Thomas James Vaughan Williams had completed his MSc in Investigative Psychology with a distinction and had been offered a fee waiver for a PhD at the University of Huddersfield. Thomas is currently working towards gaining his Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, while also working as a part-time lecturer in Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield.
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Thomas N. Rollinger is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Red Rock Capital and as an 18-year industry veteran, he honed his skills under quantitative hedge fund legend, Edward O. Thorp (Market Wizards author Jack Schwager recently called Dr. Thorp the greatest of all time). The strategy Rollinger co-developed & co-managed with
Edward Thorp was successful enough to gain mention in two best-selling books (The Quants and Hedge Fund Market Wizards). Considered a thought leader in the futures industry, Mr. Rollinger published the highly acclaimed 37-page white paper Revisiting Kat’s Managed Futures & Hedge Funds in 2012 and co-authored both Sortino Ratio: A Better Measure of Risk and A Comparison of CTA Indexes in 2013. Previously he was a consultant to two top CTAs and he inspired the creation of an industry-leading trading system design software package. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rollinger founded and operated a systematic futures investment fund and worked for original “Turtle” Tom Shanks of Hawksbill Capital Management. After graduating college in Michigan, Mr. Rollinger became a U.S. Marine Corps Officer. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in command of a 42-man infantry platoon and was selected to be promoted to the rank of Captain before resigning his commission. He holds a finance degree with a minor in economics and is a Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Level 1 Charter Holder.
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Professor, School of Information Technology, Halmstad University
Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson is Professor in computer science, specialization in machine learning, and currently also deputy vice chancellor at Halmstad University with responsibility for research.
Thorsteinn initiated and directs Halmstad University's Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR) (see https://www.hh.se/caisr). Thorsteinn's main research direction is machine learning for knowledge creation. Some examples of Thorsteinn's ongoing projects are deep neural networks for predicting development indicators from satellite images, predictive maintenance for machines, machine activity recognition, and creating synthetic data.
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Research Project Officer, Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Thu Pham is originally from Vietnam and currently lives and works on Turrbal and Yugara country in Queensland. She is a Research Project Officer at the Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research areas include leadership in higher education and Indigenous students’ success. She completed her doctoral degree in Education at QUT, Australia, in 2016. Her doctoral research study focused on leadership to support quality improvement in Vietnamese higher education. She is currently working on several research projects focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia regarding the impact of digital inclusion challenges for low-income Indigenous families living on Mornington Island, a remote region in Queensland, and the social determinants of higher education impact on Indigenous students’ attainment. Recently, she published a Springer Brief titled: “Higher Degree by Research: Factors for Indigenous student success”.
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Research Assistant, Monash University
Thuc Bao Huynh is currently completing his PhD on Higher Education Policy.
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Assistant Professsor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
Dr. Thuy-vy T Nguyen is a pioneer and expert in studying solitude in laboratory experiments, investigating various factors that shape people experiences in solitude. She is leading the Solitude Lab in the Psychology department at Durham University. Her PhD works “Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation” is the leading literature in the field and has been cited close to 200 times. The paper inspired a TEDx talk at State University of New York Geneseo that has been viewed more than 70,000 times, and two New York Times articles in 2019.
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Doctoral Student in Community Research and Action, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Tia Spagnuolo M.S., CCC-SLP, a licensed, certified speech-language pathologist, an award-winning clinician, and is a current doctoral student in the Community Research and Action program at Binghamton University with a research focus in intersectional healthcare and health inequities among minoritized populations. She is also the manager of the Vocabulary and Reading in Youth and Children (VARY) Lab at Binghamton University.
Tia was previously an Assistant Professor at Misericordia University, where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees (Bachelor’s degree in Health Science; Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology). She has experience in private practice and nonprofit management, has presented research in the fields of voice and fluency at international, national, and state conferences, has been awarded numerous grants, and was a finalist for Misericordia University’s student-nominated 2022 Judge Max and Tillie Rosenn Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Assistant Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
Tiago Cardao-Pito is an assistant professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon), Portugal. He has been invited as a guest lecturer to several academic programs such as those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portugal (MIT in Portugal), University of Strathclyde and the Portuguese Military Academy. He also has experience working at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the private sector.
