PhD candidate in popular music studies, RMIT University As a second year PhD candidate at RMIT University, Charlotte is researching the status of rock in Australian popular culture. While Charlotte’s work has previously investigated blues appropriations in contemporary popular rock music, her current research explores the rock canon and what positions rock to become understood and upheld as “the best of all time”. She is proud to be a member of the Music Industry Research Collective (MIRC).
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Dr. Christine Wen is a professor of urban planning, currently at Texas A&M University. She specializes in community economic development. Before entering academia, she worked for Good Jobs First in D.C. producing research in support of transparency and accountability in government processes and development schemes. Christine received her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 2019 with her interdisciplinary research, supported mainly by the C.V. Starr Fellowship, that bridges developmental sociology, critical geography, political economy, and labor studies. She was also part of an award-winning team that pushed for a more just and equitable tax system for the rural parts of upstate New York. In her former life, she worked a year-long hydrology research project for the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Prior to that, she helped out with the cosmic microwave background radiation group at Princeton University while completing a bachelor's degree in physics there. And before that, at age 15, she received First-Class Honors with Distinctions in professional piano performance for the Associate Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada where she lived as a teenager. Christine now resides in eastern Texas with her dog Arthur, cats Salem and Billy, lizard Syren, and parrot Jake (now passed). She loves literature, science, philosophy, art, music, theater, and interior design, and spends her spare time writing stories, boating, bushcrafting, boxing, playing video games, swimming, cooking, studying foreign languages, hanging with friends, and finally picking up piano again after 17 years.
Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Dr Cameo Dalley is a settler descendant and anthropologist. Her multidisciplinary research has explored Indigenous identities, belonging in contemporary Australia, native title, pastoral economies, and contemporary agribusiness. Her research relationships include to Lardil, Yangkaal and Kaiadilt people in the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is the author of 'What Now: Everyday endurance and social intensity in an Australian Aboriginal community' (2021, Berghahn), and co-editor with Dr Ashley Barnwell of 'Memory in Place: Locating colonial histories and commemoration' (2023, ANU Press). She has held academic appointments at the Australian National University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Indigenous Studies Program. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Australian Studies and her research has been funded by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Attorney-General’s Department.
Natural History Technician – Invertebrates, Te Papa Tongarewa I completed my Master of Science with Distinction in Zoology at the University of Otago, where my research assessed the cognitive ability, foraging behaviour, and colony phenotypes of bumble bees raised in environments that featured differing degrees of floral complexity and biodiveristy. My background is in Biological Psychology, and I hold certifications in Science Communication, Medical Entomology, and Horticulture.
Junior Research Fellow in Theology, University of Oxford Christopher Wadibia is a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford researching the nexus between political Pentecostalism and racism in the UK under the aegis of Pembroke's Religion and the Frontier Challenges program. Christoper's doctoral research studied the politics underpinning how the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), one of Nigeria's most popular and sociopolitically influential indigenous Pentecostal churches, invests in Nigerian development causes. Before Oxford, Christopher completed a BA Government at Georgetown University (2016), an MPhil Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at Trinity College Dublin (2018), and a PhD Theology and Religious Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge (2021). After graduating from Georgetown, the United States Department of State awarded Christopher a Fullbright grant to research Muslim-Christian relations in Nigeria (2016-2017). After completing his MPhil, Trinity College Dublin awarded Christopher the James Haire Prize for best coursework. As a doctoral researcher at Cambridge, the Cambridge University Centre for Geopolitics appointed Christopher as an Ax:son Johnson Research Assistant in Applied History, the Cambridge University Woolf Institute appointed Christopher as an Honorary PhD Scholar, and Christopher served as the Divinity Faculty Representative for the Cambridge Data Champions Programme, in addition to engaging with other academic activities. Alongside his Junior Research Fellowship, Christopher is Assistant Editor of the academic journal PentecoStudies and an Affiliated Researcher at the Cambridge University Woolf Institute. Christopher’s research interests include Global Pentecostalism; religion, politics, and development; religion, society, and public policy; and Muslim-Christian relations. Christopher is passionate about bridging academic research with public engagement, and welcomes opportunities to supply consultative solutions to problems related to his expertise.
