Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Kathleen Belew is a historian, author, and teacher. She specializes in the history of the present. She spent ten years researching and writing her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard, 2018, paperback 2019). In it, she explores how white power activists created a social movement through a common story about betrayal by the government, war, and its weapons, uniforms, and technologies. By uniting Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi, skinhead, and other groups, the movement mobilized and carried out escalating acts of violence that reached a crescendo in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. This movement was never adequately confronted, and remains a threat to American democracy. Her next book, Home at the End of the World, illuminates our era of apocalypse through a history focused on her native Colorado where, in the 1990s, high-profile kidnappings and murders, right-wing religious ideology, and a mass shooting exposed rents in America’s social fabric, and dramatically changed our relationship with place, violence, and politics (Random House).
Belew has spoken about Bring the War Home in a wide variety of places, including The Rachel Maddow Show, The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell, AC 360 with Anderson Cooper, Frontline, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered. Her work has featured prominently in documentaries such as Homegrown Hate: The War Among Us (ABC) and Documenting Hate: New American Nazis (Frontline). Belew is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She earned tenure at the University of Chicago in 2021, where she spent seven years. Her research has received the support of the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation. Belew earned her BA in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington, where she was named Dean’s Medalist in the Humanities. She earned a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University.
Belew has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2019-20), Northwestern University, and Rutgers University. Her award-winning teaching centers on the broad themes of history of the present, conservatism, race, gender, violence, identity, and the meaning of war. Belew is co-editor of and contributor to A Field Guide to White Supremacy, and has contributed essays to Myth America and The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment.
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Principal Investigator in Neuroscience, Inserm
Kathleen received her B.S. with Honors in Neuroscience and a B.A. in History at Brown University. At MIT, she studied learning and memory mechanisms in the visual cortex in Mark Bear's laboratory and earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She joined Vikaas Sohal's laboratory at UCSF as a postdoctoral fellow, to study the mechanisms of functional circuits in the context of mental illness. Currently, she is a principal investigator at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM) by way of Inserm, investigating the role of perisomatic inhibition on prefrontal cortex neurons in gamma oscillations and cognitive flexibility.
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Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen DuVal’s research focuses on early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.
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Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
Dr Kathleen McGuire is an Australian-American music educator, composer and conductor with four decades’ experience. Committed to social justice advocacy, which is reflected by research and artistic contributions. Career highlights: a decade as Artistic Director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus; conducting at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center; Sydney Opera House; collaborating on major, recognised commissions to co-create the cantata Street Requiem - performed in multiple countries to focus on the plight of homelessness and violence against innocents; also No Excuses!, a choral suite for women inspired by true stories from victims of domestic violence. Qualifications: DMA (Colorado), MMus (Surrey), GradDipEd (Monash), GradDipA, BMus (Melbourne).
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Lecturer in School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. She has a PhD from Western Sydney University (Australia), and a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Development Studies (Maynooth University, Ireland). Kathleen’s main research interests are the intersection between migration and religiosity – in particular, the experiences of African diaspora communities and their transnational connections to their homelands through the lens of their religiosity. Her PhD research was an ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia. Kathleen is currently a member of the research team for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia”. She is co-editor (with C. Rocha and M. Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins. Leiden: Brill (2020).
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Professor of Nursing, Associate Dean International and Engagement, Western Sydney University
Kath Peters is a Professor, Associate Dean (AD) (International and Engagement) and registered nurse in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University with over 35 years of clinical and research experience.Professor Peters holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons), a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and PhD (Flinders). She is internationally recognised for her expertise in women’s health, and underserved and marginalised populations.
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Penn State
My research program looks broadly at gender and rural development, with both domestic and international areas of focus. In the U.S., I study how gender, legal status, and geographical isolation shape integration among immigrants working in agricultural industries. In particular, I look at social networks and transnational ways of life in non-traditional rural immigrant destinations. My international research examines the gender dynamics of sustainable agriculture initiatives, including voluntary certifications, responsible investment, and climate-smart agricultural programming in the Global South.
My work has a community outreach and advocacy focus, although I do not have a formal extension appointment. Here at Penn State, I continue to build partnerships with outreach and advocacy organizations that support vulnerable populations in agriculture.
