Dr Susana Valdez

Bio: Dr Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University. Her doctoral thesis (Summa Cum Laude, 2019) and short-listed for the EST Young Scholar Prize, conducted in co-tutelle between Lisbon and Ghent universities, dealt with medical translation. Her current research employs multimethod approaches to investigate translated health information, engaging directly with target communities. She will explore this challenging topic through research and impact collaboration that intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration. With more than 15 years of experience in industry and academia, she has established herself as a successful partner in interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects.

Nominator: Dr David Orrego-Carmona, Translation & Transcultural Studies Section, SMLC

Dr Rabia Polat

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Prof. Polat is a professor of politics at Işık University in Istanbul. She has been working on Turkey’s response to the Syrian refugee situation particularly focusing on official discourse, local narratives towards refugees and integration and social cohesion policies. Recently, she has completed a joint project with Prof. Vivien Lowndes (University of Birmingham) funded by the British Academy (2018-2021). The Project analysed local responses to Syrian refugees drawing upon multi-level governance and interpretive policy analysis. She is also a member of the COST action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” which is an interdisciplinary network that aims to produce, exchange, and build knowledge and collaborations across Europe on migration and religious diversity. She will engage with multiple units of the University, particularly Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network (BREM), Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Law, and Warwick Institute of Engagement for sharing her research and developing research collaborations.

Nominator: Prof Vicki Squire, Politics and International Studies, PAIS

Dr Vita Dumanska

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Nominator: Naomi Kay, Warwick Institute of Engagement

Prof. Yukio Maeda

Bio: Yukio Maeda is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Soka University. He has worked on planetary political theory and critical geopolitics in the Anthropocene. In 2023, he published a book in Japanese, Planet Politics in the Anthropocene: Towards the End of Era Sufficient Only by Caring for Humans (ISBN: 9784791775613). Based on this, his current work at Warwick will comprise three areas:

1) "Territorial Trap 3.0 in the Anthropocene: New Awareness towards Life": Maeda has been working on a joint research project with Professor John Agnew (UCLA) around historical debates on the trap and targeting to update the debate with the Anthropocene.

2) "Vertical Geopolitics with Gaia in the Anthropocene": Maeda has engaged in the geopolitical topic "verticality," and he will develop this new research project, "Secure the Volume 2.0: Critical Interrogation on the Case of Mudflow Disaster in Atami, Japan."

3) "Recontextualised Earthbound Sovereignty with Non-Humans: A Reply from Non-Western Ontology": He has engaged in a new sovereign theory, which is examined through the case of Minamta's environmental pollution.

Nominator:

Prof Vicki Squire, Politics and International Studies, PAIS

Dr Natércia Rodrigues Lopes

Bio: Dr Natércia Rodrigues Lopes completed an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Leicester in 2014, followed by a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Warwick in 2018. Her PhD thesis, titled ‘Ultrafast photoprotection mechanisms: expediting the molecular design of sunscreen agents’, won the Science Faculty Thesis Prize in 2019. She then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Warwick before becoming a Marie Curie Research Fellow working in an industrial setting. Dr Rodrigues Lopes is currently a Junior Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal, where she undertakes research employing laser spectroscopy methods to understand and optimize chemical properties of health-facilitating compounds. As an IAS Visiting Fellow, Dr Rodrigues Lopes will be spending time at the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy to unveil the photodynamics of endoperoxide derivatives.

Nominator:

Jack Woolley, Research Technology Platforms

Dr Bulbul Siddiqi

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Dr Bulbul Siddiqihas been awarded a visiting professorship by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick.Dr Siddiqi is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University, Bangladesh and Director of the Confucius Research Institute. Dr Siddiqi leads the qualitative research in Bangladesh for TRANSFORM Work Package 1.

Dr Siddiqi was awarded a PhD in Anthropology from Cardiff University in 2014 based on research on the Tablighi Jamaat in the UK and Bangladesh. He has conducted research on Muslim identity and religious reformist groups, the health and well-being and integration of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pluralistic approaches to help-seeking. His research foregrounds the experiences of marginalised and disenfranchised groups, specifically refugees, people living in deprived urban communities and people with stigmatised health conditions, such as mental illness, and advocates for social and policy change to protect their rights and promote social inclusion.

