Senior Fellow at the Center for Environmental Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Barbara Haya is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) where she directs the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the outcomes and design of carbon trading and offsetting programs, and the limits to the effectiveness of carbon trading alone. The Project coordinates research and outreach to ensure its research results inform policy and program design. Barbara holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, and MIT Technology Review.
DrPH Candidate, University of California, Berkeley Blake Erhardt-Ohren is a global health practitioner with ten years of experience in sexual and reproductive health and population dynamics.
Ph.D. Candidate, Media Studies, Western University Billie is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Her research interests lie primarily in the interconnection between narratives of disability and Hollywood cinema, focusing specifically on the prevalence of disabled aesthetics, tropes, and individual characteristics in Hollywood top-box office films. With academic grounding in semiotics, film and critical theory, and disability studies, her other interests include the aesthetics of horror, stand-up and sitcom comedy (particularly of “punching up/punching down” humour), the intersection of race, gender, and disability, and mimetics. Billie grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and is now living in Toronto. She holds a BA from Western University and King’s University College (Disability Studies and Psychology), and an MA from York University (Critical Disability Studies).
Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs, University of Exeter Brahm Norwich is Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter. He was previously Professor of Special Needs Education, Institute of Education, London University. He has worked as a school teacher, professional educational psychologist and university teacher and researcher. His broad area of interest is special needs and inclusive education: for example, policy and practice issues, concepts and values, emotional and behaviour difficulties, moderate learning difficulties, pedagogic issues and professional learning. His research interests include applying psychology to education, including psychology applied to special needs and inclusive education.
Professor, School of Management, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Bevan is Professor of Work and Organisation in the School of Management at Massey University. He is one of the co-founders of the Healthy Work Group – a multidisciplinary team of researchers interested in psychosocial factors in workplace health and safety. Bevan’s primary research focus is on workplace bullying, psychosocial risk and wellbeing and he has published extensively on these topics. Beyond Massey, Bevan has served on the boards of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment.
Assistant Lecturer, History of Art, Design & Visual Culture, University of Alberta Brandi S. Goddard is a lecturer in Art History based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her research explores traditional crafts and making, and she is currently teaching courses on the history of design, craft history & theory, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement in a global context. In addition to her continuing work on Irish crafts, she is also beginning a new project on transnational explorations of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild and the Canadian Prairies.
