ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
My current ARC Future Fellowship at Macquarie Uni follows my previously held positions at Macquarie Uni, New Jersey Institute of Technology and University of Sydney. I have secured over $AU3.1M in research grant funding, and published over 20 scientific papers (see up to date info on my Google Scholar page; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7xjbHpEAAAAJ&hl=en). I have written several articles for The Conversation on collective behaviour in ant colonies and slime moulds, and my work has previously been featured in National Geographic, Catalyst, BBC News, ABCNews 24 and COSMOS magazine.
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Professor of Geography, University of New Mexico
I am a geographer with a broad range of interests. In my research, I study how humans interact with plants, both intentionally and unintentionally. I have examined plant-people interactions from multiple perspectives, including ecology, cultural studies, history and ethnobotany. My spatial focus is on western Africa and the African Atlantic diaspora.
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Associate Professor in Public Health, Massey University
Dr Chrissy Severinsen is an Associate Professor at Massey University's School of Health Sciences. She co-leads the postgraduate public health and undergraduate mental health and addiction programmes. Her research demonstrates diverse public health kaupapa while maintaining a critical public health lens. Chrissy actively engages in interdisciplinary projects that integrate public health and health promotion with mātauranga Māori, health systems, and education. Driven by a desire to bridge the gap between academia and communities, she promotes the integration of policy and practice. Her projects embrace a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-led approach, championing equity, effective service provision, information sharing, and collective action.
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Associate Professor of Film and Television, Bournemouth University
Christa van Raalte began her career in theatre, moved into Further Education and then Higher Education, working in a number of management positions before re-calibrating to focus more of her energies on research.
Christa is currently Associate Professor in Film and Television and Head of the CEMP (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice) research centre at Bournemouth University. Her research addresses the experience of working in the television industry, including career development, retention and the ‘leaky’ talent pipeline, management practices, workplace bullying and media education. She has published on these themes in academic journals as well as in industry-facing reports. Dr van Raalte also publishes on representations of gender and on narrative strategies in film and television texts.
Her article 'More than just a few ‘bad apples’: the need for a risk management approach to the problem of workplace bullying in the UK’s television industry', co-authored by Richard Wallis, was published earlier this year in the Creative Industries Journal.
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Assistant Professor in Global Studies and Human Geography, Middle Tennessee State University
I am an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Human Geography at Middle Tennessee State University. I received my PhD from West Virginia University (2018) and my Master’s in Geography and Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism from Kent State University (2014, 2009). I previously taught at West Virginia University in the Department of Geology and Geography and at Kent State University in the School of Media and Journalism. I am a human geographer whose research focuses on identity, visuality (including photography), South Asia and its diaspora, and the connections between rurality and race in the United States.
I have published several articles in Environment and Planning C, Gender Place & Culture, Political Geography, GeoHumanities, Journal of Cultural Geography, and Area as well as book chapters for The Changing World Language Map, Changing geographies of the state: New spaces of geopolitics, Tamil Diaspora, Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and Human Geography and Professional Mobility. Additionally, I have presented 20 papers and organized or chaired 10 sessions at various national and international conferences. I serve on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and I have been a reviewer for several journals including Gender, Place, & Culture, Antipode, Journal of Sonic Studies, Professional Geographer, Media, Culture, and Society, Contemporary South Asia, and National Identities.
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Associate Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University
My research concerns how chemicals in the environment affect our health. These exposures can be unintentional (e.g., contaminated drinking water) or intentional (e.g., tattoos).
When our lifestyle changes, it is important to clarify the consequences for our health. The popularity of tattoos has skyrocketed during the last decades, and studies have shown that there are plausible physiological mechanisms through which the pigments in tattoo ink may act as risk factors for disease. Yes, there is extremely little knowledge about the long-term health effects. I want to change that!
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Lecturer in the history of international releations and war , Utrecht University
I am a lecturer in the history of international relations and war. My specialisation is military history. My PhD thesis was on the Dutch military's tactical conduct in the Indonesian decolonization war 1945-1949. My PhD thesis was published for a wider audience in the Netherlands. I have published in English and Dutch on violence, tactics and the post 1945 decolonization wars. My current research is on the Austro-Hungarian armed forces and its war against suspected civilians and illegal combatant’s during the First World War. This fall, I also designed and taught a class for MA students on Europe’s land and colonial empires during both world wars.
