Senior lecturer and academic lead, humanitarian engineering, UNSW Sydney Dr Andrew Dansie (Dansie) is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead, Humanitarian Engineering at UNSW specialising in large-scale environmental systems and international development to meet environmental and social SDGs. Dansie has 18 years of experience in the water and development sector spanning the private sector, the United Nations, universities and an NGO.
Associate Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney Avalon is a Clinical Psychologist and academic based at the Clinical Psychology Unit (Brain and Mind Centre) at the University of Sydney. Her areas of interest are in refugee and asylum-seeker mental health and the intergenerational impacts of trauma in families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She currently shares her time between research, supervision, and teaching at the University of Sydney and clinical practice in a community health setting. She has previously held roles as Clinical Lead for the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program (The University of New South Wales) and as Priority Populations Care Navigator leading mental health equity projects with the Sydney Children's Hospital Network (SCHN) HARK Refugee Clinic. She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sydney.
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sydney Dr Alice Norton is a lecturer, clinical psychologist, and supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Unit, School of Psychology. Her broad interests are in models and therapy for anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and complex presentations. Alice’s research explores the nature and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders within a cognitive-behavioural and schema therapy framework. She has a particular interest in complex presentations, including complex trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders and comorbidity. She is interested in furthering understanding of the aetiological and maintaining factors in these presentations in order to enhance treatment approaches. Alice has worked clinically across a range of settings, including NSW Health, non-government, and private practice, and continues to maintain a small clinic. She is passionate about the supervision and mentorship of clinical and research students, and about enhancing teaching and learning practices.
Lecturer, Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD University I am a writer, technologist, and mental health researcher. I currently teach in the Faculty of Arts and Science at OCADU and recently completed a PhD on the political economy of anxiety at York University. I am also co-founder and managing director of EiQ Technologies Inc., an emotion-AI start-up formerly based in the Design Fabrication Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University. My work has been featured in Asylum Magazine, Public Seminar, The LA Review of Books, Mad in America, Policy Options, the CBC and elsewhere.
Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion and Honorary Associate Professor Educational Studies, University of British Columbia I am a scholar practitioner. I have been working in higher education for over 20 years in various administrative role while also holding faculty appointments. Currently, I am the Associate Vice President, Equity & Inclusion at the University of British Columbia. My areas of academic and professional interest and experience relate to student success, EDI, intergroup relations, race and racism, leadership and organizational theory for equity in higher education.
Emeritus Chief Scientist, NRF-SAIAB, National Research Foundation • BSc Zoology, Botany University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1974 • BSc (Hons) Zoology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1975 • MSc (cum laude) Ichthyology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1978 • PhD Estuarine Ecology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1983 • DSc Estuarine Ichthyology Rhodes University, Grahamstown 2011
