing her PhD. Her fields of research are Political Economy, Development Economics, and Migration. Her research has been widely cited and featured in international media. In particular, her study on the Sicilian mafia has informed the policy debate in Italy. She has successfully attracted international and national funding. She has extensive experience in survey design and implementation and has conducted field experiments in Ireland and abroad.
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Klisala Harrison is a prize-winning music anthropologist (ethnomusicologist) with expertise in the social impact of music on poverty, development, health and well-being, and climate change. She is Associate Professor of Music Anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Harrison has edited three monographs on applications of music research in society and culture (in English and Mandarin); her articles appear in academic journals including Applied Arts & Health, Ethnomusicology, the Yearbook for Traditional Music, MUSICulture, Music and Science, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Her most recent book is Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2020).