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Lecturer, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney
Dr Christiaan Röell is a lecturer (assistant professor) in International Business at UNSW Business School, the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. His research intersects strategy, international business, and risk management. He looks at how firms use corporate strategies to manage socio-political risk and stay ahead of the competition in foreign markets. Some of his research looks at the complementarity of strategic corporate social responsibility and political strategies to achieve legitimacy in emerging market contexts. His research has frequently used the Indonesian context.
Teaching has been a passion and privilege. Christiaan has taught on BSc and MSc courses in both the UK and Australia. Considering the demands that businesses put on graduates and the social and environmental challenges that we face, it is of utmost importance to equip our graduates with the knowledge, tools and the right attitude needed to tackle its problems. Christiaan aims to prepare students for their future roles whether as entrepreneurs, public/ private sector managers or employees. To assist them in this journey, Christiaan builds upon industry as well as research experience. These provide a continuous source of inspiring examples of case studies and the latest industry insights that always stimulate exciting debates in the classroom. All of the above allow Christiaan to spark students' curiosity, encourage them to ask ‘Why and How questions’ while providing them with an opportunity to contribute to solving real-life business problems.
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Professor in Mathematics Education, University of Southampton
After being a secondary school mathematics teacher in the Netherland, in 2012 I moved to the University of Southampton. I am a Professor in Mathematics Education and currently Deputy Head of School (research) at the Southampton Education School.
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Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology, University of Leeds
I am a Research Fellow in environmental psychology, particularly interested in the intersection of environmental behaviour (such as transport usage or food waste), social psychology, and political psychology. After completing my undergraduate degree and gaining significant experience in the industry, I sought to diversify my skill set and decided to study Engineering Business Management at the University of Warwick. It was here where I became interested in learning more about why people behave in certain ways and how, if possible at all, we can encourage them to change their behavior. After having spent another year in the UK construction sector, I went to the University of Leeds to dedicate the next three years to my PhD in Organisational Behaviour. These years have sparked my interest in understanding environmental behavior and the psychological factors that influence it. Hence I started working as an ESRC-funded Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology with particular focus on better understanding the psychological and behavioral factors driving household food waste. Working with different institutions such as the Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP), I have also launched and tested different interventions to reduce household food waste in the UK. After successful completion of this project, I have now joined the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) to examine, among other activities, the factors driving transport usage (particularly car use) and, building on this assessment, to explore possible avenues for behaviour change to reduce demand for individual car ownership. I am also examining the extent to which the public supports various climate policies, how we can encourage support for more effective policies, and the role worldviews and biases play in shaping such support.
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Professeur d’économie, fondateur de la chaire « Économie du climat », Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Économie du changement climatique et de la transition énergétique.
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Master’s student, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
Christian Faize Canaan is a Master's Degree student in the Disaster and Emergency Management program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christian Franck is the Bjorn Borgen Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in 2003, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2008. Dr. Franck held a post-doctoral position at Harvard investigating brain and neural trauma in 2009, and was on the faculty in Solid Mechanics in the School of Engineering at Brown University from 2009 to 2018.
He is the acting director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the ONR-funded "Physics-based Neutralization of Threats to Human Tissues and Organs" (PANTHER) program, which consists of over 30 PIs nationwide. Key objectives of Dr. Franck’s research program are in advanced detection and prevention of traumatic brain injuries by providing accelerated translation from basic science discovery to civilian and warfighter protection solutions.
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval
Christian Gagné is a professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Department of Université Laval since 2008. He is the founding director of the Institute Intelligence and Data (IID). He holds a Canada-CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair and is an associate member to Mila. He is conducting research on the development of methods for machine learning and stochastic optimization. A significant share of his research work is on the practical use of these techniques in domains such as computer vision, microscopy, health, energy and transportation.
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Lecturer of astronomy, University of Galway
The main focus of my work is high contrast imaging of extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks.
I use all kinds of instruments around the globe, but chiefly the extreme adaptive optics instrument SPHERE at the ESO Paranal observatory located in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.
