Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
Dr. Steven W. Wilhelm is the Kenneth and Blaire Mossman Professor of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee. In 2016 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology as well as a Sustaining Fellow of ASLO. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of AAAS. In 2021, he was awarded (along with Curtis Suttle) the John R Martin award from ASLO for their contribution describing the Viral Shunt. His research group studies synergies between microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles in lakes and oceans. Lab members use biomolecular tools - DNA and RNA sequencing, metabolomics, and PCR-based quantitative analyses - to study viruses, bacteria, cyanobacteria and algae.
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Head of Subject - Fashion Marketing and Photography, University of South Wales
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Professor and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics, University of Otago
Steve Jackson is a Professor specialising in the socio-cultural analysis of sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his post at Otago Steve has served as a Visiting Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), the University of British Columbia and Wilfred Laurier University (Canada), Federal University of Parana (Brazil), Waseda University (Japan), Shanghai University (China), the National Taiwan Normal University and was recently appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Steve has been honoured with a New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence. Professionally, he is a past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and Research Committee 27 of the International Sociology Association (ISA), 2008-2015.
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Professor of Classics, Miami University
Professor Steven L. Tuck is Professor of Classics at Miami University. After earning his B.A. in History and Classics at Indiana University, he received his Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. He held the postdoctoral Arthur and Joyce Gordon Fellowship in Latin epigraphy at The Ohio State University.
An esteemed teacher, Professor Tuck received the 2013 E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award, Miami University’s highest honor for innovative and effective undergraduate teaching. In addition, the Archaeological Institute of America, North America’s oldest and largest organization devoted to archaeology, presented him with its Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2014. He also has been named a Distinguished Scholar and an Altman Faculty Scholar at Miami University.
Professor Tuck has conducted archaeological fieldwork and research in Italy, Greece, England, and Egypt. He has directed more than a dozen study tours in Italy, concentrated on the city of Rome and the area around the Bay of Naples, including Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Island of Capri. He has given more than 50 public lectures, including as a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America.
Professor Tuck is the author of numerous articles featured in international journals on such topics as the lives of sailors in the Roman navy, the schedule of gladiatorial games at Pompeii, the decorative program of the amphitheater at Capua, the professional organizations of spectacle performers, Roman sculpture, and triumphal imagery across the ancient Roman world. He is the author of "A History of Roman Art," a lavishly illustrated introduction to the topic.
Professor Tuck has taught two previous Great Courses: Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City and Experiencing Rome: A Visual Exploration of Antiquity’s Greatest Empire.
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Senior Lecturer at the African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Steven Mathetsa is a senior lecturer at the African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School. He is a professionally registered scientist with over 18 years’ experience in the fields of sustainable development, environmental management, climate change, water, and energy resources management. Prior to joining the AELC, he worked for private and public entities such as Eskom, Transnet and Anglo Coal.
Dr Mathetsa has a BSc in natural and environmental sciences (UJ), BSc Honours and MSc in environmental management (UNISA), Postgraduate Diploma in energy leadership and PhD in environmental studies (Wits University). His research interest lies within the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus within the discourse of climate change and how the supply of these key resources can be sustained through formulation of integrated policies and systems thinking approaches.
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Lecturer in Pharmacology, Lancaster University
Steven (Steve) Hall is a Lecturer in Pharmacology at Lancaster University in the UK and a snakebite researcher with a focus on the discovery and development of synergistic small molecule drug combinations as novel treatments of snakebite-induced tissue necrosis.
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Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
Steve’s research interests intersect the moral, psychosocial, economic and political dimensions of the transition to sustainable prosperity. In addition to his research at the University of Surrey, he is part of the State of Tipping Points working group based at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter. This working group is producing the first State of Tipping Points Report to be launched at the COP 28 Conference, December 2023. Linked to this, Steve is on the editorial team of a special issue of Earth System Dynamics journal.
Steve’s PhD at the University of Surrey, supervised by Ian Christie, Alex Penn and Birgitta Gatersleben, addressed knowledge gaps in the field of climate politics and policy advocacy in the UK. He developed a typology and method for mapping the UK ‘ecosystem’ of actors, qualitatively analysed 100 expert views on the transition to net zero carbon, and argued for a more radical, science- and equity-based ‘rapid transition’ to net zero by 2035 at the latest.
Steve has authored a variety of peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, policy papers, articles and blogs. He was expert reviewer to the UN IPCC’s Second-Order Draft of Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG3), and to the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Professor of Precision Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Prof. Steve Kerrigan is Deputy Head of the School of Pharmacy (Research), Professor of Precision Therapeutics, Head of the Cardiovascular Infection Research Group which is part of the Irish Centre of Vascular Biology and Co-founder/Chief Scientific Officer at Inthelia Therapeutics (RCSI Spin-out Company).
