Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University Postdoctoral research fellow, investigating the interactions between agriculture, soils and climate at Southern Cross University. I am especially interested in the links between sustainable grazing and soil carbon, how soil management can buffer against drought and the nature and causes of agricultural drought in Australia.
Casual Academic/ Research Administration Officer, University of Sydney Dr Aisha Malik is an academic and research administration officer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Under the supervision of Professor Lee Wallace, she completed her PhD titled 'Feminist Edutainment and the Pakistan Televisual Commons: A multi-site Ethnography of Urdu Serial Drama'. Aisha is a Fulbright scholar having completed her MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at Northwestern University; she writes about gender, sexuality, media and race.
Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia Amin Saikal, AM, FASSA is Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences, the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia, and Non-Resident Fellow of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University. He is an awardee of the Order of Australia (AM), and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). His books include: Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic (Princeton University Press, 2021); Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2012); The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule (Princeton University Press, 2009); Islam Beyond Borders: The Umma in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) – co-author; The Afghanistan Spectre: The Security of Central Asia (Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2021) – co-author; The Arab World and Iran: A Turbulent Region in Transition (Palgrave, 2016) – editor. He is an oped writer, whose articles have been published in leading world dailies, including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Strategist, and a frequent commentator on national and international TV and radio networks.
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Educational Innovation, University of Sydney I have dedicated my career to enhancing student learning and the student experience and have received numerous teaching awards in the UK and Australia, including four University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Awards for Support of the Student Experience and Teaching Excellence, an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award for Programs that Support Learning and an Australian National Teaching Fellowship. I research into student engagement, educational technologies, and curriculum in higher education. In my current role, i am leading the University’s support for enhancing the learning experience for students through the development of collaborative and interactive teaching styles and the technologies that support and enable them. In 2023, this includes leading our response to the challenges and possibilities that embracing generative artificial intelligence in higher education will bring. BA (Hons) in Chemistry, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. PGCE (Science), University of Birmingham. PhD (Inorganic Chemistry), Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Assistant Professor, Journalism, Toronto Metropolitan University Adrian Ma is an award-winning journalist, multimedia producer, professor and author. He specializes in teaching digital news reporting, personal branding and 360/VR storytelling at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He has more than 15 years of professional experience as a writer, editor and content creator and has worked for numerous Canadian news outlets including the CBC and the Toronto Star. He has also written a book about Chinese-Canadian history titled, "How the Chinese Created Canada" (Lone Pine Publishing, 2010).