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PhD candidate in venom genomics, University of Sydney
Tian is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, looking at how diverse venoms from jellyfish to spitting cobras act on our cells. Through CRISPR screening and molecular techniques she aims to find these mechanisms of action and aid the discovery of new therapeutics for stings and bites. Tian also works as a casual academic, both as a demonstrator for university students and science outreach for the public.
Tian completed her undergraduate and honours at the University of Melbourne in neuroscience and anatomy, focusing on how enrichment and social isolation can affect the developing brain. Here she also worked at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology.
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Distinguished Professor in Chemistry and Renewable Energy, RMIT University
Tianyi Ma has multi-national, multi-university experience at several of the world’s top universities. He obtained his PhD from Nankai University, one of the top universities in China. Then, he worked at the University of Adelaide, University of Newcastle, and Swinburne University of Technology across different states of Australia. He is now a Full Professor in the School of Science at RMIT University. He was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2014 and an ARC Future Fellow in 2021, both of which are highly competitive fellowship schemes - thereby indicating his outstanding academic achievement. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2021, which is a prestigious honour to those who must have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of chemical sciences.
He is a world-leading scientist in the renewable energy field, with pioneering work conducted in areas of functional photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, thermocatalytic and piezocatalytic materials for renewable solar, mechanical and thermal energy harvesting and utilisation, as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). These processes have been further incorporated into his developed next-generation high-performance battery and supercapacitor-based energy storage devices. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed journal papers (252 as the first or corresponding author, 229 with a journal impact factor > 10, 64 with a journal impact factor > 20, 8 with a journal impact factor > 30, and > 35 invited reviews) in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials. In total, his papers have attracted over 35,000 citations with an H-index of 89. The substantial impact is also evidenced by 60 of his papers being ranked as ESI Top 1% or 0.1% Highly Cited Papers, resulting in him being ranked as the Clarivate’s ESI Highly Cited Researcher in 2020 - 2023 (both Materials Science and Chemistry fields), standing among Top 1% of the global researchers.
He is not only a champion researcher, but also an exceptional research leader. He has supervised more than 30 PhD students, many of whom have received research awards and scholarships at multiple levels. He is actively engaged in organising international and domestic conferences, and has given more than 30 plenary, keynote and invited talks. His professional leadership is also evidenced by heavy engagement in academic roles including serving as the Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for many journals such as Materials Reports: Energy, Rare Metals, and Journal of Electronic Materials; 10 themed issues were published by him as the leading guest editor.
As chief investigator, he has secured over $21m funding from the Federal Government, the Victorian State Government, and industry partners to conduct innovation work, which is not only fundamentally significant but also shows far-reaching impact for industry. Via ARC Linkage, CSIRO Collaboration, AusIndustry R&D Finding, CRC-P, ARNEA and CCUS-Technology Projects, he has established substantial collaborations with industry partners including Siemens Australia, Loy Yang Electricity, Advanced Carbon Energy, GrapheneX, and EntX. The lab-scale renewable energy devices and systems based on his game-changing functional materials and technologies have since been up-scaled to prototype demonstrations and pilot plants. He plays a key role as the group leader, chief investigator and critical initiator in securing these industry-directed funds.
He is now leading the Carbon Neutrality Group at RMIT, all while collaborating with researchers from the USA, UK, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia and other regions. He aims to combine aforementioned revolutionary technologies focusing on all sectors of the renewable energy supply chain to eventually achieve global carbon neutrality.
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Ph.D. Student in Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology
I am a PhD student in Robotics at Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines , Georgia Tech (GT), advised by Prof. Daniel I. Goldman. I am a member of Complex Rheology And Biomechanics (CRAB) Lab, my current research focuses on biologically inspired limbless and legged robot locomotion in complex environments. My research interests include bio-inspired robots and their robophysical model developing, locomotion principle and mechanics modeling, and geometric and dynamic motion planning and control.
Personal website: https://ty-wang.github.io/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WoMZexsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
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Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia
Tiffany Atkinson is a poet and literary critic. Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second, Catulla et al (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and her third collection, So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize. Her most recent, Lumen (Bloodaxe, 2021) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and winner of the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize. In 2022 she received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Tiffany is a Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently working on a collection of essays about poetry and embarrassment.
