Director, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists & Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Dr Celine Steinfeld is a geographer specialising in freshwater science and policy in Australia. Celine completed her honours and PhD research in river management in the Murray-Darling Basin at the University of New South Wales. She won the University Medal in 2008, the NSW Government Peter Cullen Postgraduate Scholarship in 2009 and the international River Management Young Achievers Award in 2012. After graduating, Celine worked in policy implementation at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. She is now Director at the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a not for profit organisation with the goal of linking science to public policy. She continues her research as an Adjunct Lecturer at UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Ecosystem Science.
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PhD Student, Rural and Northern Health, Laurentian University
I have completed an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences at McMaster University, a Master's in Interdisciplinary Health at Laurentian University, and I am currently in my final year of my PhD in Rural and Northern Health at Laurentian University. I also work for the Canada FASD Research Network, where I was project coordinator for the research project in FASD and housing, and I am currently the coordinator for the National FASD Database.
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Catedrático de Geografía Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Doctor en Geografia por la Universitat de Barcelona (1997). Estancia postdoctoral en la Loughborough University (UK) el año 1998. He realizado estancias de investigación en la Ben Gurion University (Israel), el USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (EEUU), la Universidad de Glasgow (Escocia) y la Universidad de California en Berkeley (EEUU). Profesor de Geografía Física en el Departament de Geografia (antes Ciències de la Terra) de la Universitat de las Illes Balears desde Octubre de 1998.
Su investigación se centra en: i) geomorfología fluvial (efectos del hydropeaking en el inicio del movimiento en ríos de grava, transporte de sedimentos, evolución de la red fluvial), ii) la hidrología en cursos de agua temporales mediterráneos (análisis de series temporales, hidrología de caudales cero y ecología fluvial), iii) los recursos hídricos en medio insulares (gestión del agua, consumo de agua en zonas urbanas y turísticas, tarifas del agua) y iv) la fotografía aérea histórica para evaluar los cambios en el paisaje a largo plazo.
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Doctoral Researcher in Finance, Bangor University
Cem Soner is a Doctoral Researcher in Finance and an Instructor at Bangor Business School. His research focuses on bank lending, small business lending, economic shocks, and regional inequalities. Previously, he was working in the international development sector as a consultant. He obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Bilkent University (Turkey) and master's degree in corporate finance from SDA Bocconi (Italy). He has also completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programme.
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
Cendri Hutcherson is the director of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She received degrees in psychology from Harvard (B.A.) and Stanford (Ph.D.), and spent several years as a post-doctoral scholar studying neuroeconomics at the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on understanding why people make the decisions they do, why they so often make decisions they regret, and how we can help them make better choices for themselves and others. To answer these questions, her lab focuses on building sophisticated computational and neural models of decision making and self-control. Ultimately, this research will be used to design better interventions and technological tools to help people achieve their goals and live healthier, happier lives.
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Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, UCL
Ceri works on the Stone Age of the Indian Ocean rim: featuring the prehistories of east Africa, Arabia, India, Wallacea, and northern Sahul. His research interests range from the evolution of human cognition and sociality to the dispersals of Afro-Asiatic and Austronesian languages.
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Senior Research Fellow, Mental Health, Anglia Ruskin University
Ceri’s expertise lies in using quantitative, qualitative and creative methods to explore various aspects of mental health and wellbeing. Ceri has a particular interest in the role of arts, creative and cultural engagement in promoting mental wellbeing and social connectedness. Ceri’s research spans various population groups, including people with long-term health conditions, mental health service users, healthcare professionals, young adults and older people.
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Research fellow, Macquarie University
Ceridwen Dovey is a fiction writer, science writer, filmmaker and Macquarie University Research Fellow. Her most recent book is Only the Astronauts (Penguin Random House, 2024).
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
I have a couple of undergraduate degrees from Australia (University of Canberra and Macquarie University) and a PhD from the University of Otago in New Zealand. I worked as a postdoctoral fellow in New Zealand (University of Otago) and then in Belgium (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) before taking up a permanent position as a lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University in 2012. My research focuses on the biogeography and evolution of Southern Hemisphere species. I use both ecological and genetic techniques to address research questions, and have a particular interest in high-latitude (sub-Antarctic and Antarctic) ecosystems.
