PhD Candidate in Business Administration, University of Michigan I am a final-year PhD candidate in the Technology & Operations department at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. I am broadly interested in the way people learn about and use new technologies. Primarily, I study worker-algorithm interactions within service contexts, to understand the surprising ways that human behavior can interfere with our goals for these algorithms, and the downstream effects this can have for customers.
Senior Research Fellow, School of Health, University of Waikato Chunhuan is a researcher interested in health economics and the epidemiology of cancer. She had the advanced trainning in health economics and statistics from the University of Waikato, University of Auckland, University of York and the University of Macau. She has substantial experience in the use of national breast cancer register data, and is an expert in big dataset linkages and biostatistics for cancer epidemiology.
Professor, and Director, Institute for Social Transformation, University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. His applied policy work centers on social and economic dimensions of technological change, workforce development policy, the structure, dynamics and evaluation of workforce intermediaries, and strategies for promoting regional equity. He has authored or co-authored over 100 academic papers and reports and eight books, including most recently Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles and. Just Future (2024), with Manuel Pastor.
Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee My lab broadly explores in the mechanisms, outcomes, and evolutionary consequences of animal decision making. To address these questions, we study foraging behaviors in both bats and bees. Specifically, we ask how animals evaluate and make decisions between foraging options based on the signal and reward properties of each option. We also ask whether species differ in decision-making mechanisms based on their foraging strategy or other aspects of their ecology. Finally, we are interested in how certain decision mechanisms may shape the target of those decisions, such as floral signals and rewards.
Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull Dr Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer in Marine Conservation at the University of Hull. Trained in Conservation Science, she has a broad interest in wildlife conservation, with a particular focus on the marine environment. She is particularly interested in understanding human perceptions of nature and wildlife and how these can be incorporated into conservation, wildlife management and sustainable use. Her current research aims to understand how we can better protect and restore ecosystems as part of the REWILD research cluster. Dr Hopkins leads the Ocean Literacy research cluster at the University of Hull and is a core member of the British Ecological Society English Policy Group.
Lecturer in sports management, Western Sydney University Dr Christopher Yorke is an associate lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Business at Western Sydney University. Christopher is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. Dr Christopher Yorke completed his PhD with the topic “Social Impact through Local Sport: Adapting Corporate Social Responsibility through Sport (CSRTS) to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)” from the University of Portsmouth, UK. This work utilised the experiences of SME practitioners to propose an innovative framework to create partnerships that achieve social impact and financial sustainability. Chris has an extensive history of involvement in community sport and is especially interested in sport for social good.
