Lecturer in International Relations and Comparative Politics, University of Sydney
Justin Hastings is Professor in International Relations and Comparative Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, where he is also affiliated with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the China Studies Centre, the Sydney Cyber Security Network, and the Centre of International Security Studies. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Centre of the National University of Singapore.
From 2008 to 2010, he was an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remains affiliated with the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy.
He received an MA (2003) and PhD (2008) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in public and international affairs from Princeton University in 2001.
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Associate Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education, University of Michigan
Dr. Heinze, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. His research investigates how schools influence disparities in violence and other risk outcomes from an ecological perspective that includes individual, interpersonal, and contextual influences on development. He is particularly interested in structural features of school context and policy that perpetuate inequity in violence and firearm outcomes, but also how these institutions can serve as a setting for intervention.
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Queensland University of Technology
Justin Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology in the Sport, Exercise, Health and Physical Education discipline at QUT. Justin undertook his PhD at the University of Queensland examining the role of hydration in motorsport performance. Justin continues working with motorsport bodies to assist driver and pit crew performance.
Justin undertakes a program of clinically meaningful research focused on exercise and lifestyle interventions in those with chronic disease (rheumatological and oncology) with a direct translational impact on the lives of patients and caregivers. He has developed a unique thematic program of research that consists of translational outcomes that impact on the health and wellbeing of communities. His program of research reinforces and promotes the value of allied health professional practice particularly exercise physiology in disease and lifestyle management which have a direct impact on the lives of patients, community and caregivers.
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Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
Associate Professor Justin Keogh originally trained as an exercise and sports scientist with a strong research and translation interest in the benefits of exercise, particularly resistance training in improving muscular function and athletic performance. This research has focused on power sports such as powerlifting, rugby, sprinting, golf and more recently strongman.
His clinical research is focused on quantifying the treatment- and sarcopenic-related side-effects in cancer survivors and older adults, respectively and in using exercise and nutritional interventions to improve their outcomes. Since 2008, he has led projects examining the barriers, facilitators and motives that cancer survivors and older adults have in performing physical activity. Such research has involved quantitative and qualitative components.
His research achievements in the area of geriatric exercise prescription and sports biomechanics/strength and conditioning have been acknowledged by Fellowships with the Australian Association of Gerontology, International Society of Biomechanics in Sport and Exercise and Sport Science Australia.
He currently supervises 4 PhD and 1 Masters of Research students, across a variety of topics including facilitators and barriers to indigenous talent identification and development programs, adolescent super sprint triathlon, female Australian football, nonlinear pedagogy in team sports in the assessment of repeated power ability, He is currently on the editorial board for a number of journals including Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Journal of Sport Science and Medicine and PeerJ. Justin retains a lifelong passion for competitive sport, especially the football and strength sport codes and is currently a blue belt in Brazilian jujitsu.
He is a former national champion in powerlifting and strongman. His favourite strongman events were the truck pull and farmers walk, with his personal best farmers walk of 150 kg per hand for 20m, still a national record in the under 90 kg class (held in conjunction with Darren Lang).
After retiring from strongman in 2015, he began playing Masters Australian Rules Football in the South East Queensland league. This transition from a strength sport to a team-based sport requiring high levels of endurance has been a perfect case study of applying theories of motor learning and exercise prescription to practice.
Justin’s personal interest include AFL, strongman, playing poker, sampling craft beers and whiskeys, reading fiction and biographies and spending time with his family, especially watching his daughters practice their jujitsu, Ninja Warrior and gymnastics.
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Justin Leonard’s research interests are in bushfire mechanism interaction with infrastructure and the context of bushfire losses including community behaviour and fire fighter safety.
He heads CSIRO’s Bushfire Urban Design team, focusing on the detailed understanding of how infrastructure design and sitting influence it loss potential for various levels of fire arrival severity. Using this knowledge the team then also focuses on effective design and behavioural solutions to address these vulnerabilities.
The work is delivering risk assessment tools and urban design solutions for clients who include:
Bushfires Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
Attorney Generals Department
Victorian Fire Services Commissioner
New South Wales Rural Fire Service
Victorian Country Fire Authority
Queensland Public Safety Business Agency
Melbourne University
Victorian Building Authority
His experience with experimental science indicates that people living in bushfire prone areas need to first accept the natural occurrence of bushfires, then effectively assess the risk these bushfires present.
