Distinguished Professor of Public Health, University of Wollongong Anthony Okely is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health and NHMRC Leadership Fellow (Level 2) in the School of Health and Society at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at Western Norway University. His research focuses on movement behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) in children, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Reader in Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University I'm a microbiologist exploring the life of microbes in Earth's coldest regions. As a Reader in Biosciences at Aberystwyth University in Wales and a Professor II in Arctic Microbiology at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) I've had the privilege of visiting the Arctic for nearly 20 years and have seen how the Arctic and its ecosystems are already changing quickly as the climate warms.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rochester Institute of Technology Anthony Jimenez is an Assistant Professor and medical sociologists from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Born and raised in El Paso, Texas along the US-Mexico border, Anthony's interdisciplinary research centers on border imperialism and intersections between immigration and health care. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and appears in journals like Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, and the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. As an activist-scholar, Anthony is committed to the aim of understanding and advancing efforts toward health justice.
Associate Professor and Director of Research, The University of Queensland I graduated with PhD in Nanomedicine in 2012 from Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ. Since than I am working in the area of advanced drug delivery and currently my group's (10 researchers ) research focuses on overcoming biological barriers for personalised medicine including the use of 3D printing technology and nanomedicine. I have won many prestigious awards including faculty higher degree research supervision award, Controlled Release Society’s early career researcher award, QLD young Tall Poppy Science Award to name a few. I am also an immediate past president of Australian Controlled Release Society (AusCRS) and an associate editor of Journal of Controlled Release and editorial board member of DDTR, ADDR, Biomaterials Science and many more.
Intercultural Coordinator, Thompson Rivers University; Project Manager, Justice, Equity, and Inclusion, Work-Integrated Learning (on leave), Simon Fraser University My SSHRC-funded Ph.D. dissertation was an an ethnography of the dynamics of race, class, and gender in the long-haul trucking industry. Previously, my MA research examined gendered, colonial, and racialized impacts of post-secondary education funding for Indigenous students in Canada. I have held various faculty positions at SFU, UFV and TRU and have previously published on racialized mobility in the trucking industry; the gendered, classed, and racialized implications of current hours of service regulations for the long haul trucking industry, and post-secondary education and funding policies for Indigenous students in Canada. I previously served as co-chair of the Learning at Intercultural Intersections: Towards Equity, Inclusion, and Reconciliation international research conference and co-edited a special issue that came out of that gathering. As Project Manager for Justice, Equity, and Inclusion (JEI) for Work Integrated Learning at Simon Fraser University, I supervise the work of a team of WIL JEI practitioners on a broad range of projects and initiatives. In doing so, I apply intersectional, decolonizing, and anti-oppressive approaches to WIL practices, processes, and curriculum. I have served on the national CEWIL EDI Committee, as chair of the ACE-WIL EDI Committee, and on the Advisory Circle for the SFU R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Project.
Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University Dr Amelia Ruscoe is an experienced educator and leader in early childhood education in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University with more than 25 years in school and university settings across QLD, NSW and WA. Her research and practice centres on the development of innovative ideas to support, extend and enhance the learning and engagement of young children in the ‘impact zone’ of transition to school. She is a published author and presents to national and international audiences of educators and academics. Her doctoral research explored education discourse, multiplicity of perspectives and affordances in early childhood education and was awarded the National Early Childhood Australia Thesis Award, the Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Award for best higher degree thesis, the ECU higher degree research medal and an Australian Association of Educational Research Doctoral Thesis commendation. Her dedication to making a substantial contribution to education has been fortified through involvement in a number of education research projects across the past 10 years including industry and university funded projects to further evidence-based approaches to literacy learning, school transition and health literacy.