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
ervantée Wild is a Girdlers’ New Zealand Health Research Council Fellow at Green Templeton College.
I am an interdisciplinary health services researcher interested in improving health services and systems for children, young people and their families. I work alongside clinicians in the intersection between clinical and public health to prioritise participant voices in service improvement and systems change. I have broad training in health sciences, public health and political studies, with experience in both quantitative and qualitative health research. My research interests increasingly span the social and political determinants of health and health inequities.
I am based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in the Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group. I currently work on an NIHR-funded study to understand family experiences of Long Covid in order to support self-care and timely access to services.
My doctoral research with the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, focused on improving outcomes for families involved in a novel child and adolescent obesity intervention programme while addressing health equity. The mixed-methods research investigated the challenges surrounding engagement in health services for childhood obesity and long-term persistence of healthy lifestyle change. Since then I have contributed to a range of studies on multidisciplinary obesity intervention, enabling fair and informed involvement in child health research, and healthcare workers’ experiences of PPE access during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand as part of the PPE disinfection for potential reuse project with the University of Auckland.
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Geography Lecturer, Aberystwyth University
Cerys Jones has a PhD from Aberystwyth University and is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the same institution. Her research focuses on the relationship between people and extreme weather, particularly from a historical perspective.
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
César Albarrán-Torres is a Mexican-Australian scholar and film critic. He is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches Global Screen Studies. He has been widely published in academic and non-academic titles as a film and literary critic, author and translator. His current research focuses on film and television, as well as the negotiations between social media and politics in Mexico, particularly concerning the drug cartels. He is the author of Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media (2018) and Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood's Cartel Wars (2021). He is editor at the online journal Senses of Cinema.
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Catedrático en instalaciones y sistemas energéticos en arquitectura y urbanismo, Universidad de Navarra
César Martín-Gómez, Catedrático de la Universidad de Navarra, ha sido responsable en proyectos de instalaciones y sistemas energéticos en I&S Ingenieros (2000-2005), en el Departamento de Arquitectura del Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (2005-2007) y como responsable de instalaciones y energía en Mangado & Asociados (2007-2009).
Desde el año 2009 trabaja como investigador y profesor en el Departamento de Construcción, Instalaciones y Estructuras de la Universidad de Navarra.
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Catedrático en instalaciones y sistemas energéticos en arquitectura y urbanismo, Universidad de Navarra
César Martín-Gómez, Catedrático de la Universidad de Navarra, ha sido responsable en proyectos de instalaciones y sistemas energéticos en I&S Ingenieros (2000-2005), en el Departamento de Arquitectura del Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (2005-2007) y como responsable de instalaciones y energía en Mangado & Asociados (2007-2009).
Desde el año 2009 trabaja como investigador y profesor en el Departamento de Construcción, Instalaciones y Estructuras de la Universidad de Navarra.
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Catedrático de Ciencia Política, Universitat de Barcelona
Autor de una amplia obra dedicada a cuestiones de política comparada y teoría política. Investigaciones actuales centradas en integración europea y partidos políticos.
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
Chad Gibbs is an assistant professor and director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. He is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, modern Germany, and war and society. Chad’s current project focuses on Jewish resistance at Treblinka. Chad's work has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fortunoff Video Archive, the George L. Mosse Program in History, and the USC Shoah Foundation, where he remains an Affiliated Researcher. His extensive work in oral histories at several archives contributes teaching and scholarly interests in the collection and analysis of survivor testimonies as well as the generational transmission of knowledge and trauma.
Before academic life, Chad served eight years in the US Army including combat deployment to Iraq. He was wounded there in 2006 and medically retired in 2009. He received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his MA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. and his BA from the University of Wyoming.
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Research and Operations Meteorologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego
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PhD candidate, University of Wollongong
I'm PhD candidate at Early Start, University of Wollongong, Australia. My research focuses on children's physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. I am an active member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) and the AFRO regional representative for the ISPAH Early Career Network. I've been working on physical activity since 2015. My career aspiration is to be a better researcher in early childhood development & health.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Tufts University
Chance Bonar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, researching and teaching on ancient Mediterranean slavery. He recently completed his PhD at Harvard University in the Committee on the Study of Religion, specializing in the New Testament and Early Christianity. Additionally, he was a William R. Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Instructor of Theology at Boston College.
