Professor of Law, University of Montana; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford Cathay Y. N. Smith is a Professor of Law at the University of Montana and Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford. She teaches courses on intellectual property law, property law, and art and cultural property law, and her scholarship focuses on copyright and trademark law, IP theory, art law, and cultural property and heritage law. She served as the 2022 Chair of the IP Section of the Association of American Law School (AALS). Before joining the faculty at the University of Montana Blewett School of Law, Professor Smith taught at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as a Whiting Fellow, and practiced as an intellectual property attorney in Chicago with the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. While in private practice, she represented multinational technology, fashion, and entertainment and media corporations on intellectual property issues and disputes.
PhD Candidate, Northeastern University Cherice is a PhD candidate at Northeastern University in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric and a research assistant in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. jones.ch@northeastern.edu
Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Energy Futures, Brunel University London I am an engineering scientist interested in the use of energy in the urban environment and the limits to natural resources. My main areas of interest are in energy security, risk, sustainability, transport, electricity networks, and resource efficiency. I use techniques and methods including the application of robust methods for metrics and indicators, and data mining and analytics.I have published more than 80 reviewed articles and technical reports across mechanical, chemical, civil, environmental, and electrical engineering.
Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney Christy Newman is Professor at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health as well as Acting Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Engagement and Impact for UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. They are a queer/bi+ and non-binary person, and use the pronouns they/them. Christy is a qualitative social researcher of health, sexuality, and gender, with a background in sociology, communications and cultural studies. They have worked in partnership with communities, governments, and clinical services for almost 20 years to understand the social dimensions of bloodborne viruses, sexual and reproductive health, and queer, bi+ and trans health and wellbeing, including their intersections with the related fields of mental health, Aboriginal health, harm reduction, disability, cancer prevention, violence prevention, adolescent health, family wellbeing, and gender and sexuality studies. Areas of expertise for public/media contributions: Social aspects of: HIV and viral hepatitis; sexual and reproductive health; LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing; sexuality and gender diversity
Lecturer in Muscle Cell Biology, University of Southampton I completed my Ph.D. in 2017, which investigated the molecular mechanisms regulating age-related skeletal muscle adaptations following exercise. I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter, investigating therapeutic interventions to offset muscle decline in ageing and in response to spaceflight. This research post has involved being a part of the first UK-led experiment to the International Space Station. I completed an MRC fellowship, utilising omic methods to understand the transcriptional basis of muscle loss and growth. I am currently a Lecturer in Muscle Cell Biology at the University of Southampton.
Professor of Political Science, Western University Dr. Christopher Alcantara is Professor of Political Science at The University of Western Ontario. Much of his research examines the roots of collective action and intergovernmental cooperation in Canada, especially between Indigenous communities and the other three levels of government (e.g., federal, provincial/territorial and municipal)
