Associate Professor of Complex Systems, University of Sydney
A/Prof. Joseph Lizier is a faculty member of the School of Computer Science at The University of Sydney, where he teaches into the University's Master of Complex Systems degree. His research studies the dynamics of information processing in biological and bio-inspired complex systems and networks, in particular for neural systems.
A/Prof. Lizier was awarded a PhD in Computer Science (2010), a BE (2000) and BSc (1998) from The University of Sydney. He has previously held postdoctoral positions at CSIRO and the Max Planck Institute (Leipzig, Germany), and worked in the telecommunications industry for 10 years, including at Seeker Wireless and Telstra Research Laboratories.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Joseph Lowndes is an associate professor of political science. He is the author of “From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism,” co-editor of “Race and American Political Development.” He is currently writing a book on contemporary American populism. He has written for Jacobin, Counterpunch, Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, and other online media. He teaches courses on US politics, racial politics, political culture, and American political thought.
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Professor of Education, University of Connecticut
Dr. Joseph Madaus is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He is also Director of the Collaborative on Postsecondary Education and Disability. He is a Past President of the Division on Career Development and Transition, a division of the Council for Exceptional Children.
In 2007, Dr. Madaus received both the Teaching Promise and Teaching Innovation award from the University of Connecticut chapter of the American Association of University Professors. In 2008, he was named as a University Teaching Fellow, the highest teaching honor at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Madaus was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Mary Switzer Fellowship program in 2003-2004. He currently serves on the editorial board of nine journals, including the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, TEACHING Exceptional Children, and Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals. He was named reviewer of the year for CDTEI in 2008 and 2011. He was the co-editor of Preparing Students with Disabilities for College: A Practical Guide for Transition. He is the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on grants through the Office for Postsecondary Education, Office for Special Education Programs, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the State of Connecticut.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Université de Montréal
Dr. Joseph Orkin studies the microbiomes and genomes of free-ranging primates. He completed Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology and Philosophy from Penn State University in 2005, and earned his PhD in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in comparative genomics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on a Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship. Dr. Orkin's research examines how primates adapt to new and changing environments in China and Costa Rica. He also works with a wildlife conservation dog named Pinkerton to help track critically endangered apes.
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Joseph P Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University. He teaches courses on world religions, religion in America, new religious movements, and the intersection of religion and popular culture.
He is the author of several books including Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (University of California Press, 2015) and The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is also a blogger for Religion Dispatches.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
I studied Theology at the University of Exeter, before moving on to MPhil study in Theology (World Christianities) and then a PhD in Theology both at the University of Cambridge. I have now joined the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, having previously served as a Lecturer at Birmingham Newman University and a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
My primary research focus is Rastafari spirituality in the Caribbean and the UK. My recent PhD thesis explored Rastafari ecologies and ecotheologies through ethnographic fieldwork in St Lucia/Iyanola. This built on his MPhil research which explored contemporary dietary practices amongst Rastafari communities in Jamaica and the UK. I have has produced numerous journal articles, conference papers and encyclopedia entries on Rastafari, spanning the elemental language of Rastafari influenced music to Rastafari encounters with Covid-19. I also retain an active interest in the interaction between faith and football.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Princeton University
Joe Sageman is a PhD candidate in the Princeton department of sociology. A former high school math teacher, Joe's research focuses on the relationship between educational systems and social inequality. His dissertation studies how schools, nonprofit organizations, and the student debt crisis shape students' postsecondary plans in Philadelphia. Some of his other projects have investigated the effects of school closures and school ratings algorithms on demographic change. He has a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Joseph’s research principally involves analysing regulatory challenges and issues posed by new and emerging communication technologies for traditional approaches to governance. Some of the areas examined include issues such as surveillance, identity theft, child online safety, peer-to-peer file sharing controversies, online dispute resolution and managing personal and corporate identities.Joseph is now exploring the legal, ethical, social and technological challenges posed by autonomous systems and robotics as they relate to aging, healthcare and warfare.
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Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Schmidt’s research is focussed on understanding how strategy, human resource management, and leadership interact to influence employee behaviours and firm performance. He also studies the precursors of group effectiveness and the multilevel influences of group processes on individual and team outcomes. He has published research in a number of practitioner publications and scholarly journals including Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Business and Psychology.
