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Tell us about yourself!

Please add a post using the "➕" icon in the bottom right corner ↘ of the padlet board. Feel free to mention:

Your name in the title (or how you prefer to be called)

📍 Where are you from? (city, country, community, ...)

👅 Languages you speak

🎓 Your current status and school in the UofG (e.g. PGR, School of Education, 2021 entry)

📚 Your educational / professional background(s)

🌟 Your current research area / keywords

💭 What is your research about? (in less than 10 words!)

🏓 Your hobbies, professional or personal interests

Please consider these bullet points as a gentle guideline rather than an instruction to introduce yourself 🙃

Feel free to add (less professional) pictures, photos, gifs, memes, links, and anything you believe can be useful for others to know about yourself!

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The GSD area features a pinboard (near the printer).

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🌈 Once you completed your digital profile...

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🌈 Once you completed your digital profile...

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...please comment below whether:

1. your profile is ready;

2. if you are OK with your profile being printed in colour and put on the physical board near the printer in the GSD area.

Once at least 10 profiles will be ready, those will be printed, so we avoid lonely profiles on the pinboard 😉

Also, we may leave the goofy pictures here only, so they don't get printed for all ARC level 5 visitors to admire 🙃

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📍 (where you are from)

👅 (languages)

🎓 (your status)

📚 Backgrounds:

🌟 Current research areas:

💭 (your study in less than 10 words)

🏓 Hobbies/Interests:

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Hi, I am Sasha (which funny enough is a short from Alexander)

📍 Born in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia, lived before in Moscow, Spain, and Scotland

👅 Russian, English, Spanish (un poquito), French (comme ci comme ça)

🎓 PGR, School of Education (2022)

📚 Backgrounds: computer engineering, data science, higher education, student organisations and learning design

🌟 Current research areas: higher education pedagogies, teacher identities, doctoral researchers

💭 How do doctoral researchers become teachers in higher education?

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I like travelling, hiking, cooking, learning how to learn, jogging, MCU, Rick and Morty, and adding emojis to texts as you could notice 😁

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📍 Taiwan, a small but beautiful island.

👅Mandarin, English (I have experience teaching people Mandarin, tell me if you are interested)

🎓 PGR, School of Education (2022)

📚 Backgrounds: Chinese Literature, Cultural Policy, Museum Studies, and Education

🌟 Current research areas: Refugee Integration, World Heritage, Multicultural Identity, Worldview theory

💭 Co-creating the Meanings of World Heritage Sites with Migrations: A World View Perspective

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I am a Cat person, a Tea lover, Museum buff. Sometimes going hiking and enjoy travelling. Cheers!

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📍 I'm from a coastal province of northern Vietnam, named Thai Binh (it means peace & harmony in English :)

👅 Vietnamese, English

🎓 PGR (2+1/6) years :P

📚 Backgrounds: Development Economics, Applied microeconomics

🌟 Current research areas: poverty (low-development) traps, behavioral economics

💭 How to design the right anti-poverty policy for the right people at the right time?

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I love cooking, especially with someone who is willing to offer to tidy up :D, also love having a walk in the woods and feeling connected with nature. I have a puppy pet named Po Po back in Vietnam and love playing hide and seek with him :) I also enjoy gardening back home, teaching & reading to my "kids", and chatting with the elderly. I'm keen to get to know people from marginalized groups and their circumstances. I learned so much from them and they also inspire my research.

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📍 Originally from Minden in NW Germany, but lived in the Caribbean, Ireland, Wales and Vietnam for a while

👅 German, English, very basic Spanish & French and very, very basic Russian (also: passionate Latin lover🙃)

🎓 PGR, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (2021 entry)

📚 Backgrounds: Physical geography & oceanography, some professional experience in & outside academia

🌟 Current research areas: Socio-ecological systems, nature-based solutions, coastal wetland restoration

💭 Mangrove restoration and conservation ("successes and failures") in SEA

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: Hiking, swimming, surfing... and therefore predominantly travelling to islands/coastal areas, while I am more flexible with reading and can pursue it anywhere in the world😁

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📍 I was born in London, England. In the same town as English national treasure David Attenborough (this is excited to a Zoologist!)

