Chief research officer: Global Risk Governance Programme, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town Annette Hübschle is a chief research officer in the Global Risk Governance Programme in the Public Law Department at the University of Cape Town, where she is also responsible for the Environmental and Planetary Futures Research Group. Annette holds a PhD in Social Sciences and Economics from the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy and the University of Cologne and a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cape Town. Her current research focuses on the governance of safety and security with a specific focus on the structure and functioning of illegal economies, environmental restorative justice, natural resource extraction (especially oil and gas), as well as the interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks.
Étudiant à la maîtrise en neurosciences, Université Laval Antoine Desmeules did his Bachelor's degree in biochemistry. He is now a masters student at the psychiatry and neurosciences department in Laval University. His work focuses on understanding the early pathological changes happening in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disease.
Master of Science student, School of Nutrition, Université Laval I am a registered dietitian, passionate about public health nutrition. My aim is to participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions that incentivize and promote healthy, equitable and sustainable diets at a population level. After completing my BSc in Human Nutrition at McGill University, I joined Dr Vanderlee's lab (Université Laval) which focuses on all things food environments and nutrition policy. After a year of working as a Research Professional under Dr Vanderlee's supervision, I began my MSc. My MSc thesis, which was submitted in May 2024, aimed to evaluate the structure, commitments and policies of food and beverage manufacturing and retailing sectors in Canada to create healthier food environments.
Professor of Modern & Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University Anne has worked at Newcastle University since she was appointed as a lecturer in 1999. Anne has research and teaching interests in contemporary fiction and poetry, the intersections between creative and critical writing, medical humanities, memory studies, and the literary representation of grief and mourning. Anne's monograph, Relating Suicide, has been published with Bloomsbury Press (Academic), as one of the first publications in the Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series. With the support of the Catherine Cookson Foundation, Anne will work with David de la Haye in 2023-24 to create a sound work that focuses on the grassroots memorial site in a copse of trees near the Angel of the North. Anne has written the monograph Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Anne co-edited with Angela Woods, Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Anne's other books include Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2008) and Theories of Memory: A Reader, co-edited with Michael Rossington (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Anne is also the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), and she co-edited with J. J. Long the first collection of essays on W. G. Sebald to be published in English. Anne has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature and Textual Practice and she co-edited a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect with Carolyn Pedwell (2012). Anne has held research grants from the AHRC to support her work on trauma and on memory.
Assistant Professor of History, Howard University Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston is an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Dr. Preston's research interests focus on the activism of Black women during the early twentieth century particularly the work of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. She is the author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State which examines how the educator rose to prominence while fighting for equality at the height or racial unrest in the state. Dr. Preston's past positions in the field of Public History include serving as director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation-National Historic Landmark at Bethune-Cookman University while she also was an archives technician for the National Archives for Black Women’s History at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site. Educated at Howard University (PhD), Temple University (MA) and Bowie State University (BS), her research has been published in The Journal of African American History, Journal of Black Studies, and The Journal of Negro Education.
PhD Candidate & 2023-2024 Public Scholar, Concordia University Amy Mazowita is a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Concordia University and a 2023-2024 Concordia Public Scholar. Her doctoral research is situated at the intersections of Critical Disability Studies, Comics Studies, and Social Media Studies. Amy's project is focused on Instagram-based mental health/illness comics, and is especially interested in the grassroots communities and networks of care that form in response to these digital texts. Amy is also interested in the Environmental Humanities and is currently working on a research-creation project that traces the affects and effects of wildfires in Manitoba's Whiteshell Provincial Park. This project is part of the SSHRC-funded "Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene" project (P.I. Arseli Dokumaci). Amy is a core member of Concordia's Access in the Making Lab, a member of Concordia's Feminist Media Studio, a TA in the Department of Communication Studies, and the Communications Representative for the Communication Studies Doctoral Student Association.