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Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
Dr. Göritz studied Biochemistry at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He performed his PhD studies in Strasbourg, France, in a joint Max Planck / CNRS research environment in the field of Neuroscience. For his postdoctoral training, he joined the lab of Prof. Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. In 2012 he established his own research group at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Göritz investigates the physiological and pathological function of perivascular cells. The main focus of his research has been fibrosis and tissue repair following lesions to the central nervous system. In his latest research he addressed the physiological role of perivascular fibroblasts in the context of penile erection.
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PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
Christian is a doctoral candidate in Management on the Innovation, Strategy & Organisation pathway. His research explores how organizations manage reputations with a particular focus on fighting stigmatisation, reviving legitimacy, and altering institutions.
Christian joined the PhD programme in 2012 after having undertaken a bachelor degree at Warwick, a research master degree at Cambridge and work experience in consulting. At Cambridge Judge Business School he initiated the "Methods Forum", a platform for the School's faculty and students to discuss the use of research methods. Christian's PhD research is funded by a scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Christian was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the Management & Organizations Department of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) from September to December 2015.
Christian's teaching experience includes roles as seminar lecturer and teaching assistant in a variety of courses (research masters, MBA, EMBA), covering the domains of organisational behaviour, organisation theory, social entrepreneurship and strategy.
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Professor of International Law, University of Sussex
Chris Henderson joined the University of Sussex as Chair of International Law in 2015. Prior to coming to Sussex he was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham. His research and teaching interests are in public international law, in particular international law governing the use of force, collective security, human rights and international humanitarian law. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, a general editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Hague Justice Journal, a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force, and on the Advisory Council for the Institute for International Peace and Security Law (University of Cologne, Germany).
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Lecturer, Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh
I am a sociolinguist who is principally interested in exploring the social meaning of variable patterns of language.
My research explores the intersection of digital culture and language variation and change. I am an interdisciplinary scholar utilizing methods and approaches from sociolinguistics, (linguistic) anthropology, and media studies.
I am particularly interested in exploring variable patterns of language across offline (i.e., face-to-face) and online (i.e., social media) space. Most of my research has focussed on the digital and linguistic practices of young people.
I am also interested in language, politics, and globalisation. My work has examined the sociolinguistic dynamics of gentrification, the effects of standard language ideology and youth language, and the impact of accent bias on perceptions of professional competence.
Prior to this appointment, I held teaching and research positions at Queen Mary University of London, the University of York, Newcastle University, the University of Suffolk, and Regents University London.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Water Resource Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
Christian Klassert is the co-speaker of the Working Group Social-Science Water Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from Leipzig University. Christian's work combines coupled human-natural systems modeling, agent-based modeling, and econometrics to assess the water security impacts of unequal urban water access and agricultural droughts. He contributes to the development of large-scale models of water security in Jordan, food-water-energy nexus sustainability in the Indian Upper Bhima Basin, and agricultural drought adaptation in Germany. Christian is a co-recipient of the UFZ Research award 2022 for his transdisciplinary work assessing the risk of future water crises in the country of Jordan.
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Professor, Curator of the Palaentological Museum, University of Zurich
I am interested in the palaeobiology of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic. As far as groups are concerned, I focus on cephalopods and early vertebrates. Cephalopod research is a vast field; I thus focus on the origin of ammonoids, Middle Triassic ammonoids (mainly taphonomy), Jurassic coleoids, and soft tissue preservation. Currently, my students and me work on Devonian faunas from Morocco, Devonian non-ammonoid cephalopods, Devonian placoderms and chondrichthyans etc.
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Postoctoral Researcher, School of Science, RMIT University
An early career researcher whose interests could be summed up with: “Environmental sequencing, microbial ecology, chlorinated pollutants, organic matter, wastewater, anaerobic digestion, and how everything connects".
In 2021 I joined the ARC Biosolids Training Centre at RMIT (www.transformingbiosolids.org.au), where we help water utilities to improve circular resource management by getting more renewable biogas and carbon/fertiliser values out of our municipal biosolids. In project 1C of the Centre we develop metagenomic methods to monitor the microbiome of anaerobic digestion, an important microbial treatment process for wastewater. DNA-based diagnoses of wastewater sludges promises to help the water/biosolids sector improve resource recoveries and risk management.