👅I speak English and am currently learning Swahili (and loving it!). I have previously learnt Spanish and French, which I understand on a basic level but am not confident speaking
🎓 PGR, School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, 2022 entry

🌟Current research areas: Rabies, dogs, culling, epidemiology, socio-economics

💭“Motivations behind mass culling of Canines as a form of Rabies control: a socio-economic perspective”

(But I have just started my PhD, so this may change over time!)

🏓 Hobbies/interests: Spending time with my little dog (Zola), cycling, running, reading, learning Swahili, volunteering as membership officer for the REED Ecological Network

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📍 (I have bits of me in places and bits of places in me : ) Including London, Dublin, Wicklow, Amsterdam, Idomeni - Greece, Lebanon and Glasgow

👅 Irish, English, Arabic, Dutch and French and now Glasgewian - all to questionable abilities

🎓 LKAS PhD (Working with SoEducation, Soc & Political Science and Institute of Health & Wellbeing = 2023 submission)

📚 I call myself a pracademic; working and thinking with the humanitarian aid sector

🌟 Structures of Aid, Forced Migration and Healthcare

💭 What is your research about? Developing the ways in which spaces of medical aid can be more equitable in Lebanon

🏓 Rookie munro bagger, passionate cyclist, novice fiddle player and determined language student

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Hi my name is Sundas, but my Russian friends like to call me Sundie :)

📍 Geographically from southern Pakistan, spiritually from the Scottish highlands/the Himalayas/everywhere else in nature that feels like home!

👅 Sindhi, Urdu, English (fluent) and very basic Arabic (currently learning and loving it!)

🎓 LKAS PhD, supervisors in the School of Education/School of Critical Studies. 2020-2024.

📚 Backgrounds: Finance, Education, Islamic History, Research.

🌟 Current research areas: environmental literacies and pluriversality, ecopedagogy, Islamic environmentalism, indigenous knowledges, decolonization.

💭 How can traditional/indigenous environmental literacies be used for contemporary environmental education?

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: contemplating the quiet language of nature, permaculture, making/appreciating art, natural sciences, food & culture, lots of reading and photography!

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Delivering humanitarian assistance to populations in some of the most dangerous places in the world

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📍Born in an unrecognised (#Somaliland) small country of 3.5 Million people on the Horn of Africa-boarding with #Yemen on the #RedSea, #Ethiopia and #Somalia.

📚I am from a predominantly pastoral nomadic community, so I continued with my nomadic tradition and lifestyle throughout my career-crossed borders and lived, studied and worked in many parts of the world including India (Hyderabad & Chidambaram), Norway, the UK (Brighton), Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland, Scotland and UAE. I worked in difficult places for the UN, Mott MacDonald, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Handicap International, THET & International Solidarity Foundation.

👅Somali, English, Arabic, & Norwegian (very basic) I can also speak basic Hindi and Ksawahil.

🎓 PhD Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences

🌟 The focus of my current research is the social determinants of maternal health among nomads in Somaliland. I am looking at the sociocultural and ecological factors/barriers to the optimum uptake of maternal healthcare services in two regions with a large nomadic population in Somaliland. In the past, I have contributed to a couple of research works in disability, child protection (looking at the challenges of implementing international child protection standards in Sub-Saharan African Countries), FGM, social and behaviour changes and barriers to providing care/services to adolescent pregnant mothers in Somaliland.

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I love reading, cooking, farming and pastoralism (looking after camels

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📍 Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland

👅 My mother tongue is German, I speak fluent English and Spanish, and very broken Kiswahili and French

🎓 PGR, School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine

📚 Backgrounds: Environmental science, Immunology, Nutrition, Biology

🌟 Current research areas:
antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic access, use and quality

💭 How are antibiotics accessed and used in rural communities in northern Tanzania?

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I love being out in nature, travelling, hiking and exploring new places. I am also a dancer (bachata, salsa) and like partying. (I recently started my own dance/fitness class, let me know if you are interested!)
I also enjoy cooking, baking and have a thing for owls!

