Associate Dean Indigenous & Senior Scientia Lecturer., UNSW Sydney Brett is a Murrawarri man from Brewarrina. He has been living on Wiradjuri country for the last 20 years. He holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, a Masters in Indigenous Health and a PhD. He is currently Associate Dean Indigenous with Medicine and Health and a Senior Scientia Lecturer. Prior to this he was the inaugural Director of Indigenous Health Education in the Office of Medical Education, UNSW Medicine & Health. With a passion for education health equality, Brett is an early career researcher with a keen interest in Aboriginal men's health and cardiovascular disease.
PhD student, School of Social Work, McMaster University Bridget is a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at McMaster University. She has also completed her Honours Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work at McMaster. Bridget has an extensive background in community work in sexual health, sexual violence, gender-based violence, HIV and AIDS, and harm reduction. Her current focus is on community-based participatory sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) research in collaboration with Indigenous communities. In addition, Bridget is supporting projects focused on social work program evaluation and youth with developmental and intellectual disability experiencing homelessness.
Associate Professor of Law, Dublin City University Brenda Daly is an Associate Professor of Law in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Her research interests include employment law, healthcare law, law and dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation).
Professor of Law, University of British Columbia Benjamin Perrin is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law. He served in the Prime Minister’s Office as in-house legal counsel and lead criminal justice and public safety advisor, and was also a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Perrin is a national best-selling author. His books include "Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial" (University of Toronto Press, 2023); "Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis" (Penguin Random House, 2022); and "Victim Law: The Law of Victims of Crime in Canada" (Thomson Reuters, 2017). He has testified as an expert witness before legislative committees and regularly provides commentary in the media. He lives in Vancouver, BC. www.benjaminperrin.ca
Professor, Virginia Tech As a first-generation college student, I graduated with a bachelor’s in history from Northern Illinois University, and went on to earn a doctorate in African history from Northwestern University. After several years teaching at the University of Mississippi, I arrived at Virginia Tech in 2005. I am associate director of Virginia Techs's Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies, which pursues research and teaching around issues of displacement, and works with displaced individuals locally and internationally. My early research dealt with colonialism, the law, marriage, and gender in southwest Kenya, resulting in the 2006 book, ‘Girl Cases’: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970. While I conducted smaller research projects on legal history and sexual violence in Kenya, my next book delved into issues of race and settler colonialism: The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900–1920s. Most recently, I’ve turned my attention to the history of refugees and completed a “state of the field” essay (in A Companion to African History). I am in the midst of research and writing a long book on the history of refugees who fled Ethiopia after the 1935 invasion by Italy. When working with students, I’m particularly interested in promoting study abroad and in dissecting issues of power, race, and paternalism that often arise in service learning projects, humanitarianism, and development.
Lecturer, Australian National University I am currently a lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU and was previously a post-doctoral researcher at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. I am a political sociologist, and I study the sociopolitical and ethical impacts of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems in military, security, and defence contexts.
