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Yun Shen completed her PhD in Applied Finance at the University of South Australia in September 2020. Since completing the PhD, she has held consecutive research-intensive appointments that have allowed me to build an independent research portfolio. Her research spans corporate finance, ESG disclosure, CEO characteristics, corporate scandals and fraud, default risk, and anti-money laundering. She has published over 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, including in high-quality journals such as Accounting & Finance, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, and Celebrity Studies.
 

Kelly Sherridan is a Senior Lecturer and consultant forensic scientist at Northumbria University, UK. Prior to joining Northumbria Kelly spent many years as a Senior Forensic Reporting Officer at LGC Forensics (now Eurofins). During this time, she dealt with cases ranging from routine burglaries to high profile murder cases and has given evidence in court on numerous occasions.

Currently, she is chair of the UK Fibre Forum, which she founded in 2016, and serves on the committee of the ENFSI European Textile and Hair Group (ETHG) working group since 2017. Kelly also works with police forces, training CSI's and scientific support staff to improve their awareness and raise the profile of trace evidence in criminal investigations.

Kelly’s research is primarily casework driven based upon her experiences as a forensic scientist and from current issues in the field. Its focus is on the analysis and discrimination of trace evidence, its transfer and persistence mechanisms, and how such data can be used in the evaluation of evidence. More recently, her research interests have expanded to include the environmental impact of microfibres/plastics.

Dr Alexandra Sherlock is a lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University with expertise in the study of footwear. In 2021 Alex founded the Footwear Research Network to support the ongoing development of academic enquiries into shoes and to enhance research impact and industry collaboration.

Paurav Shukla is the Professor of Marketing at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. His research interests include cross-cultural marketing, comparative consumer behaviour, and marketing in emerging markets with a particular focus on luxury brands. Paurav’s career began in industry, and he continues to work hand in hand with industry as a researcher, practitioner and advisor. Previously he has held academic positions at University of Essex (UK), Glasgow Caledonian University (UK), University of Brighton (UK), Liverpool Hope University (UK), Gujarat Law Society (India) and corporate organizations including 7th Sense Consulting (UK & India), Scanpoint Graphics (India), Claris Lifesciences (India) among others. He also holds visiting professorship at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany; Aalto University, Finland; Misr International University, Egypt among others.

He has also delivered corporate training, teaching and consulting assignments for organisations in Europe, Asia and Africa, and has been actively involved in funded research projects. He is currently working on several client projects involving large scale comparative datasets. He has directly taught students representing more than 60 nationalities and been one of the pioneers in e-teaching methods wherein he employs cutting edge web and social media technologies in his teaching approach. His website www.pauravshukla.com gets more than 20,000 hits per month globally. He has written widely in the areas of his research domain in top-tier journals including Journal of Business Research, Journal of World Business, Marketing Letters, Information & Management, International Marketing Review, Psychology & Marketing, Eating behaviours, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, Journal of Entrepreneurship, and Journal of Product & Brand Management among others. He is an expert in quantitative techniques including structural equation modelling and complex land and field experiments and has also published papers using mixed methods approach. He has contributed chapters to edited books, case studies and popular accounts of his work have appeared in the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Woman’s Wear Daily (the fashion bible), Luxury Society, Newsweek, National Post of Canada and LiveMint Wall Street Journal, among others. He has been involved as a guest editor for journals, conference chair, and track chair for prestigious conferences such as EMAC. He is also on the editorial and review boards of several renowned conferences and journals.

Abu Siddique is Mongabay's Contributing Editor for Bangladesh. He has worked for several of the leading national dailies including Dhaka Tribune, Daily Sun and the Business Standard, and has explored the remotest corners of the country in search of stories. 

Karen Sim is a system change specialist in Forum for the Future’s Southeast Asia team. For the past four years, she has been leading Forum’s work exploring value chains and the impact of brand-supplier relationships in a variety of circular textile challenges, and what deep transformations within the fashion ecosystem could look like. 

Karen’s background is in environmental sustainability where she worked with companies and governments on a wide range of sustainability challenges, notably in food commodities, wildlife trade as well as landscape and species conservation with international organisations such as WWF and the WBCSD.

Outside of work, Karen has spent many years as an environmental advocate with various volunteer groups that influence and aims to create positive change environmental legislation in Singapore, speaking up about climate and wildlife policies in public forums. 

Education: MA Intelligence & International Security (War Studies Dept, Kings College, London), Certificate in Political Studies (Sciences Po, Aix-en-Provence), BA European Studies (Hons) (National University of Singapore)

A mentor at Araliya Fashions, Sudhanshu Singhal till April 2022 headed the Africa operations at the Ethiopia based Kanoria Africa Textiles PLC. Araliya Fashions aspires to create a world class sourcing organisation, enabling global buyers to develop a robust, responsive and agile supply chain. 

It is creating strategic associations and forging partnerships with manufacturing set-ups across product categories and working closely with them on product development, benchmarking processes and overall effectiveness. 

Araliya seeks to leverage its team's extensive experience and exposure to product development and handling sourcing and supply chain for large retail brands and manufacturing experience of handling world class profitable operations across multiple geographies and sourcing locations.

Tetyana Solovey is a PhD sociology student at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on upcycling of worn clothes. It is shaped by her academic interests in the sociology of the body, consumption, material culture, and affect theory, as well as extensive experience in the fashion industry as a journalist, editor, and curator.

With over 15 years of experience in leading media, she spent seven years as Fashion Features Editor at Vogue Ukraine and two years as Editor-in-Chief of the online media platform Buro. As an editor, she focused on the cultural and political aspects of fashion and sustainability advocacy. During this time, she successfully developed and led editorial projects aimed at promoting the integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals across print and digital platforms in the fashion and luxury sectors.

She is also a 2022 Chevening Scholar and graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a Master’s in Media and Cultural Studies.

Dr Amanda Spry is a Senior Lecturer of Marketing at RMIT University, Australia. She received her PhD and postdoctoral fellowship training from the University of Melbourne and previously worked at Cardiff Business School, UK.

Amanda writes on the critical role that brands play for consumers, companies, markets and society. She is particularly interested in the capacity and versatility of brands to drive a company's bottom line, to engage in sociopolitical activism and to contribute to societal transformation.

Before completing her PhD, Amanda worked as a research consultant at Colmar Brunton (now Kantar). She regularly contributes to Australian and international media outlets as a branding expert.

Thomoas Stanton is an AXA Research Fund Fellow in Loughborough University's Division of Geography and Environment. His research expertise is in the field of freshwater pollution, with a particular focus on plastic, microplastic, and natural textile fibre pollution. Stanton has postdoctoral experience in stakeholder engagement and environmental policy, through which he has developed a particular interest in the relationships between different stakeholders and the environment.