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Associate Professor Biology, Western University
Kathleen Hill is an Associate Professor in Biology at Western University, London ON Canada. She is a geneticist with research expertise in mutation detection, mutagenesis, mutation signatures and genomic signatures. Her PhD thesis research studied pervasive patterns in DNA sequence composition using Chaos Game Representation. Her postdoctoral training [Biochemistry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN] investigated the origins of mutations in haemophilia. Her research in Molecular Medicine at City of Hope [Duarte, CA] characterized mutations arising with development, ageing and carcinogenesis. At Western University, her team has expertise in mutation research, environmental mutagenesis, population genetics and genome evolution. Her research uses molecular assays, bioinformatics tools and in silico supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches to study mutations and genome composition. Her trainees study patterns and associations in mutation data in chromosomal and genome landscapes to gain insight into mutagenesis and selection in models of genetic disorders and carcinogenesis. Kathleen designs and teaches university courses in science communication, genetics, political biology, and bioethics for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Professor of English and Director, Program in Medical Humanities, College of Charleston
My areas of interest are two-fold but mostly relate to stories and storytelling. I am a British Romanticist and write about the connections between developing theories of the mind and literature of the period. My first book, *Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind,* dealt with the ways in which obsession became categorized and viewed as an illness during the period. My newest book will be about cognitive disability and how it intersected with ideas of feeling, race, and gender during the period.
In addition, I direct our Medical Humanities program and work on illness and disability narratives; I believe that stories are very powerful and can change minds and, in turn, societies.
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PhD PhD Candidate, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University
CandMy research interests are in the areas of international political economy and development economics, particularly during periods of economic crisis across the Global South. I study financial statecraft in emerging markets to reveal how low-income governments use strategic tools like deception to gain advantages in financial interactions with powerful institutions or states. My work investigates how transparency, corruption, and domestic and international political constraints shape government decisions to borrow, and how these decisions affect social and political outcomes for vulnerable citizens. My work has been published in the Review of International Organizations, the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, European Journal of Political Research, and Population and Development Review. Prior to my PhD I studied at the University of Antwerp and Northeastern University.
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Professor of Educational Leadership, Miami University
I am a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, focusing on educational philosophy and foundations since 1995 at Miami University in Oxford, OH. I publish research in political and moral philosophy of education; have worked in leadership roles in The John Dewey Society, American Educational Studies Association, the North American Philosophy of Education Society and the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society. I teach courses in democracy and education, ethics and education, and leadership ethics. I served as an elected school board in Talawanda City Schools from 2019-2023.
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Associate Professor in Art History, Liverpool Hope University
I studied Art History and Italian in Berlin (Germany) and Siena (Italy) and gained my BA, MA and PhD from the Free University Berlin. After working in museums in Berlin and New York, I joined Liverpool Hope University from Cardiff University in 2011.
My role is divided into two major strands. I currently act as Associate Dean (Student Experience) in the Faculty of Creative Arts and Humanities. I also work as Associate Professor in the Art History team, where I teach and supervise Art History, Fine Art and Graphic Design students.
My research focuses on the late medieval and premodern period. It includes northern European ecclesiastical art work and its role and function within a variety of communities but also the investigation of movement and migration of visual artists. Another strand of my research is the exploration of gender and sexuality in imagery of swimming and bathing in premodern art, which is discussed in a monograph I am currently preparing (publisher Routledge).
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Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
I have a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Human Nutrition from the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida
Kathryn (Katy) Chapman (she/her) is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies for the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies in the College of Education at the University of Florida. Her research interests focus on the intersection of policy, leadership, and financial investments to address inequities across early childhood systems. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Chapman was a Kindergarten and Preschool teacher in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, and she worked as a Confidential Assistant with the Early Learning Team in the Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Evaluation, focusing on Early Childhood Policy, from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.
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Lecturer, Paramedicine, Monash University
Kathryn Eastwood is a Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) Paramedic, Registered Nurse (division 1) and University Academic. She has worked for Ambulance Victoria since 2000 and has worked for Monash University since 2003. Kathryn has also been a member of the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee since 2010. Her experience in academia ranges from teaching, curriculum design, course coordination and research. She has been involved in the education and cirriculum design for military personnel, Victoria Police and Ambulance Victoria personnel, medical students, nursing students, and paramedic students.
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Cornell University, Cornell University
I am an environmental scientist and epidemiologist, and my research aims to understand the interactions among environmental change and livelihood, food, and nutrition security. My work is focused on global fisheries and the households that are reliant on the environment to access food and income. I use interdisciplinary methods and my work aims to foster a deeper understanding of how ecological and social systems interact, the ways communities and households adapt to and mitigate environmental change, and the links between human well being and ecological sustainability.
I hold a PhD in environmental science, policy & management and a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University.
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Senior Research Associate, National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs, UNSW Sydney
Dr Kathryn Fletcher is a clinician researcher with over 15 years of experience in the field of mental health. She has published widely on phenomenology, psychological factors and treatments for psychiatric conditions, and digital health interventions. Her current research focuses on developing novel treatments for people who use stimulants, with an interest in expanding the evidence base for psychedelic-assisted therapies. Kathryn is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and completed her PhD examining the psychological profile of bipolar disorder.