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Research Fellow, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci is a research fellow and director of product at the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure (iDPI), a new research center based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The initiative connects the School for Public Policy, the Department of Communication, and the College of Information and Computer Sciences. iDPI studies the civic and social role of internet platforms, and advocates for approaches to digital infrastructures that treat platforms and supporting technologies as public spaces and public goods, not purely as profit-making ventures.
Rajendra-Nicolucci was previously a research fellow with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. He graduated with a B.S.E. in computer science from the University of Michigan.
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Manchester
Rakhi Chand is a final-year doctoral researcher in the Health Management Group at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS). She is studying the obstacles black and minority ethnic women face in the NHS in their career development. The research was shortlisted for 'Best Doctoral Paper' at AMBS in 2022.
She is also a BACP Senior Accredited Psychotherapist; Supervisor to other therapists; and Trainer. As a writer and media representative for the BACP she has contributed to outlets including The Guardian, The Observer, Prospect Magazine and Therapy Today.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Chandler James is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He specializes in American politics with a focus on the U.S. presidency. His research has been published in Presidential Studies Quarterly and has been supported by the American Political Science Association, the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies, and the Bradley Foundation. In 2018, he was an APSA MFP Fellow. He received a PhD, MA, and AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
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Assistant professor, Education, University of Toronto
Chandni Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto (with a graduate appointment to Women and Gender Studies). Her areas of research, teaching and supervision include: comparative settler colonialisms, Palestine studies, the politics of the Middle East, state violence (carceral politics, militarism and war), cultures of resistance and revolution, political economy, third world internationalism, solidarity, memory, oral history, anti-racism and feminism.
Dr. Desai is working on her first book Revolutionary Circuits of Liberation: The Radical Tradition of Palestinian Resistance Culture and Internationalism. In it she excavates the history of the radical tradition of Palestinian resistance culture, specifically the cultural institutions, archives and radical arts practices established by Palestinian revolutionaries in the PLO. She maps the circulation of resistance culture across geographies in the 20th and 21st century; unearths the legacy of anti-colonial and internationalist cultural production, thought, consciousness and praxis against settler colonial dispossession, imperialism, warfare and genocide; and attempts to trace displaced, lost, stolen and captive Palestinian material culture.
Dr. Desai is the principal investigator on a Social Science and Humanities and Research Council Insight Development Grant (SSHRC IDG) for her project “Transnational Cultural Solidarities: Afro-Asian Pasts, Present and Futures” (2021-2023). In 2020 her research on “Tracing Legacies: Afro-Asian Transnationalism during Third World Decolonization and the Cold War”was selected for the Jackman Humanities Scholars in Residence.
Dr. Desai hosts the Liberation Pedagogy Podcast, a site to learn about the praxis of political struggle, revolution and internationalism in the quest towards freedom making. Another pedagogical innovation she is currently working on is teaching with anti-colonial archives (with Dr. Rafeef Ziadah). Desai was the receipt of the 2019-2020 June Larkin Pedagogy Award for her work on liberation pedagogies, the 2021 Ragini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award and CCGSE Mentorship Award.
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Chair of Global Youth Commitee for Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
Chanel Contos founded Teach Us Consent, a campaign that mandated consent education in Australia.
Chanel studied a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales, where she also taught multiple Information Systems courses after graduation.
Chanel completed her Masters of Education, Gender and International Development at University College London with distinction.
In 2032, she published her first book Consent Laid Bare, which is an adaptation of her Masters dissertation.
Chanel consults for multinational companies and Governments on sexual violence prevention and was appointed by Julia Gillard to chair the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership’s Youth Advisory Committee at The Australian National University and Kings College London.
Her work has been recognised domestically and internationally. In 2022 she was listed as one of the BBC’s 100 inspiring and influential women worldwide.
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Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Antananarivo, Université d’Antananarivo
Chantal Radimilahy is senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Antananarivo, and former director of the Institute of Civilizations/Museum of Art and Archaeology in Antananarivo. She holds a PhD degree from the Sorbonne University and a second PhD degree from the University of Uppsala. She has worked on ancient iron metallurgy and has undertaken archaeological research in many parts of Madagascar, including Mahilaka.
