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DR NAUMAN REAYAT, COORDINATOR GSN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Convener, Global South Network.
Convener, Constitutionalism in Developing Democracies
Socio-Legal Studies Association.
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PROF PABLO CORTES
School of Law, University of Leicester.
Pablo Cortés holds the Chair in Civil Justice at Leicester Law School, where he teaches and conducts research in the fields of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), civil procedure, and consumer law. He also serves as an arbitrator-adjudicator for CEDR, handling aviation, telecommunications, and water disputes.
Pablo has authored three books on technology and dispute resolution, including his latest work, The Law of Consumer Redress in an Evolving Digital Market, published by Cambridge University Press and featuring a foreword by the Lord Chief Justice. Additionally, he serves as a co-editor for the legal journal Mediation: Theory and Practice.
Pablo is a fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolutions at the University of Massachusetts. In 2012, he was a Gould Research Fellow at Stanford University.
Pablo has also worked as a consultant for several organizations, including assisting the European Commission in drafting legislative proposals for the ADR Directive and the ODR Regulation. In December 2022, he received the National Mediation Award in the House of Commons, winning the category of ADR Academic Researcher of the Year.
DR JING WANG
Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Leicester.
Dr Jing Wang, Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester, Member of Global South Network, and Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Internet Law & Policy (SCILP – the University of Strathclyde), specialises in Antitrust / Competition Law teaching and research. Her research is published in leading international journals Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, World Competition, Fordham International Law Journal, amongst others.
Jing’s research examines how traditional Competition Law prohibitions and regulators face increasing challenges to keep pace with; and how to combat Online Platforms’ anti-consumer anti-competitive practices across Digital Markets globally, which adversely affect consumers and businesses.
Jing also researches how to make study of law more stimulating for students: her innovative work in this area arose out of her research funded by the ESRC IAA and the Clark Foundation, leading to her development and use of digital animations to encourage students studying Antitrust and Contact to think more deeply about the impact of commercial activities on societal development.
DR LIN FENG
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Dr Lin Feng is Associate Professor of Film Studies and the Director of Studies of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester. She has broad research interests in Chinese-language cinema(s) and film history, Chinese migration and diasporic cinema, and cinematic cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Before she joined Leicester, she was the founding director of Chinese Studies at the University of Hull, where she worked with many international partners to create exchange opportunities for British and Chinese students. She is the Honorary Secretary of British Association of Chinese Studies and co-convenor of East Asian Screen Cultures SIG at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
Dr Arash (Ash) Sadeghi
Associate Professor in International Business, Department of Marketing Innovation Strategy and Operations (MISO), School of Business, University of Leicester
Ash is an Associate Professor in International Business at the University of Leicester School of Business. Prior to this role, He served as a lecturer at Aston University. His academic journey began in New Zealand, where he earned a PhD in International Business from the University of Otago.
Ash’s research is primarily focused on the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He explore the dynamics and strategies that contribute to the healthy, rapid growth of SMEs on a global scale. Topics of interest include market entry strategies, adaptation to local business environments, and leveraging innovation for global competitiveness. He also examine how SMEs can sustainably scale their operations while mitigating risks associated with international expansion.
He currently leads the Help to Grow Management initiative at the University of Leicester, a UK government-funded initiative aimed at enhancing the managerial capabilities of SMEs.
DR ATEEK MOHAMMAD
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Language Education, University of Leicester
Dr Ateek Mohammad is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the School of Education. He came to the UK in 2013 to do my PhD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL after fleeing the war in Syria. As a refugee academic and social justice activist, his research focuses on language and migration, language and identity, linguistic issues affecting refugees and migrants, minority language education and others. He has been invited as a keynote speaker and a guest to national and international events to talk about my research.
Prior to joining the University of Leicester, He worked as a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Birkbeck, University of London, and as a Teaching Fellow in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. He also taught EFL/EAP in different countries in the Middle East and also in the UK. Previously, He worked as a TV journalist and was involved in making different investigatory reports on international contemporary stories as well as researching emerging news stories.
DR AHMED ELIMAM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER.
Ahmed has been at Leicester since 2013 where he is Associate Professor in Translation Studies and the director of the MA in Translation and Interpreting. He researches Qur’an and literary translation issues and has an interest in the area of translation for the media. His recent publication, The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account, examines how translation is used by the media to create narrative about the Qur’an and Muslims.
Ahmed completed his undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature and studied a PG Diploma in Pedagogy at Mansoura University, Egypt. He then studied MA in Translation at London Metropolitan University and PhD in Translation at the University of Manchester.
DR SIGMUND WAGNER-TSUKAMOTO
Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Leicester
Dr Sigmund joined the former Management Centre at the University of Leicester in 1997. He is a senior fellow of the HEA (SFHEA) and have been working closely with Japanese institutions, obtaining research fellowships from The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and The Japan Foundation in conjunction with the Business Ethics Research Center, Tokyo. As an undergraduate he held a scholarship from the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Germany (1989–1991). Sigmund’s research is interdisciplinary. It draws on institutional economics for discussing questions of organisation, management, philosophy, ethics, religion, and the history of political and organisational economic thought. His research connects to the understanding that economics is grounded in a mutual gains program and ideals such as the ‘wealth of nations’; aiming to steer, conventionally seen, organizational outcomes through systemic intervention with incentive structures.
MASOOD AHMED
Masood Ahmed (University of Leicester) is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. He read law at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) and qualified as a solicitor at a leading international commercial law firm and practised commercial dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration) as well as undertaking commercial transactional work. His research focuses on civil procedure, civil justice systems and reform, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and international commercial arbitration. Masood’s impact case study on ADR within the English civil justice system was selected for Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. Masood was appointed to review and evaluate a novel ADR procedure – the Professional Negligence Adjudication Scheme – and worked with senior members of the judiciary (Mrs Justice Carr and Mr Justice Fraser) and leading barristers, solicitors, policy makers and the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Following the publication of his recommendations, the Scheme was implemented and forms part of the Professional Negligence Pre-action Protocol. Masood served two terms (6 years) as a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and was involved in the implementation of a number of major reforms including the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) system, reforms to the court rules on open justice and enhancing the role of ADR within the civil court process.
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