Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, interested in the impacts of wildfires on the world's forests and their impact on global timber production now and in a more climatically hostile future. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield, researching the biodiversity, carbon and economic impacts of selective logging in the Amazon rainforest.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas in Arlington. Previously I taught at the College of the Holy Cross was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. I study how teachers’ unions mobilize in politics and influence policy, with a comparative focus on Latin America. My research sheds light on broader dynamics of education policy-making, labor politics, and democratic governance. I use multiple research methods and sources of data to tackle research questions, including survey data, interviews, focus groups, and historical archives. In 2017, I earned a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. My research has been supported by the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology, University of Leeds I am a Research Fellow in environmental psychology, particularly interested in the intersection of environmental behaviour (such as transport usage or food waste), social psychology, and political psychology. After completing my undergraduate degree and gaining significant experience in the industry, I sought to diversify my skill set and decided to study Engineering Business Management at the University of Warwick. It was here where I became interested in learning more about why people behave in certain ways and how, if possible at all, we can encourage them to change their behavior. After having spent another year in the UK construction sector, I went to the University of Leeds to dedicate the next three years to my PhD in Organisational Behaviour. These years have sparked my interest in understanding environmental behavior and the psychological factors that influence it. Hence I started working as an ESRC-funded Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology with particular focus on better understanding the psychological and behavioral factors driving household food waste. Working with different institutions such as the Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP), I have also launched and tested different interventions to reduce household food waste in the UK. After successful completion of this project, I have now joined the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) to examine, among other activities, the factors driving transport usage (particularly car use) and, building on this assessment, to explore possible avenues for behaviour change to reduce demand for individual car ownership. I am also examining the extent to which the public supports various climate policies, how we can encourage support for more effective policies, and the role worldviews and biases play in shaping such support.
PhD candidate in Australasian Colonial History, University of Tasmania Ciara Smart undertook a undergraduate degree in International and Global Studies at the University of Sydney, before jumping disciplines to complete Honours in Australian History. She is now deep in a PhD in History at the University of Tasmania, examining race relations across the colonies of Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on the colonial Irish. Her PhD is supervised by Associate Professor Kristyn Harman.
Senior Lecturer, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago I have two fellowships from of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in General and Acute Medicine and Geriatrics. I graduated from the intercalated MBChB PhD program at the University of Otago and hold a BSc with high honours from Idaho State University (completed on an NCAA tennis scholarship). I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago Wellington School of Medicine. I work as an Internal Medicine physician and Geriatrician at Wellington Hospital and am the Clinical Ethics Advisor for Te Whatu Ora, Wellington and Hutt Valley. My research interests currently focus on patient safety and patient rights. I have a special interest in a rare disease - acute hepatic porphyria.
Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston Dr. May is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Charleston who specializes in human memory, aging, and disability. Her research is broadly focused on understanding human cognition, with a specific aim of improving outcomes for individuals who experience cognitive challenges, including older adults and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her publications include basic science research on circadian arousal, inhibitory processes in attention, flashbulb memory, and prospective memory, as well as applied work on inclusive education and disability in the workplace. May was named a Fellow for the Association for Psychological Science in 2016 and has been a regular contributor to Scientific American. She also writes a teaching column for the Association for Psychological Science and received the College of Charleston’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022. May is a passionate advocate for initiatives that offer access and opportunity to people with intellectual disabilities. She helped develop inclusive educational programs across the country, including the REACH Program at the College of Charleston, and received a grant from the U.S Department of Education to advance inclusive options in postsecondary education. She was appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to serve on the Disability Rights South Carolina Board of Directors and serves on the National Accreditation Team for Inclusive Postsecondary Education. May received her B.A. from Furman University and her Ph.D. from Duke University, and is a 2023 graduate of the Diversity Leadership Initiative at the Riley Institute of Furman University.
