Fellow in Economics and History at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge Charles Read is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History and an Affiliated Lecturer in Economics and History at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow, Tutor, College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College and a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History at Darwin College. He has recently published two books: Calming the Storms: the Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 (2023) and The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (2022). His previous research has won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T.S. Ashton Prize, and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society and a prize from the International Economic History Association for the best doctoral dissertation completed in 2015, 2016 or 2017. He has also worked as a writer and editor at The Economist and as a research associate at an investment bank in London.
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Dr Christopher Patterson is a Lecturer within the School of Nursing, University of Wollongong, and a Registered Nurse, with specialist qualifications in mental health. Christopher is an active researcher, with research interests that include teaching and learning within the nursing workforce, mental health stigma and improving the health of people with lived experience of mental illness. In addition to his research, Christopher is also the co-founder/co-director of the award winning initiative, Recovery Camp (www.recoverycamp.com.au). Christopher is wholly committed to making a difference in the lives of people who are living with mental illness, as well as assisting future nursing professionals develop recovery-oriented skills.
Associate Professor in Property Law, Durham University Chris is a leading voice in matters pertaining to property and homelessness law in the UK and internationally. Chris joined Durham Law School as Associate Professor in Property Law in September 2019 after 6 years in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. Chris has served as Deputy Dean, Director of Research and Director of Post-graduate Research at Durham Law School. Prior to entering academia, Chris practised as a common law barrister specialising in matters of employment, property, housing and family law. Chris graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with degrees in both Modern Languages and Law and was awarded my MA (Cantab.) in 2012. Chris is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; author of the acclaimed textbook, Land Law (4th Edn forthcoming 2024 with Oxford University Press); won ‘Lecturer of the Year’ in 2017 and, in 2015, was awarded the prestigious Lord Dearing Award for outstanding, world-class contribution to enhancing the student experience. Chris is honorary member of the Property Bar Association; academic member of the Property Litigation Association and invited member of the esteemed Academic Panel at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square Chambers, London. Chris is Door Tenant at KCH Garden Square barristers chambers and, in 2018, Chris became an invited, nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2023, Chris was awarded the higher doctorate of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) in recognition of ‘sustained, distinguished work of considerable scholarly impact.’ Chris' research focuses on tackling contemporary challenges related to property, land, housing and homelessness and how we might use law and associated disciplines to solve them. Chris is interested in engaging with practitioners working in these area and builiding a bridge between academia and the world of leal practice.
PhD Candidate in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds I am a fourth year PhD student in the Biosphere and Atmosphere group. I received my master's and undergraduate degrees from the University of Leeds. During my undergraduate, I studied abroad at Monash University in Melbourne. My research interests are investigating how deforestation in the tropics is affecting local and regional and global climate. I use remotely sensed and insitu data to assess the impact that land-use changes have on climate.
Casual Academic, Deakin University Caitlin is a casual academic at Deakin University (School of Psychology), and is also a Research Officer and Data Analysis and Fieldwork Coordinator at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Caitlin has a Bachelor in Psychology (Hons) and in 2016 completed a Master's of Research in Health Systems and Populations where she explored donor-conceived people's perspectives and experiences, including donor seeking behaviours. In 2022 she submitted her PhD investigating parenting, parenting-child relationships and adjustment in donor-conceived families and continues to conduct research in the area, as well as engage in research in Autism, and early child health and education strategies for vulnerable families.
Associate Professor of Human Ecology and Law, Rutgers University Cymie R. Payne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and the Law School at Rutgers University. She has represented the interests of the international community in the marine environment as legal counsel before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, on behalf of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and has provided expert advice before the International Court of Justice and other international courts. She previously practiced natural resource and environmental law with the United Nations, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the law firm of Goodwin, Procter. For six years, she participated in landmark decisions on the legal responsibility of aggressor states for the restoration and remediation of damage to the environment from armed conflict as counsel to the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. As Director of the Global Commons Project at University of California Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, she focused on the linkage of state and international climate policy, particularly with respect to emissions trading systems; conflicts of state law with international trade; and regulating risks of new technologies such as carbon sequestration, where she was also a lecturer in residence on international courts and climate change law. She has served on the Program Committee of the American Society for International Law and the International Law Association Committee on Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development. She currently serves at the Chair of the Ocean Law Specialist Group of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. She is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. She holds a Master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley.