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📍 Hi, I'm from beautiful yet the most crowded country in South-East Asia, Indonesia. To be specific, I live in Central Java Island, Magelang. Magelang means surrounded by 5 mountains :)
It's where the world famous Borobudur Temple located (Hope you guys ever heard it hehe)

👅 Indonesian of course and English. Used to be French Tour Guide for a while but the only words I remember only je n'est je pas parle France :P

🎓 PGR first year in Adam Smith School of Business

📚 Backgrounds: Business and Management, my pathway is in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

🌟 Current research areas: Innovation Resilience and Sustainable Growth in the Time of Crises

💭 Develop IRSG Model towards Business Sustainability

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I love Muay thai, anyone fancy to practice together? Never doing it anymore since moving here :(
Enjoy travelling, cycling, reading and watching of course. If Sasha loves MCU, I'm on contrary, I'm a DC fans haha

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📍 Hello! I'm from Kenya, born and raised. Lived in Florence (Italy) for a while.

👅 Swahili, English, Luhya and very basic German.

🎓 LKAS PhD, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences/Interdisciplinary Studies, Final year (2023 submission).

📚 Backgrounds: Hydrology & hydraulics, Water resources, Geoscience.

🌟 Current research areas: Flood risk modelling, remote sensing and Artficial Intelligence (AI)

💭 AI techniques integrated with video remote sensing for flood hazard modelling

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I enjoy running/the outdoors, trivia/board games, passionate about learning new cultures/histories and an amateur chef/baker.

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📍Lanark, Scotland.

👅English, Scots (are we counting this as a language?)

🎓PGR, School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, 2022 entry.

📚 Backgrounds: One Health, Ecology, Veterinary biosciences.

🌟 Current research areas: CCHF in Tanzania and JEV in Asia and Australia.

💭 How do we measure infectious disease spread in low-resource areas?
(Also just started my PhD, so will probably change)

🏓 Hobbies/interests: I play korfball (a team sport that's like mixed gender netball) feel free to come to a team practice if interested! Love to travel, read and get so much serotonin from a wee coffee and walk round the West End!

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📍 I'm from Mexico, although I've been living in Glasgow for quite some time now

👅 I speak good English and bad Spanish, and a bit of French and German to go by.

🎓 I just recently graduated (June 2022) with a PhD in management, and going back to the industry soon-ish.

📚 Backgrounds: I was originally trained as an engineer, but I sneaked into the business school (undetected until now). I have experience with digital technologies, innovation, and business strategies.

🌟 Current research areas: I work on digital innovation, technology-based business models, and strategic forecasting.

💭 What value do digital technologies have for society, the economy and the environment?

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: I like cycling, watching films, cooking, and meeting interesting people and places! Back home, I build things; here, I miss my workshop.

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Hi, I am Tsion, my friends back home call me Tsi

📍 I am from Ethiopia..specifically from the capital city, Addis Ababa

👅 English, I am a fluent speaker of Amharic, one of the working languages of the country (we have more than 81 languages)
🎓 I am currently a PGR at the school of political and social science, 2022 entry

📚 By profession my background is in Public Health <3

🌟 My current research areas:
mental health, gender difference, pastoralist communities, One Health

💭 How is the mental health among different gender in the OneHealth context in pastoralist comminutes of Afar?

🏓 I like going out for a walk, visiting new places, and spending time and chatting with friends.

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Hello, I am Elem

📍 I was born in Mexico and moved to the US in high school. I am from Columbus Ohio (Buckeye State)

👅 I speak English and Spanish (I rather not speak Spanish, I don’t have the “R or RR” sound).

🎓 I completed my PhD in Management in June 2022

📚 My background is in International Business, Business Administration and Organisational Behaviour

🌟 Research areas: digital innovation, scaling digital start-ups

💭 My research interests include: digital innovation, digital transformation, digital entrepreneurship, start-ups and scale-ups, HealthTech start-ups

🏓 Reading, running, I love all sports (except soccer ⚽🥴)

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📍I am from Lusaka, Zambia

👅 Languages: I speak English, Nyanja, Tonga, Bemba & Lozi

🎓 PGR in Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences

📚 Background: Sociology & Demography

🌟 Current research area: One Health, gender, human African trypanosomiasis

💭 What is your research about? My research is focusing on developing a One Health approach among various stakeholders in the management of human African trypanosomiasis

🏓 Hobbies: Reading, photography, making and playing music, and playing chess.

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📍 From Germany

👅 English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish

🎓 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

📚 Backgrounds: political science, political economy, mathematics

🌟 Current research areas: Resourcing international organizations: How funding affects effectiveness

💭 My research examines what makes international development organizations (like the UN) effective, efficient, and responsive in addressing global development challenges.