Prof. Steve Kerrigan is an honours graduate in B.Sc Pharmacology from King's College University of London, UK and obtained an M.Sc in Immunopharmacology from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He received a PhD in Cardiovascular Infection specifically investigating platelet-bacterial interactions from RCSI in 2001. Following this he carried out postdoctoral research in the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Prof. Kerrigan was appointed lecturer in Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy in 2008, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013, Associated Professor in 2017 and Full Professor in 2021.
Since his faculty appointment, he has published over 90 articles in leading peer-reviewed international journals and filed 11 patent/disclosures and supervised 21 doctoral candidates to completion as primary supervisor. He has a current h-index of 37. Accolades include a Health Research Board Training Fellowship, Science Foundation Ireland Career Development Award and Enterprise Ireland Commercialization Fund. He has presented over 60 invited talks at national and international universities, conferences and symposia including International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Platelets International Symposium, American Society for Microbiology and the European Shock Society. He has served as an invited reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals and served as a grant reviewer for various international funding bodies. Prof. Kerrigan is a member of more than 10 international societies and was elected to Chartered status (CBiol) and Fellowship of the Society of Biology (FSB) which are the highest grades of membership of the professional body. Prof. Kerrigan was previously co-chair of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific Standardization Committee in Biorheology, committee member in the European Sepsis Alliance research working group and is currently a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Life and Medical Sciences Multidisciplinary Committee.
Prof. Kerrigan has received several awards for his groundbreaking research discoveries that are now progressing to trials. These accolades include the 2023 Science Foundation Ireland Innovation Award and the 2024 Future Health Summit Innovation Award.
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Research Professional, Université Laval
I hold a PhD in agricultural economics. My areas of interest include food systems, agricultural policies, agricultural markets, behavioural economics, and new institutional economics.
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Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow at the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, The University of Bristol, and has written on inequality, wealth and poverty for academic and specialist journals as well as several newspapers.
He is the author of a number of books including The Sharing Economy, (Policy Press, 2016); Breadline Britain, The Return of Mass Poverty (Oneworld, 2015 - with Joanna Mack ) ; The Cost of Inequality (2011); Rich Britain (2006) and Poor Britain (with Joanna Mack, 1985). His previous academic posts include the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Universities of Brunel and Reading. He is also a former executive producer in the current affairs department of the BBC.
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Dr Reimers studied natural sciences at Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD in experimental psychology. He holds other degrees from Imperial College London (MSc Science Communication) and Birkbeck (BA English Literature).
Prior to coming to City University London, he held postdoctoral positions at Warwick and UCL, most recently, a fellowship from the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution.
Dr Reimers is interested in high-level cognition, in particular judgement and decision making. One particular interest is in the psychology of time - how humans and other animals represent and make decisions involving time, in particular how and why people's discounting of delayed rewards varies across individuals and contexts.
Research interests:
Other judgement and decision making interests include forecasting - how individuals and organisations can improve the predictions they make about future trends - and game theory - in particular, individual and contextual differences in strategies used for ultimatum, prisoner's dilemma and co-ordination games.
He also works on applying experimental psychology to policy issues, particularly the notion of what constitutes a 'fair' taxation structure. Further afield, Dr Reimers does work on executive control, cognitive ageing, sex differences and cerebral lateralisation.
He has wider interests in psychology, working regularly with the BBC and independent production companies on brain-science-related TV shows, and helping set up fun - yet valid - web-based psychology tests for the BBC website among other places. He also undertakes consultancy projects, examining consumer behaviour and the effects of interventions for major retailers and government departments.
Dr Reimers also has interests in using new technology in psychological research, extending from web-based research through running experiments on mobile phones, to work using Wii input devices - Balance Boards, accelerometers and the like - for recording behavioural data.
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Associate Professor of Geology, University of Adelaide
I completed my PhD in 2012 on the thermal history of Central Asia. I started at The University of Adelaide as a lecturer in Earth Sciences in 2013 and was promoted to Senior lecturer in 2017 and Associate professor in 2021. I am currently funded by the Australian Research Council as a Future Fellow (2022-2025), working on the tectonic history of the Australian-Antarctic margin. I also lead the development of novel radiometric dating methods that now allow us to constrain the timing of a large range of minerals and their tectonic settings. I have published >120 peer-reviewed international journal articles, with many in high-impact journals. My full biography and publication record can be accessed here: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/stijn.glorie.
