Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Monash University Catherine Murphy is a research leader in the Monash Urban Lab in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, where she co-develops projects that combine practice-based design research with policy studies towards the regeneration of cities and regions. She was a researcher with the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities where she focused on better integration across water planning, urban planning and design. She collaborates with architectural researchers on research projects on alternative processes for developing inclusive housing and ecological cities, the outcomes of which include industry reports and public exhibitions. She is co-editor (with Nigel Bertram) of the book In Time with Water: Design Studies of 3 Australian Cities.
Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University Postdoctoral Researcher with Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) Adjunct Research Fellow, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
PhD Candidate, University of Southampton I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. My research is at the intersection of gender, media and politics. I am particularly interested in gendered representations of political actors in the media, both during campaigns and in normal times. In my PhD project, I examine the role of gender in representations of presidential candidates in political satire. Using a mixed methods approach, this project explores gender role congruity, gendered framing, and gendered themes in political satire and news coverage of candidates in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential Elections. I currently serve as the Communications Officer of the Political Studies Association Early Career Network. Prior to joining the University of Southampton, I received my MA in International Relations and Security from the University of Liverpool and my BA in North American Studies from the Free University of Berlin, Germany. During my undergraduate studies, I was a visiting student at New York University and at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research has been published in Political Studies Review and I am a frequent contributor to academic blogs. Outside of academia, I have worked as an editor and reporter in print, online and television journalism. Most recently, I covered elections in the US (2020), in the UK (2019) and in Germany (2017 and 2021).
Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of Central Lancashire Charlie teaches on various courses within forensic psychology at University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). He is the main lead for the award-winning EvoFIT composite system that is sold to police forces in the UK and overseas. Using the EvoFIT system, witnesses choose from a selection of faces that bear a resemblance to an assailant. A composite image of the suspect is "evolved" over time. Charlie's research focuses mainly on the construction and identification of these facial composite images. He supervises students at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Adjunct Professor, Victoria University Dr Cynthia Leung is an educational psychologist. She is currently Adjunct Professor, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, Honorary Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was formerly Professor and Psychology Panel Chair at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the program leader of the Master of Educational and Child Psychology program in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong Government in July 2019 in recognition of her contribution to special education. Dr Leung’s research includes parenting education, test development, program evaluation, cross-cultural psychology, migrant adjustment, child and adolescent well-being, and she has published extensively in these areas.
Professor and Head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee Tina Shepardson studies the history of early Christianity, particularly the Mediterranean world in the period of late antiquity. She is the author of two books: _Controlling Contested Places: Fourth-Century Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy_, which demonstrates the ways in which contests over local places shaped the development of religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the late Roman Empire; and _Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria_, which examines Ephrem, a fourth-century church leader from Syria, and the role his sharp anti-Jewish language played in an intra-Christian theological struggle. She is also the co-editor of two other volumes: _Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology_, and _Dealing with Difference: Christian Patters of Response to Religious Rivalry in Late Antiquity and Beyond_. She is currently finishing a project on early Syrian Orthodox Christianity, and the political and theological conflicts that consumed the eastern Mediterranean during the fifth and sixth centuries. In teaching about the history of early Christianity, she demonstrates the effects that early Christian arguments continue to have in the modern world, as well as the rich diversity of early Christian history. She is the winner of a 2016-2017 NEH Fellowship, a 2009-2010 ACLS Fellowship, a 2008 NEH Summer Stipend, and a 2008 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.
