Assistant researcher, University of Tasmania Dr. Ash Barnes is a researcher for the department of Social Sciences at The University of Tasmania and at The University of Melbourne. Ash's main work examines community perceptions of harm and pleasure, attitudes towards drugs and the impact of sexual and physical violence in music venues and cultures. They have worked in a range of projects which have direct, positive impacts to the community such as to law reform, LGBTIQA+ health services, sexual assault services, and alcohol and other drug policy.
Associate Professor, University of Tasmania Dr Angela Dwyer is an Associate Professor in Police Studies and Emergency Management at the School of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES). Her research on how sexuality, gender, and sex diversity influences policing contributed to founding the niche discipline area of queer criminology, and she is founding co-chair of the Division of Queer Criminology for the American Society of Criminology. She coordinates a Professional Honours program linked with the promotional pathways of Victorian and Tasmanian police officers and teaches serving police officers skills around leadership and critical incident management to create more critically thinking police leaders, especially around policing vulnerable communities.
Lecturer, University of Strathclyde Amy Hanna is a lecturer in Education at the University of Strathclyde. Her research interests include children's participation rights, and how children's rights are implemented in education. Before going into research, Amy was a secondary school English teacher.
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Portsmouth My main research interest is deception, resulting in more than 600 publications and more than 30,000 citations (H-factor 87). I received grants from British Research Councils, Trusts and Foundations, Insurers, Federal Bureau of Investigation and American, British, Dutch, and Singapore Governments, totalling > $11,500,000. An overview article of 100 years deception research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology in 2022 (doi: 10.1002/acp.3971) showed that I have the most publications and the most citations in the field. I work closely with practitioners (police, security services and insurers) in terms of conducting research and disseminating its findings. My book Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities (published by Wiley) is a comprehensive overview of research into (non)verbal and physiological deception and lie detection. In 2016 I received the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iiiRG) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of my significant contribution to investigative interviewing. I was awarded my PhD in 1991 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and came to the UK in 1994, when I joined the Psychology Department as a Senior Lecturer. In 1996 I was promoted to Reader and in 2000 to my current position: Professor of Applied Social Psychology.
Lecturer, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Researcher, Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology Sydney Dr Anjali Gupta is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a researcher in the UTS Centre for Forensic Science. Dr Gupta received her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2019 where she worked on Interpreting Forensic Trace Evidence using Multi-Elemental and Spectroscopic Data. She was awarded her MSc from the University of Oxford in 2011. She worked in the industry as Data Scientist, Statistician and Consultant in various domains - energy sector, financial markets, marketing during 2012 until 2020. She also worked as a co-organiser for R Ladies Auckland group from 2017 until 2020.
Researcher, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet I, Annika Karlsson am actively serving as the deputy director, senior researcher (group leader) and teacher at the Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Facility Manager at the ANA Futura BSL3 Core Facility, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet. I was appointed Associate Professor in clinical virology at Karolinska Institutet in 2009. The scope of my research activities is to deepen our understanding of the interactions between a virus and the virus-specific cellular immune response, specifically CD4 and CD8 T cells, in blood and tissue. My research goal is to define the virus-specific cellular immune system in pregnant women, children, adolescents, adults, elderly, and in human cancer with implications for immunopathogenesis, development and regulation of the immune system, and health. The biomarkers identified through our study can subsequently be implemented in the examination of the consequences of acute and chronic viral infections, long-term antiretroviral treatment, or vaccination.