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PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
I am a PhD candidate at McMaster University under the supervision of Dr. Drew Higgins, focused on developing next-generation beyond lithium battery materials for grid-scale energy storage.
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Senior Lecture and UKRI Future Leader Fellow, University of Liverpool
I am a Senior Lecturer and UKRI Future Leader Fellow based in the department of Infection Biology and Microbiomes within the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool. Before moving to the University of Liverpool, i was lucky enough to spend 7 years at the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, first as a postdoc and then as a lecturer.
My research interests are in development of therapies for snakebite envenoming, including traditional antivenoms, next generation antivenom and small molecule therapies. I'm particularly interested in replacing venom in antivenom manufacture with rationally designed synthetic antigens.
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Stuart Basten studied history and demography at the University of Cambridge (BA 2002; MPhil 2004; PhD 2008). During this time, he held short-term positions in Poland, Slovakia, Italy and the United States. Following postdoctoral positions in demography at St. John’s College , Oxford and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, he was awarded a ‘Future Research Leaders’ grant by the UK Economic and Social Research Council in 2012. In 2013, he was appointed University Lecturer in Social Policy and a research fellow of Green Templeton College.
He is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College; non-stipendiary lecturer in demography at St. John’s College; Research Fellow at the Risk Society and Policy Research Centre, National University of Taiwan, an Associate Research Fellow at the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and honorary professor of sociology at the Beijing Administrative College.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, the Royal Society of the Arts and the Higher Education Academy.
He is currently chair of the Asian Population Association Scientific Committee, convenor for fertility of the European Population Conference, strand organiser for fertiltiy and reproductive health for the British Society for Population Studies and editor of the series Studies in European Population published by Springer under the auspices of the European Association for Population Studies.
Along with Professor Francesco Billari, he co-founded and is the editor of openpop.org, one of the world's leading collaborative blogs on population issues.
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Professor of Law, Swansea University
Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Law at Swansea University. He completed his BA at the University of Cambridge (2000) and his PhD at the University of Southampton (2005). He is Co-Director of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) and Coordinator of the VOX-Pol Network. Stuart’s research focuses on terrorist’s use of the internet. Most recently, he has examined jihadist narratives, the strategies used to disseminate terrorist propaganda online, and regulatory responses. He has received research funding from the British Academy, Welsh Government, US Government, NATO and the EU, among others. He is the lead organiser of the biennial Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) conference, a member of Europol’s Advisory Network on terrorism and propaganda and a Senior Fellow at Hedayah. In 2016/17 he was also the holder of a Fulbright Cyber Security Award.
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Professor, Kinesiology, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health, McMaster University
Dr. Stuart Phillips is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Kinesiology. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health in Aging. Dr. Phillips' work centres on the interaction of exercise/physical activity, aging, and nutrition in skeletal muscle and body composition. Dr. Phillips is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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Professor of Geography, Director - Remote Sensing Research Centre, Chair - Earth Observation Australia, The University of Queensland
Stuart Phinn receives research funding from the Australian Government, Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian State Governments, and Google's Earth Engine Program
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Associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stuart Rennie (PhD, Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium) is Associate Professor in Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and core faculty at the UNC Bioethics Center. He is currently Principal Investigator of a NIH/Fogarty International Center bioethics training projects in South Africa, and also co-Principal Investigator of a NIH-funded project on the ethical, legal and social implications big data research for health in Africa. Dr. Rennie was Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, and is Extraordinary Associate Professor in Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. At UNC, he teaches bioethics in the School of Medicine and at the School of Public Health. He has published on a variety of bioethics themes, including informed consent, HIV testing policies, medical rationing, implementation ethics, research involving children and adolescents, health surveillance, health inequality and social justice.
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Adjunct Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University
Dr Stuart Ryder is an Adjunct Fellow with the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and a member of the Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre at Macquarie University. His research interests include supernovae, and the emerging field of Fast Radio Bursts. Stuart also works part-time as a Program Manager with Astronomy Australia Ltd at their Sydney office, overseeing Australia's Strategic Partnership with the European Southern Observatory, Giant Magellan Telescope, and engagement with the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
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Associate Professor, Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
The overall goal of my present research work at the Kirby Institute is two-fold. Firstly to define the basic mechanisms of HIV spread, from tracking entry and fusion of single HIV virions through to the more logistically challenging task of tracking viral spread through cell-cell contact. To date our laboratory is one of only a few laboratories worldwide that can image HIV spread in live HIV infected primary cell types.
