Assistant Research Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University Dr. Clare Strange is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies at Drexel University and is affiliated with the Center for Public Policy as well as the Healthcare Approaches to Justice Collaborative. Her research centers on the intersection of justice and public health and includes (for example) projects relating to legal financial obligations, court-related policy and programming, medication-assisted therapies for opioid use disorder, and hospital-based violence intervention. Dr. Strange utilizes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies and often draws upon the implementation science literature. Dr. Strange currently manages a randomized controlled trial of a court fines and fees relief intervention in Philadelphia that is sponsored by Arnold Ventures. Other sponsored research includes the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship ($730,000). Beginning in 2024, Dr. Strange (Principal Investigator) and a multidisciplinary team of collaborators will conduct a five-year process and impact evaluation of Pennsylvania’s 8th edition sentencing guidelines and their impacts on racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes. Dr. Strange’s work is informed by her early career as a social worker in both domestic and international correctional, reentry, and medical settings. As such, she aims to produce transdisciplinary research with strong programmatic and policy applications for academic, practitioner, and policymaker audiences alike.
Senior Research Fellow in Alcohol and other Drugs, Menzies School of Health Research Dr Cassandra Wright is a public health researcher, with qualifications in health promotion, public health and epidemiology. She holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award on alcohol policy in the Northern Territory. Her work at Menzies is specifically focused on priority populations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She is a Senior Research Fellow on the LEARNT study, which examines the impacts of Banned Drinker Register, Minimum Unit Pricing and other policy interventions in the Northern Territory. Prior to her appointment at Menzies, she worked at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research in Melbourne as a Research Fellow. She completed her PhD at the Burnet Institute (enrolled through Monash University). Her PhD focused on interventions to reduce alcohol consumption among young people. Dr Wright has research expertise in alcohol; young people’s health; digital interventions; sexual health and health promotion programs. She uses mixed research methods and frequently uses participatory approaches to research and developing health promotion activities. She is an experienced evaluator and has led evaluations on programs ranging from local-level prevention activities to state-wide health programs. She is the Northern Territory Representative for the Australasian Professional Society for Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD).
Research Fellow, James Cook University Cassandra is a palaeoecologist, with a background in botany and geography, specialising in the use of pollen and charcoal to reconstruct past environments. Her research interests include the action of climate change and fire dynamics on ecosystem variability, and human-landscape relationships on vegetation pattern, with emphasis on tropical savanna environments, mangrove and island flora. Cassandra has wide experience working across northern Australia, extending into southern lowland Papua New Guinea.
Postgraduate researcher, University of Leeds I am currently a 4th-year doctoral student in media and communication. My PhD research is inspired by my long career as a professional librarian outside the global north and I conducted my doctoral fieldwork in three locations in the Caribbean, southern Africa and South Asia. I am the author of multiple academic, pedagogical and professional publications in several domains.
PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Christiane Keys-Statham is a PHD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on the relationships between cultural and ecological infrastructures, and between public art and museums. Christiane also works as a public art curator, project manager, cultural researcher and writer.