🏓 Hobbies/Interests: Passionate piano player, singer and chorister, and being outdoors

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📍Canada, but in the UK for 13 years and counting...

👅 English and, once upon a time, some French

🎓 International Development Research Manager in the Glasgow Centre for International Development and the Strategic Research Initiatives team in Research & Innovation Services

📚 My educational background is in Biology, Sociology and Behavioural Ecology, but that feels further and further away...

🌟 I support any and all activity focussed on Low- and Middle-Income Country challenges across UofG. This means helping people find funding, sharing information about events across the University, pushing for changes to how UofG works, sharing best research practice and connecting people across disciplinary and administrative boundaries

💭 My research career is behind me, but my focus is on breaking down power structures in international research and supporting the development of equitable partnerships

🏓 Cooking, reading, running (slowly) and snacking.

Please contact me at Mary.Ryan@glasgow.ac.uk to be added to the GCID mailing list or to have a chat about your research and to find out how I can support you.

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📍 Germany

👅 German, English, and some astonishingly bad Spanish & French, and even worse Russian

🎓 PGR, School of Social & Environmental Sustainability & School of Geographical and Earth Sciences (2021 entry)

📚 Background in Physical Geography & Oceanography with experience inside & outside academia

🌟 Focus: Conservation of coastal ecosystems

💭 Successes and failures in mangrove restoration and conservation in Vietnam

🏓 Interests: Calisthenics, yoga, reading

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📍 I grew up in Pennslyvania but also studied and worked in New York, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. 🇺🇸 Most recently, I lived for nearly 7 years in Sydney, Australia. 🇦🇺🦘

👅 English (fluent), Kiswahili (decent but rusty), Spanish (very rusty)

🎓 Lecturer, School of Education

📚 Backgrounds: music, education, international development, sociology

🌟 Current research areas: teacher education, global education policies, international education development

💭 I research how local and global conditions enable and constrain good teaching.

🏓 Drumming, traveling, hiking, cycling, running, and touring Glasgow's playgrounds with my toddler

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Hello, my name is Nicol.

You are welcome to visit me in office 5107

I am a cancer researcher from the School of Cancer Sciences which is part of the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences

I am interested in finding ways that place the human experience as a driver for real-world research and societal impact.

I am interested in creating conditions that allow an inclusive & diverse range of stakeholders to participate in evolving our ways of working and value systems.

It goes without saying that I am interested in global health inequalities.

You can find out more about me by scanning the QR code above

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Hi I am Iris (Sih-Ying) from Taiwan. I am Curator in Museum of Arts and also an Artist!

📍 I was born in Rui-Fang Township, New Taipei City, Taiwan which had been a gold mining area.

👅 Mandarin (Traditional Chinese), English, Japanese(basic level), Taiwanese (Dialect), Kebalan (endangered indigenous language of Taiwan)

🎓 PGR, School of Education (2023)

📚 Backgrounds: Visual Arts, Contemporary Art Theories, Museum Education, Cultural Policies, NGO Management

🌟 Current research areas:

Socially Engaged Arts, Creative Ageing, Inclusive Art and Social Prescribing.

💭 Exploring the Art-informed Approach for People Living with Dementia: Arts on Prescription in Taiwan

🏓 Hobbies/Interests:

Museum Lover! Guitar player, Sketching, Knitting, Hiking, and Dance Improvisation.

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📍 Clinton, NJ, USA, but long-time resident Brighton, UK, now in Larbert
👅 English and very poor Spanish
🎓 Professor of Psychology & Adult Learning, School of Education
📚 PhD in implicit gender stereotypes in occupational interviews
🌟 Intersectionally inclusive adult learning
💭Using novel and mixed-methods data to address educational inequalities
🏓 Pilates, Puppies and Pubs

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📍 Glasgow, Scotland

👅  English (and v. rusty Swahili)

🎓 Senior Lecturer in Human Geography  (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

📚 My background is pretty boring! I first came to Glasgow uni to study Geography in 2004 and 18 years later still here in same dept.

🌟 Embodied experiences of global health inequalities

💭 I am interested in the politics of global health inequalities and how these play out  across different scales. I'm also interested in the ethics and politics of international research.

🏓 Yoga, food, music (listening not playing! Zero actual musical talent)