Lecturer and Researcher at UniSA Business, University of South Australia Connor MacDonald is a researcher and lecturer based at UniSA Business. His research interests lie in sociocultural understandings of sport and physical activity, with a specific focus on LGBTQIA+ inclusion and diversity. While completing his masters thesis, which examined trans inclusion policies in the AFL and Cricket Australia and the news media and fans reactions to these policies, and since after, he has published in a number of books and journals, and has presented at a handful of conferences, including NASSS and TASA.
Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of the Free State Calvin D. Ullrich is currently senior lecturer in interdisciplinary theology in the Department of Historical and Constructive Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He received his PhD in systematic theology from the University of Stellenbosch, with a concentration on political theology and continental philosophy of religion. He was formerly a research fellow at the Ecumenical Institute of the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Germany, and is currently the principal researcher in a German Research Foundation funded project, investigating phenomenologies of embodiment, affect theory and systematic theology. Alongside the fields of political theology, public theology, embodiment and continental philosophy of religion, he also maintains interests in secular, post-secular studies, radical democratic theory and psychoanalysis.
Professor, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong Clive Schofield is Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Durham and an LLM in international law from the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research interests relate to international maritime boundary delimitation and geo-technical issues related to the law of the sea on which he has published over 200 scholarly publications. Clive is an Observer on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS) and is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. He has also been involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes by providing advice to governments and in dispute settlement cases before international courts and tribunals.
Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of St Andrews My principal research focus is to improve our understanding of the role marine and intertidal sedimentary environments play in the global carbon cycle over different spatial and temporal scales. Marine sediments and intertidal soils (saltmarsh, seagrass and mangroves) are capable of burying and storing globally significant quantities of carbon (sometimes referred to as Blue Carbon) away for thousands of years potentially providing a highly important climate mitigation service. These sedimentary environments are recognised, as crucial components of the global carbon cycle, yet many unknowns remain hindering there inclusion in global climate models, national carbon accounting and greenhouse gas inventories. To tackle this issue I bring together techniques from across the different geoscience disciplines (Geo- physics, chemistry, morphology, spatial analysis) to better understand: The quantity of carbon held with marine and intertidal sediments. The rate at which carbon is buried and locked away in these sedimentary environments. The source of the carbon (terrestrial vs marine). The natural and anthropogenic mechanisms that govern the preservation of carbon in these sedimentary systems. Geographically, my research is currently focused on the saltmarshes of the United Kingdom and continental shelf sediments in the North East Atlantic with particular focus on fjord sediments.
Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Cedric de Coning is a research professor in the research group on peace, conflict and development at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He co-directs the NUPI Center on United Nations and Global Governance, and the Climate, Peace and Security Risk project. He coordinates the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON) and contributes to the Training for Peace programme, the UN Peace Operations project (UNPO) and several others. He is also a senior advisor for ACCORD. He has 30 years of experience in research, policy advice, training and education in the areas of conflict resolution, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and peace and conflict studies. Cedric has a PhD in applied ethics from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Stellenbosch, and an MA (cum laude) in conflict management and peace studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
