Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences, Auburn University April Smith is the director of the Research on Eating Disorders and Suicidality (REDS) Laboratory at Auburn University. She received her PhD from Florida State University’s Clinical Psychology Program in 2012 and completed her clinical residency at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Smith was an associate professor at Miami University before starting at Auburn in 2021. She was named a 2016 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Smith has received over $6.5 million in funding from the Department of Defense and NIMH to support her work.
Assistant Professor of Information Science, Drexel University I am an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. I am a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher who utilizes artificial intelligence to tackle sociotechnical issues using human-centered approaches. My research expertise is positioned at the intersection of HCI, Social Computing, AI/ML, Privacy, and Online Safety. I am passionate about investigating sociotechnical complexities of online harms to design and develop technologies facilitating safer and supportive online interactions, especially for vulnerable populations such as youth.
Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the UNiversity of Lincoln. Her research expertise broadly focuses on men’s care responsibilities, welfare and support needs, in low-income families and contexts and across the lifecourse. She is author and co-author of several books exploring marginalised fatherhoods including: 'Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men's Family Participation in Low income families' (Policy Press, 2021), 'Men, Family and Poverty' with Prof Kahryn Hughes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and 'The Dynamics of Young Fatherhood' with Emerita Professor Bren Neale (Policy Press, 2024). In recent years, she has also led and/or co-edited several edited collections, including 'Men and Welfare' with Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way (Routledge, 2022), 'Covid-19 Collaborations' with Garthwaite et al. (2021, Policy Press) and 'Qualitative Secondary Analysis' with Kahryn Hughes (Sage, 2020). She is currently the Director of the UKRI funded Future Leaders Fellowship study, 'Following Young Fathers Further' (FYFF). This qualitative longitudinal and comparative study extends existing evidence concerning the parenting trajectories and support needs of young fathers (aged 25 and under). Using novel methods of co-creation the study involves the implementation and capture of a novel community-based intervention called the Young Dads Collective that promotes father-inclusive and gender-equal parenting through partnership working with young fathers and national family and youth support organisations. Establishing a new collaboration between UK charities (including NSPCC, Coram Family Childcare and YMCA Humber) and international academic partners in Sweden, FYFF represents a significant investment in research, and policy and practice development for young parents.
Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Penn State Amy Pritchett is Department Head of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. Her research topics include autonomous flight and UAVs, vehicle dynamics and controls, and vehicle systems engineering. Pritchett studies the intersection of technology, humans and safety in dynamic, time-critical and safety-critical environments. These include human-robot interaction in space exploration, human-autonomy teaming in aviation, novel flight deck designs, and manual control.
Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, Jackson School of Public Affairs, Yale University Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security challenges facing the U.S. and Europe, focusing on Russia, threats to democracy, and the state of the transatlantic alliance. Prior to joining CNAS, she served for eight years as a senior intelligence officer. From 2015 to 2018, she was a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In this role, she led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on Russia, represented the NIC in interagency policy meetings, provided analysis to the National Security Council, and briefed the DNI and other senior staff for White House and international meetings. Prior to joining the NIC, Andrea was a senior analyst with the CIA. Outside of CNAS, Kendall-Taylor has been a CNN national security analyst. Her work has been published in numerous political science and policy journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Washington Quarterly, and Foreign Policy. She received her BA in politics from Princeton University and her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright scholar in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, where she conducted dissertation research on oil and autocracy
PhD Researcher, Queen Mary University of London I am currently working on a PhD in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. My research focuses on how Holocaust memory is represented in contemporary transnational cinemas. I examine a variety of films in different (trans)national contexts to show how the Holocaust today is understood in both dialogue and competition with other genocides and historical events, ranging from the Armenian genocide, the Roma genocide, as well as the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. I have an upcoming book chapter, about the online viral phenomenon of the "dybbuk box", to be published in a edited volume by De Gruyter on digital Holocaust memory. I have a BA in Film Studies for which I achieved a first, and an MA in Film and Philosophy, for which I achieved a distinction -- both from King's College London.