Before that, after a career in one of the most fast-cycled and short-sighted manufacturing industries that took me from Germany to Vietnam and Hong Kong/Shenzhen, I decided to hit the switch and start thinking long-term and circular. Ten back-to-uni years later, in 2021 I finished a PhD in Soil Science at La Trobe Uni where I sequenced soil DNA and explored if and how soil biology was involved in the degradation of extremely persistent legacy pesticides that contaminate agricultural surface soils since several decades.
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Professeur de Relations du Travail, HEC Montréal
Christian Lévesque is full professor at HEC Montréal and the co-Director of the CRIMT, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and work He is also co-responsible for the research activities on Industry 4.0, Work and Employment undertaken at the OBVIA, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of IA and Digital Technology.
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I just received my PhD in Plant Biotechnology from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. My research focuses on the development of industrial-scale algae biotechnology, for applications such as biofuels, nutritional supplements and animal feeds.
During my PhD, I explored whether algal-bacterial consortia could enhance the productivity and stability of algal cultures, so that growing algae at very large scales might be improved. Currently, I am working in the Cambridge Algal Innovation Centre, working with biotechnology companies to explore how we can better exploit algae for more sustainable food, feed and fuels.
I'm broadly interested in science - from microbiology to drug development and space exploration - and in the crossover between science and entrepreneurship.
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Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Manchester
I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at MANCEPT, University of Manchester. I do research on:
- theories of social/distributive justice and equality
- liberalism and republicanism
- the intersection of political theory and political economy: welfare states, workplace democracy, and wage justice
- self-respect and other self-evaluative attitudes
- social class
- international and global justice, including political theory of the EU
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Senior researcher in water and food security, London School of Economics and Political Science
Christian is an adaptation and water resources expert with 20 years of experience in conducting research and consultancy on climate and water risks. He grew up in the Netherlands and, after four years in the UK, is now living in Sydney, Australia. He is especially interested in the value of water, the link between climate variability, risk, resilience and decision making, and the concept of ‘digital twins’. Christian’s ambition is to make a science-based contribution to societal challenges linked to the water-energy-food-environment nexus. To do so, he can draw from years of experience in conducting pilot research, working with big data and remote sensing, applying hydrological and hydro-economic models, and interacting with stakeholders.
Christian has a Master's and engineering degree in agriculture and integrated water management and a combined PhD in environmental economics and earth system sciences, both from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He is the founder of Uncharted Waters ltd, a climate-tech start-up in Sydney, that is building a digital twin of the global water and food system. Previously he worked at Wageningen Environmental Research, from 2004 to 2019, and for the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics in London, from 2016 to 2020. He is still a visiting senior research fellow at both.
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
I am an experienced, positive, energetic and optimistic leader, scientist, entrepreneur and author. I have the privilege to be the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). I champion the value of research findings in decision-making and am passionate about universities supporting the rapid decarbonization of the global economy to reach net-zero carbon pollution. To help reach this goal, I was a Founding Director, Inventor and am now a Scientific Advisor to the New Zealand-based cleantech company CarbonScape (www.carbonscape.com) which has developed technology to covert plant material into locally-produced, sustainable, carbon-negative bioengineered graphite for lithium-ion batteries.
To cut through the noise surrounding 'Fake News' and 'Alternative Facts', it's so important universities share discoveries, their implications and opportunities for society. With Imagine Entertainment, iHeart Media, Awfully Nice, and an incredible lineup of inspirational guests, I am excited to be hosting a new podcast series called 'Unf**king the Future' which will explore the sobering climate reality our planet faces today and the common–sense solutions that can be implemented now to save it.
My research has generated over 240 research papers, a h-index of 68, and been cited in policies and patents around the world. I have received several major prizes and medals. In 2014, the Australian Academy of Science honoured me with the Frederick White Prize for the understanding of natural phenomena; in 2007, I was awarded the inaugural The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young scientist for pioneering research. I completed a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in 2015. I am also a Non-Executive Director of Cicada, the Sydney-based incubator of deep tech innovation (www.cicadainnovations.com), and a Non-Executive Director of the NSW Government’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to help deliver a thriving and healthy environment for the beautiful state of New South Wales.