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Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
A nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy, Professor Justin Levitt has returned to Loyola after serving from 2021-22 as the White House's first Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights. There, within a team devoted to racial justice and equity, Levitt assisted the President in his efforts to make sure that every eligible American has secure, reliable access to a meaningful vote; to provide equitable representation in government; to restore trust in a democracy deserving of that trust; and to bolster avenues by which Americans build community and engage in civic participation.
Levitt had previously served in federal government as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. At DOJ, he primarily supported the Civil Rights Division’s work on voting rights and protections against employment discrimination (including federal statutory protections against workplace discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex -- including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity -- religion, national origin, citizenship status, and military service).
Levitt has published in the flagship law reviews at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, and William & Mary, the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal, and the flagship online law journals at Yale and NYU, among others. He has served as a visiting faculty member at the Yale Law School, UCLA School of Law, USC's Gould School of Law, and at Caltech. He was Loyola's Associate Dean for Research from 2017-20, and was honored to receive Loyola's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013-14, 2019-20, and 2023-24. He became an elected member of the American Law Institute in 2024.
Levitt has been invited to testify before committees of the U.S. House and Senate, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, several state legislative bodies, and both federal and state courts. His research has been cited extensively in the media and the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He maintains the website All About Redistricting, tracking the process of state and federal redistricting around the country, including litigation.
Levitt served in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including as the National Voter Protection Counsel in 2008, helping to run an effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. Before joining the faculty of Loyola Law School, he was counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, for five years. He also worked as in-house counsel to the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations.
At Loyola, Levitt established the Practitioner Moot Program, a complimentary service to the community allowing attorneys with pending appellate matters to practice their arguments before faculty experts and experienced advocates. Under the program, Loyola has hosted recent moots for cases later argued in the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal, among others.
Levitt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a law degree and a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University, and was an articles editor for the Harvard Law Review. He is admitted to the bar in California, New York, and the District of Columbia, and to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit, Ninth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.
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Professor of Law, Monash University
Professor Malbon commenced his position at Monash in 2008.
He is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, a Visiting Scholar, Law School, Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow, the European University Institute, Florence Italy.
He is a previous Dean of the Griffith University Law School and Director of the Credit and Consumer Law Research Program. He has formerly held the positions of Principal Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, Queensland Office of Parliamentary Counsel; Assistant Divisional Head (Legislation) Division of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs; Research Manager, Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne Office; and Senior tutor at the Law School, University of Melbourne.
He also practiced as a Barrister and Solicitor in South Australia for a number of years.
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Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Vassar College
Justin Patch studies music in American politics; sound studies; East Asian art music; and music in the African diaspora. He is currently engaged in two projects, a monograph on the artistic practices of contemporary American populism and an ethnographic study of sound and religion in the post-industrial areas of the Hudson Valley. His monograph, Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism and the Presidential Campaign, was published by Routledge in 2019, and a sound studies text book Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies, co-authored with Tom Porcello, is being published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of California, San Diego
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego investigating molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial quality control. My work is focused on the role of mitochondrial import and autophagy (i.e. mitophagy) in cardiovascular disease models of protein aggregation. These studies integrate protein/gene expression analyses and high resolution microscopy with physiological evaluation of mitochondrial and cardiac function in both cell and pre-clinical animal models
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Mankin is a climate scientist. His research on climate variability and change is motivated by the risks global warming poses to ecosystems and people. Using both observations and process-based models, his efforts focus on constraining three of the major sources of uncertainty in climate changes, past, present, and future: the chaos innate to the climate system, the complexity of how people and ecosystems induce and respond to climate stress, and how model choices influence model answers. In his previous career, Dr. Mankin worked overseas as an intelligence officer.
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Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University
I received my J.D. and Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Cinema and Television History, De Montfort University
Director of the Cinema and Television History Research Institute.