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Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received my BA in economics from Florida A&M University. As an economist and population health scientist, my goal is to understand the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in health, particularly among maternal, child, and immigrant populations. The biggest problem that keeps me up at night? The fact that black women, regardless of how much income or education they have, are the racial/ethnic group most likely to die from childbirth-related complications and give birth to babies who die before the age of 1 year. I apply methods from economics, demography, and health services research to document and unpack the sources of these disparities, and have published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Women’s Health and the American Journal of Public Health. I believe strongly that these problems have to be tackled from an interdisciplinary perspective—even if leaving your disciplinary silo makes you a little uncomfortable along the way. I am also committed to training the next generation of researchers to become better critical thinkers, better scientists, and more informed, engaged citizens.
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Co-Researcher on Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives, University of East Anglia
Tiffany Hore is a co-researcher on the University of East Anglia's project 'Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives'. She is the Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and its attached archive at the English Folk Dance and Song Society. As custodian of England's national folk archive, she has written on Vaughan Williams and spoken at conferences in the UK, Ireland and Italy. She has also organised international conferences on diversity in folk, re-inventing tradition in folk dance, song collecting, and Vaughan Williams and folk.
After studying History at Cambridge University and Library and information Studies at UCL, Tiffany worked in medical libraries for some years, before managing the library and learning resources at London Contemporary Dance School, and working on projects at UCL and King's College London. She has been at the VWML since 2020. She is also a flautist and singer.
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Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Dr. Tijl Grootswagers is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University. He is a computational cognitive neuroscientist who combines neuroimaging, AI, and behaviour experiments to understand how the brain perceives and processes information, particularly in the areas of visual perception and decision-making. He is known for his contributions to understanding the neural basis of visual perception, linking neuroimaging results to behaviour, and developing advanced neuroimaging methods.
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Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
Dame Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and is head of the School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences.
Professor Wykes has a wide-ranging portfolio of research into treatment developments and evaluation including digital technology solutions like RADAR-CNS and CONNECT which use technology to identify mental health relapses before they have devastating consequences for an individual. She also developed an effective cognitive remediation for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, CIRCuiTS. She founded the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), which employs expert researchers with experience of using mental health services. She is a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.
She edits the Journal of Mental Health. She was awarded a Damehood for her work in mental health.
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Professor, University of Heidelberg
MD (History of Medicine), Heidelberg University
ScD (Population and International Health), Harvard University
MSc (Health Systems Management), LSH&TM
MSc (Financial Economics), SOAS
MSc (Innovation & Entrepreneurship), HEC Paris
MSc (Analytics), Georgia Tech
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Lecturer in Asian Studies, University College Cork
I lecture in Japanese Studies with a specialisation in film and comedy. I have also been an active stand-up comedian in Japan and perform rakugo storytelling in Japanese, English and German. Most recently, my research on Japanese cinema has been funded by the Japan Foundation, while I was based at Tokyo University.
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Professor of Law, United States Military Academy West Point
Tim Bakken is Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point. He has practiced law in New York City, including as a homicide prosecutor in Brooklyn. He has been a visiting professor at Ural State Law University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and he started the department of law at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (Kabul). He has been a visiting scholar or researcher at Columbia Law School, the Australian National University College of Law, the University of Sydney Law School, and the University of Cambridge. His views are his own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. He can be reached at (845) 938-5544 or [email protected].
Publications
Books
Bakken, T. The Plea of Innocence: Restoring Truth to the American Legal System (New York University Press, 2022).
Bakken, T. The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Bakken, T. & Ramsey, W. Criminal Justice and the 2004 Elections (pamphlet) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005).
Bakken, T., Stock, M., & Welton, M. Guide to Criminal Law in New York (Second Edition) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).
Bakken, T., Bickers, J., & Goldstein, R. Guide to Criminal Procedure in New York (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).
Bakken, T. Guide to Criminal Law in New York (Wadsworth, 2001).
