Postdoctoral research fellow, Western Sydney University Cris Townley is an researcher with a foundation in sociology and education, in Transforming early Education And Child Health Research Centre (TeEACH) at Western Sydney University. TeEACH is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on supporting families and children who live with adversity. Cris' research explores identity, belonging and support in parenting groups, LGBTQ+ experience, service integration, and the growing problem of an education system that has a narrow concept of who children are and what supports them to thrive. Cris is a member of Parents for Trans Youth Equity (P-TYE).
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University Dr. Barker is teacher, psychologist, and scholar of school psychology and inclusive education. Dr. Barker has over 15 years of experience in inclusive education as an educational assistant, classroom teacher, special programs teacher, and school psychologist. His research area focuses on inclusive practices in rural school contexts, knowledge translation of psychology to improve equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and the development of clinical competency and creative practice within school psychology. Dr. Barker maintains a private clinical practice, and is active in regulatory and fraternal boards of psychology.
Professor of Early Modern Art History, History of Art, The University of Edinburgh Carol M Richardson specialises in institutional patronage, particularly that of the Early Modern period. Her research to date has been primarily concerned with the papal city, Rome, and the ways in which the patronage of individuals combine to create corporate identity. A particular feature in all things Roman is the embeddedness of the long history of the city in the works of art and architecture created there. Being a native Scot, Carol took both her degrees close to home, at the University of St Andrews. She went on to teach at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and The Open University in Milton Keynes, moving to Edinburgh in 2012. She is passionate about the History of Art as the ultimate interdisciplinary subject area, which makes it both inclusive and challenging. She believes it is an antidote to media attention on global crisis and humanity’s inhumanity as art often emerges from, comments on, sometimes resolves and almost always atones for some of our worst actions. Carol’s most recent books include Gilio's Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters (2018) in collaboration with Michael Bury and Lucy Byatt and Old Saint Peter’s, Rome (2013) which came out of a conference she co-organised in Rome. She has published two books on Renaissance cardinals: her monograph Reclaiming Rome (2009), which was described in reviews as ‘a milestone’ and ‘essential reading’, and The Possessions of a Cardinal (2011) co-edited with Mary Hollingsworth). She has also written for and edited widely-used text books, including the anthology of primary sources, Renaissance Art Reconsidered (Blackwell, 2006). From October 2018 to June 2019 she is Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, completing her book, The Last English Catholic Church Remaining in the World: Art and Sacred Geography in the 1580s. She has just finished a book chapter on the dress and regalia of early modern cardinals for the Brill Research Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal and an article on Andrea Sansovino for Sculpture Journal.
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous, Diversity and Inclusion), Griffith University Professor Cindy Shannon is a descendent of the Ngugi people from Moreton Bay. She is an Emeritus Professor with the University of Queensland and was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at the University of Queensland from 2011-2017 and Director of its Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. Prior to that she led the development and implementation of Australia’s first degree level program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers. Cindy has led major reforms in Indigenous health and played a key role is supporting the establishment of the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health in supporting South-East Queensland. Professor Shannon has contributed to Indigenous health and education policy in Queensland and nationally. She served on the Council of NHMRC from 2005-12 and is currently the Chair of the Queensland Ministerial Advisory Committee on Sexual Health, Co-Patron of the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation and sits on a number of not-for profit boards, including as the current chair of the Brisbane South Primary Health Network and Board Member to the Gold Coast Health and Hospital Board. In 2017, Professor Shannon was recognised as a Queensland Great for contributions to Indigenous Health and Education and in 2020 was made a Member of the Order of Australia (in general division) for contributions to Medical Education and Indigenous Health. Professor Shannon was awarded the AMA Queensland Excellence in Health Care medal in 2022.
Sociologie du numérique, Télécom Paris – Institut Mines-Télécom I am a PhD researcher at Telecom Paris - Polytechnic Institute of Paris. I work on the HUSH project, exploring data supply chains in French-speaking African countries.