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Research Associate, Marine Mammal Foundation, PhD researcher, RMIT University
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Professor in the School of Philosophy, North-West University
Chantelle Gray is a contemporary Continental philosopher whose interests span philosophy, critical algorithm studies, queer theory and gender studies, cognitive studies and experimental music studies. The interdisciplinary nature of her work allows her to ask critical questions about how to take care of humans, technologies and ecologies in the digital age. Her books include Deleuze and Anarchism, co-edited with Aragorn Eloff (2019, Edinburgh University Press) and Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari (2022, Bloomsbury).
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Associate professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval
Dr. Chantelle F. Sephton received her Bachelor’s if Science in Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (2002) and her PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Saskatchewan (2007). She did her postdoctoral studies at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas under the mentorship of Dr. Gang Yu in the Department of Neuroscience (2007-2014). She started her lab at Université Laval in the CERVO Brain Research Centre in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor in the department of psychiatry and neuroscience.
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Food Science, Framingham State University
Dr. Frazier is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Biochemistry from Florida International University. Her research has focused on the application of human scent forensics in subject identification.
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Deputy Director, Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub, RMIT Univeristy, RMIT University
Dr Chao Chen is currently a Senior Lecturer in AI and Data Analytics at RMIT University. He received his PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Data Scientist at Telstra to create customer value from huge and heterogeneous data sources using advanced analytics and big data techniques. He is conducting interdisciplinary research between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), such as AI for cybersecurity and security issues in AI models. He has published more than 60 research papers in high quality journals and conferences, such as IJCAI, ESORICS, PETS and ASIACCS. One of his papers was the featured article of that issue (IT Professional Mar.-Apr. 2016). His work has been cited more than 2100 times with h-index 22 from Google Scholar.
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Research Group Leader, physical oceanographer, CSIRO
Chaojiao is a senior researcher at CSIRO who studies how the movement of the ocean affects the climate and the environment. Chaojiao has a wide range of research interests including understanding how ocean currents and tides could potentially protect the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs under climate change, providing science-based solutions to support the blue economy through ecological predictions about the environment, deriving detailed climate projections using dynamical downscaling and machine learning approaches, and developing decision support tool for forecasting of harmful algal blooms.
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Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Charmeka Newton is a fully licensed psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the School Counseling Program in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota. Dr. Newton is also the owner of Legacy Mental Health Services, PLLC. She has over 10 years of experience in clinical, academic, and community settings, including teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels of higher education. Her areas of expertise include multicultural counseling, research methods, tests and measurement, career counseling, and clinical supervision of master’s-level counseling practitioners and students. In addition to her clinical and teaching expertise, Dr. Newton is also a member of the Michigan Board of Psychology, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She is a sought after psychology expert featured in prominent magazines and newscasts, recently featured on the June 2020 broadcast of West Michigan Woman, where she discussed how to have difficult conversations with your family about race. She is also co-author of the soon to be released book, Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity, published through Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., as well as co-author of the peer-reviewed article, “Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavior Therapy as a Model to Address Internalized Racism Among African American Clients,” published in the April 2022 issue of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.
Education:
• PhD, Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan University, 2009
• MA, Community Psychology & Social Change, Pennsylvania State University, 2004
• BA, Psychology and Communications, University of Michigan, Dearborn, 2002
Awards:
• Michigan Psychological Association, 2022 Distinguished Psychologist Award
• West Michigan Woman Brilliance Award Finalist, 2020
Professional Appointments:
• Michigan Board of Psychology, December 2019-Present
Appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Media Appearances:
• “How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race With Your Family,” West Michigan Woman Broadcast, Grand Rapids, MI, June 2020
• “Managing Your Emotional Health During a Pandemic,” WOODTV, Grand Rapids, MI, May 2020
• “When to End a Toxic Friendship,” West Michigan Woman, January 28, 2019, https://westmichiganwoman.com/relationships/2278-when-to-end-a-toxic-friendship
Recent Publications:
Steele, J. M., & Newton, C. S. (2022). Culturally adapted cognitive behavior therapy as a model to address internalized racism among African American clients. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 44(2), 98-116.
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Research Fellow, Deakin University
Charishma Ratnam is a Human Geographer and Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) at Deakin University. Her research spans a number of areas, primarily focusing on refugee and migrant experiences and resettlement, inclusion, and home-making practices. Charishma is particularly interested in developing novel research approaches including digital, visual, ethnographic, and walking methods with participants to better understand their experiences of/in/with place(s).
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