SHARP Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, UNSW Sydney Alta Schutte is a SHARP Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine at the University of New South Wales, and The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and the North-West University, South Africa. Alta’s research interest is the early detection, prevention and effective management of high blood pressure, where she has led many population and clinical studies. In 2008 she was the Founding Director of the Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART) and established the Medical Research Council Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease in South Africa in 2015. She served as President of the Southern African Hypertension Society from 2014 to 2016. Since relocating to Australia in 2020 she leads clinical trials and major projects focused on improved blood pressure monitoring and blood pressure control. Alta is an invited author of the Lancet Commission on Hypertension, and of the World Health Organization’s Technical Specifications Report for Automated Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Measuring Devices. She is an Executive Board member of STRIDE BP, an international scientific non-profit organization with the mission of improving the accuracy of blood pressure measurement and diagnosis of hypertension. Since 2017 she contributed to the establishment of May Measurement Month and continues to contribute to the global awareness campaign as a Trustee. She was President of the International Society of Hypertension (2018-2020) during which time she initiated the development of the 2020 ISH Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines for low and high resource settings. She is co-Chair of the National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia (2022 -). Alta has contributed to over >450 publications in the field of hypertension and ranks in the top 0.019% of 250,197 authors in the field ‘blood pressure (BP)’ (Expertscape). Alta is associated Editor of Hypertension, and editorial board member of all major hypertension journals.
Associate Professor in Literacy and WIL partnerships, Australian Catholic University Associate Professor Amanda Gutierrez works in pre-service and postgraduate teacher training in literacy, policy and professional practice units; teaches and supervises HDR units and students; and has managed multiple partnerships (local and international). Her research interests include critical digital literacies, professional becoming of pre-service and practicing teachers and partnerships. She has been the lead on numerous successful partnership grants, and part of an QLD Education Horizon future schooling project. She has published in Q1 ranked journals.
Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Alex Carter is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for STEMM in Culture and Society (ISTEMMICS). Alex has worked for over a decade as a researcher and practitioner in the fields of anti-racism, counter-extremism, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). He has published research on terrorism, extremism, radicalisation, the Northern Irish Troubles and fascism & anti-fascism. His first book, Cumulative Extremism: A Comparative Historical Analysis, was published in Routledge's Fascism and the Far Right book series.
Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion, Leeds Beckett University Dr Anthony J. Maher is Director of Research and Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Anthony’s research, consultancy, and teaching expertise relate to centring the experiences and amplifying the voices of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. This is part of his commitment to trying to empower pupils with SEND, placing them at the centre of decisions that impact their lives, and recognising that they have expert knowledge because of their lived, embodied experiences.
Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature, Royal Holloway University of London Amber Lascelles is Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her current research explores embodied solidarities in contemporary Black feminist African diasporic fiction. Research interests My research and writing has been published in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Wasafiri. I am currently developing my first monograph, Radical Bodies: Reimagining Solidarity in Contemporary Black Feminist Fiction, which traces how contemporary Black women writers intervene in global conversations about Black feminism by transforming the theory and practice of solidarity. Examining writing by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Bernardine Evaristo, my book is concerned with how fictional bodily encounters spark moments of tension and rapport that generate solidarity.
Professor of Marine Science, University of Otago BA Colby College, Waterville Maine USA 1982 SM MIT, Cambridge MA USA 1984 DPhil University of Waikato, Hamilton NZ 1992 Have been an academic at University of Otago since 1993
