Lecturer of Animal Psychology, University of Hull Formally trained in zoology and psychology, Dr Morton is a university lecturer specialising in animal psychology and wildlife conservation. Since 2018, he has been studying the behaviour and problem-solving abilities of wild carnivores, particularly in the United Kingdom. The primary goals of his research are to understand what factors drive behavioural adaptability in animals, and how this impacts human attitudes and behaviour towards nature in an ever-changing world. Dr Morton's research is published in world-leading journals for animal behaviour and cognition, and his work attracts major global media attention, including the BBC, The Guardian, TIME, and National Geographic. He has obtained over £530,000 in grants as a P.I. and co-investigator, including NERC and the prestigious Newton Fund, and was awarded a ‘Research Excellence Award’ from the University of Hull in 2022. He is the founder and co-director of the recently-established Hull Animal Behaviour Centre, which is comprised of research programmes from over 7 countries, and he is the convenor of the Behaviour & Ecology Research Group at the University of Hull. He is currently an associate editor for Royal Society Publishing, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the UK's national Badger Trust.
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Barbara’s doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute and the University of Tübingen investigates the global dimensions of the dispersal of ancient aromatics and spices throughout Asia and East Africa using biochemical and biomolecular analyses to characterize organic remains. Her current projects aim at reconstructing the use of smells and scented plants in the past using biomolecular profiling of plant secondary metabolites, lipids and proteins. In 2020, Barbara was awarded an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science from the Joachim Herz Foundation for her PhD research. She also won a 2022 AEA Small Research Grant awarded by the Association for Environmental Archaeology to fund her project titled “Reconstructing olfactory landscapes of ancient Arabia using biomolecular approaches”.
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Power Systems Engineering, University College Cork Dr. Barry Hayes is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems Engineering at UCC. Prior to joining UCC in 2018, he was a Lecturer at the University of Galway (2016-2018), and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at IMDEA Energy in Madrid (2013-2016). He holds a PhD in Electrical Power Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (2013), and has held visiting researcher positions at National Grid UK (2011) and at the University of Tennessee (2016). Barry leads a research team at UCC focused on the grid integration of sustainable energy technologies, and the operation and planning of future power systems. Barry is a Funded Investigator in the SFI MaREI Centre and has active research collaborations with the Irish energy industry and with international academic partners. He has given invited talks and keynotes in USA, UK, Spain, France, Croatia, Ethiopia, Japan, and China, and contributes regularly to public science and technology communication through Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ. Barry is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is involved in the development of new IEEE standards on smart grid interoperability. Barry also works with energy communities around Ireland, providing technical advice on the development of community-owned renewable energy projects.
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Dr. Cohen is an internist and clinical investigator who conducts research on the use and perceptions of cannabis and tobacco.
Associate Professor of Management, Grand Valley State University Brett Crawford is an organization theorist who relies primarily on qualitative methods (e.g., long multimodal interviews, oral histories, robust archives) to explore how actors (real and imagined) organize to protect and repair institutions. His research is multifaceted, having published empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers in a variety of top journals, including Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management Inquiry, Organization Theory, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations, among others. Brett is also a published poet, having his work featured in The American Fly Fisher. He has held a number of faculty and research appointments prior to returning to GVSU (he played baseball for GVSU as an undergraduate student), including Purdue University, the University of Pittsburgh, Northwestern University, and Stanford University. Brett earned his Ph.D. in Management and Organization Studies from Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and his MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Co-Chairperson of the Indigenous Desert Alliance and a Regional Land Management Coordinator at the Central Land Council, Indigenous Knowledge Boyd Elston is an Anmatyere man from the Central Desert. Boyd is Co-Chairperson of the Indigenous Desert Alliance and a Regional Land Management Coordinator at the Central Land Council. He has previously coordinated the Anangu Luritjiku Rangers who are based out of his home community of Papunya and look after a large area of Country where the Gibson Desert meets the Range Country of Central Australia.