Prior to joining the Edwards School of Business in 2011, Dr. Schmidt worked in the Vancouver office for the global consulting firm Hay Group, specializing in talent management, performance management, and compensation. He worked in Human Resources for an engineering consulting firm in Calgary before pursuing graduate studies. He also completed a variety of consulting projects for clients in both the public and private sectors as a graduate student.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior, University of Virginia
I earned my PhD in Social Psychology from Ohio State working with Dr. Richard Petty in the Attitudes and Persuasion Lab (APL), and wrote a dissertation titled, "Attitudinal Ambivalence and Behavioral Extremism." I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in marketing at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
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Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
Joseph A. Soares is a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University. His book, "The Power of Privilege" (Stanford University Press 2007) was instrumental to Wake Forest’s decision to go test-optional in admissions. He organized a national conference on “rethinking admissions” at Wake Forest in April 2009, involving admissions deans and researchers from many universities, including Berkeley, Duke, Georgia, Harvard, Howard, Texas, Virginia, and Yale. Soares has presented his critical findings on standardized tests and college admissions at regional and national conferences of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, the College Board, the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling, and to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. An earlier book on universities in the UK, "The Decline of Privilege" (Stanford University Press 1999) won a national award from the American Sociological Association. In graduate school at Harvard University, Soares was a Krupp Fellow of the Center for European Studies; a US Congress Jacob Javits Fellow; and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Before moving to Wake Forest, Soares taught as a Lecturer at Harvard and was an assistant and associate professor of Sociology at Yale. For most of 2008, he was a member of the national education policy group for Barack Obama’s campaign for US President. His most recent book is an edited collection, "SAT WARS: The Case for Test-Optional Admissions," Teachers College Press, 2012. In 2012 and 2013, the New York Times recommended "SAT WARS" as one of its top ten books for summer reading on college issues.
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Associate Professor of Mathematics, Gonzaga University
My academic background ranges from the theory of probability and stochastic (random) processes to general mathematical modeling (especially theoretical ecology, applying mathematical models to ecological population dynamics). I have a deep interest in the philosophical foundations of mathematics and science as well, and the interpretation of scientific and mathematical theories (with a particular interest in how statistics are interpreted).
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Assistant Professor of American Politics, United States Military Academy West Point
Joseph Amoroso is a U.S. Army Major and an Assistant Professor of American Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His research focuses on American political behavior and civil-military relations, specifically studying how military experience influences participation in electoral politics. At West Point he teaches courses on American Politics, Congress, and campaigns and elections. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in American Politics from West Point.
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Oral Historian, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington
Joseph Harris Carpenter served eight years in the United States Air Force Medical Corps and is a veteran of Desert Storm. After his military career, he spent 25 years in medical device and insurance sales before pursuing his life-long passion for history. Joe has a B.A. in History with a minor in Military History, as well as an M.A. in History (with Public History and Archives certificates) - both from UTA. Since 2020, Joe has worked as an Oral Historian for UTA & Texas Tech's Vietnam Center and Archive, collecting and documenting the experiences of U.S. military veterans. With his extensive life experience and sincere dedication to sharing the stories of those who have lived history, Joe brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to his position.
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Associate Professor of Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University
Dr. Joseph K. Nwankpa is the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives and an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University Oxford, Ohio. His primary research focuses on Enterprise Systems, Software Security and Vulnerabilities, Digital Business Strategy, Technology Adoption, Predictive Models, and Accounting Information Systems. He has over 30 publications in journals and conferences.
Dr. Nwankpa is widely traveled and has presented at various forums and conferences across the globe, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Finland, Ghana, Germany, Nigeria, Ireland, and others. His papers have been nominated and selected for best paper awards at leading Information Systems conferences such as ICIS and AMCIS. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
In recent years, Dr. Nwankpa has focused on using digital technologies such as analytics, cloud, social media, and mobile platform to drive organizational strategies and socioeconomic development in developing countries. He is interested in research collaborations and consulting in the areas of digital business strategy, cybersecurity, and enterprise technology strategy.
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Associate Professor, History of Modern Architecture, University of Toronto
I am an award-winning architectural historian and an associate professor at the University of Toronto. I’ve written for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Aeon, Triple Canopy, Frieze, and Log, and I’ve been an architecture commentator on podcasts, radio shows, and CBC national television news. In my public writing and media appearances, I help people see how architecture is entangled with money, power, and technology, but is also a distinct cultural practice with its own forms of knowledge and artistry.