Nominator:

Dr Jai Shah

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As a psychiatrist and researcher, Dr Jai Shah has been deeply involved in and committed to early intervention efforts, initially in psychosis and now across youth mental health. He is Associate Director of the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychosis (PEPP) and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, both in Montreal, Canada. He has engaged in an array of clinical research projects from neurobiology to health services and policy, with a particular focus on populations in the earliest phases of psychotic illness, clinical staging and stepped care models of mental illness, and youth mental health service transformation. Along with PEPP, his current contributions are as a PI in the pan-Canadian project ACCESS Open Minds, which takes place in 14 sites across 6 provinces and territories; McGill Site PI for the NIMH-funded Psychosis Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET); and a 5 year CIHR grant regarding data and youth mental health services evaluation. In all cases, he is concerned not just with research but also implementation in services and broader health systems.

Jai received the 2018 Future Leaders Award from IEPA/Early Intervention in Mental Health Association. He has held consecutive clinician-scientist career awards from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé, and is an investigator on projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Institute of Mental Health (US), and the National Institute of Health Research (UK). He trained as a Fellow in Public Psychiatry at Yale University, following his psychiatry residency and a Dupont-Warren Research Fellowship in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, an MD at the University of Toronto, and graduate studies in health and social policy at the London School of Economics where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has additional background in research policy (at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and ethics (at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics).

Nominator:

Professor Carole Levin

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Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She specializes in early modern English history. She is the author or editor of twenty books, most recently The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society (2022). She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Newberry Library, where she was also the Historical Consultant for the Queen Elizabeth exhibit. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York. In 2023 she was the co-curator for “Beyond Eve and Mary: Premodern Gender, Power, and Religion Exhibit” at the Sheldon Museum. Her most recent published article was “The Steadfast Loyalty of Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury: ‘the only contriver of bedlam opposition.’” in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 49 (2023). She is currently working on a book on the subject of Changelings, Bastards and Fantasy Children in England from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Nominator:

Dr Colin Jones

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Colin Jones is a historian of France, who in his time in Warwick between 1996 and 2006 was one of the group of historians who helped found the Centre for the History of Medicine under Hilary Marland’s direction. After leaving Warwick, he worked at Queen Mary University of London, where he co-founded the Centre for the History of the Emotions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, former President of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Officier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques. In 2012 he was awarded a CBE for services to higher education and historical research.

Colin’s research stretches out beyond the history of medicine into the social and cultural history of France, particularly in the 18^th century and the French Revolution. He is the author or editor of over 20 books. His most recent monograph, The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University Press, 2021), was awarded the Franco-British Literary Award and is being translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

In his time at Warwick, Colin built on earlier work on hospitals, charity and poor relief to co-author with Lawrence Brockliss, The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 1997), an extensive and in-depth study of health provision in France from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution. He then went on to study the emergence of French dentistry in the 18^th century. This led to the publication in 2016 of The Smile Revolution in 18^th-century Paris (2016). In the book, Colin places the emergence of a dental profession in Ancien Régime France in conjunction with current ideas of politeness and sensibilité. These produced by the 1780s, he claims, the ‘modern smile’, the acceptance of smiling with an open mouth to reveal teeth, as notably shown in portraits by Elisabeth Vigée de Lebrun. The book analyses how this smile was delegitimated in the 1790s and only remerged in the 20^th century.

Since retirement in 2021, Colin lives mainly in Chicago and serves as Visiting Professor in the History Department at the University of Chicago,

Nominator:

Dr Anirban Mukherjee

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Anirban Mukherjee is an assistant professor at the department of Economics, University of Calcutta. Anirban did his B.Sc in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.Sc in economics from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D from the department of Economics, University of British Columbia (currently known as Vancouver School of Economics). Before joining the University of Calcutta, he taught at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a fellow of Global Labor Organization. His current research projects involve issues related to the history of technology in India, identity politics, gender discrimination in the labor market and the effect of court quality on entrepreneurship.

Nominator:

Dr Anna Pagès Santacana

Bio:

Anna Pagès Santacana was born in Barcelona on July 25, 1965. Graduated in Philosophy and Letters and PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been linked to the Ramon Llull University project since its foundation in 1991, specifically at the Faculty of Psychology, Education Sciences and Sport-Blanquerna. She is a member of the PSITIC Research Group of the Institute for Research in Education of the Ramon Llull University. She has mainly published philosophical essays in Spanish: Al filo del pasado (At the edge of the past), 2006; Sobre el olvido (On oblivion), 2012; Cenar con Diotima, (Dinner with Diotima), 2018; Queda una voz (One voice remains. From silence to speech), 2022.