A cultural historian with a special interest in post-war British cinema, television and popular music, my research interests embrace production, exhibition and reception practices, cult film fandom and stardom, and issues of cultural identity and popular memory. I am also interested in approaches to mapping creativity within the cultural industries, UK film policy, censorship, and the production of industry-led research. I was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded projects Channel 4 and British Film Culture, 2010-2014 and Fifty Years of British Music Video, 2015-2018. I am the author of Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2010), and the co-author (with Sue Harper) of British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). I am also reviews editor of The Journal of British Film and Television .
I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, the Royal Television Society and the Creative Industries Federation.
I am also a researcher and performer of traditional songs with connections to my native Isle of Wight.
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Justin's track record as a clinician scientist has led to more than 650 peer-reviewed papers, more than 50 of which have appeared in journals with an impact factor exceeding 10, the vast majority as first or last author (current H-score on Google Scholar = 84).
He originally studied medicine at Trinity College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree before moving to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA then returning to complete training at the Royal Marsden and St Barts Hospitals. In 2007 he was appointed a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London and a Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, then a Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology in 2009 (he is now a Visiting Professor there).
The nature of Justin's scientific contributions and international leadership in translational research were recognised by being awarded the NIHR’s first research translational professorship, becoming Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene - Springer Nature’s cancer journal - and elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
He was also Chair of the Irish Cancer Society and a national charity, Action Against Cancer, was set up to support his research.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Alberta
My interests concern a range of topics, especially political movements, decolonization, and prisons. I currently have two research projects. The first is my work on the University of Alberta Prison Project. Our research team interviews incarcerated people and staff about their experiences living and working inside prisons. I am currently writing about Indigenous peoples’ experiences with cultural prison programming. The second project is about Canada’s right-wing nationalist movement. My study shows how right-wing ideology and prejudice are intimately connected to mainstream Canadian culture, challenging pop media narratives that present right-wing groups as “un-Canadian”. I am also Red River Métis and working with the Indigenous Engagement Advisory Committee (IEAC) to further develop Augustana’s Indigenous studies program.
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PhD Candidate, Early Modern History, McMaster University
Justin Vovk is a PhD Candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in early modern history at McMaster University. His dissertation, "Courting Death: Reconceptualizing Aulic Authority in Habsburg and British Royal Funerals, 1694-1780," examines the role of courts in the pomp and pageantry of royal funerals. Justin is an expert in European royal history and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including CBC, CTV, Global News, CHCH, CFRA 580 Ottawa, CKLW AM 800 Ottawa, AM 1100 Kelowna, and 610 CKTB Toronto. He is also a regular commentator for CBC's "The Royal Fascinator." His expertise focuses on the ceremonies and rituals of monarchy, particularly funerals and coronations, and their applicability to our modern world.
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Professor of History, Durham University
Justin Willis' work has been largely concerned with identity, authority and social change in eastern Africa stretching back over the last two hundred years. He has published widely on the history of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan.
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
I am an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. My current research focuses on some of the most important policy areas that concern local governments, such as housing, transportation, policing, and economic development. My research also examines how citizens hold elected officials accountable, how representation translates the public's interests into policy via elections, and how people’s policy opinions are formed and swayed. I also teach in Harvard's MPP program on politics and ethics, and lead elective courses on urban politics and policy. These classes include an experiential field lab that partners student teams with cities and towns to work on applied urban policy problems. You can view my full CV here.
My work has received the Clarence Stone Emerging Scholar Award and the Norton Long Young Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have also received funding for this research from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and the Boston Area Research Initiative. Prior to joining Harvard, I was an assistant professor at Boston University, and before that a postdoctoral researcher at the Boston Area Research Initiative. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my B.A. in Government and Psychology from the College of William & Mary.
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Computational Social Science, UMass Amherst
My research interests include U.S. ideologies, political communication in mass and social media, public opinion, and the intersection of identity and political beliefs. I also work on methodological problems in measurement, text analysis, and network analysis, and am especially interested in methods that put statistical and computational tools to use in service of our ability to achieve rich qualitative insights. I have published work in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and several other journals and edited volumes.