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Faculty Member (Theology Department), Part-Time, Boston College
My research interests lie at the intersection of early Christianity, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and posthumanism(s). I recently completed a PhD at Harvard (Study of Religion) and currently teach at Boston College. My dissertation, entitled "Power in the Name: Towards a Theological Posthumanism," examines onomastic invocations to access otherworldly power in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Tibetan sources. I previously earned an AB in Religious Studies (University of Chicago), an MA in Clinical Psychology (Wheaton College, IL), an MDiv (Harvard Divinity School), and an MA in Study of Religion (Harvard University). Outside of academia, I serve as an Episcopal priest at a parish near Boston.
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Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration, UMass Boston
Joseph N. Cooper is the Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Black Life, and an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Recreation Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his master's degree in Sport Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and doctorate in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Management and Policy from the University of Georgia. His research agenda focuses on the intersection between sport, education, race, and culture with an emphasis on sport involvement as a catalyst for holistic development. He has presented research at international, national, and regional conferences and published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, solo authored books, edited books, and op-ed contributions. As a result of his research, he earned the following recognitions: 2009 John E. Billing Outstanding Graduate Research Merit Award at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award from the University of Connecticut (UConn) Neag School of Education, 2018 Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) Early Career Researcher Award, and 2020 Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) Outstanding Book Award Finalist. He has also been cited in various media outlets include the New York Times, Boston Globe, ESPN, Le Monde, ABC News, Yahoo, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and USA Today. He is the author of From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development Through Sport and (Mis)Education (2019) (Peter Lang) and A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism Through Sport (2021) (Peter Lang). He has a forthcoming edited book titled, Anti-Racism in Sport Organizations (2022) (Texas A&M University Sport Management Press).
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Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
Joseph P. Allen is the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia in May 1980, and then a Ph. D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from Yale University in May 1986. He subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow in research at Harvard Medical School from 1986 until 1988.
Allen's research focuses on adolescent social development, family relations, peer relations, and problematic behaviors (ranging from delinquency and teen pregnancy to depression and anxiety). He has published over 200 articles and book chapters, and is the author of several books.
Allen is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research in Adolescence. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the William T. Grant Faculty Scholar Award, and the Spencer Foundation Fellowship.
Allen is a passionate advocate for the use of research to improve the lives of adolescents. He is a strong believer in the power of relationships to promote healthy development, and his research has helped to shed light on the importance of supportive family and peer relationships for adolescents. He is also a strong advocate for prevention programs that can help to reduce the risk of problematic behaviors in adolescence.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
I am a clinical neuroscientist focused on using neurobiological measures to improve treatment for alcohol and addictive disorders. My training and expertise span behavioral genetics, functional neuroimaging, experimental pharmacology, and “human laboratory” paradigms. I am also a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Colorado. My current work, funded by grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), focuses on evaluating novel medications for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD).
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Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati
Joseph P. Tomain is Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati. A highly respected professor and scholar, his teaching and research interests focus in the areas of energy law, land use, regulatory policy, and contracts. Before returning to the faculty in 2004, he had previously served the College of Law as Dean for 15 years.
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Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature and the director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston. His latest book, Marooned, reinterprets the Jamestown colony, shifting much of the credit for American democracy away from Plymouth Plantation and onto the rag-tag castaway employees of the Virginia Company. In 2013, he published, America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Towards Civil War, which details the evolving ideology of slavery in America. His first book was a study of the Irish novelist James Joyce, censorship, obscenity, and the Cold War (Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon). He also edits the popular series, The Seagull Books of Poems, Stories, Plays, and Essays for the publisher W. W. Norton. Right now he’s at work on a book about free speech, fascism, and the invention of liberal democracy.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham Young University
I am a historian of African American history and study the relationship of race, masculinity, and religion in twentieth-century Black freedom movements in the United States and throughout the world.
My research examines Black religious opposition to integration through the lens of the Nation of Islam’s history from the Great Depression to the 1980s. Derived from extensive research in archives, oral histories, and media sources, I provide fresh insight into the many approaches to achieving Black freedom in the United States and the world.
I graduated from Brigham Young University (2012) with a BA in America Studies, an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia (2014), and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Utah (2022). I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute.
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FAR-LeaF Fellow, University of Pretoria
After completing my medical studies at the University of Yaounde I (Cameroon) and practising for a few years as a physician, I enrolled for a PhD at the Global Health Institute of the University of Antwerp which I completed in 2020. My research interests include public health, epidemiology, epilepsy, and neglected tropical diseases particularly onchocerciasis (river blindness). Currently, I am a research officer with the Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN) Cameroon and I was awarded a Future Africa Research Leaders Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) by the University of Pretoria in 2022.