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Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University
My research interests include: wide-field sky surveys, object classification and photometric redshift estimation; growth of supermassive black holes, early universe and variability; optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events; galaxy evolution through cosmic epochs and via environmental influence; dust in the Milky Way and star-forming galaxies.
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Professor of History and Political Economy, University of Botswana
Christian John Makgala is a professor of history and political economy at the University of Botswana, where he teaches African diaspora, international relations, southern African history, public health history, historical military strategy for entrepreneurship, and Africa’s history on film. His publications are on colonial administration and public opinion, democracy, governance and development, industrial relations, liberation struggle in southern Africa, work ethic, motor sport, and even recently the impact of Covid-19 on Botswana. He is also a writer of historical fiction. He has been the chief editor of Botswana Notes and Records journal for about 15 years now.
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Lecturer in Planetary Health, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
Dr. Lokotola Christian Lueme is an early career research in Climate change, air pollution and human health, and resilience of healthcare service. He has an MPH and PhD in Public Health. His current expertise is in Planetary Health Education (integration of planetary health into Health Professional Education) and Climate resilient Primary Health Care (what need to be done and known).
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PhD Candidate / Provisional Psychologist, Flinders University
Christiana is a PhD candidate and Provisional Psychologist who is part of the Psychology of Justice, Emotions and Morality lab at Flinders University. Christiana is researching how storytelling (and re-telling) may aid, or hinder, self-forgiveness following wrongdoing in relationships.
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Professor of Law, Indiana University
Christiana Ochoa’s research seeks to understand how economic activity impacts human and ecological well-being. Her theoretical and empirical research relies on international and comparative law, particularly in the fields of Business & Human Rights, Law & Development, International Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment. She brings her field work—as well as her practice experience at the global law firm Clifford Chance and with a number of human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organizations in Latin America—to her research questions and classroom teaching. She teaches Contracts as well as International Law, International Business Transactions, Human Rights, and Law & Development.
Her scholarship in these areas has been published and is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, Duke Journal of International & Comparative Law, and Human Rights Quarterly, among others. Her work has also been published internationally, including in Germany, Colombia, and Korea. Her first documentary film, Otra Cosa No Hay (There is Nothing Else), was completed in 2014, received film festival acclaim, and has been viewed by audiences around the world.
Professor Ochoa has been recognized for her research, teaching, and service, and has held numerous administrative positions at the Law School, campus and university level. In 2018, she was named an Indiana University Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor. Individually, and as part of research teams, she has won competitive funding from numerous sources, including from the Mellon Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education. In 2015, she was a co-PI for a prestigious Sawyer Seminar on Documentary Media and Historical Transformations. Within the Law School, she has served as Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, and as Latin America Program Director for the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. She has held campus-wide leadership positions, including as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and as a founding Associate Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice. At the university level, she is the founding Academic Director of the IU Mexico Gateway, IU’s only office in Latin America. She has also served on various committees for AALS and ASIL.
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
I've been a leader, communicator and collaborator across several policy areas across several agencies in the Australian Public Service and am currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness. I have two PhDs (which I'm finding similar to having two driver's licenses) - one in film and literature, the other in policy communication. My most recent publications include How Government Experts Self-Sabotage (ANU Press) and “Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations” (Evidence & Policy).
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Research manager and program specialist Tuning in to Kids, The University of Melbourne
DR Christiane Kehoe is the Research Manager at Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, where she has been the Project Manager for several randomised controlled trials of the emotion-focused Tuning in to Kids (TIK) suite of programs, including a current trial investigating the efficacy of three methods of delivery of TIK (online, 1-1 delivery, and group delivery) with parents of children with challenging behaviours. Christiane is co-author of the evidence based Tuning in to Teens (TINT) and Tuning in to Toddlers (TOTS) programs, and Whole School Approach TINT program, which are variants of the TIK parenting program and has extensive experience in emotion-focused parent education, including designing and delivering intervention programs.
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PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Christiane Keys-Statham is a PHD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on the relationships between cultural and ecological infrastructures, and between public art and museums.
Christiane also works as a public art curator, project manager, cultural researcher and writer.
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