I am currently working on projects related to how media activists and politicians (opinion elites) invoke core values in order to frame arguments while at times contesting the very meanings and appropriate applications of these values. In related work, my coauthors and I are examining the processes by which extreme ideas may move from the fringe to the mainstream in contemporary U.S. political discussion. More generally, I am interested in the role of ideas in connecting political elites and the ideologically engaged public. I draw on scholarship by historians, social psychologists, and mass media & communication scholars, in addition to work by those who study political behavior and identities.
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Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Luxembourg
Justin J.W. Powell is Professor of Sociology of Education and Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. His academic journey began in New York City at the Social Science Research Council, where he gained grant, project, and network administration experience. From there, he held (post-)doctoral fellowships at Berlin’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC, the LSE, and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).
With a focus on comparative institutional analysis, Powell’s work explores the dynamics of persistence and change in special and inclusive education, vocational training, higher education, and science systems. His scholarship—intersecting sociology, political science, and education—has been widely published in both English and German, earning recognition on both sides of the Atlantic. His numerous awards include the Irving K. Zola Award from the Society for Disability Studies in 2006 for Barriers to Inclusion: Special Education in the US and Germany (Routledge), analyzing the development of special and inclusive education systems cross-nationally. Powell’s dedication to advancing the comparative study of education system institutionalization is reflected in his co-authored volume Comparing Special Education: Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes (Stanford University Press, 2011), which received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (Division B) in 2012. His collaborative work on The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University (Emerald, 2017) earned multiple accolades, including the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education. More recently, he co-edited numerous books and co-authored European Educational Research (Re)Constructed: Institutional Change in Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway and the European Union (Symposium, 2018) and Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production (Stanford University Press, 2024).
An alumnus of Swarthmore College (BA, with distinction in sociology/anthropology), Powell pursued graduate studies in political science and sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Humboldt University of Berlin (MA, with distinction), culminating in his doctorate (Dr. phil., sociology, summa cum laude) from the Free University Berlin.
Before his appointment at the University of Luxembourg in 2012, Powell taught at several leading German universities, including Göttingen, Hanover, and the Free University Berlin. Since, he has held visiting international research and lecturer positions across Europe, including the University of Oxford (England), Bielefeld and Institute for Higher Education Research Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Zurich (Switzerland). His myriad research contributions and international collaborations contribute to advancing the fields of comparative education and sociology of education and science.
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Director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware
Justin P. Klein has a wealth of experience and knowledge, having advised publicly and privately held companies on diverse securities, corporate and governance matters.
Formerly a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP, where he represented public and private companies and their boards and board committees in a variety of transactions, including securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions, Klein served for nine years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, holding positions including assistant director of the Division of Corporation Finance.
He was appointed as the Weinberg Center's director in 2021.
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Lecturer in Law, The University of Queensland
I am a lecturer in law at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, with research interests spanning environmental law, climate change adaptation, and coastal ecosystem protection. I undertook my postdoctoral research with the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, focussed on legal issues surrounding sea-level rise and flooding. I work extensively with colleagues from science, and my work has a strong multidisciplinary character.
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Associate Professor, Centre for People, Place & Planet, and School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
Justine Dandy is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Centre for People, Place & Planet. She has worked in teaching and research positions at Flinders University (1996-2000) and the University of Western Australia (2000-2003). She moved to Perth in 2000 and commenced at ECU in October 2003.
Research Areas and Interests
- Cross-cultural, cultural and social psychology
- Attitudes to immigration, diversity and multiculturalism
- Acculturation attitudes and strategies
- Ethnic, cultural and national identity
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Mishra is an associate professor of psychiatry, trained in the computational, cognitive and translational neurosciences. She is the founder of the Neural Engineering & Translation Labs (NEATLabs) at UCSD. Her lab innovates digital technologies for scalable brain health mapping, monitoring and precision therapeutics. Dr. Mishra's interdisciplinary research interests are at the intersection of neuroscience and digital engineering, integrating machine learning methods to personalize and inform mental healthcare, education, and climate change adaptation efforts.
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Postdoctoral fellow, Kinesiology & Health Studies, University of Regina
I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Regina with interests in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology in relation to respiratory disease and mild traumatic brain injuries. I am also interested in the endocannabinoid system and it's implications to human health.
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