جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Abi Gilmoreمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cultural Policy
• Arts Management
• Cultural Planning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Abi Gilmore is a Professor of Arts Management, Politics, and Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester's School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (ICP). She holds a part-time secondment as UKRI Policy Fellow at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport. Her work focuses on cultural policy, creative industries, and the role of public spaces like parks in local governance. Gilmore has led interdisciplinary projects such as the AHRC Connected Communities initiative and the UKRI-funded study on pandemic impacts on cultural sectors. She contributes to policy networks including Policy@Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute, and advises organizations like Creative Addo. Her academic leadership includes founding the MA Arts Management program and co-developing the PhD by Professional Practice in Arts and Cultural Management. Educated at the University of Leicester (BSc Sociology, 1995; DSc Cultural Policy, 2000), Gilmore has held roles in both academia and cultural sector governance, including directing the Northwest Culture Observatory. Her research emphasizes participatory methods, policy evaluation, and the foundational role of cultural infrastructure. She serves on boards for arts organizations such as Brighter Sound and Macclesfield Barnaby Festival, and has extensive international collaborations with institutions in Melbourne and Toronto. Key research outputs include monographs on public parks as cultural policy sites (2024) and edited volumes analyzing pandemic impacts (2022). Her work intersects with UN SDGs related to education, sustainable cities, and responsible consumption. Recent projects explore cultural recovery post-pandemic, devolved governance models, and the political economy of creative ecosystems.

Christopher Kamمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Comparative Politics
• Legislative and Judicial Politics
• Political Institutions
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Christopher Kam is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts. He serves as the Data & Models Certificate Coordinator, overseeing academic and training initiatives in quantitative methods. His research focuses on comparative political institutions, legislative and judicial politics, and the application of quantitative methods to historical and institutional analysis. Kam holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (2002). His research spans comparative politics, electoral systems, and historical political economy. Notable themes include legislative behavior, party formation, and the economic roots of political institutions. He has extensively studied 19th-century British and European political systems, analyzing electoral competition, vote-buying dynamics, and the impact of institutional reforms. Recent work explores polarization in multiparty systems, electoral accountability mechanisms, and the interplay between economic conditions and political party development. His publications demonstrate a strong methodological rigor, combining quantitative analysis with historical case studies. Kam’s academic contributions are reflected in over 40 peer-reviewed articles, with a focus on institutional analysis and comparative governance. He maintains an active research website at https://sites.google.com/site/kamchristopherj/home , hosting datasets and replication materials.

Reihaneh Bidarمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Transformation
• Work Redesign
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Reihaneh Bidar is a Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School, part of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law. She is also an Associate Investigator at the Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) Centre. She holds a PhD from Queensland University of Technology’s School of Information Systems. Her research focuses on how organizations manage AI, automation, and digital integration, particularly the role of human-AI hybrids in work redesign. She emphasizes mitigating negative consequences of emerging technologies while enhancing organizational readiness for AI adoption. Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate Information Systems programs, including courses on Business Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, IoT Systems, and Mobile App Development. She has developed and coordinated courses that bridge theory and practice for both bachelor’s and master’s students. Dr. Bidar’s work addresses challenges in digital collaboration and value co-creation in online networks. Notable contributions include a thought-leadership report with SAP Institute for Digital Government, which classified tasks based on risk levels to redesign public sector work. These approaches were adopted by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure for invoice processing. Her research interests further explore digital collaboration dynamics, crowdsourcing challenges, and service innovation. She collaborates with industry to translate academic insights into actionable strategies for inclusive AI and sustainable digital practices.