Articles
Bakken, T. “The Defendant’s Plea of Innocent in Sexual Abuse Cases,” in Wrongful Allegations of Sexualand Child Abuse, 271, Oxford University Press (Ros Burnett, ed.) (chapter) (2016).
Bakken, T. "Legal Takeovers of Nations: The Value and Risks of Foreign Direct Investment in a Global Marketplace,” 40 University of Dayton Law Review 259 (2016).
Bakken, T., “Dodd-Frank’s Extension of Criminal Corporate Liability through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Enabling Whistleblowers and Monitoring Conflict Minerals,” 36 Pace Law Review 1 (2015).
Bakken, T. “India's Constitutional Restraint: Less Expression in a Large Democracy,” 5 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 155 (2014).
Bakken, T. “Constitutional Rights and Political Power of Corporations after Citizens United: the Decline of Citizens and the Rise of Foreign Corporations and Super PACs,” 12 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 119 (2014).
Bakken, T. “A Woman’s Right to Combat: Equal Protection in the Military,” 20 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 271 (2014).
Bakken, T. "Dodd-Frank's Caveat Emptor: New Criminal Liability for Individuals and Corporations," 48 Wake Forest Law Review 1173 (2013).
Bakken, T. “The Prosecution of Newspapers, Reporters, and Sources for Disclosing Classified Information: The Government’s Softening of the First Amendment,” 45 University of Toledo Law Review 1 (2013).
Bakken, T. “Models of Justice to Protect Innocent Persons,” 56 New York Law School Law Review 867 (2012).
Bakken, T. & Steel, L. “Exonerating the Innocent: Pre-trial Innocence Procedures,” 56 New York Law School Law Review 855 (2012).
Bakken, T.“Nations’ use of Force outside Self-defense,” 8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 451 (2010).
Bakken, T. “Truth and Innocence Procedures to Free Innocent Persons: Beyond the Adversarial System,” 41 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 547 (2008).
Bakken, T. “Averting Catastrophe: Combating Iran’s Nuclear Threat,” 29 (2) Harvard International Review 84 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Prosecution of War Crimes: Military Commissions and the Procedural and Substantive Protections Beyond International Law,” 30 Fordham International Law Journal 533 (2007).
Bakken, T. “What Does Lawrence v. Texas Mean for the Future of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’” 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1218 (symposium) (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Contours of Judicial Deference to Military Personnel Policies,” 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (symposium) 1231 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Preemption of Nuclear Weapons,” 87 (6) Military Review 30 (2007).
Bakken, T. “The Absence of Spiritual Awakening and Understanding in Religious Conversion,” 59 The Journal of Religious Thought 101 (2006-07).
Casey-Acevedo, K., Bakken, T., & Karle, A. “Children Visiting Mothers in Prison: The Effects on Mothers’ Behavior and Disciplinary Adjustment,” 37 (3) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 418 (2004).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “Women Adjusting to Prison: Disciplinary Behavior and the Characteristics of Adjustment,” 17 (4) Journal of Health and Social Policy Review 37 (2003).
Bakken, T. “The Effects of Hate Crime Legislation: Unproven Benefits and Unintended Consequences,” 5 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law (4) 231 (2002).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “Visiting Women in Prison: Who Visits and Who Cares?,” 43(3) Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 67 (2002).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “The Evolution of Mental Health Care Policy and the Implications for Social Work,” 1 Social Work and Mental Health 1 (2002).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “Reflections of Authority in Psychotherapy: From Freud to Post-Modernism,” 9 Psychoanalytic Social Work 57 (2002).
Bakken, T. & Bransford, C. “The Role of Human Agency in the Creation of Normative Influences within Individuals and Groups,” 5 Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 89 (2002).
Casey-Acevedo, K., Bakken, T., & Welton, M. “Women as Offenders,” 4 Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 1722 (D. Levinson, ed.) (Sage) (2002).
Bakken, T. “A Foundation for Practical and Successful Career Intervention,” 25 The Journal (Institute of Guidance Counsellors), 63 (2001).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “The Effects of Visitation on Women in Prison,” 25 International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (1) (2001).
Casey-Acevedo, K. & Bakken, T. “The Effect of Time on the Disciplinary Adjustment of Women in Prison,” 45 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 489 (2001).
