Contributors

Chau Minh Nguyen

PhD Candidate in Marketing, HEC Montréal

PhD Candidate in Marketing, HEC Montréal Chau Minh Nguyen is interested in ethics, Big Data and textual analysis in marketing research. She aspires to produce works that address social issues and contribute to the well-being of the community.

Carolyn James

Emeritus Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University

Emeritus Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University I am an historian of late medieval and early modern Europe. My research has focused particularly on Italy and has included studies of the political, cultural and economic roles of women in mercantile settings during the fourteenth century and in the princely states of the Italian peninsula during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Chrissy Severinsen

Associate Professor in Public Health, Massey University

Associate Professor in Public Health, Massey University Dr Chrissy Severinsen is an Associate Professor at Massey University's School of Health Sciences. She co-leads the postgraduate public health and undergraduate mental health and addiction programmes. Her research demonstrates diverse public health kaupapa while maintaining a critical public health lens. Chrissy actively engages in interdisciplinary projects that integrate public health and health promotion with mātauranga Māori, health systems, and education. Driven by a desire to bridge the gap between academia and communities, she promotes the integration of policy and practice. Her projects embrace a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-led approach, championing equity, effective service provision, information sharing, and collective action.

Clare Jouanny

PhD Candidate, Pelvic Health Conditions, University of Stirling

PhD Candidate, Pelvic Health Conditions, University of Stirling I am an experienced Specialist Physiotherapist in pelvic health, having set up and run a pelvic, obstetric, and gynaecology physiotherapy service in Jersey, Channel Islands. My particular clinical interests are in prolapse, pelvic floor dysfunction prevention, and persistent pelvic pain. Having completed my Master of Health Research degree at the University of Stirling in 2019 with a research-based learning prize for best Health Sciences Research Project, I won funding from the ESRC/ Scottish Graduate School of Social Science in 2020, for a PhD to develop an intervention to encourage women to seek help sooner with early prolapse symptoms. I am passionate about raising awareness of pelvic health conditions in general, and prolapse in particular; to raise awareness amongst women and health care professionals, encourage earlier help seeking, advocate for evidence informed lifestyle and conservative treatments, and prevent negative effects on quality of life.

Chantelle F. Sephton

Associate professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval

Associate professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval Dr. Chantelle F. Sephton received her Bachelor’s if Science in Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (2002) and her PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Saskatchewan (2007). She did her postdoctoral studies at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas under the mentorship of Dr. Gang Yu in the Department of Neuroscience (2007-2014). She started her lab at Université Laval in the CERVO Brain Research Centre in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor in the department of psychiatry and neuroscience.

Carol Opdebeeck

Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University

Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University I obtained my MSc in Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology (2012) and PhD (2016) from Bangor University. My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Cognitive Reserve, Mood and Cognitive Function in Later Life’. My research focuses on cognitive health and well-being in later life. I am particularly interested in why some people experience more successful ageing than others and what lifestyle factors and individual differences influence cognitive function and well-being in older people.