Jennifer Johnson-Hanksمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Culture and population
• intentions
• uncertainty
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks serves as Professor and Executive Dean of the College of Letters & Science at the University of California, Berkeley, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Demography. She currently chairs the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, demonstrating significant administrative leadership within the university structure while maintaining active scholarly contributions to demographic theory and methodology. Her educational background includes: BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley MA in Anthropology from Northwestern University PhD in Anthropology from Northwestern University Johnson-Hanks' research examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and demography, with particular focus on how intentions shape family formation and fertility decisions in contexts of uncertainty. Her work integrates ethnographic evidence with demographic analysis to explore life course transitions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where she has conducted extensive fieldwork on educated women's motherhood timing. Central to her scholarship is the critique of methodological individualism in demographic research, emphasizing how material and schematic structures influence vital events. Analysis of her 2015-2022 publications reveals persistent thematic threads: methodological innovation in measuring intentions, the social construction of statistical norms, and the cultural embeddedness of demographic behavior. Her work consistently challenges assumptions about preference stability while developing frameworks like 'conjunctural action' to integrate social theory with demographic analysis. Regional expertise in African demographic systems informs broader theoretical contributions about how uncertainty shapes life decisions across diverse contexts. While specific advising relationships and grant funding details aren't documented in available sources, Johnson-Hanks' leadership roles and theoretical contributions indicate significant institutional influence. Her directorship of the College of Letters & Science positions her at the nexus of academic administration and demographic scholarship, where she shapes both research agendas and educational infrastructure.

Amanda Prorokمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Multi-Agent Systems
• Robotics
• Collective Intelligence
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Professor Amanda Prorok leads the Prorok Lab at the University of Cambridge's Department of Computer Science and Technology, focusing on multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Her work integrates machine learning, planning, and control to coordinate intelligent agents in shared environments, with applications in transport, environmental monitoring, and search-and-rescue. She is a Fellow of Pembroke College and holds editorial roles at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and Autonomous Robots. Education: Ph.D., EPFL (Switzerland); Postdoctoral Research, University of Pennsylvania (USA). Research Interests: The lab pioneers methods like differentiable communication between learning agents and develops decentralized algorithms for navigation, coverage, and coordination. Key themes include neural diversity in collective learning, resilient swarm systems, and environment-aware control. Notable Achievements: ERC Starting Grant, Amazon Research Award, EPSRC New Investigator Award ABB Prize for Best Thesis in Computer Science (EPFL) Teaching: Leads Computing for Collective Intelligence (MPhil/Part III) modules. Lab & Infrastructure: The Prorok Lab operates the Cambridge RoboMaster platform and develops testbeds for connected vehicles and robot swarms. Recent work emphasizes scalable reinforcement learning and graph neural networks for decentralized decision-making.

Thomas Soehlمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• International Migration
• Comparative Race and Ethnicity
• Political Attachments of Migrants
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Thomas Soehl is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in International Migration at McGill University's Department of Sociology (Faculty of Arts). His research focuses on migrant families' intergenerational processes, political attachments of migrants, and cross-border connections. He employs quantitative methods such as multilevel modeling and Bayesian approaches. Education : - PhD in Sociology, University of California Los Angeles (2014) - MA in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center - MPA in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School - Urban Planning degree, University of Kassel Research Interests : Explores how migration impacts political/social identities, family dynamics in transnational contexts, and the role of geopolitical trauma in nationalism. His work bridges migration studies, family sociology, and political sociology. Awards : - 2013 Reuben Hill Award for Inheriting the Homeland? Intergenerational Transmission of Cross-Border Ties in Migrant Families Teaching & Engagement : Teaches courses on migration, social stratification, and quantitative methods. Previously worked as a policy analyst in New York City Council, influencing his applied research focus. Key Contributions : - Pioneered methodologies for studying global migrant populations via social media - Advanced theories on transnational political engagement among refugees - Analyzed legacy effects of historical trauma on contemporary nationalism

• Animal Behaviour
• Social Behaviour
• Fish Ecology
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Professor Ashley Ward is a Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on social behaviour, collective animal behaviour, and the ecology of fish, particularly in group-living species. He leads the Animal Behaviour Lab and has authored influential books like Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals (2016) and Questions and Answers on Aquarium Fishes (2007–2008). His work integrates experimental and theoretical approaches to understand how animals make decisions in groups, navigate risks, and adapt to environmental challenges. Research interests include predator-prey dynamics, immune system effects on social behavior, and the role of social context in camouflage. Notable grants include 'Understanding animals through movement' (2018) and 'Advancing fauna conservation in post-fire landscapes' (2021). His recent studies explore collective decision-making, immune-challenge responses in fish, and the impact of environmental cues on shoaling behavior. Awards and recognitions are not explicitly listed, but his contributions to fish behavior research are widely cited. He advises on grants and collaborates internationally, with over 100 peer-reviewed articles and books. His lab emphasizes field and laboratory experiments, combining behavioral observations with computational modeling to uncover principles of collective behavior and social organization.