Bransford, C. & Bakken, T. “Organization Theory and the Utilization of Authority in Social Work,” 9(1) Social Work and Social Sciences Review 5 (2001).
Bakken, T., Becker, E., & Welton, M. “Institutional Acceptance and Legal Equality,” 27 Journal of Intergroup Relations 16 (2001).
Bakken, T. “The Efficacy of Reinforcement Schedules and Knowledge of Results in Effecting Behavioral Change,” 6(2) Current Research in Social Psychology 22 (2001).
Bakken, T. “The Incorporation of Values into the Counseling Relationship,” 23 American Journal of Pastoral Counseling 1 (2000).
Bakken, T. “Liberty and Equality through Freedom of Expression: The Human Rights Questions Behind Hate Crime Laws,” 4(2) International Journal of Human Rights 1 (2000).
Bakken, T. “Constitutional and Social Equality: Legacies and Limits of Law, Politics, and Culture,” 7:1 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 71 (2000).
Bakken, T. “The Use of Criminal Law to Punish Individual Motivations: Determining the Limits of Freedom of Conscience,” Sentencing & Society Conference/University of Strathclyde (on-line: out of print and available from author) (2000).
Bakken, T. & Kortering, L. “The Constitutional and Statutory Obligations of Schools to Prevent Special Education Students from Dropping Out,” 20 Remedial and Special Education 6 (1999).
Bakken, T. “A Rationale for Maximizing Freedom of Expression at Colleges and Universities,” 4 Journal of Civil Liberties 102 (1999).
Bakken, T. “Liberty, Obscenity, and Majoritarian Institutions: Who Determines the Value of Expression?” 16 Glendale Law Review 1 (1998).
Klepper, W. M. & Bakken, T. “Hate Speech: A Call to Principles,” 35 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Journal 38 (1997).
Bakken, T. “The Continued Failure of Modern Law to Create Fairness and Efficiency: The Presentence Investigation Report,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 363 (1996).
Bakken, T. “The Grand Jury” (synopsis) American Justice 352 (J. M. Bessette, ed.) (Salem) (1996).
Bakken, T. “The Infiltration of a Motorcycle Gang and the Codification of Its Social Norms and Psychological Processes,” VI Popular Culture Review 29 (1996).
Bakken, T. “Law Enforcement,” Survey of Social Science: Government and Politics Series 1059 (synopsis) (F. N. Magill & J. M. Bessette, eds.) (Salem) (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Quest of Law Enforcement for the Principled Interpretation of State Constitutions,” 5(2) State Constitutional Commentaries and Notes 1 (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Utility of Using Case Studies to Confront Ethical Dilemmas,” Teaching and Interactive Methods 399 (H. E. Klein, ed.) (World Association for Case Method Research and Application) (1995).
Bakken, T. “The Responsibility of Schools and Colleges to Monitor Pornography to Prevent Sexual Harassment,” 45 Labor Law Journal 762 (1994).
Bakken, T. “Cultivating Civilization: The Age of the English Coffeehouse,” 58 Social Education 345 (1994).
Bakken, T. “International Law and Human Rights for Defendants in Criminal Trials,” 25 Indian Journal of International Law 411 (1985).
Bakken, T. “Religious Conversion and Social Evolution Clarified,” 16 Small Group Behavior 157 (1985).
Bakken, T. “Dispute Resolution under the Trading with the Enemy Act: A Cooperative Approach between Corporations and the United States,” 7 Commercial Law Gazette (29) 3 & (30) 6 (1984).
Bakken, T. “Recognizing the Dilemma of Psychological Religious Converts,” 27 Counseling and Values 99 (1983).
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford
I work on the evolutionary biology of species diversity. Why does life evolve into distinct species? What processes shape speciation, adaptive divergence and diversity patterns? How does diversity affect the evolution of species living in complex ecosystems? In order to tackle these questions, I combine theory and statistical analysis with molecular, genomic, experimental and field data across a wide range of animals, plants, fungi and bacteria. Current projects include comparative genomics to understand the bizarre asexual life-style of bdelloid rotifers – microscopic animals living in moss and freshwater – evolutionary time-series of pathogenic fungi from cryopreserved living samples, and ‘evolution and speciation in action’ in complex microbial communities.