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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Dr. Korchmaros is director and research professor at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
Since earning her doctoral degree in Social Psychology, with a focus on quantitative research methods in 2003, She has developed, put in place, evaluated and provided training and technical assistance for multiple grant-funded research projects to underserved populations, including racial/sexual minorities such as women and girls and Native American populations. Her research has focused on treatment models, reduction of risk behaviors, addressing group-based health disparities and system and policy improvement in such areas as sexual health, substance use and justice-involvement.
Professor Korchmaros takes a research-to-practice focus, aiming to:
Distribute research findings in a timely manner, using multiple mediums and outlets
Increase the extent to which practice is informed by research
Encourage policy change and funding programs informed by current research and knowledge
She has produced peer-reviewed research briefs, trainings, papers, implementation tools and presentations concerning accurate identification of service need within underrepresented and underserved populations, effectively addressing such need, and health-related behavior change.
Professor Korchmaros also has extensive experience conducting and assisting others to conduct culturally-informed intervention and research. She has developed theoretically-based health-related behavior interventions for different populations and has informed the field about the particular influencing factors related to health-related behavior among particular populations.
Her work has informed the field about the practice of implementing culturally-informed intervention and research, such as with her guide for conducting program evaluation among Native American populations.
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Josephine is a chartered accountant. She was a senior manager with Ernst & Young, working principally in audit, until 1987, when she became a lecturer in Accounting at the University of Sheffield, leaving in 2008 to take a chair in Accounting and Finance at the University of York. She returned to Sheffield in 2014.
Her work addresses a number of related issues:
Financial Reporting, Governance and Audit
I have written extensively on the closely related development of these three issues, in work on the 19th-century development of the accounting profession and of accounting regulation, and on the governance of UK companies from the early 20th century onwards.
Savings Banks
I am now (with Linda Perriton, York) exploring the use of savings banks (SBs) in the UK c1830 onwards. The SBs were designed explicitly to promote working-class thrift for the long-term: results to date suggest more varied behaviour and, again, significant departures from patriarchal dominance of family finances. See https://voice.adobe.com/a/1edGB for an outline. The 19th century use of SBs by the elite can, I suggest, be linked with 21st century neo-liberal attempts to promote financial 'responsibilisation' via savings. In addition to archival work, I am exploring the relationship between current and historic arguments for the need for individual thrift rather than state support. This is linked with my work on:
Charity and financialisation
The 19th century was a period in which traditional models of charity were challenged. Under the new 'business-like' model, applicants for help were closely monitored to ensure that they were likely to be efficient in their use of it. I plan for work on this (with Janette Rutterford, OU) to form the basis of a more extensive study of the current role of financialisation of the charitable/third sector.
Narrative reporting
This has been a subject of continuing interest for me, involving but not limited to, work on the history of social reporting. Narrative reporting has been a significant feature of financial statements for much of the 20th century, deployed as needed by companies in the face of different crises, and that modern reporting needs to be viewed in this context. Recent work with Abdelrehim (York) and Toms (Leeds) has addressed these issues.
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Lecturer, Human Services, School of Language Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury
My present research focuses on the intersection between colonialism and capitalism. I am lecturing within the Human Services programme in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury.
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Associate Professor, Howard University
Josephine Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science. She is a qualified Barrister at Law from the Ghana School of Law and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science at Georgia State University. She is the editor of Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice in Africa (Lexington, 2022), Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa: Selected Studies (Routledge, 2021), International Courts and the African Woman Judge (Routledge, 2018) (edited with Akua Kuenyehia) and Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity?( Routledge, 2016) (edited with Gretchen Bauer). She is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for African Women in Law.
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Lecturer in Education, Federation University Australia
Josh is a lecturer in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University. His teaching interests include outdoor education, science education and professional practice. Josh's research focuses on different models of teaching and learning in middle years education. Josh uses the arts-based methodology of poetic inquiry within his research. Josh has worked in several P-12 school contexts across Government, Independent and Catholic sectors. Josh is also heavily involved in multiple professional associations related to his work in the outdoor and broader education sectors. His contributions to these groups involve: speaking, professional writing and advisory panel membership. Josh has also served on multiple advisory panels related to outdoor education curriculum at both a state and federal level.
