Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology Catherine is a Associate Professor and clinical psychologist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Currently, she is the course director for the Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and the Master of Counselling. She earned her PhD at La Trobe University, and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists. Her research and clinical interest is in child and adolescent mental health, parenting, performance psychology and twin psychology. She has been in private practice for over 20 years.
Research Assistant at the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Queen's University Belfast Calum's research interests are in political economy, power and social change. He completed his interdisciplinary PhD on revolutionary political struggle and the planetary crisis in 2023, and has published on themes of democratisation, prefigurative politics and the role of universities in the context of the climate and ecological emergency. He is a member of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action (SECA) at Queen's University Belfast.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Director of The PROUD Project on Employment and Disability (funded by SSHRC, DNDRC, TechNation, The Catherine and Frederik Eaton Foundation and other private donors). It is a multinational, multiyear study looking at the conditions which encourage and sustain the employment of qualified disabled persons in the workplace. Atkins received her PhD in Political Theory (UofT)and, a postdoc in Law from Cornell University Law School. She has research interests in disability, bioethics, vulnerable minority identities, human rights, phenomenological research and narrative scholarship. She is a previous CIHR grant holder for a project which undertook a multisite, multiyear study of best practices about the management of rare and difficult-to-diagnose illness. Atkins is the author of My Imaginary Illness (Cornell 2010), awarded 3 prizes including The American Journal of Nursing’s Book of The Year (2011). Has held Clarke, Fulbright and SSHRC Fellowships.
Doctoral Candidate, History, Binghamton University, State University of New York I specialize in United States history with a focus on ethnicity, labor, and masculinity in the twentieth century. My dissertation, “‘We Intend to Run This District': Irish American Violence in Chicago, 1880-1922” analyzes Irish American working-class violence in Chicago during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Assistant Professor in Physiotherapy, University of British Columbia Clare is an Australian-trained physiotherapist. Her research work brings researchers, patients, clinicians and health policy makers together to find and build new solutions to challenging problems in musculoskeletal health. Clare’s expertise in sports medicine, rehabilitation and meta-research has been honed over more than a decade working in clinical and research environments in Australia, Qatar, Sweden and Canada. She is interested in (i) using everyday technology in clever ways to break down barriers to people accessing quality musculoskeletal health care, (ii) measuring the impact of health research on public policy, the economy and society, and (iii) equity in research funding and health care.