In the field of Philosophy of Education, she has coordinated the volume 5 of the collective work: A History of Western Philosophy of Education, directed by David Hansen and Megan Laverty from Teachers College at Columbia University, with the title: The Contemporary Landscape, published in 2021 by Bloomsbury publishing house in London. She has also contributed to the Journal of Philosophy of Education of Great Britain.

She is member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and the Philosophy of Education Society of the United States.

Nominator:
Emma Williams, Education Studies

Tinashe Rufurwadzo

Bio:

Tinashe Rufurwadzo is an author, passionate advocate, and youth leader in global health and human rights. Currently serving as the Communications and Digital Engagement Manager at the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), Tinashe focuses on digital empowerment for youth health advocates and civil society organizations. In the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium (DHRP), a large international project hosted at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick, Tinashe leads the Digital Empowerment working group, coordinating educational initiatives onhuman rights in the digital age in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam. He also supports DHRP’s advocacy with African parliamentarians and UN agencies.

Tinashe was formerly a television presenter on Zimbabwe’s national television and is a skilled facilitator and frequently invited speaker in regional and global HIV conferences. A social media influencer on Instagram and Twitter/X, Tinashe uses his platform to inspire and inform thousands of young followers on HIV, digital rights, and youth leadership. He has successfully led the implementation of projects that collaborated with over 110 partners from 34 countries, prioritizing capacity building and empowering marginalized communities (young people living with HIV, adolescent girls, young women, and young people from key populations).

Tinashe's previous research includes studies of HIV services in prisons in Zimbabwe, and of social media as a platform for sexual and reproductive health and HIV testing services. He has published peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and is a regular commentator and opinion columnist in national newspapers in Zimbabwe. At the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), Tinashe played an instrumental role in developing We Matter, Value Us, a guide to the ethical and meaningful engagement of young people living with and affected by HIV.

Tinashe earned his MA in Development Studies and has certificates in management and communications. Through his visionary leadership, Tinashe is shaping a more inclusive and equitable future in digital health and rights.

Nominator:

Craig Martin

Bio:

Craig Martin is associate professor of the history of science and technology at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice. He works on the history of late-medieval and early modern natural philosophy and medicine, with particular emphasis on Aristotelianism and the history meteorology. His books include Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and a translation from Latin of Girolamo Mercuriale’s On Pestilence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). He has been a long-term fellow at the American Academy in Rome, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Villa I Tatti, and the Huntington Library. His current projects focus on medicine in early modern universities.

Nominator:

Ellen W. Sapega

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Ellen W. Sapega is a Professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include two monographs and many articles and book chapters on Portuguese modernism, memory, visual culture and commemoration since the late 19^th century, and the contemporary Portuguese novel. Sapega is co-editing a Handbook of Memory Studies in Spain and Portugal for Brill (Leiden) with Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes. The volume aims to provide a synthesis of Memory Studies scholarship in the Iberian Peninsula and to point to emerging research. During her stays at Warwick, she will work with Professor Menezes on the planning, drafting, and co-writing of the volume’s introductions.

Nominator:

Dr. Vanessa H. Bal

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Dr. Vanessa H. Bal is an Associate Professor and Karmazin and Lillard Chair in Adult Autism at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the Psychological Services Clinic and LifeSPAN Autism lab at the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services. Her research focuses on advancing understanding of autism in adulthood, with specific interests in assessment, diagnosis, characterization of strengths and adaptation of interventions and supports to address adult mental health concerns and foster well-being. Outside of research, she aims to promote equitable access to services through provision of graduate and professional training about autism in adulthood. Building on earlier collaborations with Professor Hastings, she will work closely with CIDD researchers who have designed mental health programs to address depression and anxiety in adults with intellectual disability to adapt these programs for use with autistic adults. She will also collaborate on CIDD’s plan for training practitioners in autism diagnostic assessment.