Areas of expertise
(1) Year nine- and middle-years programs
Josh’s research on year nine programs has focused on how current programs utilise curriculum and pedagogy to engage students at these year levels in schooling and the barriers that schools face in developing and maintaining these programs.
(2) Arts-based methodologies
In his research, Josh uses arts-based methodologies as non-representational ways of understanding, deconstructing and representing what is happening in middle years programs. Within his doctorate, Josh employed three different forms of poetic inquiry to 'understand' and 'deconstruct' what was happening in the context examined.
(3) Educational policy
Josh has a strong interest in educational policy. In particular, those related to both curriculum and outdoor activities.
(4) Outdoor education curriculum
Josh strongly advocates for the inclusion of outdoor education in the curriculum. He has undertaken several roles for the VCAA and ACARA around projects to update the curriculum in this area.
Research interests
Year nine programs
Middle years education
Arts-based methodologies
Poetic inquiry
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Doctoral Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Josh Ettinger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, where his interdisciplinary research focuses on extreme weather events and climate change communication. He has previously worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Stockholm Environment Institute, Global Canopy, and on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. He holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment and a BA in Global Studies, Geography, and Philosophy from Hofstra University Honors College in New York. He also previously worked as a production intern at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is passionate about the role of storytelling in engaging audiences about societal issues.
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Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Josh Greenberg is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His primary research expertise is health risk communication. His most recent book, a co-edited collection, is Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk (Palgrave, 2022). Greenberg also researches vinyl culture and the vinyl economy, and is writing a book about record stores in Canada.
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Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Physical processes in the coastal ocean are highly variable in space and time and play a critical role in coupled biological and chemical processes. From events lasting several hours to days on through inter-annual and decadal scales, the variability in the fluid itself structures marine ecological systems. My approach is to apply ocean observing technologies that now sample across these important time and space scales to better understand the physical ocean that structures marine ecosystems. I am involved in many research and education programs that range in scope from storm intensity, offshore wind, and local water quality monitoring off the NJ coast; regional fisheries along the US east coast; and environmental studies of polar ecosystems in the coastal waters surrounding Antarctica. Consequently, this new knowledge has relevancy to broader stakeholder communities with interests in the coastal ocean. Working through partnerships across these stakeholder groups, my research is collaborative and supports both science and application. Through these partnerships I am able to frame relevant scientific hypotheses and efficiently translate the output to better management and monitoring.
Growing up in New Jersey, my interest in the physics of the ocean began along the shores of Barnegat Bay. After receiving my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, I returned to New Jersey and began my research career at Rutgers. Now I look forward to addressing new science and, working through partnerships, translating that science into applications that benefit the many stakeholders with interests in the coastal ocean.
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Full Professor of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
I research the geographies of discards as well as those of maintenance and repair. Today's discards are synthetic, heterogeneous, and entail high degrees of indeterminacy around their mitigation or remediation. Maintenance and repair, although essential to the smooth functioning of socioeconomic life, have until quite recently, been relegated to the margins of social science research.
Questions that inform my research include where and how are contemporary discards made? Where do they travel and where do their effects accumulate? Who gets what discards, where, how, and under what conditions? I am also interested in how maintenance and repair, broadly conceived, might offer both literal and figurative lessons for figuring out how to live well together in permanently polluted and always breaking worlds.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
Josh McCrain studies American political institutions, Congress, lobbying, money in politics, media and politics, public policy, and political economy generally. He is also working on manuscripts on computational social science and applied data science using R. His research combines computational social science, causal inference approaches for observational data, and field experiments. He has also published a guide to working with congressional data in R: https://congressdata.joshuamccrain.com/
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Lecturer in Economics and Politics, Leeds Beckett University
Josh Moos has been a Lecturer in the Business School for 6 years. He is currently the Module Lead for 'Introduction to Political Economy' and 'Government in the UK'. Josh read Sociology at the University of Sussex between 2005-8 and continued at the University of Sussex to read International Relations for his Masters.
Before joining Leeds Beckett, Josh worked in under-16 education in inner-London and subsequently as a youth worker. In 2015, Josh moved to Leeds to undertake a Post-Graduate Diploma in Youth and Community Work at Leeds Beckett. At the same time, Josh started working part-time in the Leeds Business School. Having completed his PGDip, Josh continued to work at Leeds Beckett while also working in money advice services. In 2019, Josh was made a permanent Lecturer in the Business School.
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