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Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
I am a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, with a particular interest in the nature of consciousness. I am currently Professor of Philosophy at Monash University (Melbourne), having taught previously at Macquarie University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. I am the author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010) and Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013), and an editor of Delusion and Self-Deception(2008), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009) and Cognitive Phenomenology (2011).
My current research concerns the measurement of consciousness, and whether it is possible to build a consciousness meter. Other research interests include the nature of conscious thought, disorders of consciousness and taxonomy in psychiatry. I am a member of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.
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Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, La Trobe University
Tim Cronin (he/him) is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Counselling, and Therapy at La Trobe University and a Research Psychologist at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His research interests include: LGBTIQA+ mental health and well-being, determinants of mental health (e.g., minority stress) for marginalised communities, and the development and evaluation of mental health interventions targeted to the needs of specific communities, such as trans, gender diverse, and non-binary populations. Tim's research and teaching are informed by his experience as a Clinical Psychologist working with people across the lifespan.
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International Media Law and Ethics, Dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction, Propaganda and use of Information in War, All aspects of Radio and Journalism Practice and History, Practice and History of Radio Drama, and prose/scriptwriting for stage, film and television.
Education
Professional training in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing, Law at the University of London, Literature, Film & Television, History, Crime & Social Policy at the Open University, Postgraduate Research in Performance Studies at Roehampton University and researching audio drama and modernism, Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Grants & awards
More than 60 professional awards for drama, journalism and production: UK Sony, US International Radio Festivals, Prix Italia, and Writers Guild of Great Britain
Radio Reporter of the Year 1985
Campaign for Freedom of Information Award 1988
Grand Award for Entertainment 1994
Professional activities
Membership of professional organisations & advisory groups
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Board of Distinguished Advisors to the International Radio Festival of New York
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures
Member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and its Professional Practices Board
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors
Member of the Institute of Communication Ethics
Member of the Orwell Society
Member of the Society of Authors
Member of the City if London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
Judge in the radio play category of the Koestler Trust Awards- arts by offenders
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Energy Advisor, Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne
Tim has 35 years of industrial experience (electricity, oil and gas, petrochemicals) with focus on energy production, transmission and consumption. Former employers include Exxon Mobil, BHP Billiton, Jemena, and the Australian Energy Market Operator. Tim also works part-time as a home energy consultant with the Moreland Energy Foundation - Positive Charge.
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Tim Highfield is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, where he is a member of the Digital Media Research Centre. His fellowship project is 'Visual Cultures of Social Media'. His research covers social and digital media, politics, activism, popular culture, sport, identity, humour, digital cultures, and more. His first book, Social Media and Everyday Politics, was published by Polity in April 2016. For more information, see http://timhighfield.net or @timhighfield on Twitter.
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
Educator supporting emerging talent for the entertainment industries at the Australian Institute of Music. Former record label executive (Inertia, Universal, Sony, Rough Trade, One Little Indian Records), tour manager and artist. PhD candidate at UTS researching music industries.
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Tim manages an Oxford Martin School programme at the University of Oxford which explores ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The programme assesses a wide range of proposed techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to determine which if any of them are technically feasible, environmentally safe and socially acceptable.
He has a broad interest in the potential of proposed geoengineering techniques as a response to climate change, and in the governance issues associated with them.
He has investigated in detail one potential geoengineering technique, that of adding alkalinity to the ocean as a way of enhancing its capacity to act as a carbon sink and to counteract the effects of ocean acidification. He is also interested in how proper governance can ensure that any research in this field is undertaken in a responsible way.
Tim is one of the authors of the Oxford Principles - a set of draft guidelines for the conduct of geoengineering research which have been adopted as policy by the UK Government.
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Research Fellow, Lancaster University
Tim is a marine biologist at Lancaster Environment Centre, with research interests in coral reef ecology and restoration. He aims to understand the processes at work on healthy reefs, in order to guide efforts to restore degraded ecosystems. Tim studied has carried out research on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific region, and completed a PhD in reef bioacoustics at the University of Exeter in 2020. He started his current research fellowship at Lancaster in 2022, funded by the Royal Commission of 1851 and in collaboration with the Mars Coral Reef Restoration Programme.