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Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Oregon State University
Kathryn Higley’s fields of interest include environmental transport and fate of radionuclides, radioecology, radiochemistry, radiation dose assessment, neutron activation analysis, nuclear emergency response, and environmental regulations. She has held both reactor operator and senior reactor operator’s licenses and is a former reactor supervisor for the Reed College TRIGA reactor. Higley has been at Oregon State University since 1994 teaching undergraduate and graduate classes on radioecology, dosimetry, radiation protection, radiochemistry, and radiation biology. She spent fourteen years with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as an environmental health physicist at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and three years in environmental radiation monitoring at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon. Kathryn Higley is a professor, and previously led the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University for a decade. She has managed OSU’s Radiation Health Physics program, including developing its online graduate degree, into the largest in the country. Dr. Higley has been at Oregon State University since 1994. She was the Chair of the International Commission on Radiological Protection’s Committee 5: Protection of the Environment, and currently is a council member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (which advises the US Government on radiation safety issues). She served as a Board Member (2020-2023) and is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society. She is a Certified Health Physicist. More recently she served as associate director of the TRACE project, Oregon State’s multidisciplinary effort to monitor prevalence of COVID-19 at OSU campuses and statewide. She recently assumed the role of Interim Director of the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences at OSU. In 2022 she was named an OSU Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
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PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
I am a PhD candidate in industrial engineering and a member of CIRAIG, the International Reference Center for Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition. My research focuses on the impacts of land use, life cycle assessment, and the planetary boundaries. Prior to returning to school for a PhD, I worked as an ecodesign and life cycle assessment specialist in industry.
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Sydney
Areas of Interest: Social & political philosophy; Feminist philosophy; Normative Ethics; Applied ethics
I am a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Australia, where I teach introduction to moral philosophy and bioethical methodologies. My research focusses on issues of human flourishing, at the intersection of feminist theory, ethics, and political philosophy. I am particularly interested in questions related to power, health & well-being, identity & group relations, and personal & group agency. I am currently developing an account of public heath virtue ethics, and am part of a team exploring theories of reproductive autonomy in the context of genetic carrier screening.
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Deputy Director, Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, and Associate Dean of Research, Edith Cowan University
I have three main streams of research in coastal biology and ecology largely focusing on seagrass ecosystems. I use a variety of tools and methods such as ‘manipulated’ and ‘observational’ field and laboratory studies using ‘eco-physiological’ and ‘molecular’ tools.
1. Human impacts in coastal ecosystems
Largely focusing on impacts through light reduction, climate change, and dredging
How do plants respond to different stressors (developing sub-lethal indicators)?
What levels of stress can they cope with?
What are the consequences of disturbance?
2. Seagrass-grazing interactions
How much is consumed?
How do plants cope with grazing?
3. Seagrass evolution and taxonomy
What are the evolutionary relationships in seagrasses, particularly Posidonia and Halophila?
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Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Professor Kathryn McNeilly is a legal academic with expertise in the areas of international human rights law and international legal theory. Her work undertakes engagements with the theory and operation of human rights. Kathryn's recent research has explored how ideas of time and temporality can be used as tools to better understand the operation of human rights law internationally.
Kathryn is the author of a monograph titled Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize. In 2019-20 Kathryn was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate issues of time and materiality in international human rights law monitoring. In 2018 Kathryn was awarded the QUB Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Prize. This University-wide Prize recognises a scholar whose research demonstrates outstanding significance and excellence in the first 5 years of their career.
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Senior Lecturer in Critical and Green Technology Metals, University of Exeter
Kate Moore is a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK. She has lectured on the subject of planetary geology since 1998, and extensively researched the geological processes, from mantle source to Earth's surface, that concentrate critical metals in ore deposits. She led a project to develop responsible and adaptable, small-scale mining solutions for complex ore deposits from 2016 to 2020 (IMP@CT; H2020 grant number 740311) and has recently completed a residency in Earth Humanities (NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions grant ‘Mining uncommon Ground’).
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Associate Professor of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Dr. Shamberger is a chemical oceanographer whose research focuses on the ocean carbon cycle, its alteration by anthropogenic ocean acidification, and the impacts of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms and ecosystems, namely tropical and deep-sea coral reefs, and oyster reefs. Her research involves investigating the natural cycling of carbon dioxide in coral reef and coastal ecosystems, the sensitivity of these systems to ocean acidification and other anthropogenic stressors, and controls on marine calcification. Dr. Shamberger's research is largely field based and she has worked on reefs in the Caribbean, main Hawaiian islands, northwest Hawaiian islands, Emperor Seamount Chain, American Samoa, Palau, the Great Barrier Reef, Taiwan, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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I am an infectious disease epidemiologist working on hepatitis C and tuberculosis. I have a particular interest in health services access for vulnerable groups.
