Assistant Professor, School of Business, MacEwan University Faculty member at the School of Business, MacEwan University, Dr. Freire-Gibb's academic journey has spanned various institutions, including Aalborg University in Denmark, Universidad de Guayaquil in Ecuador, and NAIT in Canada. Additionally, he has held research positions at UC Berkeley. Over the past two decades, his experience includes living for six years in Denmark, three years in the United States, three years in Spain, three years in Ecuador, and five years in Canada. His professional focus revolves around entrepreneurship, innovation, governance, economic geography, and economic development. He also has private sector experience as a business owner and consultant, collaborating with a wide array of institutions.
Associate Professor in Visual Arts, Federation University Australia Carole holds a dual role as Associate Professor in Visual Arts in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community and Higher Degrees by Research Co-ordinator in the Graduate Research School. She has previously held leadership positions in the university including Deputy Dean, School of Arts from 2018-2022 and has been a past board member and former Chair of the Art Gallery of Ballarat where she is a current Acquisitions Committee member. As a visual artist living and working in Ballarat, Carole’s original training was in printmaking and she was a founding member of Jillposters, feminist poster group, in 1983 and worked at Another Planet Posters, Melbourne. Carole has held regular solo exhibitions and participated in curated exhibitions nationally and internationally. For many years she has utilised discarded and salvaged materials such as floral carpets, maps and atlases to create works which engage with aspects of botany, garden history, travel and historical ornament. In recent years she has undertaken residencies in Italy, the US, Malaysia and The Netherlands which have all had a significant impact on her work. She is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, State Library of Victoria and a number of regional and university galleries. Her posters are in museum collections in Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland. Areas of expertise: Practice-led research in the visual arts, particularly in the fields of textiles, works on paper, printmaking, painting and installation. Research interests: Carole is a member of the Artful Engagements with Place: Space, History, Society research group which activates social, political, environmental and historical themes, from the personal to the global, to interrogate the human and more than human forces that shape our past, define our present and influence our future. She supervises broadly across the creative and visual arts at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.
Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University London I am a Reader in Occupational Therapy at Brunel University London and have been an occupational therapist for 35 years, specialising in working with children/youth and their families. I have a varied clinical and academic background having worked in the NHS for many years as an occupational therapy clinician/researcher. Other roles include Head of Therapy and Research at The Children’s Trust, Charity and Senior Lecturer at York St John University. My PhD was on outcomes and effectiveness of occupational therapy for children with developmental coordination disorder. My current research interests focus is on implementing evidence-based practice to promote the best outcomes for children and young people and families. I am the founder of the community of practice known as Mind the Gap supporting clinicians to deliver evidence based interventions and closing the research to practice gap.
Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool Dr Colin Irwin was born in England where he grew up on the south coast attending school and art college in Bournemouth. As Scientific Officer of the British Sub-Aqua Club he salvaged a Bronze Age craft from Poole Harbour in 1964 and lived in the first underwater house with an artificial atmosphere in 1965. In 1968 he worked as a diving instructor in the Red Sea but turned his attention to the Canadian Arctic in the 1970s where he sailed the North West Passage, crossed Arctic North America by dog team and voyaged from Scotland to Iceland, Greenland and Hudson’s Bay. In 1978 he was awarded the Royal Cruising Club Medal for Seamanship. He received his joint Masters Degree in Anthropology, Religious Studies and Philosophy from the University of Manitoba in 1981 with a thesis on Inuit ethics and a Doctorate in Social Science from Syracuse University in 1984 with a dissertation on the nature of human conflict and how the Inuit developed a culture and society without war. After working for Canadian Native organisations he produced the report ‘Lords of the Arctic: Wards of the State’ which led to a Royal Commission on the state of Canada’s First People and an Inuit land claim settlement that established the Territory of Nunavut. With the support of a Canadian Government fellowship he based himself at Queen’s University Belfast in 1989 to complete a comparative study of the systems of segregated education in Northern Ireland and Israel and the role of integrated schools in conflict resolution. This led him to take a series of Human Rights complaints against the British Government to UNESCO and the UN that established the rights of children to attend integrated schools. He was the principal investigator on the ‘Peace Building and Public Policy in Northern Ireland’ project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and in support of the negotiations of the Belfast Agreement he conducted nine public opinion polls in collaboration with the political parties elected to the Stormont Talks. This work is reviewed in his book, ‘The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland’ published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2002. With funding from various NGOs, the British and Canadian Governments and Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has extended his work around the world to include the Balkans, Middle East and Asia completing ‘peace polls’ in Macedonia in 2002, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2004, Serbia and Kosovo 2005, UK Muslims in 2006, Kashmir 2007, Israel and Palestine 2008, Sri Lanka 2009/10 and Syria 2014 and Cyprus 2016/17. This work is reviewed in his book ‘The People’s Peace – Pax Populi, Pax Dei’ published in 2012. Colin Irwin is a member of the World Association of Public Opinion Research. As an expert on public opinion, public diplomacy and peace processes he has advised the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations (DPKO) on their procedures and best practice; lectured in the US, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia and authored over 100 articles, papers, and books on these topics. As a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool he is presently developing a perceptions based ‘People’s Peace Index’ to globalise and mainstream his ‘peace polls’ methods in all peace processes with research published on his website at: http://www.peacepolls.org Experience
Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton I am an environmental scientist and economist at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. My research focuses on the climate mitigation role of biomass resources in substituting fossil fuels and in sequestering carbon in long-term storage. I hold a PhD from the University of Southampton in the application of environmental science and environmental economics to the role of bioenergy in industrial decarbonisation, specifically of the novel technology bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). I am a member of the Industrial Decarbonisation Research & Innovation Centre (IDRIC), and explore the land-use scenarios and sustainability of using bioenergy to achieve industrial decarbonisation.
PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Loughborough University PhD Candidate and Lecturer at Loughborough University London in the Institute for Sport Business (ISB). Research focused on the intersection of nation branding, sport, diplomacy and supporter responses to state football ownership structures. Additionally, lecturer on nation branding through the lens of the Sport PR and Communications master's course, featuring guest speakers in sport media, communications and branding, and academia. Also, have taught in the Department of Marketing Communication and Department of Communication Studies at Emerson College (Boston and Los Angeles). Courses grounded in branding and consumer behaviour theories and models, as well as social empathy to provide a base for students to become not only culturally conscience brand marketers, but globally-responsible-citizens. Courses include guest speakers from various global perspectives that add real world context to consumerism and evolving brand archetypes.
