Contributors

Antoinette Cole

PhD Candidate, Senior Research Assistant, School of Education, The University of Queensland

PhD Candidate, Senior Research Assistant, School of Education, The University of Queensland

Amy Thomson

PhD candidate, Senior Research Assistant, School of Education, The University of Queensland

PhD candidate, Senior Research Assistant, School of Education, The University of Queensland Amy Thomson is a Mandandanji woman and Doctorate of Philosophy student enrolled in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Amy works as a Senior Research assistant and previously worked as secondary English and Music teacher. Amy was Chief Investigator in the Australian Government’s Diversity in STEM review: “Big mob STEM it up!” project and is an Associate Investigator in UQ’s ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures. Amy’s PhD research is about how the principles of self-determination and co-design can influence the way English educators embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and perspectives in urban private schools. Amy was awarded the the Australian Association for Research in Education’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Post Graduate Student Researcher Award in 2022 and received both first prize and the people’s choice award for UQ’s inaugural Indigenous three minute thesis competition. Amy’s research interests are codesign, Indigenous education, English, and literature.

Anna Draffin

Professional associate, University of Canberra

Professional associate, University of Canberra Anna is a senior impact strategist, focused on policy and investment to drive economic and social returns across government, private and nonprofit sectors. She brings clear insight from a range of industries that have faced transformation and market uncertainties. Anna was appointed CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative in March 2020, having served as strategic advisor to the board since late 2019. Anna sits on the Victorian Government’s Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel, Homes Melbourne Advisory Board (City of Melbourne) and is a Non-Executive Director of the Community Council of Australia.

Aaron Specht

Assistant Professor of Health Physics, Purdue University

Assistant Professor of Health Physics, Purdue University I am an assistant professor of health physics at Purdue University, and I am currently a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where I also serve as director for the HSPH NIEHS Trace Metals Lab in the Department of Environmental Health. I have a BS in physics and a PhD in medical physics and exposure assessment, both from Purdue University. I did postdoctoral training for three years at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in occupational and environmental health and epidemiology. In 2022, I was named a JPB Harvard Environmental Health Fellow. My thesis was built on perfecting the bone lead measurement of the bone scanning device. Since then, I have advocated for its use, and my colleagues and I have performed more than 17,000 bone lead tests in different communities impacted by lead exposure. Additionally, I have published more than 40 articles covering the use of this same technology used in bone lead measurements.

Anna-Louise Milne

Director of Graduate Studies and Research, University of London Institute in Paris

Director of Graduate Studies and Research, University of London Institute in Paris Anna-Louise Milne est directrice de recherches à l’Institut de l’Université de Londres à Paris (ULIP) où elle développe the Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression. Après des études de philosophie et de littérature comparée à Oxford et à Columbia University, New York, elle a publié plusieurs travaux critiques sur le milieu des revues littéraires pendant l’entre-deux-guerres, les écrivains « expatriés » et « réfugiés » à Paris, et plus largement le choix de la capitale française comme lieu d’écriture et de publication. Progressivement à cette approche analytique et historique, elle a intégré une démarche pratique notamment sous forme de laboratoires de traduction et de production de textes avec des personnes récemment arrivées à Paris et en Europe. Actuellement, elle travaille dans et sur le nord-est parisien, au carrefour du monde, dont elle a tiré son plus récent livre (75, Gallimard, 2016).

Ambarish Karmalkar

Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island

Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island Ambarish Karmalkar, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses on global and regional climate change, climate modeling and downscaling, quantification of uncertainty, climate impacts and risk assessment.