Christopher Blairمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• International Relations
• Political Economy
• Conflict Studies
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Christopher Blair is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University's Department of Politics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the political economy of conflict and migration, examining counterinsurgency policies' impact on rebel and civilian behavior, host responses to displaced populations, and public opinion's role in shaping foreign policy. Research Interests: Blair's work bridges International Relations and comparative politics, specializing in international security, civil conflict dynamics, migration policies, and political psychology. He explores topics like refugee repatriation, border fortification, climate migration attitudes, and the interplay between historical analogies and foreign policy decisions. Recent Trends in Publications: His recent work emphasizes the geopolitical implications of migration and security, including border control strategies, climate displacement, and the effectiveness of sanctions. He also investigates how collective experiences, such as natural disasters, shape public climate policies. Teaching: Blair teaches courses on international relations, American foreign policy, and seminars on violent non-state actors and graduate research in international relations.

Jeremi Londonمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Engineering Education
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM
• Broadening Participation in Engineering
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Jeremi London is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Provost of Academic Opportunity and Belonging at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering. She leads programs like the Posse Scholars Program and First-Generation initiatives, focusing on broadening undergraduate access to academic opportunities. Her expertise spans engineering education research, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She has secured over $5.8M in grants and authored over 100 publications. London previously chaired the American Society for Engineering’s Diversity Commission and has held roles at the NSF, GE-Healthcare, and Anheuser-Busch. Education : Ph.D. Engineering Education, Purdue University (2014) M.S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2013) B.S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2008) Research Interests : London investigates the impact of STEM education through mixed methods, emphasizing DEI in engineering and authentic learning experiences. Her work addresses systemic barriers to participation, leveraging technologies like augmented reality (AR) to enhance educational outcomes. Recent focus areas include Black students’ experiences, faculty development programs, and institutional equity initiatives. Grants & Awards : NSF CAREER Grant Best Paper Awards Leadership in ASEE’s Year of Impact on Racial Equity Advising & Grants : London directs over $5.8M in grants, including the NSF-funded CAREER project. She advises on national DEI initiatives and graduate student support programs, emphasizing multicultural environments and faculty development. Labs & Teams : Her work integrates with Vanderbilt’s Office of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Equity in Engineering, fostering collaborations across academia and industry.

Seth Freyمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Computational Social Science
• Governance Institutions
• Online Communities
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Seth Frey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on computational social science, exploring governance institutions and complex human decision-making through computational methods, large datasets, and web-based experiments. He examines online communities as models of governance, with expertise in computational approaches to institutional design and strategic behavior analysis. Education: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics, Indiana University, 2013 B.A. in Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley, 2004 Research Interests: Frey's work integrates data science, lab experiments, and computational modeling to study human organizations and communication. Key areas include governance technology, cognitive mechanisms of social outcomes, and institutional evolution. His projects span online games, sports, and open-source software communities, emphasizing topics like collective action, self-governance, and cooperative behavior. Publications & Funding: His work appears in journals like PNAS and Nature Scientific Reports, and has been funded by NSF, NASA, and the Ford Foundation. He contributes to the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and directs the Computational Communication Lab at UC Davis. Teaching: Frey teaches courses on data visualization, simulation methods, and online data analysis in the social sciences.

Charlotta Widmarkمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Cultural Anthropology
• Urban Anthropology
• Latin American Studies
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Charlotta Widmark is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and serves as Director of Studies at the Advanced and Research Level in her department. Her work focuses on identity, power, and social change in Latin America, particularly Bolivia and Peru, with emphases on indigenous peoples, urbanization, gender, and multiculturalism. Education: Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (dissertation: To Make Do in the City: Social Identities and Cultural Transformations among Aymara Speakers in La Paz , 2003) Research Interests: Latin American democratization processes and indigenous-state relations Social inequality and urban transformation in Andean cities Gender equality challenges in multicultural policies Urban anthropology and spatialized cultural change Development anthropology and policy implementation Recent Research Projects: "Social inequality, Spatialized Cultural Transformations and Life Trajectories" (2019): Re-study of La Paz's urban outskirts Interdisciplinary research node "The good city – Urbanism and social change" (2012-2015) Teaching: Economic anthropology, anthropology and religion, academic writing at undergraduate level Advanced courses: Ethnography and Anthropology in Practice Key Themes in Publications: Urban spatial dynamics and heritage in global cities (Rome, Istanbul, London) Gender-political tensions in Bolivian multiculturalism Ethnographic methodologies in development contexts Labs/Teams: Led interdisciplinary urban studies initiatives including the "The good city" research node analyzing urban space and social change in European cities.