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Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland
Kathryn is a pharmacist from the UK, who moved to Western Australia in 1999 and then to the University of Queensland in 2007. She teaches into the Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) in the areas of pharmaceutics, compounding and complementary medicines, and she teaches a course about clinical trials into the Master of Pharmaceutical Industry Practice. Kathryn is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Pharmacy.
Following a number of years conducting research into plant biology, Kathryn's current research interests generally link back to plants in some way - for example the tobacco plants used for chewing and smoking, the plant gums used to thicken medicines and lubricate swallowing, and the plants used in complementary medicines. Many of her projects develop in response to requests for help from healthcare professionals, and so she has a strong focus on answering clinical questions using pharmaceutical science methods. Kathryn has published over 140 journal articles across a wide range of topics, and she has supervised 28 PhD students and over 60 undergraduate independent research student projects.
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Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester
Kathryn Telling is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. She researches the different values that students and academics bring to their educational endeavours and how they manage value conflict, and explored this in depth in her recent book The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige.
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Translational Fellow Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia
Kathryn has been a researcher in the Kimberley for the previous 18 years, working across a number of discipline areas including Indigenous policy and its impacts, Indigenous governance and empowerment, exploring opportunities for traditional owners in the emerging renewables space, social histories of ALT reserves in Broome and remote child health services. She has worked with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations for a number of years, including at Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women's Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing, and more recently as Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO of Nyamba Buru Yawuru in Broome.
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Research Manager, The Asenze Project, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Kathryn Watt is a researcher based at the Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Kathryn holds an MA in sociology from Stellenbosch University and has work experience at the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand and the South African Human Sciences Research Council. Her work has primarily focused on early childhood development and adolescent health and wellbeing in resource-constrained contexts.
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Research Associate, Casual Academic, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
Kathy is a PhD Candidate with the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University and is researching the formal supports of NDIS Participants with Primary Psychosocial Disabilities and life-limiting diagnoses.
Kathy is also a casual academic and research officer with the Colleges of Nursing and Health Sciences and Psychology, Education and Social work. She is a member of the Flinders University Research Centre for Palliative Care Death and Dying.
Kathy has extensive experience with the NDIS, having worked with the National Disability Insurance Agency, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, the Flinders University Transition Support Project, the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia’s - NDIS Ready Project and with an NDIS Provider. Prior to this Kathy worked in the health, mental health and justice sectors.
Recent publication
Boschen, K., Phelan, C., & Lawn, S. (2022). NDIS Participants with Psychosocial Disabilities and Life-Limiting Diagnoses: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 10144. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610144
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Adjunct professor in the School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney
Professor Kathy Eagar is Adjunct Professor in the School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales and Foundation Professor of Health Services Research and Foundation Director of the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI) at the University of Wollongong Australia.
Kathy has over 40 years experience in the health and aged care systems, during which she has divided her time between being a clinician, an executive manager and a health academic. She has authored over 500 papers on management, quality, outcomes, information systems and funding of the Australia and New Zealand health and community care systems.
Kathy is an Honorary Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian Collage of Physicians) and is an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. In 2015 Kathy was awarded the biannual Professional Award of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ).
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Aberystwyth University
I worked for a large city Youth Offending Team for several years as a case manager, and while there, completed my PhD looking at the emotional intelligence of children who have offended. Subsequently relocating to a tiny village in Wales, I worked on a Welsh Government/Youth Justice Board Cymru project looking into the resettlement practice of YOTs across North Wales (the ‘Resettlement Broker’ project), before moving into academia, lecturing in Criminology at Aberystwyth University. My writing and research covers a variety of areas within youth justice, such as systems/processes, resettlement policy and practice, the voice of the child/collaboration, Child First justice, and the effects of Covid-19 on justice-involved children.
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Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean Teacher Education, Western University
After teaching in the public school system in Ontario for nearly two decades, I completed a PHD in Education focused on how we teach and learn within the virtual world. For the past twenty years, I have conducted research that has looked deeply into communication with these 21st C skills across professions. As a scholar cross-appointed to the Dept of Medical Imaging, I have led educational projects in online learning and pedagogies for the International Atomic Energy Agency around the world. I also led the Educational Research response in Fukushima following the Nuclear Accident. This led to expansion of the teaching and learning framework to include a 'trauma and violence' informed model. Working with colleagues in Mental Health, we provided the first online Mental Health Literacy for educators course in Canada, and provided free, validated, virtual resources for teachers to support their knowledge and ability to care for themselves and their students.
I have worked with teams to design innovative platforms for particular audiences; I have taught for twenty years in courses on multiple platforms - including 'Learning Management systems that are not pedagogically helpful.
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