The second component of my laboratory is currently involved and actively collaborating with research groups involved in using gene therapy for a treatment of a range of chronic diseases including HIV. Indeed a functional cure for HIV may lie in gene therapy. For instance, functional removal of human genes that HIV needs or attacking the viral genes directly, all represent ways to silence the viral reservoir in the long term. Whilst there are many approaches that work in cell line models, the present limitation to this approach is gene delivery. For instance the cells of the immune system that HIV attacks are unfortunately very difficult to deliver genes to. The broad aim of this project is to systematically determine the best protocol for gene delivery by using different combinations of viral proteins.
We are actively looking for capable honours, masters and PhD students who have a strong interest in the intersection of virology and cellular biology to undertake NHMRC funded projects.
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Head of Politics, University of Liverpool
Stuart joined the University of Liverpool in 2002 as a Lecturer in Social Policy. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and became Head of the Department of Politics in 2014. He is recognised as a leading expert on the UK democratic process, particularly with regard to issues associated with the mechanics of the electoral process. Stuart frequently provides UK political commentary and analysis for newspapers and broadcasters regionally, nationally and internationally. He also contributes to a range of leading political blogs, and tweets on UK politics @stuartwilksheeg
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Head of Politics, University of Liverpool
Stuart joined the University of Liverpool in 2002 as a Lecturer in Social Policy. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and became Head of the Department of Politics in 2014. He is recognised as a leading expert on the UK democratic process, particularly with regard to issues associated with the mechanics of the electoral process. Stuart frequently provides UK political commentary and analysis for newspapers and broadcasters regionally, nationally and internationally. He also contributes to a range of leading political blogs, and tweets on UK politics @stuartwilksheeg
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Research Fellow (Asian Security), Australian National University
Dr Stuti Bhatnagar is a Research Fellow (Asian Security) at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at ANU. At SDSC she will also act as the Coordinator for the Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS).
She has previous experience as a Researcher and sessional academic with the University of New South Wales, Sydney and the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
With a PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Adelaide, she specialises in Indian foreign policy and South Asian politics.
She has several peer-reviewed academic publications to her credit and is the author of India’s Pakistan Policy: How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations published by Routledge in 2020.
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Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is the curator of Umi's Archive, a multimedia project documenting Black and Muslim histories and co-founder of Sapelo Square, a digital media and education collective on Black Muslim in the US. Su’ad’s first book, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States, is a field defining study on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge and reproduce the meanings of race in the United States. Su’ad’s written scholarly work on Islam and hip hop is accompanied by her performance-based work including her one woman solo show, Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. In 2018, Su’ad was profiled as one of 25 influential American Muslims by CNN and and received the Soros Equality Fellowship in 2019. She has written broadly for outlets including: The Root, the Washington Post, Vice and Ebony Magazine, and has appeared on Al Jazeera English. Su’ad received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Princeton University, is a graduate from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed the Islamic Studies diploma program of the Institute at Abu Nour University (Damascus). Su’ad is currently an associate professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.
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Associate Professor of Business, University of Victoria
Prior to pursuing his PhD, Sudhir spent 15 years working in large corporations e.g., Citibank as well as with entrepreneurial entities that he founded or co-founded. Sudhir’s research interests coalesce around international strategy. He is particularly interested in the reasons and consequences for individuals or businesses crossing organizational or geographic boundaries.
Sudhir sees the idea of boundaries (both organizational and international) and the role they play of particular interest in a simultaneously globalizing and de-globalizing world that is also progressively becoming more specialized. The “when, why and how” firms seek to cross boundaries, thus becomes critical to understand how it impacts organizations and then to find ways to help these entities navigate these challenging issues. More recently, he has been researching the newcomer (immigrant and refugee) space in Canada from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Assistant Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Sue Bookey-Bassett is a Registered Nurse and Assistant Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also co-lead of the Better Work Better Care Coalition. In addition to her academic role, she has held numerous nursing leadership roles in healthcare organizations, nursing and health professional associations provicinally and internationally. Dr. Bookey-Bassett's program of research focuses on 2 key areas: 1) health workforce capacity building (leadership, teamwork, integrated care); and 2) healthy work environments for nurses (workload). She teaches courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Toronto Metropolitan University focusing on professional practice, interprofessional education, leadership, and integrated care. She is passionate about creating better healthcare work environments enabling healthcare professionals to provide safe quality care delivery.