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Professor of Food Policy, City University London
Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy since 2002. After a PhD in social psychology at Leeds University, he became a hill farmer in the 1970s which shifted his attention to food policy, where it has been ever since. For years, he's engaged in academic and public research and debate about its direction, locally to globally. His abiding interest is how policy addresses the environment, health, social justice, and citizens. What is a good food system? How is ours measured and measuring up?
He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation (eg auditing the Global Top 25 Food Companies on food and health), FAO (eg co-chairing the definition of sustainable diets) and UNEP (eg co-writing its 2012 Avoiding Future Famines report). He has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries (food standards x 2, globalisation and obesity), and a consultant on food security to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He was a Commissioner on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission (2006-11), reviewing progress on food sustainability. He was on the Council of Food Policy Advisors to the Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (2008-10), and was appointed to the Mayor of London's Food Board in 2010. He helped launch the 100 World Cities Urban Food Policy Pact in Milan 2015.
He and the Centre for Food Policy at City University London work closely with civil society organisations, through Sustain the UK NGO alliance (which he chaired in the past) and the UK Food Group. He has been a Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (since 1999) and President of Garden Organic (since 2008). He currently chairs the Food Research Collaboration, an inter-University, inter-disciplinary academic collaboration with UK civil society (www.foodresearch.org.uk), and leads his University's involvement in the 5 University IFSTAL partnership (www.ifstal.ac.uk) which shares food systems thinking for post-graduates in a wide range of disciplines.
He has written and co-written many articles, reports, chapters and books. His most recent books are Food Wars (with Michael Heasman, Routledge, 2015), Unmanageable Consumer (with Yiannis Gabriel, Sage, 2015), Ecological Public Health (with Geof Rayner, Routedge Earthscan, 2012), Food Policy (with D Barling and M Caraher, Oxford University Press, 2009) and the Atlas of Food (with E Millstone, Earthscan 2003/2008). He writes frequently in the media and wrote a monthly column in The Grocer 2000-15.
He was elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2001, and Fellow by Distinction in 2014; is an Hon Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Cooks (City of London); and won the Agri-Bagri Award of the Australia-New Zealand AgriFoodNetwork. He rides a bicycle to work, doesn't own a car and grows vegetables and fruit in his London garden.
His current research interests include:
- The political and policy battles over sustainable diets and the meaning of food security;
- Institutional failure to create coherent food policies;
- Food democracy and the growth of democratic experimentalism about the future of food;
- The shape and status of EU, UK and global food policies
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Guest lecturer and Practice Lead — Building Sciences, at Restoration Industry Consultants
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Research Program Coordinator, University of Toronto
Tim Li is the research program coordinator of PROOF, a research program studying effective policy interventions for household food insecurity in Canada at the University of Toronto. PROOF's work shines a spotlight on the size and seriousness of food insecurity in Canada, the inability for charitable assistance to resolve it, and how it can be remedied through public policies supporting adequate incomes. Over the past decade, PROOF has helped establish food insecurity as a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy.
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Graduate Research Assistant, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
I am currently a graduate research assistant at the University of British Columbia's Sustainability Hub. My research primarily revolves around equity and justice in climate adaptation. Alongside this, I am a current masters student in public policy and global affairs with a concentration on the intersection of climate and human rights policy.
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museum Victoria
Dr Timothy O'Hara uses museum collections to answer large-scale questions about the distribution of seafloor animals around the globe. This research includes aspects of biogeography, macroecology, phylogeny, and phylogeography. His taxonomic speciality is the Ophiurodea (brittle-stars), a class of echinoderms that are a dominant component of the seafloor fauna.
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Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs online events about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software”, “web 2.0”, “the Maker movement”, “government as a platform”, or “algorithmic rents”, he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas.
He is a visiting professor of practice at University College London's Institute For Innovation and Public Purpose, where he has been doing research on how big tech firms use their algorithms to extract economic rents.
Tim is also a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the board of Code for America. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).
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