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Dr. Thi Kim Phung DangHead of GIST Thi Kim Phung Dang is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, and the Head of the Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group (GIST), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. She was a fellow of Newton Mobility Grant (British Academy) with the project: Between Dark Heritages and Ecotourism: Post- colonial Ecologies in Vietnam. She is teaching the BSc courses Environment and Society, Environment and Development, Sociology of Organization and Management, and Project Design and Evaluation. She also teaches the MSc courses Advanced qualitative analysis and Writing a scientific paper in the social sciences. She holds a MSc degree in Management of Biological Diversity from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and MSc and PhD degrees in Policy and Management from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She used to serve as a forestry expert at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, and then as the Vice-Director of the National Park Lo Go Xa Mat, responsible for ecotourism and environmental education. Her current research themes include governance, discourses, and the relationship between society and environment, and society and development. Her recent interest is important changes in the society under the rapid development of social media in Vietnam. >> Her publications: Here |
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Dr. John HutnykResearcher John Hutnyk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been Visiting Professor at Jadavpur University, India; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Nagoya City University Japan; RMIT University in Australia; Mimar Sinan University in Turkey; Heidelberg University; Zeppelin University and Hamburg University, Germany. For fourteen years he was at Goldsmiths University of London and from 2008 as Professor of Cultural Studies. Hutnyk's most recent books are: Pantomime Terror: Music and Politic (Zero books 2014); and Global South Asia on Screen (Bloomsbury 2018; and in India with Aakar Books 2019). >> His publications: Here |
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Dr. Michelangelo PaganopoulosResearcher Michelangelo Paganopoulos has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary research in the Arts and Humanities. He is a graduate of the Film & TV Department of Glasgow University, followed by a doctorate in social anthropology taken at Goldsmiths, University of London. As part of his research, he conducted fieldwork in two rival monasteries of Mount Athos, using both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis ("Land of the Virgin Mary: An Ethnography of Monastic Life on Mount Athos", CCA, research.gold.ac.uk/6537/). Michelangelo has lectured in the courses of Anthropological Methods (Qualitative and Quantitative Research), Anthropology of Religion, Symbols & Symbolic Systems, General Principles of Anthropology, Introduction to Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, Dept. of Anthropology. In addition to this, he has contributed to the curriculum and lectured on the course of Introduction to Film Studies in the Dept. of Education, Goldsmiths. As part of his involvement with professional anthropology, Michelangelo accepted the voluntary role of Membership Officer of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth for the brief period between 2014 to 2016. Michelangelo participated in a number of international conferences (RAI, ASA, EastBordNet, LSE European Institute) and has headed two ASA panels (ASA12 Jawaharlal Nehru University & ASA15 in Exeter University). He recently edited the volume In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: Reflections on the Poetics of Ethnography in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars, 01 May 2018, ISBN 1527508331, 9781527508330). This collection of essays focuses on the interactive relations between fictional and non-fictional types of storytelling and their pragmatic impact on the formation of a world consciousness. His journal publications in anthropology & cultural studies include papers on the formation of a Kantian world society and the relationship between art, technology, and social life. >> His publications: Here |
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Dr. Nguyen Van ToaiResearcher Nguyen Van Toai has long-standing interests in biodiversity conservation, ethnic groups, community development, environmental services, forest-risk commodities, supply chains, and socio-environmental systems to enhance sustainability at multiple levels. He is a member of the Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group (GIST), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he conducted research on Vietnamese smallholders and compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation in the global coffee supply chain. He holds a PhD in Environmental Management from La Trobe University, Australia, an MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from Clark University, USA, and a Forestry Engineering degree from Vietnam National Forestry University. He previously served as a staff member at Bu Gia Map National Park, where he led biodiversity conservation, community forestry, and ecotourism initiatives for nearly two decades. He has also coordinated and managed conservation projects for NGOs in Vietnam to promote the coexistence of people and nature. In addition, he has worked as a consultant for various organizations on supply chain traceability and legality of forest-risk commodities, with Vietnam serving as a key processing hub for global cashew, coffee, rubber, timber, and other agricultural products. His current research themes include biodiversity conservation, forest–livelihood interactions, supply chain traceability, and the role of smallholders in sustainable agriculture. His recent publications address forest law violations, food insecurity, and the legality of global commodity supply chains. >> His publications: Here |
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Dr. Nikos PapastergiadisResearcher Nikos Papastergiadis studied at the University of Melbourne and University of Cambridge. Prior to returning to the University of Melbourne he was a lecturer and the Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has provided strategic consultancies for government agencies on issues relating to cultural identity and worked on collaborative projects with artists and theorists of international repute, such as John Berger, Jimmie Durham and Sonya Boyce. His current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technology. He was the director of the Research Unit in Public Culture at the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Member of Clare College Cambridge, Visiting Fellow at the University of Tasmania School of Art, Advisory Board Member to the University of South Australia School of Art and Architecture, Visiting Professor at the Art, Design and Media School at NTU Singapore, and co-chair of the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture. >> His publications: Here |
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Dr. Ken FeroResearcher Ken Fero is a practice-based educator, researcher and activist and has taught in undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD supervision with a focus on radical media research practice and Participatory Action Research. He has an international reputation as a filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in documentaries with a focus on race, class and resistance working the collective Migrant Media which he co-founded. His most recent film Ultraviolence (2020) was officially selected in the BFI London Film, won a Special Jury Award - Queens World Film Festival 2021 in New York, Special Audience Award - Arbetar Film Festival 2021 in Sweden and won the Best Documentary – British Urban Film Festival 2021 in the United Kingdom. In 2023 he was the winner of the Joy Gardner Arts & Education Award in recognition for commitment to truth and justice through radical documentary work. He graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art at University of the Arts London and went on to gain a Diploma in Television at Goldsmith’s College London and his PhD at Sheffield Hallam University. Based at Coventry University for 18 years he led the MA 21 st Century Media Practice before joining the Research Centre for Global Education where he focused on neurodiversity in education and supervised several PhD’s to completion. His emphasis was on participatory and inclusive longitudinal research methodologies and he has been recognised as establishing notions of a ‘documentary of force’ and of ‘obstinate memory’ which grew out of his film practice in industry and which he brought into education. He is currently leading the MA Global Media & Communications at Regent’s University London. In 2001 he directed Injustice, the multi award winning critically acclaimed documentary about police killings of Black citizens in the UK, the film gained press coverage across national and international channels including CNN and has had profiles including on broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 and in the Guardian and the Observer newspapers. Recent productions include Exposed with Anandi Ramamurthy (58 minutes/2022) looking at racism as experienced by Black and Asian health workers during Covid, which was supported by the Arts & Humanities research Council UK, as well as Palestine Returned (i-doc/2019) an interactive documentary with youth in Gaza. He is currently co-organising a 10 year Participatory Action Research project in the form of a People's Tribunal which is investigating methods for restorative justice on state sanctioned killings in the UK and working with partners in Brazil, Palestine, Ireland, France, Colombia and the USA. Forthcoming publications include The Covering not the Coverage - Challenging Media Collusion in UK State Killings in the volume Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities: Multidisciplinary Interpretations. UCL Press. He is co-editing the volume Anti-Racist Nursing and Midwifery: A Resource for Students, Practitioners, Educators, and Activists. London: Routledge. His most recent film Rebellion about the Black and Asian communities resistance to the Far-right in the UK in 1980’s, will be released next year and is supported by the British Film Institute DocSociety. >> His publications: Here |
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