Malinda Carpenterمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Developmental Psychology
• Social Cognition
• Prosocial Behavior
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Prof. Malinda Carpenter is a Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Andrews, School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research focuses on infants' and young children’s social cognition, including joint attention, prosocial behavior, intergroup reactions, and comparative cognition between humans and apes. She holds editorial roles at Cognition and Child Development Perspectives . Research Interests: Her work examines mechanisms underlying social learning, communicative gestures, and the emergence of shared understanding in early childhood. Key topics include how infants interpret others' mental states, form social bonds, and navigate group dynamics. She also investigates parallels and differences in social cognition between humans and great apes. Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2021), Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2012) Supervision: Currently advising PhD candidates Jinzhi Feng and Christina Ruiz-Mendoza Lab Affiliations: Centre for Research into Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences Public Engagement: Her team addresses methodological challenges in child research and emphasizes ethical participant recruitment. Recent work explores how time constraints and social contexts influence prosocial behavior in young children.

Catherine Haferمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Formal Political Economy
• Property Rights
• Conflict
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Catherine Hafer is an Associate Professor of Politics at New York University's College of Arts & Science, Department of Politics. Her work focuses on formal political economy, property rights, conflict, communication, lobbying, and applied game theory. She holds a B.S. in Economics from the California Institute of Technology (199?) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester (2001). Her research examines institutional incentives, including property rights in weakly institutionalized settings, lobbying dynamics, and communication strategies in political contexts. Recent articles address electoral competition, political capital, and argumentation strategies in conflict scenarios. She has published in top journals such as the American Political Science Review and American Journal of Political Science. No scientific awards are listed in the provided materials. Her advising and grants activities are not detailed here, but her extensive publication record reflects sustained engagement with theoretical and applied political economy questions. She is affiliated with NYU's Department of Politics and maintains a personal academic website.

Warn N. Lekfuangfuمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Labour Economics
• Development Economics
• Behavioural Economics
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Warn N. Lekfuangfu is an Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), holding a prestigious Ramón y Cajal Research Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is a co-investigator in the ERC Starting Grant-funded project MISMATCH and affiliated with multiple research institutions including IZA, J-PAL, CReAM (UCL), and CBEE (Chulalongkorn University). His research focuses on Labour Economics, Development Economics, and Behavioural Economics, particularly examining inequality mechanisms, early childhood development, subjective wellbeing, and intergenerational mobility. He employs micro-econometric and experimental methods to address systemic social issues. Lekfuangfu earned his PhD in Economics (2015) from University College London, MSc in Global Market Economics from the London School of Economics (201?), and BA in Politics and Economics from the University of York. His work has been published in top journals like the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Journal of the European Economic Association . He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) and contributes to policy discussions through projects like Thailand’s pension reform and labour market restructuring analyses. His research has explored topics ranging from gender occupational sorting in the UK to the socio-economic impacts of landmines in Cambodia.

Daan van Knippenbergمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Organizational Behavior
• Leadership
• Diversity and Inclusion
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Daan van Knippenberg is the Houston Endowed Professor of Management in Organizational Behavior at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. Previously, he held academic positions at Drexel University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam, and Leiden University, where he earned his Ph.D. His expertise spans leadership dynamics, diversity and inclusion strategies, team performance optimization, and creativity/innovation mechanisms. He focuses on understanding how leadership styles influence team effectiveness, particularly in diverse and crisis-prone environments. Research emphasizes: leadership authenticity and integrity, paradoxical leadership approaches, knowledge diversity impacts, and intergroup relational dynamics. He explores how organizational structures and leadership rhetoric affect collective creativity and innovation processes. His work bridges social psychology and management theory to address real-world organizational challenges. Recent articles highlight themes like leader behavior consistency, team voice dynamics, and innovation under constraints. Findings often reveal counterintuitive outcomes, such as how perceived leadership flaws can paradoxically boost certain team behaviors. No specific awards listed in current profile data. His advisory and grant activities remain unreported here. Active in advancing social identity theory applications to leadership contexts, emphasizing leader group prototypicality effects on team cohesion and performance.