Contributors

Amelia Gulliver

Senior Research Fellow, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University

Senior Research Fellow, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University My research interests include lived experience research, the development and evaluation of online mental health programs, and improving mental health in vulnerable populations in the community.

Avidan Kent

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia Avidan Kent is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. Avidan’s research interests include the fields of Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Dispute Resolution, and International Environmental Law. Avidan holds an LLM from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Alex Johnson

Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University

Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University Dr. Johnson's research interests are in uncovering the neuronal mechanisms of learning and motivation. Current projects examine mechanisms of binge-eating with a particular focus on how the organizational and activational role of gonadal hormones shape and confer risk for the excessive intake of palatable food. A second area of research focuses on the role of neuropeptides in the control of learning and ingestive behavior to examine how brain circuits controlling both homeostatic and learning and memory systems interact to modulate allostatic control of food-seeking, consumption and metabolism. A third area of research examines mesencephalic-forebrain influences over learning and decision-making, with a particular focus on dopamine. To examine these research questions, Dr. Johnson's lab employs sophisticated ingestive and associative learning procedures with cutting-edge chemogenetic and optogenetic techniques.

Alice Beban

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University I am a social scientist focusing on rural social change, feminist theory, and environmental sociology. I conduct research in Aotearoa New Zealand and Southeast Asia.

Avery Paxton

Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Paxton is a Research Marine Biologist at NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), where she focuses on coastal resilience and restoration. She quantifies ecological functions of created, restored, or impacted habitats to learn which interventions can best achieve intended ecological outcomes (e.g., coastal resilience, ecosystem services, community structure). Paxton’s current research evaluates how natural and nature-based infrastructure (e.g., salt marshes, coral reefs, living shorelines) can boost coastal resilience. A major pillar of Paxton’s research is conducting regional and global syntheses to gain new insight from previously collected data. Earlier in her career, Paxton determined ecological functions of human-made reef habitats, including artificial reefs and historic shipwrecks, and tested whether artificial structures provide similar fish habitat to natural reefs. Paxton began her career by earning a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, where her undergraduate thesis on shipwreck ecology stemmed from her time as a NOAA Hollings Scholar. After working as a research technician at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs studying rocky reefs and kelp forests, she earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied how reef fishes rely on rocky reefs, artificial reefs, and shipwrecks. Paxton conducted a joint postdoctoral fellowship with a nonprofit, a consortium of aquaria, and Duke University, studying reliance of a large coastal shark on artificial habitats before spending three years conducting research under contract to NCCOS through CSS-Inc.

Abi Crane

Postgraduate Researcher, University of Southampton

Postgraduate Researcher, University of Southampton I am a PhD student researching the biology of Mesozoic birds at the University of Southampton, with an emphasis on reproductive biology and osteology. I completed an MPhil in the Earth Sciences department at University of Cambridge researching the morphology of the mandible of crown-group and crownward stem-birds.