Nominator: Professor Kylie Gray, CIDD

Dr.Quintijn Kat

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Quintijn Kat obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations of the Americas from the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and is currently an assistant professor at Ashoka University, India. His main area of research concerns the agency of weaker states in international relations with a focus on US-Latin American relations. His work on this topic has appeared in the International Studies Review and Latin American Politics and Society. As an IAS Visiting Fellow, Kat will be working on three projects located within his larger research theme. The first concerns the completion of a book manuscript that explores the role of weak-state agency in hegemonic order. The second project critically examines the development of “Global IR” and asks whether it is at risk of becoming “Global South IR,” instead. The final project explores weak-state interests and agency as a determining factor in great-power politics. Going beyond existing works on weak-state agency as well as the literature on alliances, the project explores the ways in which weak states, through the pursuit of their national interest, may shape and determine the foreign policy interests of great powers.

Nominator: Tom Long, PAIS

Dr. Jesús Gilberto Otero Cardona

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Jesús Otero, an economist with a PhD in Economics from Warwick University, UK, currently holds the position of Professor of Economics at Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. His research spans economics, econometrics, finance, and labor studies. Beyond academia, he has served as the Director of the Graduate School in Economics and provided external advice to the National Department of Planning. As an Associate Editor for Economic Modelling and through consultancy projects, such as forecasting fuel consumption for Cenit, a subsidiary of Ecopetrol, the Colombian National Petroleum Company, Jesús contributes to both academic scholarship and practical economic applications.

Nominator:

Dr Jeisson Cardenas-Rubio, IER

Prof. Dr Waheeda Amien

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Waheeda Amien (BA LLB (Cape Town) LLM (Western Cape) PhD (Ghent)) is a Professor of Legal Pluralism, Religious Family Laws, and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. She teaches and supervises masters’ and doctoral students in her areas of specialisation. Waheeda is a Member of the South African Law Reform Commission’s Advisory Committee on the Review of Aspects of Matrimonial Property Law. She is also a Member of the Executive Body of the International Commission on Legal Pluralism and the Steering Committee of the International Network of Scholars Researching Unofficial Marriages. Waheeda has provided expert opinions to a range of local and international entities including among others, the South African Presidency, the South African Commission on Gender Equality, and the United Nations Expert on Minority Issues.

Nominator:
Dr Rajnaara Akhtar, School of Law.

Prof. Jordana Dym

Bio:

Jordana Dym is Professor of History at Skidmore College, where she holds the Kenan Chair of Liberal Studies. Her research interests in the history of cartography focus on the mapping of Central America, particularly Guatemala, and the intersection between Western travel and cartography. She served as chair of trustees of the International Society for the History of the Map (2019-2023) and is a founding editor of H-Maps. In 2022, she became an editor of the journal Imago Mundi. Recent publications include Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps Brill Research Perspectives in Map History (Brill, 2021) and, with Carla Lois, Bound Images: maps, books, and reading in material and digital contexts maps, books, and reading in material and digital contexts" Word & Image 37 (2021).

Nominator:
Dr Elizabeth Chant, Global Sustainable Development

Dr Geetanjali Shree

Bio:

Geetanjali Shree is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize, and of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, for her novel,Tomb of Sand(Ret Samadhiin the Hindi original). She has written five novels -Tomb of Sand,Mai(Mai: Silently Mother),Hamara Shahar Us Baras,Tirohit(The Roof Beneath Their Feet), andKhali Jagah(Empty Space), and five collections of short stories. Besides English, her work has been translated into many languages. Geetanjali has also worked on theatre scripts in collaboration with a Delhi based group, Vivadi, of which she is a founding member. She is frequently invited for residencies, fellowships, lectures, seminars, and workshops across the world.

Nominator: Dr. Millija Gluhovic , SCAPVC

Dr Anuradha Kapur

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Anuradha Kapur is a theatre-maker and teacher. Her theatre work has travelled nationally and internationally, and she has taught in Universities in India and abroad. She is the founder member of Vivadi a cross-discipline working group of theatre-makers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers. Almost all her works have been cross-discipline collaborations. Her writings on performance have been widely anthologized and her bookActors Pilgrims Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagarwas published by Seagull Books, Calcutta (1993, 2004). Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 2004. Anuradha Kapur completed her term as Director National School of Drama, New Delhi in 2013. She was Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi for several years.
 
Nominator: Dr. Millija Gluhovic , SCAPVC