Lecturer and Researcher in Law, Criminology and Indigenous Studies, Victoria University, Victoria University Alister McKeich (Ali MC) holds a Master in Human Rights Law and teaches into Indigenous Studies, Law and Criminology. He is also a photojournalist, working for Al Jazeera and the Indigenous-owned Koori Mail (among other publications and exhibitions), and has lived and worked across many First Nations' communities in law, story-telling and music. As a non-Indigenous ally, Ali is privileged to work in these spaces locally as well as with diverse communities abroad.
Creative Writing Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Andy Jackson is a disabled poet, essayist, creative writing teacher at the University of Melbourne, and a Patron of Writers Victoria. His latest poetry collection is "Human Looking" (Giramondo 2021), which won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Andy is a co-editor of "Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability" (Puncher & Wattman 2024), an anthology of collaborative poems and essays. He writes and rests on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
Ingénieure et Enseignante, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Ingénieur·e en criminologie et neurosciences cognitives, spécialisée en data science, je travaille actuellement sur les facteurs individuels et situationnels des réactions émotionnelles face aux transgressions morales. Mon approche pluridisciplinaire se complète par une perspective intersectionnelle sur toutes mes recherches.
Assistant Professor in Climate and Health Epidemiology , University of California, San Diego I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences. My research focuses on the relationships between climate change and human health.
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Strathclyde Angela Bartie is an historian of the post-1945 era. Her research interests cover social and cultural change in the second half of the twentieth century, with specific interests in the role of the arts in society, cultural policy, and arts festivals alongside ongoing interests relating to youth gangs, violence, media representations of young people, and official responses to delinquency. Bartie is the author of The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain and, with Eleanor Bell, editor of The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962. She is currently working on a major collaborative project on the history of historical pageants in Britain (1905-2016) as well as continuing to research the Glasgow arts festivals, Clyde Fair International and Mayfest. Bartie has also worked and published on aspects of youth gangs, violence, media representations of young people, and official responses to delinquency, most recently as PI on a British Academy Small Grant funded project on oral histories of youth gangs in Easterhouse, c. 1965-1975, in conjunction with Alistair Fraser, University of Hong Kong (2011). Bartie initially joined the Scottish Oral History Centre as a Research Fellow in November 2006 and, since then, has been involved in writing funding bids (including the successful AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship, The Voice in the Museum), developing and teaching SOHC oral history training seminars, providing advice and guidance to academics, museums, archives & libraries staff, community and heritage groups and the general public, and the day-to-day running and strategic direction of the Centre. Between 2006 and 2009, she also worked in research posts at the Universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh.