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Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, University of British Columbia
BSc (Hons) Microbiology (Sheffield,UK) 1982
PhD Microbial Ecology (Sheffield, UK) 1988
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan 1988-90
Senior Researcher, MicroBioRhizogen Corp., Saskatoon 1990-93
Principle Scientific Officer, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland 1993-2003
Canada Research Chair in Soil Microbial Ecology, UBC, Canada 2003-13
Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Land & Food Systems, UBC 2008-present
110 peer-reviewed publications
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Professor emeritus, UNSW Sydney
Professor Sue Hand is a vertebrate palaeontologist researching the history of Australian mammals, continuing climate and environmental change in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, implications of that change for forest and island faunas, and the biodiversity, global relationships and evolutionary ecology of bats.
Her research interests are largely in the area of palaeontology, phylogenetics and biogeography, and specifically taxonomy, systematics, morphometrics, phylogenetics, biocorrelation, biogeography, palaeogeography, evolutionary biology and palaeoecology. Her area of special interest is fossil and modern bats, a major component of Australasia's living and fossil faunas, representing a quarter of Australian mammal species.
In these research areas, she has supervised/co-supervised 45 Honours, 3 Masters and 25 PhD students.
A key focus of the UNSW palaeontology group is the study of the fossil-rich Cenozoic faunas of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland.
She has served on the Australian Research Council's Biological and Biotech Science Committee for ERA 2018, and ARC College of Experts 2019-2021
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Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
I have lived in Zambia, South Africa, the UK and Australia and have degrees from the Universities of Cape Town, East Anglia and New South Wales. My PhD (UNSW) was a postcolonial reading of the works of J.M. Coetzee and André Brink. I have held academic and leadership positions at UNSW and Monash Universities; and have been Distinguished Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen (2009) and R. Marika Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Cologne (2013).
My books include Pen and Power: A Post-colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and André Brink (1996), Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction (2004), Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville (ed. 2010) and Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction (co-ed. 2011). Recent publications are Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing with Anne Brewster (Routledge, 2019) and Reading Coetzee’s Women (co-ed, Palgrave, 2019).
I have published numerous book chapters and journal articles on J. M. Coetzee, and on postcolonial, Australian and South African literatures. I was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant entitled "Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing" in 2014 with Assoc. Prof. Anne Brewster with whom I am currently researching contemporary Australian women's writing on war.
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UoM-BSL Principal Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Sue Olney is the UoM-BSL Principal Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and a Visiting Fellow in the Public Service Research Group in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra. Her research examines the impact of market-based reform of public services on marginalised citizens, with a focus on disability services, employment and the welfare-to-work service system.
Sue has worked in universities, government and in the not-for-profit sector, and been involved in a range of cross-government, cross-sector and interdisciplinary research projects, government and community sector initiatives, committees and working groups to promote access and equity in employment, education, training and disability services in Australia and internationally. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and is the Director of the social policy discussion platform Power to Persuade.
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
Dr Sue Onslow is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She is a leading British oral historian and is currently working on the AHRC-funded oral history of the modern Commonwealth. She is on the Editorial Board of the Cold War History journal. She is also a member of Chatham House, a member of the Advisory Board for the Marjan Project for Conflict and Wildlife Conservation (King's College) and on the board of the Young People in International Affairs at Monash SA University, South Africa. She has published extensively on post-war British foreign policy, South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and the Cold War in the region. She is preparing a monograph on South Africa and the Rhodesian UDI period, to be published in 2012; and an oral history of the Rhodesian security forces in the Rhodesian bush war.
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of New England
I am a specialist in social psychology and have studied prejudice towards several groups in Australia and overseas, focusing on the psychological underpinnings of these attitudes. In a related area, I conduct research on the topic of immigration. I am interested in the processes involved in adjusting to a new society, and have examined acculturation from the points of view of the immigrant and the receiving society, including receiving community responses to immigrants who adopt different acculturation strategies. My most recent research investigates Australians’ attitudes to refugee settlement in regional locations, and their shifting attitudes over time as refugees become embedded in the local community.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
Dr Sugandha Srivastav is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Her research focuses on designing effective climate policy in low and middle-income countries. She also explores incentives for clean innovation & finance, and the political economy of energy transitions.
Sugandha is an affiliate of the Economics Department, an Early Career Research Fellow at Saïd Business School and a researcher for the Climate Compatible Growth Programme, where she leads the workstream on Economic Policy in low- and middle-income countries. Sugandha was awarded the Distinguished CESifo affiliate award for her work on bringing early-stage green technologies to market.
Sugandha has worked as an environmental and energy economist at Vivid Economics and ICRIER advising governments, private firms, and international organisations on a broad range of issues related to climate, energy, innovation, and natural resource management. She holds a DPhil in Environmental Economics from Oxford, and an MSc in Economics from LSE.
Sugandha’s research interests include the:
economics of clean innovation
environmental & energy economics
public economics
political economy of energy transitions
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