Senior Lecturer, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology My background includes 3+ years of lecturer experience and 10+ years of industry experience in brand marketing and consumer research in consumer-packaged goods, government, and non-profit sectors. As an academic, my aim is social impact (sustainability and consumer well-being)—I explore this through understanding the psychology of consumers, with a focus on implications that inform social impact strategies for products, brands, and digital marketing.
Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, George Mason University Dr. Abhishek Ray is an assistant professor at the Information Systems and Operations Management Area at the Costello College of Business, George Mason University. Dr. Ray holds a Ph.D. (MIS) from Purdue University and a B. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from NIT Allahabad and an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. Dr. Ray worked in IT consulting for five years before entering academia. His research interests include digital and decentralized social networks, game-theoretic policy concerns in online platforms, and big data computational challenges. He uses economics, linear/nonlinear optimization, operations research, and machine learning for his research. He has presented at leading conferences such as ICIS, IEEE Blockchain, and EVOCOP. His work has been published in top journals such as Information Systems Research, IISE Transactions and Journal of Management Information Systems.
Assistant research fellow, University of Otago Andrea (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) is an Assistant Research Fellow at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, with a background in computer science, geology and environmental science. Andrea is the Lab Manager for the Physics Antarctic Ice Lab and Kaitiaki Kaupapa for He Kaupapa Hononga: Otago’s Climate Change Research Network. Research projects that Andrea has worked on recently include the Climate Action Tracker Aotearoa, Climate Scorecard Project (Stuff), Construction company readiness for climate change (BRANZ), Envisioning low carbon futures: a stakeholder/community approach, and sulfate irrigation trials at Macraes gold mine.
Reader, Nutrition, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast Anne Nugent is a Reader in Nutrition and Registered Public Health Nutritionist. She has carried out research into population dietary intakes of nutrients, foods, food ingredients and food chemicals. A keen advocate of a food systems approach, Anne is experienced in examining the impact on population dietary intakes from changes in our food supply from a farm level right up to fortifying foods with vitamins and/or minerals. She has also conducted feeding studies to examine how changes in our food supply can influence circulating markers of health in our blood. Anne is currently the Queen's University Belfast PI of the Protein-I project, an island of Ireland project, which aims to maximise sustainable plant protein production in a traceable and transparent fashion, with a focus on grains and legumes. The project is funded by The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA, NI) and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM, ROI).
Lecturer, Griffith University I am spatial ecologist interested in using knowledge on ecosystem functioning in conservation and environmental management planning. Currently, my research focuses on optimizing the selection of areas that can maximize biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provisioning in human-dominated landscapes. In addition to my academic outputs, I regularly act in a range of service roles, providing advice to urban and regional planners, environmental consultants, and government institutions from both the Global South and the Global North.
Associate Professor, Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University Andrew Nurse is Associate Professor of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University and Acting Director of the Canadian Studies Academic Program. He is a contributing editor to activehistory.ca, and serves on the Editorial Board of Acadiensis. He lives in Sackville with his wife Mary Ellen and teaches courses on Canadian public history, landscape, and public life. His published work includes the collections (with Mike Fox) Dynamics and Trajectories: Canada and/in North American and (with Raymond Blake), Beyond National Dreams: Essays on Canadian Nationalism, Citizenship, Identity. His is formerly Purdy Crawford Professor of Teaching and Learning. His current research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and the history of alternative journalism.
