Senior Analyst, Climateworks Centre Brurce is currently Senior Analyst at Climateworks Centre, a think tank under the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia. With a strong background in environmental science and public policy and regional expertise across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, he contributes expertise in mobilizing investments for climate projects such as nature-based solutions and decentralized renewable energy. Passionate about social justice, he is also experienced in advocating for oversight systems that ensure the environmental and social integrity of investments across the financial systems and carbon markets. Brurce graduated with a Master’s in Environmental Science from Yale University School of the Environment and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung.
Professor of Microbiology, UNSW Sydney Belinda Ferrari is a newly appointed Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Science at UNSW. Her research area is environmental microbiology where she specialises in uncovering Antarctica's soil biodiversity by performing discovery-based and applied research. Her team discovered a previously overlooked primary production process where bacteria literally ‘live on thin air’. She coined this process ‘atmospheric chemosynthesis’ and published these findings in the prestigious journal Nature. Belinda's team also uses microbes as indicators of soil health, for the assessment of ecosystem recovery during bioremediation and for developing site-specific ecotoxicity assessments. Belinda's future goals are to continue to challenge our understanding of the nutritional limits and the boundaries of life, while training the next generation of scientists.
Professor of Youth Development Leadership, Clemson University Dr. Barry A. Garst is a Professor of Youth Development Leadership and the Coordinator of Youth Development Programs in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. Dr. Garst currently teaches graduate courses on program assessment and evaluation, creative and ethical leadership, employee and volunteer management, and nature as a developmental context for children and adolescents. A nationally recognized summer camp scholar, Dr. Garst's applied research focuses on critical and emerging issues facing the out-of-school time community of youth, staff, parents, alumni, and program providers. Recent research has explored overparenting, parent anxiety associated with camp experiences, programs serving military-connected youth and families, summertime food insecurity, and camp health care practices to reduce the spread of communicable diseases including COVID-19. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine engaged Dr. Garst as an expert on youth out-of-school time experiences. From 2018 to 2019, he served on a consensus study committee to synthesize the state of the research evidence associated with the summertime experiences of children and adolescents in the areas of education, health, and safety outcomes. Prior to joining Clemson University’s faculty, Dr. Garst was the Director of Program Development and Research with the American Camp Association from 2008 to 2014, providing leadership to research, education, and business development initiatives. From 2001 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist with Virginia Tech responsible for camp research and evaluation, curriculum development, and faculty and staff training and development.
Associate Lecturer, The University of Queensland I am a historian of the crusades and the religious cultures of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the central Middle Ages, with research expertise in the Latin narrative histories of the crusades. I have published on medieval ideas about miracles, masculinities, and nature in crusades sources. My first book, The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative, was published by Boydell & Brewer in March 2020 and will be released in paperback in March 2023. I am currently an Associate Lecturer at the University of Queensland, where I have been working since 2018. I have previously worked as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Birmingham. I completed a PhD in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham in 2017.
Research Associate, University of Bristol I hold a BSc in Psychology from the University of Portsmouth and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Aston University. I am currently finishing a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Edge Hill University whilst working as a Research Associate at the University of Bristol's Hub for Gambling Harms Research.
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University As a PhD candidate, I possess a strong academic background, with a focus on health behaviour change. I have demonstrated my expertise through publications in the Journal of Health Psychology such as my article on the effective behaviour change relating to vaping. Additionally, I have acquired valuable experience in my field through working as an injury prevention specialist with the Government of Canada, Canadian Armed Forces. These qualifications have prepared me well for a successful career in academia or industry.
